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Resistance To Rescue: The Indians Of Bahapki And Mrs. Annie E. K. Bidwell, Margaret D. Jacobs

Department of History: Faculty Publications

Annie Bidwell, whose story is told here, was an exemplar of the nineteenth-century Euro-American female humanitarian reform impulse. She worked diligently to introduce Christianity and domesticity to the Maidu and Bahapki Indians who lived and worked for her husband at Rancho Chico, paying special attention to the women and children. Bidwell had no doubt that her insistence on acculturation was in their best interests. But from the perspective of the Indians, she was a destroyer. Insofar as they could, they resisted her efforts to change their religion, their child-rearing practices, and their family relationships. Margaret Jacobs successfully “reads through” Bidwell’s …

Review Of The Twisted Muse: Musicians And Their Music In The Third Reich, By Michael Kater., Alan E. Steinweis

Department of History: Faculty Publications

Ths is a serious book about "serious" music. Michael Kater's Twisted Muse is the author's second major contribution in five years to the study of music under National Socialism. In hs previous volume, Different Drummers (Oxford, 1992), Kater provided a detailed and nuanced examination of jazz under the Nazis. In his new book, Kater turns his attention to the world of serious (ernste) music, a category encompassing not only classical compositions and performances, but also a good deal of the contemporary music of the 1930s and 1940s.This book bears many of the hallmarks of Kater's earlier work on …

Review Of Michael Berkowitz, Zionist Culture And West European Jewry Before The First World War, Alan E. Steinweis

Department of History: Faculty Publications

In this elegantly written and nicely designed book, Michael Berkowitz offers the reader a fascinating discussion of Zionism as a cultural phenomenon among the assimilated Jews of western and central Europe in the two decades preceding World War I. Berkowitz is particularly interested in how the Zionist movement employed political symbols, myths, and icons in an effort to spawn a new Jewish national consciousness to which assimilated bourgeois Jews in France, Britain, and Germany could safely subscribe without compromising their allegiance to the country of their citizenship. In contrast to the masses of Russian-Polish and Rumanian Jews, for whom migration …

Nichts Vergessen Nur Verschwiegen. Das Massaker Von Gröden 1945 Und Die Oss-Mission "Tacoma", Gerald Steinacher

Department of History: Faculty Publications

Am 15. Mai 1985, genau 40 Jahre nach dem Auftakt zum sogenannten "Massaker von Gräden", erschien unter dem Titel ,,Auch das geschah vor vierzig Jahren" folgende Anzeige in der Bozner Tageszeitung Dolomiten:

"Nach Kriegsende, am 15. Mai 1945, der Morgen war gerade angebrochen, wurden jUnf unbescholtene, ehrenwerte Männer - Vater Adolf Senoner- Vastlt, Bürgermeister und Kaufmann, Lehrer Engelbert Ploner, Kau.fmann Gabriel Rijfeser, Lehrer Pepi Pitscheider und der Angestellte Kosmas Demetz - aus dem Schlaf gerissen und von den Partisanen der Provinz Belluno entfUhrt: sie wurden auf brutalste Weise im Wald von Pescul an der Forcella Staulanza gefoltert und ermordet. …