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Contains reports, registers, and various other documents from the Repatriation Department, General Political Branch, and the Social Branch of the Bialystok Provincial Administration dating from 1944 to 1950. The records contain information about repatriation, terrorism by underground groups, religious confessions, minority groups in Bialystok, including Jews, and war damage to Jewish communities.

Includes bibliographical references and index. 240 p. ; 24 cm

The political philosopher Hannah Arendt is well-known as student of state terrorism, police state or Zionism. She also defined with Max Weber the "Jew as pariah" at the time that Theodore Adorno situated "Jews as Gypsies"in world history. In this book Derks studies the main aspects of the "Jewish question" in combination with a "nomadic question" Met index, lit. opg. 328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Years after the end of the war he was contacted by someone who had miraculously discovered his manuscript diary and notes. He published his diary under the title <em>A Warsaw Diary</em> in 1969. He also contributed many articles and book reviews on the subject of the Holocaust to the Jewish Chronicle over the years.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-249) and index. xiv, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

E. Ann Kaplan explores the relationship between the impact of trauma on individuals and on entire cultures and nations. Arguing that humans possess a need to draw meaning from personal experience and to communicate what happens to others, she examines the forms that are used to bridge the experience. Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-179) and index. viii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 24 ...

A new theory of ethnic cleansing based on the most terrible cases (colonial genocides, Armenia, the Nazi Holocaust, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Rwanda) and cases of lesser violence (early modern Europe, contemporary India, and Indonesia). Murderous cleansing is modern, 'the dark side of democracy'. It results where the demos (democracy) is confused with the ethnos (the ethnic group). Danger arises where ...

The collection includes foundational materials, records, photographs of institutional activity, committees, campaigns, complaints, archives of the United Restitution Office, assemblies and public activities, files, work folders, and surveys on anti-Semitism in the form of reports and newspaper clippings. It covers action against Nazism from 1935, as well as different expressions of anti-Semitism in ...

This major global history of the twentieth century is written by four prominent international historians for first-year undergraduate level and upward. Using their thematic and regional expertise, the authors cover events in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas from the last century and beyond. Among the areas this book covers are: the decline of European hegemony over the international ...

"Following the Arab Spring, Syria descended into civil and sectarian conflict. It has since become a fractured warzone which operates as a breeding ground for new terrorist movements including ISIS as well as the root cause of the greatest refugee crisis in modern history. In this important book, former Special Envoy of the Netherlands to Syria, Nikolaos van Dam, explains the recent history of Syria, ...

"Between October 2014 and November 2016, global terrorism expert Jessica Stern held a series of conversations in a prison cell in The Hague with Radovan Karadžić, a Bosnian Serb former politician who had been indicted for genocide and other war crimes during the Bosnian War and who became an inspiration for white nationalists. Though Stern was used to interviewing terrorists in the field in an effort ...

Contains a collection of diplomatic dispatches sent to all French diplomats during the period 1938-1949 concerning Palestine. Various subjects discussed include: illicit immigration to Palestine in 1939 (the exodus of Polish Jews toward the Levant); surveillance of the activities of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in October, 1939 and his "escape"; Zionist politics; a letter from the French Ambassador ...