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Book Synopsis What is the state of Christianity in China? Some scholars say that China is invulnerable to religion. In contrast, others say that past efforts of missionaries have failed, writing off those converted as nothing more than “rice Christians” or cynical souls who had frequented the missions for the benefits they provided. Some wonder if the Cultural Revolution extinguished any chances of Christianity in China. Rodney Stark and Xiuhua Wang offer a different perspective, arguing that Christianity is alive, well, and on the rise. Stark approaches the topic from an extensive research background in Christianity and Chinese history, and Wang provides an inside look at Christianity and its place in her home country of China. Both authors cover the history of religion in China, disproving older theories concerning the number of Christians and the kinds of Christians that have emerged in the past 155 years. Stark and Wang claim that when just considering the visible Christians—those not part of underground churches—thousands of Chinese are still converted to Christianity daily, and forty new churches are opening each week. A Star in the East draws on two major national surveys to sketch a close-up of religion in China. A reliable estimate is that by 2007 there were approximately 60 million Christians in China. If the current growth rate were to hold until 2030, there would be more Christians in China—about 295 million—than in any other nation. This trend has significant implications, not just for China but for the greater world order. It is probable that Chinese Christianity will splinter into denominations, likely leading to the same political, social, and economic ramifications seen in the West today. Whether you’re new to studying Christianity in China or whether this has been your area of interest for years, A Star in the East provides a reliable, thought-provoking, and engaging account of the resilience of the Christian faith in China and the implications it has for the future. Trade Review“Sociologist Rodney Stark has done it again. Readers who enjoyed his earlier works on the Crusades, the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire, and Christianity’s role in ending slavery will be grateful that he has now applied his brilliance to China.” — David Aikman, author of Jesus in Beijing and other books, and former China correspondent for TIME magazine “This is a concise, well-written, and stimulating account of the growth and prospects of Christianity in the world’s largest socialist society. Rodney Stark, a leading theorist in the sociology of religion, well-known for his explanations of the rise of Christianity in the Mediterranean world, collaborates with a young scholar from mainland China to describe and explain the extraordinary recent growth of Christianity in China. Highly recommended.” — Graeme Lang, retired professor of sociology (2014), and founder of Asian and International Studies, City University of Hong Kong “In this brief, very readable account of Christianity in China, authors Stark and Wang argue that cultural incongruity is what has made an opening in Chinese hearts and minds for the Christian faith, while familial and social networking account for the robust patterns of conversion. And contrary to theories that reduce religion to consolation for the poor and marginal, Stark and Wang find that Chinese Christianity is more favored by the affluent and well-educated. This book is a valuable addition to the growing effort to understand Christianity’s rise in China.” — Joel Carpenter, Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity, Calvin College “Books on contemporary China have proliferated in recent years, and plenty of them address the remarkable growth of Christianity. What makes A Star in the East wholly distinctive though— and so very valuable—is its reliance on credible and strictly current quantitative evidence. The book thus provides an essential foundation for any future discussion of the religious scene in contemporary China.” — Philip Jenkins, Baylor UniversityTable of ContentsPreface / ix Chapter 1: The New Religious Awakening in China / 1 Chapter 2: Christian Missions to China: 1860–1950 / 13 Chapter 3: Repression and Christian Resistance / 43 Chapter 4: Converting the Educated / 75 Chapter 5: Converting Rural China / 91 Chapter 6: Future Prospects and Consequences / 113 Notes / 127 Bibliography / 131 Index / 141

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Book SynopsisThe genius of the Native Americans has always been their profound spirituality and their deep understanding of the land and its ways. For three decades, author Kent Nerburn, who has been called “one of the few writers who can respectfully bridge the gap between the Native and non-Native cultures,” has lived and worked among Native American people.Voices in the Stones: Life Lessons from the Native Way is a unique collection of his encounters, experiences, and reflections during this time. It opens with a poignant narrative of the American historical experience as seen through Native eyes, followed by twelve chapters that each offer insight into a specific aspect of the Native understanding of a life well lived. He takes us inside a traditional Native feast to show us how the children are taught to respect the elders. He brings us to an isolated prairie rock outcropping where a young Native man and his father show us how the power of ceremony connects the present with the ancient voices of the past. At a dusty roadside café he introduces us to an elder who remembers the time when his ancestors could talk to animals, and reminds us that there is spirit in all living things.In these and other poignant stories — the reinternment of ancient bones of two teen-aged girls, the traditional burial of a young man, and the haunted, almost mystical force that surrounds a forgotten Nez Perce battlefield — Nerburn reveals the way a spiritual awareness animates all of Native American life, and points the way forward to a more humane and mindful life for us all. Each story takes readers deep into the Native way of understanding life’s most important issues, including the importance of the elders, the spiritual presence in plants and animals, and the ways of giving and sharing and grieving. Nerburn reminds us that as common children of a common land, we have much to learn from each other if only we have the heart to listen.

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Book SynopsisIn Shoah Through Muslim Eyes, the author discusses her journey with Judaism as a Muslim. Her book is based on the struggle with antisemitism within Muslim communities and her interviews with Shoah survivors. Rejecting polemical myths about the Holocaust and Jews, Afridi offers a new way of creating understanding between the two communities through the acceptance the enormity of the Shoah. Her journey is both personal and academic: the reader can find nuances of her belief in Islam, principles of justice, and the loneliness of such a journey. The chapters discuss the Holocaust and how it was in truth unprecedented, interviews with survivors, antisemitism and Islamophobia, camps in Arab lands, and Islam and memory. Afridi includes newly-uncovered Muslim-Arab narratives that enhance our understanding of the reach of the Holocaust into Muslim lands under the Vichy and Nazi governments.Trade Review"I just finished reading one of the most profound and important books that I have read in recent years[...] as inspirational as it is informative." - Ron Cornish, Huffington Post blogTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter One: Why the Shoah? Chapter Two: My Journey through Academia, Jerusalem, and Dachau Chapter Three: Why is the Shoah Unprecedented? Chapter Four: The Document Chapter Five: Is Islam Antisemitic? No. Chapter Six: Muslims and the Memory of a Colonial Holocaust Conclusion Afterword Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFundamentals of Jewish Conflict Resolution offers an in-depth presentation of traditional Jewish approaches to interpersonal conflict resolution. It examines the underlying principles, prescriptive rules, and guidelines that are found in the Jewish tradition for the prevention, amelioration, and resolution of interpersonal conflicts, without the assistance of any type of third-party intermediary. Among the topics discussed are the obligations of pursuing peace and refraining from destructive conflict, Rabbinic perspectives on what constitutes constructive/destructive conflict, judging people favorably and countering negative judgmental biases, resolving conflict through dialogue, asking and granting forgiveness, and anger management. This work also includes detailed summaries of contemporary approaches to interpersonal conflict resolution, theories and research on apologies and forgiveness, and methods of anger management.Trade Review"A superb study, informed by fastidious scholarship, of the key principles of conflict resolution in Jewish law and thought. I recommend it highly to all those seeking to bring peace to troubled relationships, within and beyond the Jewish community." -- Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks“A stimulating, integrative book. Kaminsky draws insightful connections between traditional Judaic teachings around peace and conflict, and contemporary scholarship in the field of conflict resolution. By providing a side by side exploration of the core goals and concerns, practices and processes, patterns of thought, and approach to emotion that characterize each of these two domains, Kaminsky helps to illuminate constructive ways forward in the face of interpersonal conflict. Informed by Kaminsky’s own experience as both a Rabbi and a trained mediator, this book offers a unique survey of Jewish teachings, as well as thought provoking recommendations for those of us in the field of conflict resolution.” -- Peter T. Coleman, Professor of Psychology and Education, Director of the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (MD-ICCCR) at Teachers College, Columbia University“Howard Kaminsky has made a monumental contribution to the emerging field of religion and conflict resolution. It is no small achievement to delve into the depth and breadth of a 3000-year-old tradition and emerge with a coherent and path-breaking account of Judaism’s contribution to conflict resolution. He has mastered the legal and non-legal literature and given it persuasive form as a plausible system of intervention in conflict. This will help pioneer a new and necessary field, and also a new approach to the practice of Jewish intervention in destructive conflict.” -- Rabbi Dr. Marc Gopin, author of "Between Eden and Armageddon: The Future of World Religions, Violence and Peacemaking"; James H. Laue Professor, Director CRDC, The School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason UniversityThis is a comprehensive bibliographic collection and an encyclopedia in one book. -- Sanford R. Silverburg, Catawba College * AJL Reviews *“Dr. Kaminsky is an established mediator and expert in conflict resolution. And in his book [Fundamentals of Jewish Conflict Resolution] the author masterfully contributes to this endeavor. … This book, an expansion of Kaminsky’s doctoral dissertation, is a remarkable scholarly work, encyclopedic in its scope, detailed in its analysis and replete with insights that deserve serious consideration for anyone interested in the field. … I urge all to encounter this text. For within its pages, one finds a spirit that is hopeful about human change even as it understands the limitations of human nature. Kaminsky presents a vision of conflict resolution that is unique and ambitious.” —Rabbi James Rosen, Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social WorkTable of Contents Preface Part I—Introductory Essay Chapter 1: Contemporary Conflict Resolution: An Overview of the Field and the Core Components of its Educational Programs Part II—Foundational Values and Concepts Chapter 2: Pursuing Peace and Refraining from Destructive Conflict Chapter 3: Rabbinic Perspectives on Constructive Conflict: A “Dispute for the Sake of Heaven” Part III—Foundational Commandments and Laws Chapter 4: Basic Interpersonal Obligations and Prohibitions Part IV—Basic Commandments and Laws of Interpersonal Conflict Resolution Chapter 5: Judging People Favorably: Countering Negative Judgmental Biases Chapter 6: Tokhahah: Judaism’s Basic Approach to Resolving Interpersonal Conflict through Dialogue Chapter 7: Retaliation and Resentment: Not Taking Revenge and Not Bearing a Grudge Chapter 8: Apologies: The Asking and Granting of Forgiveness Part V—The Affective Component—Anger Management Chapter 9: Jewish Anger Management Conclusion Glossary Bibliography

