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Beyond Whiteness: Revisiting Jews in Ethnic America by Jonathan Karp 9781612499185
RRP: €102.34€83.40The concept of ethnicity, once in vogue, has largely gone out of fashion among twenty-first-century social scientists, now replaced by models of assimilation defined in terms of the construction of whiteness and white supremacy. Beyond Whiteness:... -
The Ever-Dying People?: Canada's Jews in Comparative Perspective by Robert Brym 9781487528775
RRP: €28.55€25.67Demise by assimilation or antisemitism is often held to be the inevitable future of Jews in Canada and other diaspora countries. The Ever-Dying People? shows that the Jewish diaspora, while often held to be in decline, is influenced by a range of... -
I'm No Hero: Journeys of a Holocaust Survivor by Henry Friedman 9780295981161
€27.81Henry Friedman was robbed of his adolescence by the monstrous evil that annihilated millions of European Jews and changed forever the lives of those who survived. When the Nazis overran their home town near the Polish-Ukrainian border, the Friedman... -
From that Place and Time: A Memoir, 1938-1947 by Lucy Dawidowicz 9780813543628
€43.32From that Place and Time is the memoir of Lucy S. Dawidowicz, an American-Jewish historian who set out to study Yiddish language and Jewish history at YIVO, the Jewish Scientific Institute in Vilna, Poland, in 1938. Escaping Poland only days before the... -
One People, One Blood: Ethiopian-Israelis and the Return to Judaism by Don Seeman 9780813549361
RRP: €45.22€40.85"Little by little, an egg will come to walk upon its own leg." Ethiopian-Israelis fondly quote this bit of Amharic folk wisdom, reflecting upon the slow, difficult history that allowed them to fulfill their destiny far from the Horn of Africa where they... -
From India to Israel: Identity, Immigration, and the Struggle for Religious Equality: Volume 2 by Joseph Hodes
€29.46Between May 1948 and December 1951, Israel received approximately 684,000 immigrants from across the globe. The arrival of so many ethnic, linguistic, and cultural groups to such a small place in such a short time was unprecedented and the new country... -
Anti-Heimat Cinema: The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape by Ofer Ashkenazi
RRP: €82.11€66.38Anti-Heimat Cinema: The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape studies an overlooked yet fundamental element of German popular culture in the twentieth century. In tracing Jewish filmmakers’ contemplations of “Heimat”—a provincial German landscape... -
Jews, Judaism, and Success: How Religion Paved the Way to Modern Jewish Achievement by Robert Eisen
€97.59In 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... -
Around the Tents of Torah: Commentary on the Bible by Rabbi N. L. Marcus
RRP: €17.85€13.04From my early childhood, I was fortunate in being directly connected with the "Tents of Torah". The house where I was brought up in Mir was not far from the famous Mirer Yeshiva. The lyrical sounds, songs and tunes which the Yeshiva Bachurim... -
Hebrew Infusion: Language and Community at American Jewish Summer Camps by Sarah Bunin Benor
RRP: €35.69€32.58Each summer, tens of thousands of American Jews attend residential camps, where they may see Hebrew signs, sing and dance to Hebrew songs, and hear a camp-specific hybrid language register called Camp Hebraized English, as in: "Let's hear some ruach... -
The Ever-Dying People?: Canada's Jews in Comparative Perspective by Robert Brym
€59.92Demise by assimilation or antisemitism is often held to be the inevitable future of Jews in Canada and other diaspora countries. The Ever-Dying People? shows that the Jewish diaspora, while often held to be in decline, is influenced by a range of... -
Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families - Paradoxes of a Social Revolution by Sylvia Barack Fishman
€48.29The concepts of gender, love, and family - as well as the personal choices regarding gender-role construction, sexual and romantic liaisons, and family formation - have become more fluid under a society-wide softening of boundaries, hierarchies, and... -
You Shall Tell Your Children: Holocaust Memory in American Passover Ritual by Liora Gubkin
€42.52Passover is among the most widely observed holidays for American Jews. During this festival of redemption, Jewish families retell the biblical story of Exodus using a ritual book known as a haggadah, often weaving modern tales of oppression through the... -
Hebrew Union College Annual Volume 59 by Hebrew Union College Press
€55.56Hebrew Union College Annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to the academic world. From its inception in 1924, its goal has been to cultivate Jewish learning... -
Hebrew Union College Annual Volume 76 by Hebrew Union College Press
€55.56Hebrew Union College Annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to the academic world. From its inception in 1924, its goal has been to cultivate Jewish... -
Hebrew Union College Annual: Volume 77 by Hebrew Union College Press
€55.56Hebrew Union College Annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to the academic world. From its inception in 1924, its goal has been to cultivate Jewish... -
Hebrew Union College Annual: Volume 81 by Hebrew Union College Press
€55.43Hebrew Union College Annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to the academic world. From its inception in 1924, its goal has been to cultivate Jewish learning... -
Hebrew Union College Annual Volume 47 by Hebrew Union College Press
€55.56Hebrew Union College Annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to the academic world. From its inception in 1924, its goal has been to cultivate Jewish learning... -
Hebrew Union College Annual Volume 51 by Hebrew Union College Press
€55.56Hebrew Union College Annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to the academic world. From its inception in 1924, its goal has been to cultivate Jewish learning... -
Hebrew Union College Annual Volume 64 by Hebrew Union College Press
€55.56Hebrew Union College Annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to the academic world. From its inception in 1924, its goal has been to cultivate Jewish learning... -
