By: Elvira Grözinger , Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME)
Sat Apr 20 2013
Review of Sprache der Judenfeindschaft im 21. Jahrhundert. (The  Language of Enmity toward Jews in the Twenty-First Century)
  Monika Schwarz-Friesel and Jehuda Reinharz. Published by Walter De Gruyter Inc, 2013. $112 pp. 444     English Abstract This innovative empirical study is based on thousands of texts from the contemporary discourse and considers the question of how specific ideas about Jews are put into play and constructed through modern language use in the twenty-first...
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By: Mary V. Seeman, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME)
Mon Apr 8 2013
    Barbara Engelking and Dariusz Libionka, Żydzi w powstańczej Warszawie  [Jews in the Warsaw Uprising].  Warsaw: Polish Center for Holocaust Research Association, 2009, 357 pp. and 32 photos.   Jews have lived in Poland for one thousand years and until 1939 flourished on Polish soil. At the outbreak of World War II, more than three million Jews lived in...
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By: Guido G. Weiss , Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME)
Sat Mar 23 2013
An Insider's Story to Israeli Military Technology
  Uzi Eilam. Published by Sussex Academic Press, 2011. $35 pp. 342   "We needed to find new ways to close the technological gaps between Israel and the superpowers" (81)              On June 2002, at the President's Residence, Uzi Eilam received the Israeli Security Prize for Lifelong Achievement. The Israel Prize is a mark of...
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By: Matt Abelson, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME)
Thu Mar 21 2013
Review of The Sons of Pigs and Apes: Muslim Antisemitism and the Conspiracy of Silence
  Neil J. Kressel. Published by Potomac Books Inc., 2012. $18.67  pp. 282 There is a debate in the discussion of contemporary Muslim anti-Semitism about how much of it is based on indigenous sources and how much originates from imported sources. This is a valid question, of course, for those who believe that there is such a thing as Muslim anti-Semitism. Some deny its existence...
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By: Anne Herzberg, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME)
Mon Mar 18 2013
A Partial History of the International Human Rights Movement
  Aryeh Neier. Published by Princeton University Press, 2012. $4 pp. 392   Coming at the end of his twenty-year tenure as the head of George Soros's mega-philanthropy, the Open Society Foundation (OSF), Aryeh Neier has authored The International Human Rights Movement. This work chronicles the history of the human rights movement, arguing that it has been "the driving force...
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