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The Neighbors Respond: The Controversy over the Jedwabne ...

The Neighbors Respond: The Controversy over the Jedwabne ...

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... of the greatest tragedy of all time?8 These views are echoed in the most important scholarly investigation of the problem, that by Yisrael Gutman and Shmuel Krakowski,9 and are shared by the doyen of Holocaust historians, Yehuda Bauer.
The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945

The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945

Joshua D. Zimmerman

In particular, Shmuel Krakowski's assertion that Home Army commander, General Bór-Komorowski, sanctioned assaults against Jewish partisans came under close scrutiny.27 The late Polish American historian, Stanislaus A. Blejwas, ...
The War of the Doomed: Jewish Armed Resistance in Poland, ...

The War of the Doomed: Jewish Armed Resistance in Poland, ...

Shmuel Krakowski

Its commander was Lieutenant Aleksander Skotnicki, a Jew who was destined to play one of the most important roles in the partisan movement in the Parczew forests during the next months. Aleksander Skotnicki took part in the war in 1939  ...
Between Nazis and Soviets: Occupation Politics in Poland, ...

Between Nazis and Soviets: Occupation Politics in Poland, ...

Marek Jan Chodakiewicz

See Reuben Ainsztein, Jewish Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Eastern Europe with a Historical Survey of the Jew as Fighter and Soldier in the Diaspora (London: Paul Flck, 1974): Shmuel Krakowski, The War of the Doomed: Jewish Armed ...
In the Lion's Den: The Life of Oswald Rufeisen

In the Lion's Den: The Life of Oswald Rufeisen

Nechama Tec

Reuben Ainsztein, Jewish Resistance, p. 279, 5. Nicholas P. Vakar, Belorussia, p . 192. 6. Shmuel Krakowski, The War of the Doomed: Jewish Armed Resistance in Poland, 1942–1944 (New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc., 1984), p. 28.
Twice-dead: Moshe Y. Lubling, the Ethics of Memory, and the ...

Twice-dead: Moshe Y. Lubling, the Ethics of Memory, and the ...

Yoram Lubling

Shmuel Krakowski, Letter to the Editor, Jerusalem Post, August 21, 1986. Portland's Dan Gannon was attacking Michael Berenbaum for not producing documents to prove that gas chambers existed. He writes: "If he (Berenbaum) refers to ...
Lone Wolf: a biography of Vladimir (Ze 'ev) Jabotinsky

Lone Wolf: a biography of Vladimir (Ze 'ev) Jabotinsky

Shmuel Katz

Described by historian Martin Gilbert as a champion among writers', biographer Shmuel Katz has succeeded in creating a scholarly work that reads like a novel.'
Filologia polska

Filologia polska

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Palac byl w posiadaniu Zbaraskich do 1632 r., po czym nabyl posiadlosc kasztelan krakowski Stanislaw Warszycki. Miejscowy koációl byl koáciolem refor- matów. 4:; JerzyStarnawski, О Czçstochowie i o okolicy w Amsterdamie (XVII— XVIII w )
The Aaronsohn Saga

The Aaronsohn Saga

Shmuel Katz

Here is told the story of Aaronsohn, who is revealed as a master of strategy, and his sister Sarah, whose self-sacrificing devotion to the cause shows her to be a great historic personality in her own right.
Present at Sinai: The Giving of the Law

Present at Sinai: The Giving of the Law

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

[When he has such faith,] he accepts the yoke of the rule of heaven, undertaking not to violate the will of his Master, who gives him vital energy and beneficence, but to do His will, may He be blessed. Thus the main purpose of the texts of the ...
Israel at the Polls, 1996

Israel at the Polls, 1996

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Daniel Judah Elazar, Shmuel Sandler. The. Electoral. Fall. of. the. Israeli. Left. GIORA. GOLDBERG. During the last 20 years the Israeli political system has become one of the most unstable in the democratic world. This instability has been ...
Comparative Central European Holocaust Studies

Comparative Central European Holocaust Studies

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Francis Epstein, Helen Epstein, and Heda Margolius Kovaly. New York: Holmes and Meier Publishers, 1997. Krakowski, Avra. Counterfeit Lives. New York: C.I.S. Publishers, 1995. Krasno, Rena. Strangers Always: A Jewish Family in Wartime ...
Mentors and friends

Mentors and friends

Moshe Kol

Pinchas Rosen (Felix Rosenbluth) was born in 1887 of a religious family. His father, Shmuel Rosenbluth, came to Germany from Hungary in 1871. He studied at the Pressburg Yeshiva and intended to continue his studies at the rabbinical ...
Parallel Processing for Artificial Intelligence 2

Parallel Processing for Artificial Intelligence 2

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Zeev Collin, Rina Dechter, and Shmuel Katz. On the Feasibility of Distributed Constraint Satisfaction. In John Mylopoulos and Ray Reiter, editors, 12th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 318-324, Darling Harbour, ...
Complexities: Women in Mathematics

Complexities: Women in Mathematics

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Robert M. Guralnick, "Triangularization of Sets of Matrices," Linear and Multilinear Algebra 9, 133-140 (1980). 54. Shmuel Friedland, "A Generalization of the Motzkin-Taussky Theorem," Linear Algebra and Its Applications 36, 103- 109 (1981).
The Festschrift Darkhei Noam: The Jews of Arab Lands

The Festschrift Darkhei Noam: The Jews of Arab Lands

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Festschrift Darkhei Noam : the Jews of Arab lands / edited by Carsten Schapkow, Shmuel Shepkaru, and Alan T. Levenson. pages cm. — (Brill's series in Jewish studies; volume 55) ...

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