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To Meet in Hell: Bergen-Belsen, the British Officer Who Liberated It, and the Jewish Girl He Saved by Bernice Lerner 9781445694047
RRP: $39.00$26.01On April 15, 1945, Brigadier H. L. Glyn Hughes entered Bergen-Belsen for the first time. Waiting for him were 10,000 unburied, putrefying corpses and 60,000 living prisoners, starving and sick. One month earlier, 15-year-old Rachel Genuth arrived at... -
Confronting Antisemitism on the Left: Arguments for Socialists by Daniel Randall 9781913532581
RRP: $19.48$15.93Confronting Antisemitism on the Left aims to build on the legacy of Steve Cohen's That's Funny, You Don't Look Antisemitic, first published in 1984 and republished by No Pasaran Media in 2019. It draws extensively on Cohen's work, presenting a... -
Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower
RRP: $25.33$17.73A shocking and timely reminder of the role Nazi women played in the Holocaust, not only as plunderers and direct witnesses, but on the Eastern Front. History has it that the role of women in Nazi Germany was to be the perfect Hausfrau and a loyal... -
The First Jewish Catalog: A Do-It-Yourself Kit by Richard Siegel 9780827600423
RRP: $46.78$40.01A true classic! When no one else can answer your questions on celebrations, ceremonies, customs, and rituals, The First Jewish Catalog can. Book InformationISBN 9780827600423Author Richard SiegelFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Jewish Publication... -
The End of Love: Sex and Desire in the Twenty-First Century by Tamara Tenenbaum 9781787704978
RRP: $25.33$16.69"A feast for the mind." -PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY "A contemporary voice with the ease of Natalia Ginzburg's or Irene Nemirovsky's." -GUADALUPE NETTEL, author of Still Born "Nuanced, deeply rich, and a joy to read." -CHARLOTTE FOX-WEBER, author of What We... -
On Antisemitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice in Palestine by Judith Butler 9781608467617
RRP: $33.13$22.76When the State of Israel claims to represent all Jewish people, defenders of Israeli policy redefine antisemitism to include criticism of Israel. Antisemitism is harmful and real in our society. What must also be addressed is how the deployment of false... -
The Jew in the Medieval World: A Sourcebook, 315-1791 by Jacob R. Marcus
RRP: $48.75$46.16To gain an accurate view of medieval Judaism, one must look through the eyes of Jews and their contemporaries. First published in 1938, Jacob Rader Marcus's classic source book on medieval Judaism provides the documents and historical narratives which... -
Smoke Over Birkenau by Liana Millu 9780810115699
RRP: $36.95$30.46An Italian-Jewish journalist and schoolteacher who joined the Italian partisans in 1943, Liana Millu was arrested in 1944 and deported to Birkenau. The astonishing stories in this book tell of the women who lived and suffered alongside her.The first... -
The Imaginary Jew by David Suchoff
RRP: $23.38$20.83The Holocaust changed what it means to be a Jew, for Jew and non-Jew alike. Much of the discussion about this new meaning is a storm of contradictions. In The Imaginary Jew, Alain Finkielkraut describes with passion and acuity his own passage through... -
Athens in Jerusalem: Classical Antiquity and Hellenism in the Making of the Modern Secular Jew by Yaacov Shavit 9781874774365
RRP: $64.25$59.20According 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 Conflict over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate by Kenneth S. Stern 9781487507367
$54.83The 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... -
Judaism and Modernity by Gillian Rose
RRP: $40.93$34.50Judaism 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: $54.60$43.93Apologies 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 -
Women's Experiences in the Holocaust: In Their Own Words by Agnes Grunwald-Spier
RRP: $25.33$16.54This book brings to light women's experiences in the Holocaust. It explains why women's difficulties were different to those of men. Men were taken away and the women were left to cope with children and elderly relatives and obliged to take on new roles... -
Jews and Words by Amos Oz
RRP: $21.43$18.27A 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... -
Britain's Jews: Confidence, Maturity, Anxiety by Harry Freedman
RRP: $39.00$29.21'...detailed and fair.' - The Spectator 'An exhaustive, impressive achievement.' - The Tablet As a minority, Jews in Britain are confident, their institutions competent and mature. And yet within Jewish life in Britain there is a pervading sense of... -
Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria in Britain, 1933-1970: Their Image in AJR Information by Anthony Grenville
RRP: $38.90$36.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853038528Author Anthony GrenvilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
Yiddish-English/English-Yiddish Dictionary & Phrasebook by Vera Szabo
RRP: $21.43$16.17This handy dictionary and phrasebook provides practical vocabulary and pronunciation tools to help students, travelers, or businesspeople communicate when visiting Yiddish communities in Jerusalem, London, New York, and many other major cities around the... -
Hasidism: A New History by David Biale 9780691202440
RRP: $68.25$56.18A 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... -
What's Divine about Divine Law?: Early Perspectives by Christine Hayes
RRP: $48.75$38.18In the thousand years before the rise of Islam, two radically diverse conceptions of what it means to say that a law is divine confronted one another with a force that reverberates to the present. What's Divine about Divine Law? untangles the classical... -
Freedom and Despair: Notes from the South Hebron Hills by David Shulman
RRP: $35.10$30.03Lately, it seems as if we wake up to a new atrocity each day. Every morning is now a ritual of scrolling through our Twitter feeds or scanning our newspapers for the latest updates on fresh horrors around the globe. Despite the countless protests we... -
Churchill and the Jews by Martin Gilbert 9781416522577
