Building Our Own Home

Building Our Own Home: Ethnic Identity Among the Jews of Krakow, 1918-1939

Politics & Social Sciences

Martin, Sean

Social Sciences

Frank Cass & Co.

Without lifting a sword, the Cathars posed a threat to Catholicism greater than the Muslims or Jews—or so the Church believed. The Cathars believed that matter was essentially evil—especially the human body—and that the material world had to be transcended through a simple life of prayer, work, fasting, and nonviolence. Today, the mystique surrounding the Cathars is as strong as ever. Their myths and complete history are examined here in The Cathars—the compelling true story of this once peaceful religious sect..

The Cathars: The Most Successful Heresy of the Middle Ages

History

World

Chartwell Books

This book explores the history of the so-called Royal Art, from its mysterious beginnings in Egypt and China, through the Hellenistic world and the early years of Islam and into medieval Europe.

Alchemy and Alchemists

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

The author looks at the origins of the disease and traces its terrible march through Europe from the Italian cities to Scandinavia.

The Black Death

Europe

Vallentine, Mitchell

Re-evaluates the way Jews lived among Poles without abandoning their Jewish heritage.  By focusing on the history of the Jewish press, schools and other cultural institutions, the book examines how Jews in the same community created varying ethnic and national identities in order to cope with the demands of living in the majority Polish society.  Being based on sources in Yiddish, Polish and Hebrew makes the book a thorough study of one of Poland's largest Jewish communities.

Re-evaluates the way Jews lived among Poles without abandoning their Jewish heritage. By focusing on the history of the Jewish press, schools and other cultural institutions, the book examines how Jews in the same community created varying ethnic and national identities in order to cope with the demands of living in the majority Polish society. Being based on sources in Yiddish, Polish and Hebrew makes the book a thorough study of one of Poland's largest Jewish communities.

Jewish Life in Cracow 1918-1939

Re-evaluates the way Jews lived among Poles without abandoning their Jewish heritage. By focusing on the history of the Jewish press, schools and other cultural institutions, the book examines how Jews in the same community created varying ethnic and national identities in order to cope with the demands of living in the majority Polish society. Being based on sources in Yiddish, Polish and Hebrew makes the book a thorough study of one of Poland's largest Jewish communities.

Catharism was the most successful heresy of the Middle Ages. The Cathars taught that the world is evil and must be transcended through a simple life of prayer, work, fasting, and non-violence. They completely rejected the Catholic Church and all its trappings; Cathar services and ceremonies, by contrast, were held in fields, barns, and in people's homes. Finding support from the nobility in the fractious political situation in southern France, the Cathars also found widespread popularity among peasants and artisans. And again unlike the Church, the Cathars respected women, and women played a major role in the movement. Alarmed at the success of Catharism, the Church founded the Inquisition and launched the Albigensian Crusade to exterminate the heresy. While previous Crusades had been directed against Muslims in the Middle East, the Albigensian Crusade was the first Crusade to be directed against fellow Christians, and was also the first European genocide. With the fall of the Cathar fortress of Montsegur in 1244, Catharism was largely obliterated, although the faith survived into the early 14th century. Today, the mystique surrounding the Cathars is as strong as ever, and Sean Martin recounts their story and the myths associated with them in this lively and gripping book.

History of the Cathars (Pocket Essential series)

Oldcastle Books

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Building Our Own Home: Ethnic Identity Among the Jews of Krakow, 1918-1939

Building Our Own Home: Ethnic Identity Among the Jews of Krakow, 1918-1939

The Cathars: The Most Successful Heresy of the Middle Ages

Alchemy and Alchemists

The Black Death

Building Our Own Home

Building Our Own Home

Jewish Life in Cracow 1918-1939

Jewish Life in Cracow 1918-1939

History of the Cathars (Pocket Essential series)