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The Journals of Yaakov Zipper, 1950-1982: The Struggle for Yiddishkeit by Yaakov Zipper 9780773526273
RRP: £70.00£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... -
Witness from the Pulpit: Topical Sermons, 1933-1980 by Harold I. Saperstein 9780739102596
RRP: £43.00£37.78Harold 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£24.76In 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
£86.22When 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£23.29In 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: £23.99£21.24In 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: £58.00£50.17On 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: £17.99£16.30Dating 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
£53.29This 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
£33.13"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 definitive account... -
Studies in Contemporary Jewry: XI: Values, Interests, and Identity: Jews and Politics in a Changing World by Peter Y. Medding 9780195103311
£36.14Drawing 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... -
On the Margins: About the History of Jews in Estonia by Anton Weiss-Wendt 9789633861653
RRP: £73.00£67.27Estonia is perhaps the only country in Europe that lacks a comprehensive history of its Jewish minority. Spanning over 150 years of Estonian Jewish history, On the Margins is a truly unique book. Rebuilding a life beyond so-called Pale of Jewish... -
Breaking the Silence: Voices of the British Children of Refugees from Nazism by Merilyn A. Moos 9781783482955
RRP: £129.00£117.17There has been extensive research into the impact of the Holocaust on the children of survivors who immigrated to the US and Israel. But very little work in this space has looked at children whose parents fled Nazi persecution before the Holocaust. Even... -
The Montreal Shtetl: Making Home After the Holocaust by Zelda Abramson 9781771134040
RRP: £18.95£15.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771134040Author Zelda AbramsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Between the LinesPublisher Between the LinesWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
Rise and Decline of Civilizations: Lessons for the Jewish People by Shalom Salomon Wald 9781618113771
RRP: £23.99£23.25Rise and Decline of Civilizations: Lessons for the Jewish People is a thought experiment in which the author examines the work of 23 historians of the last 2,400 years, from Thucydides to Jared Diamond, who describe the rise and decline of nations and... -
Jewish Ludmir: The History and Tragedy of the Jewish Community of Volodymyr-Volynsky: A Regional History by Volodymyr Muzychenko 9781618115188
RRP: £19.99£19.21This volume is a brief history of the Jewish community of Volodymyr-Volynsky, going back to its first historical mentions. It explores Jewish settlement in the city, the kahal, and the role of the community in the Vaad Arba Aratsot, and profiles several... -
The Most Tenacious of Minorities: The Jews of Italy by Sara Reguer 9781618112446
RRP: £77.99£74.60Arriving in ancient Rome over 2,000 years ago, the Jewish communities of Italy have retained their identity throughout the millennia. This book traces their recreation of community, focusing on their economic, intellectual, and social lives, as they... -
Diary of a Witness, 1940-1943 by Raymond-Raoul Lambert 9781566637404
RRP: £19.99£17.73Raymond-Raoul Lambert's Diary has been among the most important untranslated records of the experience of French Jews in the Holocaust. Lambert, a leader of the Union of French Jews (UGIF), was, in the words of the historian Michael Marrus, "arguably the... -
Homes Away from Home: Jewish Belonging in Twentieth-Century Paris, Berlin, and St. Petersburg by Sarah Wobick-Segev 9781503605145
RRP: £62.00£53.56How did Jews go from lives organized by synagogues, shul, and mikvehs to lives that-if explicitly Jewish at all-were conducted in Hillel houses, JCCs, Katz's, and even Chabad? In pre-emancipation Europe, most Jews followed Jewish law most of the time,... -
Reading Jewish History in the Renaissance: Christians, Jews, and the Hebrew Sefer Josippon by Nadia Zeldes 9781498573412
RRP: £85.00£74.51Using the Hebrew Book of Josippon as a prism, this study analyzes the dialogue surrounding Jewish history among Renaissance humanists. Notwithstanding its focus on the Renaissance, the author's analysis extends to the consumption of Josippon in the High... -
Global Jewish Foodways: A History by Hasia R. Diner 9781496213938
RRP: £23.99£20.84The history of the Jewish people has been a history of migration. Although Jews invariably brought with them their traditional ideas about food during these migrations, just as invariably they engaged with the foods they encountered in their new... -
Haven of Liberty: New York Jews in the New World, 1654-1865 by Howard B. Rock 9781479803514
RRP: £23.99£21.24Haven 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... -
Jews in Gotham: New York Jews in a Changing City, 1920-2010 by Jeffrey S. Gurock 9781479878468
RRP: £23.99£21.24Jews in Gotham follows the Jewish saga in ever-changing New York City from the end of the First World War into the first decade of the new millennium. This lively portrait details the complex dynamics that caused Jews to persist, abandon, or be left... -
Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America by Shari Rabin 9781479835836
RRP: £21.99£19.19Winner, 2017 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies presented by the Jewish Book Council Finalist, 2017 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, presented by the Jewish Book Council An engaging history of how Jews forged their own... -
Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women's Activism, 1890-1940 by Melissa R. Klapper 9781479850594
RRP: £23.99£20.84Winner 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... -
Antisemitism and the Politics of History by Scott Ury 9781684581795
RRP: £96.00£91.61This groundbreaking anthology addresses the history and challenges of using “antisemitism” and related terms as tools for historical analysis and public discourse. Drawing together seventeen chapters by prominent scholars from Europe, Israel, and the... -
Lessons in Contempt: Poul Raeff's Translation & Publication in 1516 of Johannes Pfefferkorn's The Confession of the Jews by Jonathan Adams 9788776746803
RRP: £27.50£22.61Published in 1516, Poul Raeff's "Iudeorum Secreta", a translation of Johannes Pfefferkorn's The Confession of the Jews, was a landmark in the development of anti-Jewish polemics in Denmark. For the first time, Danes were presented with... -
Jahrbuch Des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts / Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook XIV/2015 by Raphael Gross 9783525369449
RRP: £92.00£85.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783525369449Author Raphael GrossFormat HardbackPage Count 527Imprint Vandenhoeck & RuprechtPublisher Vandenhoeck & RuprechtWeight(grams) 413g -
Writing in Tongues: Translating Yiddish in the Twentieth Century by Anita Norich 9780295992969
£103.33Writing in Tongues examines the complexities of translating Yiddish literature at a time when the Yiddish language is in decline. After the Holocaust, Soviet repression, and American assimilation, the survival of traditional Yiddish literature depends on... -
Jews in Early Christian Law: Byzantium and the Latin West, 6th-11th Centuries by John V Tolan 9782503550527
RRP: £107.00£100.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503550527Author John V TolanFormat PaperbackPage Count 379Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 640g -
Between Two Worlds: Yiddish-German Encounters by Jerold C. Frakes 9789042921115
RRP: £88.00£80.95What does Yiddish have to do with German? It is a question that has perplexed Jews and Germans alike for centuries. The relationship between the two languages - both originating from a common source and from a common location - has often become a... -
Epigonism and the Dynamic of Culture by S. Berger 9789042920323
RRP: £85.00£80.51The articles collected in this volume were originally presented at a summer colloquium in Oxford in 2004. The 'epigone' is generally believed to be an imitator, deprived of an independent, original talent. He necessarily follows in someone else's... -
Jahrbuch Des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts / Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook XIII/2014 by Dan Diner 9783525369432
RRP: £98.00£95.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783525369432Author Dan DinerFormat HardbackPage Count 568Imprint Vandenhoeck & RuprechtPublisher Vandenhoeck & RuprechtWeight(grams) 1084g -
The Therapized Antisemite: The Myth of Psychology and the Evasion of Responsibility by Christopher L. Schilling 9783111353524
RRP: £68.50£64.30The Therapized Antisemite determines the failure of psychology in the understanding and punishment of antisemitism. For over a hundred years, psychology’s vision - understanding the mind and conquering feelings with thoughts – has remained a myth in... -
The Therapized Antisemite: The Myth of Psychology and the Evasion of Responsibility by Christopher L. Schilling 9783111349282
RRP: £27.50£24.65The Therapized Antisemite determines the failure of psychology in the understanding and punishment of antisemitism. For over a hundred years, psychology’s vision – understanding the mind and conquering feelings with thoughts – has remained a myth in... -
Yearning to Breathe Free: Jews in Gilded Age America. Essays by Twenty Contributing Scholars by Professor Adam D. Mendelsohn 9780878110650
RRP: £35.00£27.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878110650Author Professor Adam D. MendelsohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 696Imprint Princeton University LibraryPublisher Princeton University Library -
Diaspora Judaism in Turmoil 116/117 CE: Ancient Sources and Modern Insights by Miriam Pucci Ben Zeev 9789042916050
£47.89Between the two wars fought in Judaea against the Roman government - the 'Great War' and that of Bar Kochba - the uprisings of Diaspora Jews toward the end of Trajan's reign constitute a unique event in the history of the Second Jewish Commonwealth. It... -
The Beginnings of Anti-Jewish Legislation: The 1920 Numerus Clausus Law in Hungary by Mária M. Kovács 9789633866207
RRP: £53.00£48.60The Nazi 1933 Civil Service Law and the 1935 Nuremberg Laws are generally considered the first anti-Jewish decrees in Europe. Mária Kovács convincingly argues that Act XXV of 1920 concerning university enrollment in Hungary can instead be considered one... -
Tears of History: The Rise of Political Antisemitism in the United States by Pierre Birnbaum 9780231209618
RRP: £22.00£17.36For many Jews, for more than a century, the United States has seemed to be a safe haven. There has been antisemitic prejudice, but nothing on the scale of the discrimination, persecution, pogroms, and genocide witnessed in Europe. White American ethnic... -
Imagine No Religion: How Modern Abstractions Hide Ancient Realities by Carlin A. Barton 9780823271191
RRP: £112.00£97.21What do we fail to see when we force other, earlier cultures into the Procrustean bed of concepts that organize our contemporary world? In Imagine No Religion, Carlin A. Barton and Daniel Boyarin map the myriad meanings of the Latin and Greek words...