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Bringing together the latest findings in Holocaust studies, the history of religion, and the history of sexuality in postwar - and now also postcommunist - Europe, Unlearning Eugenics shows how central the controversies over sexuality, reproduction, and disability have been to broader processes of secularization and religious renewal.
Tackles a question as old as Plato and still pressing today: what is reason, and what roles does and should it have in human endeavour? Applying the tools of intellectual history, Martin Jay examines the overlapping, but not fully compatible, meanings that have accrued to the term "reason" over two millennia, homing in on moments of crisis, critique, and defense of reason.
Budapest at the fin de siecle was famed and emulated for its cosmopolitan urban culture and nightlife. It was also the second-largest Jewish city in Europe. Mary Gluck delves into the popular culture of Budapest's coffee houses, music halls, and humour magazines to uncover the enormous influence of assimilated Jews in creating modernist Budapest between 1867 and 1914.
Brings to light immensely important archival documents regarding the sexual politics of the Italian Fascist regime. Alessio Ponzio investigates the regulation and regimentation of gender in Fascist Italy, and the extent to which, in uneasy concert with the Catholic Church, the regime engaged in the cultural and legal engineering of masculinity and femininity.
In 1945, during the final months of the Third Reich, Eva Noack-Mosse was deported to the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt. A trained journalist, she recorded statistics and her own observations in a secret diary. Noack-Mosse's aim in documenting the horrors of daily life in Theresienstadt was to ensure that it could never be repeated.
Explores the wave of justice-seeking for the Holocaust: what it has been, why it emerged when it did, how it fits with earlier reparation to the Jewish people, its significance for the historical representation of the Holocaust, and its implications for justice-seeking in our time.
Probes the parameters of Jewish integration in the half century between the founding of the German Empire in 1871 and the early Weimar Republic. This book revises the chronology of anti-Semitism in Germany, showing that Jews only began to experience exclusion from Breslau's social world during World War I.
Chronicles twentieth century history as ""universal civil war"" between a succession of conflicting dualisms such as freedom and equality, race and class, capitalism and communism, liberalism and fascism, East and West.
A study of the development of Italian national identity in all its incarnations throughout the 20th century. It describes a dense sequence of events: from victorious Italian participation in WWI through the rise and triumph of Fascism to Italy's transition to a republic.
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