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Origins of the Kabbalah by Gershom Gerhard Scholem
RRP: €29.75€22.82With the publication of The Origins of the Kabbalah in 1950, one of the most important scholars of our century brought the obscure world of Jewish mysticism to a wider audience for the first time. A crucial work in the oeuvre of Gershom Scholem, this... -
Can “The Whole World” Be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad by Richard Landes
RRP: €22.60€19.10Landes, a medievalist and historian of apocalyptic movements, takes us through the first years of the third millennium (2000-2003), documenting how a radical inability of Westerners to understand the medieval mentality that drove Global Jihad... -
Three Muses by Martha Anne Toll
RRP: €20.17€14.95...Three Muses captivates the reader from the first page to the last." -Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Tinkers and EnonThree Muses is a love story that enthralls: a tale of Holocaust survival venturing through memory, trauma, and... -
Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich by Alison Owings 9780813522005
€46.74What were the women of Germany doing during the Third Reich? What were they thinking? And what do they have to say a half century later?In Frauen we hear their voices--most for the first time. Alison Owings interviewed and here records the words of... -
Changing the Immutable: How Orthodox Judaism Rewrites Its History by Marc B. Shapiro 9781904113607
€37.08Changing the Immutable focuses on how segments of Orthodox society have taken upon themselves to rewrite the past, by covering up and literally cutting out that which does not fit in with their contemporary world-view. For reasons ranging from... -
The Story of Hebrew by Lewis Glinert 9780691153292
RRP: €29.75€23.30A unique history of the Hebrew language from biblical times to the modern Jewish state This book explores the extraordinary hold that Hebrew has had on Jews and Christians, who have invested it with a symbolic power far beyond that of any other language... -
The Little Virtues: Essays by Natalia Ginzburg
€13.10With recent attention from The New Yorker and a big increase in sales, it's clear Ginzburg's work still resonates with readers. A fresh new package and layout will appeal to established fans and attract new readers. Will include a new foreword or... -
Surviving the Nazis, Exile and Siberia by Edith Sekules 9780853033882
RRP: €18.45€17.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853033882Author Edith SekulesFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
Interpreting Judaism in a Postmodern Age by Steven Kepnes 9780814746752
RRP: €33.31€28.16Postmodernity marks a time of creative conflict when the voices of the other, previously rendered silent by the majority, are prominently heard. What effect has postmodernism had on Judaism? The neat narratives and metanarratives of the Jewish past are... -
The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History by Bashir Bashir
RRP: €41.65€32.38In this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked without blurring fundamental differences between them. While these two foundational tragedies are often discussed... -
KJV, Reference Bible, Super Giant Print, Hardcover, Green/Tan, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, King James Version by Thomas Nelson 9780785215721
€39.22The literary beauty of the King James Version and the most comfortable reading experience imaginable with Thomas Nelson's custom KJV font in a super-giant-print format. Don't miss anything God's Word has to offer with the KJV Super Giant Print Reference... -
I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: My family, the Holocaust and my search for truth by Esther Safran Foer
RRP: €11.89€6.93A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Esther Safran Foer has written of her family in a way that is both uniquely and heartbreakingly her story and a deeply important testament for Ashkenazi Jews. Her memories are our important history... -
Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders by Heike Bauer 9780815637813
RRP: €40.40€34.87In 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... -
Homo Mysticus: A Guide to Maimonides's Guide for the Perplexed by Jose Faur 9780815627814
€29.00This text examines the ideas, perspectives and methodologies developed in critical theory and poststructural analysis. This interpretation of Maimonides ""A Guide to the Perplexed"" reveals views on prophecy, philosophy, the importance of fulfilling the... -
An Englishman at Auschwitz by Leon Greenman 9780853034247
RRP: €17.79€13.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853034247Author Leon GreenmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
A Portrait of Pacifists: Le Chambon the Holocaust and the Lives of Andre and Magda Trocme by Richard Unsworth 9780815609704
RRP: €30.88€24.66This biography tells the story of Andre and Magda Trocme, two individuals who made nonviolence a way of life. During World War II, the southern French town of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon and its surrounding villages became a center where Jews and others in... -
Jewish Traditions: JPS Guide by Ronald L. Eisenberg
RRP: €58.31€50.93Thanks to these generous donors for making the publication of this book possible: Miles z"l and Chris Lerman; David Lerman and Shelley WallockThe bestselling guide to understanding Jewish traditions, now in paperbackThis is a comprehensive and... -
How I Stopped Being a Jew by Shlomo Sand
RRP: €10.70€7.16Shlomo Sand was born in 1946, in a displaced person's camp in Austria, to Jewish parents; the family later migrated to Palestine. As a young man, Sand came to question his Jewish identity, even that of a "secular Jew." With this meditative and... -
Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo by Seth Anziska 9780691202457
RRP: €22.60€17.60A groundbreaking history that shows how peace between Egypt and Israel ensured lasting Palestinian statelessnessThe 1978 Camp David Accords and the signing of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty are widely viewed as a triumph of U.S. diplomacy in the Middle... -
The War on Music: Reclaiming the Twentieth Century by John Mauceri
