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Robert Michael (historian)
Robert Michael (1936–2010) was a Professor Emeritus of European History at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He is the father of singer-songwriter Avi Jacob. Bibliography Books * A History of Catholic Antisemitism: The Dark Side of the Church (2008), Palgrave Macmillan * Holy Hatred: Christianity, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust (2006) Palgrave Macmillan. * A Concise History of American Antisemitism: (2005). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. * Dictionary of Antisemitism: From the Earliest Times to the Present (2007). Greenwood Press. * Nazi Deutsch/Nazi German: An English Lexicon of the Language of the Third Reich oauthor(2002) Greenwood Press * The Holocaust Chronicle: A History in Words and Picture oauthor(1998) Publications International, Ltd. * The Holocaust: A Chronology and Documentary (1998) Jason Aronson Publishers * The Houghton -Mifflin Guide to the Internet for History (1996) Houghton-Mifflin * Fatal Image (1992) Ginn Press * Fatal Visio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avi Jacob
Avi Jacob is an American singer-songwriter originally from Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Life and career Avi was born in a Jewish family in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. His father, an historian, is the author of several books about the Holocaust. Jacob left home in his teen years to live in Boston. He spent the next several years developing skills as a songwriter and performer. While living in Boston, he was involved in the DIY music community The Whitehaus Family Record and released several amateur recordings with them. Jacob moved to Charleston, South Carolina in 2010 and began to focus on his professional career in music by playing small music festivals, and being featured in music blogs and samplers. Avi is a writer of the Diana DeMuth song "All the Liars" released in 2020 He unofficially released the song ''Cannonball'' in 2014 on social media. In December 2015, he was brought to CMJ by the band Counting Crows who named him the best folk emerging superstar. He opened for Dr John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Massachusetts Dartmouth
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (UMass Dartmouth or UMassD) is a public research university in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. It is the southernmost campus of the University of Massachusetts system. Formerly Southeastern Massachusetts University (known locally as SMU), it was merged into the University of Massachusetts system in 1991.UMassD website history. The campus has an overall student body of 8,513 students (school year 2019–2020), including 6,841 undergraduates and 1,672 graduate/law students. As of the 2019–2020 academic year, UMass Dartmouth had 402 full-time faculty on staff. The Dartmouth campus also includes the |
Australian Association For Jewish Studies
The Australian Association for Jewish Studies (AAJS) is a scholarly organization in Australia that promotes academic Jewish Studies. AAJS was founded in 1987 and held its first annual conference that year in Melbourne. AAJS is Australia's national association for tertiary academics, Jewish educators, researchers, curators, students and others devoted to the study of any aspect of Jewish life, thought and culture. Since February 2017, the president of the association has been Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann. The current vice-presidents are Dr Lynne Swarts (NSW) and Dr Anna Hirsh (Victoria). AAJS annual conferences have been held all over Australia, for example Canberra ( ACT Jewish Community, 2021), Sydney (Sydney Jewish Museum, 2020, 2017; UNSW and Shalom College, 2015), Melbourne (Monash University, 2019; Deakin University, 2022), Perth (St Catherine’s College, University of Western Australia, 2018), Brisbane (Griffith University, 2016) and Adelaide (The University of Adelaid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Historians
This is a list of historians only for those with a biographical entry in Wikipedia. Major chroniclers and annalists are included. Names are listed by the person's historical period. The entries continue with the specializations, not nationality. Antiquity Greco-Roman world Classical period *Herodotus (484 – c. 420 BCE), Halicarnassus, wrote the '' Histories'', which established Western historiography *Thucydides (460 – c. 400 BCE), Peloponnesian War *Xenophon (431 – c. 360 BCE), Athenian knight and student of Socrates *Ctesias (early 4th century BCE), Greek historian of Assyrian, Persian, and Indian history Hellenistic period * Ephorus of Cyme (c. 400–330 BCE), Greek history *Theopompus (c. 380 – c. 315 BCE), Greek history *Eudemus of Rhodes (c. 370 – c. 300 BCE), Greek historian of science *Ptolemy I Soter (367 – c. 283 BCE), general of Alexander the Great, founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty * Duris of Samos (c. 350 – post-281 BCE), Greek history *Berossus (early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antisemitism
Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is considered to be a form of racism. Antisemitism has historically been manifested in many ways, ranging from expressions of hatred of or discrimination against individual Jews to organized pogroms by mobs, police forces, or genocide. Although the term did not come into common usage until the 19th century, it is also applied to previous and later anti-Jewish incidents. Notable instances of persecution include the Rhineland massacres preceding the First Crusade in 1096, the Edict of Expulsion from England in 1290, the 1348–1351 persecution of Jews during the Black Death, the massacres of Spanish Jews in 1391, the persecutions of the Spanish Inquisition, the expulsion from Spain in 1492, the Cossack massacres in Ukraine from 1648 to 1657, various anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Historians
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Dartmouth (Massachusett: ) is a coastal town in Bristol County, Massachusetts. Old Dartmouth was the first area of Southeastern Massachusetts to be settled by Europeans, primarily English. Dartmouth is part of New England's farm coast, which consists of a chain of historic coastal villages, vineyards, and farms. June 8, 2014 marked the 350th year of Dartmouth's incorporation as a town. It is also part of the Massachusetts South Coast. The local weekly newspapers are ''The Dartmouth/Westport Chronicle and Dartmouth Week.'' The Portuguese municipality of Lagoa is twinned with the town; along with several other Massachusetts and Rhode Island towns and cities around Bristol County. The northern part of Dartmouth has the town's large commercial districts. The southern part of town abuts Buzzards Bay, and there are several other waterways, including Lake Noquochoke, Cornell Pond, Slocums River, Shingle Island River and Paskamansett River. The town has several working farms and on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1936 Births
Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King Edward VIII. * January 28 – Britain's King George V state funeral takes place in London and Windsor. He is buried at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle * February 4 – Radium E (bismuth-210) becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically. * February 6 – The 1936 Winter Olympics, IV Olympic Winter Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. * February 10–February 19, 19 – Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Battle of Amba Aradam – Italian forces gain a decisive tactical victory, effectively neutralizing the army of the Ethiopian Empire. * February 16 – 1936 Spanish general election: The left-wing Popular Front (Spain), Popular Front coalition takes a majority. * February 26 – February 26 Inci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