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Book SynopsisLeading scholars use the lenses of history, sociology, political science, psychology, philosophy, religion, and literature to examine, disentangle, and remove the disguises of the many forms of antisemitism and anti-Zionism that have inhabited or targeted the English-speaking world in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Although in principle one can be anti-Zionist without being antisemitic, authors document and trace the numerous parallels and continuities between the hoary tropes attached for centuries to the Jewish people and the more recent vilifications of the Jewish state. They evaluate—and discredit—many of the central claims anti-Zionists have promoted in their relentless effort to delegitimize the Jewish state. They show how mainstream anti-racist communities, courses and texts have ignored—or denied—the antisemitic hatred that pervades much of the Muslim world.Trade Review"This theme runs throughout Eunice Pollack’s insightful ‒ and chilling ‒ anthology of essays on contemporary anti-Semitism. [...] Pollack’s volume, in sum, furnishes an outstanding introduction to various dimensions of the anti-Zionist strain of anti-Semitism. All of the essays are engagingly written, very informative and completely accessible to the layman. This anthology is a heartily recommended point of entry for those people interested in learning about leftist and Islamist hate mongering." - Israel Affairs, 24.2Table of Contents Preface: From a Pariah People to a Pariah State Eunice G. Pollack Part I: DENYING ANTISEMITISM 1. How Raising the Issue of Antisemitism Puts You Outside the Community of the Progressive: The Livingstone Formulation David Hirsh 2. The Great Failure of the Anti-Racist Community: The Neglect of Muslim Antisemitism in English-Language Courses, Textbooks, and Research Neil J. Kressel II. ANTISEMITISM IN AMERICA BEFORE—AND AFTER—THE FOUNDING OF THE JEWISH STATE: THE ELITES AND THE MASSES 3. Antisemitism in the White House Rafael Medoff 4. Antisemitic Terror, Defeatism, and Anti-Zionism: Coughlinism and the Christian Front, 1934–1955 Stephen H. Norwood 5. Entertaining Nazi Warriors in America, 1934–1936 Stephen H. Norwood III. ANTI-ZIONISM: ANTISEMITISM SINCE THE HOLOCAUST 6. The Wages of Moral Schadenfreude in the Press: Anti-Zionism and European Jihad Richard Landes 7. Palestinian Identity Theft and the Delegitimization of Israel Jerold S. Auerbach 8. Foundation Myths of Anti-Zionism Eunice G. Pollack 9. Past and Present: Plus Ça Change, Plus C’est la Mȇme Chose Edward Alexander IV. ZIONIST AND ANTI-ZIONIST THEOLOGIES: CHRISTIAN ZIONISTS, ISLAMIC JIHADISTS, AND THE JEWISH STATE 10. Christian Zionism: Is It Good for the Jews? Benjamin Ginsberg 11. Holy Land, Sacred History, and Anti-Zionism David Patterson V. CONTEMPORARY ANTISEMITISM: THE UNENDING THREAT 12. Zionism through the Internet’s Looking Glass Andre Oboler 13. Perspectives on Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in Contemporary Canada Ira Robinson 14. The Delegitimization—and Relegitimization—of Israel Joel Fishman Contributors

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Book SynopsisThis book illustrates the two clear trends in antisemitism today: “old” antisemitism, based in religious and racist prejudices, which has largely disappeared from public discourse in the West after the defeat of Nazi Germany, but has resurfaced in the last quarter-century in the face of right wing frustration of weakening nation states in a globalized world; and “new” antisemitism, or the antisemitic narrativization of Israel, which is most commonly found on the Left, in the Muslim world, and in the post-colonial discourse. This collection of essays analyzes both old and new antisemitisms, in order to understand their place in the world of today and tomorrow.Trade Review“Compiled by Mikael Shainkman, a researcher at Tel Aviv University, this informative collection of papers focusses largely – but not exclusively – on contemporary European anti-Semitism. … Shainkman’s collection, in short, constitutes a valuable addition to the corpus of literature about contemporary anti-Semitism in Europe and elsewhere. Experts on anti-Semitism, as well as laymen interested in this phenomenon, will undoubtedly discover much of interest amongst its contributions.” —David Rodman, Israel Affairs, Vol. 25 -- David Rodman * Israel Affairs *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Continuity and Change of Antisemitism Mikael Shainkman Different Antisemitisms: On Three Distinct Forms of Antisemitism in Contemporary Europe, with a Special Focus on Sweden Lars Dencik and Karl Marosi Holocaust Memory and Holocaust Revisionism in Poland and Moldova: A Comparison Natalia Sineaeva-Pankowska Honoring the Collaborators: The Ukrainian Case Irena Cantorovich The Rise of the Radical Right in Europe and the Jews Michael Whine The Worrisome Defiance of the Golden Dawn Michal Navoth The Struggle over the International Working Definition of Antisemitism Dina Porat Discrimination against Muslims and Antisemitic Views among Young Muslims in Europe Günther Jikeli Debates on Islamized Antisemitism in Austria in the Wake of the Israel-Gaza Conflict, 2014 Julia Edthofer Antisemitism and the Struggle for the “Good” Society: Ambivalent Responses to Antisemitic Attitudes and Ideas in the 2014 Swedish Electoral Race Kristin Wagrell Mohamed Omar and the Selective Detection of Non-Nazi Antisemitism Mathan Ravid After the Charlie Hebdo Attack: The Line between Freedom of Expression and Hate Speech Andre Oboler Online Antisemitic Propaganda and Negationism in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Ahmadinejad and His Enduring Legacy Liora Hendelman-Baavur The Nisman Case: Its Impact on the Jewish Community and on National Politics in Argentina Adrian Gruszniewski and Lidia Lerner Venezuela’s 2012 Presidential Elections: Introducing Antisemitism into Venezuelan Political Discourse Lidia Lerner Bibliography About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an in-depth presentation of traditional Jewish approaches to interpersonal conflict resolution. It examines the underlying principles, prescriptive rules, and guidelines that are found in the Jewish tradition for the prevention, amelioration, and resolution of interpersonal conflicts, without the assistance of any type of third-party intermediary. Among the topics discussed are the obligations of pursuing peace and refraining from destructive conflict, Rabbinic perspectives on what constitutes constructive/destructive conflict, judging people favorably and countering negative judgmental biases, resolving conflict through dialogue, asking and granting forgiveness, and anger management. It also includes detailed summaries of contemporary approaches to interpersonal conflict resolution, theories and research on apologies and forgiveness, and methods of anger management.Trade Review"A superb study, informed by fastidious scholarship, of the key principles of conflict resolution in Jewish law and thought. I recommend it highly to all those seeking to bring peace to troubled relationships, within and beyond the Jewish community." -- Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks“A stimulating, integrative book. Kaminsky draws insightful connections between traditional Judaic teachings around peace and conflict, and contemporary scholarship in the field of conflict resolution. By providing a side by side exploration of the core goals and concerns, practices and processes, patterns of thought, and approach to emotion that characterize each of these two domains, Kaminsky helps to illuminate constructive ways forward in the face of interpersonal conflict. Informed by Kaminsky’s own experience as both a Rabbi and a trained mediator, this book offers a unique survey of Jewish teachings, as well as thought provoking recommendations for those of us in the field of conflict resolution.” -- Peter T. Coleman, Professor of Psychology and Education, Director of the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (MD-ICCCR) at Teachers College, Columbia University“Howard Kaminsky has made a monumental contribution to the emerging field of religion and conflict resolution. It is no small achievement to delve into the depth and breadth of a 3000-year-old tradition and emerge with a coherent and path-breaking account of Judaism’s contribution to conflict resolution. He has mastered the legal and non-legal literature and given it persuasive form as a plausible system of intervention in conflict. This will help pioneer a new and necessary field, and also a new approach to the practice of Jewish intervention in destructive conflict.” -- Rabbi Dr. Marc Gopin, author of "Between Eden and Armageddon: The Future of World Religions, Violence and Peacemaking"; James H. Laue Professor, Director CRDC, The School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason UniversityThis is a comprehensive bibliographic collection and an encyclopedia in one book. -- Sanford R. Silverburg, Catawba College * AJL Reviews *“Dr. Kaminsky is an established mediator and expert in conflict resolution. And in his book [Fundamentals of Jewish Conflict Resolution] the author masterfully contributes to this endeavor. … This book, an expansion of Kaminsky’s doctoral dissertation, is a remarkable scholarly work, encyclopedic in its scope, detailed in its analysis and replete with insights that deserve serious consideration for anyone interested in the field. … I urge all to encounter this text. For within its pages, one finds a spirit that is hopeful about human change even as it understands the limitations of human nature. Kaminsky presents a vision of conflict resolution that is unique and ambitious.” —Rabbi James Rosen, Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social WorkTable of ContentsPreface Part I—Introductory Essay Chapter 1: Contemporary Conflict Resolution: An Overview of the Field and the Core Components of its Educational Programs Part II—Foundational Values and Concepts Chapter 2: Pursuing Peace and Refraining from Destructive Conflict Chapter 3: Rabbinic Perspectives on Constructive Conflict: A “Dispute for the Sake of Heaven” Part III—Foundational Commandments and Laws Chapter 4: Basic Interpersonal Obligations and Prohibitions Part IV—Basic Commandments and Laws of Interpersonal Conflict Resolution Chapter 5: Judging People Favorably: Countering Negative Judgmental Biases Chapter 6: Tokhahah: Judaism’s Basic Approach to Resolving Interpersonal Conflict through Dialogue Chapter 7: Retaliation and Resentment: Not Taking Revenge and Not Bearing a Grudge Chapter 8: Apologies: The Asking and Granting of Forgiveness Part V—The Affective Component—Anger Management Chapter 9: Jewish Anger Management Conclusion Glossary Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a study of the Jewish community in Kielce and its environs during World War II and the Holocaust: it is the first of its kind in providing a comprehensive account of Kielce’s Jews and their history as victims under the German occupation. The book focuses in particular on Jewish-Polish relations in the Kielce region; the deportation of the Jews of Kielce and its surrounding areas to the Treblinka death camp; the difficulties faced by those attempting to help and save them; and daily life in the Small Ghetto from September 1942 until late May 1943.Trade Review“Sara Bender’s In Enemy Land: The Jews of Kielce and the Region, 1939-1946, appears at a time when Holocaust history is under new pressures. These pressures are most evident in Poland, where a nationalist government has seen fit – and has largely failed – to limit certain kinds of Holocaust-related terminology if it ascribes guilt to Poles during wartime. … Bender’s carefully researched and tightly focused study of Kielce and its environs is not directly engaged with these discussions until its concluding chapter. But Kielce, as is well known, was the site, in the spring of 1946, of the worst postwar pogrom in liberated Poland. Like the wartime events in the smaller northern town of Jedwabne, the events at Kielce, in which 47 Holocaust survivors were murdered in mob violence, remain a flashpoint in any postwar account of Polish-Jewish relations.” —Norman Ravvin, Canadian Jewish News -- Norman Ravvin * Canadian Jewish News *“Most [researchers] believe it necessary to study the Holocaust in Kielce to understand Polish-Jewish relations afterward. Sara Bender, a renowned Holocaust scholar and long-time professor of Jewish history at the University of Haifa, shares this conviction and devotes her book primarily to the Holocaust in the region. Her description of the murder of the Jews of Kielce by the Germans and their local helpers is so terrifying that writing a review of her text almost feels wrong. There is no doubt: thousands had been murdered in Kielce or sent from there to be murdered, and the details Bender provides highlight the magnitude of the crime.”—Piotr J. Wróbel, University of Toronto, Holocaust and Genocide StudiesTable of Contents Preface Introduction Chapter 1 The Jews of Kielce between the World Wars Chapter 2 From Occupation to Ghettoization—September 1939–April 1941 Chapter 3 The Ghetto (April 1941–August 1942) Chapter 4 Deportation of the Jews of Kielce and Surrounding Areas (August 1942–January 1943) Chapter 5 The “Small Ghetto” and the Labor Camps (September 1942–August 1944) Chapter 6 Jews and Poles in Kielce Subdistrict during the German Occupation Epilogue

