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The Parable and Its Lesson: A Novella by S. Y. Agnon
RRP: $27.08$23.49S.Y. Agnon was the greatest Hebrew writer of the twentieth century, and the only Hebrew writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. He devoted the last years of his life to writing a massive cycle of stories about Buczacz, the Galician town (now in... -
The Saturday Morning Murder: A Psychoanalytic Case by Batya Gur 9780060995089
RRP: $25.79$18.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060995089Author Batya GurFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 227g -
Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis by Robert Graves
RRP: $19.34$14.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644210550Author Robert GravesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
Old Truths and New Cliches: Essays by Isaac Bashevis Singer by Isaac Bashevis Singer
RRP: $25.80$20.05From the Nobel Prize-winning writer, a new collection of literary and personal essaysOld Truths and New Cliches collects nineteen essays-most of them previously unpublished in English-by Isaac Bashevis Singer on topics that were central to his artistic... -
Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London 1884-1914 by Vivi Lachs 9780814343555
RRP: $36.06$29.13New perspectives on Anglo-Jewish history via the poetry and song of Yiddish-speaking immigrants in London from 1884 to 1914. Archive material from the London Yiddish press, songbooks, and satirical writing offers a window into an untold cultural life of... -
Milton and the Rabbis: Hebraism, Hellenism, and Christianity by Jeffrey Shoulson 9780231123297
RRP: $38.70$29.44Taking as its starting point the long-standing characterization of Milton as a "Hebraic" writer, Milton and the Rabbis probes the limits of the relationship between the seventeenth-century English poet and polemicist and his Jewish antecedents... -
Hannah Arendt: Life Is a Narrative by Julia Kristeva
RRP: $24.50$22.37In this volume, based on the series of Alexander Lectures she delivered at the University of Toronto, Julia Kristeva explores the philosophical aspects of Hannah Arendt's work: her understanding of such concepts as language, self, body, political space,... -
Jews and Words by Amos Oz
RRP: $14.18$12.09A celebrated novelist and an acclaimed historian of ideas, father and daughter, unravel the chain of words at the core of Jewish life, history, and culture Why are words so important to so many Jews? Novelist Amos Oz and historian Fania Oz-Salzberger... -
Well-Kept Ruins by Helene Cixous
RRP: $20.63$17.83A genre-defying book from one of France's most well-known philosopher-writers. In the Lower Saxony region of northwestern Germany sits the city of Osnabruck. This is where, in 1648, the Peace of Westphalia was signed, bringing the Thirty Years' War and... -
Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture by Josh Lambert
RRP: $46.44$39.98Winner of the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award presented by the Association for Jewish Studies Jews have played an integral role in the history of obscenity in America. For most of the 20th century, Jewish entrepreneurs and editors led the charge... -
Hebrew Gothic: History and the Poetics of Persecution by Karen Grumberg
RRP: $38.69$33.53Sinister tales written since the early 20th century by the foremost Hebrew authors, including S. Y. Agnon, Leah Goldberg, and Amos Oz, reveal a darkness at the foundation of Hebrew culture. The ghosts of a murdered Talmud scholar and his kidnapped bride... -
Shakespeare and the Jews by James Shapiro
RRP: $36.12$27.55First published in 1996, James Shapiro's pathbreaking analysis of the portrayal of Jews in Elizabethan England challenged readers to recognize the significance of Jewish questions in Shakespeare's day. From accounts of Christians masquerading as Jews to... -
Dirshuni: Contemporary Women's Midrash by Tamar Biala
RRP: $30.96$26.47A unique compilation of contemporary women's midrashim. Dirshuni: Contemporary Women's Midrash, is the first-ever English edition of a historic collection of midrashim composed by Israeli women, which has been long-anticipated by multiple American... -
Third-Generation Holocaust Narratives: Memory in Memoir and Fiction by Victoria Aarons 9781498517164
RRP: $116.10$107.22This collection of new essays examines third-generation Holocaust narratives and the inter-generational transmission of trauma and memory. This collection demonstrates the ways in which memory of the Holocaust has been passed along inter-generationally... -
