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The Sephardic population in the Americas is formed by a large number of small groups, divided according to the communities of origin in the Iberian Peninsula, the Middle East, and North Africa, and dispersed among English-, Spanish-, Portuguese-, and...

Biography of a Jewish doctor who survived and triumphed over the horrors of the Holocaust. Eli's Story: A Twentieth-Century Jewish Life is first and foremost a biography. Its subject is Eli G. Rochelson, MD (1907-1984), author Meri-Jane Rochelson's...

The reemergence of a united Germany as a dominant power in Europe has increased even more it's importance as a major political ally and trade partner of the United States, despite the misgivings of some U.S. citizens. Ambiguous Relations addresses for...

This is the true story of Fiszel Bialowitz, a teenaged Polish Jew who in 1943 escaped the Nazi gas chambers at the Sobibor death camp. He joined with his brother and a small group of prisoners to carry out a daring and precisely planned revolt that...

It took the Nazis longer to quell the Warsaw ghetto uprising than it had taken them to defeat entire countries. How could the Jews of Warsaw-starved and persecuted, their numbers decimated by mass deportations to concentration camps, with few weapons and...

German and Jewish ways of life have been interwoven in Worms, Germany, for over a thousand years. Despite radical changes brought about by expulsion of Jews, wartime devastation, social advancement, cultural and religious renewal, and the Jewish...

This book offers an extensive introduction and 14 diverse essays on how World War II, the Holocaust, and their aftermath affected Jewish families and Jewish communities, with an especially close look at the roles played by women, youth, and children...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013293207Author Maurice (translator) WolfthalFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999336557Author Miriam HoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Yiddishkayt Initiative, Inc.Publisher Yiddishkayt Initiative, Inc.Weight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738501307Author Irving CutlerFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 295g

At a time when hostilities and violence in the Middle East and Persian Gulf continually threaten the world with war, anyone seeking to understand the current situation must become familiar with the interrelationships of the Jewish and Arab cultures. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972456562Author George J AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 471Imprint Congress for Jewish CulturePublisher Congress for Jewish CultureWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970077561Author Mikhail KizilovFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Qirqisani CenterPublisher Qirqisani CenterWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm) 227mm *...

This brilliant analysis of American Judaism in the last half of the 20th century won the 1993-94 National Jewish Book Award for the best book on contemporary Jewry and also was named an Outstanding Book of 1993 by Choice. Jack Wertheimer examines how...

A History of the Jewish People presents a total vision of Jewish experiences and achievements-religious, political, social, and economic-in both the land of Israel and the diaspora throughout the ages. It has been acclaimed as the most comprehensive and...

In early 20th-century Yemen, a sizable Jewish population was subject to sumptuary laws and social restrictions. Jews regularly came into contact with Islamic courts and Muslim jurists, by choice and by necessity, became embroiled in the most intimate...

This is the story of the adventures and misadventures of the Jewish people in the land of Egypt. The author uses the clear light of scientific analysis and archaeological research to illuminate the reality underlying the images from the Biblical accounts...

A sweeping chronicle of Jewish life in the Tar Heel State from colonial times to the present, this beautifully illustrated volume incorporates oral histories, original historical documents, and profiles of fascinating individuals. The first comprehensive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907123453Author William J. FishmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications

Readers familiar with the luminous scholarly contributions of Harry Austryn Wolfson will welcome this rich collection of essays that have been previously published in widely dispersed journals and books, The articles range over Aristotle and Plato;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934309575Author Laurie E. PearceFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint CDL PressPublisher CDL PressWeight(grams) 1792gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 40mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781070528670Author Joseph D FrizziFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 363g

This is an exploration of the relationship between Jews and magnates in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth, in which Rosman shows the influence of the Jews on economic, social and political life in the Polish, Ukranian and Belorussian territories. Rosman...

In describing the career of Abraham Yagel, a Jewish physician, kabbalist, and naturalist who lived in northern Italy from 1553 to about 1623, David Ruderman observes the remarkable interplay between early modern scientific thought and religious and...

Readers familiar with the luminous scholarly contributions of Harry Austryn Wolfson will welcome this rich collection of essays that have been previously published in widely dispersed journals and books, The articles range over Aristotle and Plato;...

Designed to accompany the 18-volume reference work, this index contains the names, events and dates that appear in the last 9 volumes of the set. It includes a chronological table of principal events and personalities.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780231088398Author Salo W. BaronFormat HardbackPage Count 436Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press

Designed to accompany the 18-volume reference work, this index contains the names, events and dates that appear in the last 9 volumes of the set. It includes a chronological table of principal events and personalities.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985462369Author Angela K DurdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Blue Room BooksPublisher Blue Room BooksWeight(grams) 644g

Stalinist policy toward Jews is assessed for the first time in this groundbreaking book. Sifting through thousands of recently declassified documents in the archives of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the KGB, Kostyrchenko reveals in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999129500Author Richard AbdillFormat PaperbackImprint Boardman Street PressPublisher Boardman Street PressWeight(grams) 395g

For more than one hundred years, Jewish women and men of the Dallas area have responded to Tikkun Olam, the religious challenge to heal the world. Repairing Our World: The First 100 Years of the National Council of Jewish Women, Greater Dallas Section is...

A history and celebration of Jewish women through the centuries. This is an indispensable resource about the role of Jewish women from post-biblical times to the twentieth century. Unique in its approach, it is structured so that each chapter, which is...

Called by Choice "the most comprehensive survey of a magnificent era," The Jews of Moslem Spain takes the reader on a journey through history, from 711 C.E. on the slopes of Gibraltar (when the Moslems conquered the Iberian peninsula) through...

How have Jews reshaped their identities as Jews in the face of the radical newness called America? Julian Levinson explores the ways in which exposure to American literary culture-in particular the visionary tradition identified with Ralph Waldo Emerson...

Jewish stories of the supernatural are nothing new. The very first Jewish ghost story appears in the Bible. This collection offers contemporary tales with modern-day children as the main characters. The stories, each illustrated with pen-and-ink...

The persistence of anti-Semitism is a phenomenon that challenges Jewish historians to make ethical judgments a part of historical analysis. This comprehensive collection meets that challenge as its authors provide fresh insight into the complexities of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692343685Author Igor P LipovskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Cambridge Publishing Inc.Publisher Cambridge Publishing Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692225882Author Walter RothFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Walter/RothPublisher Walter/RothWeight(grams) 191g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780440505068Author Howard FastFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...