The 16 gaunt and war-battered young men who organized Kibbutz Buchenwald in 1945 personified the link between the destruction of European Jewry and the rise of Israeli nationhood. Baumel's detailed historical account, enriched by archival material and first-person narratives, reveals the fascinating story of how survivors became pioneers.
This comprehensive reference includes long articles and entries by a variety of scholars in the fields of history and Holocaust studies, including Saul Friedlander, Raul Hilberg, and Robert Rozett. The topics covered include aspects of Jewish life as well as Hitler's program of extermination. Illustrated, with bibliography.
Tells the remarkable story of six young men and the organizations they founded between 1939 and 1948 that would set the stage for the militant Zionist activism of today. During and shortly after the Second World War, six young men - emissaries of the revisionist-Zionist "Irgun" military movement in Palestine - revolutionized the American-Jewish ...
In this collection of essays, the author examines the Holocaust from the perspective of gender and focuses on the discourse between gender and identity. Social interaction in crisis, mutual assistance groups, leadership and martyrdom are all topics that are explored. An extensive multi-lingual bibliography of sources and studies dealing with ...
This book is an expression of how the different memories of different gendered experiences affected the Jewish attitudes towards modernity. Focusing on three geographical centers - pre-war and wartime Europe, the United States and Israel, the fifteen arti
This book is an expression of how the different memories of different gendered experiences affected the Jewish attitudes towards modernity. Focusing on three geographical centers - pre-war and wartime Europe, the United States and Israel, the fifteen articles provide a backdrop to understanding the variation of Jewish life and identity.
This is a book about, Chaskel Tydor, an Auschwitz and Buchenwald survivor, who was at various times a bookkeeper, metallurgist, kibbutz founder, Hebrew book publisher, uranium mine manager, and travel agent. Spanning close to ninety years of life, his story takes the reader through three continents, two marriages, and one Holocaust. At the same ...
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