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The Image of the Non-Jew in Judaism: The Idea of Noahide Law by David Novak 9781906764074
RRP: $41.42$37.24Throughout history the image of the non-Jew in Judaism has profoundly influenced the way in which Jews interact with non-Jews. It has also shaped the understanding that Jews have of their own identity, as it determines just what distinguishes them from... -
Lithuanian Yeshivas of the Nineteenth Century: Creating a Tradition of Learning by Shaul Stampfer
RRP: $41.42$37.93One of the key ways in which the traditional Jewish world of eastern Europe responded to the challenges of modernity in the nineteenth century was to change the system for educating young men so as to reinforce time-honoured, conservative values. The... -
The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Martin Gilbert
RRP: $56.59$50.02The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict traces not only the tangled and bitter history of the Arab-Jewish struggle from the early twentieth century to the present, including the death of Yasser Arafat and recent proposals for compromise and... -
Jewish Letchworth: A Microcosm of the Jewish Communal Experience by Yanky Fachler
RRP: $30.79$23.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803710327Author Yanky FachlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
The Jews in Christian Europe: A Source Book, 315-1791 by Marcus Jacob Rader
RRP: $46.31$45.92First published in 1938, Jacob Rader Marcus's The Jews in The Medieval World has remained an indispensable resource for its comprehensive view of Jewish historical experience from late antiquity through the early modern period, viewed through primary... -
The Idea of Modern Jewish Culture by Eliezer Schweid 9781936235094
RRP: $36.00$33.83The vast majority of intellectual, religious, and national developments in modern Judaism revolve around the central idea of 'Jewish culture'. This book is the first synoptic view of these developments that organises and relates them from this vantage... -
After One-Hundred-and-Twenty: Reflecting on Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition by Hillel Halkin 9780691181165
RRP: $27.43$21.63A deeply personal look at death, mourning, and the afterlife in Jewish traditionAfter One-Hundred-and-Twenty provides a richly nuanced and deeply personal look at Jewish attitudes and practices regarding death, mourning, and the afterlife as they have... -
My Father's Paradise by Ariel Sabar
RRP: $17.14$11.66In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers and... -
Jews and the Qur'an by Meir M. Bar-Asher
RRP: $37.74$32.18A compelling book that casts the Qur'anic encounter with Jews in an entirely new lightIn this panoramic and multifaceted book, Meir Bar-Asher examines how Jews and Judaism are depicted in the Qur'an and later Islamic literature, providing needed context... -
The Jewish American Paradox: Embracing Choice in a Changing World by Robert H. Mnookin
RRP: $37.74$24.97Jews in America are in a period of unprecedented status and impact, but for many their identity as Jews--religiously, historically, culturally--is increasingly complicated. Many are becoming Jews without Judaism. It appears success and acceptance will... -
Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War: The Union Army by Adam D. Mendelsohn
RRP: $51.44$44.58Offers an engaging account of the experiences of Jewish soldiers in the Union Army during the Civil War What was it like to be a Jew in Lincoln's armies? The Union army was as diverse as the embattled nation it sought to preserve, a unique mixture of... -
Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical by Shaul Magid
RRP: $51.46$39.83The life and politics of an American Jewish activist who preached radical and violent means to Jewish survivalMeir Kahane came of age amid the radical politics of the counterculture, becoming a militant voice of protest against Jewish liberalism. Kahane... -
Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries by Professor David Sorkin 9780691205250
RRP: $48.03$41.20The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern worldFor all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in modern Jewish history that we have mostly lost sight of the... -
The Israeli Radical Left: An Ethics of Complicity by Fiona Wright
RRP: $114.93$35.83In The Israeli Radical Left, Fiona Wright traces the dramatic as well as the mundane paths taken by radical Jewish Israeli leftwing activists, whose critique of the Israeli state has left them uneasily navigating an increasingly polarized public... -
The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland-Then, Now, Tomorrow by Gil Troy
RRP: $51.44$45.27The most comprehensive Zionist collection ever published, The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland-Then, Now, Tomorrow sheds light on the surprisingly diverse and shared visions for realizing Israel as a democratic Jewish state. Building on... -
The Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830: Tradition and Change in a Liberal Society by Todd M. Endelman 9780472086092
RRP: $46.23$38.10The movement from tradition to modernity engulfed all of the Jewish communities in the West, but hitherto historians have concentrated on the intellectual revolution in Germany by Moses Mendelssohn in the second half of the eighteenth century as the... -
Memorial Books of Eastern European Jewry: Essays on the History and Meanings of Yizker Volumes by Rosemary Horowitz 9780786441990
RRP: $49.73$40.10From the Russian civil wars through the Nazi years, the Jews of Eastern Europe were targets of violence during the first half of the twentieth century. During the Holocaust especially, entire communities were wiped out. In response, survivors sometimes... -
Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust by Sonja M. Hedgepeth
RRP: $65.18$62.93Using testimonies, Nazi documents, memoirs, and artistic representations, this volume broadens and deepens comprehension of Jewish women's experiences of rape and other forms of sexual violence during the Holocaust. The book goes beyond previous studies,... -
Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano by Alan Scott Haft 9780815611196
RRP: $22.21$16.26Alan 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... -
Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities by Emily Tamkin
RRP: $34.31$29.95A lively, thoughtful history of America's Jews, exploring their complex relationships with national culture, identity, and politics-and each other. You can be called a Bad Jew-by the community or even yourself-if you don't keep kosher, don't send... -
