Social groups: religious groups and communities

Israel has fought many wars since its founding in 1948, from conventional military conflicts with Arab forces to irregular clashes with guerrilla and terror groups.

In recent decades, Israel has come under sustained diplomatic pressure from the West.

On graduating from West Point in 1940, Lieutenant John Wright was assigned to Corregidor, Philippine Islands.

Character actor Richard Jaeckel worked five decades in Hollywood alongside the industry's biggest names.

The POW Camp at Fort McClellan, Alabama, was one of hundreds of American containment centers built to hold the hundreds of thousands of German prisoners captured during World War II.

On July 3, 1940, 5,000 exhausted and hungry French officers reached a high plateau of the Moravian Mountain range in Austria.

From 1937 through 1945, Hollywood produced over 1,000 films relating to the war.

The 92nd Infantry ("e;Buffalo"e;) Division was the last segregated (all-black) U.

Christianity faces a dilemma with regard to the status of women.

Creating a guerrilla movement to fight the Japanese occupation of the Philippines (1942-1945) presented Colonel Wendell Fertig with some formidable challenges.

One of NASCAR's pioneers, Bud Moore won countless races in the sport's early rough and tumble days.

The story of Hitler's Wehrmachtsgefolge (armed forces auxiliaries) is less well known than that of Germany's other armed forces in World War II, such as the panzer divisions, the Luftwaffe and the Kriegsmarine.

The 1973 Yom Kippur War marked a turning point in the "e;special relationship"e; between the United States and Israel.

Jewish humor, with its rational skepticism and cutting social criticism, permeates American popular culture.

World War II began for the United States with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941, followed by the invasion of the Philippine Islands the next day.

The anguish endured by agunot (chained) Orthodox Jewish women trapped in unhappy or defunct marriages by husbands who refuse to give them a gett (divorce) reveals the power of religious law even when it conflicts with modern societies' moral and legal norms.

Seventy years after the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is still dealing with the effects of the bombings on the national psyche.

The life and achievements of General Omar Nelson Bradley are legendary.

North Carolina did more than its part during World War II.

Taking stock of Yiddish literature in 1939, critic Shmuel Niger highlighted the increasing number and importance of women writers.

This book is an exploration of the history and ideology of Revisionist Zionism--the stream of Zionism represented by the ruling Likud Party in Israel--from its inception in the 1920s under Vladimir Ze'ev Jabotinsky through its modification under Herut Party leader Menahem Begin to the present.

During World War II, the Solomon Islands became the scene of a titanic struggle between Allied and Japanese forces.

In 1945 U.

This book describes the clandestine missions that were defining moments in the evolution of the Mossad, including its pursuit of the Black September terrorists who murdered Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games, its acquisition on the high seas of yellowcake uranium for Israel's undeclared nuclear weapons program, and its role in bringing to justice Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.

The Allies' triumphant march into Paris in 1944 was met with cheering crowds of liberated Parisians.

World War II could not have been won without the U.

When reality becomes fantastic, what literary effects will render it credible or comprehensible?

For two weeks during the spring of 1942, the Bataan Death March--one of the most widely condemned atrocities of World War II--unfolded.

The beginning of World War I saw thousands of army and navy aviators who needed specialized clothing that could not be purchased off-the-shelf.

From 1949 to 2000, Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon, and Ehud Barak conducted Israel's successful (and unsuccessful) talks with its Arab neighbors, from the armistice negotiations to Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy, to Camp David I and the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, and finally to the Oslo peace process.

This book details the Liberty ships and the Emergency Shipbuilding Program during World War II.

During World War II Nathalie "e;Lily"e; Sergueiew, a woman of mystery, confidently seduced the German Intelligence Service into employing her as a spy against their British enemy.

In May of 1944, American airman Gerald E.

Analyzing the history of the Jews of Spain from the time of the Visigoths to the present, this study investigates periods of discrimination against converted Jews that went beyond the merely religious, finding similarities to the racial and secular anti-Semitism of modernity.

Air warfare was a decisive component of World War II, especially in western Europe and over Japan, where Allied bombers damaged 66 of the country's largest cities.

As a combat medical aidman of Company B, 1st Medical Battalion, First Infantry Division, Allen N.

The United States relied heavily on bombing to defeat the Germans and the Japanese in World War II, and air raids were touted as "e;precision"e; bombing in American propaganda.

This book--the first of its kind--analyzes how and why cases of child sexual abuse have been systematically concealed in Orthodox Jewish communities.

The comics within capture in intimate, often awkward, but always relatable detail the tribulations and triumphs of life.

Sometimes, to move forward, we must look back.

Prior to 1492, Jews had flourished on the Iberian Peninsula for hundreds of years.

Although World War II began as a war in Europe, many in the United States, foreseeing the inevitable, began to prepare for war, putting no faith in the Neutrality Act.

Music in the Hebrew Bible investigates musical citations in the Hebrew Bible and their relevance for our times.

This book contains the complete poems in Hungarian and in English translation of Hungary's great modern poet, Miklos Radnoti, murdered at the age of 35 during the Holocaust.

America's first West Coast armored and infantry training installation was built in California in 1941 and named Camp Cooke.

In addition to concentration camps, World War II Germany was also home to 54 prisoner-of-war camps, the largest of which was Stalag IVB.

The battle for Saipan is remembered as one of the bloodiest battles fought in the Pacific during World War II, and was a turning point on the road to the defeat of Japan.

The Freckleton catastrophe of August 23, 1944, occurred when an American B-24 Liberator crashed into the small village of Freckleton in northwest England.

This volume examines how people in Poland learn about Jewish life, culture and history, including the Holocaust.

This book proposes that Jews were present in England in substantial numbers from the Roman Conquest forward.