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The Eichmann Trial Reconsidered by Rebecca Wittmann
RRP: £52.00£45.10The Eichmann Trial Reconsidered brings together leading authorities in a transnational, international, and supranational study of Adolf Eichmann, who was captured by the Israelis in Argentina and tried in Jerusalem in 1961. The essays in this important... -
The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman: The Life and Times of Redcliffe Nathan Salaman by Todd M. Endelman
RRP: £70.00£60.71Redcliffe Salaman (1874-1955) was an English Jew of many facets: a country gentleman, a physician, a biologist who pioneered the breeding of blight-free strains of potatoes, a Jewish nationalist, and a race scientist. A well-known figure in his own time,... -
Poland What Have I To Do With Thee ?: Essays Without Prejudice Rafael F Scharf 9780853033509
RRP: £19.95£15.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853033509Author Rafael F ScharfFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
Gender, Place and Memory in the Modern Jewish Experience: Replacing Ourselves Judith Tydor Baumel 9780853034896
RRP: £19.95£15.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853034896Author Judith Tydor BaumelFormat PaperbackPage Count 297Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
250 Years of Convention and Contention: A History of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, 1760-2010 Raphael Langham 9780853039822
RRP: £25.00£19.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853039822Author Raphael LanghamFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co... -
To Tell Their Children: Jewish Communal Memory in Early Modern Prague by Rachel L. Greenblatt
RRP: £62.00£53.56This book offers an examination of Jewish communal memory in Prague in the century and a half stretching from its position as cosmopolitan capital of the Holy Roman Empire (1583-1611) through Catholic reform and triumphalism in the later seventeenth... -
Seeking The Fabled City: The Canadian Jewish Experience by Allan Levine
RRP: £40.99£26.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771048050Author Allan LevineFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc. -
Imagining the Kibbutz: Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film by Ranen Omer-Sherman
RRP: £38.95£35.03In Imagining the Kibbutz, Ranen Omer-Sherman explores the literary and cinematic representations of the socialist experiment that became history's most successfully sustained communal enterprise. Inspired in part by the kibbutz movement's recent... -
Perlzweig: Pioneer of British Zionism by Maurice L.Perlzweig
RRP: £55.00£41.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910383957Author Maurice L.PerlzweigFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
The Other Jewish Question: Identifying the Jew and Making Sense of Modernity by Jay Geller
RRP: £39.00£34.52This book examines how modernizing German-speaking cultures, undergoing their own processes of identification, responded to the narcissistic threat posed by the continued persistence of Judentum (Judaism, Jewry, Jewishness) by representing "the... -
Jewish Spain: A Mediterranean Memory by Tabea Alexa Linhard
RRP: £62.00£53.56What is meant by "Jewish Spain"? The term itself encompasses a series of historical contradictions. No single part of Spain has ever been entirely Jewish. Yet discourses about Jews informed debates on Spanish identity formation long after their... -
Nathan Birnbaum and Jewish Modernity: Architect of Zionism, Yiddishism, and Orthodoxy by Jess Olson
RRP: £66.00£57.33This book explores the life and thought of one of the most important but least known figures in early Zionism, Nathan Birnbaum. Now remembered mainly for his coinage of the word "Zionism," Birnbaum was a towering figure in early Jewish... -
Between Philosemitism and Antisemitism: Defenses of Jews and Judaism in Germany, 1871-1932 by Alan T. Levenson
RRP: £19.99£17.54Philosemitism, as Alan T. Levenson explains, 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 emergence... -
Tamerlane and the Jews by Michael Shterenshis
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book provides a general introduction to the history of Jewish life in 14th century Asia at the time of the conqueror Tamerlane (Timur). The author defines who are the Central Asian Jews, and describes the attitudes towards the Jews, and the... -
Gender and Jewish History by Marion A. Kaplan
RRP: £23.99£21.24By revealing the importance of gender in interpreting the Jewish past, this collection of original essays highlights the profound influence that feminist scholarship has had on the study of Jewish history since the 1970s. Gender and Jewish History... -
Without Jews? - Yiddish Literature in the People's Republic of Poland on the Holocaust, Poland, and Communism by Magdalena Ruta
RRP: £50.00£39.52Literature in Yiddish has an almost millennium-long history. A major, if not the definitive caesura in its evolution was the outbreak of World War II, during which, of the approximately 11 million Jews who used Yiddish in their day-to-day affairs, over... -
The Impact of Zionism and Israel on Anglo-Jewry's Identity, 1948-1982: Caught Somewhere Between Zion and Galut Jack Omer-Jackaman 9781910383919
RRP: £50.00£37.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910383919Author Jack Omer-JackamanFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
The Road to September 1939: Polish Jews, Zionists, and the Yishuv on the Eve of World War II Jehuda Reinharz 9781512601534
RRP: £40.00£33.99In European and Holocaust historiography, it is generally believed that neither the Zionist movement nor the Yishuv, acting primarily out of self-interest, energetically attempted to help European Jews escape the Nazi threat. Drawing on the memoirs,... -
Global Jewish Foodways: A History by Hasia R. Diner
RRP: £39.00£34.12The 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... -
The Sultan's Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging by Alma Rachel Heckman
RRP: £62.00£53.56The Sultan's Communists uncovers the history of Jewish radical involvement in Morocco's national liberation project and examines how Moroccan Jews envisioned themselves participating as citizens in a newly-independent Morocco. Closely following the lives... -
Jewish Blues: A History of a Color in Judaism by Gadi Sagiv
RRP: £45.00£39.18Jewish Blues presents a broad cultural, social, and intellectual history of the color blue in Jewish life between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries. Bridging diverse domains such as religious law, mysticism, eschatology, as well as clothing and... -
