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American Jewish Year Book 2015: The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities (American Jewish Year Book #115)
Par Arnold Dashefsky, Ira Sheskin. 2016
This Year Book now in its 115th year provides insight into major trends in the North American Jewish…
communities and is the Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities The first two chapters of Part I examine Jewish immigrant groups to the US and Jewish life on campus Chapters on National Affairs and Jewish Communal Affairs analyze the year s events Three chapters analyze the demography and geography of the US Canada and world Jewish populations Part II provides Jewish Federations Jewish Community Centers social service agencies national organizations overnight camps museums and Israeli consulates The final chapters present national and local Jewish periodicals and broadcast media academic resources including Jewish Studies Programs books articles websites and research libraries and lists of major events in the past year Jewish honorees and obituaries For those interested in the North American Jewish community--scholars service providers volunteers--this volume undoubtedly provides the single best source of information on the structure dynamics and ongoing religious political and social challenges confronting the community It should be on the bookshelf of everyone interested in monitoring the dynamics of change in the Jewish communities of North America Sidney Goldstein Founder and Director Population Studies and Training Center Brown University and Alice Goldstein Population Studies and Traini ng Center Brown University The American Jewish Year Book is a unique and valuable resource for Jewish community professionals It is part almanac directory encyclopedia and all together a volume to have within easy reach It is the best concise diary of trends events and personalities of interest for the past year We should all welcome the Year Book s publication as a sign of vitality for the Jewish community Brenda Gevertz Executive Director JPRO Network the Jewish Professional Resource OrganizationWhisper of the Blade: Revolutions, Mayhem, Betrayal, Glory and Death
Par Erik Durschmied. 2001
Revolution brings tragedy, terror and heroism. Using historical texts and eye witness accounts as well as his own interviews, Erik…
Durschmied shares his unique understanding of revolutionary events that have shaped the course of history.His curiosity and amazement are reflected in the pages as is his irreverence for the conventional recitation of history.Progressing from the 18th to the 20th century, Durschmied provides a remarkable snapshot of the French Revolution; the Red October rising in Russia; Operation Walküre in Germany; Che Guevara's exploits; the rise and fall of Emperor Hirohito in Japan and the fall of the Shah of Iran in these powerful stories.This is the first in-depth study of the foreign and defence policies of the Coalition, a government that saw the…
Conservatives restored to power for the first time since the Iraq War and the Liberal Democrats enter government for the first time. It explores the idea of Britain as a ‘Great Power’ since 1945 to show how the Coalition’s policies fitted into wider historical understandings of Britain’s role in the world. Drawing on a range of evidence from the time of the Coalition, it shows that this period was one of continued change in British foreign policy. The Coalition conducted the first strategic defence review since 1998, significantly reduced the funding allocations for defence and foreign affairs, raised overseas aid spending to record levels, engaged in overseas military action in two sovereign states (and were denied a chance to participate in another), as well as a wide array of other policies. This book argues that evaluating these events and the historical background of the Coalition is critical to understanding the current crises gripping British politics.Por qué los primeros emojis se escribían en arcilla y otros porqués de la Historia
Par José Antonio Lucero. 2021
¡La respuesta a las preguntas sobre la Historia que siempre te habías hecho! LO MÁS INCREÍBLE DE LA HISTORA ES…
¡QUE SUCEDIÓ DE VERDAD! ¿Por qué usamos emojis? ¿Por qué te gustan más los dulces que las acelgas? ¿Por qué guardas tu paga en una hucha? Atrévete a viajar a las principales épocas de la historia de la humanidad y descubre las respuestas a todas las preguntas que siempre te has hecho. Con montones de curiosidades y muchísima diversión, este es el libro perfecto para todos los fans de la historia (y para los que todavía no saben que lo son). ¿Qué incluye? -Un recorrido por la Historia a través del punto de vista de niños y jóvenes de cada época. -Destacados y definiciones para aprender disfrutando. -Una línea del tiempo para situar a los personajes dentro de cada periodo. -Preciosas ilustraciones para entender y asimilar mejor el contexto histórico. Sobre el autor:José Antonio Lucero es el profesor detrás del canal educativo de YouTube La cuna de Halicarnaso, donde combina Historia, cultura y docencia, sin perder de vista las referencias a la cultura pop y a los fenómenos de masas. Además de historiador y profesor, Lucero ha debutado recientemente como escritor con su novela La vida en un minuto (Ediciones B). ¿Por qué los primeros emojis se escribían en arcilla? es su primer libro para niños a partir de 9 años.Precarious Democracy: Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil
