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A concise history of Nazi Germany by Bendersky, Joseph W., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…The origins and development of Nazism, 1919-1928 -- Weimar democracy in crisis -- The rise of Hitler and Nazism -- The historical roots of Nazi ideology -- Party structure, propaganda, and followers during the "early years of struggle" -- The seizure and consolidation of power, 1929-1934 -- Parliamentary paralysis and the Nazi breakthrough of 1930 -- Hitler's legal path to power -- The pseudolegal revolution -- The nazification of German society, 1934-1938 -- The total state versus the dual state and polycracy -- Political biology, culture, and society -- SS terror, anti-semitism, and resistance to nazification -- The rise and fall of the Nazi empire in Europe, 1933-1945 -- The fuhrer as statesman: ideology and foreign policy -- The fuhrer as warrior: victory and conquest -- From domination to retreat -- The Holocaust, resistance, and defeat -- The struggle for justice and historical memory -- From Nuremberg to vergangenheitsbewltigung -- The intractable Nazi legacy in film: propaganda and history.…”
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A concise history of Nazi Germany by Bendersky, Joseph W., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…The origins and development of Nazism, 1919-1928 -- Weimar democracy in crisis -- The rise of Hitler and Nazism -- The historical roots of Nazi ideology -- Party structure, propaganda, and followers during the "early years of struggle" -- The seizure and consolidation of power, 1929-1934 -- Parliamentary paralysis and the Nazi breakthrough of 1930 -- Hitler's legal path to power -- The pseudolegal revolution -- The nazification of German society, 1934-1938 -- The total state versus the dual state and polycracy -- Political biology, culture, and society -- SS terror, anti-semitism, and resistance to nazification -- The rise and fall of the Nazi empire in Europe, 1933-1945 -- The fuhrer as statesman: ideology and foreign policy -- The fuhrer as warrior: victory and conquest -- From domination to retreat -- The Holocaust, resistance, and defeat -- The struggle for justice and historical memory -- From Nuremberg to vergangenheitsbewltigung -- The intractable Nazi legacy in film: propaganda and history.…”
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Making Israel

Table of Contents: “…/ Moshe Lissak -- The future of the past in Israel: a sociology of knowledge approach / Uri Ram -- Israeli historiography and the ethnic problem / Yaron Tsur -- Dialectical versus unequivocal: Israeli historiography's treatment of the Yishuv and Zionist movement attitudes toward the Holocaust / Yechiam Weitz -- A Palestinian look at the new historians and post-Zionism in Israel / Mustafa Kabha.…”
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Making Israel

Table of Contents: “…/ Moshe Lissak -- The future of the past in Israel: a sociology of knowledge approach / Uri Ram -- Israeli historiography and the ethnic problem / Yaron Tsur -- Dialectical versus unequivocal: Israeli historiography's treatment of the Yishuv and Zionist movement attitudes toward the Holocaust / Yechiam Weitz -- A Palestinian look at the new historians and post-Zionism in Israel / Mustafa Kabha.…”
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Jewish Poland-Legends of Origin : Ethnopoetics and Legendary Chronicles / by Bar-Yitsḥaḳ, Ḥayah

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Ethnic Drag : Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany / by Sieg, Katrin, 1961-

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Ethnic Drag : Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany / by Sieg, Katrin, 1961-

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Jewish Poland-Legends of Origin : Ethnopoetics and Legendary Chronicles / by Bar-Yitsḥaḳ, Ḥayah

