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Dan Diner
Chronicles twentieth century history as universal civil war between a succession of conflicting dualisms such as freedom and equality, race and class, capitalism and communism, liberalism and fascism, East and…
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English summary: To mark the centenary of Gustav Mahler’s death, one thematic focus of the Yearbook deals with the life, work and legacy of this musician of Jewish descent in…
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Translated from the original German Enzyklopadie judischer Geschichte und Kultur, the Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture includes about 800 entries that present the current state of international research on…
Von Europa ueber Amerika bis zum Vorderen Orient, Nordafrika und anderen aussereuropaeischen juedischen Siedlungsraeumen erschliesst die Enzyklopaedie in sechs Baenden und einem Registerband die neuere Geschichte der Juden von 1750…
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A collection of essays that reflect the author’s belief that the Holocaust transcends traditional patterns of historical understanding and requires an epistemologically distinct approach. It talks about anti-Semitism in the…
Translated from the original German Enzyklopaedie juedischer Geschichte und Kultur, the Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture includes about 800 entries that present the current state of international research on…
The myriad debates on restitution and memory, which have been going on in Europe for decades, indicate that World War II never ended, paradoxically re-invoked by the events of 1989/90…
Argues that Islam’s cultural stasis is not due to the Muslim faith itself, but to the nature of the sacred it is infused with and that penetrates every aspect of…
In this essay, German-Israeli historian Dan Diner argues that the European consciousness uses America as a metaphor for the dark sides of modernism. He finds an especially aggressive variant of…
Jules Dornay
Pan ! Dans l'oeil ! Diner de fin d'annee, revue en 5 actes et 8 tableaux, par MM. Jules Dornay et Gaston Marot, musique de M. J. Javelot… [Paris, Theatre…
This is a book of many facets. It covers the development and complexity of Jewish Studies, especially as they evolved in German-speaking countries (Judaistik), illuminating Judaism as a religion and…
An analysis of Saul Friedlander’s thinking, as one of the most important Holocaust scholars. It provides a discussion of Friedlander’s landmark history of the Holocaust, Nazi Germany and the Jews…
