The Jewish Experience of the First World War

Book Overview

1.The First World War and the Jews; Gideon Reuveni and Edward Madigan.- Part One: Eastern Fronts.- 2. Between Light and Darkness: Jewish Education in Time of War; Bj?rn Siegel.- 3.Eastern Promises: Jewish Germans in the German Administration of Eastern Europe during the First World War; Philip Nielsen.- 4. Bread, Butter and Education: The Yiddishist Movements in Poland, 1914 - 1916; Emma Zohar.- 5. War and Nationalism in Palestine: The Jewish migration committee in the Galilee during the First World War; Esther Yankelevitch.- 6. Towards a Consolidation of Zionist National Consciousness in Palestine during the First World War: A Local Urban Perspective; Anat Kidron.- Part Two: Westerns Fronts.- 7. A Mixed Bag of Loyalties: Ethnic, Religious, and State-based Minorities in the German Army, 1914-1918; Gavin Wiens.-8. Between Inclusion and Exclusion: The Experiences of Jewish Soldiers in Europe and the USA, 1914-1918; Sarah Pante.- 9. Between Faith and Nation: Italian Jewish Soldiers in the Great War; Vanda Wilcox.- 10.'The March of the Judeans': The London Recruits of the Jewish Battalion during the First World War; Christopher Smith.- Part Three: Post-War Memory and Commemoration.- 11. The Female Side of War: The Experience and Memory of the Great War in Italian-Jewish Women's Ego-Documents; Ruth Natterman.- 12. Once 'the Only True Austrians': Mobilising Jewish Memory of the First World War for Belonging in the New Austrian Nation, 1929 - 1938; Tim Corbett.-13. The Iron Shield of David: The First World War and the Creation of German Jewish Markers of Patriotism and Memory; Michal Friedlander.- 14. 'Thou hast given us Home and Freedom, Mother England': Anglo-Jewish Gratitude, Patriotism and Service during and after the First World; Edward Madigan

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349714976
• ISBN13: 9781349714971
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"