The Velizh Affair
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Author | : Eugene M. Avrutin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190640529 |
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The Velizh case was the longest ritual murder investigation in the modern world. Drawing on newly discovered trial records, historian Eugene M. Avrutin looks beyond antisemitism as the single most important factor in understanding ritual murder accusations, and in the process, provides an intimate glimpse of small-town life in eastern Europe.
Author | : Eugene M. Avrutin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2021-09-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0190060115 |
Download Pogroms Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
From the 1880s to the 1940s, an upsurge of explosive pogroms caused much pain and suffering across the eastern borderlands of Europe. Rioters attacked Jewish property and caused physical harm to women and children. During World War I and the Russian Civil War, pogrom violence turned into full-blown military actions. In some cases, pogroms wiped out of existence entire Jewish communities. More generally, they were part of a larger story of destruction, ethnic purification, and coexistence that played out in the region over a span of some six decades. Pogroms: A Documentary History surveys the complex history of anti-Jewish violence by bringing together archival and published sources--many appearing for the first time in English translation. The documents assembled here include eyewitness testimony, oral histories, diary excerpts, literary works, trial records, and press coverage. They also include memos and field reports authored by army officials, investigative commissions, humanitarian organizations, and government officials. This landmark volume and its distinguished roster of scholars provides an unprecedented view of the history of pogroms.
Author | : Bernard Weinstein |
Publisher | : Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2018-02-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1783743565 |
Download The Jewish Unions in America Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Newly arrived in New York in 1882 from Tsarist Russia, the sixteen-year-old Bernard Weinstein discovered an America in which unionism, socialism, and anarchism were very much in the air. He found a home in the tenements of New York and for the next fifty years he devoted his life to the struggles of fellow Jewish workers. The Jewish Unions in America blends memoir and history to chronicle this time. It describes how Weinstein led countless strikes, held the unions together in the face of retaliation from the bosses, investigated sweatshops and factories with the aid of reformers, and faced down schisms by various factions, including Anarchists and Communists. He co-founded the United Hebrew Trades and wrote speeches, articles and books advancing the cause of the labor movement. From the pages of this book emerges a vivid picture of workers’ organizations at the beginning of the twentieth century and a capitalist system that bred exploitation, poverty, and inequality. Although workers’ rights have made great progress in the decades since, Weinstein’s descriptions of workers with jobs pitted against those without, and American workers against workers abroad, still carry echoes today. The Jewish Unions in America is a testament to the struggles of working people a hundred years ago. But it is also a reminder that workers must still battle to live decent lives in the free market. For the first time, Maurice Wolfthal’s readable translation makes Weinstein’s Yiddish text available to English readers. It is essential reading for students and scholars of labor history, Jewish history, and the history of American immigration.
Author | : Hidetaka Hirota |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019061921X |
Download Expelling the Poor Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Présentation de l'éditeur: "Expelling the Poor' argues that immigration policies in nineteenth-century New York and Massachusetts, driven by cultural prejudice against the Irish and more fundamentally by economic concerns about their poverty, laid the foundations for American immigration control."
Author | : Robert Weinberg |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2013-11-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0253011140 |
Download Blood Libel in Late Imperial Russia Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This “riveting history . . . brings us face to face with this notorious trial” of a Russian Jew who was framed for ritual murder in 1913 (Jewish Book World). On Sunday, March 20, 1911, children playing in a cave near Kiev made a gruesome discovery: the blood-soaked body of a partially clad boy. After right-wing groups asserted that the killing was a ritual murder, the police, with no direct evidence, arrested Menachem Mendel Beilis, a thirty-nine-year-old Jewish manager at a factory near the site of the crime. Beilis’s trial in 1913 quickly became an international cause célèbre. The jury ultimately acquitted Beilis but held that the crime had the hallmarks of a ritual murder. Robert Weinberg’s account of the Beilis Affair explores the reasons why the tsarist government framed Beilis, shedding light on the excesses of antisemitism in late Imperial Russia. It is a gripping narrative culled from trial transcripts, newspaper articles, Beilis’s memoirs, and archival sources, many appearing in English for the first time.
Author | : George Rutherglen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2013-01-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199739706 |
Download Civil Rights in the Shadow of Slavery Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The author begins with the birth of civil rights - the circumstances, acts and legacy of the 39th Congress, constitutional origins, passage and structure of the Act, moves through the Fourteenth Amendment and into restrictive interpretations and quiescent years, and finishes with a chapter on discerning the future from the past and the contemporary significance of the Act.
Author | : Mara Kozelsky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190644710 |
Download Crimea in War and Transformation Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Crimea in War and Transformation is the first exploration of the civilian experience during the Crimean War to appear in English. Beginning with Russian mobilization in 1852 and lasting through demobilization in 1857, the conflict devastated the peoples and landscapes of Crimea as well as the volatile southern borderlands of the Russian Empire, leading to the largest war recovery program yet undertaken by the Russian government.
Author | : Ilya Gerasimov |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1580469051 |
Download Plebeian Modernity Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Deciphers typical social practices as a hidden language of communication in urban plebeian society
Author | : James W. Ely |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195323327 |
Download The Guardian of Every Other Right Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book considers the interplay of law, ideology, politics and economic change in shaping constitutional thought, and provides a historical perspective on the contemporary debate about property rights. The third edition has been completely revised and updated.
Author | : Umut Özsu |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0198717431 |
Download Formalizing Displacement Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In this book, Umut Özsu situates population transfer within the broader history of international law by examining its emergence as a legally formalized mechanism of nation-building in the early twentieth century. The book's principal focus is the 1922-34 compulsory exchange of minorities between Greece and Turkey, a crucially important endeavor whose legal dimensions remain under-scrutinized.