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Mimekor Yisrael, Abridged and Annotated Edition: Classical Jewish Folktales by Micha Joseph Bin Gorion 9780253205889
Booksplease Price: £18.07"[Bin Gorion's] crowning achievement was Mimekor Yisrael, a multilayered compendium of post-biblical Jewish lore and demonology." -Commentary"One of the most extraordinary publishing events in my... -
The Woman Who Looked Like Sophia L.: An Epistolary Email Romanza by Curt Leviant 9781950539918
Booksplease Price: £13.67With the lyrical joy and lighthearted wordplay that have won him critical acclaim, celebrated Jewish author Curt Leviant delivers a charming literary love story against the backdrop of the lush... -
The Fractured Jew: An Exploration of Modern Jewish Ontology Via Identities in Popular Culture by Joel West
Booksplease Price: £76.01Historically Judaism has been called both a nation and a religion, yet there are those Jews who eschew the religious and national definitions for a cultural one. For example, while TV's Mrs. Maisel... -
City Codes: Reading the Modern Urban Novel by Hana Wirth-Nesher 9780521060042
Booksplease Price: £32.12City Codes is a study of the representation of the city in the modern novel that takes difference as its point of departure, so that cities are read according to the cultural and social position of... -
City Codes: Reading the Modern Urban Novel by Hana Wirth-Nesher 9780521473149
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69City Codes is a study of the representation of the city in the modern novel that takes difference as its point of departure, so that cities are read according to the cultural and social position of... -
Small Worlds by Allen Hoffman
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.00Small Worlds, the first volume in Allen Hoffman's critically acclaimed series Small Worlds, takes place in 1903 and introduces the wondrous rebbe of Krimsk--a small Hasidic settlement in Eastern... -
Pieces of Resistance by Eugene Goodheart 9780521340366
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.14Pieces of Resistance is a 1988 collection of Eugene Goodheart's essays and reviews written between 1960 and 1985. The book responds to the political, cultural, and literary changes expressed during... -
Jewish-American Writing Since 1945 by Stephen Wade 9781853312267
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £30.23Jewish American writing is an exciting and controversial genre within post-war literature. In this book Stephen Wade offers a student guide to major writers, their key works and to influential... -
The Golem: A New Translation of the Classic Play and Selected Short Stories by Joachim Neugroschel 9780393050882
RRP: £37.50Booksplease Price: £33.29The Golem, a creature made of clay and brought to life by Rabbi Leyb of Prague in the sixteenth century, has provided an enticing subject for fiction writers since the legend began. In some works,... -
Modern Yiddish Culture: The Story of the Yiddish Language Movement by Emanuel S. Goldsmith 9780823216956
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £30.98The phenomenal rise of Yiddish language and culture is one of the most interesting and colorful sagas of modern Jewish history. In this significant book, Dr. Goldsmith relates the growth of Yiddish... -
Pieces of Resistance by Eugene Goodheart 9780521020183
Booksplease Price: £32.12Pieces of Resistance is a 1988 collection of Eugene Goodheart's essays and reviews written between 1960 and 1985. The book responds to the political, cultural, and literary changes expressed during... -
Spinoza and the Philosophy of Love by Michael Strawser 9781793628596
Booksplease Price: £85.65In Spinoza and the Philosophy of Love, Michael Strawser provides a new reading of Spinoza as a philosopher of love, and one who centered in his thought an ethically qualified conception of noble love... -
Bociany by Chava Rosenfarb 9780815605768
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.70Sholem Aleichem romanticized shtetl life. Isaac Bashevis Singer eroticized it. ln the novel Bociany and its sequel, Of Lodz and Love, Chava Rosenfarb brings a vanished world to vibrant, compelling... -
The Sages Speak: Rabbinic Wisdom and Jewish Values by William B. Silverman 9781568214108
Booksplease Price: £51.20Organized by subject, this is a collection of teachings and quotations from the Talmud, the Bible, rabbinical commentaries, and ancient and modern religious and secular writings. Writers include Elie... -
Narrative Faith: Dostoevsky, Camus, and Singer by David Stromberg 9781611496642
Booksplease Price: £85.65Narrative Faith engages with the dynamics of doubt and faith to consider how literary works with complex structures explore different moral visions. The study describes a literary petite histoire... -
Anglish/Yinglish: Yiddish in American Life and Literature, Second Edition by Gene Bluestein 9780803261471
Booksplease Price: £28.87Writers have celebrated the fruitful dialogue between English and Yiddish for decades. In this engrossing lexicon, Gene Bluestein reveals the full extent of that dialogue, introducing "Anglish, or... -
The Joys of Hebrew by Lewis Glinert 9780195074246
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £74.27When should you say an amida or mazal tov? What is a golem or a chaluts? What is the English equivalent to the Talmudic expression `a sheep's tail with a thorn in it'? The answers lie in this unique... -
A Partisan View: Five Decades in the Politics of Literature by William Phillips
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23Since its founding in 1937, "Partisan Review" has been one of the most important and culturally influential journals in America. Under the legendary editorship of William Phillips and Philip Rahv,... -
Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son by Sholem Aleichem
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Tevye is the compassionate, lovable, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, and Tevye the Dairyman is a heartwarming and poignant account of life in turn-of-the-century Russia. Through the workaday... -
Nursery Realms: Children in the Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror by Gary Westfahl 9780820321448
