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Antisemitism: A Very Short Introduction by Steven Beller
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.12Antisemitism, as hatred of Jews and Judaism, has been a central problem of Western civilization for millennia, and its history continues to invite debate. This Very Short Introduction untangles the history of the phenomenon, from ancient religious... -
Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism by Schneur Zalman Newfield 9781439918968
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.50Those who exit a religion-particularly one they were born and raised in-often find themselves at sea in their efforts to transition to life beyond their community. In Degrees of Separation, Schneur Zalman Newfield, who went through this process himself,... -
The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust by Marianne Hirsch
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $48.30Can we remember other people's memories? The Generation of Postmemory argues we can: that memories of traumatic events live on to mark the lives of those who were not there to experience them. Children of survivors and their contemporaries inherit... -
Israelis: Ordinary People In an Extraordinary Land by Donna Rosenthal 9780743270359
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743270359Author Donna RosenthalFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Simon & Schuster LtdPublisher Simon & Schuster Ltd -
Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders by Heike Bauer 9780815637813
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.88In this groundbreaking collection of essays, interviews, and artwork, contributors draw upon a rich treasure trove of Jewish women's comics to explore the representation of Jewish women's bodies and bodily experience in pictorial narratives. Spanning... -
Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish Hannah Pollin-Galay 9781512825909
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $62.52How 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... -
Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo by Yoram Meital 9781512825886
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $71.38Cairo’s synagogues shed new light on the transformation Egyptian society and its Jewish community underwent from 1875 to the present Sacred Places Tell Tales is the previously untold history of Egyptian Jewry and the ways in which Cairo’s synagogues... -
Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought - Writings on Identity, Politics, and Culture, 1893-1958 by Moshe Behar 9781584658856
Booksplease Price: $50.40This volume opens the canon of modern Jewish thought to the all too often overlooked writings of Jews from the Arab East, from the close of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Whether they identified as Sephardim, Mizrahim,... -
Once They Had a Country: Two Teenage Refugees in the Second World War by Muriel R. Gillick 9780817356200
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $34.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817356200Author Muriel R. GillickFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint The University of Alabama PressPublisher The University of Alabama... -
How the West Became Antisemitic: Jews and the Formation of Europe, 800–1500 by Ivan G. Marcus 9780691258201
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $57.94An examination of how the Jews-real and imagined-so challenged the Christian majority in medieval Europe that it became a society that was religiously and culturally antisemitic in new ways In medieval Europe, Jews were not passive victims of the... -
KJV, Deluxe Reference Bible, Super Giant Print, Leathersoft, Burgundy, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, King James Version by Thomas Nelson 9780785215684
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $61.32This Bible published in the classic King James Version includes cross references and extra-large print type allowing for an easy Bible reading experience. This edition is published in large KJV Comfort Print type, which was designed exclusively for... -
Inclusive Judaism: The Changing Face of an Ancient Faith by Jonathan Romain
Booksplease Price: $53.99One of the best-kept religious secrets has been the revolution that has been quietly taking place within Judaism over the last two decades, as it has sought to grapple with contemporary issues. These include mixed-faith marriages, gay relationships,... -
The Other in Jewish Thought and History: Constructions of Jewish Culture and Identity by Laurence J. Silberstein 9780814779903
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $54.85Cultural boundaries and group identity are often forged in relation to the Other. In every society, conceptions of otherness, which often reflect a group's fears and vulnerabilities, result in deep-rooted traditions of inclusion and exclusion that... -
Dirshuni: Contemporary Women's Midrash by Tamar Biala
RRP: $50.40Booksplease Price: $46.37A unique compilation of contemporary women's midrashim. Dirshuni: Contemporary Women's Midrash, is the first-ever English edition of a historic collection of midrashim composed by Israeli women, which has been long-anticipated by multiple American... -
The Jewish Century, New Edition by Yuri Slezkine 9780691192826
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $51.47This masterwork of interpretative history begins with a bold declaration: "The Modern Age is the Jewish Age, and the twentieth century, in particular, is the Jewish Century." The assertion is, of course, metaphorical. But it drives home Yuri Slezkine's... -
Smoke Over Birkenau by Liana Millu 9780810115699
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $26.42Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Dreyfus Affair: Jaccuse and Other Writings by Emile Zola 9780300073676
Booksplease Price: $62.35In September 1894 the French authorities intercepted a letter which they claimed emanated from a Jewish army captain, Alfred Dreyfus, which they claimed to be proof of espionage on behalf of Germany. Dreyfus was subsequently court-martialed and... -
A Constant Heart: The War Diaries of Maud Russell 1938 - 1945 by Emily Russell 9780995546233
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $27.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995546233Author Emily RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The Dovecote Press -
Jews and Words by Amos Oz
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $20.62A celebrated novelist and an acclaimed historian of ideas, father and daughter, unravel the chain of words at the core of Jewish life, history, and culture Why are words so important to so many Jews? Novelist Amos Oz and historian Fania Oz-Salzberger... -
Burgenland: Village Secrets and the First Tremors of the Holocaust by David Joseph
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.28When Hitler marched into Austria in March 1938, he was given a rapturous reception. Millions lined the streets and filled the squares of Vienna. Tobias Portschy, a self-appointed regional Nazi chief, considered what to give the Fuhrer for his birthday,... -
Contemporary Humanistic Judaism: Beliefs, Values, Practices Adam Chalom 9780827615649