Hebrew Union College Annual Volume 68 by Hebrew Union College Press
€55.56Hebrew Union College Annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to the academic world. From its inception in 1924, its goal has been to cultivate Jewish learning... -
Hebrew Union College Annual Volume 73 by Hebrew Union College Press
€55.56Hebrew Union College Annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to the academic world. From its inception in 1924, its goal has been to cultivate Jewish learning... -
Yiddish Lives On: Strategies of Language Transmission by Rebecca Margolis
€127.48The language of a thousand years of European Jewish civilization that was decimated in the Nazi Holocaust, Yiddish has emerged as a vehicle for young people to engage with their heritage and identity. Although widely considered an endangered language,... -
Beyond the Wall: Chapters on Urban Jerusalem by Heike Zaun-Goshen
RRP: €30.94€25.07Jerusalem is a child of the desert, a city precariously hovering on its brink, exposed to a bright, unrelenting sun. Its never-ending story continues to fascinate people. Jerusalem is not only an important historical and spiritual site but also a modern... -
Torah Through Time: Understanding Bible Commentary from the Rabbinic Period to Modern Times by Shai Cherry
RRP: €26.17€23.65Thanks to these generous donors for making the publication of this book possible: Kinney Zalesne and Scott Siff. Every commentator, from the classical rabbi to the modern-day scholar, has brought his or her own worldview, with all of its... -
Jews and Diaspora Nationalism - Writings on Jewish Peoplehood in Europe and the United States by Simon Rabinovitch
RRP: €28.56€27.41The question of how to preserve, construct or transform Jewish peoplehood consumed Jewish intellectuals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Despite a rich array of writing from Jewish nationalists, liberals, and socialists about the... -
Yiddish and the Left: Papers of the Third Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish by Gennady Estraikh
RRP: €47.59€41.72For over a century Yiddish served as a major vehicle for expressing left-wing ideas and sensitivities. A language without country, an "ugly jargon" despised by assimilationist Jewish bourgeoisie and nationalist Zionists alike, it was embraced... -
Anglo-Jewish Poetry from Isaac Rosenberg to Elaine Finestein by Peter Lawson
RRP: €26.78€20.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853036173Author Peter LawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 227Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
Jews and the American Soul: Human Nature in the Twentieth Century by Andrew R. Heinze
RRP: €35.70€33.07What do Joyce Brothers and Sigmund Freud, Rabbi Harold Kushner and philosopher Martin Buber have in common? They belong to a group of pivotal and highly influential Jewish thinkers who altered the face of modern America in ways few people recognize. So... -
The Drama of the Assimilated Jew: Giorgio Bassani's Romanzo di Ferrara by Lucienne Kroha
€77.36Giorgio Bassani (1916-2000) was a Jewish Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and intellectual. A cosmopolitan writer concerned with the problems of Jewish identity and history, Bassani was deeply affected by the persecution and deportation of... -
Jewish Year Book: 2005 by S.W. Massil
RRP: €65.45€49.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853036081Author S.W. MassilFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
In This Hour: Heschel's Writings in Nazi Germany and London Exile by Helen Plotkin
RRP: €38.08€32.93In This Hour offers the first English translations of selected German writings by Abraham Joshua Heschel from his tumultuous years in Nazi-ruled Germany and months in London exile, before he found refuge in the United States. Moreover, several of the... -
Jewish Comedy: A Serious History by Jeremy Dauber 9780393247879
RRP: €27.36€23.48In 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... -
Rabbi, Mystic, or Impostor?: The Eighteenth-Century Ba'al Shem of London by Michal Oron
€53.38The enigmatic kabbalist Samuel Falk, known as the Ba'al Shem of London, has piqued the curiosity of scholars for enerations. Eighteenth-century London was fascinated by Jews, and as a miracle-worker and adventurer, well connected and well read, Falk had... -
Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish by Abigail Pogrebin
RRP: €19.03€14.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767916134Author Abigail PogrebinFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher... -
Rupture and Reconstruction: The Transformation of Modern Orthodoxy by Haym Soloveitchik
€40.51The essay that forms the core of this book is an attempt to understand the developments that have occurred in Orthodox Jewry in America in the last seventy years, and to analyse their implications. The prime change is what is often described as 'the... -
A Cat Called Adolf by Trude Levi 9780853032892
RRP: €17.79€17.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853032892Author Trude LeviFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
Cursed: A Social Portrait of the Kielce Pogrom by Joanna Tokarska-Bakir 9781501771484
RRP: €47.60€41.32In Cursed, Joanna Tokarska-Bakir investigates the July 4, 1946, Kielce pogrom, a milestone in the periodization of the Jewish diaspora. This massacre compelled thousands of Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust to flee postwar Poland. It remains a... -
Reluctant Cosmopolitans: The Portuguese Jews of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam by Daniel M. Swetschinski
RRP: €31.36€28.06National Jewish Book Awards Winner of the Maurice Amado Foundation Award for Sephardic Studies, 2000. In the seventeenth century, Amsterdam took in several thousand New Christians from the Iberian peninsula, descendants of Jews who had been forcibly... -
Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement: A Revolution in the Name of Tradition by Naomi Seidman 9781906764692
€44.40Sarah Schenirer is one of the unsung heroes of twentieth-century Orthodox Judaism. The Bais Yaakov schools she founded in interwar Poland had an unparalleled impact on a traditional Jewish society threatened by assimilation and modernity, educating a...