HistoryExtra
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items: Israel and the Palestinians: a history of conflict in 8 key episodes
items: Architecture & hidden Jewish history in Eastern Europe
items: Women of the Rothschild dynasty
items: The Clifford’s Tower massacre & medieval anti-Semitism
items: German Jews in WW1
items: How did the Reformation impact Jews?
items: The Jews of medieval England
items: Songs of the Holocaust: the music of Aleksander Kulisiewicz
items: Sewing for the Nazis: who were the dressmakers of Auschwitz?
items: The big questions of the Holocaust

Israel and the Palestinians: a history of conflict in 8 key episodes
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date: 2023-10-09T11:45:36.000Z
creator: Matthew Hughes
subject: 20th Century
subject: Period
subject: Judaism
subject: Trends-News
description: Writing in 2018, 70 years after the founding of the modern state of Israel, Matthew Hughes charted eight key moments in the history of the hostilities
encoded: Early Jewish settlement 19th century Palestine did not formally exist as a country before the First World War, when the British fixed Palestine’s borders after their conquest of what would become Iraq, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. For hundreds of years before the British took control, Palestine had been divided into provinces of the Ottoman empire, and had very few Jewish inhabitants. Indeed, at the start of the 19th century the Jewish population of the territory soon to be defined as Palestine was small – only about 3%. The majority of the region’s inhabitants were Arabs, mostly Sunni Muslim, who had occupied the region since the seventh-century Arab conquest; there was also a sizeable Christian minority. Together, these formed the population that would be considered – despite the lack of a formally recognised country – as Palestinians. The Jewish people of Palestine in 1800 were not farmers or settlers but instead lived in towns and worked as merchants or religious teachers. As the 19th century progressed, European Jews – influenced by the rise of nationalism in Europe – began to look to Palestine as the place for a possible Jewish homeland. A wave of Jewish people came to the country in an Aliyah (‘ascent’) starting in the 1880s, making their homes on land bought from Palestinians. This brought a new type of Jew to Palestine, there to settle the land; these adopted tough new names such as Oz (‘strength’). More settlers followed as Jewish people fled anti-Semitic pogroms in Europe, a situation exacerbated by the rise of rightwing sentiment that presaged Nazi rule of Germany from 1933. Settlement was core to Zionism – a Jewish nationalist movement – because it demanded land for a Jewish state. Zionists based their national claim to Palestine on ancient Jewish settlement of the area before the Romans expelled Jews from the region in the second century AD following two major Jewish revolts against their rule. Zionism and Jewish settlement were seen as a retu…

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Architecture & hidden Jewish history in Eastern Europe
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date: 2022-06-15T11:28:38.000Z
creator: Helen Carr
subject: 20th Century
subject: Membership
subject: Period
subject: Holocaust
subject: Judaism
description: Natalia Romik discusses her research into what architecture can reveal about the often hidden Jewish history of Eastern Europe
encoded: As part of our series of conversations with winners of the 2022 Dan David Prize, Natalia Romik explains to Helen Carr what architecture can reveal about the often hidden Jewish history of Eastern Europe. In particular, she explores the hiding places used by Jews during the Holocaust. The Dan David Prize is the world's largest history prize, which recognizes outstanding historical scholarship. Find out more at dandavidprize.org or browse episodes featuring other winners

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Women of the Rothschild dynasty
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date: 2022-01-18T16:44:07.000Z
creator: Elinor Evans
subject: General History
subject: Membership
subject: Period
subject: Judaism
description: Natalie Livingstone chronicles the unexplored lives of the women who shaped the famous Rothschild banking dynasty
encoded: Historian Natalie Livingstone chronicles the unexplored lives of the women who shaped the famous Rothschild banking dynasty. She speaks to Elinor Evans about how – though often excluded in a patriarchal society – they forged their own paths, from influential hostesses to pioneering scientists. Natalie Livingstone is the author of The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty (John Murray, 2021) Buy now on Bookshop.org Buy now on Amazon Buy now on Waterstones How to download the HistoryExtra podcast Download as MP3

