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Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History 2016-10-09 02:00:00

 Michael A. Livingston is professor of Law at the Rutgers School of Law, Camden. His areas of research are tax law, comparative law, and law and the Holocaust. The Fascists and the Jews of Italy. Mussolini’s Race Laws, 1938-1943 has been p…

Issue 8 | Reviews – La vie juive ? Berlin apr?s 1945

In Berlin, the modern era for the Jews started in 1671, when the great elector of Brandenburg, Friedrich Wilhelm, allowed fifty wealthy families from Vienna’s expelled Jewish community to settle in Berlin and the Margravate Brandenburg, in return…

Issue 8 | Reviews – Mediterranean Enlightenment. …

After the conquest of Pisa and Livorno, until then a small and unimportant fishing harbour, in the mid 16th century the Medici planned to establish Livorno, or Leghorn, as it is named in English, as a central Tuscan port by expanding its commerce and…

Issue 8 | Reviews – The Fascists and the Jews of Italy. Mussolini?s Race Laws, 1938-1943

 Michael A. Livingston is professor of Law at the Rutgers School of Law, Camden. His areas of research are tax law, comparative law, and law and the Holocaust. The Fascists and the Jews of Italy. Mussolini’s Race Laws, 1938-1943 has been p…

Issue 8 | Reviews – Between State and Synagogue The Secularization of Contemporary Israel

This volume represents an important contribution to the literature on the relationship between Church and State, focusing on the State of Israel, hence the reference to Synagogue in the title. The volume is divided in six chapters; the first two provid…

Issue 8 | Reviews – Pius XII and the Holocaust. Current State of Research

On March 8-9, 2009  Yad Vashem International Institute for Holocaust Research  and the Salesian Theological Institute of Saints Peter and Paul in Jerusalem convened an international workshop on the topic of the controversial attitude of Pope …

Issue 8 | Reviews – The Jewish Nobility of the Danubian Monarchy. …

Nobility, its development, structure and lifestyle have long been the focus of attention for many historians. In the same vein, the research on Jewish history, which has, until recently, targeted mostly the tragic period of the Second World War, is n…