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Persecution, Polemic, and Dialogue: Essays in Jewish-Christian Relations David Berger 9781934843765
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 Yet until now his most important work on the subject was unpublished.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
RRP: £45.00£39.18A 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
RRP: £28.00£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
RRP: £54.95£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,... -
The Social Roots of Discrimination: The Case of the Jews by Peretz F. Bernstein
RRP: £21.99£19.34The Social Roots of Discrimination explains the phenomenon of anti-Semitism. In this classic volume, Peretz F. Bernstein looks for objective reasons why anti-Semitism flourished in European countries. Some civilized people would consider the notion of... -
Jewish Lives Under Communism: New Perspectives by Katerina Capkova
RRP: £38.00£33.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978830790Author Katerina CapkovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press -
A Sephardi Sea: Jewish Memories across the Modern Mediterranean by Dario Miccoli
RRP: £23.99£20.84A Sephardi Sea tells the story of Jews from the southern shore of the Mediterranean who, between the late 1940s and the mid-1960s, migrated from their country of birth for Europe, Israel, and beyond. It is a story that explores their contrasting memories... -
Hatred, Lies, and Violence in the World of Islam by Raphael Israeli
RRP: £43.99£38.84Hatred, Lies, and Violence in the World of Islam examines the torrential flood of anti-Israeli, anti-Jewish, and anti-Zionist propaganda that permeates many Muslim societies. Raphael Israeli locates the source of this anti-Semitic sentiment in the... -
Jewish Parliamentarians by Derek Taylor
RRP: £40.00£30.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853038191Author Derek TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
Jewish Journeys: From Philo to Hip Hop by James Jordan
RRP: £55.00£41.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853039624Author James JordanFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
The Jewish Year Book: 2012 by Elkan Levy
RRP: £55.00£41.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853039044Author Elkan LevyFormat HardbackPage Count 470Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
Hebrew Writing of the First World War by Glenda Abramson
RRP: £19.95£15.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853037712Author Glenda AbramsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co... -
Jews and Europe in the Twenty-first Century: Thinking Jewish by Nick Lambert
RRP: £19.95£15.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853037606Author Nick LambertFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
Sephardic Jewry and Mizrahi Jews: Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXII by Peter Y. Medding 9780195340976
RRP: £67.00£58.56Volume XXII of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry explores the major and rapid changes experienced by a population known variously as "Sephardim," "Oriental" Jews. and "Mizrahim" over the last fifty years. Although Sephardim are... -
Inventing the Jew: Antisemitic Stereotypes in Romanian and Other Central-East European Cultures by Andrei Oisteanu 9780803220980
RRP: £50.00£43.81Inventing the Jew follows the evolution of stereotypes of Jews from the level of traditional Romanian and other Central-East European cultures (their legends, fairy tales, ballads, carols, anecdotes, superstitions, and iconographic representations) to... -
Becoming Habsburg: The Jews of Habsburg Bukovina, 1774-1918 by David Rechter 9781904113959
£44.95Habsburg Bukovina no longer exists, save in the realms of historiography, nostalgia, and collective memory. Remembered for its remarkable multinational, multi-faith character, Bukovina and its capital city Czernowitz have long been presented as exemplars... -
The Jewish Life Cycle: Rites of Passage from Biblical to Modern Times by Ivan G. Marcus 9780295984414
RRP: £23.99£20.84In this original and sweeping review of Jewish culture and history, Ivan Marcus examines how and why various rites and customs celebrating stages in the life cycle have evolved through the ages and persisted to this day. For each phase of life--from... -
The Jewish Bible: A Material History by David Stern 9780295741482
RRP: £91.00£79.92In The Jewish Bible: A Material History, David Stern explores the Jewish Bible as a material object-the Bibles that Jews have actually held in their hands-from its beginnings in the Ancient Near Eastern world through to the Middle Ages to the present... -
Seeing Mahler: Music and the Language of Antisemitism in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna K.M. Knittel 9781138253612
RRP: £45.99£40.13No-one doubts that Gustav Mahler's tenure at the Vienna Court Opera from 1897-1907 was made extremely unpleasant by the antisemitic press. The great biographer, Henry-Louis de La Grange, acknowledges that 'it must be said that antisemitism was a... -
