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This open-access book offers a critical appraisal, at the cross-section of theory and practice, of concepts of integration at work in education in diverse geopolitical settings. With chapters written by experts based in Cyprus, Ethiopia, Germany, Mexico, Pakistan, the UK and the USA, the book includes discussion of regions of conflict, post-conflict and also non-conflict societies in which a cultural hegemony has developed strategies to “integrate” groups perceived as “other”. The book challenges the idea of “integration” in education considering how it relates to inclusion and exclusion and considers the extent to which integration can be empirically studied or evaluated. By accommodating a diversity of voices and perspectives, the structure of this book critically questions the underlying hegemonic Global North-shaped assumptions that have informed the integration debate. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Georg Arnhold Program.

Two millennia ago, the Jewish priest-turned-general Flavius Josephus, captured by the emperor Vespasian in the middle of the Roman-Jewish War (66–70 CE), spent the last decades of his life in Rome writing several historiographical works in Greek. Josephus was eagerly read and used by Christian thinkers, but eventually his writings became the basis for the early-10th century Hebrew text called Sefer Yosippon, reintegrating Josephus into the Jewish tradition. This volume marks the first edited collection to be dedicated to the study of Josephus, Yosippon, and their reception histories. Consisting of critical inquiries into one or both of these texts and their afterlives, the essays in this volume pave the way for future research on the Josephan tradition in Greek, Latin, Hebrew and beyond.

With Hero, Conspiracy and Death: The Jewish Lectures, the author has written a book of sweeping significance for readers interested in Polish history, Jewish history, and the Holocaust in which she asks troubling questions: Can a Jew be both a Jew and a Pole? Are we right to talk of «worthy» and «unworthy» death in the Holocaust? What are the implications of Adam Mickiewicz’s philo-Semitism? In Zygmunt Krasiński’s anti-Semitism, do we see the «specter of elimination»? Are humanist and enlightenment values useful in analyzing the Holocaust, or did the experience of Nazi genocide render them obsolete? Tracing the history of anti-Jewish stereotypes in early nineteenth-century Poland (and beyond), the author offers answers to these questions that are bold, clear and compassionate.

The book explores how the entry of Jews into modern Viennese society functioned "as theater" and with theatrical means, developing a praxeology of Jewish belonging and difference. Four studies address Jewish experiences of Modernity between performing and observing, social exposition and anti-Semitic oppression as modes of the theatrical. Theater thus unfolds as a multi-layered cultural practice as well as a "play and mirror form of life" (Stefan Zweig)., Das Buch beforscht, wie der Eintritt von Juden*Jüdinnen in die moderne Gesellschaft Wiens »als Theater« und mit theatralen Mitteln stattfand und entwirft so eine Praxeologie jüdischer Zugehörigkeit und Differenz. In vier Studien werden jüdische Erfahrungen der Moderne zwischen Zeigen und Beobachten, sozialer Schau und antisemitischer Bedrängnis als Modi des Theatralen zum Thema. Theater zeigt sich so als vielschichtige kulturelle Praxis wie als »Spiel- und Spiegelform des Lebens« (Stefan Zweig).

Before the Second World War, individuals of Jewish origin played a disproportionate part in the labor movement, which was a central current in the struggles for emancipation. Especially in Eastern Europe, there were Jewish labor organizations that fought a double battle against the oppression of the proletariat and the Jews. This volume examines their areas of activity, the role of anti-Semitism, and changing self-perceptions.

Once Germany invaded Italy in September 1943, the Jews of Italy became part of the Final Solution. The author examines a brief but important phase of their history by looking at the fate of those Jews who were able save themselves in Switzerland. They became actively engaged in politics, education, and journalism while also providing support to the partisan struggle and to the Jews who remained in occupied Italy.

This book examines the talmudic writings, politics, and ideology of Y.I. Halevy (1847-1914), one of the most influential representatives of the pre-war Eastern European Orthodox Jewish community. It analyzes Halevy’s historical model of the formation of the Babylonian Talmud, which, he argued, was edited by an academy of rabbis. That model also served as a blueprint for the rabbinic council of Agudath Israel, the political movement he founded.

