[PDF] Guide To Jewish Europe eBook

Author : Ruth Ellen Gruber
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 29,89 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781426200465

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This expanded and updated edition includes new coverage of Austria, Ukraine, and Lithuania in addition to Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and all of the ancestral homes to the great majority of North American Jews.

Author : Eli Valley
Publisher : Jason Aronson
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 20,78 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780765760005

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The Great Jewish Cities of Central and Eastern Europe: A Travel Guide and Resource Book to Prague, Warsaw, Cracow, and Budapest is the most comprehensive guidebook covering all aspects of Jewish history and contemporary life in Prague, Warsaw, Cracow, and Budapest. This remarkable book includes detailed histories of the Jews in these cities, walking tours of Jewish districts past and present, intensive descriptions of Jewish sites, fascinating accounts of local Jewish legend and lore, and practical information for Jewish travelers to the region.

Author : Jean-Yves Camus
Publisher : Seuil
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 21,51 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN :

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This is a compact guide to the Jewish sights of western and eastern Europe, including Turkey and Russia, and covers everything from major collections of Jewish art to medieval Jewish ghettos, Holocaust memorials, synagogues, and cemeteries.

Author : Vivian Liska
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 36,90 MB
Release : 2007-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253000076

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With contributions from a dozen American and European scholars, this volume presents an overview of Jewish writing in post--World War II Europe. Striking a balance between close readings of individual texts and general surveys of larger movements and underlying themes, the essays portray Jewish authors across Europe as writers and intellectuals of multiple affiliations and hybrid identities. Aimed at a general readership and guided by the idea of constructing bridges across national cultures, this book maps for English-speaking readers the productivity and diversity of Jewish writers and writing that has marked a revitalization of Jewish culture in France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Hungary, Poland, and Russia.

Author : Billie Ann Lopez
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 14,68 MB
Release : 1998-04-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781455613311

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"Strongly recommended for people interested in history who would also like to go on a journey of discovery."-Katholische Nachrichten-Agentur According to the Talmud, the doors of return are always open, and the restored and preserved synagogues, cemeteries, and mikvehs in Germany await visitors-both Jew and Gentile-with wide open doors. This important work, complete with full-color photographs, describes significant sites mentioned in no other guidebook. With more Jewish historical points of interest than any country outside of Israel, Germany contains not only the relics of the past but also the origins of rituals and traditions that continue to the present day. Anyone researching family names, the Yiddish language, or Ashkenazi traditions may find their beginnings here. Germany offers many noteworthy Jewish sites, somber and sacred, even for those not interested in scholarly or personal investigation. In the Jewish cemetery on Ilandskoppel in Hamburg is a memorial to the Nazis' victims that includes an urn from Auschwitz. In Augsburg remains what is probably the only surviving German Jugendstil synagogue. A museum located in the synagogue complex contains a rich collection of ritual and secular objects from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Whether travelers are searching for history, religion, or their roots, they will not be disappointed by the countless discoveries to be made with this key to the doors of Jewish Germany.