YIVO Annual: Volume 23 This fresh look at Middle

This fresh look at Middle East history allows for a more precise assessment of the present: What exactly is “Islamic antisemitism”

and massacres

and the Politics of Jewish History is the first comprehensive biography of Dawidowicz (1915–1990)

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became famous during its heyday in the 1920s–1940s

YIVO Annual: Volume 23 This fresh look at MiddleEdited by Deborah Dash MooreNorthwestern University PressPublished in 1996 478 pages, 6 x 9 inPaperback YIVO Annual of Jewish Social Science is an innovative forum for the discussion of topics in the Jewish social sciences. Volume 23 features essays on a variety of topics, including Max Weinreich's contributions to the study of Jewish culture and personality, the family in Jewish American fiction, radical literary criticism in Yiddish, the attitudes