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Daniel Unowsky, “The Plunder: The 1898 Anti-Jewish Riots in Habsburg Galicia” (Stanford UP, 2018)

Daniel Unowsky
The Plunder
The 1898 Anti-Jewish Riots in Habsburg Galicia
Stanford University Press, 2018

New Books in Eastern European Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in Genocide Studies New Books in History New Books in Jewish Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network February 19, 2019 Kelly McFall

Daniel Unowsky‘s book isn’t about a genocide or other incident of mass violence. Instead, The Plunder: The 1898 Anti-Jewish Riots in Habsburg Galicia (Stanford UP, 2018) examines a series of riots against Jews in Habsburg Galicia in the year 1898. Unowsky tries to understand how, in an Empire built around... Read More

John Cox and Adam Jones
Special Discussion
Approaches to Textbooks on Genocide
New Books in Genocide Studies, 2018

New Books in Genocide Studies New Books in History New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology New Books Network January 3, 2019 Kelly McFall

How do you write a textbook about genocide? Consider what such a textbook must do. It needs to integrate insights from a variety of disciplines. It must make complicated legal and definitional issues clear and compelling. It needs to make historical accounts meaningful yet concise. It needs to consider the... Read More

Daniel Siemens, “Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler’s Brownshirts” (Yale UP, 2017)

Daniel Siemens
Stormtroopers
A New History of Hitler’s Brownshirts
Yale University Press, 2017

New Books in European Studies New Books in Genocide Studies New Books in German Studies New Books in History New Books in Military History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network November 26, 2018 Craig Sorvillo

In his new book, Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler’s Brownshirts (Yale University Press, 2017, Daniel Siemens, professor of European history at Newcastle University, writes a comprehensive history of the SA, from the early 1920s until Nazi Germany’s total defeat in 1945. Siemens demonstrates how the SA evolved from a small... Read More

Michael Brenner, “A History of Jews in Germany Since 1945: Politics, Culture, and Society” (Indiana UP, 2018)

Michael Brenner
A History of Jews in Germany Since 1945
Politics, Culture, and Society
Indiana University Press, 2018

New Books in European Studies New Books in Genocide Studies New Books in German Studies New Books in History New Books in Jewish Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network November 12, 2018 Max Kaiser

In A History of Jews in Germany Since 1945: Politics, Culture, and Society (Indiana University Press, 2018), edited by Michael Brenner, Professor of Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich and Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies at the American University in Washington DC, has assembled a number... Read More

Shannon Fogg, “Stealing Home: Looting, Restitution, and Reconstructing Jewish Lives in France, 1942-1947” (Oxford UP, 2017)

Shannon Fogg
Stealing Home
Looting, Restitution, and Reconstructing Jewish Lives in France, 1942-1947
Oxford University Press, 2017

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in European Studies New Books in French Studies New Books in Genocide Studies New Books in History New Books in Jewish Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network October 25, 2018 Robin Buller

While the history of the Second World War and Jewish persecution in France has been widely studied, the return of survivors in the aftermath of deportation and genocide has not received sufficient attention. With Stealing Home: Looting, Restitution, and Reconstructing Jewish Lives in France, 1942-1947 (Oxford University Press, 2017), Shannon Fogg, Professor and... Read More