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Book SynopsisAfter Adolph Ochs purchased The New York Times in 1896, Zionism and the eventual reality of the State of Israel were framed within his guiding principle, embraced by his Sulzberger family successor, that Judaism is a religion and not a national identity. Apprehensive lest the loyalty of American Jews to the United States be undermined by the existence of a Jewish state, they embraced an anti-Zionist critique that remained embedded in its editorials, on the Opinion page and in its news coverage. Through the examination of evidence drawn from its own pages, this book analyzes how all the news “fit to print” became news that fit the Times’ discomfort with the idea, and since 1948 the reality, of a thriving democratic Jewish state in the historic homeland of the Jewish people.Trade Review“Auerbach subjects the New York Times to a meticulously researched analysis of its attitude over the years 1896 to 2016 towards Zionism and Israel. … Print to Fit leads the reader through Israel’s story along an unfamiliar route. The New York Times is one of the world’s leading newspapers. It is regarded as a ‘journal of record.’ For more than 120 years it has been shaping American opinion. Jerold S Auerbach argues convincingly that, as far as Zionism and Israel are concerned, the paper has consistently been far from objective in its editorial policy, has fallen short of its own high standards, and has consequently failed in its journalistic obligations to the public.” —Neville Teller, The Jerusalem Report -- Neville Teller * The Jerusalem Report *“Jerold Auerbach’s archly titled new study Print to Fit: The New York Times, Zionism and Israel, 1896–2016 is a well-researched and, for the most part, damning brief of the Times’s news coverage and editorial attitudes toward Zionism and Israel for over a century. … Print to Fit was written well before the Jew-dog cartoon scandal, but it does answer the question about it with which this review began: How could such an image make it to the pages of an edition of the New York Times?” —Deborah E. Lipstadt, the Jewish Review of Books * Jewish Review of Books *“There is no denying the basic truth of Jerold Auerbach’s book, which is that the Times has had a fundamental antagonism to Zionism and to Israel from its beginning until this day. His title says it all: instead of printing all the news that is fit to print—as it says so proudly on its front page every day—the Times has often printed the news that fits its ideology.” —Jack Reimer, The Jewish AdvocateTable of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Patriotic Loyalty 1896-1927 Chapter 2: The Zionist Menace 1928-1939 Chapter 3: Denial and Discomfort 1933-1948 Chapter 4: Democratic Allies 1949-1957 Chapter 5: Conquest and Occupation 1960-1979 Chapter 6: Arabs and Jews 1979-1984 Chapter 7: Moral Equivalence 1984-1988 Chapter 8: Occupation Cruelty 1988-1989 Chapter 9: Illusions of Peace 1990-1996 Chapter 10: Realities of Conflict 1996-2001 Chapter 11: Blame Israel First 2002-2006 Chapter 12: Israeli Goliath 2006-2009 Chapter 13: Double Standards 2009-2014 Chapter 14: American Loyalty 2014-2015 Epilogue 2016 Afterword Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes Author’s Note

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Book SynopsisThis book springs from the Bristol–Sheffield Hallam Colloquium on Contemporary Antisemitism at the University of Bristol in September 2015. International experts in Religious Studies, Law, Politics, Sociology, Psychology, and History came together to examine the complexities of contemporary antisemitism. Recent attacks on Jews in European cities have increased awareness of antisemitism and, as this collection shows, such attacks cannot be separated from wider geo-political and ideological factors. One distinct feature of antisemitism today is its demonization of the State of Israel. Older ideas also feature Jews being blamed for all the world's ills, thought to possess almost supernatural levels of power and wealth, and conspiring to harm the non-Jewish other. These and other ideas forming the background to antisemitism in Europe and North America are unpacked in this book with a view to understanding – and thereby combatting – contemporary antisemitism. A key concern is how unifying features might be isolated amid the diverse manifestations of this oldest of hatreds.Trade Review“The eleven chapters included in this important book explain… worrisome developments in impressively detailed and revealing ways. … Several common themes run through many of the chapters. One is that, despite the spread of virulent strains of anti-Jewish hostility, there is still a general reluctance within governments and the general public to regard antisemitism as a serious problem, one whose distinctive features need to be recognized if it is to be properly understood and effectively combatted. … Much of this book’s focus is on antisemitism within Great Britain, but the problems treated here are part of a global phenomenon, making Unity and Diversity in Contemporary Antisemitism an eye-opening collection of essays for anyone wishing to learn about today’s widespread and growing anti-Jewish hostility.”— Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Journal of Modern Jewish StudiesTable of Contents Acknowledgments List of Contributors Introduction Jonathan G. Campbell and Lesley D. Klaff Part 1: Defining Antisemitism Struggles over the Contemporary Definition of Antisemitism David Hirsh Antisemitisms Plural: What is Understood as Antisemitism by Jews in Contemporary Europe Daniel Staetsky Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism Bernard Harrison Part 2: Responding to Antisemitism Using S. 26 Equality Act 2010 to Combat Institutional Antisemitism: A Critical Race Perspective on Fraser v University and College Union 2013 Lesley D. Klaff Evading Terror: the European Union's Response to Lethal Antisemitism Amy Elman Denying the New Antisemitism: the Case of Norman Finkelstein Alan Johnson Part 3: Antisemitism and Extremism Walking a Mile in Asghar Bukhari's Shoes: Conspiracy Theories, Antisemitism and Extremism Dave Rich Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in British Muslim Communities Rusi Jaspal Part 4: The Role of the Intellectuals Western Intellectual Attitudes toward Antisemitism in the Arab and Muslim World Matthias Küntzel A Genealogy of the Radical Tradition of Contemporary Antisemitism David Seymour Hannah Arendt's Jewish Writings: Contemporary Implications Robert Fine Index of names and subjects

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Book SynopsisThis polemic against Islamic extremism highlights the striking parallels between contemporary Islamism and the 20th-century fascism embodied by Hitler and Mussolini. Like those infamous ideologies, Islamism today touts imperialist dreams of world domination, belief in its inherent superiority, contempt for the rest of humanity, and often a murderous agenda. The author, born and raised in Egypt and now living in Germany, not only explains the historical connections between early 20th-century fascist movements in Europe and extremist factions in Islam, but he also traces the fascist tendencies in mainstream Islam that have existed throughout its history. Examining key individuals and episodes from centuries past, the book shows the influence of Islam's earliest exploits on current politics in the Islamic world. The author's incisive analysis exposes the fascist underpinnings of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Shia regime in Iran, ISIS, Salafi and Jihadist ideologies, and more. Forcefully argued and well-researched, this book grew out of a lecture on Islamic fascism that the author gave in Cairo, resulting in a call for his death by three prominent Egyptian clerics.

