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At Wit's End: The Deadly Discourse on the Jewish Joke by Louis Kaplan
£24.14CHOICE: OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE A scholarly and thought-provoking work that places Jewish humor at the center of a discourse about Jewish and German relations through most of the twentieth century. At Wit's End explores the fascinating discourse on... -
Essential Papers on Jews and the Left by Ezra Mendelsohn
£29.45Historically leftist ideas and theories have had a profound impact on modern Jewish life. But, the left's impact on the Jewish community has greatly diminished today. Nonetheless, it can still be detected in the tendency of American Jews to vote for the... -
"Sefer Hasidim" and the Ashkenazic Book in Medieval Europe by Ivan G. Marcus
£57.77Composed in Germany in the early thirteenth century by Judah ben Samuel he-hasid, Sefer Hasidim, or "Book of the Pietists," is a compendium of religious instruction that portrays the everyday life of Jews as they lived together with and apart... -
Judaism in Transition: How Economic Choices Shape Religious Tradition by Carmel U. Chiswick
RRP: £27.99£23.51At the core of Judaism stands a body of traditions that have remained consistent over millennia. Yet, the practice of these rituals has varied widely across historical and cultural contexts. In Judaism in Transition, Carmel U. Chiswick draws on her... -
For God and Country?: Religious Student-Soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces by Elisheva Rosman-Stollman
£22.49In many modern armies the religious soldier is suspect. Civilians and officers alike wonder if such a soldier might represent a potential fifth column. This concern is especially prominent in the public discourse over the presence of religious Orthodox... -
The Hasidic Community of Williamsburg: A Study in the Sociology of Religion by Solomon Poll
RRP: £43.99£38.44The Hasidim of the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn separate themselves not only from non-Jews and "unreligious" Jews but also from "religious" Orthodox Jews whose religious ideology, intensity, and frequency of traditional religious behavior do not meet... -
Place and Displacement in Jewish History and Memory: Zakor V'Makor by David Cesarani
RRP: £19.95£15.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Jewish Book Award (Anthology/Collection) 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780853039402Author David CesaraniFormat PaperbackPage Count 189Imprint Vallentine... -
Place, Memory and Myth in Contemporary Israeli Cinema by Anat Y Zanger
RRP: £55.00£41.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853038450Author Anat Y ZangerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
Memory of the Holocaust in Australia by Tom Lawson
RRP: £19.95£15.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853037958Author Tom LawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
Judaism in Contemporary Context by Jacob Neusner
RRP: £19.95£15.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853037378Author Jacob NeusnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co... -
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 18: Jewish Women in Eastern Europe by Antony Polonsky
RRP: £29.65£25.11Jewish women's exclusion from the public domains of religious and civil life has been reflected in their near absence in the master narratives of the East European Jewish past. As a result, the study of Jewish women in eastern Europe is still in its... -
The Question of Zion by Jacqueline Rose
£21.80Zionism was inspired as a movement--one driven by the search for a homeland for the stateless and persecuted Jewish people. Yet it trampled the rights of the Arabs in Palestine. Today it has become so controversial that it defies understanding and trumps... -
Jewish Citizenship in France: The Temptation of Being Among One's Own by Chantal Bordes-Benayoun
RRP: £43.99£38.44The Jews of France have been liberated for over two centuries; they have been considered free citizens and equal to their compatriots. What purpose, then, does it serve to study their citizenship today? Until World War II, French Jews called themselves... -
Children of the Holocaust by Andrea Reiter
RRP: £18.00£13.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853036272Author Andrea ReiterFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co... -
Whatever Happened to British Jewish Studies by Jordan Kushner
RRP: £55.00£41.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853039549Author Jordan KushnerFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co... -
Their Heads in Heaven: Unfamiliar Aspects of Hasidism: 2v. by Louis Jacobs
RRP: £19.95£15.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853035664Author Louis JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans) by Naomi B. Sokoloff
£22.49Why Hebrew, here and now? What is its value for contemporary Americans? In What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans) scholars, writers, and translators tackle a series of urgent questions that arise from the changing... -
Jewish Intermarriage Around the World by Sergio DellaPergola
RRP: £135.00£117.28Most research on intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews focuses on the United States. This volume takes a path-breaking approach, examining countries with smaller Jewish populations so as to better understand countries with larger Jewish populations. It... -
Jewish Life in Austria and Germany Since 1945: Jewish Identity and Communal Reconstruction by Suzanne Cohen-Weisz
£83.02Based on published primary and secondary materials and oral interviews with some eighty communal and organizational leaders, experts and scholars, this book provides a comparative account of the reconstruction of Jewish communal life in both Germany and... -
Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany, 1789 1848 by Sven-Erik Rose
RRP: £38.00£37.09In this book Rose illuminates the extraordinary creativity of Jewish intellectuals as they reevaluated Judaism with the tools of a German philosophical tradition fast emerging as central to modern intellectual life. While previous work emphasizes the... -
Religion, War and Israel’s Secular Millennials: Being Reasonable? by Stacey Gutkowski
