Jewish Studies

With just the right dose of academic pragmatism, Police Misconduct in America assesses the history of police excesses from 1900 to the present. At the dawn of the profession, police officers initially were hired based on physical strength, not personal...

This book explores the cultural and religious politics of the contemporary food movement, starting from the example of Jewish foodies, their zeal for pig (forbidden by Jewish law), and their talk about why ignoring traditional precepts around food is...

For over a century Yiddish served as a major vehicle for expressing left-wing ideas and sensitivities. A language without country, an "ugly jargon" despised by assimilationist Jewish bourgeoisie and nationalist Zionists alike, it was embraced as genuine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900355926Author Bob BidermanFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Germinal Productions, Ltd/ Black Apollo PressPublisher Germinal Productions, Ltd/ Black...

This book explores Queen Esther as an idealized woman in Iberia, as well as a Jewish heroine for conversos in the Sephardic Diaspora in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The biblical Esther --the Jewish woman who marries the King of Persia and...

From 1772-1918 Jews were concentrated more densely in Galicia than in any other area in Europe. Bartal (modern Jewish history, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Polonsky (Judaic and social studies, Brandeis University) are joined by a number of other...

"The Horizontal Society" is an exposition of rabbinic thought as exemplified by Maimonides. The thought streams of Greece, Rome, and Christendom serve as a contrast. This work is in the Hebrew rhetorical tradition of melisa. The main text in...

Breslau has been almost entirely forgotten in the Anglophone sphere as a place of Enlightenment. Moreover, in the context of the Jewish Enlightenment, Breslau has never been discussed as a place of intercultural exchange between German-speaking Jewish,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580233408Author Jeffrey K. SalkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams) 700g

"Drawing on a wealth of archival sources and intellectual history, his work is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of Jewish communities in medieval Europe.”— Ram Ben-Shalom, Professor of the History of the Jewish People, Hebrew...

This book comprises interviews with the last veterans of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ŻOB), accompanied by never previously published photographic “postcards” from ghettos in the Warsaw region, and a reconstruction of the only existing list of the...

Heinz Unger, born in Berlin, Germany, in 1895, was reared from a young age to follow in his father's footsteps and become a lawyer. However, after attending a 1915 Munich performance of Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth)...

This book contains a collection of eight annotated translations of responsa, alongside the original Hebrew texts, focusing on the post-expulsion Spanish-Portuguese communities of the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries. This collection will acquaint the...

Idolatry, or its Hebrew equivalent Avodah Zarah¸ is a fundamental feature of a Jewish view of other religions. All religions must pass the test of whether they are compliant with a Jewish view of religions as being free from the worship of another God...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798985540901Author Loolwa KhazzoomFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint KhazzoomediaPublisher KhazzoomediaWeight(grams) 413g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781963475227Author Jeffrey HoffmanFormat HardbackPage Count 422Imprint Ben Yehuda PressPublisher Ben Yehuda PressWeight(grams) 730g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798385222568Author Anthony CardinaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams) 150g

This book traces the historical phenomenon of "the Jew as Legitimation." Contributors discuss how Jews have been used, through time, to validate non-Jewish beliefs. The volume dissects the dilemmas and challenges this pattern has presented to...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626200357Author Tropper YosefFormat HardbackPage Count 282Imprint DDC PublishingPublisher DDC PublishingWeight(grams) 694gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

With an overview essay, timeline, reference entries, and annotated bibliography, this resource is a concise one-stop reference on antisemitism in today's society. Stretching back to biblical times, antisemitism is perhaps the world's oldest hatred of a...

A panoramic history of the Jewish American South, from European colonization to todayIn 1669, the Carolina colony issued the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, which offered freedom of worship to “Jews, heathens, and other dissenters,” ushering in an...

The language of a thousand years of European Jewish civilization that was decimated in the Nazi Holocaust, Yiddish has emerged as a vehicle for young people to engage with their heritage and identity. Although widely considered an endangered language,...

For most of the postwar period, the destruction of European Jewry was not a salient part of American Jewish life, and was generally seen as irrelevant to non-Jewish Americans. Survivors and their families tended to keep to themselves, forming their own...

Can someone be considered Jewish if he or she never goes to synagogue, doesn't keep kosher, and for whom the only connection to his or her ancestral past is attending an annual Passover seder?In Religion or Ethnicity? fifteen leading scholars trace the...

Latin America is home to roughly half a million Jews, preponderantly Ashkenazic Jews. The majority are concentrated in Argentina, but Brazil and Mexico are also home to significant Jewish communities, as are major urban centers in other countries. Jews...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978443542Author Arthur Daniel HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint Now and Then BooksPublisher Now and Then BooksWeight(grams) 1040gDimensions(mm)...

Winner of the 2017 Saul Viener Book Prize from the American Jewish Historical Society Although fewer American Jews today describe themselves as religious, they overwhelmingly report a strong sense of belonging to the Jewish people. Indeed, Jewish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982516843Author Steven L PeaseFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint DeucalionPublisher DeucalionWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

An 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...

In 1900 over five million Jews lived in the Russian empire; today, there are four times as many Russian-speaking Jews residing outside the former Soviet Union than there are in that region. The New Jewish Diaspora is the first English-language study of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307456250Author Norman PodhoretzFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Germany today boasts the fastest growing population of Jews in Europe. The streets of Berlin abound with signs of a revival of Jewish culture, ranging from bagel shops to the sight of worshipers leaving synagogue on Saturday. With the new energy infused...

This title describes and examines the attempts of Gush Emunim, a religious nationalistic social movement, to construct Israeli identity, collective memory, and sense of place. Gush Emunim traces its roots to the 1967 Six Day War and the development of a...

By examining the lives and social dynamics of Jewish university students, Pickus shows how German Jews rearranged their self-images and redefined what it meant to be Jewish.Book InformationISBN 9780814343524Author Keith H. PickusFormat PaperbackPage...

Between 1977 and 1992, practically all Ethiopian Jews migrated to Israel. This mass move followed the 1974 revolution in Ethiopia and its ensuing economic and political upheavals, compounded by the brutality of the military regime and the...

Although fewer American Jews today describe themselves as religious, they overwhelmingly report a strong sense of belonging to the Jewish people. Indeed, Jewish peoplehood has eclipsed religion - as well as ethnicity and nationality - as the essence of...

In 1839, Muslims attacked the Jews of Meshhed, murdering 36 of them, and forcing the conversion of the rest. While some managed to escape across the Afghan border, and some turned into true believing Muslims, the majority adopted Islam only outwardly,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982516850Author Steven L PeaseFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint DeucalionPublisher DeucalionWeight(grams) 594g

Leonard N. Simons (1904-1995) was one of Detroit's most prominent benefactors. Here, republished on the occasion of his eighty-fifth birthday, is presented a selection of his talks and addresses that illustrate a rare combination of wit, sensitivity, and...