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Book SynopsisPEACEAND FAITH: Christian Churches and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, composedof new essays, is the first collection to bring together writers from differentfaith communities to discuss the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement?simpact on one of the more fractious topics addressed by Christiandenominations: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In so doing, it builds oninterfaith projects under way for decades. Theology and politics intermingle indebates taking place in local churches, Christian NGOs, and national church meetingsthat define official policy. The debates revive and reframe the most basicvalues of Christianity and the questions church members seek to resolve: How doChristians today hew to the principles Jesus articulated? How can justice bepursued in the context of competing national narratives and historicalunderstandings? What bearing do or should centuries of Christian violenceagainst Jews and Muslims have on contemporary theology and ethics? Is itethical, or even possible, to set aside millennia of Christian anti-Semitism injudging Israel?s conduct? What Christian values should be honored in pursuingJesus?s mission of reconciliation today? How may the pursuit of truth becorrupted by passionate social witness? Can advocacy cross the line into hatred?These are among the critical questions this collection poses and attempts toaddress.

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Book SynopsisIn the Spring of 2015, a post-modern version of the Salem witchcraft trials took place at Connecticut College on the Thames River. Only this time instead of sorcery it was Zionism; instead of punishing in the name of God's law it was in the name of anti-hate speech and inclusive excellence; instead of young teenage girls leading the hysteria it was college-aged social warriors stampeding 200 professors into sacrificing one of their colleagues, and thereby contributing to a wave of administration-promoted hate-speech at their college.The Pessin affair offers us a case study in a tendency towards "public shaming" that not only deeply compromises the integrity of academia, but increasingly spreads to many aspects of our society, so susceptible to media-driven feeding frenzies.Trade Review“Salem on the Thames is a collection of essays, but most of them, including a very helpful annotated chronology of events, are by Landes, who has also compiled an extensive archive of primary-source documents at his blog. He and his other contributors dissect each and every way Pessin was sucker punched, lied to, manipulated, and thrown under the bus.” — Elliot Kaufman, Jewish Review of BooksTable of Contents Preface — Richard Landes Introduction — Asaf Romirowsky Andrew Pessin's Facebook Post during Operation Protective Edge Condensed Timeline Part I: When Criticizing Hamas Became a Campus Hate Crime — Richard Landes 1. The Post: On Truth and Metaphor 2. The Shameful Dishonesty of It All: An Annotated Chronology from the Perspective of the Victim 3. The People: McCarthyism, New London Style Part II: Studies in Pessinology 4. Connecticut College Acts Out a Staged Emergency — Ashley Thorne 5. "I Was Rude, You Were Evil": Reflections on Academia, Liberalism, and the Betrayal of Andrew Pessin — John Gordon 6. The Pessin Case: The Response of Jewish Colleagues — Fred Baumann Part III: Reflections: Salem on the Thames – Stampeding a Herd of Cats — Richard Landes 7. What Connecticut College's Andrew Pessin Affair Teaches Us 8. Reflections on Academia and Freedom: The Case of Connecticut College, Spring 2015 9. Pessin, Ironic Prophet: The Liberal Emperor's New Clothes of Humanitarian Racism Part IV: Appendix – Documents Pessin Affair: Dramatis Personae — Online Petition Posted March 18, 2015 Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn the Spring of 2015, a post-modern version of the Salem witchcraft trials took place at Connecticut College on the Thames River. Only this time instead of sorcery it was Zionism; instead of punishing in the name of God's law it was in the name of anti-hate speech and inclusive excellence; instead of young teenage girls leading the hysteria it was college-aged social warriors stampeding 200 professors into sacrificing one of their colleagues, and thereby contributing to a wave of administration-promoted hate-speech at their college.The Pessin affair offers us a case study in a tendency towards "public shaming" that not only deeply compromises the integrity of academia, but increasingly spreads to many aspects of our society, so susceptible to media-driven feeding frenzies.Trade Review“Salem on the Thames is a collection of essays, but most of them, including a very helpful annotated chronology of events, are by Landes, who has also compiled an extensive archive of primary-source documents at his blog. He and his other contributors dissect each and every way Pessin was sucker punched, lied to, manipulated, and thrown under the bus.” — Elliot Kaufman, Jewish Review of BooksTable of Contents Preface — Richard Landes Introduction — Asaf Romirowsky Andrew Pessin's Facebook Post during Operation Protective Edge Condensed Timeline Part I: When Criticizing Hamas Became a Campus Hate Crime — Richard Landes 1. The Post: On Truth and Metaphor 2. The Shameful Dishonesty of It All: An Annotated Chronology from the Perspective of the Victim 3. The People: McCarthyism, New London Style Part II: Studies in Pessinology 4. Connecticut College Acts Out a Staged Emergency — Ashley Thorne 5. "I Was Rude, You Were Evil": Reflections on Academia, Liberalism, and the Betrayal of Andrew Pessin — John Gordon 6. The Pessin Case: The Response of Jewish Colleagues — Fred Baumann Part III: Reflections: Salem on the Thames – Stampeding a Herd of Cats — Richard Landes 7. What Connecticut College's Andrew Pessin Affair Teaches Us 8. Reflections on Academia and Freedom: The Case of Connecticut College, Spring 2015 9. Pessin, Ironic Prophet: The Liberal Emperor's New Clothes of Humanitarian Racism Part IV: Appendix – Documents Pessin Affair: Dramatis Personae — Online Petition Posted March 18, 2015 Bibliography

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Book SynopsisPiety and Rebellion examines the span of the Hasidic textual tradition from its earliest phases to the 20th century. The essays collected in this volume focus on the tension between Hasidic fidelity to tradition and its rebellious attempt to push the devotional life beyond the borders of conventional religious practice. Many of the essays exhibit a comparative perspective deployed to better articulate the innovative spirit, and traditional challenges, Hasidism presents to the traditional Jewish world. Piety and Rebellion is an attempt to present Hasidism as one case whereby maximalist religion can yield a rebellious challenge to conventional conceptions of religious thought and practice.Trade Review“In pieces that span two decades of research, Magid’s refined thinking interrogates Hasidism(s), as it appeared in moments ranging from the early generation of pioneering piety surrounding the Ba’al Shem Tov to contemporary anti-Zionist Satmar. He navigates the Hasidic underground and yeshivah life as a participant observer while offering critical analyses that move toward a more global religious criticism asking bigger questions from Jewish sources. … Here are essays from a scholar who fuses the rebellious piety of Oleksa Dovbush, Ukrainian Robin Hood and driver of the Ba’al Shem Tov’s horse and buggy, with the pious rebellion of Ken Kesey, the all-American author who drove his Merry Pranksters on their Furthur bus across America through and beyond the psychedelic—a true rough guide for the future study of religion still busy being born.”— Aubrey L. Glazer, Shaare Zion Congregation, Religious Studies Review (September 2020: Vol. 46, no. 3)“One distinguishing element of the essays contained in this volume, and of Magid’s work more generally, is a willingness to engage in interpretive play at the intersections where Kabbalah and Hasidism converge. In addition to its eclectic quality, another feature that distinguishes Piety and Rebellion is the book’s bold autobiographical introduction. Here, Magid recounts his own captivating journey. It is the story of a restless intellectual, who, fashioning himself both an insider and an outsider, has sustained his soul on everything from macrobiotics and LSD to the yeshivas of Jerusalem, from the rabbinate to the Ivy League. … I find Piety and Rebellion to be a stimulating addition to the scholarship on Hasidism by one of its most energetic, creative, and politically engaged interpreters. There is much to praise in these studies, which are as varied as the variegated corpus of Hasidism itself.” — Jeremy Phillip Brown, McGill University, H-JudaicTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction—My Way to (Neo) Ḥasidism Early Ḥasidism Chapter 1 "What happened, happened": R. Ya'akov Yosef of Polonnoye on Ḥasidic Interpretation Chapter 2 The Case of Jewish Arianism: The Pre-existence of the Ẓaddik in Early Ḥasidism Chapter 3 The Intolerance of Tolerance: Maḥaloket (Controversy) and Redemption in Early Ḥasidism Chapter 4 The Ritual Is Not the Hunt: The Seven Wedding Blessings, Redemption, and Jewish Ritual as Fantasy in R. Shneur Zalman of Liady Chapter 5 Nature, Exile, and Disability in R. Nahman of Bratslav's "The Tale of the Seven Beggars" Later Ḥasidism Chapter 6 Modernity as Heresy: The Introvertive Piety of Faith in R. Areleh Roth's Shomer Emunim Chapter 7 The Holocaust as Inverted Miracle: R. Shalom Noah Barzofsky of Slonim on the Divine Nature of Radical Evil Chapter 8 The Divine/Human Messiah and Religious Deviance: Rethinking Ḥabad Messianism Chapter 9 Covenantal Rupture and Broken Faith in R. Kalonymus Kalman Shapira's Eish Kodesh Chapter 10 American Jewish Fundamentalism: Ḥabad, Satmar, ArtScroll

