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Touted as the "Jerusalem of the Balkans," the Mediterranean port city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once home to the largest Sephardic Jewish community in the world. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the city's incorporation into Greece in 1912...

500 years ago in Venice, the first ghetto was born. It was the first of many 'Jewish enclosures' ordained by political powers, such as the Venetian senate. A place to confine, it soon became an important cosmopolitan and commercial centre of the Republic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474454001Author Louis A FishmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)...

The Unknown Black Book provides a revelatory compilation of testimonies from Jews who survived open-air massacres and other atrocities carried out by the Germans and their allies in the occupied Soviet territories during World War II-Ukraine, Belorussia,...

For those unfamiliar with the many divisions within Judaism at that time or with Jewish life in other parts of the Roman Empire, this book offers an excellent introduction to a little-studied time period. Readers of Jewish history will definitely want to...

Finalist for National Jewish Book Award for Writing Based on Archival Material 2022. Jewish political and cultural behaviour during the first half of the twentieth century comes to the fore in this portrayal of a forgotten movement with contemporary...

Co-winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust ResearchThe forgotten story of 200,000 Polish Jews who escaped the Holocaust as refugees stranded in remote corners of the USSR.Between 1940 and 1946, about 200,000 Jewish refugees from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375705298Author Rich CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm...

Stories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating into their new worlds. But this book is not about the success stories. It's a paean to the bunglers, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416594284Author Professor of History Bernard WassersteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781489505415Author Dan BruceFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781489509048Author Dan BruceFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

This incisive history upends the complacency that confines anti-Judaism to the ideological extremes in the Western tradition. With deep learning and elegance, David Nirenberg shows how foundational anti-Judaism is to the history of the West. Questions of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.ReviewsA well-researched and important book that helps to untangle the complex web of American Zionism and its political impact prior to the creation of the Jewish state by...

Examines the experiences of thousands of Jewish Argentines who built their life trajectories through migrations to and from IsraelEmigration from Israel to other parts of the world has not yet received significant scholarly attention, as the subject is a...

An examination of the social and cultural repercussions of Jewish emigration from Poland to Argentina in the 1920s and 1930s. Between the 1890s and 1930s, Argentina, following the United States and Palestine, became the main destination for Eastern...

Minsk, the present capital of Belarus, was a heavily Jewish city in the decades between the world wars. Recasting our understanding of Soviet Jewish history, Becoming Soviet Jews demonstrates that the often violent social changes enforced by the...

Not all of Oregon's pioneers were Christian farmers or bachelor prospectors. Indeed, many of the first brick buildings on Oregon's newly platted Main Streets were built by Jewish merchants whose services were essential to town founding and growth. In...

Examines the experiences of thousands of Jewish Argentines who built their life trajectories through migrations to and from IsraelEmigration from Israel to other parts of the world has not yet received significant scholarly attention, as the subject is a...

An account of how Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch promulgated an inclusive vision of Judaism in the context of advancing the civic equality of German Jews in the nineteenth century In Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Religious Universalism and the German-Jewish Quest...

Over the last several decades, an astonishing phenomenon has developed: a Jewish rebirth of sorts occurring throughout Africa. Different ethnic groups proclaim that they are returning to long forgotten Jewish roots and African clans trace their lineage...

Noah Prylucki (1882-1941), a leading Jewish cultural and political figure in pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe, was a proponent of Yiddishism, a movement that promoted secular Yiddish culture as the basis for Jewish collective identity in the twentieth...

In the 1970s industry in the West had reached its limits, precipitating a major discussion about how to solve the crisis. But what was going on in Eastern Europe parallel to this development? Were any similar trends being registered? The authors of this...

As German Jews emigrated in the 19th and early 20th centuries andas exiles from Nazi Germany, they carried the traditions, culture,and particular prejudices of their home with them. At the same time,Germany-and Berlin in particular-attracted both secular...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250851062Author Edmund de WaalFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 138mm * 11mm

Charlotte Salomon's (1917-43) fantastical autobiography, Life? or Theater?, consists of 769 sequenced gouache paintings, through which the artist imagined the circumstances of the eight suicides in her family, all but one of them women. But Salomon's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780756980948Author Art SpiegelmanFormat HardbackPage Count 159Imprint Turtleback BooksPublisher Turtleback BooksWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews adds significantly to contemporary scholarship on cosmopolitanism by making the experience of Jews central to the discussion, as it traces the evolution of Jewish cosmopolitanism over the last two centuries. The book sets...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810107588Author HERTZFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Northwestern University PressPublisher Northwestern University PressWeight(grams) 429g

Neither in Dark Speeches nor in Similitudes is an interdisciplinary collaboration of Canadian and American Jewish studies scholars who compare and contrast the experience of Jews along the chronological spectrum (ca. 1763 to the present) in their...

Inform your students' lives with the richness of thousands of years of Jewish history, culture, and tradition. Teaching Jewish History tackles separately each of the key Jewish historical periods-Biblical, Rabbinic, Medieval, Early Modern, Enlightenment,...

To find more information about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9781555408886Author Werner WeinbergFormat HardbackPage Count 377Imprint Scholars PressPublisher Scholars PressWeight(grams) 708g

At the end of World War II, many thousands of Jewish Holocaust survivors immigrated to the United States from Europe in search of a new beginning. Most settled in major metropolitan areas, usually in predominantly Jewish communities, where proximity to...

In this pathbreaking book, Matthias B. Lehmann explores Ottoman Sephardic culture in an era of change through a close study of popularized rabbinic texts written in Ladino, the vernacular language of the Ottoman Jews. This vernacular literature, standing...

The history of Algerian Jews has thus far been viewed from the perspective of communities on the northern coast, who became, to some extent, beneficiaries of colonialism. But to the south, in the Sahara, Jews faced a harsher colonial treatment. In...

How does one explain America's failure to take bold action to resist the Nazi persecution and murder of European Jews? In contrast to recent writers who place the blame on anti-Semitism in American society at large and within the Roosevelt administration...

We tend to think of citizenship as something that is either offered or denied by a state. Modern history teaches otherwise. Reimagining citizenship as a legal spectrum along which individuals can travel, Extraterritorial Dreams explores the history of...

This multidisciplinary volume takes a fresh look at a period of transition from Persian to early Hellenistic times in Judah, which has been long neglected in the research. Until recently, the period from Alexander's conquest in 332 BCE, through the time...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062339577Author Simon SchamaFormat HardbackPage Count 800Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 1111g

The Strashun Library was among the most important Jewish public institutions in Vilna, and indeed in Eastern Europe, prior to its destruction during World War II. Mattityahu Strashun, a man descended from a long and distinguished line of rabbis,...