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Yiddish Folktales by Beatrice S. Weinreich
RRP: €23.80€19.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805210903Author Beatrice WeinreichFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 510gDimensions(mm)... -
The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492 by Maristella Botticini
RRP: €22.60€17.60In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish people had become a small group of literate urbanites specializing in crafts, trade, moneylending, and medicine in hundreds... -
Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind by Julie Metz
RRP: €15.46€10.82In this unforgettable and "essential feminist memoir of women's lives" (Sarah Wildman, author of Paper Love) the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Perfection unearths her mother's hidden past in in Nazi-occupied Austria.To Julie Metz, her... -
Building Jewish Identity 4: Jewish History and Heritage by Behrman House 9780874418675
RRP: €9.51€9.01Students will explore the themes of exile and return and learn how the values and traditions that have defined our people for countless generations help us to understand our world today.Jewish History and Heritage is the fourth volume in the Building... -
The Story of Hebrew by Lewis Glinert 9780691183091
RRP: €19.03€15.01The Story of Hebrew 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 in history. Preserved by the Jews across two millennia, Hebrew endured long... -
Politics by Other Means: The Free German League of Culture in London 1939-1946 by Charmian Brinson
RRP: €29.75€27.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912676613Author Charmian BrinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
KJV, Deluxe Reference Bible, Super Giant Print, Leathersoft, Burgundy, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, King James Version by Thomas Nelson 9780785215684
RRP: €47.60€46.29This 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... -
Looking for an Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism by Jo Glanville
RRP: €11.89€8.09"Like all the best meetings of Jewish minds, this book will make you think, argue and see the world anew." Hadley Freeman, author of House of GlassConspiracy theories about Jews are back in the mainstream. The Pittsburgh gunman who murdered 11 people in... -
The Three Temples: On the Emergence of Jewish Mysticism by Rachel Elior
RRP: €26.12€23.62In this ground-breaking study, Rachel Elior offers a comprehensive theory of the crystallization of the early stages of the mystical tradition in Judaism based on the numerous ancient scrolls and manuscripts published in the last few decades. Her... -
Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler's Germany by Wolf Gruner 9780300267198
RRP: €29.75€24.89A highly original and compelling account of individual Jews who resisted Nazi persecution, challenging the traditional portrayal of Jewish passivity during the Holocaust Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, Holocaust category "These are the... -
Nurture the Wow: Finding Spirituality in the Frustration, Boredom, Tears, Poop, Desperation, Wonder, and Radical Amazement of Parenting by Danya Rabbi Ruttenberg 9781250116949
RRP: €23.79€15.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250116949Author Rabbi Danya RuttenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 201mm... -
Superman Is Jewish?: How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice, and the Jewish-American Way by Dr Harry Brod 9781416595311
RRP: €19.04€13.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416595311Author Dr Harry BrodFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm * 18mm -
Anti-Semite and Jew: An Exploration of the Etiology of Hate by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: €16.65€10.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805210477Author Jean-Paul SartreFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm)... -
Jewish Treasures of the Caribbean: The Legacy of Judaism in the New World by Wyatt Gallery 9780764350955
RRP: €65.44€43.09This photographic essay highlights the little-known history of the first Jewish communities established in the New World dating to the 1600s. Award-winning photographer Wyatt Gallery documents the oldest synagogues and cemeteries on Barbados, Curacao,... -
The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph by Robert S. Wistrich 9781904113492
RRP: €39.21€34.20This highly acclaimed study depicts and evaluates in an original and imaginative fashion the 'Golden Age' of Viennese Jewry during the long reign of Emperor Franz Joseph II. Based on exhaustive and meticulous research, Professor Wistrich's reconstruction... -
Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi, 1666 - 1816 by Ada Rapoport-Albert
RRP: €28.74€23.74Women are conspicuously absent from the Jewish mystical tradition. Even if historically some Jewish women may have experienced mystical revelations and led richly productive spiritual lives, the tradition does not preserve any record of their experiences... -
Jews, Judaism, and Success: How Religion Paved the Way to Modern Jewish Achievement by Robert Eisen 9781487548230
RRP: €41.65€36.37In Jews, Judaism, and Success, Robert Eisen attempts to solve a long-standing mystery that has fascinated many: How did Jews become such a remarkably successful minority in the modern Western world? Eisen argues that Jews achieved such success because... -
Challenge and Conformity: The Religious Lives of Orthodox Jewish Women by Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz
RRP: €26.12€23.62Orthodox Jewish women are increasingly seeking new ways to express themselves religiously, and important changes have occurred in consequence in their self-definition and the part they play in the religious life of their communities. Drawing on surveys... -
From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews, and Israel by Robert S. Wistrich
RRP: €74.97€64.78From Ambivalence to Betrayal is the first study to explore the transformation in attitudes on the Left toward the Jews, Zionism, and Israel since the origins of European socialism in the 1840s until the present. This pathbreaking synthesis reveals a... -
Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight by Lyn Julius 9781910383643
RRP: €35.70€27.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910383643Author Lyn JuliusFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
Sephardic Jewry and Mizrahi Jews: Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXII by Peter Y. Medding 9780195340976
RRP: €79.73€72.27Volume 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... -
