Books

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Ethnic struggle, coexistence, and democratization in Eastern Europe Ethnic struggle, coexistence, and democratization in Eastern Europe Sherrill Stroschein "This book argues that protest by ethnic Hungarians in Romania and Slovakia brought about policy changes and integrated Hungarian minorities into the democratic process. Ethnic protest allowed groups… OL16135153W
Islamophobie und Antisemitismus – Ein umstrittener Vergleich Islamophobie und Antisemitismus – Ein umstrittener Vergleich Olaf Glöckner,Gideon Botsch,Christoph Kopke,Michael Spieker Gleichen die Proteste gegen den Moscheenbau in deutschen Städten dem Juden-Raus -Ruf des Kaiserreiches? Vergleiche zwischen heutiger Islamfeindschaft und traditionellen Spielarten des Antisemitismus … OL16715256W
Anti-Judaism Anti-Judaism David Nirenberg From Amazon: This incisive history upends the complacency that confines anti-Judaism to the ideological extremes in the Western tradition. With deep learning and elegance, David Nirenberg shows how f… OL16769861W
Yearbook of Muslims in Europe Yearbook of Muslims in Europe J©ırgen S. Nielsen The "Yearbook of Muslims in Europe" provides up-to-date factual information, statistics and analysis of the situation of Muslims in 37 European countries. OL16923265W
The Jews of Italy The Jews of Italy Shlomo Simonsohn Publisher: The history of the Jews in Italy is the longest continuous one of European Jewry and lasted for more than two millennia. It started in the days of the Roman Republic and continued through … OL17800591W
Virtually Jewish Virtually Jewish Ruth Ellen Gruber "More than half a century after the Holocaust, in countries where Jews make up just a tiny fraction of the population, products of Jewish culture (or what is perceived as Jewish culture) have become … OL1965493W
The vanquished The vanquished Robert Gerwarth Contains primary source material. "An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War I-- conflicts that would shape the course of the twentieth cent… OL19664779W
Haunted presents Haunted presents Amikam Nachmani This is an in-depth analysis of the interrelations between Muslim minority immigrants and local European communities with an accent on Jewish communities and Judaism. The triangular investigation in … OL19854845W
1939 1939 Šarūnas Liekis "This gripping and well-documented account of the history of the town of Vilnius and its surrounding region from the Polish ultimatum of March 1938, which forced Lithuania to open diplomatic relation… OL19912025W
The murder of William of Norwich The murder of William of Norwich E. M. Rose "In 1144, the mutilated body of William of Norwich, a young apprentice leatherworker, was found abandoned outside the city's walls. The boy bore disturbing signs of torture, and a story soon spread t… OL20042673W
Mother Land Mother Land Dmetri Kakmi "Mother Land is a minutely remembered description of a childhood on an Aegean island, marked by the furious opposition of hostile yet neighbouring cultures. It is an account of how a Greek boy born o… OL20303074W
The Anthropology of Europe The Anthropology of Europe Cris Shore,Victoria A. Goddard,Josep R. Llobera An anthropological study of Europe post-1989. The contributors examine the social, cultural and political implications of European integration, with particular emphasis on changing European identitie… OL20619948W
New Directions in the History of the Jews in the Polish Lands New Directions in the History of the Jews in the Polish Lands Antony Polonsky This volume is made up of essays first presented as papers at the conference held in May 2015 at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. It is divided into two sections. The first deals… OL20929793W
Khazaria in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries Khazaria in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries Boris Zhivkov "In Khazaria in the 9th and 10th Centuries Boris Zhivkov offers a new view on Khazaria by scrutinizing the different visions offered by recent scholarship. The paucity of written sources has made it … OL22315067W
A Jump for Life A Jump for Life Ruth Altbeker Cyprys The journal of a young Jewish woman struggling to survive the German invasion of Poland. Taken from the Ghetto in 1943, Ruth Altbeker Cyprys saved her own life, and that of her daughter, by jumping f… OL2675321W
The Enemy at His Pleasure The Enemy at His Pleasure S. Ansky "In late 1914, S. Ansky, the influential Jewish-Russian journalist, playwright, and politician, received a commission: to organize desperately needed relief for Jews on the borderlands, caught betwee… OL8445354W
Bashert Bashert Andrea Simon "Haunted by her grandmother's Old World stories and bigger-than-life persona, Andrea Simon undertook a spiritual search for her lost family. Her sojourn, a quest for truth, gave her tragic answers.".… OL8927261W