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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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Between the Bridge and the Barricade explores how translations of non-Jewish texts into Jewish languages impacted Jewish culture, literature, and history from the sixteenth century into modern times. Offering a comprehensive view of early modern Jewish translation, Iris Idelson-Shein charts major paths of textual migration from non-Jewish to Jewish literatures, analyzes translators’ motives, and identifies the translational norms distinctive to Jewish translation. Through an analysis of translations hosted in the Jewish Translation and Cultural Transfer (JEWTACT) database, Idelson-Shein reveals for the first time the liberal translational norms that allowed for early modern Jewish translators to make intensely creative and radical departures from the source texts—from “Judaizing” names, places, motifs, and language to mistranslating and omitting material both deliberately and accidently. Through this process of translation, Jewish translators created a new library of works that closely corresponded with the surrounding majority cultures yet was uniquely Jewish in character.As a site of intense negotiation between different cultures, communities, religions, readers, genres, and languages, these translations become an ideal entry point into the complex relationships between early modern Christians and Jews. At the same time, they also pose a significant challenge for modern-day scholars. But, for the careful reader, who can navigate the labyrinth of unacknowledged translations of non-Jewish sources into Jewish languages, there awaits a terrain of surprising intercultural encounters between Jews and Christians. Between the Bridge and the Barricade uncovers the hitherto hidden non-Jewish corpus that, Idelson-Shein contends, played a decisive role in shaping early modern Jewish culture.

European literature --- Jewish literature --- Jews --- Translating and interpreting --- HISTORY / Jewish. --- Early modern Jewish history. --- European history literature. --- European vernacular languages. --- Haskalah. --- Hebrew. --- Imitation. --- Jewish Christian relations. --- Jewish translation. --- Jews and science. --- Jewtact. --- Judaizing. --- Latin. --- Maskilic. --- Old Yiddish. --- Translation studies. --- database catalog. --- gender stereotypes. --- mistranslated mistranslation. --- Translations --- History and criticism. --- Civilization --- Foreign influences. --- Languages --- Translating. --- 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.