The three million-strong Jewish community constituted almost ten per cent of the population of the Polish state that emerged from the Great War in 1918. In the turbulent years of Poland’s reformation many of them suffered from anti-Semitic excesses and a number of pogroms. However, the threat of violence and an electoral system biased in favour of big parties proved insufficient in uniting the ...

the present article studies the quds city and the holy status it has gained in the history. it also reviews its geographical and historical characteristics in time especially the historical demography of this city and its neighbors in the 16th century. this century starts with the occupation of the city by crusaders and thus the decrement of population due to the death of 70 thousand people of ...

Much has changed in the ten years since I argued for Levinasian alternatives to the Law and Economics movements in one of the first articles on Levinas to appear in a U.S. law review. 1 Levinas scholarship has expanded considerably, especially with respect to the practical applications of his purposefully impractical philosophy. Despite his well-known aversion to the subject, Levinas' political...