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This is a major, unprecedented study of the Soviet partisan movements' intelligence activity in 1941-1945, and its impact on the outcome of the war between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. It contributes significantly to the understanding of the Soviet intelligence culture and practice during WWII, as well as to the study of the Holocaust, which is provided with clear, well-documented evidence of the Soviet leadership's knowledge about the extermination of the local Jews by the Nazis and their supporters

"The present volume is an attempt to discover the secret charm of victimhood and highlight the price that Israeli society pays for the increasingly prominent role of the discourse of victimization in the shaping of Israeli identity." -- from abstract

Mesopotamian and biblical societies in antiquity were characterized by their patriarchal structure. The father was head of the family unit, and his rule extended over many areas of life. He had broad legal authority over the members of his household, including his offspring. It is therefore expected that in the ancient sources a dominant father figure would be mentioned alone or almost alone. And yet, in Mesopotamian and biblical texts, particularly legal writings, the exclusivity of the father is not always explicit. In many of the Mesopotamian and biblical writings, especially legal texts, the mother is mentioned in various contexts and in a range of realms, mainly those pertaining to her offspring. This intriguing phenomenon raised the question whether the mother in the ancient Near East and ancient Israel had legal authority in the household. The book The Legal Status of the Mother in the Ancient Near East and the Bible sheds light on the world of the ancient mothers and their status within the households and the societies in which they lived. This study demonstrates that the mother acted by virtue of the legal status she possessed in matters related to her sons and daughters' marriages and their behavior towards her. This book is for those walking in the fields of Mesopotamian and biblical research, and for readers interested in the universal subject in question - the relations between the mother and her offspring

The philosophy of Levinas has developed over nearly sixty years. Its evolution can be subdivided into three main stages: Following the pre-war writings, the period 1945-1961 lead to the book Totalité et Infini, in which the ethical thought of Levinas takes a first accomplished form. During the last stage, whose central opus is Autrement qu'être (Otherwise than Being), his thought both radicalized and opened up to multiple horizons. Indeed, Levinas is not merely an academic philosopher ignorant of other movements of thought that mark his century. This book aims to show how the stages of Levinas's strictly philosophical thought is expressed with regard to politics, Judaism, and Christianity

The subjects of this volume are views and perceptions of the 'other' (i.e. strangers, enemies or curiosities) within the Islamic world, as well as in the interplay between the Islamic and non-Islamic worlds. More than 20 contributions describe conceptions and contingencies of the other from very different perspectives, so arriving - with reference to Islam - at insights into the complex problems of the 'other.' The studies are dedicated to Professor Gernot Rotter. Lawrence Conrad, Universität Hamburg;Ulrich Rebstock und Benjamin Jokisch, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.

Department of Political Studies ; Report written by Rackman and published by Bar-Ilan University on the subject of theocentricity and its place in Jewish law. ; No date specified

"The political upheavals, the leadership crisis, and the ideological frustration which the Israeli Labour party went through in the first two decades of the 21st century led it to an unprecedented electoral decline. What happened to the formerly dominant party which established the state? What kind of intrinsic changes did it undergo in the late modernity and due to new sociological generations? What kind of new or old ideological discourses were formed within it? And how can we characterize its renewed ideological discourse? These questions stood at the background of this ethnographic study. The study focuses on young, idealistic activists who joined the Israeli Labour Party during 2006-2009 and asked to promote a social-democratic agenda. The book is based on multi-arena fieldwork and it enables a rare ethnographic reflection on the way macro level political changes take shape and are embodied in interpersonal interactions on the micro level."--Publisher's description

Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: The emergence of the Polish-Jewish intellectual: Chapter 1. A new elite -- Chapter 2. From Krewo to Warsaw: the formative years -- Part II: With or without a stethoscope, Between the two world wars -- Chapter 3. In the new Polish Republic -- Chapter 4. New state, New life: 1923-1935 -- Chapter 5. Between Here and there: The first Jewish physicians' congress in Palestine -- Chapter 6. Years of disillusionment, 1936-1939 -- Part III: Unfinished symphony -- Chapter 7. Death watches me from all sides: 1939-1943 -- Chapter 8. Conclusions -- Appendix: the fate of the Milejkowski family -- Bibliography and abbreviations -- Index.

The female experience of immigration -- Princess or captive? : marriage as a female experience -- Women at home -- Women in the public sphere : religious, economic, and philanthropic involvement -- Scholarship, illiteracy, and educational revolution -- On the margins of society : poverty, widowhood, husband desertion, prostitution, missionary efforts -- Epilogue: the female experience in Jerusalem: honing historical-cultural insights

"Israel faces economic and social challenges. The government has not routinely developed and successfully implemented strategic responses to socioeconomic problems that demand longer-term, coordinated policy action. Effective means to respond to such longer-term challenges may require a more systematic government approach to policymaking. Researchers developed detailed recommendations related to institutions, processes, supporting information, outputs, and implementation for the Israeli government to apply a strategic perspective toward socioeconomic issues and develop a formal socioeconomic strategy for Israel should the government desire to do so. They mapped the institutions and processes in the formation of socioeconomic strategy in the state of Israel as they existed at the time of the project in 2011; described the information used to support strategy formation; analyzed the evaluation and monitoring processes in current strategy formation; identified the gaps in current strategy formation institutions, processes, information, and evaluation and monitoring; conducted international case studies of strategy formation; and compared Israeli practices with international practices"--Publisher's description