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From Assimilation to Antisemitism: The "Jewish Question" in Poland, 1850-1914 by Theodore R. Weeks 9780875803524
RRP: £46.00£39.30Before the mid-nineteenth century, Jews in the Polish lands led lives quite separate from their Christian neighbors. As modern ideologies of nationalism gained strength, however, Jewish separateness came to be seen as a problem, even a threat, to the... -
Judah L. Magnes: An American Jewish Nonconformist by Daniel P. Kotzin 9780815632160
£61.98A biography of Judah L. Magnes, an American Reform rabbi, Jewish community leader, and active pacifist during World War I who helped found and served as first chancellor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He brought American ideals to Palestine, and... -
An Uneasy Relationship: American Jewish Leadership and Israel, 1948-1957 by Zvi Ganin 9780815630517
RRP: £25.95£21.04Set in the first decade of modern Israel's existence, this volume offers an insightful look at the changing relationship of American Jews and the reborn Jewish nation/state. It is the first in-depth analysis of the subject during this key period. As the... -
Jews Among Muslims: Communities in the Precolonial Middle East by Shlomo A. Deshen 9780814796757
£89.88Imagine a traditional Jewish community on the eve of the 19th century, and you will most likely picture the Eastern European shtetl. This prevailing European-oriented view obscures the fact that Jewry is a coat of many colors, with many diverse yet... -
Nurturing Neighborhood: The Brownsville Boys' Club and Jewish Community in Urban America, 1940-1990 by Gerald Sorin 9780814778975
£89.88Drawing heavily on the reminiscences of the Brownsville boys themselves, and skillfully integrating these with material from newspapers, books, and commentary of the time, Sorin creates an original and compelling picture of the communal and individual... -
Haven of Liberty: New York Jews in the New World, 1654-1865 by Howard B. Rock 9780814776322
RRP: £25.99£22.44Haven of Liberty chronicles the arrival of the first Jews to New York in 1654 and highlights the role of republicanism in shaping their identity and institutions. Rock follows the Jews of NewYork through the Dutch and British colonial eras, the American... -
Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women's Activism, 1890-1940 by Melissa R. Klapper 9780814748947
RRP: £80.00£68.77Winner of the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, Women's Studies Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace explores the social and political activism of American Jewish women from approximately 1890 to the beginnings of World War II. Written in an... -
Easter in Kishniev: Anatomy of a Pogrom by Edward H. Judge 9780814742235
RRP: £23.99£20.41Judge's book is the best to date on the Kishinev pogrom of 1903. In seven gracefully written chapters, the author lays out the background of the Jewish question in Russia, profiles the city of Kishinev, narrates the events leading up to and included in... -
The Rabbi's Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life by Shuly Rubin Schwartz 9780814740163
£89.882006 National Jewish Book Award, Modern Jewish Thought Long the object of curiosity, admiration, and gossip, rabbis' wives have rarely been viewed seriously as American Jewish religious and communal leaders. We know a great deal about the important role... -
Theatrical Liberalism: Jews and Popular Entertainment in America by Andrea Most 9780814724620
RRP: £27.99£23.66Finalist for the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, American Jewish Studies For centuries, Jews were one of the few European cultures without any official public theatrical tradition. Yet in the modern era, Jews were among the most important creators of... -
Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition by Marni Davis 9780814720288
RRP: £67.00£56.76Finalist, 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature from the Jewish Book Council From kosher wine to their ties to the liquor trade in Europe, Jews have a longstanding historical relationship with alcohol. But once prohibition hit America, American... -
The Jews of Moscow, Kiev, and Minsk: Identity, Antisemitism, Emigration by Robert J. Brym 9780814712269
£89.88The Jews of the former Soviet Union have always been the subject of intense controversy. In the past 25 years, however, they have become more puzzling. How many of them are there? How strongly so they identify themselves as Jews? How do they perceive... -
Theatrical Liberalism: Jews and Popular Entertainment in America by Andrea Most 9780814708194
£90.28Finalist for the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, American Jewish Studies For centuries, Jews were one of the few European cultures without any official public theatrical tradition. Yet in the modern era, Jews were among the most important creators of... -
The Holocaust Averted: An Alternate History of American Jewry, 1938-1967 by Jeffrey S. Gurock 9780813572383