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The Clifford’s Tower massacre & medieval anti-Semitism
type: item
date: 2021-03-15T15:03:39.000Z
subject: Medieval
subject: Membership
subject: Period
subject: Judaism
subject: Murder
description: Dean Irwin explains the story of the 1190 anti-Semitic massacre at Clifford’s Tower in York, and how it fits into the wider story of England’s medieval Jewish population
encoded: In March 1190, all the Jewish residents of York lost their lives in an anti-Semitic massacre at Clifford’s Tower. Dean Irwin explains what happened, and how it fits into the wider story of England’s medieval Jewish population. Read more: The persecution of Jews in medieval England

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German Jews in WW1
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date: 2021-01-02T12:19:32.000Z
subject: 20th Century
subject: First World War
subject: Membership
subject: Period
subject: Judaism
description: Tim Grady gives a lecture exploring the varied experiences of German Jews in the First World War
encoded: In a lecture he delivered at our 2019 History Weekend in Chester based on his book, A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War, Tim Grady reveals how German Jews played a central role in the First World War, and considers how they were impacted by the legacies of the conflict.

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How did the Reformation impact Jews?
type: item
date: 2020-12-03T12:31:17.000Z
subject: Membership
subject: Tudor
subject: Period
subject: Judaism
description: Kenneth Austin explores what impact the Reformation had on Europe’s Jewish communities.
encoded: Historian Kenneth Austin explores what impact the Reformation of the 16th century had on Europe’s Jewish communities and their relations with their Christian neighbours.

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The Jews of medieval England
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date: 2019-02-27T09:00:40.000Z
subject: Medieval
subject: Membership
subject: Period
subject: Judaism
subject: Medieval life
description: Jewish people first began arriving in England following the Norman Conquest in 1066 and their histories can be traced in the country’s major cities today. Through the story of a bronze cauldron known as the Bodleian Bowl, historian Rebecca Abrams explores the experiences of Jews in medieval England, from prosperity to persecution…
encoded: Jewish communities spread rapidly throughout the Mediterranean world from the first century AD, but it was not until the 11th century that Jewish people in any significant number began to cross the Channel and settle in England. This magnificent bronze cauldron, from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford (pictured below), is intimately bound up with the story of how the Jews first came to England in 1070, and what happened to them during the next 200 years before they were abruptly expelled from the country in 1290. Known as the Bodleian Bowl, it was discovered at the end of the 17th century in a disused moat in Norfolk, and remained shrouded in mystery for several hundred years. It was bought in 1742 by Dr Richard Rawlinson, who bequeathed it to the University of Oxford on his death in 1755. Standing almost 25cm high and weighing in at a hefty 5kg, the bowl has a long Hebrew inscription encircling the rim and is impressively decorated with hoof-shaped feet, birds, flowers, stags and fleurs-de-lys. The bowl’s value and importance were beyond doubt, but who owned it, what it was for and how it ended up in a Norfolk moat resisted answers for a long time. The Marquis of Northampton, writing in 1696, thought the bowl “a great mystery” and described it as a “rabbinical porridge pot”, intended by its users to symbolise the biblical pot of manna. Other theories were that it might have been used by rabbis to wash their hands during ritual observance, or to hold water during the preparation of the dead for burial. It is now generally agreed that it was in all likelihood used to collect charitable donations. The Hebrew inscription also puzzled scholars with its tantalising mixture of abbreviations, missing letters and words without clear meaning. A credible translation for the inscription reads: "This is the gift of Joseph, son of the Holy Rabbi Yechiel, may the memory of the righteous holy one be for a blessing, who answered and asked the congregation as he desired, in order to beh…

