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Jewish Self-Defense in South America charts the ways in which Jewish youth in Argentina and Uruguay organized self-defense groups in the wake of an anti-Semitic wave that swept the Southern Cone in the 1960s.The kidnapping of Nazi war criminal Adolf...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615805139Author Bette L SiegelFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Boston SynagoguePublisher Boston SynagogueWeight(grams) 354g

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The Historical Dictionary of the Jews presents the history of the Jewish people and their religious culture in a way that makes clear how and why this small, ancient people have survived nearly four millennia and managed to play such an important role in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400033775Author Paul KriwaczekFormat PaperbackPage Count 357Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 363g

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The Wars of the Lord is the major treatise of Levi ben Gershom of Provence (1288-1344), one of the most creative and daring minds of the medieval world. The work, an unparalleled achievement of Jewish thought, is devoted to a demonstration that the...

At the beginning of the eighteenth century most European Jews lived in restricted settlements and urban ghettos, isolated from the surrounding dominant Christian cultures not only by law but also by language, custom, and dress. By the end of the century...

From Halakhic innovation to blood libels, from the establishment of new mendicant orders to the institutionalization of Islamicate bureaucracy, and from the development of the inquisitorial process to the rise of yeshivas, universities, and madrasas, the...

No subject looms larger over the historical landscape of medieval Spain than that of the reconquista, the rapid expansion of the power of the Christian kingdoms into the Muslim-populated lands of southern Iberia, which created a broad frontier zone that...

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...

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...

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) 726gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm *...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...