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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... -
Propaganda and Zionist Education - The Jewish National Fund 1924 - 1947 by Yoram Bar-Gal
RRP: £80.00£76.61The Jewish National Fund [JNF] is the executive body established by the Zionist movement in 1902 to buy land in Palestine for the Jewish people. Very quickly, however, it became an international organization and soon had branches in many countries... -
Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America by Shari Rabin
£75.49Winner, 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... -
Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Northern Europe, 1080-1350: A Sourcebook by Tzafrir Barzilay
RRP: £25.00£20.30This sourcebook is designed to introduce students to the everyday lives of the Jews who lived in the German Empire, northern France and England from the 11th to the mid-14th centuries. The volume consists of translations of primary sources written by... -
Jewish Women in the Medieval World: 500-1500 CE by Sarah Ifft Decker
RRP: £35.99£31.69Jewish Women in the Medieval World offers a thematic overview of the lived experiences of Jewish women in both Europe and the Middle East from 500 to 1500 CE, a group often ignored in general surveys on both medieval Jewish life and medieval women. ... -
Agony in the Pulpit: Jewish Preaching in Response to Nazi Persecution and Mass Murder 1933-1945 by Marc Saperstein
RRP: £85.00£80.61Many scholars have focused on contemporary sources pertaining to the Nazi persecution and mass murder of Jews between 1933 and 1945--citing dated documents, newspapers, diaries, and letters--but the sermons delivered by rabbis describing and protesting... -
Anglo-Jewry in Changing Times: Studies in Diversity, 1840-1914 Israel Finestein 9780853033547
RRP: £55.00£41.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853033547Author Israel FinesteinFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
The Jews of Italy, 1848-1915: Between Tradition and Transformation by Elizabeth Schachter
RRP: £22.50£17.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853039532Author Elizabeth SchachterFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co... -
Hanukkah in America: A History by Dianne Ashton
£30.06Explores the ways American Jews have reshaped Hanukkah traditions across the country In New Orleans, Hanukkah means decorating your door with a menorah made of hominy grits. Latkes in Texas are seasoned with cilantro and cayenne pepper. Children in... -
A Remembrance of His Wonders: Nature and the Supernatural in Medieval Ashkenaz by David I. Shyovitz
RRP: £62.00£53.56The twelfth and thirteenth centuries witnessed an explosion of Christian interest in the meaning and workings of the natural world-a "discovery of nature" that profoundly reshaped the intellectual currents and spiritual contours of European society-yet... -
Purchasing Power: The Economics of Modern Jewish History by Rebecca Kobrin
RRP: £74.00£64.85How has the ability of Jews to amass and wield power, within both Jewish and non-Jewish society, influenced and been influenced by their economic activity? Purchasing Power answers this question by examining the nexus between money and power in modern... -
Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature: A Reader by Jonathan M. Hess
RRP: £27.99£24.54Recent scholarship has brought to light the existence of a dynamic world of specifically Jewish forms of literature in the nineteenth century-fiction by Jews, about Jews, and often designed largely for Jews. This volume makes this material accessible to... -
From Falashas to Ethiopian Jews by Daniel Summerfield
RRP: £135.00£117.28In the light of the Israeli government's plan to halt Ethiopian immigration, this book provides original research into the transformation of the Falashas to Ethiopian Jews during the twentieth century which made them eligible for immigration into Israel,... -
Jews, Muslims and Mass Media: Mediating the 'Other' by Yulia Egorova
RRP: £43.99£38.44This text looks at the ways in which Jews, Muslims and the conflict between them has been covered in the modern media. Both Jews and Muslims generally receive a 'bad press'. This book will try to reveal why. The media have clearly played a pro-active... -
From Falashas to Ethiopian Jews: The External Influences for Change, c. 1860-1960 by Daniel Summerfield
RRP: £35.99£31.69In the light of the Israeli government's plan to halt Ethiopian immigration, this book provides original research into the transformation of the Falashas to Ethiopian Jews during the twentieth century which made them eligible for immigration into Israel,... -
Modern Ladino Culture: Press, Belles Lettres, and Theater in the Late Ottoman Empire by Olga Borovaya
RRP: £31.00£27.76Olga Borovaya explores the emergence and expansion of print culture in Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), the mother tongue of the Sephardic Jews of the Ottoman Empire, in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. She provides the first comprehensive... -
How Young Holocaust Survivors Rebuilt Their Lives: France, the United States, and Israel by Francoise S. Ouzan
RRP: £24.99£21.67Drawing on testimonies, memoirs, and personal interviews of Holocaust survivors, Francoise S. Ouzan reveals how the experience of Nazi persecution impacted their personal reconstruction, rehabilitation, and reintegration into a free society. She sheds... -
Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature: Jewish Cultural Production Before and After 1492 by David A. Wacks
RRP: £35.00£31.14The year 1492 has long divided the study of Sephardic culture into two distinct periods, before and after the expulsion of Jews from Spain. David A. Wacks examines the works of Sephardic writers from the 13th to the 16th centuries and shows that this... -
Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora by Devi Mays
RRP: £108.00£93.80Forging Ties, Forging Passports is a history of migration and nation-building from the vantage point of those who lived between states. Devi Mays traces the histories of Ottoman Sephardi Jews who emigrated to the Americas-and especially, to Mexico-in the... -
Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition by Marni Davis
RRP: £24.99£21.67Finalist, 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature from the Jewish Book Council Traces American Jews' complicated relationship to alcohol through the years leading up to and after prohibition From kosher wine to their ties to the liquor trade in... -
Jews of Turkey: Migration, Culture and Memory by Süleyman Şanlı
RRP: £41.99£36.75Jews of Turkey: Migration, Culture and Memory explores the culture of Jews who immigrated from East Turkey to Israel. The study reveals the cultural values of their communities, way of life, beliefs and traditions in the multicultural and multi-religious... -
The Fatal Embrace - Jews & the State (Paper) Benjamin Ginsberg 9780226296661
RRP: £23.00£22.13In this provocative book, Benjamin Ginsberg examines the cycle of Jewish success and anti-Semitic attack throughout the history of the Diaspora, with a concentrated focus on the "special case" of America. For Ginsberg, the essential issue is not... -
The Holocaust and Representations of Jews: History and Identity in the Museum K. Hannah Holtschneider (University of Edinburgh, UK) 9781138789111
RRP: £45.99£40.13The Holocaust and Representations of Jews examines how prominent national exhibitions in Europe represent the Jewish minority and its cultural and religious self-understandings, historically and today, in particular in the context of the Holocaust... -
The Golden Chain: Fifty Years of Modern Jewish Writing by Natasha Lehrer
RRP: £55.00£41.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853034810Author Natasha LehrerFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
Jewish Pasts, German Fictions: History, Memory, and Minority Culture in Germany, 1824-1955 by Jonathan Skolnik
RRP: £66.00£56.93Jewish Pasts, German Fictions is the first comprehensive study of how German-Jewish writers used images from the Spanish-Jewish past to define their place in German culture and society. Jonathan Skolnik argues that Jewish historical fiction was a form of... -
Holocaust Representation: Art within the Limits of History and Ethics by Berel Lang
RRP: £29.00£26.08Since Theodor Adorno's attack on the writing of poetry "after Auschwitz," artists and theorists have faced the problem of reconciling the moral enormity of the Nazi genocide with the artist's search for creative freedom. In Holocaust Representation,... -
Jews and Other Foreigners: Manchester and the Rescue of the Victims of European Fascism, 1933-40 Bill Williams 9780719085499
RRP: £95.00£67.79Drawing on a wide range documentary and oral sources, including interviews with refugees, this book explores the responses in Manchester to those threatened by the rise of Fascism in Europe. By exploring the responses of particular segments of... -
The End of the Holocaust by Alvin H. Rosenfeld
RRP: £16.99£15.07In 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... -
Jewish Germany: An Enduring Presence from the Fourth to the Twenty-first Century by David Levinson
RRP: £20.00£15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910383612Author David LevinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
German City, Jewish Memory Nils Roemer 9781584659228
RRP: £32.00£31.11German and Jewish ways of life have been interwoven in Worms, Germany, for over a thousand years. Despite radical changes brought about by expulsion of Jews, wartime devastation, social advancement, cultural and religious renewal, and the Jewish... -
The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History by Dina Danon
RRP: £91.00£78.92By the turn of the twentieth century, the eastern Mediterranean port city of Izmir had been home to a vibrant and substantial Sephardi Jewish community for over four hundred years, and had emerged as a major center of Jewish life. The Jews of Ottoman... -
Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age: Survivors' Stories and New Media Practices by Jeffrey Shandler
RRP: £91.00£78.92Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age explores the nexus of new media and memory practices, raising questions about how advances in digital technologies continue to influence the nature of Holocaust memorialization. Through an in-depth study of the largest... -
Cotton Capitalists: American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the Reconstruction Era by Michael R. Cohen
RRP: £33.00£29.05Honorable Mention, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society A vivid history of the American Jewish merchants who concentrated in the nation's most important economic sector In the nineteenth century, Jewish... -
The Signifying Creator: Nontextual Sources of Meaning in Ancient Judaism by Michael D. Swartz
RRP: £16.99£15.07For centuries, Jews have been known as the "people of the book." It is commonly thought that Judaism in the first several centuries CE found meaning exclusively in textual sources. But there is another approach to meaning to be found in ancient... -
Ancient Jewish Sciences and the History of Knowledge in Second Temple Literature by Jonathan Ben-Dov
RRP: £45.00£39.58Until very recently, the idea of ancient Jewish sciences would have been considered unacceptable. Since the 1990's, Early Modern and Medieval Science in Jewish sources has been actively studied, but the consensus was that no real scientific themes...