Saving the Forsaken: Religious Culture and the Rescue of Jews in Nazi Europe 0300100639, 9780300100631

Saving the Forsaken: Religious Culture and the Rescue of Jews in Nazi Europe 9780300130409

Does religion encourage altruism on behalf of those who do not belong? Are the very religious more likely to be altruist

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The Jews of Nazi Vienna, 1938-1945: Rescue and Destruction 9783319493589, 2017935028

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Saving Animals: Multispecies Ecologies of Rescue and Care 1517908116, 9781517908119

A fascinating and unprecedented ethnography of animal sanctuaries in the United States   In the past three decades, ani

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Jews and the American Religious Landscape 9780231541497

Jews and the American Religious Landscape explores major complementary facets of American Judaism and Jewish life throug

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Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe 2017039969, 9780385542517, 9780385542524, 0385542518

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD For more than a decade, a harsh Congressional immigration policy kept most Jew

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Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe 9780385542524, 2017040279, 9780385542517

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Culture Front: Representing Jews in Eastern Europe 9780812291032

Bringing together contributions by historians and literary scholars, Culture Front explores how Jews and their Slavic ne

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Altruistic Personality: Rescuers Of Jews In Nazi Europe 9781439105382, 0029238293, 9780029238295

Why, during the Holocaust, did some ordinary people risk their lives and the lives of their families to help others—even

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The Policies of Genocide: Jews and Soviet Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany 1138801429, 9781138801424

One of the darkest passages in German history is examined in this book (originally published in 1986) by five leading Ge

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Well Worth Saving: American Universities' Life-and-Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe 9780300249057

A harrowing account of the profoundly consequential decisions American universities made about refugee scholars from Naz

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