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Discover insights from Professor Ian Worthington on the completion of Brill’s New Jacoby Online, a transformative project that redefines access to ancient Greek historiography and fragmentary authors
When writing “Colonial Diplomacy through Art. Jerusalem 1918–1926,” Moya Tönnies discovered that in 1922 an ensemble of Bethlehem textiles with exceptionally fine embroidery and a silver and gold chin-chain were sent to Buckingham Palace as the representation of Palestine’s “national dress.” After searching for many years where the precious robe is today, the author now asks the readers of this blog: Have you seen Princess Mary’s thob al-malak?
In this episode of “Mahlzeit” by the Humanities Matter podcast from Brill, Prof. Dr. Kassung discusses the origins of meat-eating from 19th century Berlin and unpacks the connections between industrialization and the consumption of pork.
Discussing the exchange of foods across the Eurasian Heartland through the Silk Route, with Dr. Eugene Anderson.
Die Historikerin Dina Porat beleuchtet erstmals umfassend die Geschichte von 50 jungen Frauen und Männern, die im Untergrund in Osteuropa die Schoa überlebten.
Interview with Hans Derks, Ph.D., whose new volume The Market and the Oikos, Vol. II was recently published.
Buchpräsentationen mit Roland Girtler sind immer ein Erlebnis. Von einem solchen berichtet Martin Zellhofer in seinem Blogbeitrag.
In this new episode of Humanities Matter, François Guesnet, Professor of Modern Jewish History in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London, traces the travails and triumphs of the Jewish community in Eastern Europe from the Middle Ages to the present, based on his edited volume.
Dina Porat, professor emeritus of modern Jewish history at the Department of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University and the former chief historian of Yad Vashem, presents for the first time comprehensively the story of 50 young men and women who survived the Shoah as underground fighters in Eastern Europe and after the war surmised a scheme to kill six million Germans.
Dina Porat, emeritierte Professorin für moderne jüdische Geschichte am Institut für Jüdische Geschichte der Universität Tel Aviv und ehemalige Chefhistorikerin von Yad Vashem, stellt zum ersten Mal umfassend die Geschichte von 50 jungen Männern und Frauen vor, die die Shoah als Untergrundkämpfer in Osteuropa überlebten und nach dem Krieg einen Racheakt erdachten: Durch die Vergiftung von Trinkwasser sollten sechs Millionen Deutsche sterben und so der Tod von sechs Millionen Juden vergolten werden.