Böcker i Judaic Studies-serien

Argentina is home to the largest Jewish community in the Hispanic world. This book traces the patterns of Jewish immigration and Argentine immigration policy, both as manifestations of cultural and historical processes and as forces shaping the emergence of a large and energetic Jewish community.

Focuses on axiology and three broad questions: What were Shneur Zalman's criteria for religioethical perfection? What did he want his followers to believe, know, feel and do in order to aspire toward that perfection? What were the attitudes and values he sought to inculcate with this end in mind?

This text tells the little-known story of the militant American Zionists who lobbied Congress, rallied American public opinion and influenced British-American relations, in their campaign for Jewish statehood in the 1930s and 1940s to rescue Jews from Hitler and establish a Jewish state.

In this volume, 25 female survivors of the Holocaust give their story of experiences during the period. They describe their efforts to evade Nazi laws and subsequent dehumanization, protect their children and siblings, and maintain their Jewish identity.

Youth Aliyah is considered by Israelis as a major contribution to the foundation of a Jewish presence leading to the modern state of Israel. This book follows the organization from its establishment, its alliances and antagonisms with other Jewish organizations, its problems on every side, perhaps the greatest being sheer human optimism.

The belief of the Jewish people that their race is eternal, but the fear that their generation might be the last, is (according to the author) heightened in the USA - nation of free, open pluralism of faith and ideology. The examination of this paradoxical vitality is the main focus of this book.

Written originally in Yiddish, in America and about America, this book is authentic American ethnic literature - different from Jewish American literature, created by Americans who happen to be Jewish. It presents a rich picture of a particular immigrant experience, as recounted by an observer.

Relates the history of Turkish Jewry during the last decades of the Ottoman empire. This story is told through the life and work of one of its central figures, Haim Nahum (1872-1960), Chief Rabbi of the Ottoman Empire from 1909 to 1920.

This biography of Ilya Ehrenburg, one of the most renowned Soviet intellectuals of his generation, reveals previously unknown aspects of Stalin's regime. It also contains anecdotes and material on the century's most important artists and writers, from Picasso to Pasternak.

"Nahum Goldmann, Zionist leader, diplomat, the founder of the World Jewish Congress and its president for many years, enjoyed one of the most disputed reputations in Zionist circles.... [in this book], Goldmann emerges as an interesting personality, a bon-vivant, a brilliant conversationalist, and a most gifted diplomat." - Jewish Quarterly Review; "Recommended to all who are interested in exploring the life of one of the most interesting Jews of the century." - Choice"

Contains selected poems of Samuel Ibn Nagrela (993-1056 AD), a Hebrew poet of the 'Golden Age' in Spain. A leading statesman in the kingdom of Granada, he opened up new paths in Hebrew poetry, and his mastery of its metrical intricacies was as consummate as his political and military skill.

Describing the tensions that existed between the Sephardic community of Bordeaux and the Ashkenazic Jews of France, the author also depicts their role in the relation of the Jews with Napoleon and the forming of the Grand Sanhedrin.

"An impressive achievement.... Udelson provides a trenchant analysis of Zangwill's works set within a historical context, i.e., Jewish emancipation and the dilemma of how one might remain fully Jewish while becoming fully modern, that helps to illuminate Zangwill's life as well as his writings." - Jewish Book News; "By carefully following the threads of Zangwill's own divided self through the labyrinths of his life and writings, Udelson convinces us not only of the author's startling political prescience, but that he embodies attitudes now shared by almost all secular Jews as a result of events Zangwill did not witness - Nazism and the founding of Israel."

"Beautifully written... a welcome addition to the study of human degradation in the Nazi concentration camps. What makes this book especially important is that it is the eyewitness story of Daniel Bennahmias, who was a member of the Sonderkommando - people relegated to the most horrible duty of any concentration camp inmates, that of removing freshly gassed bodies from the gas chambers at Auschwitz, where four gas chambers often exterminated 10,000 people per day." - International Society for Yad Vashem; "The horrors that a young Sephardic Jew named Daniel Bennahmias was forced to endure seem incomprehensible.... His story and the saga of the others in the special command have long been shrouded in mystery. The work of the Sonderkommando was a closely guarded secret." - Jewish Bulletin"

A history of the oldest religious Jewish women's organisation in the United States, ""Gone to Another Meeting"" charts the development of the National Council of Jewish Women and its impact on both the Jewish community in the United States and American society in general.