Par Sean T. Mitchell, John Collins, David Rojas, Rosana Pinheiro-Machado, Patrick McCormick, Lila Moritz Schwarcz, Benjamin Junge, Jessica Jerome, Isabela Kalil, Lucia Mury Scalco, Patricia De Pinho, Karina Biondi, Lucia Cantero, Andrezza Alves Olival, Alexandre De Olival, Falina Enriquez, Moisés Kopper, Sarah LeBaron Baeyer, LaShandra Sullivan, Carlos Eduardo Henning, Alvaro Jarrin, Melanie A. Medeiros, Erika Schmitt, James Kale. 2021
Brazil changed drastically in the 21st century’s second decade. In 2010, the country’s outgoing president Lula left office with almost…
90% approval. As the presidency passed to his Workers' Party successor, Dilma Rousseff, many across the world hailed Brazil as a model of progressive governance in the Global South. Yet, by 2019, those progressive gains were being dismantled as the far right-wing politician Jair Bolsonaro assumed the presidency of a bitterly divided country. Digging beneath this pendulum swing of policy and politics, and drawing on rich ethnographic portraits, Precarious Democracy shows how these transformations were made and experienced by Brazilians far from the halls of power. Bringing together powerful and intimate stories and portraits from Brazil's megacities to rural Amazonia, this volume demonstrates the necessity of ethnography for understanding social and political change, and provides crucial insights on one of the most epochal periods of change in Brazilian history.Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust
Par Joanna Sliwa. 2021
Winner of the 2020 Ernst Fraenkel Prize from the Wiener Holocaust Library Jewish Childhood in Kraków is the first book…
to tell the history of Kraków in the second World War through the lens of Jewish children’s experiences. Here, children assume center stage as historical actors whose recollections and experiences deserve to be told, analyzed, and treated seriously. Sliwa scours archives to tell their story, gleaning evidence from the records of the German authorities, Polish neighbors, Jewish community and family, and the children themselves to explore the Holocaust in German-occupied Poland and in Kraków in particular. A microhistory of a place, a people, and daily life, this book plumbs the decisions and behaviors of ordinary people in extraordinary times. Offering a window onto human relations and ethnic tensions in times of rampant violence, Jewish Childhood in Kraków is an effort both to understand the past and to reflect on the position of young people during humanitarian crises.See How We Roll: Enduring Exile between Desert and Urban Australia (Global Insecurities)
Par Melinda Hinkson. 2021
In See How We Roll Melinda Hinkson follows the experiences of Nungarrayi, a Warlpiri woman from the Central Australian desert,…
as she struggles to establish a new life for herself in the city of Adelaide. Banished from her hometown, Nungarrayi energetically navigates promises of transformation as well as sedimented racialized expectations on the urban streets. Drawing on a decades-long friendship, Hinkson explores these circumstances through Nungarrayi's relationships: those between her country and kin that sustain and confound life beyond the desert, those that regulate her marginalized citizenship, and the new friendships called out by displacement and metropolitan life. An intimate ethnography, See How We Roll provides great insight into the enduring violence of the settler colonial state while illuminating the efforts of Indigenous people to create lives of dignity and shared purpose in the face of turbulence, grief, and tightening governmental controls.Amazonen der Feder, Bürgerinnen in der Republik des Geistes, weibliche Intellektuelle: die Literatur des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts war der…
