A century ago the Russian Empire contained the largest Jewish community in the world, numbering about five million people. Today, the Jewish population of the former Soviet Union has dwindled to half a million, but remains probably the world's third largest Jewish community. In the intervening century the Jews of that area have been at the center of some of the most dramatic events of modern history -- two world wars, revolutions, pogroms, political liberation, repression, and the collapse of the USSR. They have gone through tumultuous upward and downward economic and social mobility and experienced great enthusiasms and profound disappointments. In startling photographs from the archives of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and with a lively and lucid narrative, A Century of Ambivalence traces the historical experience of Jews in Russia from a period of creativity and repression in the second half of the 19th century through the paradoxes posed by the post-Soviet era. This redesigned edition, which includes more than 200 photographs and two substantial new chapters on the fate of Jews and Judaism in the former Soviet Union, is ideal for general readers and classroom use.
In Jewish Germany, cultural anthropologist David Levinson draws out and explores for us the expanse of the Jewish experience in Germany from the fourth century CE to the present.
This classic bestseller--winner of the National Jewish Book Award--is repackaged with a new look. A young girl ignores her parents' wishes and persuades her great-grandmother to relate the story of her escape from czarist Russia.
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Bill Broder's “A Prayer for the Departed: Tales of a Family through the Decades of the Last Century” (ISBN 1461138930) honors the elders of his family through a series of complete and connected short stories.
The temple stood there until A.D. 326 , when the Emperor Constantine , a convert to Christianity , built his monumental church . Historians tell us that Constantine's choice of the site is significant . In Rome Constantine built several ...
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"Der böhmisch-jüdische Erzähler Leopold Kompert (1822-1886) ist vielleicht nicht der Erfinder der 'Ghettogeschichten', aber durch seine erste Sammlung 'Aus dem Ghetto' (1848) gelangte diese deutsch-jüdische Erzählgattung zu nationaler ...
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R. Solomon Tyrer of Czernowitz ( c . 1765–1818 ) the Czernowitzer Rebbe , as he was known -- faced similar problems . 39 Like Heschel , Tyrer was neither a native - born Moldovan nor a permanent immigrant . This profile confirms that ...