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Although the ideas of ""tradition"" and ""modernity"" may seem to be directly opposed, David Ellenson, a leading contemporary scholar of modern Jewish thought, understood that these concepts can also enjoy a more...

The Israeli-American Connection examines the ways in which the American experience influenced some of the major leaders of the yishuv, the Jewish settlement in Palestine, during and between the world wars. In six biographical chapters, Michael Brown...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873955775Author Susan A. HandelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present is broad in geographical scope exploring Jewish women's lives in what is now Eastern and Western Europe, Britain, Israel, Turkey, North Africa, and North America. Editors Federica Francesconi and...

As one of the first American journalists to enter the newly liberated concentration camps in the closing days of the Holocaust, Meyer Levin wished the world to know of the horror he had found. Seizing upon Anne Franks Diary as a poignant voice to tell...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898753868Author Albert Montefiore HyamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

An imposing literary figure in America and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century, Ludwig Lewisohn (1882-1955) struggled with feelings of alienation in Christian America that were gradually resolved by his developing Jewish identity, a...

Galilee was the center of Jewish life in Palestine after the sedtruiction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. as well as a region of prime importance in early Christian history. Here the outstanding scholars in the fiels present the most up-to-date research:...

In June 2017, the Jews of Libya commemorated the jubilee of their complete exodus from this North African land in 1967, which began with a mass migration to Israel in 1948-49. Jews had resided in Libya since Phoenician times, seventeen centuries before...

Kosharovsky's authoritative four-volume history of the Jewish movement in the Soviet Union is now available in a condensed and edited volume that makes this compelling insider's account of Soviet Jewish activism after Stalin available to a wider audience...

Originally published in 1997, Bacskai's powerful ethnography portrays the political, religious, and individual forces that came to bear on the Orthodox Jewish tradition as it struggled for survival in the aftermath of the Holocaust in Hungary. Jews who...

With a fresh perspective, Authentically Orthodox: A Tradition-Bound Faith in American Life challenges the current historical paradigm in the study of Orthodox Judaism and other tradition-bound faith communities in the United States. Paying attention to...

Going Greek offers an unprecedented look at the relationship between American Jewish students and fraternity life during its heyday in the first half of the twentieth century. More than secret social clubs, fraternities and sororities profoundly shaped...

Founded in New York City in 1843 by immigrants from German or German-speaking territories in Central Europe, the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith sought to integrate Jewish identity with the public and civil sphere in America. In The Independent Orders...

In The Intellectual History and Rabbinic Culture of Medieval Ashkenaz, author Ephraim Kanarfogel challenges the dominant perception that medieval Ashkenazic rabbinic scholarship was lacking in intellectualism or broad scholarly interests. While cultural...

This text explores the transformation in Europe from 1750 to 1870, looking at the lives of European Jews who experienced the shift from segregation on the margins of early modern society to integration in the modern nation state. The lives of men, women...

This study analyzes the transformation of German Jewry in the period from 1780-1840 in order to explain why the nature of the most visible Jewry in modern Europe remained essentially invisible to its own members and to subsequent generations. German...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806530932Author Runes D DagobertFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Philosophical LibraryPublisher Philosophical LibraryWeight(grams) 330g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802843296Author Doron MendelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759694484Author Howard J. LeavittFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 882g

Moroccan Jews can trace their heritage in Morocco back 2000 years. In French Protectorate Morocco (1912-56) there was a community of over 200,000 Jews, but today only a small minority remains. This book writes Morocco's rich Jewish heritage back into the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692804285Author Jack RothmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Jack RothmanPublisher Jack RothmanWeight(grams) 168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692170588Author Adi J NeumanFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Hirsch Street PressPublisher Hirsch Street PressWeight(grams) 540g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578306070Author Howard DrokerFormat PaperbackPage Count 492Imprint Washington State Jewish Historical SocietyPublisher Washington State Jewish Historical...

From the 17th century until the Holocaust, Germany's Jews lurched between progress and setback, between fortune and terrible misfortune. German society shunned Jews in the eighteenth century and opened unevenly to them in the nineteenth and early...

Between 1391 and the end of the 15th century, numerous Spanish Jews converted to Christianity, most of them under duress. Before and after 1492, when the Jews were officially expelled from Spain, a significant number of these conversos maintained...

Zionism and the Creation of a New Society is the history of the development of the Jewish State from the early idea of Jewish nationalism. Ranging from the Zionist movements in the late nineteenth century to the establishment of Israel in 1948, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647993702Author Flavius JosephusFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 535g

'An extraordinary family tale of survival' Sunday Times Human and curious . . . an admirable family memoir of migration' Guardian Jonathan Dean's great-grandfather, David Schapira, lived a life of epic achievement and epic suffering. Forced to flee...

Contributors. Stephen Feinstein, Robert O. Freedman, Theodore H. Friedgut, Zvi Gitelman, Marshall I. Goldman, Sidney Heitman, William Korey, Howard SpierBook InformationISBN 9780822309062Author Robert O. FreedmanFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Duke...

In Italy Jews and fascists coexisted as nowhere else - there were even Jewish members of the Italian Fascist Party. Both before and during the war, the experience of Jews in Italy was a strange mixture of sympathy and brutal persecution, benevolence and...

In his three-volume history, Antony Polonsky provides a comprehensive survey-socio-political, economic, and religious-of the Jewish communities of eastern Europe from 1350 to the present. Until the Second World War, this was the heartland of the Jewish...

Each of the three volumes of this magisterial work provides a comprehensive picture of the realities of Jewish life in the Polish lands in the period it covers, while also considering the contemporary political, economic, and social context. Volume I:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781396323386Author Central Conference Of American RabbisFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Left of Brain BooksPublisher Left of Brain BooksWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250243928Author Hasia R DinerFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791029914089Author Alfred EdersheimFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint SselPublisher SselWeight(grams) 476g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954176249Author Itzhok BerglassFormat HardbackPage Count 532Imprint Jewishgen.IncPublisher Jewishgen.IncWeight(grams) 1506g

Jews on trial concentrates on Inquisitorial activity during the period which historians have argued was the most active in the Inquisition's history: the first forty years of the tribunal in Modena, from 1598 to 1638, the year of the Jews' enclosure in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959446040Author Michael S GutterFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Suburbanbuzz.comPublisher Suburbanbuzz.comWeight(grams) 399g