Word Unheard: A Guide Through Eliot's Four Quartets by Harry Blamires 9781138998445
RRP: $42.56$37.62Eliot's Four Quartets is arguably the finest long poem in modern English literature. It is also one that presents considerable problems of interpretation. In Word Unheard, first published in 1969, Blamires aims to unravel some of these problems by... -
KJV, Life in the Spirit Study Bible, Bonded Leather, Burgundy, Indexed, Red Letter Edition: Formerly Full Life Study by Thomas Nelson 9780310927570
RRP: $55.47$52.52Discover the Biblical Foundations of living a spirit-led lifestyle. The KJV Life in the Spirit Study Bible will help guide you into a Christ-centered, righteous and Spirit-led lifestyle. In a culture that requires believers to depend strongly on God and... -
Feeling Jewish: (A Book for Just About Anyone) by Devorah Baum
RRP: $25.79$21.89In this sparkling debut, a young critic offers an original, passionate, and erudite account of what it means to feel Jewish-even when you're not. Self-hatred. Guilt. Resentment. Paranoia. Hysteria. Overbearing Mother-Love. In this witty, insightful, and... -
The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World by George Prochnik 9781783781164
RRP: $12.89$8.64By the 1930s, Stefan Zweig, born to an affluent Jewish family in Vienna, had become the most widely translated living author in the world. His novels, short stories, and biographies became instant bestsellers, and his cultural patronage, his generosity,... -
Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Ilan Stavans
RRP: $11.60$8.32The story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the centuries. In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to Jewish literature from 1492 to the present, cultural... -
The Idea of Modern Jewish Culture by Eliezer Schweid 9781936235094
RRP: $27.08$25.44The vast majority of intellectual, religious, and national developments in modern Judaism revolve around the central idea of 'Jewish culture'. This book is the first synoptic view of these developments that organises and relates them from this vantage... -
The JPS Torah Commentary: Genesis by Nahum M. Sarna 9780827603264
RRP: $104.49$90.57The JPS Torah Commentary series guides readers through the words and ideas of the Torah. Each volume is the work of a scholar who stands at the pinnacle of his field. Every page contains the complete traditional Hebrew text, with cantillation notes, the... -
Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's 'on the Concept of History' by Michael Lowy 9781784786410
$19.34Revolutionary critic of the philosophy of progress, nostalgic of the past yet dreaming of the future, romantic partisan of materialism - Walter Benjamin is in every sense of the word an "unclassifiable" philosopher. His essay "On the Concept of History"... -
The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 by Peter Cole
RRP: $36.12$28.07Hebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible. Fusing elements of East and West, Arabic and Hebrew, and the particular and the universal, this verse... -
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Primo Levi by Nicholas Patruno 9781603291484
RRP: $50.25$41.22The first part of this volume provides instructors with an overview of the available editions, anthologies, and translations of Levi's work and identifies other useful classroom aids, such as films, music, and online resources. In the second part,... -
Mongrels or Marvels: The Levantine Writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff by Deborah A. Starr
RRP: $38.69$34.04The writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff (1917-1979) offer a refreshing reassessment of Arab-Jewish relations in the Middle East. A member of the bourgeois Jewish community in Cairo, Kahanoff grew up in a time of coexistence. She spent the years of... -
Judeo-Persian Writings: A Manifestation of Intellectual and Literary Life by Nahid Pirnazar
RRP: $64.49$56.12Introducing Judeo-Persian writings, this original collection gives parallel samples in Judeo-Persian and Perso-Arabic script and translations in English. Judeo-Persian writings not only reflect the twenty-seven centuries of Jewish life in Iran, but they... -
Antisemitism: An Ancient Hatred in the Age of Identity Politics by Philip Slayton
RRP: $19.34$12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990823107Author Philip SlaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc. -
The Jewish Decadence: Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity by Jonathan Freedman
