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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646458809Author David SandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 524Imprint David SandlerPublisher David Sandler

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473533205Author Aubrey PomeranceFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint Decisionmaker PublicationsPublisher Decisionmaker PublicationsWeight(grams) 152g

Stories of Jewish Life: Casale Monferrato-Rome-Jerusalem, 1876-1985 is an unconventional memoir-an integrated collection of short stories and personal essays. Author Augusto Segre was a well-known public figure in post-WWII Italy who worked as a...

This new cultural history of Jewish life and identity in the United States after World War II focuses on the process of upward mobility. Rachel Kranson challenges the common notion that most American Jews unambivalently celebrated their generally strong...

The standard histories of Zionism have depicted it almost exclusively as a Jewish political movement, one in which Christians do not appear except as antagonists. In the highly original Zeal for Zion, Shalom Goldman makes the case for a wider and more...

This new cultural history of Jewish life and identity in the United States after World War II focuses on the process of upward mobility. Rachel Kranson challenges the common notion that most American Jews unambivalently celebrated their generally strong...

In a compelling history of the Jewish community in New York during four decades of mass immigration, Tony Michels examines the defining role of the Yiddish socialist movement in the American Jewish experience. The movement, founded in the 1880s, was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781881255062Author Menahem Ha-MeiriFormat HardbackImprint O F E Q InstitutePublisher O F E Q InstituteWeight(grams) 748g

In 1920, the Hungarian parliament introduced a Jewish quota for university admissions, making Hungary the first country in Europe to pass antisemitic legislation following World War I. Quotas explores the ideologies and practices of quota regimes and...

Examining eight generations of the Joseph family, this volume explores the rich history of Jews in Quebec. With 23 Jewish families in the Montreal area who can trace their ancestry back to patriarch Henry Joseph, the book profiles the family and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592644896Author Tuvia BookFormat PaperbackImprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999454114Author Nebraska Jewish Historical SocietyFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Nebraska Jewish Historical SocietyPublisher Nebraska Jewish...

The first appearance of Jews in Poland and their adventures during their early years of settlement in the country are concealed in undocumented shadows of history. What survived are legends of origin that early chroniclers, historians, writers, and...

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 9780995167728Author Irene C ChuFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint Irene ChuPublisher Irene ChuWeight(grams) 490g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985589424Author Andrew ZalewskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint Thelzo PressPublisher Thelzo PressWeight(grams) 726g

Vilna, the "Jerusalem of Lithuania," was the vibrant core of Eastern European Jewish life. Distinguished British historian, Israel Cohen, opens with the legend of the origin of Vilna in 1322 and traces the history of its Jewish community through vivid...

The 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 that had preoccupied the medieval mind: immortality of...

A collection of Ron Rubin's published writings amassed over his decades-long career. This anthology provides an extensive look at the contemporary issues that have influenced the Jewish community. Topics include American Jewish political and social...

The Jews of Poland tells the story of the development and growth of Polish Jewry from its beginnings, around the year 1200, when it numbered a few score people, to about six hundred years later, when it totaled a million or more people. This books...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592644438Author Menachem WaldmanFormat HardbackImprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press LtdWeight(grams) 68g

Envisioning Israel examines the deeply entwined yet often problematic historical relationship between American Jewry and the Jewish community in Israel and its predecessor, the yishuv, the Jewish settlement in Palestine from the 1880s until 1948. To...

Through the ages, theology in Judaism has played roles of varying importance. But the role of theology is minor compared with that of law and observance. This book is devoted to a study of the evolution of normative Judaism from the time of Ezra (ca. 400...

Disputed Messiahs: Jewish and Christian Messianism in the Ashkenazic World during the Reformation is the first comprehensive study that situates Jewish messianism in its broader cultural, social, and religious contexts within the surrounding Christian...

Migration has been a major factor in the life of the Jewish people throughout the two and a half millennia of their dispersion. And yet, the history of the Jewish migratory movements has not been fully explored in Jewish history. While the Jewish...

The JDC at 100: A Century of Humanitarianism traces the history of the JDC-an organization founded to aid victims of World War I that has played a significant role in preserving and sustaining Jewish life across the globe. The thirteen essays in this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592644742Author The Straus Center for Torah and Western ThoughtFormat PaperbackImprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press Ltd

This monumental work answers the grand question of where American Jewish liberalism comes from and ultimately questions whether the communal motivations behind such behaviour are strong enough to withstand twenty-first-century America.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312422684Author Michal GrynbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 493Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 476g

Can there ever be justice for the Holocaust? During the 1990s - triggered by lawsuits in the United States against Swiss banks, German corporations, insurance companies, and owners of valuable works of art - claimants and their lawyers sought to rectify...

When American Jewish men intermarry, goes the common assumption, they and their families are "lost" to the Jewish religion. In this provocative book, Keren R. McGinity shows that it is not necessarily so. She looks at intermarriage and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781077731707Author William Allen ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781075764127Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

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...

Histories of ancient Israel have usually focused attention on major figures in powerful positions: kings, prophets, and patriarchs. Kessler asks about the larger social patterns that shaped the everyday life of ordinary people, from the emergence of...

Jewish Continuity in America presents an overview of a life's work by a preeminent scholar and brings new insight to the challenge of American Jewish continuity. Jews have historically lived within a paradox of faith and fear: faith that they are an...

Both historical study and ancestral narrative, The Harness Maker's Dream follows the story of Ukrainian immigrant Nathan Kallison's journey to the United States in search of a brighter future. At the turn of the twentieth century, over two million Jews...

With the rise of Fascism in Europe, and particularly the ascent of Germany's Nazi Party, Jews in Germany and eastern and western Europe were forced to cope with an eroding civil and social status, increasing daily limitations, and a dark future on the...

From their conquest of Palestine in 1917 during World War I, until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the British controlled the territory by mandate, representing a distinct cultural period in Middle Eastern history. In Embodying Hebrew...