"Mendl Mann’s autobiographical novel The Fall of Berlin tells the painful yet compelling story of life as a Jewish soldier in the Red Army. Menakhem Isaacovich is a Polish Jew who, after fleeing the Nazis, finds refuge in the USSR. Translated into English from the original Yiddish by Maurice Wolfthal, the narrative follows Menakhem as he fights on the front line in Stalin’s Red Army against Hitler and the Nazis who are destroying his homeland of Poland and exterminating the Jews. Menakhem encounters anti-Semitism on various occasions throughout the novel, and struggles to comprehend how seemingly normal people could hold such appalling views. As Mann writes, it is odd that ""vicious, insidious anti-Semitism could reside in a person with elevated feelings, an average person, a decent person”. The Fall of Berlin is both a striking and timelylook at the struggle that many Jewish soldiers faced. An affecting and unique book, which eloquently explores a variety of themes – such as anti-Semitism, patriotism, Stalinism and life as a Jewish soldier in the Second World War – this is essential reading for anyone interested in the Yiddish language, Jewish history, and the history of World War II. "

Considered the first specimen of a theoretical literature on Jewish political economy, the Discourse is much more. Initially conceived as an apology for the Jewish community of Venice, it is actually replete with sceptical ideas.This volume will essentially aim at refreshing the approach to this work by highlighting and analysing its sceptical background and implications, especially as far as it involves the realm of politics and fashions a sceptical political appraisal of the Jewish people.

The third volume of the "Hamburger Historische Forschungen" (Hamburg Historical Studies) deals with the so far hardly known history of a house in the Grindelviertel in Hamburg. Today it is home to the Catholic student dormitory Franziskus-Kolleg. In the late 19th century it was a Jewish dormitory for elderly people in need. The history of this Jewish old people's home is described for the first time in this well-founded study from its foundat ion until the turn of the century. It thus contributes to the study of the diverse Jewish life in Hamburg.

"Newly arrived in New York in 1882 from Tsarist Russia, the sixteen-year-old Bernard Weinstein discovered an America in which unionism, socialism, and anarchism were very much in the air. He found a home in the tenements of New York and for the next fifty years he devoted his life to the struggles of fellow Jewish workers. The Jewish Unions in America blends memoir and history to chronicle this time. It describes how Weinstein led countless strikes, held the unions together in the face of retaliation from the bosses, investigated sweatshops and factories with the aid of reformers, and faced down schisms by various factions, including Anarchists and Communists. He co-founded the United Hebrew Trades and wrote speeches, articles and books advancing the cause of the labor movement. From the pages of this book emerges a vivid picture of workers’ organizations at the beginning of the twentieth century and a capitalist system that bred exploitation, poverty, and inequality. Although workers’ rights have made great progress in the decades since, Weinstein’s descriptions of workers with jobs pitted against those without, and American workers against workers abroad, still carry echoes today. The Jewish Unions in America is a testament to the struggles of working people a hundred years ago. But it is also a reminder that workers must still battle to live decent lives in the free market. For the first time, Maurice Wolfthal’s readable translation makes Weinstein’s Yiddish text available to English readers. It is essential reading for students and scholars of labor history, Jewish history, and the history of American immigration."

Born into a prominent German Jewish banking family, Baron Max von Oppenheim (1860-1946) was a keen amateur archaeologist and ethnologist. His discovery and excavation of Tell Halaf in Syria marked an important contribution to knowledge of the ancient Middle East, while his massive study of the Bedouins is still consulted by scholars today. He was also an ardent German patriot, eager to support his country's pursuit of its "place in the sun". Excluded by his part-Jewish ancestry from the regular diplomatic service, Oppenheim earned a reputation as "the Kaiser's spy" because of his intriguing against the British in Cairo, as well as his plan, at the start of the First World War, to incite Muslims under British, French and Russian rule to a jihad against the colonial powers. After 1933, despite being half-Jewish according to the Nuremberg Laws, Oppenheim was not persecuted by the Nazis. In fact, he placed his knowledge of the Middle East and his connections with Muslim leaders at the service of the regime. Ranging widely over many fields—from war studies to archaeology and banking history—The Passion of Max von Oppenheim tells the gripping and at times unsettling story of one part-Jewish man's passion for his country in the face of persistent and, in his later years, genocidal anti-Semitism.

