1919 to 1945

The reflections and deliberations in this book represent different aspects of the publishing, scholarly and media activity of the former Soviet political prisoner and Jewish-Ukrainian public intellectual, as well as co-initiator of Ukraine’s First of December Group, Joseph Zissels, over the ...

Leonid Finberg is a prominent Jewish-Ukrainian public intellectual. His main research interests include the history and culture of the Jews of Ukraine, Ukrainian society of the twentieth century, post-totalitarian world, and socio-political issues of the present. He has published over 100 ...

This seminal book takes up where Rainer Herrn’s 2023 book, on the history of Hirschfeld’s Institute and the life work of Magnus Hirschfeld ended, in 1932–1933.

Was „Kommunismus“ bedeutet, müsste ein Westeuropäer eigentlich ganz genau wissen, denn er ist in einem gewissen Sinne die letzte Frucht seiner eigenen geschichtlichen Entwicklung. Freilich kennt ein Westeuropäer, zu seinem Glücke, den Kommunismus nur als eine Idee oder ein ...

Roland Scharffs vorliegende Studie zeigt, wie der polnisch-litauische Adel seine Unabhängigkeit als Gutsherr gegenüber den Bauern auszubauen verstand.

Das verbindende Element aller Umwälzungen in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts ist deren bürgerlicher Charakter.

On Bonifratrow Street is the story of how Michael Katz survived the Holocaust as a Jewish boy hiding ‘in plain sight’ on the streets of Warsaw.

Eta kniga — rezul'tat mnogoletnego issledovaniia o seksualizirovannom nasilii nad zhenshchinami v Vengrii vo Vtoroi mirovoi voine. S pomoshch'iu arkhivnykh istochnikov, interv'iu i lichnykh dnevnikov Andrea Peto vosstanavlivaet dramatichnyi opyt vengerskikh zhenshchin, udeliaia osoboe vnimanie ...

The book explores the realtions of history, legitimacy, and violence in the building and breaking of nations and states on the territory of contemporary Ukraine.

This collected volume investigates the ways in which historical training supports current activism and advocacy in global times by highlighting models of social activism and political representation in different parts of the world, with diverse social actions, strategies, ...