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Explores the lives of over 600 Jewish physicians and pharmacists in medieval Muslim lands Offers a unique insight into the life of Jewish physicians and pharmacists, their families and communities in medieval Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran, North Africa,...

Old Odessa, on the Black Sea, gained notoriety as a legendary city of Jewish gangsters and swindlers, a frontier boomtown mythologized for the adventurers, criminals, and merrymakers who flocked there to seek easy wealth and lead lives of debauchery and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592645107Author Pini DunnerFormat HardbackPage Count 231Imprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press LtdWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 142mm *...

A definitive account of the great revolt of Jews against Rome and the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple This deeply researched and insightful book examines the causes, course, and historical significance of the Jews' failed revolt against Rome from...

A classic account of courage, integrity and most of all, belonging.In 1977, after serving as a leading activist for the democratic dissident movement in the Soviet Union and the movement for free Jewish emigration from there, Natan Sharansky was arrested...

The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole and died a Jew. First a citizen of the Habsburg monarchy, he would, without moving, become the subject of the West Ukrainian People's Republic, the Second Polish Republic,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316221047Author Annie JacobsenFormat HardbackPage Count 592Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 300g

Why Is the Middle East Entering a "New Era?" Is It a New Dawn? Is It a Setting Sun? In the third decade of the twenty-first century, the Middle East is entering a new era. A multifaceted and intricate equilibrium will write the next chapter of this...

Honorable Mention for the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer book award in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History presented by the Association for Jewish Studies On August 3, 1492, the same day that Columbus set sail from Spain, the long and glorious history of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802863942Author William G. DeverFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Education and Jewish Identity from the Jewish Book Council The history of an iconic food in Jewish American culture For much of the twentieth century, the New York Jewish deli was an iconic institution...

The Holocaust is one of the most intensively studied phenomena in modern history. The volume of writing that fuels the numerous debates about it is overwhelming in quantity and diversity. Even those who have dedicated their professional lives to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250071514Author Michael WexFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's PressWeight(grams) 544g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910383759Author David LawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932863645Author Alan HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press

Keogh reconstructs the complex, often contradictory relationship between the Irish state and the Jewish community in Ireland since the turn of the 20th century, highlighting the emerging signs of anti-Semitism as well as the Jewish contribution to...

This full-length biographical study - substantially rewritten and updated - of one of the most important women in Irish political life in the 20th century is now reissued by UCD Press. Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, part of a pioneering generation, played a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781417816422Author Art SpiegelmanFormat HardbackPage Count 135Imprint Turtleback BooksPublisher Turtleback BooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814319512Author Michael A. MeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Wayne State University PressPublisher Wayne State University PressWeight(grams) 620g

An exceptional document of an extraordinary life, The Soul of Things is the memoir of Holocaust survivor Eva Fahidi. Since the memoir was first published in Hungarian in 2004 under the title Anima Rerum, Fahidi has become a household name in Hungary and...

In her acclaimed 1993 book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt called David Irving, a prolific writer of books on World War II, "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." The following year, after Lipstadt's book was published in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789657801109Author Israel B BittonFormat HardbackPage Count 632Imprint Gefen BooksPublisher Gefen BooksWeight(grams) 2336gDimensions(mm) 272mm * 214mm * 38mm

Despite much study of Viennese culture and Judaism between 1890 and 1914, little research has been done to examine the role of Jewish women in this milieu. Rescuing a lost legacy, Jewish Women in Fin de Siecle Vienna explores the myriad ways in which...

A highly original and compelling account of individual Jews who resisted Nazi persecution, challenging the traditional portrayal of Jewish passivity during the Holocaust Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, Holocaust category "These are the...

This book tells the story of Judaism from the medieval ghettos through the Enlightenment to the tragedy of the Holocaust and the birth of modern Israel, with over 250 illustrations. It is a rich visual account of one of the world's great religions,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932863669Author Alan HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press

How kibbutzim thrived for much of the twentieth century despite their inherent economic contradictions The kibbutz is a social experiment in collective living that challenges traditional economic theory. By sharing all income and resources equally among...

A richly detailed history of the Bacris and the Busnachs, two renowned Jewish families whose influence and reputation shook the capitals of Europe and AmericaAt the height of the Napoleonic Wars, the Bacri brothers and their nephew, Naphtali Busnach,...

Inspired by the resounding success of Abina and the Important Men (OUP, 2011), Mendoza the Jew combines a graphic history with primary documentation and contextual information to explore issues of nationalism, identity, culture, and historical...

The unique historical relationship between capitalism and the Jews is crucial to understanding modern European and Jewish history. But the subject has been addressed less often by mainstream historians than by anti-Semites or apologists. In this book...

Emotion lies at the heart of all national movements, and Zionism is no exception. For those who identify as Zionist, the word connotes liberation and redemption, uniqueness and vulnerability. Yet for many, Zionism is a source of distaste if not disgust,...

An intimate co-creation of three graphic novelists and four Holocaust survivors, But I Live consists of three illustrated stories based on the experiences of each survivor during and after the Holocaust. David Schaffer and his family survived in...

The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern worldFor all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in modern Jewish history that we have mostly lost sight of the...

In the Year 1096 presents a clear, highly readable chronicle of the events of 1096. Noted teacher and historian Robert Chazan brings readers to critical moments in Jewish history, illuminating the events themselves, their antecedents, and their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641890076Author Francois SoyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press

They were on the barricades from the avenues of Petrograd to the alleys of the Warsaw ghetto, from the anti-Franco struggle to the anti-Nazi resistance. Before the Holocaust, Yiddishland was a vast expanse of Eastern Europe running from the Baltic Sea to...

How should Germany commemorate the mass murder of Jews once committed in its name? In 1997, James E. Young was invited to join a German commission appointed to find an appropriate design for a national memorial in Berlin to the European Jews killed in...

An essential introduction to Josephus's momentous war narrativeThe Jewish War is Josephus's superbly evocative account of the Jewish revolt against Rome, which was crushed in 70 CE with the siege of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple. Martin...

David Oppenheim (1664-1736), chief rabbi of Prague in the early eighteenth century, built an unparalleled collection of Jewish books and manuscripts, all of which have survived and are housed in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. His remarkable collection...

Greco-Roman antiquity's premier Jewish historian.Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 37. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in...