Walter Benjamin's Archive: Images, Texts, Signs by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $51.44$44.55The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyday life, art, and dreams. Throughout his life, Benjamin... -
Contemporary Left Antisemitism by David Hirsh
RRP: $65.16$57.26Today's antisemitism is difficult to recognize because it does not come dressed in a Nazi uniform and it does not openly proclaim its hatred or fear of Jews. This book looks at the kind of antisemitism which is tolerated or which goes unacknowledged in... -
The Doctors of the Warsaw Ghetto by Maria Ciesielska 9781644697269
RRP: $37.72$31.51Based on years of archival research, 'The Doctors of the Warsaw Ghetto' is the most detailed study ever undertaken into the fate of more than 800 Jewish doctors who devoted themselves, in many cases until the day they died, to the care of the sick and... -
Mongrels or Marvels: The Levantine Writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff by Deborah A. Starr
RRP: $51.44$45.27The writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff (1917-1979) offer a refreshing reassessment of Arab-Jewish relations in the Middle East. A member of the bourgeois Jewish community in Cairo, Kahanoff grew up in a time of coexistence. She spent the years of... -
Judeo-Persian Writings: A Manifestation of Intellectual and Literary Life by Nahid Pirnazar
RRP: $85.75$74.62Introducing Judeo-Persian writings, this original collection gives parallel samples in Judeo-Persian and Perso-Arabic script and translations in English. Judeo-Persian writings not only reflect the twenty-seven centuries of Jewish life in Iran, but they... -
The Political Diary of Alfred Rosenberg and the Onset of the Holocaust by Jurgen Matthaus 9781442251670
RRP: $111.49$106.25In December 2013, after years of exhaustive search, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum received more than four hundred pages of diary notes written by one of the most prominent Nazis, the Party's chief ideologue and Reich minister for the occupied Soviet... -
Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes by Jerry Z. Muller
RRP: $60.04$48.39The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual lifeScion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923-1987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness led him... -
The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry by Vasily Grossman
RRP: $94.32$83.57The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewryis a collection of eyewitness testimonies, letters, diaries, affidavits, and other documents on the activities of the Nazis against Jews in the camps, ghettoes, and towns of Eastern Europe. Arguably, the only apt... -
Antisemitism: An Ancient Hatred in the Age of Identity Politics by Philip Slayton
RRP: $25.71$16.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990823107Author Philip SlaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc. -
Strange Hate: Antisemitism, Racism and the Limits of Diversity by Keith Kahn-Harris
RRP: $18.85$12.69How did antisemitism get so strange?Life-long anti-racists accused of antisemitism, life-long Jew haters absolving themselves by declaring their love of Israel. Today, antisemitism and philosemitism seem selective, as if Jews offered themselves up as a... -
Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
RRP: $37.72$32.23"Mr. Yerushalmi's previous writings . . . established him as one of the Jewish community's most important historians. His latest book should establish him as one of its most important critics. Zakhor is historical thinking of a very high order - mature... -
Judaism Disrupted by Michael Strassfeld 9781953829375
RRP: $42.80$42.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953829375Author Michael StrassfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Ben Yehuda PressPublisher Ben Yehuda PressWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
The Book of Tahkemoni: Jewish Tales from Medieval Spain by Judah Alharizi 9781874774983
RRP: $50.86$48.20National Jewish Book Awards Winner of Sephardic Studies Award, 2001.The Book of Tahkemoni (The Book of Wisdom or the Heroic) is widely regarded as the crowning jewel of Hebrew maqama literature -rhymed prose interspersed with verse. In its fifty... -
Going to the People: Jews and the Ethnographic Impulse by Jeffrey Veidlinger
RRP: $44.58$37.81Taking S. An-sky's expeditions to the Pale of Jewish Settlement as its point of departure, the volume explores the dynamic and many-sided nature of ethnographic knowledge and the long and complex history of the production and consumption of Jewish folk... -
The Art of Bible Translation by Robert Alter
RRP: $34.31$26.66From the recipient of the National Jewish Book Award for Lifetime Achievement, a "hugely entertaining and irreverent" (Adam Gopnik, New Yorker) account of the art of translating the Hebrew Bible into EnglishIn this brief book, award-winning biblical... -
Jewish Mysticism: The Infinite Expression of Freedom by Rachel Elior 9781906764043
RRP: $35.76$32.44Mysticism, which transcends the boundaries of time and space and refers to a reality not grasped by means of ordinary human cognition, is one of the central sources of inspiration of religious thought. It is an attempt to decode the mystery of divine... -
Memories of Absence: How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco by Aomar Boum 9780804795234
RRP: $41.15$35.01There is a Moroccan saying: A market without Jews is like bread without salt. Once a thriving community, by the late 1980s, 240,000 Jews had emigrated from Morocco. Today, fewer than 4,000 Jews remain. Despite a centuries-long presence, the Jewish... -
What is a Jew by Rabbi Morris N. Kertzer
$21.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684842981Author Rabbi Morris N. KertzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm)... -
The Mystery of the Kibbutz: Egalitarian Principles in a Capitalist World by Ran Abramitzky 9780691202242
RRP: $37.74$29.14How the kibbutz movement thrived despite its inherent economic contradictions and why it eventually declinedThe kibbutz is a social experiment in collective living that challenges traditional economic theory. By sharing all income and resources equally... -
Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel by Israel Shahak
RRP: $42.87$28.10This is a new edition of a classic and highly controversial book that examines the history and consequences of Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel. It is essential reading for anyone who wants a full understanding of the way religious extremism has affected...