Aspects of Liberal Judaism: Essays in Honour of John D. Rayner by Ed Kessler
RRP: €23.74€18.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853035930Author David GoldbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 251Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism by Paul Hanebrink
RRP: €23.74€18.77"Masterful...An indispensable warning for our own time."-Samuel Moyn"Magisterial...Covers this dark history with insight and skill...A major intervention into our understanding of 20th-century Europe and the lessons we ought to take away from its history... -
Hasidism Reappraised by Ada Rapoport-Albert 9781874774358
RRP: €32.67€29.63Hasidism has been a seminal force and source of controversy in the Jewish world since its inception in the second half of the eighteenth century. Indeed, almost every ideological trend that has made itself felt among Jews since that time-from Zionism and... -
Labour's Antisemitism Crisis: What the Left Got Wrong and How to Learn From It by David Renton
RRP: €27.36€23.99Between 2015 and 2020 the Labour Party was riven by allegations that the party had tolerated antisemitism.For the Labour right, and some in the media, the fact that such allegations could be made was proof of a moral collapse under Jeremy Corbyn's... -
The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution by Lila Corwin Berman 9780691170732
RRP: €41.65€32.38The first comprehensive history of American Jewish philanthropy and its influence on democracy and capitalismFor years, American Jewish philanthropy has been celebrated as the proudest product of Jewish endeavors in the United States, its virtues... -
An English Jew: The Life and Writings of Claude Montefiore by Edward S. Kessler 9780853034414
RRP: €23.74€18.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853034414Author Edward KesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 205Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
Ceremonial Synagogue Textiles: From Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Italian Communities by Bracha Yaniv 9781906764180
€95.45National Jewish Book Awards 2019 Finalist for Visual Arts. Richly illustrated and meticulously documented, this is the first comprehensive survey of synagogue textiles to be available in English. Bracha Yaniv, a leading expert in the field of Jewish... -
The Love of God: Divine Gift, Human Gratitude, and Mutual Faithfulness in Judaism by Jon D. Levenson 9780691202501
RRP: €22.60€17.60A compelling interpretation of a foundational concept of Jewish religious lifeThe love of God is arguably the most essential element in Judaism-but also one of the most confounding. In biblical and rabbinic literature, the obligation to love God appears... -
Habsburg Sons: Jews in the Austro-Hungarian Army, 1788-1918 by Peter C. Appelbaum
RRP: €22.60€17.28Habsburg Sons describes Jewish participation in the Habsburg Army, 1788-1918, concentrating on their role in World War I. Approximately 300,000-350,000 Jews fought in the Austro-Hungarian Armies on all fronts. Of these, 30,000-40,000 died of wounds or... -
Jewish Prince in Moslem Spain: Selected Poems of Samuel Ibn Nagrela by Leon J. Weinberger 9780817352806
RRP: €27.31€22.28Of all the Hebrew poets of the 'Golden Age' in Spain, Samuel Ibn Nagrela (993-1056 A.D.) remains perhaps the most fascinating personality. A leading statesman in the kingdom of Granada, he was as successful in court as on the battlefield, maintaining a... -
The Invention of a Nation: Zionist Thought and the Making of Modern Israel by Alain Dieckhoff 9781850655954
RRP: €23.80€20.78The vulnerability which is the lot of any nation without a state was experienced in a particularly extreme way by the Jews. With the destitution and persecution of many Jewish communities in the 19th century, especially in Eastern Europe, Jews demanded a... -
Jewish Comedy: A Serious History by Jeremy Dauber
RRP: €15.46€13.64In a work of scholarship both erudite and funny, Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organising his book thematically into what he calls the seven strands of Jewish comedy... -
Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller: Portrait of a Seventeenth-Century Rabbi by Joseph Davis 9781904113324
RRP: €28.74€21.48This study portrays a man and an age. Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller (1578-1654), author of the famous Mishnah commentary Tosafot yom tov, was a major talmudist, a disciple of the legendary Rabbi Judah Loew of Prague, and himself the distinguished chief... -
Sabbatai Zevi: Testimonies to a Fallen Messiah by David J. Halperin 9781906764241
RRP: €26.12€20.35Sabbatai Zevi (1626-76) stirred up the Jewish world of the mid-seventeenth century by claiming to be the messiah, then stunned it by suddenly converting to Islam. His story, and that of the movement he created, is a landmark event in early modern Jewish... -
We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust by Ellen Cassedy 9780803230125
RRP: €20.22€16.23Ellen Cassedy's longing to recover the Yiddish she'd lost with her mother's death eventually led her to Lithuania, once the "Jerusalem of the North." As she prepared for her journey, her uncle, sixty years after he'd left Lithuania in a boxcar, made a... -
Rescue the Perishing: Eleanor Rathbone and the Refugees by Susan Cohen
RRP: €65.45€49.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853037781Author Susan CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 283Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
Challenge and Conformity: The Religious Lives of Orthodox Jewish Women by Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz 9781786941718
€40.51Orthodox Jewish women are increasingly seeking new ways to express themselves religiously, and important changes have occurred in consequence in their self-definition and the part they play in the religious life of their communities. Drawing on surveys... -
Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World: Attitudes and Interactions from Alexander to Justinian by Louis H. Feldman
RRP: €69.02€53.28Relations between Jews and non-Jews in the Hellenistic-Roman period were marked by suspicion and hate, maintain most studies of that topic. But if such conjectures are true, asks Louis Feldman, how did Jews succeed in winning so many adherents, whether... -
Theater of Acculturation: The Roman Ghetto in the Sixteenth Century by Kenneth R. Stow 9780295980225
RRP: €30.93€26.23Generations of tourists visiting Rome have ventured into the small section between the Tiber River and the Capitoline Hill whose narrow, dark streets lead to the charming Fountain of the Tortoises, the brooding mass of the Palazzo Cenci, and some of the...