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The Social Life of the Hebrews by Edward Day 9781498004923
RRP: £32.95£27.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498004923Author Edward DayFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 358g -
The Hebrew Bible, Nationalism and the Origins of Anti-Judaism: A New Interpretation and Poetic Anthology by David Aberbach 9781032215990
RRP: £39.99£35.06In the attempts to unify divided peoples on the basis of a shared past, both historical and mythical, this book illumines aspects of cultural nationalism common since the Middle Ages.As an edited work, the Bible includes texts mostly depicting long-gone... -
The End of Jewish Radar: Snapshots of a Postethnic American Judaism by Stanley D Golub Professor of International Studies Martin S Jaffee 9781440132629
RRP: £10.75£10.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440132629Author Stanley D Golub Professor of International Studies Martin S JaffeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 203Imprint iUniverse.comPublisher iUniverse... -
From an Immigrant Association to a National Education Network by Tamar Horowitz 9780761863113
RRP: £62.00£54.01This book traces the journey of the Mofet Association, an educational coalition established by teachers who immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union. Initially focused on children from the former Soviet Union, the Mofet Association went on to... -
Jewish Secularity: The Search for Roots and the Challenges of Relevant Meaning by Zachary I. Heller 9780761857938
RRP: £66.00£57.43A growing number of Jews identify themselves as secular or "somewhat secular." Is this expansive definition of Jewishness a new phenomenon? What are its roots? What are its implications for the Jewish community, its institutions, and its... -
Justifying the Obligation to Die: War, Ethics, and Political Obligation with Illustrations from Zionism by Ilan Zvi Baron 9780739129739
RRP: £110.00£96.43One of the state's key features is its ability to oblige its citizens to risk their lives on its behalf by being sent into war. However, what is it about the state (or its equivalent) that makes this obligation justifiable? Justifying the Obligation to... -
Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices, 6-volume set by Elliot N. Dorff 9780827609273
RRP: £91.00£79.92This set includes all six volumes in the Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices series, for less than the cost of buying each book separately! Included in the set are these volumes : Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Body; Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Money;... -
Celebrating the Jewish Year, 3-volume set by Paul Steinberg 9780827609020
RRP: £58.00£47.43This set includes all three volumes in the Celebrating the Jewish Year series, for less than the cost of buying each book separately! Included in the set: The Fall Holidays: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot; The Winter Holidays: Hanukkah, Tu B'Shevat,... -
Commandments and Concerns: Jewish Religious Education in Secular Society by Michael Rosenak 9780827602793
RRP: £50.00£36.32In this cutting-edge study, Michael Rosenak provides a new understanding of the challenges inherent in teaching Judaism today. His ground-breaking theories are based on close examination of religious experience in individual's lives, consulting sources... -
Jewish Revival Inside Out: Remaking Jewishness in a Transnational Age by Daniel Monterescu 9780814349182
£106.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814349182Author Daniel MonterescuFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Wayne State University PressPublisher Wayne State University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Errant Destinations by Andrea Jeftanovic 9781666942262
RRP: £81.00£71.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666942262Author Andrea JeftanovicFormat HardbackPage Count 166Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books -
Jerusalem Curiosities by Abraham E. Millgram 9780827603585
RRP: £33.00£27.23Jerusalem is a holy city for Jews, Christians, and Muslims. It is a city of strange contradictions and astonishing curiosities. This book seeks to help readers grasp Jerusalem's unique role in the history of mankind, as it charts the "curiosities" of the... -
American Jewish Films: The Search for Identity by Lawrence J. Epstein 9780786469628
RRP: £21.99£17.97This is a chronological survey of American films with significant Jewish content that made an important statement about America. Both familiar and lesser known films are included. An introduction discusses why American Jews were attracted to films as... -