Ort, an dem Schriftstellerinnen ihre Befähigung zur kulturellen Teilhabe beredt unter Beweis stellten und mal in Auseinandersetzung mit, mal mit Unterstützung von männlichen Kollegen einforderten. Sie entwickelten spezifische Strategien der Autorisierung einer weiblichen Perspektive – Strategien, die über intellektuelle Netzwerke im Europa der Aufklärung zirkulierten. Dabei spielte nicht nur die geistige Emanzipation der Frau aus der patriarchal geforderten Unmündigkeit eine Rolle, sondern auch die sexuelle Selbstbestimmtheit. Dieser Sammelband stellt die weiblichen Beiträge vor allem zur englischen und französischen Literatur des Zeitraums in die sozio-politischen und ideengeschichtlichen Zusammenhänge der Geschlechtergeschichte, und stellt so selbst ein wichtiges Stück feministischer Literaturgeschichtsschreibung dar. Er versammelt erstmals die feministischen Forschungen von Ina Schabert zur Literatur des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts und macht damit die Schriften einer der einflussreichsten Gender-Forscherinnen in Deutschland in einer neu edierten, kritischen Ausgabe verfügbar.Die Reihe Die Feministische Aufklärung in Europa versammelt Monographien, Sammelbände und Editionen zu der Frage, in welchem Maße und auf welche Weise die unterschiedlichen Strömungen der europäischen Aufklärung zwischen 1650 und 1800 feministische Problemlagen erörterten und Ansprüche einforderten. Wie aufgeklärt war die europäische Aufklärung im Hinblick auf rechtliche, politische, gesellschaftliche, religiöse und kulturelle Egalitätspostulate der Geschlechter, deren Verwirklichung ein ‚Zeitalter der Aufklärung‘ allererst in ein ‚aufgeklärtes Zeitalter‘ transformieren könnten? Die Reihe präsentiert philologische, historische und philosophische Studien sowie mehrsprachige Editionen, die die Vielfalt feministischer Argumente und Positionierungen, aber auch die Bemühungen ihrer Gegner, seit dem späten 17. Jahrhundert dokumentieren.John Dickinson’s entry into public life in Delaware and Pennsylvania is a highlight of the ninety-eight documents written over four…
years printed in Volume Two of The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson. The volume opens with Dickinson’s legal notes as he established himself as one of the most prominent and learned lawyers in colonial British North America. His cases dealt with, among other issues, interpretation of wills, disputes over land, sailors suing for wages, a fine on a Quaker who refused military service, and a notorious murder in a prominent Philadelphia family. It concludes with Dickinson offering thoughtful advice to a young man who was considering the arduous work in becoming a lawyer. “I think,” he wrote, “those must be infinitely the most happy, whose fatigues are softend by a conscious Benevolence of mind wishing &; endeavouring to [pro]mote the Happiness of others as well as their own.” Dickinson’s hard work on behalf of his clients brought him success in other areas of his public life. In October 1759, he was elected to his first public position as a representative for Kent County, Del., the following year he was elevated to the position of speaker, and in 1762, he became a representative for Philadelphia County, Pa. As a legislator in two colonies, learning his craft as a global war unfolded, he contributed to bills on military and defense, Indian relations, infrastructure improvements and city management, and served on various committees. The death of George II occasioned debates over laws and judges, in which Dickinson participated. This era concludes with Dickinson playing a central role in managing the unfolding Paxton Riots, in which frontiersmen massacred peaceful Indians and threatened the Quaker leadership of Pennsylvania. In private, Dickinson lost the two most prominent male figures in his life in 1760, his father, Samuel, and soon thereafter, his mentor, colleague, and friend, John Moland. In honor of Moland, Dickinson published a poem and became a proxy head to Moland’s large family. Though his extant correspondence during this period is small, he exchanged letters with Mary Cadwalader Dickinson, Israel Pemberton, William Allason, George Read, Thomas McKean, and others. Perhaps most significant, he wrote a lengthy, unpublished essay on the flag-of-truce trade and also maintained commonplace books as he considered his place within the British Empire, opening up the next phase in Dickinson’s life as a leader of the resistance against Britain. Published by the University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Person of Interest: Why Jesus Still Matters in a World that Rejects the Bible
Par J. Warner Wallace. 2021
Can the truth about Jesus be uncovered--even without a body or a crime scene? Join cold-case detective and bestselling author J.…