RRP: £85.00£60.17How do secular Jewish Israeli millennials feel about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, having come of age in the shadow of the Oslo peace process, when political leaders have used ethno-religious rhetoric as a dividing force? This is the first book to... -
An English Jew: The Life and Writings of Claude Montefiore by Edward S. Kessler
RRP: £55.00£41.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853034391Author Edward KesslerFormat HardbackPage Count 205Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
A Little Kosher Whine? by Jeremy Gerlis
RRP: £15.00£12.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853036890Author Jeremy GerlisFormat PaperbackPage Count 103Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
Holocaust Literature: Schulz, Levi, Spiegelman and the Memory of the Offence by Gillian Banner
RRP: £55.00£41.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853033646Author Gillian BannerFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
From the Edge of the World: The Jewish Refugee Experience Through Letters and Stories by Anne Joseph
RRP: £12.95£9.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853034728Author Anne JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
Jewish Identities in Poland and America: The Impact of the Shoah on Religion and Ethnicity by Sebastian Rejak
RRP: £55.00£41.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853038726Author Sebastian RejakFormat HardbackPage Count 412Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co... -
Second Exodus: Full Story of Jewish Illegal Immigration to Palestine, 1945-48 by Ze'ev Venia Hadari
RRP: £55.00£41.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853032199Author Ze'ev Venia HadariFormat HardbackPage Count 309Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
Freud and Monotheism: Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion by Gilad Sharvit
RRP: £26.99£23.32Over the last few decades, vibrant debates regarding post-secularism have found inspiration and provocation in the works of Sigmund Freud. A new interest in psychoanalysis's relation to society has emerged, allowing Freud's account of the interdependence... -
Social Issues, Geopolitics, and Judaica by Werner J. Cahnman
RRP: £135.00£117.68This volume brings together thirty-four essays and ar- ticles by Werner J. Cahnman representing four decades (1940-1980) of work by an extraordinary, multidisciplinary scholar. Cahnman's work encompasses the experiences of a German Jewish refugee, an... -
Zionism and Melancholy: The Short Life of Israel Zarchi by Nitzan Lebovic
£62.00Nitzan Lebovic claims that political melancholy is the defining trait of a generation of Israelis born between the 1960s and 1990s. This cohort came of age during wars, occupation and intifada, cultural conflict, and the failure of the Oslo Accords. The... -
The First Book of Jewish Jokes: The Collection of L. M. Buschenthal by Elliott Oring
£50.17Works on Jewish humor and Jewish jokes abound today, but what formed the basis for our contemporary notions of Jewish jokes? How and when did these perceptions develop? In this groundbreaking study and translation, noted humor and folklore scholar... -
Persecution, Polemic, and Dialogue: Essays in Jewish-Christian Relations by David Berger
RRP: £105.99£88.12"Persecution, Polemic, and Dialogue" follows the interaction between Jews and Christians through the ages in all its richness, complexity, and diversity. This collection of essays analyze anti-Semitism, perceptions of the Other, and religious debates in... -
A Jewish Kapo in Auschwitz - History, Memory, and the Politics of Survival by Tuvia Friling
RRP: £80.00£77.01Eliezer Gruenbaum (1908-1948) was a Polish Jew denounced for serving as a Kapo while interned at Auschwitz. He was the communist son of Itzhak Gruenbaum, the most prominent secular leader of interwar Polish Jewry who later became the chairman of the... -
Jewish Economies (Volume 1): Development and Migration in America and Beyond: The Economic Life of American Jewry by Simon Kuznets
RRP: £135.00£117.28Nobel Laureate Simon Kuznets, famous as the founder of modern empirical economics, pioneered the quantitative study of the economic history of the Jews. Yet until now his most important work on the subject was unpublished. These volumes bring to the... -
Writing Plague: Jewish Responses to the Great Italian Plague by Susan L. Einbinder
£42.57A wave of plague swept the cities of northern Italy in 1630-31, ravaging Christian and Jewish communities alike. In Writing Plague Susan L. Einbinder explores the Hebrew texts that lay witness to the event. These Jewish sources on the Great Italian... -
A Brooklyn Memoir: My Life as a Boy by Robert Rosen
RRP: £11.99£8.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909394988Author Robert RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Oil on Water PressPublisher Oil on Water PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Jewish Year Book: 2008 by Stephen W. Massil
RRP: £55.00£41.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853037989Author Stephen W. MassilFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
History Lessons: The Creation of American Jewish Heritage by Beth S. Wenger
£21.80Most American Jews today will probably tell you that Judaism is inherently democratic and that Jewish and American cultures share the same core beliefs and values. But in fact, Jewish tradition and American culture did not converge seamlessly. Rather, it... -
Maimonides After 800 Years: Essays on Maimonides and His Influence by Jay M. Harris
£44.06Moses Maimonides was the most significant Jewish thinker, jurist, and doctor of the Middle Ages. Author of a monumental code of Jewish law, and the most influential and controversial work of Jewish philosophy, Maimonides looms larger than any other... -
Raising Secular Jews - Yiddish Schools and Their Periodicals for American Children, 1917 1950 by Naomi Prawer Kadar
RRP: £33.00£32.05This unique literary study of Yiddish children's periodicals casts new light on secular Yiddish schools in America in the first half of the twentieth century. Rejecting the traditional religious education of the Talmud Torahs and congregational schools,...