The Many Ways Jews Loved: A History from Printed Words and Images by Constance Harris 9781476678184
RRP: £21.99£17.97While acknowledging the ways in which persecution inevitably affects a community, this book deviates from most Jewish studies to survey the ways in which Jewish history has been shaped by the everyday experience of love. It examines erotic poetry,... -
Concrete Boxes: Mizrahi Women on Israel's Periphery by Pnina Motzafi-Haller 9780814344422
RRP: £65.00£61.49An evocative feminist ethnography focused on the rarely documented lives of women at the Israeli periphery. Concrete Boxes: Mizrahi Women on Israel's Periphery offers a rich depiction of contemporary life in one marginalized development town in the... -
Testimonial Montage: A Family of Israeli Holocaust Testimonies from the Cracow Ghetto Resistance by Sheila E Jelen 9781666907445
RRP: £85.00£74.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666907445Author Sheila E JelenFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books -
Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals: Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah by Joel Hecker 9780814350935
RRP: £29.95£28.50Focusing on the Jewish mystical literature of late thirteenth-century Spain, author Joel Hecker analyzes how the Zohar and other esoteric literature represent mystical attainment in their homilies about food. What emerges is not only consideration of... -
Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies by Sheila E. Jelen 9780814350812
RRP: £29.95£28.50This volume explores how American Jewish post-Holocaust writers, scholars, and editors adapted pre-Holocaust works, such as Yiddish fiction and documentary photography, for popular consumption by American Jews in the post-Holocaust decades. These texts,... -
Hatemail: Anti-Semitism on Picture Postcards by Salo Aizenberg 9780827609495
RRP: £24.99£22.24Today e-mail, Facebook, and Twitter are sometimes used to spread hateful messages and slurs masking as humor. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries postcards served this purpose. The images collected in this volume make it painfully clear... -
Community and Polity: The Organizational Dynamics of American Jewry by Daniel J. Elazar 9780827605657
£34.10An update and revision of the original 1976 edition. This study presents a two-fold discussion: a basic survey of the structure and functions of the American Jewish community, and a suggestion as to how that community should be understood as a body... -
Staging and Stagers in Modern Jewish Palestine: The Creation of Festive Lore in a New Culture, 1882-1948 by Yaacov Shavit 9780814328453
RRP: £49.95£45.47This case study describes the work of the people responsible for creating festive lore and its system of ceremonies and festivities - an inseparable part of every culture. In the case of the new modern Hebrew culture of Eretz Israel (modern Jewish... -
Jewish Buenos Aires, 1890- 1939: In Search of an Identity by Victor A. Mirelman 9780814344576
RRP: £22.95£21.86Victor Mirelman, in his study of the greatest concentration of Latin American Jewry, examines the changing facade of the Argentinean Jewish community from the beginning of mass Jewish immigration in 1890 to its decline in 1930. During this period, Jews... -
Marketing Identities: The Invention of Jewish Ethnicity in Ost und West by David A. Brenner 9780814345191
RRP: £22.95£21.86Marketing Identities analyzes how Ost und West (East and West), the first Jewish magazine (1901-1923) published in Berlin by westernized Jews originally from Eastern Europe, promoted ethnic identity to Jewish audiences in Germany and throughout the world... -
Cantor William Sharlin: Musical Revolutionary of Reform Judaism by Jonathan L. Friedmann 9781476677064
RRP: £28.99£24.05William Sharlin (1920-2012) was a cantor, synagogue composer, teacher and musicologist. Raised in an Orthodox household, he turned toward Universalism and the liberal Reform movement. A member of the first graduating class of the first cantorial school... -
Studies in Bible and Feminist Criticism by Tikva Frymer-Kensky 9780827607989
RRP: £32.00£25.90A JPS Scholar of Distinction title The best writings of the long and distinguished career of renowned feminist Bible scholar Tikva Frymer-Kensky. Each of the thirty essays here delves into a topic that gives us much food for thought: the Bible as... -
Jewcentricity: Why the Jews are Praised, Blamed, and Used to Explain Just About Everything by Adam M. Garfinkle 9780470198568
