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The book is a family saga, presenting an insight into the history of Jews in Russia's oil industry. It leads to forced migration in the turbulent 20th century endured and mastered by a cohesive family over four generations in Russia, Germany, Denmark, France, Palestine, and the United States of America.

Azerbaijan. --- Forced migration. --- Modern Jewish history. --- Nazi Germany. --- Russian Revolution. --- Zionist movement. --- diaspora. --- family. --- oil industry. --- publishing houses.

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An exploration of Rav Kook's formative years in Eastern Europe, 1865-1904.

Jewish philosophy. --- Rabbis --- Religious Zionism --- Philosophy. --- Avraham Yitzhaq Ha-Cohen Kook. --- Chief Rabbinate. --- Kabbalah. --- Modern Jewish history and thought. --- Rav Kook. --- Religious Zionism.

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Seventy years after the creation of the State of Israel, Palestine to Israel: Mandate to State, 1945-1948 offers the definitive narrative of the achievement of Jewish sovereignty in the beleaguered Promised Land. Professor Monty Noam Penkower explores developments in Palestine and in the Arab states, including how the Palestine quagmire became a pawn in inter-Arab feuds; British and American responses both official and public; the role of Holocaust survivors; the context of the Cold War; and the saga as it unfolded in the corridors of the United Nations. Joining extensive archival research to a lucid prose, the two volumes offer a riveting conclusion to his Palestine in Turmoil and Decision on Palestine Deferred.

Arabs. --- Cold War diplomacy. --- Israel. --- Israeli studies. --- Jewish studies. --- Judaism. --- Middle East. --- Middle Eastern studies. --- Palestine. --- Twentieth Century. --- United Nations. --- Zionism. --- modern Jewish history. --- nationalism. --- HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine. --- Palestine --- Israel --- History

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A distinct Anglo-Jewish identity developed in Britain between 1840 and 1880. Over the course of these forty years, a mature, increasingly comfortable, native-born Jewish community emerged and matured in London. The multifaceted growth and change in communal institutional and religious structures and habits, as well as the community's increasing familiarity and comfort with the larger English society, contributed to the formation of an Anglo-Jewish communal identity. The history of this community and the ways in which it developed are explored in this volume using archival and also contemporary advertising material that appeared in the Jewish Chronicle and other Anglo-Jewish newspapers in these years.

1800s Jewish history. --- 19th century Anglo-Jews. --- 19th century history. --- Anglo-Jewry. --- British Jews. --- British history. --- English history. --- English society. --- History;English Jews;Jews. --- Jewish Chronicle. --- Jewish demography. --- Jewish education. --- Jewish emancipation. --- Jewish life in England. --- Jewish studies. --- London. --- United Kingdom. --- charity. --- class. --- communal religious life. --- diaspora. --- modern Jewish history. --- modern Jewish identity formation. --- nineteenth century history. --- philanthropy. --- religious culture. --- religious studies. --- responses to modernity. --- social history. --- zedakah. --- HISTORY / Jewish. --- English Jews. --- History. --- Jews.

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Pioneering biblical critic, theorist of democracy, and legendary conflater of God and nature, Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was excommunicated by the Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam in 1656 for his "horrible heresies" and "monstrous deeds." Yet, over the past three centuries, Spinoza's rupture with traditional Jewish beliefs and practices has elevated him to a prominent place in genealogies of Jewish modernity. The First Modern Jew provides a riveting look at how Spinoza went from being one of Judaism's most notorious outcasts to one of its most celebrated, if still highly controversial, cultural icons, and a powerful and protean symbol of the first modern secular Jew. Ranging from Amsterdam to Palestine and back again to Europe, the book chronicles Spinoza's posthumous odyssey from marginalized heretic to hero, the exemplar of a whole host of Jewish identities, including cosmopolitan, nationalist, reformist, and rejectionist. Daniel Schwartz shows that in fashioning Spinoza into "the first modern Jew," generations of Jewish intellectuals--German liberals, East European maskilim, secular Zionists, and Yiddishists--have projected their own dilemmas of identity onto him, reshaping the Amsterdam thinker in their own image. The many afterlives of Spinoza are a kind of looking glass into the struggles of Jewish writers over where to draw the boundaries of Jewishness and whether a secular Jewish identity is indeed possible. Cumulatively, these afterlives offer a kaleidoscopic view of modern Jewish cultureand a vivid history of an obsession with Spinoza that continues to this day.

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