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Throughout the course of the Second World War, approximately 7,000 personnel serving with the defence forces of neutral southern Ireland abandoned their posts and absented themselves from duty. A large majority of these absentees successfully evaded capture by their authorities, crossing the border into Northern Ireland and arriving at British combined forces recruiting centres where they enlisted in the British army and the Royal Air Force. At the conclusion of the war, in August 1945, some 5,000 soldiers listed as 'absent without leave' were formally dismissed from the defence forces, deprived of all pension and gratuity rights, and legally prevented from obtaining any form of publicly remunerated employment for a 7-year period. This article investigates desertion from the Irish defence forces during the Second World War, producing fresh conclusions as to why it occurred on such a large scale.

This timely volume deals with Turkey's etatist policy and foreign relations in the early years after the fall of the Ottoman empire. It elucidates the symbiotic relationship between Turkey's internal developments and its international strategies, filling a gap in modern Turkish history by systematically researching an era which is practically untouched. The first part of the book examines the theory and politics of etatism, while the second part, on Turkish diplomacy of the interwar period, is especially important for diplomatic historians

Modernity, Judaism, and Jews: an overview -- Jewish law and the law of the state: the Jew as citizen -- Jewish texts through the eyes of a modern traditionalist: the ideology and interpretive approach of Samson Raphael Hirsch -- Toward an appreciation of the American legacy of Esriel Hildesheimer: the U.S. rabbinate of three Hildesheimer students -- Jewish education past and present: Israel Friedlaender re-visited -- Giving voice to "Torah-true" Judaism in the United States, 1922-1939: Leo Jung and the legacy of the Rabbinerseminar.