$34.15As Jewish writers, artists, and intellectuals made their way into Western European and Anglo-American cultural centers, they encountered a society obsessed with decadence. An avant-garde movement characterized by self-consciously artificial art and... -
Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919-1939 by Allison Schachter 9780810144361
RRP: $45.09$37.13In Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919-1939, Allison Schachter rewrites Jewish literary modernity from the point of view of women. Focusing on works by interwar Hebrew and Yiddish writers, Schachter illuminates how women writers embraced the... -
Books Like Sapphires: From the Library of Congress Judaica Collection by Ann Brener 9781684581986
RRP: $51.60$40.98Illustrated highlights from the Judaica Collection of the Library of Congress. Books Like Sapphires showcases a wide range of Hebraic treasures from the storied collection at the Library of Congress, many of them for the first time. Tracing the history... -
Shining And Shadow: An Anthology of Early Yiddish Stories from the Lower East Side by Albert Waldinger 9781575911076
RRP: $121.26$68.38Shining and Shadow is a translated anthology of Yiddish short fiction of the Lower East Side, the center of a vibrant Jewish (largely Russian Jewish) life. Waldinger's goal is to present both the past and present of a population forced by poverty and... -
Image of the Shtetl and Other Studies of Modern Jewish Literary Imagination by Dan Miron 9780815628576
RRP: $55.41$45.82This volume - a sequel to the author's A traveler disguised - further develops the analysis of the fictionality and aesthetic autonomy of the classics of Yiddish fiction. The essays in this work concentrate on the artistic reconstruction of the world... -
Suppression of the Erotic in Modern Hebrew Literature by Nitsa Ben-Ari 9780776606064
RRP: $34.83$28.70Issues of sexuality, censorship, and self-censorship in the formation of national and cultural identities are a focus of great interest in contemporary literary research. This is the first work of its kind to study these combined issues in the context of... -
Language, Absence, Play: Judaism and Superstructuralism in the Poetics of S. Y. Agnon by Yaniv Hagbi 9780815632276
RRP: $38.64$31.13Nobel Prize - winning author S. Y. Agnon was the foremost Hebrew writer of the twentieth century. His work navigated the world of Jewish tradition and that of secular modernity, capturing the conflict between old and new. In ""Language,... -
An Ideological Death: Suicide in Israeli Literature by Rachel S. Harris 9780810129788
RRP: $103.20$96.71An Ideological Death: Suicide in Israeli Literature examines literary challenges to Israel's national narratives. The centrality of the army, the mythology of the New Jew, the vision of the first Israeli city, Tel Aviv, and the very process by which a... -
A Hundred Acres of America: The Geography of Jewish American Literary History by Michael Hoberman 9780813589695
$42.39Jewish writers have long had a sense of place in the United States, and interpretations of American geography have appeared in Jewish American literature from the colonial era forward. But troublingly, scholarship on Jewish American literary history... -
Strangers in Berlin: Modern Jewish Literature between East and West, 1919-1933 by Rachel Seelig 9780472130092
RRP: $60.57$49.41Berlin in the 1920s was a cosmopolitan hub where for a brief, vibrantmoment German-Jewish writers crossed paths with Hebrew and Yiddishmigrant writers. Working against the prevailing tendency to view Germanand East European Jewish cultures as separate... -
Never Better!: The Modern Jewish Picaresque by Miriam Udel 9780472073054
RRP: $82.56$67.35Never Better! concerns the polit ("fugitive"), a literary type-an "unheroic hero"-who is rather like the picaro ("rogue") from whom the Picaresque genre takes its name. Focusing primarily, but not exclusively, on Yiddish... -
Jewish in America by Sara B. Blair 9780472068807
RRP: $33.48$27.14"Jewish culture in America is creating a genuinely new archive---a powerful admixture of texts old and new, Jewish and gentile, sacred and secular, on which our writers and critics offer creative commentary and to which they make compelling response... -
The Universal Jew: Masculinity, Modernity and the Zionist Movement by Mikhal Dekel
RRP: $38.64$31.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810127173Author Mikhal DekelFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Northwestern University PressPublisher Northwestern University PressWeight(grams) 397g