RRP: £37.00£25.49The increasingly popular genre of "alternative histories" has captivated audiences by asking questions like "what if the South had won the Civil War?" Such speculation can be instructive, heighten our interest in a topic, and shed... -
Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation by Federica Francesconi 9780812253146
RRP: £72.00£60.92Federica Francesconi writes the history of the Jewish merchants who lived and prospered in the northern Italian city of Modena, capital city of the Este Duchy, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Her protagonists are men and women who stood... -
Dictionary of Antisemitism: From the Earliest Times to the Present by Robert Michael 9780810858688
£86.73The term 'antisemitism' was coined by Wilhelm Marr in 1879. Marr's secular, political racism existed inconsistently alongside his religious anti-Semitism. His self-proclaimed goal was 'to free Christianity from the yoke of Judaism.' While the term might... -
Money, Power, and Influence in Eighteenth-Century Lithuania: The Jews on the Radziwill Estates by Adam Teller 9780804798440
RRP: £67.00£57.16It has often been claimed that Jews have a penchant for capitalism and capitalist economic activity. With this book, Adam Teller challenges that assumption. Examining how Jews achieved their extraordinary success within the late feudal economy of the... -
Confessions of the Shtetl: Converts from Judaism in Imperial Russia, 1817-1906 by Ellie R. Schainker 9780804798280
RRP: £67.00£56.76Over the course of the nineteenth century, some 84,500 Jews in imperial Russia converted to Christianity. Confessions of the Shtetl explores the day-to-day world of these people, including the social, geographic, religious, and economic links among... -
The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944-2010 by Robert S.C. Gordon 9780804763455
RRP: £108.00£91.83The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944-2010 is the first major study of how postwar Italy confronted, or failed to confront, the Holocaust. Fascist Italy was the model for Nazi Germany, and Mussolini was Hitler's prime ally in the Second World War. But... -
Clepsydra: Essay on the Plurality of Time in Judaism by Sylvie-Anne Goldberg 9780804789059
RRP: £45.00£38.87The clepsydra is an ancient water clock and serves as the primary metaphor for this examination of Jewish conceptions of time from antiquity to the present. Just as the flow of water is subject to a number of variables such as temperature and pressure,... -
A Jewish Life on Three Continents: The Memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden by Lee Shai Weissbach 9780804783637
RRP: £67.00£57.16This remarkable memoir by Menachem Mendel Frieden illuminates Jewish experience in all three of the most significant centers of Jewish life during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It chronicles Frieden's early years in Eastern Europe,... -
A Goy Who Speaks Yiddish: Christians and the Jewish Language in Early Modern Germany by Aya Elyada 9780804781930
RRP: £67.00£56.76This book explores the unique phenomenon of Christian engagement with Yiddish language and literature from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the late eighteenth century. By exploring the motivations for Christian interest in Yiddish, and the... -
Rabbis and Revolution: The Jews of Moravia in the Age of Emancipation by Michael Miller 9780804770569
RRP: £125.00£106.48The Habsburg province of Moravia straddled a complicated linguistic, cultural, and national space, where German, Slavic, and Jewish spheres overlapped, intermingled, and sometimes clashed. Situated in the heart of Central Europe, Moravia was exposed to... -
The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy by Gil Anidjar 9780804748230
RRP: £108.00£105.43Is there a concept of the enemy? To what discursive sphere would it belong? Or, if there is no concept of the enemy, what are the factors that could have prevented its articulation? Following the reflections of Carl Schmitt and Jacques Derrida on the... -
Jews and Christians on Time and Eternity: Charles Peguy's Portrait of Bernard-Lazare by Annette Aronowicz 9780804730051
£60.34This book grapples with a wide range of contemporary ethical and religious issues through the lens of the reflections of Charles Peguy on his friend and mentor Bernard-Lazare. Both Peguy, a leading French Catholic poet and philosopher, and... -
Jewish Emancipation in a German City: Cologne, 1798-1871 by Shulamit S. Magnus 9780804726443
£71.20This work seeks to understand how, in nineteenth-century Germany, Jews and non-Jews shaped and experienced Jewish emancipation, a process whereby Jews were freed from ancient discriminatory laws and, over the course of decades, became citizens. Unlike... -
Anti-Judaism, Antisemitism, and Delegitimizing Israel by Robert S. Wistrich 9780803296718
