Studies in Contemporary Jewry : Volume XIX: Jews and the State: Dangerous Alliances and the Perils of Privilege.

Intro -- Contents -- Symposium: Jews and the State: Dangerous Alliances and the Perils of Privilege -- Jews and the State: The Historical Context -- The Jewish Response to Apartheid: The Record and Its Consequences -- "If I Am Not for Myself"/"If I Am Only for Myself": Jews, the American South, and the Quandary of Self-Interest -- Finding a Balance in a Dual Society: The Jews of Quebec -- French Jews and the "Regeneration" of Algerian Jewry -- From Dhimmis to Colonized Subjects: Moroccan Jews and the Sharifian and French Colonial State -- Hungarian Jewish Politics from the End of the Second World War until the Collapse of Communism -- The Vicious Circle: Jews in Communist Poland, 1944-1956 -- Romanian Jewry under Rabbi Moses Rosen during the Ceausescu Regime -- Essays -- The Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia and the Evolution of the St. Petersburg Russian Jewish Intelligentsia, 1893-1905 -- Bureaucracy, Agents, and Swindlers: The Hardships of Jewish Emigration from the Pale of Settlement in the Early 20th Century -- Review Essays -- Trapped in the Middle East Maze -- Arendt on Eichmann Revisited -- Do the Ties Still Bind? American Jews and Israel -- Book Reviews -- Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide -- Jean-Claude Favez, The Red Cross and the Holocaust -- Robert Gellately, Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany -- Ian Kershaw, Hitler: 1889-1936: Hubris -- Ian Kershaw, Hitler: 1936-1945: Nemesis -- Sigmund Tobias, Strange Haven: A Jewish Childhood in Wartime Shanghai -- History and the Social Sciences -- David Biale, Michael Galchinsky, and Susannah Heschel (eds.), Insider/ Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism -- Martin Gilbert, The Jews in the Twentieth Century -- Mitchell B. Hart, Social Science and the Politics of Modern Jewish Identity.

Hillel J. Kieval, Languages of Community: The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands -- David Rechter, The Jews of Vienna and the First World War -- Rafael F. Scharf, Poland, What Have I to Do with Thee . . . Essays without Prejudice -- Laurence J. Silberstein (ed.), Mapping Jewish Identities -- Language, Literature, and the Arts -- Matthew Baigell and Milly Heyd (eds.), Complex Identities: Jewish Consciousness and Modern Art -- Lawrence J. Epstein, The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America -- Norman Finkelstein, Not One of Them in Place: Modern Poetry and Jewish American Identity -- Andrew Furman, Contemporary Jewish Writers and the Multicultural Dilemma: Return of the Exiled -- Norman L. Kleeblatt (ed.), Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art -- Steven Luckert, The Art and Politics of Arthur Szyk -- Maurice Wohlgelernter, Jewish Writers/Irish Writers: Selected Essays on the Love of Words -- Religion, Thought, and Education -- Steven E. Aschheim (ed.), Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem -- David Berger, The Rebbe, the Messiah and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference -- Kristi Groberg and Avraham Greenbaum (eds.), A Missionary for History: Essays in Honor of Simon Dubnov -- Michael A. Meyer, Judaism within Modernity: Essays on Jewish History and Religion -- Barry Sharpe, Modesty and Arrogance in Judgment: Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem -- Gary Smith (ed.), Hannah Arendt Revisited: "Eichmann in Jerusalem" und die Folgen -- Richard Wolin, Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse -- Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East -- Jerold S. Auerbach, Are We One? Jewish Identity in the United States and Israel -- Menahem Friedman, Hevrah bemashber legitimaziyah: hayishuv hayashan haashkenazi 1900-1917 (Society in a crisis of legitimization: the Old Ashkenazic Yishuv 1900-1917).

Allon Gal and Alfred Gottschalk (eds.), Beyond Survival and Philanthropy: American Jewry and Israel -- Yoav Gelber, Palestine 1948: War, Escape and the Emergence of the Palestinian Refugee Problem -- Yossi Goldstein, Ussishkin-biografiyah, vol. 2, Erez yisrael, 1919-1941 -- Yossi Klein Halevi, At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden -- Baruch Kimmerling, The Invention and Decline of Israeliness: State, Society, and the Military -- Arieh J. Kochavi, Post-Holocaust Politics: Britain, the United States, and Jewish Refugees, 1945-1948 -- Martin Seth Kramer, Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America -- John J. Mearsheimer, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics -- Yehuda Riemer, Banayikh-Bonayikh: Habonim bizfon amerika 1932-1952 (Your children-your builders: the Habonim movement in North America, 1932-1952) -- Eugene L. Rogan and Avi Shlaim (eds.), The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948 -- Steven T. Rosenthal, Irreconcilable Differences: The Waning of the American Jewish Love Affair with Israel -- Gideon Shimoni and Robert S. Wistrich (eds.), Theodor Herzl: Visionary of the Jewish State -- Shlomo Slonim, Jerusalem in America's Foreign Policy 1947-1997 -- Contents for Volume XX -- Note on Editorial Policy.

Bringing together contributions from established scholars from multiple disciplines and countries, Volume XIX of Studies in Contemporary Jewry offers a comparative view of alliances between Jewish communities and the state. Together, the volume's contents show the price Jews paid for allyingwith unpopular regimes. The essays cover the American South, South Africa, Canada, Algeria, Morocco, Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Russia.

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