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Jelena Subotić, “Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism” (Cornell UP, 2019)
Jelena Subotić
Yellow Star, Red Star
Holocaust Remembrance after Communism
Cornell University Press, 2019

New Books in Eastern European StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & Faith December 12, 2019 Steven Seegel

In her new book Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism (Cornell University Press, 2019) Jelena Subotić asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so deeply troubled―ignored, appropriated, and obfuscated―throughout Eastern Europe, even though it was in those lands that most of the extermination campaign occurred. As part of... Read More
Lyn Julius, “Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight” (Vallentine Mitchell, 2018)
Lyn Julius
Uprooted
How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight
Vallentine Mitchell, 2018

New Books in HistoryNew Books in Israel StudiesNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network December 9, 2019 Renee Garfinkel

Who are the Jews from Arab countries? What were relations with Muslims like? What made Jews leave countries where they had been settled for thousands of years? And what lessons can we learn from the mass exodus of minorities from the Middle East? This neglected piece of history, as ancient... Read More
Lior Sternfeld, “Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran” (Stanford UP, 2019)
Lior Sternfeld
Between Iran and Zion
Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran
Stanford University Press, 2019

New Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network December 3, 2019 Asad Dandia

Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran (Stanford University Press, 2019) by Lior Sternfeld presents the first systematic study of the rich and variegated history of Jews in twentieth-century Iran. Lior begins his intervention by identifying a “lachrymose historical narrative” that has predominated modern Jewish history and framed... Read More
Claudia Moscovici, “Holocaust Memories: A Survey of Holocaust Memoirs, Histories, Novels, and Films” (Hamilton, 2019)
Claudia Moscovici
Holocaust Memories
A Survey of Holocaust Memoirs, Histories, Novels, and Films
Hamilton Books, 2019

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in FilmNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network December 2, 2019 Natasha Margulis

Claudia Moscovici’s recent book, Holocaust Memories: A Survey of Holocaust Memoirs, Histories, Novels, and Films (Hamilton Books, 2019), is intended for educators and politicians to draw attention to and educate people about the Never Again Education Act. Moscovici: “Nearly eighty years have passed since the Holocaust. There have been hundreds... Read More
C. Browning, P. Hayes, R. Hilberg, “German Railroads, Jewish Souls: The Reichsbahn, Bureaucracy, and the Final Solution” (Berghahn Books, 2019)
Christopher Browning, Peter Hayes, and Raul Hilberg
German Railroads, Jewish Souls
The Reichsbahn, Bureaucracy, and the Final Solution
Berghahn Books, 2019

New Books in European StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network November 27, 2019 Kelly McFall

Raul Hilberg was a giant in the field of Genocide and Holocaust Studies. Frequently cited as the founder of the field in the United States, Hilberg wrote, taught, and mentored for decades.  In a series of influential books, he scouted out the terrain, mapped events, people and personalities, and offered... Read More
Olga Zilberbourg, “Like Water and Other Stories” (WTAW Press, 2019)
Olga Zilberbourg
Like Water and Other Stories

WTAW Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in LiteratureNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesNew Books Network November 25, 2019 Jennifer Eremeeva

The phenomenon of the Russian emigre writer is nothing new. Exile seems almost as necessary a commodity as ink to many of Russia’s most celebrated writers, including Alexander Herzen, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Vladimir Nabokov, Ivan Bunin, Josef Brodsky, and Sergei Dovlatov. For these titans of Russian literature, leaving was a binary... Read More
Daniel Schwartz, “Ghetto: The History of a Word” (Harvard UP, 2019)
Daniel B. Schwartz
Ghetto
The History of a Word
Harvard University Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network November 19, 2019 Lindsey Jackson

The word “ghetto” has taken on different meanings since its coinage in the 16th century. The uses of this term have varied considerably, from its original understanding as a compulsory Jewish quarter in Venice to its appropriation by black Americans to describe racial segregation in the United States. Daniel Schwartz... Read More
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