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.40Opening up multidimensional ideas, values, and practices of Humanistic Judaism to Jews of all backgrounds and beliefs, Contemporary Humanistic Judaism collects the movement's most important texts for the first time and answers the oft-raised question,... -
Athens in Jerusalem: Classical Antiquity and Hellenism in the Making of the Modern Secular Jew by Yaacov Shavit 9781874774365
RRP: $79.70Booksplease Price: $56.41According to the author the Hellenistic tradition played a role as a model for Jewish modernisers to draw upon as they perceived a lack in Jewish culture. The author believes that Greek and Hellenistic concepts are now internalised by the Jewish people... -
The Privileged Divine Feminine in Kabbalah by Moshe Idel 9783110597448
RRP: $253.05Booksplease Price: $171.53This volume addresses the complex topic of the preeminent status of the divine feminine power, to be referred also as Female, within the theosophical structures of many important Kabbalists, Sabbatean believers, and Hasidic masters. This privileged... -
For Two Thousand Years by Mihail Sebastian
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35'Nothing I have read is more affecting than Mihail Sebastian's magnificent, haunting 1934 novel, For Two Thousand Years' - Philippe Sands, Guardian Books of the YearA prescient interwar masterpiece, available in English for the first time'Absolutely,... -
Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano by Alan Scott Haft 9780815611196
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $20.27Alan Scott Haft provides the first-hand testimony of his father, Harry Haft, a holocaust victim with a singular story of endurance, desperation, and unrequited love. Harry Haft was a sixteen-year-old Polish Jew when he entered a concentration camp in... -
Judaism and Modernity by Gillian Rose
Booksplease Price: $46.10Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays challenges the philosophical presentation of Judaism as the sublime 'other' of modernity. Here, Gillian Rose develops a philosophical alternative to deconstruction and post-modernism by critically re-engaging... -
How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household by Blu Greenberg 9780671602703
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $49.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671602703Author Blu GreenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 530Imprint Simon & Schuster LtdPublisher Simon & Schuster Ltd -
Thank you for your business: The Jewish Contribution to the British Economy by Taylor Derek 9780853039167
Booksplease Price: $69.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853039167Author Taylor DerekFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
A Jew in the Public Arena: The Career of Israel Zangwill by 9780814334935
Booksplease Price: $45.82After winning an international audience with his novel Children of the Ghetto, Israel Zangwill went on to write numerous short stories, four additional novels, and several plays, including The Melting Pot. Author Meri-Jane Rochelson, a noted expert on... -
Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays by Alan Johnson 9781032344713
RRP: $86.08Booksplease Price: $75.33Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays provides a comprehensive guide to contemporary Left antisemitism.The rise of a new and largely left-wing form of antisemitism in the era of the Jewish state and the distinction between it and... -
After the Roundup: Escape and Survival in Hitler's France by Joseph Weismann 9780253026804
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $70.67On the nights of July 16 and 17, 1942, French police rounded up eleven-year-old Joseph Weismann, his family, and 13,000 other Jews. After being held for five days in appalling conditions in the Velodrome d'Hiver stadium, Joseph and his family were... -
Emerging Metropolis: New York Jews in the Age of Immigration, 1840-1920 by Annie Polland 9780814767702
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $45.02Describes New York's transformation into a Jewish city Emerging Metropolis tells the story of New York's emergence as the greatest Jewish city of all time. It explores the Central European and East European Jews' encounter with New York City, tracing... -
The Rebirth of Antisemitism in the 21st Century: From the Academic Boycott Campaign into the Mainstream David Hirsh (London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, UK) 9781032116624
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $55.69The Rebirth of Antisemitism in the 21st Century is about the rise of antizionism and antisemitism in the first two decades of the 21st century, with a focus on the UK.It is written by the activist-intellectuals, both Jewish and not, who led the... -
Jewish History: A Very Short Introduction by David N. Myers
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23How have the Jews survived? For millennia, they have defied odds by overcoming the travails of exile, persecution, and recurring plans for their annihilation. Many have attempted to explain this singular success as a result of divine intervention. In... -
Wandering Who? The - A study of Jewish identity politics Gilad Atzmon 9781846948756
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24An investigation of Jewish identity politics and contemporary Jewish ideology using both popular culture and scholarly texts. Jewish identity is tied up with some of the most difficult and contentious issues of today. The purpose in this book is to open... -
Britain's Jews in the First World War by Paula Kitching
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.88This book tells the story of the Jewish community, of its individuals and its groups, who contributed to the First World War. It describes the experiences of some of those who served and the impact the war had on the community and its members, and... -
Hasidism: A New History by David Biale 9780691202440
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $53.17A must-read book for understanding this vibrant and influential modern Jewish movementHasidism originated in southeastern Poland, in mystical circles centered on the figure of Israel Ba'al Shem Tov, but it was only after his death in 1760 that a movement... -
The Conflict over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate by Kenneth S. Stern 9781487507367
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $48.74The Conflict over the Conflict chronicles one of the most divisive and toxic issues on today's college and university campuses: Israel/Palestine. Some pro-Palestinian students call supporters of Israel's right to exist racist, and disrupt their events... -
Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism by Jan Assmann
RRP: $73.40Booksplease Price: $61.91Standing at the very foundation of monotheism, and so of Western culture, Moses is a figure not of history, but of memory. As such, he is the quintessential subject for the innovative historiography Jan Assmann both defines and practices in this work,... -
God Is A Verb: Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism by David A. Cooper
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $23.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781573226943Author David A CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 384g