This first bilingual edition and analysis of the earliest Shakespeare plays translated into Hebrew – Isaac Edward Salkinson’s Ithiel the Cushite of Venice (Othello) and Ram and Jael (Romeo and Juliet) – offers a fascinating and unique perspective on global Shakespeare. Differing significantly from the original English, the translations are replete with biblical, rabbinic, and medieval Hebrew textual references and reflect a profoundly Jewish religious and cultural setting. The volume includes the full text of the two Hebrew plays alongside a complete English back-translation with a commentary examining the rich array of Hebrew sources and Jewish allusions that Salkinson incorporates into his work. The edition is complemented by an introduction to the history of Jewish Shakespeare reception in Central and Eastern Europe; a survey of Salkinson’s biography including discussion of his unusual status as a Jewish convert to Christianity; and an overview of his translation strategies. The book makes Salkinson’s pioneering work accessible to a wide audience, and will appeal to anyone with an interest in multicultural Shakespeare, translation studies, the development of Modern Hebrew literature, and European Jewish history and culture.

Brigitte Spreitzer makes Anna Freud’s literary texts fully accessible in this book for the first time. The detailed preface contextualises Anna Freud’s literary texts as paradigmatic sources, which are documenting the engagement of a young Austrian Jewish middle class woman with socio-historical and cultural conditions in Fin de siècle Vienna., Die Herausgeberin Brigitte Spreitzer macht die literarischen Texte von Sigmund Freuds jüngster Tochter Anna Freud zum ersten Mal vollständig zugänglich und liest sie in der Einführung zur Edition als paradigmatische Dokumente der Aus-einandersetzung einer jungen Frau aus dem assimilierten jüdischen Bürgertum mit den sozi¬alhistorischen und kulturellen Bedingungen im Wien der Jahrhundertwende. Damit werden sie als Teil eines historischen Prozesses begreifbar gemacht, der durch das Ringen von Frauen um Zutritt zu Kultur, Bildung und Wissen gekennzeichnet ist. So werden Verbindungslinien von Psychoanalyse, Konstruktionen von Weiblichkeit und individuellem Frau¬enleben nachvollziehbar.

Between the years 1550 and 1650, Italy's Jewish intellectuals created a unique and enduring synthesis of the great literary and philosophical heritage of the Andalusian Jews and the Renaissance`s renewal of perspective. While remaining faithful to the beliefs, behaviors, and language of their tradition, Italian Jews proved themselves open to a rapidly evolving world of great richness. The crisis of Aristotelianism (which progressively touched upon all fields of knowledge), religious fractures and unrest, the scientific revolution, and the new perception of reality expressed through a transformation of the visual arts: these are some of the changes experienced by Italian Jews which they were affected by in their own particular way. This book explores the complex relations between Jews and the world that surrounded them during a critical period of European civilization. The relations were rich, problematic, and in some cases strained, alternating between opposition and dialogue.

With a particular focus on vaudeville singers and artists, this book examines the role that Viennese Jews played in the city’s rich popular culture around 1900. Through a series of extensively researched case studies, it shows that—notwithstanding the real phenomenon of antisemitism in Viennese culture--there was substantial and diverse cooperation between Jews and Gentiles, and that their private relations were also very close. The many and diverse contacts and linkages between these two populations in popular culture powerfully shaped both the experience and the popular understanding of Jewish identity.

