"The article concisely and clearly traces the overall picture of the Jews’ status in Europe on the eve of World War I, the traumatic events that they experienced during that war, and the new and turbulent reality they confronted in its aftermath. Unlike earlier precedents when circumstances returned to their previous state once the violence stopped, postwar Europe found itself in a completely new political and social reality. The old Jewish communal structure and Jewish cultural and religious content were destroyed in Bolshevik Russia. In countries where nationality became the guiding principle, the Jews quickly...
"The 1935 autobiography of Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz, an Orthodox Jew whose lively recounting of his life in Tsarist Russia and his immigration to San Antonio, Texas, in 1910 captures turbulent changes in early twentieth-century Jewish history
In 1910, at the age of fifty-one, Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz made the bold decision to emigrate with his wife and four children from southeastern Ukraine in Tsarist Russia to begin a new life in Texas. In 1935, in his seventies, Gurwitz composed a retrospective autobiography, Memories of Two Generations, that recounts his personal story both of the rich history of the...
"This book is a transnational study of rural and anti-Semitic violence around the triple frontier between Austria-Hungary, Romania and Tsarist Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century. It focuses on the devastating Romanian peasant uprising in 1907 and traces the reverberations of the crisis across the triple frontier, analysing the fears, spectres and knee-jerk reactions it triggered in the borderlands of Austria-Hungary and Tsarist Russia. The uprising came close on the heels of the 1905-1907 social turmoil in Tsarist Russia, and brought into play the major issues that characterized social and...
"Kratka istorija antisemitizma u Evropi od 3. veka do 3. milenijuma, sa uvodnom studijom „Opšti uzroci antisemitizma“, Bernarda Lazara.
Najzagonetniji fenomen u posvemašnjoj ljudskoj istoriji izložen i objašnjen na esencijalan način. Korisno i dragoceno!" (from the book description)