Warner Wallace as he investigates Jesus using an innovative and unique approach he employs to solve real missing person murder cases.In Person of Interest, Wallace carefully sifts through the evidence from history alone, without relying on the New Testament. You'll understand like never before how Jesus, the most significant person in history, changed the world.Features:Join a cold-case detective as he uncovers the truth about Jesus using the same approach he employs to solve real murder casesMarvel at the way Jesus changed the world as you investigate why Jesus still matters todayLearn how to use an innovative and unique "fuse and fallout" investigative strategy that you can also use to examine other claims of historyExplore and learn how to respond to common objections to ChristianityDetective J. Warner Wallace listened to a pastor talk about Jesus and wondered why anyone would think Jesus was a person of interest.Wallace was skeptical of the Bible, but he&’d investigated several no-body homicide cases in which there was no crime scene, no physical evidence, and no victim's body. Could the historical life and actions of Jesus be investigated in the same way?In Person of Interest, Wallace describes his own personal investigative journey from atheism to Christianity as he carefully considers the evidence. Creative, compelling, and fully illustrated, Person of Interest will strengthen the faith of believers while engaging those who are skeptical and distrusting of the New Testament."Wallace has an uncanny ability to discover clues where no one else sees them. Now he tackles perhaps his toughest case ever: solving a deeply personal mystery involving his own religious faith."—ROBERT DEAN, producer of NBC News Dateline"A creative and eye-opening work. You'll be captivated as Wallace takes you on a thrilling journey of discovery."—LEE STROBEL, bestselling author of The Case for Christ"If you read this book, you will have to reckon with Jesus, not just as a historical person but as Lord and Savior. This is not your typical apologetics book!"—ALISA CHILDERS, author of Another Gospel"Bring your doubts, bring your skepticism--but if you bring them in open-minded honesty . . . be prepared to render a shocking verdict."—SCOTT HANSON, host of NFL RedZoneNoble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the English Country House After World War II
Par Adrian Tinniswood. 2021
A rollicking tour of the English country home after World War II, when swinging London collided with aristocratic valuesAs the…
sun set slowly on the British Empire, its mansions fell and rose. Ancient families were reduced to demolishing the parts of their stately homes they could no longer afford, dukes and duchesses desperately clung to their ancestral seats, and a new class of homeowners bought their way into country life. A delicious romp, Noble Ambitions pulls us into these crumbling halls of power, leading us through the juiciest bits of postwar aristocratic history—from Mick Jagger dancing at deb balls to the scandals of Princess Margaret. Capturing the spirit of the age, historian Adrian Tinniswood proves that the country house is not only an iconic symbol, but a lens through which to understand the shifting fortunes of the British elite in an era of monumental social change.The vibrant, sprawling saga of Empress Maria Theresa—one of the most renowned women rulers in history—and three of her extraordinary…
daughters, including Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen of France.Out of the thrilling and tempestuous eighteenth century comes the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa, a sovereign of uncommon strength and vision, the only woman ever to inherit and rule the vast Habsburg Empire in her own name, and three of her remarkable daughters: lovely, talented Maria Christina, governor-general of the Austrian Netherlands; spirited Maria Carolina, the resolute queen of Naples; and the youngest, Marie Antoinette, the glamorous, tragic queen of France, and perhaps the most famous princess in history. Unfolding against an irresistible backdrop of brilliant courts from Vienna to Versailles, embracing the exotic lure of Naples and Sicily, this epic history of Maria Theresa and her daughters is a tour de force of desire, adventure, ambition, treachery, sorrow, and glory. Each of these women&’s lives was packed with passion and heart-stopping suspense. Maria Theresa inherited her father&’s thrones at the age of twenty-three and was immediately attacked on all sides by foreign powers confident that a woman would to be too weak to defend herself. Maria Christina, a gifted artist who alone among her sisters succeeded in marrying for love, would face the same dangers that destroyed the monarchy in France. Resourceful Maria Carolina would usher in the golden age of Naples only to face the deadly whirlwind of Napoleon. And, finally, Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen whose stylish excesses and captivating notoriety have masked the truth about her husband and herself for two hundred and fifty years. Vividly written and deeply researched, In the Shadow of the Empress is the riveting story of four exceptional women who changed the course of history.Geographies of Commemoration in a Digital World: Anzac @ 100
Par Emma Waterton, Shanti Sumartojo, Danielle Drozdzewski. 2021
This book reframes commemoration through distinctly geographical lenses, locating it within experiential and digital worlds. It interrogates the role of…