The still existing source material on the history of the Jews in Austria in the Middle Ages is unique in Europe. The huge number of sources give information on the economic, legal, and personal situation of the Jews as well as on the relationship between Christians and Jews. Yet so far, the medieval sources of the history of the Jews throughout today's Austria had not been collected. In the course of the project "Summary and Comments on Documents concerning the History of the Jews in Austria in the Middle Ages" the first volume of this source material which reaches from the beginnings until 1338 has now been finished. According to the selection criteria which include a reference to Jews and Austria, documents as well as historiography and literary sources have been collected and processed according to scientific criteria; the material contains a number of texts which have not been published at all or treated with regard to the Jewish aspect yet. The publication consists of a chronological series of document summaries; additionally, by means of comments which are added to the relevant document as well as an extensive index, the source text has been made accessible to the reader. The vast majority of the collection consists of diplomas concerning economic topics, followed by privileges, legal charters, and mandates. Among the economic sources, promissory notes and documents concerning pledges or sales are the most frequent types which clearly illustrates how Jews were forced into the money business. Due to its unique topic, this collection includes not only diplomas, but other types of sources as well, such as historiographic and literary texts. Although belonging to another category of sources, they provide information which is essential for a complete overview over the history of Jews in medieval Austria. This volume is the basis for a publication series which for the first time makes the unique source material on the history of the Jews in Austria in the Middle Ages accessible in a compiled way ., Das überlieferte Quellenmaterial zur Geschichte der Juden in Österreich im Mittelalter ist in Europa einmalig. Die zahlreichen Quellen geben Aufschluß über die wirtschaftliche, rechtliche und persönliche Situation der Juden sowie über den Umgang der christlichen Umwelt mit ihnen. Eine Sammlung der mittelalterlicher Quellen zur Geschichte der Juden im gesamten Gebiet des heutigen Österreich existierte bisher jedoch nicht. Im Rahmen des Projektes "Regesten zur Geschichte der Juden in Österreich im Mittelalter" wurde nun der erste Band dieser Quellen, der von den Anfängen bis 1338 reicht, abgeschlossen. Nach dem Auswahlkriterium des Juden- und Österreichbezugs wurden urkundliche, historiographische und literarische Quellen gesammelt und nach wissenschaftlichen Kriterien aufbereitet, wobei sich unter dem Material zahlreiche unpublizierte oder bislang nicht unter dem Aspekt des Judenbezuges behandelte Texte befinden. Die Publikation erfolgt in Form von chronologisch gereihten Regesten; durch Kommentare, die dem jeweiligen Stück angeschlossen sind, sowie durch einen umfassenden Index wurden die Quellentexte zusätzlich erschlossen. Urkunden mit wirtschaftlichem Inhalt bilden den mit Abstand größten Teil der Sammlung, gefolgt von Privilegien, Rechtsverbriefungen und Mandaten. An der Spitze stehen zahlenmäßig die Schuldbriefe und Pfandurkunden sowie Verkaufsurkunden, was sehr deutlich die Abdrängung der Juden ins Geldgeschäft demonstriert. Da diese Quellensammlung aufgrund ihrer thematischen Einzigartigkeit einen möglichst breiten Überblick bieten soll, wurden neben den Urkunden auch historiographische und literarische Überlieferungen aufgenommen, die zwar einer anderen Quellengattung angehören, aber Informationen bieten, die für einen historischen Gesamtüberblick über die Geschichte der Juden im mittelalterlichen Österreich unerläßlich sind. Mit diesem Band wird der Grundstein für eine Publikationsreihe gelegt, die das Quellenmaterial zur Geschichte der Juden in Österreich im Mittelalter gesammelt zugänglich macht.

