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 ...

"Ce livre met en lumière de façon saisissante les liens étroits qui ont existes, tout au long des siècles, entre les souverains marocains et la communauté juive peuplant le pays. Les rois de la dynastie alaouite ont constamment protégé leurs sujets juifs, quels que soient les événements politiques, et même dans les heures les plus sombres. Ainsi, Mohammed V, auquel les Juifs marocains vouent ...

This thesis explores the postwar reintegration strategies of young women who had forcibly become affiliated with one of the fighting factions during the ten years of civil war in Sierra Leone. Instead of conceptualizing reintegration as the result of policies, the author defines it as the dynamic process that revolves around the (re- )establishment of relations between the individual and social networks. ...

This article explores how 'European civilization' was imagined on the margins of Europe in the first half of the twentieth century, and how Balkan intellectuals saw their own societies' place in it in the context of interwar crises and World War II occupation. It traces the interwar development and wartime transformation of the intellectual debates regarding the modernization of Serbia/Yugoslavia, ...

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"In this volume, contributors present narratives and explore the way they influence the perception of the past. While acknowledging the debate about the validity of qualitative research based on narratives, this volume aims to illuminate how truth and evidence form part of a much wider debate on the representation of history. The volume includes the work of historians but the interdisciplinary nature ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Aufgabenentwicklung: Bereits mit der ersten BReg. wurde ein Bundesministerium für Arbeit (BMA) geschaffen, nachdem in Art. 74 GG das Arbeitsrecht einschließlich Betriebsverfassung, Arbeitsschutz, Arbeitsvermittlung, Sozialversicherung einschl. Arbeitslosenversicherung der konkurrierenden Gesetzgebung zugerechnet worden war. Ab Nov. 1957 wurde das Ministerium in BM für ...

The end of the Cold War has been characterized by a wave of violent civil wars that have produced unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe and suffering. Although mostly intra-state, these conflicts have spread across borders and threatened international peace and security. One of the worst affected regions is West Africa which has been home to some of Africa's most brutal and intractable conflicts for ...

"Germany's transition from Nazism to peaceful, if at times reluctant, integration into the western and Soviet spheres during the decade immediately following the Second World War is one of the most remarkable events of the twentieth century. Shattered relations between Germans and their wartime enemies and victims had rendered prospects for peaceful relations between these groups unimaginable, or a ...

"Just three days after the Wehrmacht launched Operation Barbarossa, the Central Committee of the Kazakh Communist Party convened its fifth plenary session in the Central Asian city of Almaty. Declaring a state of emergency in response to this "treacherous attack by German fascism," the plenum called on the local population to support the Soviet war effort. From 1941 to 1945, hundreds of thousands of ...

"Can we learn from history? More specifically, have we learned from the social history of Nazi Germany and its effects on people living today? In seeking answers to these questions the articles in this collection are concerned with unravelling and analysing the social framework of Nazism. Key to understanding that framework is the relationship between identity-formation, political culture and pedagogic ...

Between 1812, the year when Jews were granted civil rights by Prussia during its brief period of liberal reforms, and 1933 when the Nazis came to power, certain names - Moses, Mendel, Julius, and others - and surnames - such as Levy, Jakobson, and Goldschmidt - were considered characteristically Jewish, although many were carried by gentiles as well. Some aroused particular repugnance and figured prominently ...

"Focusing on the choices and actions of Jews during the Holocaust, 'Ordinary Jews' examines the different patterns of behavior of civilians targeted by mass violence. Relying on rich archival material and hundreds of survivors' testimonies, Evgeny Finkel presents a new framework for understanding the survival strategies in which Jews engaged: cooperation and collaboration, coping and compliance, evasion, ...

"Originating in 1891 in the port city of Surabaya, the Komedie Stamboel, or Istanbul-style theater, toured colonial Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia by rail and steamship. The company performed musical versions of the Arabian Nights and European fairy tales and operas such as Sleeping Beauty and Aida, as well as Indian and Persian romances, Southeast Asian chronicles, true crime stories, and political ...

