World War I and the Jews : : Conflict and Transformation in Europe, the Middle East, and America /

World War I and the Jews : : Conflict and Transformation in Europe, the Middle East, and America / / ed. by Jonathan Karp, Marsha L. Rozenblit.

World War I utterly transformed the lives of Jews around the world: it allowed them to display their patriotism, to dispel antisemitic myths about Jewish cowardice, and to fight for Jewish rights. Yet Jews also suffered as refugees and deportees, at times catastrophically. And in the aftermath of th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
MitwirkendeR:
Chronakis, Paris Papamichos,
Cooperman, Jessica,
Corber, Erin,
Engel, David,
Estraikh, Gennady,
Fink, Carole,
Karp, Jonathan,
Klein-Pejšová, Rebekah,
Kálmán, Mihály,
Mays, Devi,
Rosenthal, Daniel,
Rozenblit, Marsha L.,
Silver, M. M.,
Simon, Reeva Spector,
Ya’akov, Michal Ben,
HerausgeberIn:
Karp, Jonathan,
Rozenblit, Marsha L.,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (354 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Maps
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: On the Significance of World War I and the Jews
  • PART I Overviews
  • CHAPTER 1 World War I and Its Impact on the Problem of Security in Jewish History
  • CHAPTER 2 The European Jewish World 1914–1919 What Changed?
  • CHAPTER 3 Jewish Diplomacy and the Politics of War and Peace
  • PART II Local Studies
  • CHAPTER 4 Bravery in the Borderlands, Martyrs on the Margins: Jewish War Heroes and World War I Narratives in France, 1914–1940
  • CHAPTER 5 The Budapest Jewish Community’s Galician October
  • CHAPTER 6 Confronting the Bacterial Enemy: Public Health, Philanthropy, and Jewish Responses to Typhus in Poland, 1914–1921
  • CHAPTER 7 The Union of Jewish Soldiers under Soviet Rule
  • CHAPTER 8 Global Conflict, Local Politics: The Jews of Salonica and World War I
  • CHAPTER 9 Recounting the Past, Shaping the Future: Ladino Literary Representations of World War I
  • CHAPTER 10 Women and the War: The Social and Economic Impact of World War I on Jewish Women in the Traditional Holy Cities of Palestine
  • CHAPTER 11 Baghdadi Jews in the Ottoman Military during World War I
  • CHAPTER 12 Unintentional Pluralists: Military Policy, Jewish Servicemen, and the Development of Tri-Faith America during World War I
  • CHAPTER 13 American Yiddish Socialists at the Wartime Crossroads: Patriotism and Nationalism versus Proletarian Internationalism
  • CHAPTER 14 Louis Marshall during World War I: Change and Continuity in Jewish Culture and Politics
  • Index

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