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Songs of the Holocaust: the music of Aleksander Kulisiewicz
type: item
date: 2019-01-24T07:54:46.000Z
subject: Membership
subject: Second World War
subject: Period
subject: Holocaust
subject: Judaism
description: Aleksander Kulisiewicz survived five years in a Nazi concentration camp, where he committed the music and lyrics of his fellow inmates to memory. As Mark Burman recounts, it was an act of defiance that allows us to glimpse a manmade hell
encoded: This article was first published in the February 2019 edition of BBC History Magazine Accompanies the BBC World Service documentary Songs from the Depths of Hell, produced by Mark Burman Aleksander Kulisiewicz lay in a Polish infirmary seemingly babbling. The doctor assumed he was raving. Kulisiewicz thought he was dying. He had survived five years of incarceration in Sachsenhausen concentration camp and the subsequent death march ordered by the SS as the Soviets closed in, in April 1945. But the nurse attending Kulisiewicz realised he was urging her to transcribe what he was feverishly reciting. She began copying down what would become hundreds of pages of lyrics. Songs of the damned and the dead. Songs of utter darkness or wicked portraits of camp life. Songs of longing for home or loved ones. Among them 54 of his own compositions. Recovered, Kulisiewicz would spend the rest of his life performing and collecting songs and stories of the survivors of the Nazi concentration camp system, which had imprisoned and murdered millions. It’s a body of work that represents the largest single source of music composed in the concentration camps. He died in 1982 before completing a 3,000-page musical survey that had increasingly absorbed his life to the detriment of his family and marriage. Read more from the February 2019 issue of BBC History Magazine here, including: The invasion that spelled doom for the Anglo-Saxons The women who wouldn’t be silenced in Reformation France There was precious little interest in all of this in his native Poland, which had been largely stripped of its Jewish population and was in thrall to manipulative communist narratives about the Holocaust. Kulisiewicz’s vast collection of tapes and papers began gathering dust – effectively in storage at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, until in 1993 it was brought to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Even now its contents are still being catalogued. A CD that emerged, Ba…

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Sewing for the Nazis: who were the dressmakers of Auschwitz?
type: item
date: 2017-11-10T10:15:29.000Z
subject: Membership
subject: Period
subject: Second World War
subject: Holocaust
subject: Judaism
description: You may have heard of the musicians of Auschwitz – prisoners forced to provide orchestra music as other inmates marched to work – but chances are you've never heard about the dressmakers. Here, costume historian Lucy Adlington reveals some startling facts about the concentration camp's thriving fashion workshop, where a group of female prisoners served as seamstresses for a vain elite
encoded: Anti-Semitism in Hitler’s Third Reich was fuelled by state-endorsed racism and personal greed. Perpetrators of the Final Solution put far more value on Jewish plunder than they did on Jewish lives, and high-ranking Nazi officials and their families were more than happy to wear clothes created by those they considered on a par with vermin. Nothing highlights this obscene indulgence more than the establishment of a fashion workshop – known as the Upper Tailoring Studio – in the middle of Auschwitz. Thousands of people were forced to work in sewing workshops set up in ghettos and concentration camps during the Second World War. However, this particular workshop was not for making or mending military uniforms. Instead, it was created purely for a vain elite who satisfied their love of fashion in the middle of a hell on Earth… A workshop for the commandant’s wife The Auschwitz commandant’s wife, Hedwig Hoess, had come a long way from her ‘back to the land’ rural roots when she first employed two local Polish seamstresses to sew in her villa overlooking the concentration camp. Hedwig called life in the villa “paradise”. There she could indulge in luxury items from the best couture houses of Europe. These included fabrics and fashions selected from the mounds of plunder being processed in vast warehouses in the camp, just a short distance from her beloved flower garden. Prisoners carried out the processing of goods, even coming across belongings of their own murdered relatives as they did so. When other officers’ wives and female guards grew envious of her wardrobe, Hedwig opened an elite dressmaking workshop – the Upper Tailoring Studio – inside the camp itself. A needle was a prized possession in the concentration camp universe. Deportees were deliberately humiliated on arrival at the camps by being forced to undress in public and hand over all their clothes before having all hair shaved. Thus vulnerable and degraded, they struggled to hold on to their identity. Those fe…

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The big questions of the Holocaust
type: item
date: 2017-01-05T10:50:49.000Z
subject: Membership
subject: Period
subject: Second World War
subject: Holocaust
subject: Judaism
description: Laurence Rees joins us to explore some of the key debates in the history of the Nazi genocide of the Jews.
encoded: Historian, author and broadcaster Laurence Rees joins us to discuss his upcoming book The Holocaust: A New History and consider some of the key debates in the history of the Nazi genocide of the Jews.

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