An analysis of the implications of the Holocaust for interpretation of the Hebrew Bible. The contributors discuss theoretical and methodological considerations emerging from the Shoah and demonstrate the importance of these considerations in the reading of specific biblical texts.
An analysis of the implications of the Holocaust for interpretation of the Hebrew Bible. The contributors discuss theoretical and methodological considerations emerging from the Shoah and demonstrate the importance of these considerations in the reading of specific biblical texts.
Focusing on the British empire, this book assesses the extent to which Jews participated in the institution of slavery through investment in slave trading companies, ownership of slave ships, commercial activity as merchants who sold slaves upon their arrival from Africa, and direct ownership of slaves.
An exploration of Jewish identities, contesting conventional approaches. The contributors argue that Jewish identity should be conceptualized as an ongoing dynamic process of becoming in response to changing cultural and social conditions rather than as a stable defining body of traits.
An exploration of Jewish identities, contesting conventional approaches. The contributors argue that Jewish identity should be conceptualized as an ongoing dynamic process of becoming in response to changing cultural and social conditions rather than as a stable defining body of traits.
In this vividly written study, Rachel Rubin posits the Jewish literary gangster--a figure whose violence, transgressiveness, and ongoing internal conflict render him an important symbol of modernity--as a locus for exploring questions of artistic power in the interwar years. Focusing specifically on the Russian writer Isaac Babel and Americans ......
In this work, Michael Berkowitz examines dozens of visual renderings from the fin-de-siecle to the beginning of World War II to argue that Jews have exercised some control over images and representations of their own national communities and aspirations.
Between the years 1942 and 1943, under the code name Operation Reinhard, more than one and a half million Jews were gassed in the concentration camps. This is the story of Operation Reinhard, recording the history of the death camps from their construction in 1941 to their destruction in 1943. Using sources previously overlooked, such as German ......
People who helped exterminate Jews during the shoah (Hebrew for "holocaust") often claimed that they only did what was expected of them. Intrigued by hearing the same response from individuals who rescued Jews, the author proposes that the notion of ordinariness used to characterize Nazi evil is equally applicable to goodness.