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Book SynopsisLeading figures at the dawn of the sixteenth-century Reformation commonly faced the charge of "judaizing": 72 In His Name concerns the changing views of four such men starting with their kabbalistic treatment of the 72 divine names of angels.Johann Reuchlin, the first of the four men featured in this book, survived the charge; Martin Luther's increasingly anti-semitic stance is contrasted with the opposite movement of the French Franciscan Jean Thenaud whose kabbalistic manuscripts were devoted to Francis I; Philipp Wolff, the fourth, had been born into a Jewish family but his recorded views were decidedly anti-semitic.72 In His Name also includes evidence that kabbalistic beliefs and practices, such as the service for exorcism recorded by Thenaud, were unwittingly recorded by Christians. Although the book concerns early modern Europe, the religious interactions, the shifting spiritual attitudes, and the shadows cast linger on.Trade Review“Briefly, this work by Ian Christie-Miller has the great advantage of simply providing (often thanks to new technology, such as the use of QR Codes allowing direct access to remote images) a whole range of features which benefit the reader interested in the Shemhamphoras (to follow Thenaud’s transcription) notably about distribution of the -el and -iah endings for example; an important point unappreciated by F. Secret in his translation of Reuchlin’s treatise.”—François Roudaut, Université Paul-Valéry (Montpellier III), Renaissance and Reformation (translated from French)Table of Contents Introduction 1. The Four Authors 2. Comments on the Lists of the Seventy-Two Names Reuchlin and the Seventy-Two Names Luther and the Seventy-Two Names Thenaud and the Seventy-Two Names Thenaud's Acquaintance with the Kabbalah Thenaud 72 and 37 Thenaud and Toledot Jeshu (The Generation of Jesus) Wolff and the Seventy-Two Names 3. Conclusions Reuchlin and the Jews Luther and the Jews Thenaud and the Jews Wolff and the Jews 4. Overview The Four Authors and the Seventy-Two Names—1522 Perspective Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the first work in any language that offers both an overarching exploration of the flight and evacuation of Soviet Jews viewed at the macro level, and a personal history of one Soviet Jewish family. It is also the first study to examine Jewish life in the Northern Caucasus, a Soviet region that history scholars have rarely addressed. Drawing on a collection of family letters, Kiril Feferman provides a history of the Ginsburgs as they debate whether to evacuate their home of Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia and are eventually swept away by the Soviet-German War, the German invasion of Soviet Russia, and the Holocaust. The book makes a significant contribution to the history of the Holocaust and Second World War in the Soviet Union, presenting one Soviet region as an illustration of wartime social and media politics.Trade Review“It is… a challenge to turn a collection of letters into a compelling narrative. … It is thus a great credit to his scholarly and compositional skills that Feferman manages to draw the reader into the Ginzburg family’s slowly unfolding tragedy. … The Ginzburg letters offer an intimate approach to the Holocaust in the USSR. … Feferman, whose previous book was The Holocaust in the Crimea and the North Caucasus (2016), does an excellent job of explaining the intricacies of the war, evacuation policies, and the Holocaust in this region. The book also includes a useful timeline. … Ultimately, it is [the] very human drive toward hope— and the desire to shield loved ones from worry— that comes across in the letters. As such, they provide us with a critically important window into the daily lives and concerns of Jews during the Holocaust. Through his careful translation and presentation of these letters, Feferman offers readers invaluable insight into ordinary lives under excruciating circumstances.”— Eliyana R. Adler, Pennsylvania State University, Studies in Contemporary Jewry“Kiril Feferman’s recent monograph is a welcome addition to the scholarship on Soviet Jewry during the period of the Second World War and the Holocaust. This volume takes the innovative approach of focusing on the correspondence of a single family in order to address several important questions which have been raised in the scholarship... Feferman’s analysis lays bare the ways in which Soviet policies, censorship, lack of clear information, economic privations, and fear of displacement sealed the fates of millions of Soviet Jews months after the Nazis had initiated a full-scale genocidal campaign against Soviet Jewry. Thus, Feferman’s monograph enriches our understanding of the ‘choiceless choices’ Soviet Jews were forced to make.”– Natalie Belsky, University of Minnesota Duluth, AJS Review, Vol. 46 No. 1“The author successfully ‘combined in his book the history from above and history from below, general description of the Soviet-German War, the evacuation experience and the Holocaust’ with the history of the Ginsburg family. … The book is very well written, but it is hard to read emotionally, because you know from the beginning the tragic fate of the family. Feferman’s work explains the factors that influenced the decisions of Soviet Jews whether or not to go into evacuation, and it shows in detail the enormous difficulties which faced Jews during the evacuation. The monograph also brings to light many aspects of the Soviet-German War in North Caucasus and the Holocaust.”—Victoria Khiterer, Millersville University, Russian ReviewTable of Contents Timeline Introduction Historical Background Chapter 1.1. The Ginsburg Family in the North Caucasus Chapter 1.2. Soviet Population Evacuation into the North Caucasus, 1941–42 Chapter 1.3. The Holocaust in the North Caucasus The Ginsburg Family Correspondence Chapter 2. 1941 Chapter 3. 1942–43 Conclusion List of Letters in the Ginsburg collection Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis is the first work in any language that offers both an overarching exploration of the flight and evacuation of Soviet Jews viewed at the macro level, and a personal history of one Soviet Jewish family. It is also the first study to examine Jewish life in the Northern Caucasus, a Soviet region that history scholars have rarely addressed. Drawing on a collection of family letters, Kiril Feferman provides a history of the Ginsburgs as they debate whether to evacuate their home of Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia and are eventually swept away by the Soviet-German War, the German invasion of Soviet Russia, and the Holocaust. The book makes a significant contribution to the history of the Holocaust and Second World War in the Soviet Union, presenting one Soviet region as an illustration of wartime social and media politics.Trade Review“It is… a challenge to turn a collection of letters into a compelling narrative. … It is thus a great credit to his scholarly and compositional skills that Feferman manages to draw the reader into the Ginzburg family’s slowly unfolding tragedy. … The Ginzburg letters offer an intimate approach to the Holocaust in the USSR. … Feferman, whose previous book was The Holocaust in the Crimea and the North Caucasus (2016), does an excellent job of explaining the intricacies of the war, evacuation policies, and the Holocaust in this region. The book also includes a useful timeline. … Ultimately, it is [the] very human drive toward hope— and the desire to shield loved ones from worry— that comes across in the letters. As such, they provide us with a critically important window into the daily lives and concerns of Jews during the Holocaust. Through his careful translation and presentation of these letters, Feferman offers readers invaluable insight into ordinary lives under excruciating circumstances.”— Eliyana R. Adler, Pennsylvania State University, Studies in Contemporary Jewry“Kiril Feferman’s recent monograph is a welcome addition to the scholarship on Soviet Jewry during the period of the Second World War and the Holocaust. This volume takes the innovative approach of focusing on the correspondence of a single family in order to address several important questions which have been raised in the scholarship... Feferman’s analysis lays bare the ways in which Soviet policies, censorship, lack of clear information, economic privations, and fear of displacement sealed the fates of millions of Soviet Jews months after the Nazis had initiated a full-scale genocidal campaign against Soviet Jewry. Thus, Feferman’s monograph enriches our understanding of the ‘choiceless choices’ Soviet Jews were forced to make.”– Natalie Belsky, University of Minnesota Duluth, AJS Review, Vol. 46 No. 1“The author successfully ‘combined in his book the history from above and history from below, general description of the Soviet-German War, the evacuation experience and the Holocaust’ with the history of the Ginsburg family. … The book is very well written, but it is hard to read emotionally, because you know from the beginning the tragic fate of the family. Feferman’s work explains the factors that influenced the decisions of Soviet Jews whether or not to go into evacuation, and it shows in detail the enormous difficulties which faced Jews during the evacuation. The monograph also brings to light many aspects of the Soviet-German War in North Caucasus and the Holocaust.”—Victoria Khiterer, Millersville University, Russian ReviewTable of Contents Timeline Introduction Historical Background Chapter 1.1. The Ginsburg Family in the North Caucasus Chapter 1.2. Soviet Population Evacuation into the North Caucasus, 1941–42 Chapter 1.3. The Holocaust in the North Caucasus The Ginsburg Family Correspondence Chapter 2. 1941 Chapter 3. 