RRP: €29.75€23.81A fascinating journey into global politics that made classical music a proxy for power, inadvertently creating the "sound of Hollywood," and excluding hundreds of composers"[Mauceri's] writing is more exhilarating than any helicopter ride we have been... -
A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean by Yaron Eliav
RRP: €45.22€35.03A provocative account of Jewish encounters with the public baths of ancient RomePublic bathhouses embodied the Roman way of life, from food and fashion to sculpture and sports. The most popular institution of the ancient Mediterranean world, the baths... -
The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto by Daniel Boyarin
RRP: €23.80€20.21A provocative manifesto, arguing for a new understanding of the Jews' peoplehood "A self-consciously radical statement that is both astute and joyous."-Kirkus Reviews Today there are two seemingly mutually exclusive notions of what "the Jews" are:... -
Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years by Israel Shahak 9780745328409
RRP: €29.74€19.49Israel Shahak was a remarkable man. Born in the Warsaw ghetto and a survivor of Belsen, Shahak arrived in Israel in 1945. Brought up under Jewish Orthodoxy and Hebrew culture, he consistently opposed the expansion of the borders of Israel from 1967. ... -
Roots of Hate: Anti-Semitism in Europe before the Holocaust by William I. Brustein 9780521774789
RRP: €36.88€31.01How did the levels of anti-Semitism in the 1930s compare to those of earlier decades? Did anti-Semitism vary in content and intensity across societies? In other words, were Germans more anti-Semitic than their European neighbors, and, if so, why? How... -
Dirshuni: Contemporary Women's Midrash by Tamar Biala
RRP: €28.56€24.42A 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... -
We Have Reason to Believe by Louis Jacobs 9780853035602
RRP: €20.17€19.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853035602Author Louis JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
In the Footsteps of the Jews of Greece: From Ancient Times to the Present Day by Anastasios Karababas 9781803710433
RRP: €27.31€25.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803710433Author Anastasios KarababasFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible by Gregg Drinkwater
RRP: €33.31€28.63A modernized, queer reading of the Torah In the Jewish tradition, reading of the Torah follows a calendar cycle, with a specific portion assigned each week. These weekly portions, read aloud in synagogues around the world, have been subject to... -
The Beginning of Wisdom by Meira B Epstein 9780966226645
RRP: €29.75€23.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780966226645Author Meira B EpsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Arhat PublicationsPublisher Arhat PublicationsWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 216mm... -
Britain's Jews: Confidence, Maturity, Anxiety by Harry Freedman 9781472987235
RRP: €17.84€13.65'...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... -
Mazel Tov: The Story of My Extraordinary Friendship with an Orthodox Jewish Family by Jane Hedley-Prôle
RRP: €11.89€7.97When 20-year-old student J. S. Margot took a tutoring job in 1987, little did she know it would open up an entire world. In the family's Orthodox Jewish household she would encounter endless rules - 'never come on a Friday, never shake hands with a... -
Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age by Ayala Fader 9780691234489
RRP: €21.41€16.73A revealing look at Jewish men and women who secretly explore the outside world, in person and online, while remaining in their ultra-Orthodox religious communities What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause... -
Jewish Philosophical Polemics Against Christianity in the Middle Ages: With a New Introduction by Daniel J. Lasker
RRP: €26.12€19.22Thorough and meticulously researched, this study is based on a comprehensive reading of philosophical arguments drawn from all the major Jewish sources, published and unpublished, from the Geonic period in the ninth century until the dawn of the... -
Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin 9780061374982
RRP: €50.58€34.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061374982Author Joseph TelushkinFormat HardbackPage Count 800Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought by Leora Batnitzky
RRP: €22.60€17.60Is Judaism a religion, a culture, a nationality--or a mixture of all of these? In How Judaism Became a Religion, Leora Batnitzky boldly argues that this question more than any other has driven modern Jewish thought since the eighteenth century. This... -
Is Superman Circumcised?: The Complete Jewish History of the World's Greatest Hero by Roy Schwartz 9781476662909
RRP: €34.50€29.10Superman is the original superhero, an American icon, and arguably the most famous character in the world--and he's Jewish! Introduced in June 1938, the Man of Steel was created by two Jewish teens, Jerry Siegel, the son of immigrants from Eastern... -
The Taming of the Jew by Tuvia Tenenbom
RRP: €30.93€25.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789657023433Author Tuvia TenenbomFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 480g -
The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York: A Cookbook by Claudia Roden 9780394532585
RRP: €59.50€42.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Guild of Food Writers' Book of the Year 1998 and Glenfiddich Awards: Food Book of the Year 1998.Book InformationISBN 9780394532585Author Claudia RodenFormat... -
The Japanese Talmud: Antisemitism in East Asia by Christopher L. Schilling
RRP: €29.75€25.68The image of Jews in East Asia is a strange mixture of opposites, a paradoxical blend of admiration and mockery, identification and denial. This book explores what 'Jew' means to many East Asians, and whether it is anything that Jewish people themselves... -
Reason and Hope: Selections from the Jewish Writings of Hermann Cohen by Eva Jospe
RRP: €19.04€18.14The 19th century neo-Kantian philosopher Hermann Cohen has provided significant underpinnings for understanding Judaism as a religion with a rational and universal character, as a religion of hope for the future. The eight essays selected for Reason...