The Jewish Experience of the First World War

Edward Madigan is Lecturer in Public History and First World War Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Gideon Reuveni is Director of the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. His most recent book publication is Consumer Culture and the Making of Jewish Identity (2017), which won the National Jewish Book award in 2018.

1.The International Jewish Community in a World at War; Gideon Reuveni and Edward Madigan.- Part One: Eastern Fronts.- 2.Between Light and Darkness: Jewish Education in Time of War; Björn Siegel.- 3. Eastern Promises: Jewish Germans in the German Administration of Eastern Europe during the First World War; Philip Nielsen.- 4.Bread, Butter and Education: The Yiddishist Movements in Poland, 1914 – 1916; Emma Zohar.- 5.War and Nationalism in Palestine: The Jewish migration committee in the Galilee during the First World War; Esther Yankelevitch.- 6. Towards a Consolidation of Zionist National Consciousness in Palestine during the First World War: A Local Urban Perspective; Anat Kidron.- Part Two: Westerns Fronts.- 7. A Mixed Bag of Loyalties: Ethnic, Religious, and State-based Minorities in the German Army, 1914-1918; Gavin Wiens.- 8. Between Inclusion and Exclusion: The Experiencesof Jewish Soldiers in Europe and the USA, 1914–1918; Sarah Panter.- 9. Between Faith and Nation: Italian Jewish Soldiers in the Great War; Vanda Wilcox.- 10. The Jewish Battalion and the First World War; Christopher Smith.- Part Three: Post-War Memory and Commemoration.- 11. The Female Side of War: The Experience and Memory of the Great War in Italian-Jewish Women’s Ego-Documents; Ruth Natterman.- 12. Once “the Only True Austrians”: Mobilising Jewish Memory of the First World War for Belonging in the New Austrian Nation, 1929 – 1938; Tim Corbett.- 13. The Iron Shield of David:  The First World War and the Creation of German Jewish Markers of Patriotism and Memory; Michal Friedlander.- 14.‘Thou hast given us Home and Freedom, Mother England’: Anglo-Jewish Gratitude, Patriotism and Service during and after the First World War; Edward Madigan.- Index