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Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities by Emily Tamkin 9780063074019
RRP: $28.38$23.21A journalist and author of The Influence of Soros examines the history of Jewish people in America and explores their ever-evolving relationship to the nation's culture and identity-and each other. What does it mean to be a Bad Jew? Many Jews use the... -
The Story of the Jews Volume Two: Belonging: 1492-1900 by Simon Schama 9780062998729
RRP: $32.24$22.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062998729Author Simon SchamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 295g -
Beyond Expulsion: Jews, Christians, and Reformation Strasbourg by Debra Kaplan
$86.75Beyond Expulsion is a history of Jewish-Christian interactions in early modern Strasbourg, a city from which the Jews had been expelled and banned from residence in the late fourteenth century. This study shows that the Jews who remained in the Alsatian... -
The Jewish Idea and Its Enemies: Personalities, Issues, Events by Hadley Cantril
RRP: $148.35$128.17This volume deals with the modern fate of the traditional conception of Jews as a covenanted people chosen to receive the Law, whose ultimate purpose is contributing to the universal salvation of mankind. The author shows how, under the influence of... -
Twenty/Twenty: Jewish Visionaries through Two Thousand Years by Morris B Margolies
$117.58This book focuses on the lives and accomplishments of twenty Jews who left a crucial imprint upon Judaism as we know it today. The author, Rabbi Morris B. Margolies, believes that most readers are bewildered when a page of history is saturated with a... -
A History of Jews in America by Abraham J. Karp
$87.55Abraham Karp's widely regarded work, A History of the Jews in America, is the only comprehensive, one-volume history of the Jewish-American experience. It surveys Jewish life from the colonial period and the early Republic through the decades of mass... -
Russia Gathers Her Jews: The Origins of the "Jewish Question" in Russia, 1772-1825 by John Doyle Klier
RRP: $30.95$26.88This classic study, by the late John Doyle Klier, is considered a seminal text in modern Jewish history by one of the foremost scholars in the field. In this, his first book, Klier offers an important analysis of RussiaAEs early acquisition of, attitudes... -
Jews in the Soviet Union: A History: After Stalin, 1953–1967, Volume 5 by Gennady Estraikh
RRP: $36.11$31.66Offers an analysis of Soviet Jewish society after the death of Joseph Stalin At the beginning of the twentieth century, more Jews lived in the Russian Empire than anywhere else in the world. After the Holocaust, the USSR remained one of the world's... -
Cultures of the Jews, Volume 3 by David Biale
RRP: $23.21$17.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805212020Author David BialeFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 594gDimensions(mm) 233mm * 159mm *... -
A Window on Their World: The Court Diaries of Rabbi Hayyim Gundersheim Frankfurt am Main, 1773-1794 by Edward Fram
RRP: $73.53$69.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878202539Author Edward FramFormat HardbackPage Count 656Imprint Hebrew Union College Press,U.S.Publisher Hebrew Union College Press,U.S. -
Jewish Organizations' Response to Communism and to Senator McCarthy by Aviva Weingarten
RRP: $25.80$19.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853037439Author Aviva WeingartenFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co... -
The First Jews in North America: The Extraordinary Story of the Hart Family (1760-1860) by Denis Vaugeois
RRP: $45.09$28.08Filled with original documents and vintage illustrations, this history chronicles the lives of the Hart family-a Jewish family who settled in predominantly Catholic Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, in 1761. Following Aaron Hart and his descendants for a century,... -
Rabbi Eliezer of Beaugency, Commentaries on Amos and Jonah (With Selections from Isaiah and Ezekiel) by Robert A Harris
RRP: $73.53$68.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580443036Author Robert A HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Medieval Institute PublicationsPublisher Medieval Institute Publications -
Nationalism, War and Jewish Education: From the Roman Empire to Modern Times by David Aberbach
RRP: $51.59$45.23Nationalism, War and Jewish Education explores historical circumstances leading to the emergence of a Jewish religious school system lasting to modern times and the process by which this system was broken down and adapted in secular form as Jewish... -
