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Visibility, accountability and discourse as essential to democracy: the underlying theme of Alan Dershowitz's writing and teaching: I have been writing about the law and justice for half a century. My first published law review piece appeared in 1960 as a student note in the Yale Law Journal. (1) Since that time, I have published nearly thirty books and hundreds of articles covering a wide range of...; Tags: A14, American, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, David, God, Harvard College, History, Holocaust, INTRODUCTION, J., Jews, John, Justice, King, Paper, Paul, Politics, Power, Rules, Seattle Times Co., U.S. Supreme Court, Warner, Yale University; Research articles 2008-06-22
Books received.: AARON, DAVID H. Etched in Stone: The Emergence of the Decalogue. New York: T and T Clark, 2006. ACKERMAN, ROBERT, ed. Selected Letters of Sir J. G. Frazer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. AITKEN, JAMES K. AND EDWARD KESSLER, eds. Challenges in...; Tags: American, Berkeley, Cambridge University Press, Culture, David, Early, G., History, Holocaust, J., James, Jews, John, Judaism, L., Life, M., Medieval, Memory, Oxford University Press, Politics, Press, S., Science, Society, Stanford University, Trans, W.; Research articles 2007-09-22
Book notes.: American Jewish Life From the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture, by Paul Buhle. London: Verso, 2004. 304 pp. $25.00. ISBN 1-85984-598-3. This investigation of the formative Jewish influence upon the rise and development of American popular...; Tags: American, David, God, Hebrew, History, Holocaust, Jews, Judaism, Oxford University Press; Research articles 2006-09-22
Books received.(Bibliography): ABECASSIS, JACK I. Albert Cohen: Dissonant Voices. Parallax Re-Visions of Culture and Society. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. ABRAMSON, GLENDA, AND HILARY KILPATRICK, eds. Religious Perspectives in Modern Muslim and Jewish Literatures. Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures 8. London: Routledge,...; Tags: American, Berkeley, Brandeis University, Cambridge University Press, God, History, Holocaust, Jews, Oxford University Press, Politics, Princeton University, Syracuse University; Research articles 2006-09-22
Americanizing the Holocaust: the case of Jakob the Liar: Americanizing the Holocaust: The Case of Jakob the Liar by Pol O Dochartaigh This paper aims to investigate the cultural transformations that occurred in the process of converting Jurek Becker's 1969 novel Jakob der Lugner into the 1999 US film Jakob the Liar, directed by French director Peter Kassovitz....; Tags: American, American Media Inc., Americans, Becker, East, Frank, Holocaust, Jews, Peter, Russian, Soviet, Williams; Research articles 2006-04-01

After the Evil: Christianity and Judaism in the Shadow of the Holocaust.(Book Review): After the Evil: Christianity and Judaism in the Shadow of the Holocaust, by Richard Harries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 239 pp. $22.00. Richard Harries provides those engaged in Jewish-Christian dialogue with a valuable example of the complex ambiguities of that dialogue in ...; Tags: Evil, Holocaust, Judaism, Oxford University Press, SHADOW; Research articles 2005-06-22
Book Notes.: American Jewish Life The Body of Brooklyn, by David Lazar. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2003. 163 pp. $24.95. ISBN 0-87745-845-6. These essays offer a recollection of the author's Brooklyn upbringing in the 1960s and 1970s. His immigrant Jewish...; Tags: American, David, English, God, Hebrew, History, Holocaust, Jews, Judaism, Literature, Madison, Oxford University Press, Palestinian, Politics, Press, S., Smith, University of Wisconsin; Research articles 2004-09-22
Justice Matters: Legacies of the Holocaust and World War II.(Holocaust)(Brief Article)(Book Review): Justice Matters: Legacies of the Holocaust and World War II, by Mona Sue Weissmark. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 191 pp. $28.00. ISBN 0-19-515757-5. The author, herself the child of Holocaust survivors, organized a project in which children of Holocaust victims met face...; Tags: Holocaust, Oxford University Press; Research articles 2004-03-22
Imperfect justice: looted assets, slave labor, and the unfinished business of World War II: I want to tell you an improbable story about how fifty years after the end of World War II, long-forgotten victims of not only the greatest genocide in history, but of what we learned was also the greatest theft in history, finally achieved some belated, as I call it, imperfect...; Tags: Austrian, CARTER, Evidence, Hitler, Holocaust, Jews, Let, Swiss National Bank, Western; Research articles 2004-03-01
Reflections on The Abandonment of the Jews: a symposium: Lawrence Baron: I first became aware of David Wyman's research when I was writing an article about the response of the residents of Oswego, New York, to the internment of refugees, mostly European Jews, in the nearby abandoned Fort Ontario Army base from the Summer of 1944 until the...; Tags: American, American Media Inc., Americans, David, Holocaust, Jews, John, S.; Research articles 2003-09-22
