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Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-216) and index. xi, 221 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

"Papers presented at the second academic colloquium of the European Association for banking history held in Zurich, Switzerland, on the 27th and 28th May 1993" VI, 337 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

vii, 184 pages 23 cm

Partial reel (apparently with Yiddish sound track), of "A Day in Warsaw." Various scenes showing Jewish life in the city. Street scenes, markets, the Jewish quarter, newspapers, parks, synagogue, etc.

Good market scenes and shtetl views. Huts. Scenes at market. Horses, crowds at vendors, tents, main square, carts/wagons. Pan, horse. MCUs, people (peasants and well-to-do) shopping and selling. Shots of various goods, including potatoes and baskets. Brief shot: "Jewish Home for the...": men exiting building.

Introduced and narrated by Cedric Hardwicke. UJA appeal for relief for new refugees, immigrants to Israel. This segment of the Adventures in Freedom series focuses on daily life in Jerusalem, both religious and secular. Screen credits at end: "Support the United Jewish Appeal on behalf of the United Israel Appeal, Joint Distribution Commi​t​tee United Service for New Americans ​Through Your Local ...

general description on handwritten cards available in the reading room

Moritz Mecklenburg was born in 1880 in Luebeck and died in March 1945 in Shanghai, where he is buried at the Jewish cemetery. His family had founded a paper factory for the newspaper and writing paper markets in 1870 in Luebeck. Moritz became a metal broker and married Elise Adler, born 1881 in Chemnitz. They emigrated to Shanghai in 1939. Elise managed to gain passage to England in 1947 as a displaced ...

March of Time, Vol. 5, No. 4 (continuation of "The Foreign Service") Ambassadors at work abroad: Joseph P. Kennedy in London; William C. Bullitt in Paris (the "listening post for all of Europe"); George Wadsworth in Jerusalem; Joseph C. Grew in Japan; Nelson T. Johnson in China. The Jerusalem footage shows British soldiers, Jewish colonists, and an Arab man being frisked by a soldier. The narration ...

Intertitles appear in Yiddish and English. Scenes of small town with horse-drawn carts, people, houses, and dirt roads. "A Glimpse Around the Market" Similar scenes of town with peasants, horses, wagons, houses. "Peasant Youths out for a lark in the big city..." Five boys walk down dirt road, houses line the street. "When the pretty girls go walking, the boys go walking too." Pan of street with people ...

"Although China denies that it harbors ambitions to become a superpower, its leadership has made clear its intention that the country be a major player in the global arena. Against this backdrop, Ian Taylor explores the nature and implications of China's burgeoning role in Africa. Taylor argues that Beijing is using Africa not only as a source of needed raw materials and potential new markets, but ...

In the late nineteenth century a new form of capitalism emerged in Great Britain and the United States. Before the revolutions in communication and transportation, the owners of firms managed the processes of production, distribution, transportation, and communication personally. By the end of the century, however, technological innovation and mass markets fostered the development of large-scale corporate ...

In 1938 and 1939, Shaul and Yitzhak Goskind of Warsaw-based Sektor Films produced six short films about urban Jewish communities in Poland. One, about Łódź, is lost. The other five-on Bialystok, Cracow, Lwow, Vilna, and Warsaw-have survived and are now called "Five Cities." These low-budget 35mm films were made for Landsmanshaften groups in America for fundraising purposes. On the eve of war, the Goskinds ...

Russian intertitles. Excerpt from a film about the Jewish settlements in Crimea and in Ukraine, funded by the Agro-Joint (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee). Children in Larinow, a settlement in the Ukraine, run up the steps to a school. Children studying at their desks in a classroom and playing outside in the yard. Men ride horses down a dirt track. A woman carrying a child puts a letter ...

John Hobson challenges the ethnocentric bias of mainstream accounts of the Rise of the West. It is often assumed that since Ancient Greek times Europeans have pioneered their own development, and that the East has been a passive by-stander in the story of progressive world history. Hobson argues that there were two processes that enabled the Rise of the 'Oriental West'. First, each major developmental ...

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The forgotten sites of the old synagogues were located in the archive of the burned zone of the fire of 1917. The locations and the photographs of communal buildings during the interwar period were found in the Archive of the Jewish community of Thessaloniki. The findings regarding the Jewish topography of the city were the basis for the creation of the website available at: http://thessalonikijewishlegacy.com/sites.html, ...