1942–43 Conclusion List of Letters in the Ginsburg collection Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been a period of mass production and proliferation of Jewish ideas, and have witnessed major changes in Jewish life and stimulated major debates. The New Jewish Canon offers a conceptual roadmap to make sense of such rapid change. With over eighty excerpts from key primary source texts and insightful corresponding essays by leading scholars, on topics of history and memory, Jewish politics and the public square, religion and religiosity, and identities and communities, The New Jewish Canon promises to start conversations from the seminar room to the dinner table. The New Jewish Canon is both text and textbook of the Jewish intellectual and communal zeitgeist for the contemporary period and the recent past, canonizing our most important ideas and debates of the past two generations; and just as importantly, stimulating debate and scholarship about what is yet to come.Trade Review“Extraordinarily rich, lively and illuminating. … [The editors] have succeeded magnificently in achieving their goal.” —Jonathan Kirsch, the Jewish Journal“This is a rich col­lec­tion that pro­vides a win­dow into many of the key debates that have raged, and still rage, in the Jew­ish world. It rais­es many provoca­tive ques­tions about the nature of con­tem­po­rary Judaism and its future.” —Martin Green, Jewish Book CouncilTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: "The State of Jewish Ideas: Towards a New Jewish Canon" I. Jewish Politics and the Public Square 1. Michael Walzer, Exodus and Revolution, 1985 Essay: William Galston 2. George Steiner, "Our Homeland, the Text," 1985; Judith Butler, "Judith Butler's Remarks to Brooklyn College on BDS," 2013 Essay: Julie Cooper 3. Jonathan Woocher, Sacred Survival: The Civil Religion of American Jews, 1986 Essay: Sylvia Fishman 4. Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947–1949, 1987; and The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, 2004;Ari Shavit, "Survival of the Fittest? An Interview with Benny Morris," 2004 and "Lydda, 1948," 2013 Essay: Daniel Kurtzer 5. Irving (Yitz) Greenberg vs. Meir Kahane, Public Debate at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 1988 Essay: Shaul Magid 6. Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Eliezer Goldman (ed.), Judaism, Human Values, and the Jewish State, 1992 Essay: Joshua Shanes 7. Israeli Supreme Court Part 1: Israeli Knesset Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty, 1992; Aharon Barak, "A Judge on Judging: The Role of a Supreme Court in a Democracy," January 2002 Essay: Yigal Mersel 8. Aharon Lichtenstein, "On the Murder of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin z"l," 1995 Essay: David Wolkenfeld 9. Aviezer Ravitzky, Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious Radicalism, 1996 Essay: Yehuda Magid 10. Israeli Supreme Court Part 2: The Israeli Supreme Court sitting as the High Court of Justice, Horev v. Minister of Transportation, 1997; The Israeli Supreme Court sitting as the High Court of Justice: Baruch Marzel v. Jerusalem District Police Commander, Mr. Aharon Franco, 2002 Essay: Donniel Hartman 11. Samuel G. Freedman, Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry, 2000 Essay: Noam Pianko 12. Breaking the Silence Testimonies, Founded in 2004 Essay: Sarah Anne Minkin 13. Steven M. Cohen and Jack Wertheimer, "Whatever Happened to the Jewish People?," 2006 Essay: Erica Brown 14. Yitzhak Shapira and Yosef Elitzur, Torat HaMelekh, 2009 Essay: Hillel Ben-Sasson 15. Moshe Halbertal, "The Goldstone Illusion," 2009 Essay: Elana Stein Hain 16. Peter Beinart, "The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment," 2010 Essay: Sara Yael Hirschhorn 17. Daniel Gordis, "When Balance Becomes Betrayal" and Sharon Brous, "Lowering the Bar," 2012 Essay: Yehuda Kurtzer 18. Matti Friedman, "An Insider's Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth," 2014 Essay: Rachel Fish II. History, Memory and Narrative 1. David Hartman, "Auschwitz or Sinai?," 1982 Essay: Rachel Sabath Beit Halachmi 2. Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory, 1982 Essay: Alexander Kaye 3. Emil Fackenheim, To Mend the World, 1982 Essay: Benjamin Pollock 4. Robert M. Cover, "The Supreme Court, 1982 Term—Foreword: Nomosand Narrative," 1983 Essay: Christine Hayes 5. Kahan Commission (Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut), 1983 Essay: Yehuda Kurtzer 6. Amos Oz, In the Land of Israel, 1983 Essay: Wendy Zierler 7. David Biale, Power and Powerlessness in Jewish History, 1986 Essay: Judah Bernstein 8. Elie Wiesel, Acceptance Speech, on the Occasion of the Award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, 1986 Essay: Claire E. Sufrin 9. Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved, 1986 Essay: Sarah Cushman 10. Irving (Yitz) Greenberg, "The Third Great Cycle of Jewish History," 1987 Essay: Joshua Feigelson 11. Deborah Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust, 1993; Yaffa Eliach, There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok, 1998 Essay: Yehuda Kurtzer 12. Haym Soloveitchik, "Rupture and Reconstruction," 1994 Essay: Yehuda Kurtzer 13. Naomi Seidman, "Elie Wiesel and the Scandal of Jewish Rage," 1996 Essay: Erin Leib Smokler 14. Dabru Emet, New York Times, 2000 Essay: Marcie Lenk 15. Jonathan Sarna, American Judaism: A History, 2004 Essay: Marc Dollinger 16. David Weiss Halivni, Breaking the Tablets: Jewish Theology After the Shoah,2007 Essay: Daniel Weiss 17. Ruth Wisse, "How Not to Remember and How Not to Forget," 2008 Essay: Dara Horn 18. Yossi Klein Halevi, Like Dreamers, 2013 Essay: Hannah Kober III. Religion and Religiosity 1. Joseph Soloveitchik,Halakhic Man, 1983 Essay: Shlomo Zuckier 2. Yehoshua Yeshaya Neuwirth, Shemirath Shabbath Kehilchathah, 1984 Essay: David Bashevkin 3. David Hartman, A Living Covenant: The Innovative Spirit in Traditional Judaism, 1985 Essay: David Ellenson 4. The Complete Artscroll Siddur, 1984 Essay: David Zvi Kalman 5. Neil Gillman, Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew, 1990; Eugene Borowitz, Renewing the Covenant: A Theology for the Postmodern Jew, 1991 Essay: Michael Marmur 6. Rachel Adler "In Your Blood, Live: Re-visions of a Theological Purity," 1993 Essay: Gail Labovitz 7. Rodger Kamenetz, The Jew in the Lotus: A Poet's Rediscovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist India, 1994 Essay: Or Rose 8. Avivah Gottleib Zornberg, Genesis: The Beginning of Desire, 1995 Essay: Shira Hecht-Koller 9. Abraham Joshua Heschel, Susannah Heschel (ed.), Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity, 1996 Essay: William Plevan 10. Noam Zion and David Dishon, A Different Night: The Family Participation Haggadah, 1997 Essay: Emily Filler 11. Mendel Shapiro, "Qeri'at HaTorah by Women: A Halakhic Analysis," 2001 Essay: Tova Hartman 12. Jonathan Sacks, Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations, London: Continuum,2002 Essay: Michal Raucher 13. Rav Shagar, Broken Vessels, 2004 Essay: Tomer Persico 14. Arthur Green, Radical Judaism: Rethinking God and Tradition, 2010; Daniel Landes, "Hidden Master," 2010; Arthur Green and Daniel Landes, "God, Torah, and Israel: An Exchange," 2011 Essay: Samuel Hayim Brody 15. Elie Kaunfer, Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us About Building Vibrant Jewish Communities, 2010 Essay: Shawn Landres and Josh Avedon IV. Identities and Communities 1. Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Letter to the Jewish Community of Teaneck, 1981 Essay: Jonathan Sarna 2. Blu Greenberg, On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition, 1981 Essay: Rachel Gordan 3. Harold Kushner, When Bad Things Happen to Good People, 1981; Alan Lew, This is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation, 2003 Essay: Joshua Ladon 4. Evelyn Torton Beck (ed.), Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology, 1982; Susannah Heschel (ed.), On Being a Jewish Feminist, 1983 Essay: Claire E. Sufrin 5. Paul Cowan with Rachel Cowan, Mixed Blessings: Overcoming the Stumbling Blocks in an Interfaith Marriage, 1988 Essay: Samira Mehta 6. Judith Plaskow, Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective, 1990 Essay: Judith Rosenbaum 7. Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America, 1991 Essay: Arielle Levites 8. Barry Kosmin, "Highlights of the CJF 1990 National Jewish Population Survey," 1991; "A Portrait of Jewish Americans," 2013 Essay: Mijal Bitton 9. Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Literacy, 1991; Paula Hyman, "Who is an Educated Jew?" 2002; Vanessa Ochs, "Ten Jewish Sensibilities," 2003 Essay: Hannah Pressman 10. Yaakov Levado, "Gayness and God: Wrestlings of an Orthodox Rabbi," 1993 Essay: Zev Farber 11. Leonard Fein, "Smashing Idols and Other Prescriptions for Jewish Continuity," 1994 Essay: Aryeh Cohen 12. Steven M. Cohen and Arnold M. Eisen, The Jew Within: Self, Family, and Community in America, 2000 Essay: Alan Brill 13. A. B. Yehoshua, "The Meaning of Homeland," 2006 Essay: James Loeffler 14. Elliot N. Dorff, Daniel S. Nevins, and Avram I. Reisner, "Homosexuality, Human Dignity, and Halakhah: A Combined Responsum for the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards," 2006 Essay: Jane Kanarek 15. Noah Feldman "Orthodox Paradox," 2007; Jay Lefkowitz, "The Rise of Social Orthodoxy: A Personal Account," 2014 Essay: Elli Fischer 16. Tamar Biala and Nechama Weingarten-Mintz (eds.), Dirshuni: Midrashei Nashim, 2009 Essay: Sarah Mulhern 17. Leon Wieseltier, "Language, Identity, and the Scandal of American Jewry," 2011 Essay: Jon Levisohn 18. Ruth Calderon, Inaugural Knesset Speech, "The Heritage of All Israel," 2013 Essay: Yossi Klein Halevi 19. Rick Jacobs, "The Genesis of Our Future," 2013 Essay: Dan Friedman

