Social groups: religious groups and communities

This book offers a compelling account of how America's combat soldiers experienced Europe during World War II.

In this comprehensive study, Adis Duderija examines how Neo Traditional Salafi thought (NTS) and progressive Muslims interpret the normative concepts of 'Believer' and 'Muslim Woman' in contemporary Islam

Although the battlefields of World War II lay thousands of miles from Mexican shores, the conflict had a significant influence on the country's political development.

Michail Logvinov stellt das weit verbreitete Verständnis des Salafismus als Vorstufe zum Terrorismus oder gar als „ideologisches Fundament des Islamischen Staates“ in Frage.

An "e;excellent and thought provoking"e; chronicle of the IV.

Desperate for laborers to keep the trains moving during World War II, the U.

The brutal fighting between US Marines and Japanese infantry on the island of Guadalcanal in many ways came to typify the island-hopping war in the Pacific.

Despite all the works on airborne forces published since 1945, the full story of Britain's 'airborne armour' has remained untold.

The articles collected in this volume display Robert Bonfil's pioneering reappraisal of the economic and socio-cultural history of the Jews of Italy during the Renaissance and the early modern period, focusing on their encounter with and incorporation into the Italian society that surrounded them.

In religious studies, theory and method research has long been embroiled in a polarized debate over scientific versus theological perspectives.

The first of two volumes covering the French armor of World War II, this title looks at the infantry and battle tanks that faced the onslaught of the German Blitzkrieg in 1940.

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.

This book presents original studies of how a cultural concept of Jewishness and a coherent Jewish history came to make sense in the experiences of people entangled in different historical situations.

First published in 1982, The Triangular Connection explores the relationship between two countries, the USA and Israel, and Jews resident in America.

No matter your religion, youll enjoy these tasty recipes.

This is a book about the tensions and entangled interactions between internationalism and nationalism, and about the effects both had on European scientific and cultural settings from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.

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The Damanhur Federation, situated in Valchiusella, North-West Italy, is one of Europe's longest-lasting spiritual-esoteric communities.

In this rich and resonant study, Joanna Newman recounts the little-known story of this Jewish exodus to the British West Indies.

The campaign intended to secure the Wehrmachts flanks had proven one front too many for the German Army.

A detailed account of the bloody capture of Shanghai and Nanjing by Japan in the early days of World War II in the East.

Over the course of the nineteenth century, some 84,500 Jews in imperial Russia converted to Christianity.

An investigation into the transformation of publishing in the United States from a field in which Jews were systematically excluded to one in which they became ubiquitous "e;From the very first page, this book is funnier and more gripping than a book on publishing has any right to be.

Respected by his peers and hugely successful internationally in his own time, Andre Maurois is now hardly read.

One man could have enabled the most audacious terrorist threat against America prior to 9/11 and helped the Nazis win World War II-the Nazi spy pastor, Carl Krepper.

A detailed illustrated history of the uniforms of the German army from the period leading up to World War II until 1945.

The book embarks on a journey into the intricate landscape of blasphemy in Pakistan amid a rising tide of blasphemy accusations, public lynchings, and contentious blasphemy laws.

Features a detailed look at the career of Gen.

Based on deep analysis of Mass Observation wartime diaries, Food in Wartime Britain explores the food experience of the British middle classes in their own words throughout the course of the Second World War.

For most of World War II, British tank development remained faithful to the design philosophy inaugurated during World War I.

Marriage and the Counsel of God is the product of over twenty-two years of biblical study and pastoral counseling.

“In this epic examination, [a] celebrated historian explores the evolution of Judaism and Islam through a lens of Middle Eastern stability.

Chronicling the growth of a recruit from boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, to a seasoned troop leader, this memoir also relates the experiences of the 200 marines in A Company, First Battalion, Second Marines, as they engaged in island warfare in the South Pacific at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan and Tinian.

Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan forced it to surrender.

Magdalena Endres rekonstruiert handlungsleitende Orientierungen von Religionspädagoginnen und -pädagogen, die sowohl am formalen Bildungsort Schule als auch an non-formalen Bildungsorten kirchlicher Bildungsarbeit tätig sind.

Founder of Henry Street Settlement on New York's Lower East Side as well as the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, Lillian Wald (1867-1940) was a remarkable social welfare activist.

Jewish Imaginaries of the Spanish Civil War inaugurates a new field of research in literary and Jewish studies at the intersection of Jewish history and the internationalist cultural phenomenon emerging from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), the Republican exile, and the Shoah.

From 1984 to 1991, Israel conducted a series of dramatic rescues, bringing thousands of Ethiopian Jews to the state of Israel.

This book traces the rise of the political dynasty in the Middle East and, in the process, provides the context for the current Arab uprising.

Many scholars and citizens alike have counted on civic groups to create broad ties that bind society.

A bold recovery of Yiddish anarchist history and literature Spanning the last two centuries, this fascinating work combines archival research on the radical press and close readings of Yiddish poetry to offer an original literary study of the Jewish anarchist movement.

Jonathan Wright explores the events, discusses rival interpretations and places the policies of Hitler in the context of Germany as a whole.

The full history of how the United States targeted and destroyed the Japanese capital from the air, in a ten-month long campaign by the US Army Air Force and the US Navy.

The Battle for Britain is a provocative reinterpretation of both British air and naval power from 1909 to 1940.