RRP: £54.00£45.95Although early Zionist thinkers perhaps naively believed that anti-Jewish persecution would end with sovereignty, anti-Zionism has become one form of the "new" antisemitism following World War II. Because antisemitism has not been effectively addressed,... -
Between Philosemitism and Antisemitism: Defenses of Jews and Judaism in Germany, 1871-1932 by Alan T. Levenson 9780803229570
RRP: £49.00£41.80Philosemitism, as Alan T. Levenson explains it, is "any pro-Jewish or pro-Judaic utterance or act." The German term for this phenomenon appeared in the language at roughly the same time as its more famous counterpart, antisemitism, and its... -
The Journals of Yaakov Zipper, 1950-1982: The Struggle for Yiddishkeit by Yaakov Zipper 9780773526273
RRP: £62.00£31.72Provides a first-hand account of the Yiddish speaking immigrants who gave Montreal its unique vibrancyBook InformationISBN 9780773526273Author Yaakov ZipperFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher McGill-Queen's... -
Antisemitism in the German Military Community and the Jewish Response, 1914-1938 by Brian E. Crim 9780739194621
RRP: £42.00£39.49Antisemitism in the German Military Community and the Jewish Response, 1914-1938 explores how German World War I veterans from different social and political backgrounds contributed to antisemitic politics during the Weimar Republic. The book compares... -
Witness from the Pulpit: Topical Sermons, 1933-1980 by Harold I. Saperstein 9780739102596
RRP: £43.00£38.92Harold I. Saperstein served as rabbi of Temple Emanu-El of Lynbrook, N.Y., from 1933 until his retirement in 1980. The specific contours of his career reflect a sustained effort to use the pulpit of this suburban temple to communicate a Jewish... -
German Jewry and the Allure of the Sephardic by John M. Efron 9780691192758
RRP: £32.00£24.27In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as German Jews struggled for legal emancipation and social acceptance, they also embarked on a program of cultural renewal, two key dimensions of which were distancing themselves from their fellow Ashkenazim in... -
Beautiful Death: Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France by Susan L. Einbinder 9780691090535
RRP: £72.00£54.83When Crusader armies on their way to the Holy Land attacked Jewish communities in the Rhine Valley, many Jews chose suicide over death at the hands of Christian mobs. With their defiant deaths, the medieval Jewish martyr was born. With the literary... -
Jewish Questions: Responsa on Sephardic Life in the Early Modern Period by Matt Goldish 9780691122656
RRP: £30.00£22.82In Jewish Questions, Matt Goldish introduces English readers to the history and culture of the Sephardic dispersion through an exploration of forty-three responsa--questions about Jewish law that Jews asked leading rabbis, and the rabbis' responses. The... -
The End of the Holocaust by Alvin H. Rosenfeld 9780253356437
RRP: £25.99£22.44In this provocative work, Alvin H. Rosenfeld contends that the proliferation of books, films, television programs, museums, and public commemorations related to the Holocaust has, perversely, brought about a diminution of its meaning and a denigration of... -
Blood Libel in Late Imperial Russia: The Ritual Murder Trial of Mendel Beilis by Robert Weinberg 9780253010995
RRP: £63.00£53.44On Sunday, March 20, 1911, children playing in a cave near Kiev made a gruesome discovery: the blood-soaked body of a partially clad boy. After right-wing groups asserted that the killing was a ritual murder, the police, with no direct evidence, arrested... -
Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives by Alvin H. Rosenfeld 9780253008787
RRP: £19.99£17.57Dating back millennia, antisemitism has been called "the longest hatred." Thought to be vanquished after the horrors of the Holocaust, in recent decades it has once again become a disturbing presence in many parts of the world. Resurgent Antisemitism... -
Jews in a Graeco-Roman World by Martin Goodman 9780199271399
£59.26This book contains studies of the social, cultural, and religious history of the Jews in the Graeco-Roman world. Some of the sixteen contributors are specialists in Jewish history, others in classics. They tackle from different angles the extent to which... -
Operation Solomon: The Daring Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews by Stephen Spector 9780195177824
£55.25"Operation Solomon" was one of the most remarkable rescue efforts in modern history, in which more than 14,000 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel in little more than a day. Now, in this riveting volume, Stephen Spector offers the... -
Studies in Contemporary Jewry: XI: Values, Interests, and Identity: Jews and Politics in a Changing World by Peter Y. Medding 9780195103311
£89.18Drawing upon original essays by such notable historians and political scientists as Michael Walzer, this collection confronts the often conflicting role of values, interests, and identity in contemporary Jewish politics.Book InformationISBN...