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Vanishing Diaspora: Jews in Europe Since 1945

History

Bernard Wasserstein

Europe

Penguin Books, Ltd.

A Small Town in Ukraine

'A fine and deeply affecting work of history and memoir' Philippe Sands\nDecades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets). In this book he recounts its dramatic and traumatic history. 'I want to observe and understand how some of the great forces that determined the shape of our times affected ordinary people.' The result is an exceptional, often moving book.\nWasserstein traces the arc of history across centuries of religious and political conflict, as armies of Cossacks, Turks, Swedes, and Muscovites rampaged through the region. In the age of enlightenment, the Polish magnate Ignacy Cetner built his palace at Krakowiec and, with his vivacious daughter, Princess Anna, created an arcadia of refinement and serenity. Under the Habsburg emperors after 1772, Krakowiec developed into a typical shtetl, with a jostling population of Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews.\nIn 1914, disaster struck. 'Seven years of terror and carnage' left a legacy of ferocious national antagonisms. During the Second World War the Jews were murdered in circumstances harrowingly described by Wasserstein. After the war the Poles were expelled and the town dwindled into a border outpost. Today, the storm of history once again flows through Krakowiec as hordes of refugees flee for their lives from Ukraine to Poland.\nAt the beginning and end of the book we encounter Wasserstein's own family, especially his grandfather Berl. In their lives and the many others Wasserstein has rediscovered, the people of Krakowiec become a prism through which we can feel the shocking immediacy of history. Original in conception and brilliantly achieved, Krakowiec is a masterpiece of recovery and insight.

A Small Town in Ukraine: The place we came from, the place we went back to

Allen Lane.

In this timely and balanced book, Bernard Wasserstein traces the history of diplomatic struggles over Jerusalem from the Crusades to the present day. Wasserstein illuminates the complicated origins of the current diplomatic impasse, details the negotiations of the last thirty years, and examines the prospects for lasting negotiated peace in this deeply divided city. This second edition includes new, updated material.

Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City (Second Edition)

Middle East

Yale University Press

Penguin

A new interpretation of the historical and contemporary realities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  Bernard Wasserstein challenges the conventional view of the struggle as driven primarily by irrational, nationalist and religious ideologies.  Instead he focuses on hitherto relatively neglected dimensions -- population, land, labour, and the social dynamics of political change.  He maintains that Israelis and Palestinians live today in 'Siamese twin societies'.  However much they may wish to, neither side can escape the impinging presence and influence of the other.  In spite of the current diplomatic impasse and continuing bloodshed and hate-mongering, Wasserstein offers a realistic and persuasive basis for optimism.  He argues that demographic, economic and social imperatives are driving the two sides willy-nilly towards some form of symbiosis and accommodation.  This startlingly original view of relations between Jews and Arabs in Palestine and Israel over the past century offers hope for the success of current efforts towards peace in the Middle East.

Israel and Palestine: Why They Fight and Can They Stop?

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Profile Books, Ltd.

Bernard Wasserstein has uncovered startling evidence from the archives of the intelligence agencies of several countries that relates the remarkable and murky history of Shanghai''s political netherworld during the 1930s and 40s.'

Secret war in Shanghai

Asia

'The 'eternally unified capital' of the state of Israel is the most deeply divided capital city in the world. Its Arab and Jewish residents inhabit different districts, speak different languages, attend different schools, read different newspapers, watch different television programmes, observe different holy days, follow different football teams - live, in almost every significant respect, different lives...' (from the preface) A fascinating account of the tumultuous history of one of the most troubled and important cities in the world by a brilliant historian. How has the city become so hopelessly divided and will it always be so? Is a solution possible and what has been the fate of earlier attempts to reconcile the different communities? Bernard Wasserstein examines the often unhappy history of the Holy City - one of the most contentious places in the world. Wasserstein shows how, throughout modern history, Jerusalem has been exploited for the ulterior purposes of many powers. The religious devotion of masses of Christians, Muslims and Jews throughout the world, he argues, has been manipulated for often squalid ends. Wasserstein contends that a long-term solution to the Jerusalem question must involve recognition of current social reality: a city that in almost every way is irrevocably divided. Against the background of renewed violence in and around Jerusalem, this book offers a timely and illuminating contribution towards the effort to achieve a negotiated settlement of a tragic conflict that, in one way or another, affects us all.

Divided Jerusalem

Israel and Palestine : Why They Fight and Can They Stop?

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Vanishing Diaspora: Jews in Europe Since 1945

A Small Town in Ukraine: The place we came from, the place we went back to

A Small Town in Ukraine

Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City (Second Edition)

A Small Town in Ukraine: The place we came from, the place we went back to

Israel and Palestine: Why They Fight and Can They Stop?

Secret war in Shanghai

Divided Jerusalem

Israel and Palestine : Why They Fight and Can They Stop?