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Museum politics power plays at the exhibition / by Luke, Timothy W.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : museum exhibitions as powerplays -- Politics at the exhibition : aesthetics, history, and nationality in the culture wars of the 1990s -- Nuclear reactions : the (re)presentation of Hiroshima at the National Air and Space Museum -- Memorializing mass murder : the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Signs of empire/empires of sign : Daimyo culture in the District of Columbia -- Inventing the Southwest : the Fred Harvey Company and Native American art -- Museum pieces : politics and knowledge at the American Museum of Natural History -- The Missouri Botanical Garden : sharing knowledge about plants to preserve and enrich life -- Southwestern environments as hyperreality : the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum -- Superpower aircraft and aircrafting superpower : the Pima Air and Space Museum -- Strange attractor : the Tech Museum of Innovation -- Channeling the news stream : the full press of a free press at the Newseum -- Conclusion : piecing together knowledge and pulling apart power at the museum.…”
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Encounters of consequence Jewish philosophy in the twentieth century and beyond / by Oppenheim, Michael D., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…: two Jewish theologians confront the Holocaust (Emil Fackenheim and Arthur Cohen) -- Theology and community : the work of Emil Fackenheim -- Irving Greenberg : a Jewish dialectic of hope -- Feminist Jewish philosophy : a response.…”
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Encounters of consequence Jewish philosophy in the twentieth century and beyond / by Oppenheim, Michael D., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…: two Jewish theologians confront the Holocaust (Emil Fackenheim and Arthur Cohen) -- Theology and community : the work of Emil Fackenheim -- Irving Greenberg : a Jewish dialectic of hope -- Feminist Jewish philosophy : a response.…”
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Museum politics power plays at the exhibition / by Luke, Timothy W.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : museum exhibitions as powerplays -- Politics at the exhibition : aesthetics, history, and nationality in the culture wars of the 1990s -- Nuclear reactions : the (re)presentation of Hiroshima at the National Air and Space Museum -- Memorializing mass murder : the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Signs of empire/empires of sign : Daimyo culture in the District of Columbia -- Inventing the Southwest : the Fred Harvey Company and Native American art -- Museum pieces : politics and knowledge at the American Museum of Natural History -- The Missouri Botanical Garden : sharing knowledge about plants to preserve and enrich life -- Southwestern environments as hyperreality : the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum -- Superpower aircraft and aircrafting superpower : the Pima Air and Space Museum -- Strange attractor : the Tech Museum of Innovation -- Channeling the news stream : the full press of a free press at the Newseum -- Conclusion : piecing together knowledge and pulling apart power at the museum.…”
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Arendt and Adorno political and philosophical investigations /

Table of Contents: “…Bernstein -- From the critique of identity to plurality in politics : reconsidering Adorno and Arendt / Dana Villa -- Passion lost, passion regained : how Arendt's anthropology intersects with Adorno's theory of the subject / Dieter Thomä -- Grounding cosmopolitics : rethinking crimes against humanity and global political theory with Arendt and Adorno / Lars Rensmann -- Debating human rights, law and subjectivity : Arendt, Adorno and critical theory / Robert Fine -- Blindness and insight : the conceptual Jew in Adorno and Arendt's post-Holocaust reflections on the antisemitic question / Jonathan Judaken -- The paralysis of judgment : Arendt and Adorno on antisemitism and the modern condition / Julia Schulze Wessel and Lars Rensmann -- Pariahs against their will : Adorno's and Arendt's' reflections on the place of the intellectual / Dirk Auer -- Homeless philosophy : the exile of philosophy and the philosophy of exile in Arendt and Adorno / Samir Gandesha.…”
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Arendt and Adorno political and philosophical investigations /

Table of Contents: “…Bernstein -- From the critique of identity to plurality in politics : reconsidering Adorno and Arendt / Dana Villa -- Passion lost, passion regained : how Arendt's anthropology intersects with Adorno's theory of the subject / Dieter Thomä -- Grounding cosmopolitics : rethinking crimes against humanity and global political theory with Arendt and Adorno / Lars Rensmann -- Debating human rights, law and subjectivity : Arendt, Adorno and critical theory / Robert Fine -- Blindness and insight : the conceptual Jew in Adorno and Arendt's post-Holocaust reflections on the antisemitic question / Jonathan Judaken -- The paralysis of judgment : Arendt and Adorno on antisemitism and the modern condition / Julia Schulze Wessel and Lars Rensmann -- Pariahs against their will : Adorno's and Arendt's' reflections on the place of the intellectual / Dirk Auer -- Homeless philosophy : the exile of philosophy and the philosophy of exile in Arendt and Adorno / Samir Gandesha.…”
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Depth of field Stanley Kubrick, film, and the uses of history /

