Routledge Library Editions: Jewish History
Jewish Writing and Identity in the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
By Leon Israel Yudkin
May 06, 2022
From the 1880s, when systematic pogroms in Russia led to massive emigration, there have been two themes in Jewish history - persecution, culminating in the holocaust, and the corresponding search for a place in the world, which led to emigration to America, the rise of Zionism and the emergence of ...
Organizing Rescue: Jewish National Solidarity in the Modern Period
1st Edition
Edited
By S. Ilan Troen, Benjamin Pinkus
May 06, 2022
Upheavals of the modern period have dramatically changed the traditional pattern of the rescue of Jews by Jews. Whereas until the mid-nineteenth century rescue was carried out by community leaders in accordance with the religiously rooted injunction for the redemption of captives, in the modern ...