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Historians of the European Jewish experience have long marginalized the intellectual achievement of Jews in England, where it was assumed no seminal figures contributed to the development of modern Jewish thought. In this first comprehensive account of...

At the turn of the 20th century, Jews from North Africa and the Middle East were called Turcos ("Turks"), and they were seen as distinct from Ashkenazim, not even identified as Jews. Adriana M. Brodsky follows the history of Sephardim as they arrived in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471283287Author GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing Company

There has been extensive research into the impact of the Holocaust on the children of survivors who immigrated to the US and Israel. But very little work in this space has looked at children whose parents fled Nazi persecution before the Holocaust. Even...

A wealth of information about the conflicts, contributions, adaptation and ultimate assimilation of the Jews in China and introduces the Radanites, the great medieval Jewish mercantile traders, who provided an important link between China and the West...

Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas explores how the 30,000 Jews in northern Morocco developed a sense of kinship with modern Spain, medieval Sepharad, and the broader Hispanophone world that was unlike anything experienced elsewhere. The Hispanic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903025468Format HardbackPage Count 35Imprint Worth Press LtdPublisher Worth Press Ltd

In this touching and beautifully written book, Sylvie Courtine-Denamy traces her family's exile after their expulsion in 1492 at the time of Spanish unification. Their journey leads her to the exotic ports of Salonika, Constantinople, Bayonne, and Varna,...

The twentieth century was filled with many tragedies. During the Second World War, Babyn Yar – a ravine outside Kyiv where victims were shot dead and dumped into pits – became a prominent symbol of the destruction of the European Jews during the...

This eighth volume of the annual publication of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry focuses on the history and development of American Jewish life since World War II.Book InformationISBN 9780195074499Author Peter Y. MeddingFormat HardbackPage Count...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805209808Author Isaac MetzkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 198g

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The study of the ancient Jewish Diaspora is developing in exciting new directions as a result of fresh archaeological material and new frameworks of interpretation. The six studies collected in this volume have been composed by an international group of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891307488Author Tsvi GronerFormat PaperbackImprint Brown Judaic StudiesPublisher Brown Judaic StudiesWeight(grams) 340g

Michael Avioz builds upon his earlier work on Josephus as an exegete, providing a comprehensive study of Josephus' contribution to the crystallization of the Halakha which focuses on the similarities (and dissimilarities) between his work and the...

During the quarter century between 1780 and 1806, Berlin's courtly and intellectual elites gathered in the homes of a few Jewish women such as Rahel Varnhagen and Henrietta Herz to discuss the events of the day, creating both a new cultural institution...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, many perceived American Jewry to be in a state of crisis as traditions of faith faced modern sensibilities. Published beginning in 1909, Rabbi and Professor Louis Ginzberg's seven-volume The Legends of the Jews...

In United States Jewry, 1776-1985, the dean of American Jewish historians, Jacob Rader Marcus, unfolds the history of Jewish immigration, segregation, and integration; of Jewry's cultural exclusiveness and assimilation; of its internal division and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991900978Author Michael MandelFormat PaperbackImprint Now and Then BooksPublisher Now and Then BooksWeight(grams) 435g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244873332Author Govert WesterveldFormat HardbackPage Count 424Imprint Lulu PressPublisher Lulu PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345448149Author Mark KurlanskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 435Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 370g

The year 1978 marked Israel's entry into Lebanon, which led to the long-term military occupation of non-sovereign territory and the long, costly war in Lebanon. In the years that followed, many Israelis found themselves alienated from the idea that their...

This book collects groundbreaking research on displaced persons (DPs) in Europe in the period after World War II and before the establishment of Israel. By the spring of 1947, less than two years after Nazi Germany's defeat, some 250,000 Jewish refugees...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999136614Author Richard L HermannFormat PaperbackPage Count 458Imprint Persimmon Alley Press LLCPublisher Persimmon Alley Press LLCWeight(grams) 608g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995432505Author Johanna AltmannFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint New Homeland PublishingPublisher New Homeland PublishingWeight(grams) 494g

Zionism, more than any other social and political movement in the modern era, has completely and fundamentally altered the self-image of the Jewish people and its relations with the non- Jewish world. As the dominant expression of Jewish nationalism,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060926526Author Norman F. CantorFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

In the period from 1780 to 1840 German Jewry underwent a twofold revolution that set the basic patterns of its experience for the century to follow: the end of the Jews's feudal status as an autonomous community forced them to face a protracted process...

Interdisciplinary overview of American Jewish life post-Holocaust. The 1950s and early 1960s have not traditionally been viewed as a particularly creative era in American Jewish life. On the contrary, these years have been painted as a period of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780755204885Author Gary R. GersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams) 384g

Interdisciplinary overview of American Jewish life post-Holocaust. The 1950s and early 1960s have not traditionally been viewed as a particularly creative era in American Jewish life. On the contrary, these years have been painted as a period of...

A primary source analysis of the migration of Jews from Argentina to Israel. Between Exile and Exodus: Argentinian Jewish Immigration to Israel, 1948-1967 examines the case of the 16,500 Argentine Jewish immigrants who arrived in Israel during the first...

This collection of revised and new essays explores Jewish women's history. Topics include: portrayals of women in the Hebrew bible; the image and status of women in the diaspora world of late antiquity; Jewish women in the Middle Ages; Sephardi women in...

In United States Jewry, 1776-1985, the dean of American Jewish historians, Jacob Rader Marcus, unfolds the history of Jewish immigration, segregation, and integration; of Jewry's cultural exclusiveness and assimilation; of its internal division and...

An examination of memoirs written after 1945 by Jewish Austrians mourning the loss of their homeland. In reclaiming Heimat, Jacqueline Vansant focuses on nine memoirs by seven Austrian reeimigres - Ernst Lothar, Stella Klein-Low, Hans Thalberg, Minna...

This collection was compiled by the Society of Hebrew Literature (London) to make available to English readers works available only in German, Hebrew, Arabic, and French. Among other subjects, the letters, essays, and articles range over history,...

Throughout history, the persecutions of the Jewish people have been central to their identity and to the cohesion of their religion and cultural heritage. But now, with the success of the Jewish State of Israel and the prosperity of Jews in the United...

Half a century after Hasidism blossomed in Eastern Europe, its members were making deep inroads into the institutional structure of Polish Jewish communities, but some devotees believed that the movement had drifted away from its revolutionary ideals...