Beyond Camps and Forced Labour

Beyond Camps and Forced Labour
Author: Suzanne Bardgett
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2020-12-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 303056391X

This book presents a selection of the newest research on themes amplified by the sixth annual Beyond Camps and Forced Labour conference on the post-Holocaust period, including ‘displaced persons’, reception and resettlement, exiles and refugees, trials and justice, reparation and restitution, and memory and testimony. The chapters highlight new, transnational approaches and findings based on underused and newly opened archives, including compensation files of the British government; on historical actors often on the periphery within English-language historiography, including Romanian and Hungarian survivors; and new approaches such as the spatial history of Drancy, as well as geographies that have undergone less scrutiny, for example, Tehran, Chile, Mexico and Cyprus. This volume represents the vibrant and varied state of research on the aftermath of the Holocaust.

Zionism

Zionism
Author: Michael Stanislawski
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2017
Genre: HISTORY
ISBN: 0199766045

"This Very Short Introduction discloses a history of Zionism from the origins of modern Jewish nationalism in the 1870's to the present. Michael Stanislawski provides a lucid and detached analysis of Zionism, focusing on its internal intellectual and ideological developments and divides"--

Judaica

Judaica
Author: Ludwig Rosenberger
Publisher: Cincinnati : Hebrew Union Press
Total Pages: 504
Release: 1971
Genre: History
ISBN:

Trapped by Evil and Deceit

Trapped by Evil and Deceit
Author: Daniel Brand
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2021-06-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1644695022

When the Holocaust broke out in Europe, Hansi and Joel Brand were joined by Israel (Rezső) Kasztner to launch an organized effort to save thousands of human lives. Their efforts, which involved playing a dangerous bluffing game against the Nazi regime, helped to end the Auschwitz extermination. Their success put them at odds with the political machine of the young state of Israel. Politicians wanted the public to believe that there was nothing they could do, a sentiment which many still believe to this day. This cover-up led to Israel’s first politically-motivated homicide.

Dead-end Journey

Dead-end Journey
Author: Hana Weiner
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780761801993

This book tells the story of over 1, 000 Jewish refugees and their unfinished voyage to Palestine.

The Dream of Zion

The Dream of Zion
Author: Lawrence J. Epstein
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2016-01-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 144225467X

The Dream of Zion tells the story of the Jewish political effort to restore their ancient nation. At the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, in August 1897 Theodor Herzl convened a remarkable meeting that founded what became the World Zionist Organization, defined the political goals of the movement, adopted a national anthem, created the legal and financial instruments that would lead to statehood, and ushered the reentry of the Jewish people into political history. It was there in Basel that Herzl, the man some praised and some mocked as the new Moses, became the leader. The book provides an overview of the history that led to the Congress, an introduction to key figures in Israeli history, a discussion of the climate at the time for Jews—including the pogroms in Russia—and a discussion of themes that remain relevant today, such as the Christian reaction to the Zionist idea. As political debates continue to swirl around Israel, this book opens a window into its founding.

The Israeli Defence Forces and the Foundation of Israel

The Israeli Defence Forces and the Foundation of Israel
Author: Ze'ev Drory
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2004
Genre: Civil-military relations
ISBN: 1135753997

This book discusses the contribution of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) to the building of the social and educational foundations of the country, and its role in the area of immigrant absorption and settlement during the first years of the Israeli State. The author examines how under the guidance of David Ben-Gurion Israel was able to utilize the values of military organization to combat severe, economic, and social difficulties, and build a civil society to underpin the new state.

Crossroads to Israel

Crossroads to Israel
Author: Christopher Sykes
Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2022-05-07
Genre: History
ISBN:

“Christopher Sykes has written the authoritative work on the Palestine Mandate... His account is almost unbearably fair to all concerned, even to Britain... a very excellent book. Mr. Sykes steers his way through the reigns of successive High Commissioners and through the maze of White Papers and Royal Commissions with amazing virtuosity. We see the whole picture of the Mandate in a way which was impossible to those at the time.” — International Affairs “Mr. Sykes (son of Mark Sykes, co-author of the Sykes-Picot Agreement) has written an illuminating, highly-informed and balanced study of the development of the Zionist movement into the State of Israel. By virtue of his acquaintance with many of the leading persons involved, Mr. Sykes has had access to a considerable amount of unpublished material upon which he has drawn heavily to clarify much that was previously obscure about events in the unhappy Holy Land. He also writes with an easy, lucid style so that apart from the book’s intrinsic merit it is immensely readable.” — International Journal “One of the many merits of Mr Sykes’s wholly meritorious book is that he is not anchored in time or prejudice.” — Middle Eastern Studies