DIVAn account of the rise, fall, and persistence of the 20th century's Black Zionist dream -- the movement's creation of a homeland in Africa./div

Brothers and Strangers traces the history of German Jewish attitudes, policies, and stereotypical images toward Eastern European Jews, demonstrating the ways in which the historic rupture between Eastern and Western Jewry developed as a function of modernism and its imperatives. By the 1880s, most German Jews had inherited and used such negative images to symbolize rejection of their own ghetto past and to emphasize the contrast between modern “enlightened” Jewry and its “half-Asian” counterpart. Moreover, stereotypes of the ghetto and the Eastern Jew figured prominently in the growth and disposition of German anti-Semitism. Not everyone shared these negative preconceptions, however, and over the years a competing post-liberal image emerged of the Ostjude as cultural hero. Brothers and Strangers examines the genesis, development, and consequences of these changing forces in their often complex cultural, political, and intellectual contexts.

The last in the Strangers and Brothers series has Sir Lewis Eliot’s heart stop briefly during an operation. During recovery he passes judgement on his achievements and dreams.

The corridors and committee rooms of Whitehall are the setting for the ninth in the Strangers and Brothers series. They are also home to the manipulation of political power. Roger Quaife wages his ban-the-bomb campaign from his seat in the Cabinet and his office at the Ministry.

Tough and cocky Steve Garrett returns to live with his brother and father in the rural Alberta after spending his teen years as a runaway.But as it did in the days before he ran, trouble seems to dog Steve's footsteps. Within two hours of his return, he has made his presence felt in a reckless game of chicken on a back country road. And he has started a feud with the other driver, a big, rough, mean-tempered cowboy.Despite his return to the straight life, Steve has secrets to hide, especially from his brother. How long can it be before the past comes back to haunt him? Somehow it seems like it's only a matter of time.

Biografie van de Engelse auteur (1905-1980) door zijn jongere broer

Time of Hope is the third in the Strangers and Brothers series and tells the story of Lewis Eliot's early life in an English provincial town. As a child he is faced with his father's bankruptcy. As a young man, he finds his career at the legal Bar hindered by a neurotic wife. Separation from her is impossible however because he is absorbed with a total obsession and passionate love. The story goes up to the summer of 1933, when Eliot is age 27.