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The Signifying Creator: Nontextual Sources of Meaning in Ancient Judaism by Michael D. Swartz
$21.57For 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
$55.43Until 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... -
Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women's Liberation Movement by Joyce Antler
$25.27Finalist, 2019 PROSE Award in Biography, given by the Association of American Publishers Fifty years after the start of the women's liberation movement, a book that at last illuminates the profound impact Jewishness and second-wave feminism had on each... -
Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry by Scott Ury
RRP: $92.88$80.50This book examines the intersection of urban society and modern politics among Jews in turn of the century Warsaw, Europe's largest Jewish center at the time. By focusing on the tumultuous events surrounding the Revolution of 1905, Barricades and Banners... -
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century by Sorrel Kerbel
RRP: $76.10$67.96Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study. This volume: examines canonical Jewish writers, less well-known authors of... -
An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism by David Weinfeld
RRP: $60.63$52.74In An American Friendship, David Weinfeld presents the biography of an idea, cultural pluralism, the intellectual precursor to modern multiculturalism. He roots its origins in the friendship between two philosophers, Jewish immigrant Horace Kallen and... -
The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942 by Christopher R. Browning
$41.25Published by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, and Yad Vashem, Jerusalem In 1939, the Nazi regime's plans for redrawing the demographic map of Eastern Europe entailed the expulsion of millions of Jews. By the fall of 1941, these plans had... -
Seafaring and the Jews by Nadav Kashtan
RRP: $174.15$151.29This collection studies Jewish involvement in seafaring from Biblical, through Greco-Roman, Medieval and Early Modern periods to the present. This broad historical perspective allows a closer look at various attitudes of Jews to maritime activities,... -
Konin by Theo Richmond
RRP: $34.83$25.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679758235Author Theo RichmondFormat PaperbackPage Count 572Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 655gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key: Anglo-Jewry's Construction of Modern Jewish Thought by David B. Ruderman 9780691155517
$28.12Historians of the European Jewish experience have long marginalized the intellectual achievement of Jews in England, where it was assumed no seminal figures contributed to the development of modern Jewish thought. In this first comprehensive account of... -
Jewish Identities in the New Europe by Jonathan Webber
RRP: $33.99$24.51How do the Jews of Post-Holocaust, post-communist Europe-east and west-regard themselves? Do they perceive themselves as a religious minority, an ethnic group, or simply as ordinary members of the wider European cultures in which they live? How do they... -
The Reparations Controversy: The Jewish State and German Money in the Shadow of the Holocaust 1951-1952 by Yaakov Sharett 9783110485509
RRP: $29.03$23.54This book about the reparations issue ("shilumim" in Hebrew) brings together selected protocols of all debates held regarding conducting negotiations with Germany. This is the first book documenting confidential protocols lately opened to the public... -
Jewish Materialism: The Intellectual Revolution of the 1870s by Eliyahu Stern
RRP: $54.83$53.25A paradigm-shifting account of the modern Jewish experience, from one of the most creative young historians of his generationTo understand the organizing framework of modern Judaism, Eliyahu Stern believes that we should look deeper and farther than the... -
The Shabbes Goy: A Study in Halakhic Flexibility by Jacob Katz 9780827604131
RRP: $30.95$23.09From the Babylonian period to the twentieth century, strictly observant Jews have depended on a non-Jew, or "shabbes goy" to perform work that was forbidden on the Sabbath. The author traces the role of the "shabbes goy" through the centuries. Katz... -
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 23: Jews in Krakow by Michal Galas
RRP: $38.25$32.39Few Polish cities have evoked more affection from their Jewish inhabitants than Krakow, and this volume brings together the work of leading historians from Israel, Poland, Great Britain, and the United States to explore how this relationship evolved. It... -
Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women's Liberation Movement by Joyce Antler 9780814707630
RRP: $103.20$89.73Finalist, 2019 PROSE Award in Biography, given by the Association of American Publishers Fifty years after the start of the women's liberation movement, a book that at last illuminates the profound impact Jewishness and second-wave feminism had on each... -
Bukharan Jews and the Dynamics of Global Judaism by Alanna E. Cooper 9780253006509
RRP: $33.53$30.01Part ethnography, part history, and part memoir, this volume chronicles the complex past and dynamic present of an ancient Mizrahi community. While intimately tied to the Central Asian landscape, the Jews of Bukhara have also maintained deep connections... -
The Jewish Response to German Culture by Jehuda Reinharz 9780874515527
RRP: $36.12$35.85Seventeen scholars explore the interaction between a Jewish culture with its ancient heritage and an expansive German culture in the process of modernization.Book InformationISBN 9780874515527Author Jehuda ReinharzFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint... -
Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa by Emily Benichou Gottreich
$27.95With only a small remnant of Jews still living in the Maghrib at the beginning of the 21st century, the vast majority of today's inhabitants of North Africa have never met a Jew. Yet as this volume reveals, Jews were an integral part of the North African... -
Cultural Intermediaries: Jewish Intellectuals in Early Modern Italy by David B. Ruderman
$85.85Focusing on an epoch of spectacular demographic, political, economic, and cultural changes for European Jewry, Cultural Intermediaries chronicles the lives and thinking of ten Jewish intellectuals of the Renaissance, nine of them from Italy and one a... -
On Being a Jew by James Kugel
RRP: $34.19$30.04What should a Jew consider before marrying a non-Jew? What should a Jew know about Hebrew? What does it mean to keep the Sabbath? In the Medieval period, young Jews found answers to their most pressing questions about Judaism in The Book of the Kuzari... -
Jewish Orthodoxy in Scotland: Rabbi Dr Salis Daiches and Religious Leadership by Historian Hannah Holtschneider
$25.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474452601Author Historian Hannah HoltschneiderFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University... -
A Time to Sow: Refusenik Life in Leningrad, 1979-1989 Michael Beizer 9781487557256
RRP: $67.08$57.02Drawing on historical documents and personal experiences, A Time to Sow provides an insight into Jewish life in Leningrad during the 1980s. -
Behind The Wall: The Story of the Ghetto Poul Borchsenius 9781032910703
RRP: $103.20$87.72Originally published in English in 1964, this volume describes the ghettos which formed medieval enclaves in the cities of Renaissance and post-Renaissance Europe. In their overcrowded quarter where the only protection against disease and epidemics was... -
Heroines of the Holocaust: Reframing Resistance and Courage in Genocide Lori R. Weintrob 9781032536620
RRP: $174.15$148.03This book brings together international scholars to examine and share new approaches in the history of women’s rescue and resistance during the Holocaust and the Armenian and Rwandan genocide.The activities of women during the Holocaust have often been... -
The Chains Are Broken: The Story of Jewish Emancipation Poul Borchsenius 9781032911373
RRP: $103.20$87.72Originally published in 1964, this further volume in Poul Borchsenius’ history of the Jewish people, is the story of the emancipation from the time when the Jews lived a segregated life in the ghetto, until the Age of Enlightenment they achieved equality... -
Always a Berliner at Heart: Jewish Emigrants in Dialogue with Their Home Town Joachim Schloer 9781835537404
RRP: $148.35$126.10Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. In the early 1990s, after the fall of the Berlin Wall and during the process of German re-unification, the city of Berlin commissioned a working group to create a... -
The Remnant: Franz Kafka’s Letter: A Study on the Margins of Judaism Eli Schonfeld 9783111441986
RRP: $94.17$80.04The forthcoming book offers a Jewish reading of Franz Kafka. Although among the various interpretations of Kafka (political, psychoanalytic, literary, etc.), there is no shortage of readings that consider Kafka's Judaism as a key lens through which to... -
