The Rise of Provincial Jewry
Author : Cecil Roth
Publisher : London : Jewish Monthly
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 31,66 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Antisemitism
ISBN :
Port Jews
Author : David Cesarani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 37,48 MB
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1135292469
Book Description
The history of Jews in cosmopolitan maritime trading centres is a field of research that is reshaping our understanding of how Jews entered the modern world. These studies show that the utility of Jewish merchants in an era of European expansion was vital to their acculturation and assimilation.
The Archaeology of Anglo-Jewry in England and Wales 1656–c.1880
Author : Kenneth Marks
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 35,22 MB
Release : 2014-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1905739915
Book Description
This volume presents a comprehensive study of the urban topography of Anglo-Jewry in the period before the mass immigration of 1881. The book brings together the evidence for the physical presence of at least 80% of the Jewish community. London and thirty-five provincial cities and towns are discussed.
History of the Jews: From the rise of the Kabbala, 1270 C.E., to the permanent settlement of the Marranos in Holland, 1618 C.E
Author : Heinrich Graetz
Publisher :
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 43,2 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Jews
ISBN :
Book Description
James Joseph Sylvester
Author : Karen Hunger Parshall
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 25,3 MB
Release : 2006-05-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801882913
Book Description
This text offers a biography of James Joseph Sylvester & his work. A Cambridge student at first denied a degree because of his faith, Sylvester came to America to teach mathematics, becoming Daniel Coit Gilman's faculty recruit at Johns Hopkins in 1876 & winning the coveted Savilian Professorship of Geometry at Oxford in 1883.
Modern British Jewry
Author : Geoffrey Alderman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 18,75 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780198207597
Book Description
An authoritative and comprehensive history of the Jews of Britain over the last century and a half, this book examines the social structure and economic base of Jewish communities in Victorian England and traces the struggle for emancipation.
Jews and the Civil War
Author : Jonathan D. Sarna
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 2011-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0814771130
Book Description
"An erotic scandal chronicle so popular it became a byword... Expertly tailored for contemporary readers. It combines scurrilous attacks on the social and political celebritites of the day, disguised just enough to exercise titillating speculatuion, with luscious erotic tales." —Belles Lettres This story concerns the return of to earth of the goddess of Justice, Astrea, to gather information about private and public behavior on the island of Atalantis. Manley drew on her experience as well as on an obsessive observation of her milieu to produce this fast paced narrative of political and erotic intrigue.
Germany - Great Britain - France
Author : Herbert A. Strauss
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 34,13 MB
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 3110855615
Book Description
Hostages of Modernization
Author : Herbert Arthur Strauss
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 23,66 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110107760
Book Description
The series was designed in response to the research experiences accumulated by the Center for Research on Antisemitism of Berlin Technical University since 1982. The first two volumes presented normative thinking on the social and psychological mechanisms effective in antisemitism. The present volum
Refugees in an Age of Genocide
Author : Katharine Knox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 50,76 MB
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1136313265
Book Description
This is a study of the history of global refugee movements over the 20th century, ranging from east European Jews fleeing Tsarist oppression at the turn of the century to asylum seekers from the former Zaire and Yugoslavia. Recognizing that the problem of refugees is a universal one, the authors emphasize the human element which should be at the forefront of both the study of refugees and responses to them.