La principale série nous concernant dans ce fonds est la « Série documentaire du service Droit de la Famille. Dossiers individuels des Changements de Nom ». Ces dossiers individuels, de taille variée, mentionnent l’ancien nom du demandeur, son nouveau nom lorsque accordé, ses motivations et la date de l’Arrêté Royal. Ces dossiers nous informent également sur le niveau d’intégration des demandeurs dans ...

"Why did Vietnam invade and occupy Cambodia in 1978? And why did it eventually change its approach, shifting from military confrontation to economic reform and reconciliation with China in the late 1980s? Drawing on rarely accessed archival documents, Kosal Path explores this major change in Vietnamese leaders' objectives and strategies. Unlike most studies, which attribute the invasion to political ...

Interwar fascism achieved sensational international reach through the appeal and circulation of a set of generic ideological norms and political practices. Therefore, models of analysis must accommodate alternative local interpretations, adaptations, and a wide range of varied outcomes in the process of its diverse local translations. In this article, I propose the new trans-disciplinary mobility paradigm ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Durch Erlass des Bundesministers für gesamtdeutsche Fragen vom 24. März 1952 wurde ein Forschungsbeirat für Fragen der Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands (FB) als unabhängige und überparteiliche Institution mit Sitz in Berlin gegründet mit der Aufgabe, die wirtschaftliche und soziale Lage und Entwicklung in der DDR zu beobachten und zu analysieren sowie die wirtschaftliche ...

The guns have fallen silent in the former Yugoslavia. But the Dayton truce has yet to become a lasting peace. Peace in the Balkans remain threatened not only by the possibility of a new war in Bosnia, but also by unresolved conflict in Kosova and Macedonia. At the end of the twentieth century, as at its beginning, the Balkans stand at a crossroads, facing the choice of being marginalized, or overcoming ...

The Ministry of the Interior was established in 1918, and drew on the official agenda of the former Austrian Governor's Office. Its jurisdiction included matters of the state administration, organization of state and self-government authorities, issues of citizenship, and emigration and state security forces. The office consisted of 18 departments and this pattern was maintained throughout its existence ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Archivische Bewertung und Bearbeitung Als gesicherte Erkenntnis gilt, daß in der Deutschen Kolonialgesellschaft ein Archiv eingerichtet war. Das in der Berliner Zentralstelle 1909 entstandene Kolonialwirtschaftliche Archiv verfügte bereits in seinem Gründungsjahr über Unterlagen von mehr als 600 kolonialen Unternehmungen. Der Zeitpunkt der Schriftgutübernahmen aus diesen ...

Analyzes the changing fortunes of the Reichsverband der nichtarischen Christen, founded in 1933 as the Reichsverband christlich-deutscher Staatsbürger nicht-arischer oder nicht rein arischer Abstammung, later forced to change its name to Paulus-Bund and then to Vereinigung 1937. The Gestapo, and Goebbels' appointee for the supervision of Jewish cultural activities, Hans Hinkel, who both controlled ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Mit der Aktenrückgabe aus dem Berlin Document Center im Sept./ Dez. 1962 ist die Sammlung Schumacher in Bundesarchiv nach Koblenz gelangt. Diese Sammlung war von einem deutschen Angestellten des BDC, Bruno Schumacher, in jahrelanger Arbeit zusammengetragen worden. Sie enthält Druckschriften sowie Akten, die den verschiedensten im BDC verwahrten Provenienz- und Sammelbeständen ...

A regional study on the impact of antisemitism in the 1930s-50s, and of the Holocaust, on the Jews of Alabama. The struggle against antisemitism and for integration of Jews in the "Deep South" was intertwined with the fight for civil rights for the black population. An upsurge of anti-Jewish feelings amongst the state's white population followed the Scottsboro case of 1931 and the Tuscaloosa case of ...