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UNDER THE
SHADOW OF THE
RISING SUN
Japan and the Jews
During the Holocaust
Era
by Meron Medzini
Although Japan was a member of the Axis Alliance, its leaders informed Nazi
Germany that their attitude toward the Jews was very different from that of the
Nazi regime. Virtually all of the 40,000 Jews under Japanese occupation in World
War II survived, unlike their brethren in Europe. The book traces the evolution of
Japan's policy toward Jews from the start of the 20th century and explains why
Japan ignored repeated German demands to be involved in the "final solution."
GOLDA MEIR
A Political Biography
by Meron Medzini
For five decades Golda Meir was at the center of the political arena in Israel and
left her mark on the development of the Yishuv and the state. She was a unique
woman and a great leader with a magnetic personality: a highly complex
individual. She held some of the most important positions that her party and
the State could bestow. She fulfilled most of them with talent and dignity, but
failed in the top job - that of Prime Minister. This biography traces her origins
and finally the reasons that led to her failure as prime minister.
FRENCH COLONIAL
DAKAR
The Morphogeneseis
of an African Regional
Capital
by Liora Bigon
This book looks at the planning, cultural and architectural endeavors that
shaped the model space of French colonial Dakar, a prominent city in West
Africa. Part of the burgeoning field of studying the extra-European planning
history of Europe, this book is a pioneer in attesting to the connection between
the French colonial doctrines of assimilation, association, and French colonial
planning and architectural policies in sub-Saharan Africa.
PLACE NAMES IN
AFRICA
Colonial Urban
Legacies, Entangled
Histories
by Liora Bigon
This volume examines the discursive relations between indigenous, colonial
and post-colonial legacies of place naming in Africa in terms of the production
of urban space and place. It traces and analyzes place-naming processes,
particularly in sub-Saharan Africa during colonial times (British, French, Belgian,
Portuguese), with considerable attention to both the pre-colonial and postcolonial
situations. By combining in-depth area studies research with colonial
history, planning history and geography, the author intends to show that
culture matters in research on place names.
BACK TO NOWHERE
Morocco Revisited
by Raphael Israeli
This volume sums up the tribulations of Morocco’s considerable Jewish
community as it was rejected by the country’s Muslim culture in the 1950s and
1960s, resulting in massive immigration to Israel. The fate of Moroccan Jewry is
told through the private experiences of a young Jewish boy growing up amid
these difficulties, and emigrating to fledgling Israel, to be followed by his entire
family.
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