International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War write by Jaclyn Granick. This book was released on 2021-06-17. International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1914, seven million Jews across Eastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean were caught in the crossfire of warring empires in a disaster of stupendous, unprecedented proportions. In response, American Jews developed a new model of humanitarian relief for their suffering brethren abroad, wandering into American foreign policy as they navigated a wartime political landscape. The effort continued into peacetime, touching every interwar Jewish community in these troubled regions through long-term refugee, child welfare, public health, and poverty alleviation projects. Against the backdrop of war, revolution, and reconstruction, this is the story of American Jews who went abroad in solidarity to rescue and rebuild Jewish lives in Jewish homelands. As they constructed a new form of humanitarianism and re-drew the map of modern philanthropy, they rebuilt the Jewish Diaspora itself in the image of the modern social welfare state.
Religious Humanitarianism during the World Wars, 1914–1945
Religious Humanitarianism during the World Wars, 1914–1945 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religious Humanitarianism during the World Wars, 1914–1945 write by Patrick J. Houlihan. This book was released on 2024-06-30. Religious Humanitarianism during the World Wars, 1914–1945 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The history of modern war has focused on destruction; however, practices of saving lives and rebuilding societies have received far less scrutiny. The world wars reconfigured geopolitics on a sacred-secular spectrum dominated by the USA and the USSR. In these events, the motivations of humanitarian actors are disputed as either secular or religious, evoking approval or censure. Although modern global humanitarianism emerged during the world wars, it is often studied in a Euro-centric framework that does not engage the conflicts' globality. The effects of humanitarianism during the Second World War look toward the post-1945 era with not enough reflection on the pre-1945 history of humanitarianism. Thus, what is needed is a critical history beyond moralizing, bringing synchronic and diachronic expansion to study questions of continuity and change. A global history of religious humanitarianism during both world wars places faith-based humanitarianism on a spectrum of belief and unbelief.
Humanitarianism and the Greater War, 1914–24
Humanitarianism and the Greater War, 1914–24 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Humanitarianism and the Greater War, 1914–24 write by Elisabeth Piller. This book was released on 2023-10-17. Humanitarianism and the Greater War, 1914–24 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides fresh perspectives on a key period in the history of humanitarianism. Drawing on economic, cultural, social and diplomatic perspectives, it explores the scale and meaning of humanitarianism in the era of the Great War. Foregrounding the local and global dimensions of the humanitarian responses, it interrogates the entanglement of humanitarian and political interests and uncovers the motivations and agency of aid donors, relief workers and recipients. The chapters probe the limits of humanitarian engagement in a period of unprecedented violence and suffering and evaluate its long-term impact on humanitarian action.
The Oxford Handbook of the Jewish Diaspora
The Oxford Handbook of the Jewish Diaspora - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of the Jewish Diaspora write by Hasia R. Diner. This book was released on 2021. The Oxford Handbook of the Jewish Diaspora available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The reality of diaspora has shaped Jewish history, its demography, its economic relationships, and the politics which that impacted the lives of Jews with each other and with the non-Jews among whom they lived. Jews have moved around the globe since the beginning of their history, maintaining relationships with their former Jewish neighbors, who had chosen other destinations and at the same time forging relationships in their new homes with Jews from widely different places of origin"--
Intersections between Jewish Studies and Habsburg Studies
Intersections between Jewish Studies and Habsburg Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Intersections between Jewish Studies and Habsburg Studies write by Tim Corbett. This book was released on 2024-03-22. Intersections between Jewish Studies and Habsburg Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the aftermath of the Shoah and the ostensible triumph of nationalism, it became common in historiography to relegate Jews to the position of the “eternal other” in a series of binaries: Christian/Jewish, Gentile/Jewish, European/Jewish, non-Jewish/Jewish, and so forth. For the longest time, these binaries remained characteristic of Jewish historiography, including in the Central European context. Assuming instead, as the more recent approaches in Habsburg studies do, that pluriculturalism was the basis of common experience in formerly Habsburg Central Europe, and accepting that no single “majority culture” existed, but rather hegemonies were imposed in certain contexts, then the often used binaries are misleading and conceal the complex and sometimes even paradoxical conditions that shaped Jewish life in the region before the Shoah. The very complexity of Habsburg Central Europe both in synchronic and diachronic perspective precludes any singular historical narrative of “Habsburg Jewry,” and it is not the intention of this volume to offer an overview of “Habsburg Jewish history.” The selected articles in this volume illustrate instead how important it is to reevaluate categories, deconstruct historical narratives, and reconceptualize implemented approaches in specific geographic, temporal, and cultural contexts in order to gain a better understanding of the complex and pluricultural history of the Habsburg Empire and the region as a whole.
