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The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern world For all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in modern Jewish history that we have mostly lost sight of the fact that they are only part of-and indeed reactions to-the central event of that history: emancipation. In this book, David Sorkin seeks to reorient Jewish history by offering the first comp...

For all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in modern Jewish history that we have mostly lost sight of the fact that they are only part of--and indeed reactions to--the central event of that history: emancipation. In this book, David Sorkin seeks to reorient Jewish history by offering the first comprehensive account in any language of the process by which Jews became citizens...

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Mord bei den berüchtigten Marines auf Kuba. Die Army will den Fall vertuschen. Milde Strafen sollen die angeklagten Soldaten geständig machen. Doch der junge Verteidiger Lieutenant Kaffee (Tom Cruise) lehnt den faulen Straf-Deal rundweg ab. Angetrieben von Kollegin Commander JoAnne (Demi Moore) verwandelt Kaffee den Gerichtssaal in ein Schlachtfeld. Denn der Befehl für den Mord kam von ganz, ganz oben. Dort, wo Colonel Jesseo (Jack Nickolson) ...

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This study analyzes the transformation of German Jewry in the period from 1780-1840 in order to explain why the nature of the most visible Jewry in modern Europe remained essentially invisible to its own members and to subsequent generations. German Jewry was the most visible of the modern European Jewries because in its history all of the hallmarks of modernity seemed to have converged in their fullest and most volatile forms. The Transformat...

A patent is an exclusive right granted to an inventor in exchange for the public disclosure of the invention. Patents include an abstract describing the invention, often accompanied by line drawings. Patents Coloring Book presents a selection of odd, interesting, and otherwise notable patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, accompanied by their abstracts and brief commentary.