Table of Contents: “…Gehrke -- Pictures, plurality, and puns : a visual approach to Barry Lyndon / Bille Wickre -- Death by typewriter : Stanley Kubrick, the Holocaust, and The shining / Geoffrey Cocks -- Full-metal-jacketing, or masculinity in the making / Paula Willoquet-Maricondi -- In dreams begin responsibilities / Jonathan Rosenbaum -- Freud, Schnitzler, and Eyes wide shut / Peter Loewenberg -- Introducing sociology / Tim Kreider.…”
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Identity, heroism and religion in the lives of contemporary Jewish women / by Baumel-Schwartz, Judith Tydor, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Bridges between yesterday and tomorrow : the role of diaspora culture in the stories of fifth Aliyah heroines -- The rescue of Jewish girls and teenage young women to England and the USA during the Holocaust from the gendered perspective -- The identity of women in the Sheerit hapletah : personal and gendered identity as determinants in their rehabilitation, immigration and resettlement -- Teacher, tiller, soldier, spy : women's representation in Israeli military memorials -- Founding myths and heroic icons : reflections on the funerals of Theodor Herzl and Hannah Szenes -- The lives and deaths of female military casualties in Israel during the 1950s -- Female icons of the zionist movement : the making of a national heroine in Israel -- Pioneers, teachers, and mothers : ultra orthodox women among Sheerit Hapletah -- Reflections on the study of women status and identity in the religious zionist movement -- Frum surfing : orthodox Jewish women's internet forums as a historical and cultural phenomenon -- "It is our custom from der alter heim" : the role of orthodox Jewish women's internet forums in reinventing and transmitting historical and religious tradition -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Depth of field Stanley Kubrick, film, and the uses of history /

Table of Contents: “…Gehrke -- Pictures, plurality, and puns : a visual approach to Barry Lyndon / Bille Wickre -- Death by typewriter : Stanley Kubrick, the Holocaust, and The shining / Geoffrey Cocks -- Full-metal-jacketing, or masculinity in the making / Paula Willoquet-Maricondi -- In dreams begin responsibilities / Jonathan Rosenbaum -- Freud, Schnitzler, and Eyes wide shut / Peter Loewenberg -- Introducing sociology / Tim Kreider.…”
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Identity, heroism and religion in the lives of contemporary Jewish women / by Baumel-Schwartz, Judith Tydor, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Bridges between yesterday and tomorrow : the role of diaspora culture in the stories of fifth Aliyah heroines -- The rescue of Jewish girls and teenage young women to England and the USA during the Holocaust from the gendered perspective -- The identity of women in the Sheerit hapletah : personal and gendered identity as determinants in their rehabilitation, immigration and resettlement -- Teacher, tiller, soldier, spy : women's representation in Israeli military memorials -- Founding myths and heroic icons : reflections on the funerals of Theodor Herzl and Hannah Szenes -- The lives and deaths of female military casualties in Israel during the 1950s -- Female icons of the zionist movement : the making of a national heroine in Israel -- Pioneers, teachers, and mothers : ultra orthodox women among Sheerit Hapletah -- Reflections on the study of women status and identity in the religious zionist movement -- Frum surfing : orthodox Jewish women's internet forums as a historical and cultural phenomenon -- "It is our custom from der alter heim" : the role of orthodox Jewish women's internet forums in reinventing and transmitting historical and religious tradition -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Cinema's alchemist the films of Péter Forgács /

Table of Contents: “…Péter Forgács: an interview / Scott MacDonald -- The memory of loss: Péter Forgács' Saga of family life and social hell / Péter Forgacs and Bill Nichols, in dialogue -- The Holocaust Films. Toward a new historiography: the aesthetics of temporality / Ernst van Alphen -- Ordinary film: The maelstrom / Michael S. …”
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Cinema's alchemist the films of Péter Forgács /

Table of Contents: “…Péter Forgács: an interview / Scott MacDonald -- The memory of loss: Péter Forgács' Saga of family life and social hell / Péter Forgacs and Bill Nichols, in dialogue -- The Holocaust Films. Toward a new historiography: the aesthetics of temporality / Ernst van Alphen -- Ordinary film: The maelstrom / Michael S. …”
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