Firsthand accounts of war in the Pacific theater from an intrepid reporter of World War II combatWar Is Not Just for Heroes rescues the incredible true stories of US Marine Corps.
Cairo's synagogues shed new light on the transformation Egyptian society and its Jewish community underwent from 1875 to the presentSacred Places Tell Tales is the previously untold history of Egyptian Jewry and the ways in which Cairo's synagogues historically functioned as active institutions in the social lives of these Jews.
Holding the small island of Malta, the British Empire's strategic centerpiece in the Mediterranean Sea, was critical to the Allied cause in World War II--and taking it was essential for Axis victory.
The unforgettable true story of one Jewish orphan's survival against impossible odds, and her lifelong quest for family, safety and a sense of belonging.
Dass Räumlichkeit nicht nur als neutraler Rahmen interpretiert werden kann, zeigen deutsch-jüdische Selbstzeugnisse während des Nationalsozialismus und insbesondere die Geschichte der Stadt Breslau.
Tagebücher spielen als Quelle von individueller Diktaturerfahrung eine wichtige Rolle, auch in Bezug auf die nationalsozialistische "Volksgemeinschaft".
Die Nürnberger Gruppe der internationalen Bewegung Religions for Peace/Religionen für den Frieden ist eine der ältesten kontinuierlich arbeitenden interreligiösen Basisgruppen in Deutschland.
Hikayat Abi l-Qasim al-Baghdadi (The Portrait of Abu l-Qasim al-Baghdadi) is an 11th-century Arabic work by Abu l-Mutahhar Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Azdi which tells the story of a Baghdadi party-crasher crashing a party in Isfahan.
Mit Essays zu: Moses Hess, Karl Marx, Ferdinand Lassalle, Eduard Bernstein, Gustav Landauer, Kurt Eisner, Rosa Luxemburg, Arthur Holitscher, Ernst Toller, Ruth Fischer und Otto Helle.
The compelling story of how American football was used to boost morale and inject camaraderie between the Allied forces in wartime London In December 1943, as London faced a fifth Christmas of blackouts and no sign of World War Two ending, a chance encounter at an English pub between a Canadian and an American officer led to the staging of a football game: the Tea Bowl.
Cairo's synagogues shed new light on the transformation Egyptian society and its Jewish community underwent from 1875 to the presentSacred Places Tell Tales is the previously untold history of Egyptian Jewry and the ways in which Cairo's synagogues historically functioned as active institutions in the social lives of these Jews.
Firsthand accounts of war in the Pacific theater from an intrepid reporter of World War II combatWar Is Not Just for Heroes rescues the incredible true stories of US Marine Corps.
Holding the small island of Malta, the British Empire's strategic centerpiece in the Mediterranean Sea, was critical to the Allied cause in World War II--and taking it was essential for Axis victory.
In this book, Ismail Mazhar presents a literary critical study of the works of a number of senior writers and writers of his time, whether they are Arabs or orientalists.
After a long struggle, Jewish emancipation was formally completed in Germany in 1871, when Wilhelm I abolished religious discrimination across the entire Reich.
Im Juni 1941 überschritten mehr als drei Millionen deutsche Soldaten die Grenze zur Sowjetunion und begannen einen Krieg, der als erklärter Rassen- und Vernichtungskrieg geführt wurde.
Seelsorgerinnen und Seelsorgern begegnen im Seniorenheim wie auch in der Kirchengemeinde Menschen, bei denen die kognitiven Fähigkeiten aufgrund von hohem Alter oder Demenz abgenommen haben.
Im Juni 1941 überschritten mehr als drei Millionen deutsche Soldaten die Grenze zur Sowjetunion und begannen einen Krieg, der als erklärter Rassen- und Vernichtungskrieg geführt wurde.
Contemporary Jewish identity, integration and acculturation in Europe has become an urgent topic in view of the current wave of antisemitism and reliable research on the present state of Jewish identity is scarce.
This collection applies the principles underlying values education to addressing the many social and learning challenges that impinge on education today .
This collection applies the principles underlying values education to addressing the many social and learning challenges that impinge on education today .
Before the tragedy of the Holocaust, many of the leading art and antiques dealers across Europe were Jewish, establishing dynamic cross-Channel, international and transatlantic networks.
Orchestrating Warfighting provides a detailed and wide-ranging examination of the employment of corps and divisions from the First World War through to the early twenty-first century.
A fascinating analysis of the World War II battle between Great Britain and France to ensure French ships were kept out of German hands during World War II.
End of Days is both a meditation on Jewish morality in the age of Israeli Jewish power, and a cri du coeur by an Orthodox Israeli Jew, a former combat officer in the IDF, for Israelis to look into the Jewish religious ethical tradition for an alternative to the secular and religious Zionism that sanctifies power, statehood, and sovereignty.
This volume offers an unparalleled range of comparative studies considering both persecution and genocide across two thousand years of history from Rome to Nazi Germany, and spanning Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
The Takkiyya Mu'avin al-Mulk is a building complex in the city of Kermanshah in western Iran, dedicated to the annual commemoration of the martyrdom of Husayn ibn 'Ali at the Battle of Karbala in 680, an event of seminal significance to Shi'i Islam.
The enormous loss of life and physical destruction caused by the First World War led people to hope that there would never be another such catastrophe.
This is the story of Operation Jericho, the spectacular prison break staged by an elite group of British, Australian and New Zealand bomber pilots, who flew a daring low-level mission to blow holes in the walls of Amiens jail and free French Resistance prisoners under the sentence of death during World War II.
