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Publishing The Pan-Jewish: The First Hebrew Newspaper And Its Modernities, Philip E. Keisman Sep 2023

Publishing The Pan-Jewish: The First Hebrew Newspaper And Its Modernities, Philip E. Keisman

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Publishing the Pan-Jewish emerges from a question about sites of synthesis between claims of sacred continuity and novel forms of communication. It centers on the first ten years of Hamagid (1856-1866), acknowledged within the historiography as history’s first Hebrew-language newspaper. Eliezer Lipman Silberman, an Orthodox butcher founded Hamagid in East Prussia as a bulwark of his vision of traditional Judaism. The first chapter of this dissertation examines the formal elements of the newspaper as a medium, demonstrating the myriad ways in which it presented novel experiences for its reading public. Chapter two narrates an untold history of the newspaper’s early …


Soap From Human Fat: The Case Of Professor Spanner, John A. Drobnicki Jul 2018

Soap From Human Fat: The Case Of Professor Spanner, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

Review of the book Soap from Human Fat: The Case of Professor Spanner, by Monika Tomkiewicz and Piotr Semków (Gdynia: Wydawnictwo Róza Wiatrów, 2013).


A Mission At 311, Nan Li May 2018

A Mission At 311, Nan Li

Theses and Dissertations

My thesis intends to look at how the aftermath of Holocaust has a tremendous life-changing impact on the children of Holocaust survivors, and to explore how these people has carried these misfortunes and burden to be resilient and joyful in their everyday lives.


Review Of The Book In The Shadow Of The Polish Eagle: The Poles, The Holocaust And Beyond, John A. Drobnicki Oct 2001

Review Of The Book In The Shadow Of The Polish Eagle: The Poles, The Holocaust And Beyond, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

Review of the book In the Shadow of the Polish Eagle: The Poles, the Holocaust and Beyond.


The Auschwitz Convent Controversy, John A. Drobnicki Jan 1993

The Auschwitz Convent Controversy, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

A review article of Carol Rittner and John K. Roth (eds.), Memory Offended: The Auschwitz Convent Controversy (Praeger, 1991), which discusses the controversy over the presence of a Carmelite convent at the Auschwitz concentration camp.


A Touch Of Controversy, John A. Drobnicki Feb 1991

A Touch Of Controversy, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

A review article of Antony Polonsky (ed.), My Brother’s Keeper?: Recent Polish Debates on the Holocaust (Routledge, 1990), which discusses accusations against Poles of having been indifferent toward the Nazis' attempted extermination of Jews.