Nazism, the Jews, and American Zionism, 1933-1948

Aaron Berman takes a moderate and measured approach to one of the most emotional issues in American Jewish historiography, namely, the response of American Jews to Nazism and the extermination of European Jewry.In remarkably large numbers, American Jews joined the Zionist crusade to create a Jewish state that would finally end the problem of Jewish homelessness, which they believed was the basic cause not only of the Holocaust but of all anti-Semitism. Though American Zionists could justly claim…

Detroit Focus Quarterly Volume 6 Number 4

The origin of the modern jewish woman writer: romance and reform in Victorian England

Between 1830 and 1880, the Jewish community flourished in England. During this time, known as haskalah, or the Anglo-Jewish Enlightenment, Jewish women in England became the first Jewish women anywhere to publish novels, histories, periodicals, theological tracts, and conduct manuals. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer analyzes this critical but forgotten period in the development of Jewish women's writing in relation to Victorian literary history, women's cultural history, and Jewish …

An American map: essays

"This title features meditative travel essays by Michigan author Anne-Marie Oomen that explore new landscapes across America. In "An American Map", Anne-Marie Oomen, award-winning writer and self-confessed northern Michigan homebody, chronicles her recent travels across America, in essays that span rediscovered landscapes, wild back roads, vital cities, and everything in between. Oomen takes both a wide and narrow lens to her destinations, giving readers a vivid sense of each locale while findin…

All our yesterdays: a brief history of Detroit

All Our Yesterdays is an accurate account based on extensive historical research when initially published in 1969, and is written in such a style as to make interesting and historical snapshot of the history of the city of Detroit.

The authors recount the founding of the town by the French, control by the British, and growth as an American city. These episodes are recounted in the words and deeds of the people who lived and worked here, men like Judge Woodward, Father Gabriel Richard, a…

The troubled origins of the Italian Catholic labor movement, 1878–1914

In his book, Sándor Agócs explores the conflicts that accompanied the emergence of the Italian Catholic labor movement. He examines the ideologies that were at work and details the organizational forms they inspired.

During the formative years of the Italian labor movement, Neo-Thomism became the official ideology of the church. Church leadership drew upon the central Thomistic principal of caritas, Christian love, in its response to the social climate in Italy, which had become increa…

Detroit to Fort Sackville, 1778-1779: the journal of Normand MacLeod

In 1777 Normand MacLeod, a British army officer, assumed the post of town major of Detroit, then a British colony on the frontier of late eighteenth-century America. Although it was not in the forefront of action in the American Revolution, the fort at Detroit had an important role because its strategic location made it a point of interest to military leaders on both sides.

The Detroit Sunday Journal:: June 22-29, 1997

Issue of The Detroit Sunday Journal, a weekly newspaper published by striking workers during the Detroit Newspaper Strike.

The Detroit Sunday Journal:: August 25-31, 1996

Issue of The Detroit Sunday Journal, a weekly newspaper published by striking workers during the Detroit Newspaper Strike.

The Detroit Sunday Journal:: February 4, 1996

Issue of The Detroit Sunday Journal, a weekly newspaper published by striking workers during the Detroit Newspaper Strike.

Medieval Jewish seals from Europe

The publication of this volume in a freely accessible digital format has been made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation through their Humanities Open Book Program.

A series of prints of Roman history: designed as ornaments for those apartments in which children receive the first rudiments of education

Companion book to A Description of a set of prints of Roman history, by Mrs. Trimmer [i.e. S. K. Trimmer].

A description of a set of prints of Roman history: contained in a set of easy lessons

1789 edition of “A description of a set of prints of Roman history: contained in a set of easy lessons” written by Mrs. Trimmer. The prints are held in a companion book entitled “A series of prints of Roman history”.

Description of a set of prints of English history: contained in a series of easy lessons

This 1828 three-volume set entitled "Description of a set of prints of English history; contained in a series of easy lessons" was written by Mrs. Sarah Trimmer. Volumes one and two are the text and volume three contains the prints.

A Child's history of England:: Volume II. England from the reign of Henry the Third to the reign of King Richard the Third

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A Child's history of England:: Volume III. England from the reign of Henry the Seventh to the revolution of 1688

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The Prince of the house of David: or, Three years in the Holy City.Being a series of the letters of Adina...and relating, as if by an eye- witness, all the scenes and wonderful incidents in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, from his baptism in Jordan to his crucifixion on Calvary

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The Detroit Sunday Journal:: November 3 - 9, 1996

Issue of The Detroit Sunday Journal, a weekly newspaper published by striking workers during the Detroit Newspaper Strike.

A Child's history of England:: Volume I. England from the ancient times to the death of King John

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The juvenile Plutarch: containing accounts of the lives of children and of the infancy of illustrious men, who have been remarkable for their early progress in knowledge

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