Germans or Jews? German-speaking Jews in post-war Europe: an introduction by Čapková, K, Rechter, D

“…German-Speaking Jews in Post-War Central Europe’ organized by the Leo Baeck Institute in London in cooperation with the Leo Baeck Institute in New York and the Institute of Contemporary History (Czech Academy of Sciences), and held at the Center for Jewish History in New York in the summer of 2017. Many German-speaking Jews experienced discrimination and feared violence in the post-war months and years not because they were Jewish, but rather because they were German. …”

Street art as a cultural and educational project by Gerkerova Alexandra

“…The study was conducted in 2015-2021 within the framework of the projects: “Odessa Street Art Festival”, “Travel of the TIS robot in time”, “Along the paths of the Jewish history”, “Flying over Odessa”. The idea of creating a street art object as a cultural and educational project belongs to Aleksey Shkurat, the head of the Peach art studio. …”
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God as Dionysus: Martin Buber's reception of Friedrich Nietzsche by van Straten, R

“…<p>Martin Buber was a source of inspiration for a generation of young German Jews at the beginning of the twentieth century; throughout his career, however, he was also criticised by scholars of Jewish history and mysticism. In response, Buber and contemporary scholars alike have tended to split the development of his thought into two main phases: the earlier mystical phase, which sought to realise the divine, and the more mature dialogic phase, which overturns mysticism and instead attempts to encounter God.…”

Commemoration as a form of representation of the Holocaust in the cultural space of Ukraine in the XXI century by M. Sharpylo

“…Successful realization of forms of remembrance is actively implemented in the main historical centers associated with Jewish history: Poland, Hungary, Germany, and others. …”
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Elements of the universe in Philo’s <i>De Vita Mosis</i>: Cosmological theology or theological cosmology? by Gert J. Steyn

“…After a brief survey of Philo’s inclination to interpret Jewish history in the light of Greek cosmology, the study proceeds with his universe as symbolised in the high priest’s vestments. …”
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Editorial Foreword by Silviu Miloiu

“…Rūta Šermukšnytė approaches the museum narratives in Lithuania following the renewal of independence in 1990 and clusters “the tensions between ethnocentric and polycentric, civic, civilizational models of identity in historical culture” as manifesting in the museal and exhibition representations of Jewish history. Anchored on a fertile theoretic approach on historical culture, the author concludes that a wider display of Jewish culture and history, including the Holocaust, derived from both changes in political environment and institutional and individual initiatives.…”
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Mur i okno. Gruz getta warszawskiego jako przestrzeń narracyjna Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN [Wall and window: the rubble of the Warsaw Ghetto as the narrative space of the... by Konrad Matyjaszek

“…In this analysis, two key architectural interiors are examined in detail in terms of their correspondence with the context of the site: the Museum’s entrance lobby and the space of the “Jewish street,” incorporated into the main exhibition’s sub-galleries presenting the interwar period of Polish-Jewish history and the history of the Holocaust. The analysis of the design structure of these two interiors allows to raise a research question about physical and symbolic role of the material substance of the destroyed ghetto in construction of a historical narrative that is separated from the history of the destruction, as well as one about the designers’ responsibilities arising from the decision to present a given history on the physical site where it took place. …”
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„NS-Raubgut aus zweiter Hand“ - Provenienzrecherchen in der Bibliothek des IGdJ by Jörn Kreuzer, Susanne Küther

“…Since the Institute’s library stock is based on its collection of books about Jewish history, culture, and Jewish religion, this is even more likely. …”
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JEZUS I CHRZEŚCIJAŃSTWO W PRASIE HEBRAJSKIEJ I ŻYDOWSKIEJ NA POCZĄTKU XX WIEKU. CASUS BRENNERA by Gideon Kouts

“…Intellectuals like Brenner, and Hurwitz, or even less radical writers like Klausner, looked upon Jesus and Christianity more sympathetically than traditionally minded Jews largely because of their expanded notions of Jewishness , or their changing views on the nature of the relation-ship between Judaism, Jewish history and Western history and culture, including Christianity. …”
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Autobiography writing developed in the Hebrew Roman in the Twenty-first century تطور كتابة السيرة الذاتية في الرواية العبرية في القرن الحادي والعشرين... by Fikry Jawad Abid فكري جواد عبد

“…This literary genre had a distinguished position in Hebrew literature during its various periods Many Israeli writers excelled in writing a Autobiography, which, by telling the details of their lives and those of their parents, contributed to focusing on important joints of modern Jewish history in Israel and in the countries of the world. …”
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The Embassy of Poland in Poland: The Polin Myth in the Museum of the History of Polish Jews (MHPJ) as narrative pattern and model of minority-majority relations [Ambasada Polski w... by Elżbieta Janicka

“…The price is the mystification of Eastern European Jewish history and the thwarting of the potential for change which arouse as a result of the Jedwabne debate. …”
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Criticism of the Article “Adam and the Angels, the Study of Mythological Elements in Islamic Mythology” by MohammadReza Shahroodi, Mohammad Saeed Ansari

“…Chipman has used Jewish sources and some sources of Sunni sources and concluded that comparing Islamic narrations in Islamic sources with Jewish histories, it is stated that Islamic sources have a more comprehensive mythological inference in this field. …”
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