Michael Stanislawski's provocative study of Max Nordau, Ephraim Moses Lilien, and Vladimir Jabotinsky reconceives the intersection of the European fin de siecle and early Zionism. Stanislawski takes up the tantalizing question of why Zionism, at a particular stage in its development, became so attra[...]
How could a Jew kill a Jew for religious and political reasons? Many people asked this question after an Orthodox Jew assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Itshak Rabin in 1995. But historian Michael Stanislawski couldn't forget it, and he decided to find out everything he could about an obscure and m[...]
En mordgåta, ett lömskt mord på en rabbin och hans dotter i mitten av 1800-talet geross en inblick i en försvunnen värld - den öst- och centraleuropeiska judeenhetens - i en tid av stora omvälvningar och motsättningar.[...]