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Catskill Culture by Phil Brown
RRP: $124.80$106.61A century ago, New Yorkers, hungry for mountain air, good food, and a Jewish environment combined with an American way of leisure, began to develop a resort area unique in the world. By the 1950s, this summer Eden of bungalow colonies, summer camps, and... -
Their Heads in Heaven: Unfamiliar Aspects of Hasidism: v. 2 by Louis Jacobs
RRP: $87.75$66.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853035626Author Louis JacobsFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
Izak Goller: Selected Poems, Plays and Prose by Gabriel A. Sivan
RRP: $107.25$81.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853039341Author Gabriel A. SivanFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co... -
Jewish Year Book: 2011 by Derek Taylor
RRP: $107.25$81.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853038634Author Derek TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 471Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
Hebrew Union College Annual Volume 86 by David H. Aaron
RRP: $85.80$81.35The Hebrew Union College Annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of HebrewUnion College-Jewish Institute of Religion to the academic world. With a history spanning nearly a century, it stands as a chronicleof... -
Leopold Zunz: Creativity in Adversity by Ismar Schorsch
RRP: $130.65$110.68In 1818, with a single essay of vast scope and stunning detail, Leopold Zunz launched the turn to history in modern Judaism. Despite unending setbacks, he persevered for more than five decades to produce a body of enduring scholarship that would inspire... -
How to Accept German Reparations by Susan Slyomovics
RRP: $58.48$50.68In a landmark process that transformed global reparations after the Holocaust, Germany created the largest sustained redress program in history, amounting to more than $60 billion. When human rights violations are presented primarily in material terms,... -
Jews and Gentiles: A Historical Sociology of Their Relations by Werner J. Cahnman
RRP: $263.25$228.70Studies of the Jewish experience among peoples with whom they live share some similarities with the usual histories of anti-Semitism, but also some differences. When the focus is on anti-Semitism, Jewish history appears as a record of unmitigated... -
Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 by Anna Shternshis
RRP: $42.88$36.64Kosher pork-an oxymoron? Anna Shternshis's fascinating study traces the creation of a Soviet Jewish identity that disassociated Jewishness from Judaism. The cultural transformation of Soviet Jews between 1917 and 1941 was one of the most ambitious... -
By My Laugh it's Jewish by Harry Blacker
RRP: $38.90$29.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853031970Author Harry BlackerFormat HardbackPage Count 115Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
Jewish Survival: The Identity Problem at the Close of the 20th Century by Ernest Krausz
RRP: $169.63$148.08These essays address Jewish identity, Jewish survival, and Jewish continuity. The authors account for and analyze trends in Jewish identification and the reciprocal effects of the relationship between the Diaspora and Israel at the end of the twentieth... -
Contemporary Israel: New Insights and Scholarship by Frederick E. Greenspahn
RRP: $156.00$134.10For a country smaller than Vermont, with roughly the same population as Honduras, modern Israel receives a remarkable amount of attention. For supporters, it is a unique bastion of democracy in the Middle East, while detractors view it as a racist... -
The Jewish Wars by Edward Alexander
RRP: $85.78$74.96Edward Alexander launches a counterattack in the war of ideas over Zionism, very much a warrior using words and ideas as his weapons. This book begins with a dissection of the first (1987) Intifada and deals with people and events through 1994, when... -
The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution by Lila Corwin Berman
RRP: $58.50$44.50The first comprehensive history of American Jewish philanthropy and its influence on democracy and capitalism For years, American Jewish philanthropy has been celebrated as the proudest product of Jewish endeavors in the United States, its virtues... -
Creation and Guilt by Ignaz Maybaum
RRP: $107.25$80.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853030294Author Ignaz MaybaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
Life Strictly Forbidden by Antoni Marianowicz
RRP: $29.15$22.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853035022Author Antoni MarianowiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vallentine MitchellPublisher Vallentine Mitchell -
Film and the Shoah in France and Italy by Giacomo Lichtner
RRP: $39.00$29.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853039495Author Giacomo LichtnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co... -
Identity and Modern Israeli Literature by Risa Domb
RRP: $38.90$29.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853036609Author Risa DombFormat PaperbackPage Count 107Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
Jews and Genes: The Genetic Future in Contemporary Jewish Thought by Elliot N. Dorff
RRP: $58.48$51.46Well aware of Jews having once been the victims of Nazi eugenics policies, many Jews today have an ambivalent attitude toward new genetics and are understandably wary of genetic forms of identity and intervention. At the same time, the Jewish tradition... -
Making Jews Modern: The Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires by Sarah Abrevaya Stein
RRP: $44.83$38.22"An engaging and thought-provoking analysis, . . . a pioneering foray into a new field of study, 'Jews and Empires in History.'" -Slavic ReviewOn the eve of the 20th century, Jews in the Russian and Ottoman empires were caught up in the major cultural... -
The Nissim Levis Panorama 1898-1944 (parallel text, Greek and English): Stereoscopic photos and travels of a doctor from annina by Alexander Moissis