Arabs of the Jewish Faith: The Civilizing Mission in Colonial Algeria by Joshua Schreier
RRP: $82.56$71.26Exploring how Algerian Jews responded to and appropriated France's newly conceived "civilizing mission" in the mid-nineteenth century, Arabs of the Jewish Faith shows that the ideology, while rooted in French Revolutionary ideals of regeneration,... -
Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform by Francesca Bregoli
RRP: $79.98$69.61The Mediterranean port of Livorno was home to one of the most prominent and privileged Jewish enclaves of early modern Europe. Focusing on Livornese Jewry, this book offers an alternative perspective on Jewish acculturation during the eighteenth century,... -
A History of the Jews in the Modern World by Howard M. Sachar
RRP: $25.79$21.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400030972Author Howard M. SacharFormat PaperbackPage Count 848Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 830gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
We Shall Build Anew: Stephen S. Wise, the Jewish Institute of Religion, and the Reinvention of American Liberal Judaism by Shirley Idelson
$48.57How Rabbi Stephen S. Wise entirely changed the trajectory of American Reform Judaism over the course of the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first century.Book InformationISBN 9780817321314Author Shirley IdelsonFormat HardbackPage Count... -
The Business of Identity: Jews, Muslims, and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt by Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman
RRP: $79.98$69.61The Cairo Geniza is the largest and richest store of documentary evidence for the medieval Islamic world. This book seeks to revolutionize the way scholars use that treasure trove. Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman draws on legal documents from the Geniza to... -
The Modernity of Others: Jewish Anti-Catholicism in Germany and France by Ari Joskowicz
RRP: $79.98$69.61The most prominent story of nineteenth-century German and French Jewry has focused on Jewish adoption of liberal middle-class values. The Modernity of Others points to an equally powerful but largely unexplored aspect of modern Jewish history: the extent... -
The Shape of Revelation: Aesthetics and Modern Jewish Thought by Zachary Braiterman
RRP: $79.98$69.61The Shape of Revelation explores the overlap between revelation and aesthetic form from the perspective of Judaism. It does so by setting the Jewish philosophy of Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig alongside its immediate visual environment in the... -
Rabbi Eliezer of Beaugency, Commentaries on Amos and Jonah (With Selections from Isaiah and Ezekiel) by Robert A. Harris
RRP: $34.19$27.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580442732Author Robert A. HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Medieval Institute PublicationsPublisher Medieval Institute Publications -
Ars Judaica: The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art, Volume 17 by Ilia Rodov
$68.25This volume focuses on the migration and acculturation of images in Jewish culture and how that reflects intercultural exchange. Gender aspects of Jewish art are also highlighted, as is the role of images in interreligious encounters. Other topics... -
The Gesellschaft Zur Forderung Der Wissenschaft Des Judentums in Its Historical Context by Henry C Soussan
RRP: $90.82$90.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161505119Author Henry C SoussanFormat HardbackPage Count 193Imprint Mohr SiebeckPublisher Mohr SiebeckWeight(grams) 181g -
First Impressions – Sefer Hasidim and Early Modern Hebrew Printing by Joseph A. Skloot
RRP: $41.28$40.13Uncovers the history of creative adaptation and transformation through a close analysis of the creation of the Sefer Hasidim book. In 1538, a partnership of Jewish silk makers in the city of Bologna published a book entitled Sefer Hasidim, a compendium... -
Refugees or Migrants: Pre-Modern Jewish Population Movement Robert Chazan 9780300218572
RRP: $41.93$35.54A leading historian argues that historically Jews were more often voluntary migrants than involuntary refugees For millennia, Jews and non-Jews alike have viewed forced population movement as a core aspect of the Jewish experience. This involuntary... -
The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism: The Menorah Association and American Diversity by Daniel Greene
