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Four peoples, each with its own culture, language and faith, shared a small Mediterranean town and experienced, each in its own way, the upheavals of war, modernity, emigration and occupation. With the German takeover in 1943, the Holocaust in 1944 and...

The Alliance Israelite Universelle, a French-Jewish organization founded in 1860, occupies a crucial place in the history of Sephardi communities in the modern period. In the fifty years after its creation, the Alliance established a vast network of...

Coined in 1992 by composer/saxophonist John Zorn, "Radical Jewish Culture," or RJC, became the banner under which many artists in Zorn's circle performed, produced, and circulated their music. New York's downtown music scene, part of the once-grungy...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887065538Author Moshe IdelFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Did Muslims and Jews in the Middle Ages cohabit in a peaceful "interfaith utopia"? Or were Jews under Muslim rule persecuted, much as they were in Christian lands? Rejecting both polemically charged ideas as myths, Mark Cohen offers a systematic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621578109Author David BrogFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Regnery PublishingPublisher Regnery PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

This is a sweeping and powerful narrative history of the Jewish people from biblical times to today. Based on the latest scholarship and richly illustrated, it is the most authoritative and accessible chronicle of the Jewish experience available. Michael...

The Arab-Israeli conflict has unsettled the Middle East for over half a century. This conflict is primarily political, a clash between states and peoples over territory and history. But it is also a conflict that has affected and been affected by...

An intimate history of the Holocaust that casts new light on our understanding of victimhood and survival.About the AuthorShirli Gilbert is associate professor of history and Jewish / Non-Jewish relations at the University of Southampton, UK. She is also...

'An extraordinary family tale of survival' Sunday TimesJonathan Dean's great-grandfather, David Schapira, fled the Russian threat in Ukraine for Vienna in 1914. Blinded in the First World War, he survived to find love and start a family, only to be sent...

The dramatic story of the last stand of a group of Jewish rebels who held out against the Roman Empire, as revealed by the archaeology of its famous siteTwo thousand years ago, 967 Jewish men, women, and children-the last holdouts of the revolt against...

Thanks to this generous donor for making the publication of this book possible: Jack B. Dweck.The history and dramatic rescue of the oldest Hebrew Bible in book formIn Crown of Aleppo, Hayim Tawil and Bernard Schneider tell the incredible story of the...

Drawing on a wide range of documentary and oral sources, including interviews with refugees, this book explores the responses in Manchester to those threatened by the rise of Fascism in Europe. By exploring the responses of particular segments of...

Was the extermination of the Jews part of the Nazi plan from the very start? Arno Mayer offers astartling and compelling answer to this question, which is much debated among historians today.In doing so, he provides one of the most thorough and...

Published in Association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Renowned Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg considered the railroads that delivered European Jews into forced labor and systematic slaughter to be not only essential components of the...

The idea that God reveals himself to human beings is central in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, but differs in regard of content and conceptualization. The first volume of the new series Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses points out similarities...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791427743Author Leo StraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

The USSR, 1980, the detente era has ended with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. As always during times of confrontation, the KGB is granted extra powers. Could there be a less auspicious time to start a new underground project? But a handful of Jewish...

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...

Is there a concept of the enemy? To what discursive sphere would it belong? Or, if there is no concept of the enemy, what are the factors that could have prevented its articulation? Following the reflections of Carl Schmitt and Jacques Derrida on the...

For as long as historians have contemplated the Jewish past, they have engaged with the idea of diaspora. Dedicated to the study of transnational peoples and the linkages these people forged among themselves over the course of their wanderings and in the...

The development of Judaism from ancient times to the modern day, shown in over 190 pictures. It traces the history of Judaism across the centuries, from ancient, rabbinic and medieval times to the present day. It discusses the creation of a Temple in...

By the turn of the twentieth century, the eastern Mediterranean port city of Izmir had been home to a vibrant and substantial Sephardi Jewish community for over four hundred years, and had emerged as a major center of Jewish life. The Jews of Ottoman...

In 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063097629Author Roxane Van IperenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

The twenty-eight day siege of the Warsaw Ghetto was one of the most protracted large-scale urban battles in World War II. Only the fighting at Leningrad from 1941-1943, Stalingrad in 1942-1943, the Warsaw Rebellion of 1944, and Budapest in 1944-1945...

Provides a comprehensive history of Soviet Jewry during World War II At the beginning of the twentieth century, more Jews lived in the Russian Empire than anywhere else in the world. After the Holocaust, the USSR remained one of the world's three key...

The Jewish community of Rome is the oldest Jewish community in Europe. It is also the Jewish community with the longest continuous history, having avoided interruptions, expulsions, and annihilations since 139 BCE. For most of that time, Jewish Romans...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628728057Author Tania CrasnianskiFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 210mm...

Magic culture is certainly fascinating. But what is it? What, in fact, are magic writings, magic artifacts? Originally published in Hebrew in 2010, Jewish Magic Before the Rise of Kabbalah is a comprehensive study of early Jewish magic focusing on three...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909526839Author Tony NourmandFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Reel Art PressPublisher Reel Art Press

"This book offers an articulate, readable, balanced introduction to Jewish history, one that could be utilized in the classroom or for individual enrichment."-Marie Nuar, Reading Religion Examining the entire span of Jewish history by focusing on thirty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802869227Author John J. CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 467Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how has Yiddish, a language without a country, influenced...

A 1985 National Jewish Book Award Winner for ScholarshipThe Wars of the Lord is the major treatise of Levi ben Gershom of Provence, one of the outstanding philosophers of the medieval world. This work examines in detail most of the controversial issues...

The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience. This book provides the first grassroots social,...

Jewish Odesa: Negotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine explores the rich Jewish history in Ukraine's port city of Odesa. Long considered both a uniquely cosmopolitan and Jewish place, Odesa's Jewish character has shifted since the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Gold Medallion Book Awards (Classics) 1989.Book InformationISBN 9780825429644Author Flavius JosephusFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Kregel Publications,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578671925Author Joseph SamuelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Joseph SamuelsPublisher Joseph SamuelsWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...