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Jewish Studies
March 18, 2021
Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age
Survivors' Stories and New Media Practices
Jeffrey Shandler
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Robin Buller
How do technological advances and changing archival practices alter historical memory? In what ways have developments in the preservation and dissemination of historical material already impacted how scholars and the …
Jewish Studies
August 25, 2020
Rescue the Surviving Souls
The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the 17th Century
Adam Teller
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Robin Buller
A refugee crisis of huge proportions erupted as a result of the mid-seventeenth-century wars in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Tens of thousands of Jews fled their homes, or were captured and …
Jewish Studies
August 14, 2020
Hitler’s Jewish Refugees
Hope and Anxiety in Portugal
Marion Kaplan
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Robin Buller
Marion Kaplan's riveting book, Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal (Yale University Press) describes the dramatic experiences of Jewish refugees as they fled Hitler’s regime and then lived …
Jewish Studies
June 8, 2020
Khurbm 1914-1922
Prelude to the Holocaust
Alexander Gendler
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Robin Buller
The murder of two-thirds of European Jews, referred to by many as the Holocaust, did not begin June 22, 1941, with the German invasion of the Soviet Union, or September …
Jewish Studies
January 16, 2020
Cities of Refuge
German Jews in London and New York, 1935-1945
Lori Gemeiner-Bihler
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Robin Buller
In the years following Hitler’s rise to power, German Jews faced increasingly restrictive antisemitic laws, and many responded by fleeing to more tolerant countries. Cities of Refuge: German Jews in …
Jewish Studies
January 9, 2020
Homes Away from Home
Jewish Belonging in 20th-Century Paris, Berlin, and St. Petersburg
Sarah Wobick-Segev
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Robin Buller
In pre-emancipation Europe, most Jews followed Jewish law most of the time, but by the turn of the twentieth century, a new secular Jewish identity had begun to take shape …
Jewish Studies
September 16, 2019
State, Nationalism, and the Jewish Communities of Modern Greece
Evdoxios Doxiadis
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Robin Buller
How did minorities fit into the new Greek state during the country’s transition from imperial rule to national sovereignty? How did the relationship between Greece and its Jewish minorities, in …
Jewish Studies
October 30, 2018
World War I and the Jews
Conflict and Transformation in Europe, the Middle East, and America
Marsha L. Rozenblit and Jonathan Karp, eds.
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Robin Buller
How was Jewish life affected by the First World War? How did Jews around the world understand, engage with, and influence the Great War and surrounding events? And why has …
Jewish Studies
October 25, 2018
Stealing Home
Looting, Restitution, and Reconstructing Jewish Lives in France, 1942-1947
Shannon Fogg
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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 …
Jewish Studies
August 24, 2018
The Beginnings of Ladino Literature
Moses Almosnino and His Readers
Olga Borovaya
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Robin Buller
When did Ladino literature emerge? According to Dr. Olga Borovaya, author of The Beginnings of Ladino Literature: Moses Almosnino and his Readers (Indiana University Press, 2017), the history of Ladino …
Jewish Studies
May 24, 2018
Pioneers and Partisans
An Oral History of Nazi Genocide in Belorussia
Anika Walke
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Robin Buller
How did Soviet Jews respond to the Holocaust and the devastating transformations that accompanied persecution? How was the Holocaust experienced, survived, and remembered by Jewish youth living in Soviet territory …
Jewish Studies
May 21, 2018
Italy’s Jews from Emancipation to Fascism
Shira Klein
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Robin Buller
What was Italy’s role in the Holocaust? Why is it that Italy is known as the Axis power that was benevolent to Jews, despite a scholarly consensus that many Italians …
Jewish Studies
March 29, 2018
Passing Illusions
Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany
Kerry Wallach
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Robin Buller
What did it mean to be perceived as Jewish or non-Jewish in Weimar Germany? How, in an age of growing antisemitism, was Jewishness revealed, or made invisible? Kerry Wallach of …
Jewish Studies
March 19, 2018
Escape from Vichy
The Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean
Eric T. Jennings
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Robin Buller
In Escape from Vichy: The Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean (Harvard University Press, 2018), Eric T. Jennings reveals the fascinating history of the Martinique Corridor, a pathway travelled by …
Jewish Studies
March 14, 2018
Sephardi, Jewish, Argentine
Community and National Identity, 1880-1960
Adriana M. Brodsky
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Robin Buller
How do immigrant populations navigate between ancestral ties and connections to their new homes? How do their plural histories create layered identities, and how do those identities change over time …
Jewish Studies
February 20, 2018
City on a Hilltop
American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement
Sara Hirschhorn
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Robin Buller
Who are the American Jews behind many of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank? This is the question that Dr. Sara Hirschhorn, Research Lecturer at the University of Oxford …
Jewish Studies
February 9, 2018
The Going
A Meditation on Jewish Law
Leon Wiener Dow
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Robin Buller
Leon Wiener Dow's most recent work The Going: A Meditation on Jewish Law (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017) offers readers intimate, informative, and at times provocative reflections on halakha, or Jewish law …
Jewish Studies
January 10, 2018
Trauma in First Person
Diary Writing during the Holocaust
Amos Goldberg
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Robin Buller
In his most recent work, Trauma in First Person: Diary Writing during the Holocaust (Indiana University Press, 2017), Amos Goldberg examines Jewish diary writing during the Holocaust---a subject that is …
Jewish Studies
December 24, 2017
Across Legal Lines
Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco
Jessica Marglin
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Robin Buller
In Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco (Yale University Press, 2016), Jessica Marglin skillfully narrates how Jews and Muslims navigated the complex and dynamic legal system of …
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