... organizations, and purchasing tools for artisan activity. It emphasizes how the work begun by JDC after the Second World War had an enormous impact on the development and education of Jewish youth. JDC education repatriation from the USSR Stankowski Albert yidishikeyt survival of Central Committee...

...This chapter explores magazines issued between September 1938 and September 1939, the year leading up to the outbreak of the Second World War. It is divided into two sections: the first examines Woman’s Weekly’s engagement with the possibility that Britain could soon be fighting...

...This chapter recalls the emergence and dissemination of academic and popular writing of Polish Jewish history by university-trained Jewish historians in interwar Poland, tracing the development of the field from its early beginnings in the nineteenth century to the outbreak of the Second World War...

...The Second World War still poses problems of understanding, representation and narration. This book proposes to examine how the war influenced the work of some of the glittering generation of writers and intellectuals who witnessed it at first hand. The book will argue that the war is often present...

...The ‘peaceful invasion’ of refugees and allies during the Second World War included significant numbers of ‘coloured’ colonials responding to the needs of the merchant marine, munitions factories and armed services. It became apparent that war-time accommodation, hospitality and recreation...

...This chapter focuses on New York. It considers the warping of historical perspective that follows 9/11 and the demise of the New York that hosted the various New York Schools. It suggests that this New York was ‘founded and terminated by acts of war’, book-ended by the Second World War and 9/11...

...This chapter describes the imperial ambitions, focusing on the complex links between British central and local government, the government of Australia, and voluntary societies in the period after the Second World War. It investigates the reasons behind the policy's origin and decline. The Council...

...This chapter, which explores the work of Pacifist Service Units (PSU) and its successor organisation, Family Service Units (FSU), in England during and immediately after the Second World War, investigates the close link that developed in many areas between FSU and the local Medical Officers...

...This chapter analyses the evolving place of the French Restaurant in London in the first half of the 20^th century, innovations and developments during the inter-war years and the paradoxes of dining out in London during the Second World War. It is divided into three sections: ‘Continuity...

...This chapter describes the reconstruction of Elder Dempster’s company structure and development after the Second World War. It states the company’s losses in terms of vessels and staff, and assesses the changes made in management and head office accommodation in order to allow Elder Dempster...

...This chapter evaluates when and how the outside world came to know about the Nazi genocide during the Second World War. In Sweden, there has been considerable public and private debate on this question centred on a document from August of 1942, known as the Vendel Report, which contains...

..., the First and Second World Wars—shattered Nałkowska’s world of learning and high culture. In a 1929 article she describes how her view of reality was changing: ‘Ever since I was a child, I’ve been surrounded by books. The adults around me talked about 180 scholarship.Our friends were scholars or writers. I...

... revolutionary and more social-democratic position and established itself as one of the principal parties on the ‘Jewish street’. It retained its basic programme of establishing ‘national-cultural’ autonomy for the Jews in Poland, once a democratic socialist state had been achieved. After the Second World War...

... players of the day, Artur Schnabel and Leonid Kreuzer. On his return to Poland in 1933, Szpilman formed a highly successful duo with the violinist Bronisław Gimpel, the basis, twenty-nine years later, of the Warsaw Piano Quintet. During the Second World War, Szpilman managed to continue practising his art...

... represented for the modern period and the Second World War. historiography Jezierski Andrzej population Jewish Anderstorfer Andreas Anselm Sigrun Battenberg J Friedrich blood libel Erb Rainer Lotter Friedrich Schroubek Georg R Andrzej Jezierski Polish history Jewish population territory Poland...

... reaches from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the Second World War, with a short conclusion bringing the volume up to the present. His theme is the ‘origin’ of antisemitism in South African culture, a culture self-consciously a ‘frontier society’ in which Jews formed a minority that came...

...This chapter reviews a book, entitled But Over Wisdom, Evil Can Never Triumph, dedicated to the thirty-six philosophers and students of philosophy who were murdered by the Nazis during the Second World War. The book has three parts. The first consists of remarks by eminent Polish...

...This chapter assesses Nechama Tec's book, Defiance: The Bielski Partisans, which introduces a new aspect to the history of the Holocaust period. The book details how several hundred men, women, and children in western Belorussia during the Second World War maintained a surviving...

...During the Second World War, members of the southern Protestant community occupied a curious position in neutral Ireland. The majority, including former unionists, were openly sympathetic to the Allied cause and many actively supported Britain's war effort, but there was also a broad consensus...

... than Poles during the Second World War and inflated the degree of Polish assistance to Jews. It also talks about educators in post-communist Poland that responded to the students by undertaking a significant expansion of Holocaust education. The chapter presents abundant evidence of the promising...