power in representations of memory and shows how experiences of commemoration sit within, alongside and in contrast to its official normative forms. The book charts how memories, places and experiences of commemoration play out and have, or have not, changed in and through a digital world. Key to the book’s exploration is a new epistemology of memory, underpinned by an embodied research approach.European Regions, 1870 – 2020: A Geographic and Historical Insight into the Process of European Integration
Par Jordi Martí-Henneberg. 2021
This volume explains the national and regional border modifications that took place in Europe from 1870 to 2020. It provides…
insights that allow us to understand boundary changes for several different levels of territorial organization. The text describes the state formation process related to the regional-administrative structures in each European country, and offers insight into the degree of centralization historically by describing the extent of legislative autonomy at different administrative levels and the competences reserved for each of them. The book sheds light on the complex regional organization of Europe and the difficulties its reform has faced. The main audience will be academics and PhD/Masters students working in a variety of geography fields, and the maps included in each chapter will also be of interest to a broader audience including undergraduate and secondary-school students wishing to better understand the political history of Europe.The Black Death: An Intimate History
Par John Hatcher. 2008
How the people of a typical English village lived and died in the worst epidemic in history.The Black Death remains…
the greatest disaster to befall humanity, killing about half the population of the planet in the 14th century. John Hatcher recreates everyday medieval life in a parish in Suffolk, from which an exceptional number of documents survive. This enables us to view events through the eyes of its residents, revealing in unique detail what it was like to live and die in these terrifying times. With scrupulous attention to historical accuracy, John Hatcher describes what the parishioners experienced, what they knew and what they believed. His narrative is peopled with characters developed from the villagers named in the actual town records and a series of dramatic scenes portray how contemporaries must have experienced the momentous events.A Brief History of Britain 1851-2021: From World Power to ? (Brief Histories)
Par Jeremy Black. 2011
From the Great Exhibition's showcasing of British national achievement in 1851 to the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Stratford…
in 2012 and on to Brexit, an insightful exploration of the transformation of modern BritainThis revised and updated fourth and final volume in the concise Brief History of Britain series begins in the specially-constructed Crystal Palace, three times the length of St Paul's Cathedral, in Hyde Park at the beginning of the second half of the nineteenth century. The Great Exhibition it housed marked a high point of British national achievement, at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution, at the heart of a great empire, with Queen Victoria still to reign for fifty years. It was a time of confidence in the future, and exuberant patriotism for Britain's role in it.The beginning of the Second World War in 1939 marks a turning point because of the great change it heralded in Britain's global standing. At its peak, protected by the world's greatest navy, the British Empire stretched from Australasia to Canada, from Hong Kong and India to South Africa, and from Jamaica to the Falklands. Now the empire is no more: a fundamental change not only for the world, but also for Britain. The Second World War had been won, but it had exhausted Britain and marked the beginning of its national decline.Black links cultural and political developments closely - transport, health, migration and economic and demographic factors - in order to make clear how porous and changeable the manifestations of national civilisation can be, and to make sense of themes such as the triumph of town over country, Britain's international clout and the shift from the dominance of the market at the turn of the nineteenth century to the growing significance of the state. Importantly, he also looks at how public history has presented the nation's past, and how the changing and different ways we look at that past are central aspects of our shared history.The Weaker Vessel
Par Lady Antonia Fraser. 1984
Antonia Fraser's bestselling account of the lives of women in seventeenth-century England.Just how weak were the women of the Civil…
War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce? What rights had the unmarried? What expectations the widows? An expert on the period, Antonia Fraser brings to life the many and various women she has encountered in her considerable research: governesses, milkmaids, fishwives, nuns, defenders of castles, courtesans, countesses, witches and widows.A Wider Type of Freedom: How Struggles for Racial Justice Liberate Everyone
