Reappraising Jewish War Experiences, 1914–18

2020 ◽  
pp. 12-34
Author(s):  
Michael Geheran
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
World War ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
The World ◽  
Slow Rise ◽  
War Experiences ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
War Experience

This chapter talks about the Jewish war experience in the German military and the slow rise of anti-Semitism starting from the end of the World War 1. Although Jewish experiences during World War I cannot be reduced to a single Kriegserlebnis, as the chapter shows, Jews were united in the hope, as they joined thousands of other German men rushing to the colors in 1914, that the spirit of national unity would obliterate antisemitic stereotypes. Their participation in the immense violence of an industrialized war led to the formation of powerful bonds with gentile Germans, fueling Jewish hopes that the war would be the culmination of the long struggle for social acceptance.

scholarly journals Coal and Colonialism: Production Relations in an Indian Coalfield, c. 1895–1947

1996 ◽  
Vol 41 (S4) ◽  
pp. 83-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dilip Simeon
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
World War ◽  
Proximate Cause ◽  
Jharia Coalfield ◽  
The World ◽  
Production Relations ◽  
Underground Fire ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
Deep Source

The year 1995 marked the centenary of the exploitation of a 400 squarekilometre tract in the Indian province of Bihar known as the Jharia coalfield. From 1895, when rail lines entered the region, until the end of the World War I, coal output in India increased tenfold and the size of the mines' workforce fivefold. By 1907 Jharia was yielding half of India's output. One of its oldest mines was Khas Jharia, which worked a 260-feet deep source. Thirty-four years after it opened, its surface had merged with the outskirts of Jharia township and restrictions were imposed on the dimensions of its galleries. Despite these, Khas Jharia's pillars collapsed on 8 November 1930 causing an 18-feet deep subsidence and widespread destruction. This incident was the proximate cause of an underground fire which rages to this day.

Everydayness and Religiousness at the Intersection of Epochs and Cultures: Wierszalin. Reportaż o końcu świata (Wierszalin. A Report on the End of the World) by Włodzimierz Pawluczuk and Piotr Tomaszuk

Tekstualia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (51) ◽  
pp. 45-52
Author(s):  
Żaneta Nalewajk
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
World War ◽  
Paradoxical Situation ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
The Town

The article discusses the production of Wierszalin. Reportaż o końcu świata (Wierszalin. A Report on the End of the World) by Włodzimierz Pawluczuk, an anthropologist and religious studies scholar, which was prepared by Piotr Tomaszuk in the theatre Wierszalin. The analysed text depicts events that took place during World War I and in the 1920s and 1930s near the town of Białystok (the rise of specifi c chiliastic communities). The article’s particular focus is a paradoxical situation when the need to bless the acts of everyday life, poignantly experienced due to the awareness of the approaching “end of the days”, easily borders on fraud and the need to infl uence the fate of the community, in a word, with the striving for power.

Prophets Mugged by Reality

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael N. Barnett
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
American Jews ◽  
Jewish State ◽  
World War ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
The World

This chapter explores the period from 1914 and the beginning of World War I through the end of World War II. The world changed, and so too did the foreign policy beliefs of American Jews—but not as much as might have been expected given this long stretch of murderous anti-Semitism. The American Jewish Committee went to Paris after World War I with the agenda of convincing the victors to force the new national states of Europe to recognize the fundamental rights of minorities and to lobby for a League of Nations with responsibility for monitoring and enforcing those rights. At the same time, there was a slow, cautious acceptance of Zionism. However, not all Zionisms are alike, and as American Jews increased their support for Zionism, they also gravitated toward a version that did not hinge exclusively on the Jewish state.

he designs of the Russian war memorials from the World War I in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes / Kingdom of Yugoslavia: Ideas, symbols, realization

2020 ◽  
pp. 204-227
Author(s):  
Milana Živanović ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
World War ◽  
War Memorials ◽  
The World ◽  
The Will ◽  
Kingdom Of Yugoslavia ◽  
The Military

The paper deals with the actions undertaken by the Russian emigration aimed to commemorate the Russian soldiers who have been killed or died during the World War I in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes / Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The focus is on the erection of the memorials dedicated to the Russian soldiers. During the World War I the Russian soldiers and war prisoners were buried on the military plots in the local cemeteries or on the locations of their death. However, over the years the conditions of their graves have declined. That fact along with the will to honorably mark the locations of their burial places have become a catalyst for the actions undertaken by the Russian émigré, which have begun to arrive in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Kingdom of SCS) starting from the 1919. Almost at once after their arrival to the Kingdom of SCS, the Russian refugees conducted the actions aimed at improving the conditions of the graves were in and at erecting memorials. Russian architects designed the monuments. As a result, several monuments were erected in the country, including one in the capital.

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