Essays on Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and the Left by Jean Amery
RRP: £62.00£53.56In April 1945, Jean Amery was liberated from the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. A Jewish and political prisoner, he had been brutally tortured by the Nazis, and had also survived both Auschwitz and other infamous camps. His experiences during the... -
These Truths We Hold: Judaism in an Age of Truthiness by Joshua Garroway
RRP: £21.50£20.16Our nation's founding document, the Declaration of Independence, confidently declares, "These truths we hold to be self-evident" And yet, America today seems mired in a truth crisis. Postmodern relativism has cast doubt on the Enlightenment... -
Photography and Jewish History: Five Twentieth-Century Cases by Amos Morris-Reich
RRP: £62.00£53.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812253917Author Amos Morris-ReichFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania... -
Karaite Separatism in Nineteenth-Century Russia: Joseph Solomon Lutski's Epistle of Israel's Deliverance by Philip E Miller
RRP: £44.00£39.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878204151Author Philip E MillerFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Hebrew Union College Press,U.S.Publisher Hebrew Union College Press,U.S. -
A Historian in Exile: Solomon ibn Verga, "Shevet Yehudah," and the Jewish-Christian Encounter by Jeremy Cohen
RRP: £62.00£53.56Solomon ibn Verga was one of the victims of the decrees expelling the Jews from Spain and Portugal in the 1490s, and his Shevet Yehudah (The Scepter of Judah, ca. 1520) numbered among the most popular Hebrew books of the sixteenth century. Its title page... -
A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi by Aron Rodrigue
RRP: £116.00£100.62This book presents for the first time the complete text of the earliest known Ladino-language memoir, transliterated from the original script, translated into English, and introduced and explicated by the editors. The memoirist, Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi... -
Democratization and the Jews: Munich, 1945-1965 by Anthony D. Kauders
RRP: £50.00£43.81Published for the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism Democratization and the Jews explores the ways in which West Germans in Munich responded after 1945 to the Holocaust. Examining the political and religious discourse on... -
The Invisible Jewish Budapest: Metropolitan Culture at the Fin de Siecle by Mary Gluck
RRP: £39.95£27.73Budapest at the fin de siecle was famed and emulated for its cosmopolitan urban culture and nightlife. It was also the second-largest Jewish city in Europe. Mary Gluck delves into the popular culture of Budapest's coffee houses, music halls, and humor... -
A Romantic Polish-Jew - Rabbi Ozjasz Thon from Various Perspectives by Michal Galas
RRP: £50.00£39.12In this book one can find historical background of Rabbi Ozjasz Thon's various interests, and it examines closely the main fields in which he was active and creative. Ozjasz Thon was a fascinating figure in the Jewish-Polish arena at the first third of... -
Jews in Gotham: New York Jews in a Changing City, 1920-2010 by Jeffrey S. Gurock
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... -
The Merchants of Oran: A Jewish Port at the Dawn of Empire by Joshua Schreier
RRP: £99.00£85.74The Merchants of Oran weaves together the history of a Mediterranean port city with the lives of Oran's Jewish mercantile elite during the transition to French colonial rule. Through the life of Jacob Lasry and other influential Jewish merchants, Joshua... -
From Kabbalah to Class Struggle: Expressionism, Marxism, and Yiddish Literature in the Life and Work of Meir Wiener by Mikhail Krutikov
RRP: £66.00£57.33From Kabbalah to Class Struggle is an intellectual biography of Meir Wiener (1893-1941), an Austrian Jewish intellectual and a student of Jewish mysticism who emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1926 and reinvented himself as a Marxist scholar and Yiddish... -
Between Foreigners and Shi'is: Nineteenth-Century Iran and its Jewish Minority by Daniel Tsadik
RRP: £62.00£53.56Based on archival and primary sources in Persian, Hebrew, Judeo-Persian, Arabic, and European languages, Between Foreigners and Shi'is examines the Jews' religious, social, and political status in nineteenth-century Iran. This book, which focuses on... -
British Mission to the Jews in Nineteenth-century Palestine Yaron Perry 9780714683850
RRP: £61.99£53.61Yaron Perry's account reveals, without bias or partiality, the story of the "London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews" and its unique contribution to the restoration of the Holy Land. This Protestant organization were the first to take... -
The Jews of Ethiopia: The Birth of an Elite by Tudor Parfitt
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book offers the results of the most recent research carried out in European and Israeli universities on Ethiopian Jews. With a special focus on Europe and the role played by German, English and Italian Jewish communities in creating a new Jewish... -
The Female Face of God in Auschwitz: A Jewish Feminist Theology of the Holocaust Melissa Raphael 9780415236645
RRP: £120.00£104.01The dominant theme of post-Holocaust Jewish theology has been that of the temporary hiddenness of God, interpreted either as a divine mystery or, more commonly, as God's deferral to human freedom. But traditional Judaic obligations of female presence,... -
Female, Jewish, and Educated: The Lives of Central European University Women by Harriet Pass Freidenreich
RRP: £27.99£24.54Female, Jewish, and Educated presents a collective biography of Jewish women who attended universities in Germany or Austria before the Nazi era. To what extent could middle-class Jewish women in the early decades of the 20th century combine family and... -
The Subject of Holocaust Fiction by Emily Miller Budick
RRP: £24.99£21.67Fictional representations of horrific events run the risk of undercutting efforts to verify historical knowledge and may heighten our ability to respond intellectually and ethically to human experiences of devastation. In this captivating study of the... -
Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century, Volume One by Pauline Wengeroff
RRP: £62.00£53.96Pauline Wengeroff, the only nineteenth-century Russian Jewish woman to publish a memoir, sets out to illuminate the "cultural history of the Jews of Russia" in the period of Jewish "enlightenment," when traditional culture began to...