AS WE REWRITE the history of the post-1945 years in the aftermath of the political upheavals of 1989, we are only now rediscovering what was amply obvious to contemporaries: that occupied Germany in the immedi­ ate postwar period was the unlikely, unloved, and reluctant host to hun­ dreds of thousands of its former victims, housed both inside and outside refugee camps mainly in the American zon...

Marriage is amongst the biggest decisions in life. In general, there is a tendency towards assortative matching – people marry others who are relatively similar to themselves. Intermarriage between different social, religious and ethnic groups in most societies is relatively rare (Blossfeld and Timm 2003). Where it occurs, it is associated with more rapid assimilation (Meng and Gregory 2005). T...

In his article "A Female Adolescent Bystander's Diary and the Jewish Hungarian Holocaust" Gergely Kunt analyzes the unpublished diary manuscript of Margit Molnár, a Hungarian Roman Catholic adolescent girl born in 1927 who kept a diary between 1941 and 1949. Kunt's analysis shows how Molnár viewed Jews, the persecution of Jews, and the anti-Jewish terror in Budapest. As the diary documents, Mol...

Abstract A majority of scholars view the Hasmonean-Spartan correspondence, reported in 1 Maccabees, as inauthentic, since it contains many improbabilities, including assertion that Jews and Spartans are fraternal nations. However, its patent implausibility also renders unimaginable correspondence was intended to be understood literally. Hence, binary choice offered research, whereby is either a...

The widespread belief that the Jews were far more affluent than non-Jews in Hungary decades before Holocaust lacks sufficient empirical corroboration. present study aims to income disparity between and light of anthropometric data. A review physical anthropological literature concerning height menarcheal age from 1850s until World War I, together with an analysis data 1913 conscription measurem...

This essay reviews the following works: Migrations: Poem, 1976–2020. By Gloria Gervitz. Translated from Spanish by Mark Schafer. New York: York Review Books, 2021. Pp. 304. $20.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781681375700. Polacos in Argentina: Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture. Mariusz Kałczewiak. Tuscaloosa: University Alabama Press, 2020. viii + 320. $49.95 ...