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This article describes the very varied, and at times, surprising role of Jewish women in the Kraków Ghetto during World War Two.
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The study focuses on the period of theWar of the Austrian Succession at the beginning of the reign of Maria Theresa, when Prague, the capital of Bohemia, was conquered and occupied twice. It summarizes the present state of knowledge in the specialist literature on the fate of Prague Jews at this time and on their alleged collaboration with the enemy, which became a pretext for two pogroms in 1744 and for the expulsion of the Jews from the Bohemian lands. It explores in detail the contemporary Jewish and non-Jewish sources on these events and presents a previously unknown narrative-biographical source in the form of an eye-witness account (family megillah) by Joseph Kirschner Shohet (1717–1766), which describes the author’s fate and the tragic experience of the second pogrom in Prague on 26–27 November 1744. The study contains a full transcription of Kirschner’s scroll from the Hebrew original and a translation of most of its text.
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The article aims to analyse the policy of the Albanian quisling governments on 200 Albanian-Jewish residents and 2000 Jewish immigrants from Germany, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, ex-Yugoslavia during WWII. The study focuses on the treatment of Jews by the puppet governments under the Italian occupation of Albania (1939–1943); secondly, the policies enacted by the Albanian central and local authorities to protect Jewish lives under the German occupation and, thirdly, the reasons that explain the positive stance of Albanians towards Jews, as: hospitality, Besa (the sworn oath), religious tolerance, lack of anti-Semitism etc. Based on classical hermeneutics, archival research and bibliographical analysis, this article intends to analyse the policy of the Albanian quisling governments under the pressure of the German authorities and the reasons why they rejected the Nazi request to hand over the Jews, giving an important contribution to the rescue of the Jewish people from the racial persecution.
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This article contains a presentation of the history of confl ict and reconciliation inEurope between Christian Churches and Jewish communities in Europe. After a sorthistorical encounter, the author focuses on the reconciliation processes according tothe protestant and Catholic tradition, as well as in ecumenical circles.
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After the attack on Poland on September 1, 1939, Romania through the Crown Councilchose the path of neutrality to this conflict. However, he gave support to Polish refugees (dignitaries,civilians and military), thus assuming the risks and sacrifices in front of a friend in a difficult time.Among the 100,000 Polish refugees there were many Jews, some of them, about 300 were temporarilyin the Bacau area. The community here was involved in their material assistance, until the first part of1940, when they were moved to other locations or left for Palestine
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The article focuses on Borges’s texts on anti-semitism and on his story „The Secret Miracle“. Borges’s texts from the 1930s and 1940s, starting with the statement „I, the Jew“ (1934), go beyond the immediate reaction to the political situation in Argentina. Borges sees the Jewish tradition (including its hermeneutic method of the kabbalah) as embodiment of the principle of diversity, contrasting with the dangerous mentality of the admirers of nazism.
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Apor Péter: Forradalom a hátsó udvarban. Tömegerőszak, antiszemitizmus és politikai átalakulás a második világháború utáni Magyarországon 1945–1946 Bp., Jaffa Kiadó, 2021. 319.o., ill. Pelle János: Vérvád, hisztéria, népítélet „Zsidókérdés” Magyarországon 1945-ben és 1946-ban. Bp., Milton Friedman University Press, 2020. 223 o.
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BOOK Review: Jeffrey Veidlinger, In the Midst of Civilised Europe: The 1918-1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and the Onset of the Holocaust, Picador, london, 2021, 466 pp.
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