The cultural study of Yiddish in Early Modern Europe

This volume comprises a unique analysis of the intensive interest in Jewish culture of early modern Christian Humanists as a part of their comprehensive program of study of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. The book focuses on how that interest was particularly manifested in a score ...

The Jews of Vienna and the First World War

'Rechter analyses the effects of the wartime crisis on Jewish thinking with considerable skill, drawing on an impressive range of sources ...He gives a particularly effective account of the disorientation and dislocation of Viennese Jews at the fall of the Empire and their efforts to ...

Derechos Humanos y judaísmo

La Federación de Comunidades Judias de España ha preparado este documento sobre Derechos Humanos y Judaismo, que hace el numero 4 de los cuadernos de Serafad. Este volumen quiere mostrar la profunda interrelación entre el Judaismo y Derechos Humanos.

Propagande et persécutions

la résistance et le "problème juif" 1940-1944

Les dits - et les non-dits - de la propagande développée par la Résistance nous mènent au plus profond de l'imaginaire social de la France de l'Occupation. Dans la guerre du verbe entre les Français de Londres - émissions de la BBC renforcées par la presse ...

Jewish property claims against arab countries

In the twenty years that followed the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, 800,000 Jews left their homes in Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Morocco, and several other Arab countries. Although the causes of this exodus varied, restrictive governmental measures and an outburst of anti-Semitic feeling ...

The Mind of Jihad

Examines contemporary jihad as a cult of violence and power. All jihadi groups, whether Shiite or Sunni, Arab or not, are characterized by a similar bloodlust. Murawiec characterizes this belief structure as identical to that of Europe#s medieval millenarians and apocalyptics, arguing that both ...

Disappearing palestine

Israel´s experiments in human despair

Palestine is disappearing, fast - fulfilling the objectives of Israel's founding fathers. Over many decades Israel has developed and refined policies to disperse, imprison and impoverish the Palestinian people, in a relentless effort to destroy them as a nation. It has industrialised Palestinian despair through ...

Robbing the Jews

the confiscation of Jewish property in the Holocaust, 1933-1945

Robbing the Jews reveals the mechanisms by which the Nazis and their allies confiscated Jewish property; the book demonstrates the close relationship between robbery and the Holocaust. The spoliation evolved in intensifying steps. The Anschluss and Kristallnacht in 1938 reveal a dynamic tension between pressure ...

Jewish forced labor under the nazis

economic needs and racial aims, 1938-1944

Translated by Kathleen M. Dell´Orto Forced labor was a key feature of Nazi anti-Jewish policy and shaped the daily life of almost every Jewish family in occupied Europe. For the first time, this book systematically describes the implementation of forced labor for Jews in ...

Army of shadows

palestinian collaboration with zionism, 1917-1948

Translated by Haim Watzman. Tells the story of Arabs who, from the very beginning of the Arab- Israeli encounter, sided with the Zionists and aided them politically, economically, and in security matters. This book features Bedouins who hosted Jewish neighbors, weapons dealers, and pro-Zionist propagandists.

34 Days

Israel, Hezbollah, and the war in Lebanon

Translated by Ora Cummings and Moshe Tlamim. This is the first comprehensive account of the progression of the Second Lebanese War, from the border abduction of an Israeli soldier on the morning of July 12, 2006, through the hasty decision for an aggressive response; the ...

Overcoming zionism

creating a single democratic State in Israel/Palestine

This work presents a sensitive and insightful critique of the contradictions of Zionism. Joel Kovel argues that Israel is an incorrigible human rights offender because, by discriminating against Arabs, it is guilty of 'state-sponsored racism'. Like arpartheid South Africa, the best hope for peace in ...

13 años que cambiaron el mundo

mi vida en el Mossad

Tras años de trabajo en el Mossad, y habiendo sido director de la reconocida agencia de inteligencia israelí entre 1998 y 2002, Ephraim Halevy abre sus archivos personales y proporciona al lector una mirada lúcida y detallada sobre los asuntos que contribuyeron de manera decisiva ...

España e Israel veinte años después

#España e Israel, veinte años después# es el nombre del simposio de cara al pasado y al futuro en el que participarán 25 destacados profesionales de Israel y España, y que tendrá lugar en la Universidad de Tel Aviv los días 5, 6 y 7 ...

The dynamics of israeli-palestinian relations

theory, history, and cases

This book looks at Israeli-Palestinian relations through three different conceptual lenses, corresponding to three levels of analysis such as: the individual decision-maker, domestic politics, and the international system. It examines key choices made by Israelis and Palestinians regarding three central issues such as: the 1947 ...

Cicatrices de guerra, heridas de paz

Shlomo Ben-Ami #diplomático, historiador, ex embajador y ex ministro de Seguridad Pública y de Asuntos Exteriores israelí durante el gobierno de Ehud Barak# realiza en esta obra un pormenorizado análisis de su visión, como testigo de excepción, del conflicto palestino-israelí. Para la elaboración de este ...

The paradox of anti-semitism

Arguably as anti-Semitism has diminished, the Jewish community has lost its way in the unceasing quest for social and political acceptance. The surprising thesis of this book (especially from the pen of a Rabbi) is that in the past anti-Semitism has in fact been a ...

El problema nacional judío

judaísmo versus sionismo

Este libro aborda el problema del judaísmo desde una óptica fundada en los valores democráticos, facilitando elementos de reflexión en relación a dos problemas de plena actualidad: las razones de la existencia y auge actual del antisemitismo y del sionismo, ideologías ambas que desgarran el ...

The politics of apocalypse

the history and influence of christian zionism

Pervading culture and politics alike, Christian Zionism is the fastest growing religious movement in Christianity today, with current believers thought to exceed five million in the US alone. Proposing a literal reading of the bible, it states that a Jewish return to the Holy Land ...

Israël et les nations

L'état-nation juif et les droits de l'homme

Y a-t-il une contradiction irréductible entre " Etat juif " et " Etat démocratique " ? Le caractère juif des symboles officiels d'Israël contredit-il les principes de l'égalité civique ? La Loi du retour est- elle une anomalie dans le monde démocratique ? L'existence d'un lien organique entre ...