Jewish Odesa: Negotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine Marina Sapritsky-Nahum 9780253070111
RRP: $55.47$48.38Jewish Odesa: Negotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine explores the rich Jewish history in Ukraine's port city of Odesa. Long considered both a uniquely cosmopolitan and Jewish place, Odesa's Jewish character has shifted since the... -
The Destruction of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland Krzysztof Bielawski 9798887196107
RRP: $28.37$24.11The Destruction of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland offers a comprehensive examination of the history of Jewish cemeteries in Poland, shedding light on an overlooked aspect of Holocaust history. Beginning with the settlement of Jewish communities in Poland,...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: $28.37$24.11Subtotal: -
The Marital Knot: Agunot in the Ashkenazi Realm, 1648–1850 Noa Shashar 9781684582419
RRP: $123.84$105.26A long overdue study of agunot based on exhaustive research in rabbinic sources, memoirs, and communal records. Noa Shashar sheds light on Jewish family life in the early modern era and on the activity of rabbis whose Jewish legal rulings determined the... -
Kabbalah and Catastrophe: Historical Memory in Premodern Jewish Mysticism Hartley Lachter 9781503640214
RRP: $81.27$69.08While premodern kabbalistic texts were not chronicles of historical events, they provided elaborate models for understanding the secret divine plan guiding human affairs. Hartley Lachter analyzes innovative kabbalistic doctrines, such as the idea of... -
First Lady of Laughs: The Forgotten Story of Jean Carroll, America's First Jewish Woman Stand-Up Comedian Grace Kessler Overbeke 9781479818150
RRP: $38.69$32.88Before Hacks and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, there was the comedienne who started it all First Lady of Laughs tells the story of Jean Carroll, the first Jewish woman to become a star in the field we now call stand-up comedy. Though rarely mentioned among... -
A Moving Feast: The Bar and Bat Mitzvah across Jewish Cultures Hizky Shoham 9783111369709
RRP: $117.39$99.78Winner of the Goldberg Family Foundation Award 2021 What is the meaning of the Jewish rites of initiation known as “bar and bat mitzvah” in the modern age, when the concept of “mitzvah” (religious precept or obligation) means so little to most Jewish... -
Listening to Survivors: Four Decades of Holocaust Memorial Week at Oregon State University Katherine E. Hubler 9781962645249
RRP: $38.64$32.84Listening to Survivors presents the voices of nineteen Holocaust survivors and two witnesses who shared their personal experiences with audiences at Oregon State University over the past four decades as part of the university’s Holocaust Memorial Week... -
The Marital Knot: Agunot in the Ashkenazi Realm, 1648–1850 Noa Shashar 9781684582402
RRP: $41.28$35.09A long overdue study of agunot based on exhaustive research in rabbinic sources, memoirs, and communal records. Noa Shashar sheds light on Jewish family life in the early modern era and on the activity of rabbis whose Jewish legal rulings determined the... -
In Her Hands: The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia Eliyana R. Adler 9780814351451
RRP: $38.64$32.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814351451Author Eliyana R. AdlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Wayne State University PressPublisher Wayne State University Press -
A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom Adam Jortner 9780197536865
RRP: $34.82$29.59A new history that centers Judaism at the dawn of the United States Jews played a critical role both in winning the American Revolution--fighting for the Patriot cause from Bunker Hill to Yorktown--and in defining the republic that was created from it... -
Moment of Witness: An Interfaith Commemoration for Holocaust Remembrance Deborah Fripp 9781681151571
RRP: $10.31$8.76As the fragile window of personal witness to the events of the Holocaust closes, Moment of Witness provides the script for a powerful commemoration with a focus on real people, the lives they lived, and the communities they called home. It provides a... -
Chasing the Shadow: Mickey Marcus's 200 Days of Destiny Steven L. Ossad 9780826223180
RRP: $51.54$43.81The life of David “Mickey” Marcus has become the stuff of legends and myths (even fantasy), conspiracy, wild exaggeration, and untethered embellishment. The image of Marcus cast by the character portrayed by Kirk Douglas in the film version of his life...