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Book SynopsisOn April 22, 1823, a three-year-old boy named Fedor finished his lunch and went to play outside. Fedor never returned home from his walk. Several days later, a neighbor found his mutilated body drained of blood and repeatedly pierced. In small market towns, where houses were clustered together, residents knew each other on intimate terms, and people gossiped in taverns, courtyards, and streets, even the most trivial bits of news spread like wildfire. It did not take long before rumors emerged that Jews had murdered the little boy. The Velizh Affair reconstructs the lives of Jews and their Christian neighbors caught up in the aftermath of this chilling criminal act. The investigation into Fedor’s death resulted in the charging of forty-three Jews with ritual murder, the theft and desecration of church property, and the forcible conversion of three town residents. Drawing on an astonishing number of newly discovered trial records, historian Evgeny Avrutin explores not only the multiple factors that caused fear and conflict in everyday life but also the social and cultural worlds of a multi-ethnic population that had coexisted for hundreds of years. This beautifully crafted book provides an intimate glimpse into small-town life. The case unfolded in a town like any other town in the Russian Empire where lives were closely interwoven, where rivalries and confrontations were part of day-to-day existence, and where the blood libel was part of a well-established belief system.

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Book SynopsisThis volume comprehensively explores the life trajectories of nine child/adolescent Holocaust concentration camp survivors as recollected when the subjects were elders. Based on extensive face to face interview material, enduring psychological and symptomatic effects were evident. Survivors retained vivid recollections of the horror of internment and expressed ongoing grief for the multiple losses they had experienced. Unresolved grief contributed to a sense of existential loneliness, particularly prominent in their late life reflections. Despite indications of resilience and life productivity, a ‘Trauma Trilogy’ of inter-linked catastrophic grief, anger, and survivor guilt contributed to a sense of pain and struggle in negotiating Erikson’s final life task of Integrity versus Despair. Trade Review“A book, raw in the visceral descriptions of the effects of the Holocaust provided by ageing child survivors as they painfully and courageously re-visit their experiences in the camps, the death marches and beyond. A book of inspiration in the warmth and compassion of the interviewer who listened and cared and whose personal resonances with the survivors shone through. A hugely informative book in all authors’ scholarly research on complex trauma, complicated bereavement, ageing, resilience and existential loneliness. A remarkable, must read book in contemporary times not only for its collection of rare testimonies of ageing survivors of the holocaust but for its insights into the very long term but individual effects of massive collective trauma, which continue to dog the twenty first century. It is a testimony to despair and hope, trauma and resilience, and a must read for those who at least wish to try to understand.” — Gillian Straker, Clinical Professor, University Of Sydney; Visiting Research Professor, University Witwatersrand"This book captures the voices of some of the last living survivors of the Holocaust. These in-depth interviews provide valuable testimony to how the catastrophic losses and trauma suffered by children and youth in the context of a genocide shaped their life trajectories, and how these early experiences impact their engagement with the final developmental challenges of the late years in life. Moreover, Tracey Farber was one of the few practitioners who braved doing home visits during the Covid-19 pandemic. Her book brings a unique contribution since the interviews took place during a historical time that changed life for all, and exposed aging child survivors of the Holocaust to the most severe pandemic of the last 100 years, forcing them to endure isolation, loneliness and disrupted care, once again. Farber’s gentle and compassionate relationships with the survivors are an inspiration to all who know or work with trauma survivors.”— Irit Felsen, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, Co-Chair of the Trauma Working Group at the NGO on Mental Health in Consultative Relationship to the United Nations“This important book adds many layers and considerable clarity to our understanding of child concentration camp Holocaust survivors’ experiences as they age. South Africa was always on the margins of the history of the Second World War and the Holocaust; only about 350 Holocaust survivors settled in the country after the war, many of whom were children and adolescents who were not interviewed about their experiences until the 1990s. It is seldom that a group of survivors trust and feel so comfortable with a researcher such as these nine survivors have been with Tracey Farber. They have known her for years and have benefitted from her visible care and generosity of spirit. Through her research, she does not only study the topic but also makes important steps to make sure they are cared for through the establishment of Holocaust survivors services in South Africa. This book is a testament to the many years of dedication and real care she has displayed, of which we are all grateful beneficiaries. I encourage all to read this important book, which includes not only the cases of these survivors and analysis of their experiences, but also excellent suggested steps forward that can be implemented widely.”— Tali Nates, Founder and Director, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre“A must-read for those interested in a rich combination of unique perspectives on theories of childhood development and trauma, including the impact on aging for those who were children during the Holocaust. The Survivor narratives are gripping and haunting, and command the reader to pause in honor of their testimonies. Be prepared to be inspired by their resilience. This book contributes to a deeper understanding of the experiences of grief and hope among those who survived the atrocities of the Holocaust as children.”— Jenni Frumer, Ph.D., LCSW, MSEd; Director, NOW for Holocaust Survivors Initiative/MorseLife Health System USATable of ContentsAcknowledgements ForewordProfessor Diana ShmuklerPrefaceTracey FarberIntroductionTracey Farber, Gillian Eagle, Cora Smith1. Literature ReviewTracey Farber2. Research ApproachTracey Farber, Gillian Eagle, Cora Smith3. Experiences and Testimonies of Child Concentration Camp SurvivorsTracey Farber Helene Dave Miriam Lenna Isaac Anne Shlomo Rina Menachem 4. Findings and Discussion: Themes of Trauma and Devastating Loss That Emerged from Testimony of Child Concentration Camp SurvivorsTracey Farber 5. Reflexivity and CountertransferenceTracey Farber6. InterventionsTracey Farber7. Temporality and the Reevaluation of Memories in Aging Child Holocaust Survivors: A Developmental TrajectoryCora Smith8. A Particular Form of Complex TraumatizationGillian Eagle9. What Can Be Learned from Child Concentration Camp Survivors about the Impact of Severe Trauma and Its Long-Term Impact on AgingTracey Farber, Gillian Eagle, Cora Smith10. Responding to the Needs of Aging Child Holocaust Survivors and Other Survivors of Severe Early TraumaTracey Farber, Gillian Eagle, Cora SmithBibliographyAppendix 1. Ethical Clearance CertificateAppendix 2. Turnitin Plagiarism Report

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Book SynopsisBy examining Jewish experiences between the American Civil War and the African American Civil Rights Revolution, this book focuses on citizens who usually spent their daily lives in Black and white “peoplehoods.” Some of the white ones, commanding the nation’s “public square,” structured a segregated republic and capitalist economy that would experience WWII and the news about the Holocaust that murdered millions of Jews. This political economy sustained a hierarchy of privatized ethnic groups whose race and religion, in their norms of “ethnicking,” was used to deprive them of legal and equal collective standing. This Was America is a book about those privatized identities that the years of the Civil Rights Revolution would bring into the republic’s public square.Trade Review“Korman... has written an important and timely history focusing primarily on Black and Jewish Americans, as well as other ethnic groups, as they found themselves isolated from the 'public square' of American life over a century. ... Recommended.”— J. Fischel, emeritus, Millersville University, CHOICE (September 2023 Vol. 61 No. 1)Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroductionPart One: Republican Ethnicking1. Veritas2. Races3. Promised Lands by Religion4. Ethnicking5. Profiling6. Peoplehood CitizensPart Two: Republican Discipline7. Safeguarding the Public Square8. Screening and Quarantines9. At Work in Danzig10. Nationalizing Secular Peoplehoods11. Battling Citizens12. Bending HierarchiesPart Three: Last Words13. Pasts in US14. US in the Public Square15. Ethnicking in Plain SightEpilogue

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Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of two dozen essays published over the past four decades on American Jewish history and culture. They discuss the role that Jews have played in American culture, sports, politics, business, and religion, as well as the nature of American antisemitism. The essays argue that the Jewish experience in America has been unique and this uniqueness has encouraged Jews to define their Jewish identity in multiple ways. In no other country has Judaism and Jewishness taken on so many diverse forms. While America has not been the promised land for Jews, it has been a land of promise. Jews have prospered in America and become part of the social, cultural, political, and economic mainstream. But whether Judaism and Jewish identity have also prospered is another question.Table of ContentsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements for Reprinted MaterialIntroductionPart One: Identity1. The Mystery of American Jewish Identity2. The Jewishness of the New York Intellectuals: Sidney Hook, a Test Case3. Will Herberg’s Protestant—Catholic—Jew: A Critique4. The Impact of War: America’s Jews and World War II Part Two: Religion 5. A Shtetl in the Sun: Orthodoxy in Southern Florida6. The Crisis of Conservative Judaism7. Modern Orthodoxy in Crisis: A Test Case8. The Decline and Rise of Secular Judaism in AmericaPart Three: Antisemitism9. John Higham and American Antisemitism10. The World Labor Athletic Carnival of 1936: An American Anti-Nazi Protest11. The Approach of War: Congressional Isolationism and Antisemitism, 1939–194112. Antisemitism Mississippi Style13. The Educational Crusade of George W. Armstrong14. Interpretations of the Crown Heights Riot15. The Cognitive Dissonance of American JewsPart Four: Business16. Jewish Historians and American Capitalism17. The Absent American Jewish Business Mogul18. From Participant to Owner: The Role of Jews in Contemporary American SportsPart Five: Politics19. Waiting For Righty?: An Interpretation of the Political Behavior of American Jews20. Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and American Jewish Memory21. Jewish Intellectuals and the American Conservative Movement