RRP: $25.33$15.95CHURCHILL AND THE JEWS covers the whole life of this greatest of Britons -- from his youth, when he was shocked by the anti-Semitism displayed during the Dreyfus Affair, to his last meeting with David Ben-Gurion in 1960, when he gave Ben-Gurion an... -
The History of the Jews in the Netherlands by J.C.H. Blom 9781904113553
RRP: $57.82$54.80This history of the Jews of the Netherlands and the role they have played in Dutch society was originally published in Dutch and widely acclaimed for the breadth of its coverage. It covers both the internal evolution of the Jewish community and its... -
How to Fight Anti-Semitism by Bari Weiss
RRP: $19.48$13.86'This acutely argued book will engender a thousand conversations' Cynthia OzickThe prescient New York Times writer delivers an urgent wake-up call exposing the alarming rise of anti-semitism -- and explains what we can do to defeat itOn 27 October 2018... -
On My Right Michael, On My Left Gabriel: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture by Mika Ahuvia
RRP: $58.50$53.41Angelic beings can be found throughout the Hebrew Bible, and by late antiquity the archangels Michael and Gabriel were as familiar as the patriarchs and matriarchs, guardian angels were as present as one's shadow, and praise of the seraphim was as sacred... -
The Wolf of Baghdad by Carol Isaacs 9781912408559
RRP: $37.03$25.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Broken Frontier Awards: Best Graphic Nonfiction 2020.Book InformationISBN 9781912408559Author Carol IsaacsFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Myriad... -
The New Temple and the Second Coming: The Prophecy that Points to Christ's Return in your Generation by Grant Jeffrey
RRP: $29.23$19.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400071074Author Grant JeffreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc)Publisher Waterbrook Press (A... -
Mala's Cat: The moving and unforgettable true story of one girl's survival during the Holocaust by Mala Kacenberg
RRP: $21.43$15.15The remarkable true story of friendship, resilience and survival against the odds'A remarkable tale of survival' Jeremy Dronfield, bestselling author of The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz'It's an account of astounding courage and... -
Jewish Statesmanship: Ten Studies in Leadership by Meir Y. Soloveichik 9781641773287
RRP: $42.88$28.92Ever since Plato's Republic, the study of statecraft has been a staple of Western discourse, and so has the study of particular leaders. Although Jewish scholars, thinkers, and popularizers have contributed notably to this genre, strikingly few have... -
A History of the Jews in Christian Spain, Volume 2 by Yitzhak Baer 9780827604261
RRP: $40.93$34.57In the second volume of his classic exploration of the Spanish-Jewish community, Baer covers such major historical events as the Spanish Inquisition and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain. This work examines the effect of church policy on the Jewish... -
Antisemitism: here and now by Deborah E. Lipstadt 9781925228670
RRP: $33.13$22.58A timely analysis of the new antisemitism, by the historian who defeated Holocaust denier David Irving in court. What is antisemitism? Does it come from the right or the left? Is anti-Zionism the same as antisemitism? Are there different kinds of... -
Age of Confidence: The New Jewish Culture Wave: Celebrating Twenty Years of Jewish Renaissance by David Benmayer
RRP: $25.33$14.45Taking the terrorist attacks of 9/11 as their starting point, five new essays look at how Jewish culture has changed over the past two decades. Covering music (Vanessa Paloma Elbaz), art (Monica Bohm Duchen), literature (Bryan Cheyette), theatre (Judi... -
Questions I Am Asked About the Holocaust by Hedi Fried 9781911617778
RRP: $25.33$16.69`There are no stupid questions, nor any forbidden ones, but there are some questions that have no answer.' Hedi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis snatched her family from their home in Eastern Europe and transported them to Auschwitz, where her parents... -
The Jewish Gospel of John: Discovering Jesus, King of All Israel by Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg
RRP: $68.23$33.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514392836Author Lizorkin-Eyzenberg EFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
In Ishmael's House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands by Martin Gilbert
RRP: $38.98$33.87A powerful account of Jews living in Muslim lands and the surprising truths about their shared history The relationship between Jews and Muslims has been a flashpoint that affects stability in the Middle East and has consequences around the globe. In... -
Why?: Explaining the Holocaust by Peter Hayes 9780393355468
RRP: $29.23$25.19Peter Hayes has been teaching Holocaust studies for decades and Why? grows out of the questions he's encountered from his students. Despite the outpouring of books, films, memorials, museums and courses devoted to the subject, a coherent explanation of... -
An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood by Neal Gabler 9780385265577
RRP: $28.28$26.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385265577Author Neal GablerFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Jewish Century, New Edition by Yuri Slezkine 9780691192826
RRP: $54.60$41.65This 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... -
Human Nature & Jewish Thought: Judaism's Case for Why Persons Matter by Alan L. Mittleman
RRP: $35.08$32.14This book explores one of the great questions of our time: How can we preserve our sense of what it means to be a person while at the same time accepting what science tells us to be true--namely, that human nature is continuous with the rest of nature?... -
Outcast: How Jews Were Banished from the Anti-Racist Imagination by Camila Bassi 9781915036780
RRP: $19.48$15.93Outcast is an exploration - and explanation - of how the very possibility of recognising anti-Jewish racism has been displaced by the commonplace leftist belief that when Jewish people cry 'antisemitism!' their true intent is to cover up the real racism...