A remarkably high number of medieval sources on the history of Jews can be found in Austria. This huge amount of sources provides information on the economic, legal and personal situation of the Jews as well as on the interactions between Christians and Jews. Therefore, the Institute for Jewish History in Austria has engaged in preparatory work to publish this source material. In the course of the FWF project P 15638, the first volume of these sources (from the beginnings until 1338) was published by Eveline Brugger and Birgit Wiedl, and research for the second volume was begun. In the course of the follow-up project "Documents on Jewish History in Austria 1339-1365", this research was completed and the volume prepared for publication. Charters as well as historiographic and literary sources containing references to both Jews and Austria were collected and processed according to scientific criteria. This material includes a considerable number of texts which have not been published at all or treated with regard to the Jewish aspect yet. Research was carried out in archives both in Austria and abroad; furthermore, previously published material was also collected. The resulting manuscript consists of a chronological series of 682 document summaries. The apparatus includes information about the form the text was preserved in (original, copies), former publications in printing (full text or summaries) or online as well as the literature that is relevant to the respective document. Additionally, an extensive index as well as a scientific commentary were added to the relevant document to make the source texts accessible to the reader. Given the volume's topic, the Jews mentioned in the source text were the main focus of these commentaries. The sources which were collected and processed in preparation of the second volume cover a critical period of time for the Austrian Jews. It is of crucial importance that any comprehensive study of this period is based on the entirety of the source material, which is now readily available in the finished volume. Both the consequences of the Pulkau persecution of 1338, which wiped out a number of smaller Jewish settlements, and the impact which the plague had on the Austrian Jews are reflected in these sources. Besides, these sources allow a more detailed analysis of the policies which the dukes Albrecht II and Rudolf IV pursued towards the Jews, which in turn provides insights into the legal, social and economic situation of the Austrian Jews during this period., Österreich besitzt eine bemerkenswert reichhaltige Überlieferung an Quellen zur Geschichte der Juden im Mittelalter. Die zahlreichen Quellen geben Aufschluss über die wirtschaftliche, rechtliche und persönliche Situation der Juden sowie über die Interaktionen mit der christlichen Umwelt. Aus diesem Grund wurde am Institut für jüdische Geschichte Österreich eine Publikation dieses umfangreichen Quellenmaterials in Regestenform in Angriff genommen. Im Zuge des FWF-Projekts P 15638 wurde der erste Band dieser Regesten, der von den Anfängen bis 1338 reicht, von Eveline Brugger und Birgit Wiedl publiziert und mit den Vorarbeiten für den zweiten Band begonnen. Im Rahmen des Nachfolgeprojektes "Regesten zur Geschichte der Juden in Österreich 1339-1365" wurde dieser zweite Band fertiggestellt und nach Abschluss des Projekts zur Druckkostenförderung eingereicht. Nach dem Auswahlkriterium des Juden- und Österreichbezugs wurden urkundliche, historiographische und literarische Quellen gesammelt und nach wissenschaftlichen Kriterien aufbereitet, wobei sich unter dem Material zahlreiche unpublizierte oder bislang nicht unter dem Aspekt des Judenbezuges behandelte Texte befinden. Die Sammlungstätigkeit erstreckte sich auf Archive im In- und Ausland sowie die Erfassung des bereits an anderer Stelle publizierten Materials. Die Bearbeitung erfolgte in Form von 682 chronologisch gereihten Regesten. Der Apparat enthält die Angaben zur Überlieferungslage des Textes (Original, Kopien), frühere Publikationen in Druckwerken (Vollabdrucke, Regesten) oder im Internet sowie die zu dem Stück vorhandene Literatur. Durch wissenschaftliche Kommentare, die dem jeweiligen Stück beigegeben wurden, sowie durch einen umfassenden Index wurden die Quellentexte auch inhaltlich erschlossen, wobei der Schwerpunkt der Kommentierung dem Thema entsprechend auf die in den Texten erwähnten Juden gelegt wurde. Die im Rahmen des zweiten Bandes aufgearbeiteten Quellen decken einen für die Geschichte der Juden in Österreich kritischen Zeitraum ab, für dessen genauere Erforschung die Heranziehung der gesamten, durch diesen Band nun gesammelt vorliegenden Quellenbasis von entscheidender Bedeutung ist. Die Quellen lassen die Folgen der 1338 von Pulkau ausgehenden Verfolgungswelle, die eine Reihe kleinerer jüdischer Ansiedlungen völlig zum Verschwinden brachte, ebenso erkennen wie die Auswirkungen, die die Pestzeit auf die österreichischen Juden hatte. Dazu ergeben diese Quellen ein genaueres Bild der Judenpolitik der Herzöge Albrecht II. und Rudolf IV. und erlauben Rückschlüsse auf die rechtliche, soziale und wirtschaftliche Situation der österreichischen Juden in diesem Zeitraum.

This book examines the forced labor of Jews in the General Government of Occupied Poland from 1939-1943. Specifically, it traces the bureaucratic understanding and use the terms "labor" and "work" in the General Government; it also examines how these terms figured in the lives of Jews, for whom "labor"''s original understanding as a means of subsistence came to be redefined as a means of survival. The changing meaning of other key terms are examined in detail; these include, among others, "forced labor" (Zwangsarbeit), "slave labor" (Sklavenarbeit). The volume carefully analyzes the modus operandi of the Nazi system of power, in which bureaucracy ballooned, there were conflicts of interest between different institutions, and there was a total destruction of human and moral values, which led to extensive degeneration.

This is a groundbreaking study of an important and neglected topic—the systematic use of rape as a strategic weapon of the genocidal anti-Jewish violence, known collectively as pogroms, that erupted in Ukraine in the period between 1917 and 1921, and in which at least 100,000 Jews died and undocumented numbers of Jewish women were raped. The book is based on the in-depth study of the scores of narratives of Jewish men and women who survived the pogrom violence, but were then all but forgotten for almost a century. This book deconstructs the motives of perpetrators, the experience and expression of trauma by the victimized community, and how the genocidal objectives of the pogrom perpetrators were achieved and maximized through the macabre carnival of violence.