Par Daniel Martinez HoSang. 2021
A sweeping history of transformative, radical, and abolitionist movements in the United States that places the struggle for racial justice…
at the center of universal liberation. In Where Do We Go From Here? (1967), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., described racism as "a philosophy based on a contempt for life," a totalizing social theory that could only be confronted with an equally massive response, by "restructuring the whole of American society." A Wider Type of Freedom provides a survey of the truly transformative visions of racial justice in the United States, an often-hidden history that has produced conceptions of freedom and interdependence never envisioned in the nation's dominant political framework. A Wider Type of Freedom brings together stories of the social movements, intellectuals, artists, and cultural formations that have centered racial justice and the abolition of white supremacy as the foundation for a universal liberation. Daniel Martinez HoSang taps into moments across time and place to reveal the longstanding drive toward a vision of universal emancipation. From the nineteenth century's abolition democracy and the struggle to end forced sterilizations, to the twentieth century's domestic worker organizing campaigns, to the twenty-first century's environmental justice movement, he reveals a bold, shared desire to realize the antithesis of "a philosophy based on a contempt for life," as articulated by Martin Luther King Jr. Rather than seeking "equal rights" within failed systems, these efforts generated new visions that embraced human difference, vulnerability, and interdependence as core productive facets of our collective experience.Praying to the West: How Muslims Shaped the Americas
Par Omar Mouallem. 2021
Journalist Omar Mouallem travels to thirteen remarkable mosques and discovers the surprising history of their communities. But what he finds…
also challenges his own long-held personal beliefs, and even his sense of identity.&“Until recently, Muslim identity was imposed on me. But I feel different about my religious heritage in the era of ISIS and Trumpism, Rohingya and Uyghur genocides, ethnonationalism and misinformation. I&’m compelled to reclaim the thing that makes me a target. I&’ve begun to examine Islam closely with an eye for how it has shaped my values, politics, and connection to my roots. No doubt, Islam has a place within me. But do I have a place within it?&” Omar Mouallem grew up in a Muslim household, but always questioned the role of Islam in his life. As an adult, he used his voice to criticize what he saw as the harms of organized religion. But none of that changed the way others saw him. Now, as a father, he fears the challenges his children will no doubt face as Western nations become increasingly nativist and hostile toward their heritage. In Praying to the West, Mouallem explores the unknown history of Islam across the Americas, traveling to thirteen unique mosques in search of an answer to how this religion has survived and thrived so far from the place of its origin. From California to Quebec, and from Brazil to Canada&’s icy north, he meets the members of fascinating communities, all of whom provide different perspectives on what it means to be Muslim. Along this journey he comes to understand that Islam has played a fascinating role in how the Americas were shaped—from industrialization to the changing winds of politics. And he also discovers that there may be a place for Islam in his own life, particularly as a father, even if he will never be a true believer. Original, insightful, and beautifully told, Praying to the West reveals a secret history of home and the struggle for belonging taking place in towns and cities across the Americas, and points to a better, more inclusive future for everyone.Politics After Violence: Legacies of the Shining Path Conflict in Peru
Par Hillel Soifer, Alberto Vergara. 2019
This collection of original essays by leading international experts on Peruvian politics, society, and institutions explores the political and institutional…
consequences of Peru’s internal armed conflict in the long 1980s. The essays are grouped into sections that cover the conflict itself in historical, comparative, and theoretical perspectives; its consequences for Peru’s political institutions; its effects on political parties across the ideological spectrum; and its impact on public opinion and civil society. This research provides the first systematic and nuanced investigation of the extent to which recent and contemporary Peruvian politics, civil society, and institutions have been shaped by the country’s 1980s violence.