Open Access
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The Compromise of Return
Viennese Jews after the Holocaust
Explores the realities that Viennese Jews faced while reestablishing their lives upon returning home after the Holocaust.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814348383
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814348130
Working Detroit
Working Detroit documents the events in the city's ongoing struggle to build an industrial society that is both prosperous and humane.
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814345092
All Our Yesterdays
A Brief History of Detroit
All Our Yesterdays traces Detroit's history from its earliest settlement into the 1960s.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814344439
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814343401
Survival and Regeneration
Detroit’s American Indian Community
Survival and Regeneration tells the story of Detroit's significant and oft-forgotten Native American community.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814343326
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814343333
Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes
Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes traces the evolution of the Great Lakes shipping industry over the last three centuries.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814343340
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814338353
Queen of the Lakes
Queen of the Lakes, perfect for coffee tables, lakefront cabins, and boat lovers' bookshelves, tells the story of each of the ships that has been honored with the title "Queen of the Great Lakes."
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814343364
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814343371
John Jacob Astor
Business and Finance in the Early Republic
Biography of John Jacob Astor's life and his career as a merchant, fur trader, and land speculator as vehicles for examining several important themes and issues in American economic and urban development between 1790 and 1860.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814343449
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814343432
The Troubled Origins of the Italian Catholic Labor Movement, 1878–1914
Sándor Agócs presents an intellectual and social history of the nascent Italian labor movement, exploring the conflicts between the conservative Catholic hierarchy and Catholic activists.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814343302
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814343319
Without Bounds
The Life and Death of Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana
Without Bounds illuminates the life of the mysterious Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814343241
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814343258
Detroit on Stage
The Players Club, 1910-2005
Detroit on Stage traces the extraordinary history of Detroit’s The Players Club from its beginnings in 1910 until present.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814343227
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814343234
Harry Bertoia, Printmaker
Monotypes and Other Monographics
A representative of the principle styles and themes that emerges from Harry Bertoia’s printmaking and structure work.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814343692
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814343708
"Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights"
Michigan, 1948-1968
"Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights" documents an important shift in state level policy to make clear that civil rights in Michigan embraced all people.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814343289
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814343296
American Aliya
Portrait of an Innovative Migration Movement
A broad analysis of the phenomenon of American migration to Israel.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814343425
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814343418
All-American Anarchist
Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement
All-American Anarchist offers a comprehensive biography of influential Detroit labor activist Joseph A. Labadie.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814343265
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814343272
From East to West
The Westward Migration of Jews from Eastern Europe During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Covers the period of the Chmielnicki Massacre and the Thirty Years War, and the movement of impoverished Jewish refugees into Western Europe.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814343463
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814343456
American Jewry and the Holocaust
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1939-1945
Focus on the efforts made to aid European victims of World War II by the New York-based American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814343487
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814343470
A Bibliography of Jewish Education in the United States
Entries from thousands of publications whether in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and German on all aspects of Jewish education from pre-school through secondary education.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814343500
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814343494
Constructing Modern Identities
Jewish University Students in Germany, 1815-1914
By examining the lives and social dynamics of Jewish university students, Pickus shows how German Jews rearranged their self-images and redefined what it meant to be Jewish.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814343524
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814343517
Anti-Semitic Stereotypes without Jews
Images of the Jews in England 1290-1700
A study of the persistence of anti-Semitic stereotypes for 400 years in a society almost completely devoid of a Jewish population.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814343548
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814343531
No Haven for the Oppressed
United States Policy Toward Jewish Refugees, 1938-1945
A comprehensive analysis on the United States policy toward Jewish refugees during World War II.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814343739
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814343746