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Jews and the Military is the first comprehensive and comparative look at Jews' involvement in the military and their attitudes toward war from the 1600s until... 
Cultural assimilation | Jews | History | Identity | Jewish soldiers | General- History | Europe | Judaism | General- Religion | Other- Hbjd- Hrj- Hbw | Modern | Military | 20th century | Religion | 19th century | HISTORY

"Early Modern Jewry" boldly offers a new history of the early modern Jewish experience. From Krakow and Venice to Amsterdam and Smyrna, David Ruderman examines... 
Jews | Europe | Religion | Social networks | 70-1789 | Doctrines | Rabbis | History | Intellectual life | Early works to 1800 | Sociology | Jewish learning and scholarship | Judaism | Biography | HISTORY | Jewish

In a book with a bold new view of medieval Jewish history, written in a style accessible to nonspecialists and students as well as to scholars in the field,... 
640–1250 | Jews | To 1500 | Egypt | Religion | 750–1260 | Karaites | History | Heresies, Jewish | Syria | Judaism | RELIGION | HISTORY | Jewish | 750-1260 | 640-1250 | Jewish heresies

Jewish refugees | Jews | Jewish musicians | Jewish women | History | Jewish businesspeople

This book describes the vibrant activity of survivors who founded Jewish historical commissions and documentation centers in Europe immediately after the... 
Historiography | Holocaust survivors | Collective memory | Memorial books (Holocaust) | Personal narratives | History and criticism | History | Germany HistoryHistoriography | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | World War, 1939-1945 | modern history (1700 to 1945) | Survivor silence | Historical commissions | Holocaust memory | Survivor testimony | Documentation centers | Holocaust historiography | Postwar Europe | Archives | Posttraumatic recovery | Displaced Persons | Jewish

Medicine | Jewish physicians | Jews | Jewish ghettos | Jewish resistance | Medical care | History | History and criticism | Social conditions | World War, 1939-1945 | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Political activity | Labor movement | Jewish socialists | Jews, East European | History | Immigrants | Working class Jews | New York (N.Y.) Ethnic relationsHistory

"Morocco went through immense upheaval in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through the experiences of a single Jewish family, Jessica Marglin... 
Jews | Islam | Judaism | Relations | History | Jewish-Arab relations | Morocco History | Morocco | 19th century

Reorienting the Eastexplores the Islamic world as it was encountered, envisioned, and elaborated by Jewish travelers from the Middle Ages to the early modern... 
Palestine Description and travelEarly works to 1800 | Middle East Description and travelEarly works to 1800 | Christianity and other religions | Travelers' writings, Hebrew | Relations | Christianity | Travel, Medieval | History | Travel | Early works to 1800 | Jews | Islam | Judaism | Jewish travelers | History and criticism | Description and travel | Language & Literature | Travelers’ writings, Hebrew | Palestine | Middle East | Islamic Empire | LITERARY CRITICISM | Medieval | Jewish

The fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries were truly an Age of Secrecy in Europe, when arcane knowledge was widely believed to be positive knowledge that... 
Alchemy | Religious aspects | Judaism | Colorni, Abraham, approximately 1530 | Mystery | Jewish alchemists | Christianity | History | Secrecy | Jewish magic | Occultism | approximately 1530 | Europe | Colorni, Abraham

"This book depicts the cultural imagination of the Italian-Jewish minority from the unification of the country to the end of the First World War. The creation... 
Ethnicity | Jews | History | Identity | Religion-History | Judaism | Social History | History of Italy | Cultural History | History of Religion

In 1921 and 1924, the United States passed laws to sharply reduce the influx of immigrants into the country. By allocating only small quotas to the nations of... 
United States Emigration and immigrationHistory | Emigration and immigration law | Jews, European | History | Illegal aliens | Immigrants | history of the Americas | Illegal aliens - United States - History - 20th century

Foreign | Mercenary troops | France. Armée History | Jewish soldiers | Participation, Foreign | History | Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 | France History, Military | Napoleonic Wars (1800-1815) | 1700 - 1899 | Military participation | Soldiers, Black | Foreign enlistment | France | France. Armée

The book of Genesis tells us that God made a covenant with Abraham, promising him a glorious posterity on the condition that he and all his male descendents... 
Religion & beliefs | Circumcision | Judaism | Medicine - England - History | Jewish ritual circumcision | Children's rights | American medical history | Jewish-American physicians | German-Jewish physicians | Jewish-Christian relations | Medicine | Jewish physicians

The end of the Second World War in Europe gave way to a gigantic refugee crisis. Thoroughly prepared by Allied military planners, the swift repatriation of... 
Jewish refugees | Jews | Humanitarianism | Migrations | Refugees | Europe Emigration and immigrationHistory | Civilian relief | History | Government policy | United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration | World War, 1939-1945 | modern history (1700 to 1945) | International migration | Human rights | Population management | Asylum seekers | Displaced persons | International refugee organization