RRP: $25.79$13.52Daniel Greene traces the emergence of the idea of cultural pluralism to the lived experiences of a group of Jewish college students and public intellectuals, including the philosopher Horace M. Kallen. These young Jews faced particular challenges as they... -
Essentials of Jewish History Brandon Marlon 9781912676187
RRP: $58.05$44.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912676187Author Brandon MarlonFormat HardbackPage Count 550Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdDimensions(mm) 234mm... -
German as a Jewish Problem: The Language Politics of Jewish Nationalism by Marc Volovici
RRP: $79.98$69.61The German language holds an ambivalent and controversial place in the modern history of European Jews, representing different-often conflicting-historical currents. It was the language of the German classics, of German Jewish writers and scientists, of... -
Jewish Medical Practitioners in the Medieval Muslim World: A Collective Biography by Efraim Lev
RRP: $135.45$123.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474483971Author Efraim LevFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g -
Categorically Jewish, Distinctly Polish: Polish Jewish History Reflected and Refracted Moshe Rosman 9781906764852
$65.08Moshe Rosman's revolutionary approach has become a cornerstone of Polish Jewish historiography. Challenging conventions, he asserts that the 'marriage of convenience' between the Jews and the Polish--Lithuanian Commonwealth was a dynamic relationship... -
The Frankfurt Judengasse: Jewish Life in an Early Modern German City Fritz Backhaus 9780853038610
RRP: $25.74$19.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853038610Author Fritz BackhausFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams) 454g -
1929: Mapping the Jewish World by Hasia Diner
RRP: $32.24$27.95Winner of the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, Anthologies and Collections The year 1929 represents a major turning point in interwar Jewish society, proving to be a year when Jews, regardless of where they lived, saw themselves affected by developments... -
The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence: The Construction of an Early Modern Jewish Community by Stefanie B. Siegmund
RRP: $95.46$84.43The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence is a work about Italian Jews, Christians, and the institutions and policies that organized their relationship. It sets the 1570 decision of the Medici government to ghettoize the Jews of Tuscany in the context... -
Rewriting the Jew: Assimilation Narratives in the Russian Empire by Gabriella Safran
RRP: $74.82$64.72In the Russian Empire of the 1870s and 1880s, while intellectuals and politicians furiously debated the "Jewish Question," more and more acculturating Jews, who dressed, spoke, and behaved like non-Jews, appeared in real life and in literature... -
Antisemitic Myths: A Historical and Contemporary Anthology by Marvin Perry
RRP: $27.08$23.70The current revival of antisemitism in Europe and the demonization of Jews in parts of the Muslim world give special importance to the exposure of the myths and lies that for centuries led people to regard Jews as the dangerous "other" and that led to... -
The Beginnings of Ladino Literature: Moses Almosnino and His Readers by Olga Borovaya
RRP: $64.50$56.51Moses Almosnino (1518-1580), arguably the most famous Ottoman Sephardi writer and the only one who was known in Europe to both Jews and Christians, became renowned for his vernacular books that were admired by Ladino readers across many generations... -
An Ode to Salonika: The Ladino Verses of Bouena Sarfatty by Renee Levine Melammed
RRP: $36.11$31.66Through the poetry of Bouena Sarfatty (1916-1997), An Ode to Salonika sketches the life and demise of the Sephardi Jewish community that once flourished in this Greek crossroads city. A resident of Salonika who survived the Holocaust as a partisan and... -
Sephardim: The Jews from Spain Paloma Diaz-Mas 9780226144849
RRP: $29.67$28.55Here, in a single volume, is the first comprehensive history in English of the Sephardim-descendants of the Jews expelled from Spain in 1492. Paloma Diaz-Mas recounts the journey and customs of this fascinating group as they moved across the globe. They... -
Nothing to Speak of: Wartime Experiences of the Danish Jews 1943-1945 by Sofie Lene Bak
RRP: $55.46$46.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788763539586Author Sofie Lene BakFormat PaperbackPage Count 279Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams)...