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World War I utterly transformed the lives of Jews around the world: it allowed them to display their patriotism, to dispel antisemitic myths about Jewish cowardice, and to fight for Jewish rights. Yet Jews also suffered as refugees and deportees, at...

As European politics, society, economy and religion underwent epoch-making changes between 1400 and 1600, the treatment of Europe's Jews by the non-Jewish majority was, then as in later periods, a symptom of social problems and tensions in the Continent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063112360Author Jonathan FreedlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Harper PaperbacksPublisher Harper PaperbacksWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063112339Author Jonathan FreedlandFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm)...

A 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...

Apologies 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 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...

This 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...

This 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...

Abraham 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...

This 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...

Offers 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...

Apologies 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 *...

Apologies 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.

Apologies 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...

Filled 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,...

Apologies 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 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...

Exploring 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,...

The 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,...

Apologies 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 *...

How 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 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 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 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...

Apologies 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

This 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...

Apologies 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

Uncovers 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...

A 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...

Daniel 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...

Apologies 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...

The 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...

Apologies 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

Moshe 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...

Apologies 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

Winner 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 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...

In 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...

The 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...