Omer Calendar of Biblical Women Jill Hammer 9781961814127
RRP: £15.99£13.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781961814127Author Jill HammerFormat HardbackPage Count 92Imprint Ayin PressPublisher Ayin Press -
Lingua Ex Machina: Media in the Revitalization of Modern Hebrew Ido Ramati 9781512826531
RRP: £58.00£49.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512826531Author Ido RamatiFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania Press -
Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany Ofer Ashkenazi 9781512826357
RRP: £54.00£45.90Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Emanuel Ringelblum and Reuven Ben-Shem's War Writings: Perceptions of space in the Warsaw Ghetto Victoria Nizan 9781803710716
RRP: £60.00£51.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803710716Author Victoria NizanFormat HardbackPage Count 310Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
New Trends in the Study of Haredi Culture and Society David N. Myers 9781612499918
RRP: £86.00£73.10Who are Haredim? And why are they the source of both increasing attention and continuing misunderstanding? New Trends in the Study of Haredi Culture and Society draws on the innovative research of leading scholars from a variety of disciplines—including... -
For Such a Time as This: On Being Jewish Today Elliot Cosgrove 9780063417472
RRP: £20.00£16.99A poignant exploration of what it means to be Jewish today, from a leading voice in modern Judaism, Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove of Park Avenue SynagogueFor Jews today, the attack by Hamas on Israel on October 7—a vicious assault that killed more Jews in one... -
I Am Your Dust: Representations of the Israeli Experience in Yiddish Prose, 1948–1967 Gali Drucker Bar-Am 9780253071514
£34.00Israel's cultural space is frequently studied as if it were synonymous with the Hebrew-Israeli one. But within the borders of Israel, a fascinating culture was (and continues to be) created in many different languages other than Hebrew, reflecting its... -
I Am Your Dust: Representations of the Israeli Experience in Yiddish Prose, 1948–1967 Gali Drucker Bar-Am 9780253071507
£69.96Israel's cultural space is frequently studied as if it were synonymous with the Hebrew-Israeli one. But within the borders of Israel, a fascinating culture was (and continues to be) created in many different languages other than Hebrew, reflecting its... -
New Trends in the Study of Haredi Culture and Society David N. Myers 9781612499925
RRP: £42.95£36.51Who are Haredim? And why are they the source of both increasing attention and continuing misunderstanding? New Trends in the Study of Haredi Culture and Society draws on the innovative research of leading scholars from a variety of disciplines—including... -
Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish Hannah Pollin-Galay 9781512825909
RRP: £35.00£30.74How Yiddish changed to express and memorialize the trauma of the Holocaust The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death, and dehumanization of the... -
Holiness and Society: A Socio-Political Exploration of the Mosaic Tradition Ronen Shoval 9781032752785
RRP: £130.00£112.11Exploring the subtle political philosophy within the Biblical narrative, this book presents enduring insights that complement Ancient Greek philosophy for contemporary political distinctions – uncovering overlooked socio-political ideologies to provide a... -
To Be a Jewish State: Zionism as the New Judaism Yaacov Yadgar 9781479832408
RRP: £25.99£22.09Examines the meaning of Jewish politics in Israel In one of the first books to ask head-on what it means for Israel to be a Jewish state, Yaacov Yadgar delves into what the designation “Jewish” amounts to in the context of the sovereign nation-state, and... -
Uncommon Allies: American Jews and Christians Uniting against Hitler, 1933-1945 Alan M. Shore 9780815638438
RRP: £28.95£20.33On March 27, 1933, representatives from across the American religious spectrum came to Madison Square Garden, united in a shared purpose to speak out against the rise of fascism in Germany and Adolph Hitler’s seizure of power. This rally—the first of... -
The Modern Israeli and Palestinian Diasporas: A Comparative Approach Nahum Karlinsky 9781477330401
RRP: £49.00£41.65A comparative study of contemporary Israeli and Palestinian diasporas. Exilic and diasporic experience have become ubiquitous in recent decades. Jews, lacking a homeland, spread to various parts of the world, making the Jewish diaspora paradigmatic. But... -
Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What To Do About It Jake Wallis Simons 9781408719282
RRP: £10.99£7.77'This is an important and necessary book by a superb and subtle writer. There's no one more qualified to write it than Jake Wallis Simons, both as ground-breaking Middle East security correspondent and Editor of the Jewish Chronicle. It analyses the...