Genocide and ethnic cleansing

Throughout church history, the book of Psalms has enjoyed wider use and acclaim than almost any other book of the Bible.

Americans now learn about the Holocaust in high school, watch films about it on television, and visit museums dedicated to preserving its memory.

Americans now learn about the Holocaust in high school, watch films about it on television, and visit museums dedicated to preserving its memory.

In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski gathered up tens of thousands of documents from Nazi buildings in Berlin, and later, public archives and private synagogues in France, and moved them all, illicitly, to New York.

In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski gathered up tens of thousands of documents from Nazi buildings in Berlin, and later, public archives and private synagogues in France, and moved them all, illicitly, to New York.

Alongside other types of mass atrocities, genocide has received extensive scholarly, policy, and practitioner attention.

There are many ancient West Asian stories that narrate the victory of a warrior deity over an enemy, typically a sea-god or sea dragon, and his rise to divine kingship.

Winner of the 2015 Ruth A.

Most studies of the history of interpretation of Song of Songs focus on its interpretation from late antiquity to modernity.

How did the New Testament writers and the earliest Christians come to adopt the Jewish scriptures as their first Old Testament?

Jeffrey Stackert addresses two of the oldest and most persistent problems in biblical studies: the relationship between prophecy and law in the Hebrew Bible and the utility of the Documentary Hypothesis for understanding Israelite religion.

The Nazi regime and local collaborators killed 800,000 Belorussian Jews, many of them parents or relatives of youngJews who survived the war.

While much of the international community regards the forced deportation of Armenian subjects of the Ottoman Empire in 1915, where approximately 800,000 to 1.

The Mark of Cain fleshes out a history of conversations that contributed to Germany's coming to terms with a guilty past.

When the world closed its borders to desperate Jews fleeing Europe during World War II, Shanghai became an unexpected last haven for the refugees.

While it is true that genocide prevention is not what tends to land on the front pages of national newspapers today, it is what prevents the worst headlines from ever being made.

While it is true that genocide prevention is not what tends to land on the front pages of national newspapers today, it is what prevents the worst headlines from ever being made.

In a series of writing workshops at the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, survivors who were children or teens during World War II assembled to remember the pivotal moments in which their lives were irreparably changed by the Nazis.

Over the centuries, New Testament texts have often been read in ways that reflect and encourage anti-Semitism.

To this day Jewish thinkers struggle to articulate the appropriate response to the unprecedented catastrophe of the Holocaust.

First published in 1890, and undoubtedly Azevedo's masterpiece, The Slum is one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed novels ever written about Brazil.

The Holocaust holds a unique place in American public culture, and, as Jeffrey Shandler argues in While America Watches, it is television, more than any other medium, that has brought the Holocaust into our homes, our hearts, and our minds.

Tomochic is a controversial and celebrated example of Mexican fiction.

Mirrors of Destruction examines the relationship between total war, state-organized genocide, and the emergence of modern identity.

In this novel and intriguing book, Michael Schaller traces the origins of the Cold War in Asia to the postwar occupation of Japan by U.

The history of the Second World War in Yugoslavia was for a long time the preserve of the Communist regime led by Marshal Tito.

The history of the Second World War in Yugoslavia was for a long time the preserve of the Communist regime led by Marshal Tito.

How do people link the past to the present, marking continuity in the face of the fundamental discontinuities of history?

How do people link the past to the present, marking continuity in the face of the fundamental discontinuities of history?

"e;Never again!

"e;Never again!

Why is the New Testament considered a "e;sacred"e; text for Christians?

Luke, the eponymous author of the gospel that bears his name as well as the book of Acts, wrote the largest portion of the New Testament.

Luke, the eponymous author of the gospel that bears his name as well as the book of Acts, wrote the largest portion of the New Testament.

Jewish culture places a great deal of emphasis on texts and their means of transmission.

Jewish culture places a great deal of emphasis on texts and their means of transmission.

Illegal Jewish immigration to Palestine prior to the founding of the State of Israel forms one of the most fascinating chapters in the history of Zionism and modern Jewish history.

This book brings together an internationally respected group of researchers for the purpose of examining neuroplasticity, a topic of immense current interest in psychology, neuroscience, neuropsychology, and clinical neurology.

Visionary strength was given to the piety, polity, and political activity of Protestantism in its formative periods through the way in which the Apocalypse was read.

The American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech.

For hundreds of years, Poland served as the epicenter of Jewish life.

In the face of the Holocaust, writes Lawrence L.

Was the Holocaust a natural product of a long German history of Anti-Semitism?

This gripping and heartbreaking narrative is the first full account of an American woman who gave her life in the struggle against the Nazi regime.

This book compares a variety of biblical narratives with the stories found in several Northwest Semitic inscriptions from the ancient kingdom of Judah and its contemporary Syro-Palestinian neighbors.

"e;British propaganda brought America to the brink of war, and left it to the Japanese and Hitler to finish the job.

When and why do groups target each other for extermination?

When Hitler published Mein Kampf in 1924, he held up a foreign law as a model for his program of racial purification: The U.

In the fall of 1992, in a small room in Boston, MA, an extraordinary meeting took place.

The inspiration of the Bible is central to Christian faith, yet there is no general agreement on the nature of this inspiration.