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Vladimir Nabokov modelled his moral and political values on those of his father, V. D. Nabokov, especially revering his defence of Russian Jewry. This paper attempts to clarify broad-brushstrokes accounts of V. D. Nabokov, demonstrating how his ambivalent approach to the 'Jewish Question' evolved as a result of his Russian liberalism. Using contemporary accounts and revisiting primary sources, this challenges the hagiographic legacy built by his son and critics. In turn, this allows for a more refined understanding of Vladimir Nabokov's literary engagement with the 'Jewish theme', his sacred relationship with his father, and the limitations of inherited liberalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper makes a specific attempt of locating Kanara in the Indo-Jewish historiography. It finds the need to distinguish between Kanara and Malabar as two distinct entities of south western India to achieve clarity while interpreting the nature of the cultural milieu, which the Jews encountered when they visited this multicultural complex in the twelfth-century. While accepting the role of Malabar in Jewish trade, this paper analyzes the role of Kanara in this enterprise. It will use the indigenous sources of Kanara apart from the Geniza records to prove this argument. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Strained relations between Scots and Jews during the First World War have largely been forgotten thanks in great part to post-war Jewish displays of patriotism combined with an oversight of wartime tension within the existing historiography. With few sources covering this issue, the Scottish press presents itself as a vital resource because of its heightened wartime readership and since it provided an outlet for both the host and Jewish communities to vent their respective frustrations. This article will survey a number of Scottish papers to show how the widespread anti-alien attitudes during the war affected the Jewish community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]