RRP: $87.75$74.78A touching photographic journey, captured in over 500 stereoscopic glass plates by the doctor and photographer Nissim Levis, a member of a prominent family in the Romaniote Jewish community of Ioannina, a city in north-western Greece. They were found by... -
Divided We Stand: A Journey with Judge Israel Finestein QC by Colin Lang
RRP: $107.25$80.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910383506Author Colin LangFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
The Jewish East Side: 1881-1924 by Arthur N. Wiens
RRP: $58.48$51.95This book, originally published as The Old East Side, is a collection of literature and documents ranging from the autobiography of the sculptor Jacob Epstein and the novels of Abraham Cahan to the reporting of William Dean Howells and the fictional... -
Jews Against Themselves by Edward Alexander
RRP: $85.78$74.96This volume features powerful essays by Edward Alexander on the phenomenon of anti-Zionism on the part of the Jewish intelligentsia. It also analyzes the explosive growth of traditional anti-Semitism, especially in Europe, among intellectuals and Muslims... -
Jewish Power in America: Myth and Reality by Henry L. Feingold
RRP: $85.78$74.96Jewish political power exists as a separate agency in the American polity, but before it can be determined whether it is inordinate, historian Henry L. Feingold declares that it first needs to be identified and defined. Jewish power is not associated... -
Gersonides: Judaism Within the Limits of Reason by Seymour Feldman
RRP: $42.80$33.35Gersonides (1288-1344), known also as Ralbag, was a philosopher of the first rank as well as an astronomer and biblical exegete, yet this is the first English-language study of the significance of his work for Jewish thought. Seymour Feldman, the... -
We Will Remember Them: A Record of the Jews Who Died in the Armed Forces of the Crown from 1939 by Henry Morris
RRP: $107.25$82.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853036210Author Henry MorrisFormat HardbackPage Count 520Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
Aspects of Liberal Judaism: Essays in Honour of John D. Rayner by Prof. David Goldberg
RRP: $107.25$80.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853036012Author Prof. David GoldbergFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co... -
Being Jewish and Doing Justice: Bringing Argument to Life by Brian Klug
RRP: $107.25$81.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853039730Author Brian KlugFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honor of David B. Ruderman edited by Richard I. Cohen, Natalie B. Dohrmann, Adam Shear and Elchanan Reiner by Richard I. Cohen
RRP: $85.80$82.17David B. Ruderman's groundbreaking studies of Jewish intellectuals as they engaged with Renaissance humanism, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment have set the agenda for a distinctive historiographical approach to Jewish culture in early... -
Borderland Generation: Soviet and Polish Jews under Hitler by Jeffrey Koerber
RRP: $66.20$55.36Despite their common heritage, Jews born and raised on opposite sides of the Polish-Soviet border during the interwar period acquired distinct beliefs, values, and attitudes. Variances in civic commitment, school lessons, youth activities, religious... -
Women and Gender in Jewish Philosophy by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
RRP: $46.78$39.80Women and Gender in Jewish Philosophy is the first systematic attempt to interpret the Jewish philosophical tradition in light of feminist philosophy and to engage feminist philosophy from the perspective of Jewish philosophy. Written by Jewish women who... -
The Jewish Condition: Challenges and Responses - 1938-2008 by Mark Rosenblum
RRP: $85.78$74.96This brilliant set of essays poses the paradigmatic question: are Jews in grave danger today or not? Concern is rooted in the storm clouds of 1938, when the same question arose just prior to the outbreak of the Second World War and the Holocaust. The... -
The Realisation of Concession in the Discoure of Judges - A Genre Perspective by Magdalena Szczyrbak
RRP: $74.10$57.41Complementing other studies on judicial discourse, this book investigates previously unexplored areas, focusing on the realisation of Concession in the genre of judgment. In addition to providing a review of approaches to concessivity as well as legal... -
The Jews of Lemberg: A Journey to Empty Places by Heleen Zorgdrager
RRP: $36.95$28.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910383230Author Heleen ZorgdragerFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams) 218g -
Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture, Revised Edition by Smadar Lavie
RRP: $50.68$42.98In Wrapped in the Flag of Israel, Smadar Lavie analyzes the racial and gender justice protest movements in the State of Israel from the 2003 Single Mothers' March to the 2014 New Black Panthers and explores the relationships between these movements,... -
The Chief Rabbi, the Pope, and the Holocaust: An Era in Vatican-Jewish Relations by Wallace P. Sillanpoa
RRP: $89.68$78.25In February 1945, Israele Zolli, chief rabbi of Rome's ancient Jewish community, shocked his co-religionists in Italy and throughout the Jewish world by converting to Catholicism and taking as his baptismal name, Eugenio, to honor Pope Pius XII (Eugenio... -
The Canonization of a Myth: Portugal's 'Jewish Problem' and the Assembly of Tomar, 1629 by Martin A. Cohen
RRP: $34.13$32.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878206049Author Martin A. CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Hebrew Union College Press,U.S.Publisher Hebrew Union College Press,U.S. -
Hebrew Union College Annual Volume 88 by David H. Aaron
RRP: $128.70$120.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878201617Author David H. AaronFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Hebrew Union College Press,U.S.Publisher Hebrew Union College Press,U.S. -
Studies and Profiles in Anglo-Jewish History: From Picciotto to Bermant by Israel Finestein
RRP: $107.25$81.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853035770Author Israel FinesteinFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co...