RRP: £34.95£21.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Jewish Book Award (Jewish Life) 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780470198568Author Adam M. GarfinkleFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint John Wiley & Sons... -
Jews and Diaspora Nationalism - Writings on Jewish Peoplehood in Europe and the United States by Simon Rabinovitch 9781584657613
RRP: £68.00£65.36The question of how to preserve, construct or transform Jewish peoplehood consumed Jewish intellectuals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Despite a rich array of writing from Jewish nationalists, liberals, and socialists about the... -
The Jews of Poznan by Zbigniew Pakula 9780853034308
£14.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853034308Author Zbigniew PakulaFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
Tract on Ecstasy by Louis Jacobs 9780853035909
£19.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853035909Author Louis JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia ChaeRan Y. Freeze 9781611684551
£36.43This book makes accessible-for the first time in English-declassified archival documents from the former Soviet Union, rabbinic sources, and previously untranslated memoirs, illuminating everyday Jewish life as the site of interaction and negotiation... -
The Jewish Year Book: 2000 by S.W. Massil 9780853033813
RRP: £55.00£41.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853033813Author S.W. MassilFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
History of the Cooperative Movement in Israel: Bk. 7: Consumers Cooperatives by Harry Viteles 9780853030348
RRP: £32.50£24.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853030348Author Harry VitelesFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
Becoming Israeli - National Ideals and Everyday Life in the 1950s by Anat Helman 9781611685572
RRP: £28.00£27.39With a light touch and many wonderful illustrations, historian Anat Helman investigates "life on the ground" in Israel during the first years of statehood. She looks at how citizens-natives of the land, longtime immigrants, and newcomers-coped... -
Succeeding at Jewish Education: How One Synagogue Made It Work by Joseph Reimer 9780827606234
RRP: £27.99£21.22Joseph Reimer uses his experience and talent as an ethnographer to bring to life the drama of one synagogue's struggle to make Jewish education work. Reimer spent more than two years as an observer within the synagogue, studying the afternoon religious... -
On the Possibility of Jewish Mysticism in Our Time by Gershom S. Scholem 9780827605794
RRP: £33.00£25.90In this collection of essays, we encounter a scholar passionately concerned with the cultural and spiritual renaissance of the Jewish people in its own land, a scholar whose concerns encompass issues of the cultural life, language, the meaning of... -
Philosopher of Revelation by Joshua O. Haberman 9780827603530
RRP: £23.99£20.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780827603530Author Joshua O. HabermanFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Jewish Publication SocietyPublisher Jewish Publication Society -
Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Sex and Intimacy by Elliot N. Dorff 9780827609051
RRP: £15.99£12.57In the newest addition to the Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices series, co-editors Elliot Dorff and Danya Ruttenberg have brought together a diverse group of Jews to comment on how Judaism affects their views and actions regarding sex. Contributors range... -
Inventing Jewish Ritual by Vanessa L. Ochs 9780827608344
RRP: £19.99£15.83Vanessa Ochs invites her readers to explore how Jewish practice can be more meaningful through renewing, reshaping, and even creating new rituals, such as naming ceremonies for welcoming baby girls, healing services, Miriam's cup, mitzvah days,... -
To Do the Right and the Good: A Jewish Approach to Modern Social Ethics by Elliot N. Dorff 9780827607743
RRP: £23.99£18.56A National Jewish Book Award Winner Rabbi Dorff focuses on the social aspects of the Jewish tradition, while tackling such timely topics as poverty, war, intrafaith and interfaith relations, and forgiveness. In addition, he discusses Jewish social ethics... -
Jews and Money: The Story of a Stereotype by Abraham H. Foxman 9780230120648
£13.22In the wake of Bernie Madoff's ruinous investment schemes, Abe Foxman takes a cultural and political look at the many variations throughout history of the assumptions made about Jews and money. These include Jews as greedy global capitalists; Jews as...