"Liberated by the Yanks": the Holocaust as an American story in postwar news articles: During World War II, The Washington Post was essentially a local newspaper whose hometown just happened to be the nation's capital. Like most American newspapers, it did not send many reporters abroad, relying primarily on the wire services to keep its readers abreast of the war's progress. It ran front-page...; Tags: American, American Media Inc., Americans, Army, Holocaust, Jews, New York Times Co., Press, Times, Washington Post Co.; Research articles 2003-09-22
Post-World-War-II American Jewry and the confrontation with catastrophe: From the perspective of early-twenty-first-century American Jewish communal culture, few issues loom as large or carry as much valence in the performance of Jewish identity as the Holocaust, the horrific destruction of six million Jews at the hands of the Nazis and the obliteration of their communities. That cataclysmic event...; Tags: American, American Media Inc., Americans, Council, English, Eternal, Holocaust, Jews, Judaism, Klein, Life, Light, Peter, Prophet, Synagogue, West, Yiddish; Research articles 2003-09-01
"The comfortable concentration camp": the significance of Nazi imagery in Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique: In one of the most shocking passages of her 1963 feminist classic, The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan claimed that "the women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the...; Tags: American, American Media Inc., Americans, Fall, Holocaust, Jew, Jews, Life, Miriam, Robert, Smith; Research articles 2003-06-01
Plumbing the depths: Irish realism and the working class from Shaw to O'Casey: Early in 1899 the seedling Irish Socialist Republican Party held a public meeting to consider what had become a salient question. The minutes record that on 12 February Frederick Ryan 'delivered a lecture entitled "A Word on the Democratic Drama" in the course of which he dealt with and read...; Tags: Allen, Bernard, February Frederick Ryan, Fred, George, Holocaust, Ibsen, James, Moore, Oxford University Press, Shaw, Theatre, Union, W., William, Williams, Wilson; Research articles 2003-03-22
Beyond Auschwitz: Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought in America. (Book Reviews).(Book Review) (book review): Beyond Auschwitz: Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought in America, by Michael L. Morgan. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 265 PP. $24.95. Jewish thought has been in a state of crisis ever since the night of the Holocaust descended upon the world. Sorting through...; Tags: Beyond, Cohen, Holocaust, Jew, Jews, Morgan, Oxford University Press; Research articles 2003-03-22
Introduction: In the brief period since the publication, in March 2000, of part I of this "America and the Holocaust" theme issue of American Jewish History, six new books(1) and four film documentaries(2) pertaining to aspects of this topic have appeared. One of the books(3) received national news coverage; one of...; Tags: American, American Media Inc., Holocaust, Jews; Research articles 2001-03-01
The Rise and Fall of the Jewish/Left Alliance: An Historical and Political Analysis: The disproportionate historical contribution of Jews to the political Left has been well documented. Both as individual theorists and activists of the stature of Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Blum and Emma Goldman, and as organised mass labour movements in, for example, revolutionary Russia and early-mid twentieth century...; Tags: A., American, Australian, Cohen, D., E., East, Eastern, Fall, G., H., History, Holocaust, J., Jew, Jews, L., Life, M., N., Oxford University Press, P., Politics, S., Social, T., W., Western; Research articles 1999-12-01
Between a rock and a hard place: the legal and moral juxtaposition of Switzerland's bank secrecy laws as illustrated by the revelation of Nazi-era accounts: I. INTRODUCTION Switzerland's image of neutrality during World War II, a country surrounded by warring nations and yet heroically maintaining its own peaceful neutrality,(1) has served the Swiss well. Switzerland's official position of neutrality as well as its renowned tradition for absolute secrecy in banking have allowed this tiny...; Tags: Black, Holocaust, Jews, Swiss National Bank; Research articles 1998-09-22
Survivors' Lawyers Split On Strategy: Division emerges as last-minute talks with Swiss banks fail; states consider sanctions.: Survivors' Lawyers Split On Strategy: Division emerges as last-minute talks with Swiss banks fail; states consider sanctions. STEWART AIN Staff Writer Asimmering rift tore open this week between camps of lawyers representing Holocaust survivors and their heirs over how best to reach a settlement with Swiss banks. The break came...; Tags: Holocaust, Swiss National Bank; Research articles 1998-07-03
Handling the Swiss: Jewish Exponent 06-18-1998 Handling the Swiss ABRAHAM H. FOXMAN Special to the Jewish Exponent As the issue of Switzerland's behavior during and after World War II persists and is joined in public attention by the roles of insurance companies and...; Tags: Holocaust, Swiss National Bank; Research articles 1998-06-18