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Book SynopsisInspired by seven photographs of WWII refugees in an old album, the author embarked on a quest to uncover the story behind each portrait. Had the refugees been rescued by the diplomat Chiune Sugihara, who saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust by providing Japanese transit visas? Searching for the identities of the people in the photographs, the author scoured historical records and interviewed numerous fascinating individuals, including Sugihara visa recipients and their descendants. While solving the mystery of the people in the photographs, the author uncovered more hero diplomats and new details about Sugihara visas. This account of the author’s investigation supports the legacy of Chiune Sugihara and highlights other WWII saviors, such as the Dutch diplomat Jan Zwartendijk. Trade Review“[N]early forgotten footnotes in the annals of the Holocaust are resurrected with passion and conviction by Kitade, who has devoted himself to building bridges of mutual understanding between Japan and Jews. In Emerging Heroes, he salutes the Japanese and foreign diplomats who went above and beyond the call of duty to lend a helpful hand to Jewish refugees during their darkest hours of duress.”— Sheldon Kirshner, Times of Israel“Akira Kitade has written a highly entertaining and gripping sequel to his well-received book Visas of Life and the Epic Journey: How the Sugihara Survivors Reached Japan. The first three chapters follow up on the stories of the seven photos discussed in his previous book. The next five chapters focus on the heroic roles played by the Japanese consul Chiune Sugihara and five essential diplomat 'accomplices' in saving over 2000, mostly Polish Jews, who had escaped to Lithuania prior to March 1940. These diplomats included Jan Zwartendijk, Honorary Consul of the Netherlands in Lithuania; Saburo Nei, Acting Japanese Consul General of Japan in Vladivostok; N. A. J. de Voogd, Consul of the Netherlands in Kobe; Yoshitsugu Tatekawa, Ambassador of Japan in the Soviet Union; Tadeusz Romer, Ambassador of the Polish Government-in-Exile in Japan. The last chapter gives an accounting of the 2,140 names on the Sugihara List. Akira Kitade personalizes the stories in each chapter and writes in a relaxed, colloquial style. He exhibits an open-mindedness throughout in relating his stories.”– George Bluman, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Sugihara descendant“Akira Kitade is an unlikely chronicler of courage, hope, and heroism in humanity’s darkest age.Clearing out his modest office as he retired after a lifelong career at Japan’s Tourism Bureau, Akira discovered a dusty 75-year-old scrapbook filled with poems and photos in a neglected drawer. Written by his boss in 1941, it was titled ‘people without nations.’ The scrapbook’s haunting photos of desperate refugees led Akira on a journey of discovery into the lives of terrified Jews fleeing the Nazis and their unknown saviors.His tale, carefully written, with precision and detail, is a gripping story of good interfering in the face of evil, moral choices blunting the teeth of danger, and pure bravery. Reading as fine as dramatic fiction, it will stand for generations as a handbook of ordinary folks whose difficult decisions led them to immortal greatness.”–Rabbi Aaron Kotler, President Emeritus, Beth Medrash Govoha“Huge numbers of refugees took shelter from Poland in Lithuania at the beginning of WWII. Thousands of them were rescued from the Holocaust in the summer of 1940 by Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul in Kaunas. However, their destinies have scarcely been known after the war. Akira Kitade traces fourteen survivors by their footprints, who or whose parents received 'Visas for Life' from Sugihara or other Japanese diplomats and opened up a field of activity in the new world. Kitade also clarifies the activity of other rescuers than Sugihara.”– Chiharu Inaba, Professor of International Relations, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan. Author of On the Hill of Yad Vashem: Trees of Righteous among the Nations (in Japanese).Table of ContentsMessage from the Mayor of Tsuruga City Takanobu Fuchikami Foreword Harriet P. Schleifer Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Encounter with an Album 2. The Sugihara Survivors I Met, and the Follow-Up 3. People in the Album Whose Identities Were Discovered 4. Jan Zwartendijk, Consul of the Netherlands in Kaunas 5. Saburo Nei, Acting Consul General in Vladivostok 6. N. A. J. de Voogd, Consul of the Netherlands in Kobe, Later Ambassador of the Netherlands to Japan 7. Yoshitsugu Tatekawa, Ambassador to the Soviet Union 8. Tadeusz Romer, Polish Ambassador to Japan 9. Tracking Down the 2,139 People on the Sugihara List  Conclusion List of Major References

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Book SynopsisThis volume comprehensively explores the life trajectories of nine child/adolescent Holocaust concentration camp survivors as recollected when the subjects were elders. Based on extensive face to face interview material, enduring psychological and symptomatic effects were evident. Survivors retained vivid recollections of the horror of internment and expressed ongoing grief for the multiple losses they had experienced. Unresolved grief contributed to a sense of existential loneliness, particularly prominent in their late life reflections. Despite indications of resilience and life productivity, a ‘Trauma Trilogy’ of inter-linked catastrophic grief, anger, and survivor guilt contributed to a sense of pain and struggle in negotiating Erikson’s final life task of Integrity versus Despair. Trade Review“A book, raw in the visceral descriptions of the effects of the Holocaust provided by ageing child survivors as they painfully and courageously re-visit their experiences in the camps, the death marches and beyond. A book of inspiration in the warmth and compassion of the interviewer who listened and cared and whose personal resonances with the survivors shone through. A hugely informative book in all authors’ scholarly research on complex trauma, complicated bereavement, ageing, resilience and existential loneliness. A remarkable, must read book in contemporary times not only for its collection of rare testimonies of ageing survivors of the holocaust but for its insights into the very long term but individual effects of massive collective trauma, which continue to dog the twenty first century. It is a testimony to despair and hope, trauma and resilience, and a must read for those who at least wish to try to understand.” — Gillian Straker, Clinical Professor, University Of Sydney; Visiting Research Professor, University Witwatersrand“A must-read for those interested in a rich combination of unique perspectives on theories of childhood development and trauma, including the impact on aging for those who were children during the Holocaust. The Survivor narratives are gripping and haunting, and command the reader to pause in honor of their testimonies. Be prepared to be inspired by their resilience. This book contributes to a deeper understanding of the experiences of grief and hope among those who survived the atrocities of the Holocaust as children.”— Jenni Frumer, Ph.D., LCSW, MSEd; Director, NOW for Holocaust Survivors Initiative/MorseLife Health System USA"This book captures the voices of some of the last living survivors of the Holocaust. These in-depth interviews provide valuable testimony to how the catastrophic losses and trauma suffered by children and youth in the context of a genocide shaped their life trajectories, and how these early experiences impact their engagement with the final developmental challenges of the late years in life. Moreover, Tracey Farber was one of the few practitioners who braved doing home visits during the Covid-19 pandemic. Her book brings a unique contribution since the interviews took place during a historical time that changed life for all, and exposed aging child survivors of the Holocaust to the most severe pandemic of the last 100 years, forcing them to endure isolation, loneliness and disrupted care, once again. Farber’s gentle and compassionate relationships with the survivors are an inspiration to all who know or work with trauma survivors.”— Irit Felsen, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, Co-Chair of the Trauma Working Group at the NGO on Mental Health in Consultative Relationship to the United Nations“This important book adds many layers and considerable clarity to our understanding of child concentration camp Holocaust survivors’ experiences as they age. South Africa was always on the margins of the history of the Second World War and the Holocaust; only about 350 Holocaust survivors settled in the country after the war, many of whom were children and adolescents who were not interviewed about their experiences until the 1990s. It is seldom that a group of survivors trust and feel so comfortable with a researcher such as these nine survivors have been with Tracey Farber. They have known her for years and have benefitted from her visible care and generosity of spirit. Through her research, she does not only study the topic but also makes important steps to make sure they are cared for through the establishment of Holocaust survivors services in South Africa. This book is a testament to the many years of dedication and real care she has displayed, of which we are all grateful beneficiaries. I encourage all to read this important book, which includes not only the cases of these survivors and analysis of their experiences, but also excellent suggested steps forward that can be implemented widely.”— Tali Nates, Founder and Director, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide CentreTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ForewordProfessor Diana ShmuklerPrefaceTracey FarberIntroductionTracey Farber, Gillian Eagle, Cora Smith1. Literature ReviewTracey Farber2. Research ApproachTracey Farber, Gillian Eagle, Cora Smith3. Experiences and Testimonies of Child Concentration Camp SurvivorsTracey Farber Helene Dave Miriam Lenna Isaac Anne Shlomo Rina Menachem 4. Findings and Discussion: Themes of Trauma and Devastating Loss That Emerged from Testimony of Child Concentration Camp SurvivorsTracey Farber 5. Reflexivity and CountertransferenceTracey Farber6. InterventionsTracey Farber7. Temporality and the Reevaluation of Memories in Aging Child Holocaust Survivors: A Developmental TrajectoryCora Smith8. A Particular Form of Complex TraumatizationGillian Eagle9. What Can Be Learned from Child Concentration Camp Survivors about the Impact of Severe Trauma and Its Long-Term Impact on AgingTracey Farber, Gillian Eagle, Cora Smith10. Responding to the Needs of Aging Child Holocaust Survivors and Other Survivors of Severe Early TraumaTracey Farber, Gillian Eagle, Cora SmithBibliographyAppendix 1. Ethical Clearance CertificateAppendix 2. Turnitin Plagiarism Report

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