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Discusses the causes, the events, and the consequences of the Holocaust. Analyzes the ideological pre-history of the Nazi period in Germany and Austria after World War I, searching for a reason for the later annihilation of European Jewry. Contrary to most European countries, in Germany and Austria Jews had achieved a high level of social advancement and integration, against which modern antisemitism ...

How is something as broad and complex as a personality organized? What makes up a satisfactory theory of personality? In this ambitious book, Jaan Valsiner argues for a theoretical integration of two long-standing approaches: the individualistic tradition of personalistic psychology, typified by the work of William Stern and Gordon Allport, and the semiotic tradition of cultural-historical psychology, ...

"[This book] considers the various was that the American servicewoman has been represented throughout the 20th century and how those representations impact the roles she is permitted to inhabit. While women have a relatively short history in the American military, the last century shows an evolution of women's direct participation in war despite the need to overcome societal sex-role expectations. ...

Contains various records from the Immigration Department of the Jewish Agency; including reports on persecution of Jews; reports on immigration from various countries; on integration and immigration of youth as well as of senior Zionists activists; name lists from Theresienstadt; name lists of immigrants and candidates for immigration; and documentation of searches by relatives in Europe. Also includes ...

Examines the reactions of German Jewish intellectuals to spreading antisemitism during World War I, which jeopardized the already advanced integration of the Jewish middle class into Wilhelmine society. Pp. 174-194 discuss the radicalization of antisemitism, which was "völkisch"-oriented. Already in 1914, German Jews were accused of shirking their national duty and of unpatriotic attitudes. "Völkisch" ...

Documentation of the Main Office for Educators and of the Reich Administration of the National Socialist Teachers League (Hauptamt fuer Erzieher/National-Sozialistische Lehrerbund-NSLB), Germany, 1932-1942
 
 Hauptamt fuer Erzieher was a department in the NSDAP National Leadership while the NSLB was an organization under Party auspices, but not officially part of it;
 
 In 1934, ...

In postwar Germany, Allied personnel and displaced populations competed with local Germans for housing. Examining group interactions and conflicting interests in this competition sheds light on issues of responsibility and reconciliation in the occupied country. In the East, Germans quickly grasped the key political interests of the Soviet occupiers : inhospital landlords were denounced as 'Nazis', ...

"Sixty years after the end of World War II, the political and social fallout from the War is alive and divisive, as scholars in this volume show. One example is how former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine preveneted China, Japan and South Korea from sitting down together to talk about Northeast Asia integration, and wider Asian intergration, Another example is ...

Documentation of the Magistrates Court of Law in Ottweiler (Amtsgericht Ottweiler) in the Saar region, 1909-1940
 
 Included in the collection:
 
 Two files that deal with trials of Jews during the Nazi period;
 Files that include orders, in most part orders that were given after the annexation of the Saar region to Nazi Germany. The orders deal with the integration of the ...

Although Jewish participation in German society increased after World War I, Jews did not completely assimilate into that society. In fact, says Michael Brenner in this intriguing book, the Jewish population of Welmar Germany became more aware of its Jewishness and created new forms of German-Jewish culture in literature, music, fine arts, education, and scholarship. Brenner presents the first in-depth ...