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £29.07Child characters are surprisingly common in horror, fantasy, and science fiction literature and films. Children represent innocence and virtue and symbolize the classic question of fantastic... -
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In the Catskills: A Century of Jewish Experience in "The Mountains" by Phil Brown
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.74Through fiction, memoir, music, photography, and art, In the Catskills highlights the Catskills experience over a century and assesses its continuing impact on American music, comedy, food, culture,... -
The Complete Lives of Camp People: Colonialism, Fascism, Concentrated Modernity by Rudolf Mrazek
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91In The Complete Lives of Camp People Rudolf Mrazek presents a sweeping study of the material and cultural lives of twentieth-century concentration camp internees and the multiple ways in which their... -
The Complete Lives of Camp People: Colonialism, Fascism, Concentrated Modernity by Rudolf Mrazek 9781478005773
RRP: £128.00Booksplease Price: £102.70In The Complete Lives of Camp People Rudolf Mrazek presents a sweeping study of the material and cultural lives of twentieth-century concentration camp internees and the multiple ways in which their... -
Textual Transmission in Contemporary Jewish Cultures by Avriel Bar-Levav 9780197516485
Booksplease Price: £105.04Jewish culture places a great deal of emphasis on texts and their means of transmission. At various points in Jewish history, the primary mode of transmission has changed in response to political,... -
The Rosh Hashanah Anthology by Philip Goodman
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01Back by popular demand, the classic JPS holiday anthologies remain essential and relevant in our digital age. Unequaled in-depth compilations of classic and contemporary writings, they have long... -
Survivors and Exiles: Yiddish Culture After the Holocaust by Author Jan Schwarz 9780814348833
Booksplease Price: £29.55After the Holocaust's near complete destruction of European Yiddish cultural centers, the Yiddish language was largely viewed as a remnant of the past, tragically eradicated in its prime. In... -
Objects of Remembrance: A Memoir of American Opportunities and Viennese Dreams by Monroe E. Price 9789639776593
RRP: £46.95Booksplease Price: £42.21This is a memoir about the power of American assimilation and opportunity in the face of persisting refugee realities. Like Isaac Bashevis Singer, Monroe Price recounts the continuing impact of... -
A Coney Island Reader: Through Dizzy Gates of Illusion by Louis J. Parascandola 9780231165730
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.02Featuring a stunning gallery of portraits by the world's finest poets, essayists, and fiction writers--including Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, Jose Marti, Maxim Gorky, Federico Garcia Lorca, Isaac... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 2 Philip Gourevitch 9781847670335
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A second volume of fascinating interviews from one of the world's best loved literary magazinesSince The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest... -
American Yiddish Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology by Benjamin Harshav 9780804751704
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £33.68This remarkable volume introduces to the large English-speaking audience what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American literature not written in English. The range of... -
Outlaws of the Purple Cow and Other Stories by Lester Goran 9780873386395
Booksplease Price: £23.95In this, his third collection of stories, Lester Goran moves us again through the times and places indelibly stamped with his wit and insight about people and events lost to history. Outlaws of the... -
Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Ilan Stavans
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the centuries. In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to... -
Nine Gates: The Chassidic Mysteries by 9780718896300
Booksplease Price: £28.78In 1913, just before the outbreak of the First World War, a 19-year-old Czech Jew named Jiri Langer left his assimilated family to live in the remote village of Belz, Galicia (now Ukraine). He had... -
The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories by Ilan Stavans 9780195110197
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £33.31In this remarkably wide-ranging anthology, Ilan Stavans has collected the work of more than fifty notable Jewish writers from around the globe, weaving these diverse viewpoints and voices into a rich... -
Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody by Saul Noam Zaritt
Booksplease Price: £89.86Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody studies Jewish American writers' relationships with the idea of world literature. Writers such as Sholem Asch, Jacob... -
Two Jews on a Train: Stories from the Old Country and the New by Adam Biro
Booksplease Price: £15.82So two Jews were on a train. "All Eastern European Jewish jokes start this way, or almost," says Adam Biro, who has masterfully assembled this rich volume of such stories, tales in which we hear the... -
Singer's Typewriter and Mine: Reflections on Jewish Culture by Ilan Stavans 9780803271364
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.85A cultural critic of extraordinary erudition, encyclopedic knowledge, and boundless curiosity, Ilan Stavans, an Ashkenazic Jew who grew up in Mexico, negotiates wildly varied topics as effortlessly... -
Badenheim 1939 Aharon Appelfeld 9780241681183
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'A masterpiece ... the greatest novel of the Holocaust' The Guardian A haunting, dreamlike portrayal of the encroaching horror of the Holocaust onto a genteel MittelEuropean resort town Badenheim, a... -
The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction by Elizabeth R. Baer 9780814336267
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.26First mentioned in the Book of Psalms in the Hebrew Bible, the golem is a character in an astonishing number of post-Holocaust Jewish-American novels and has served as inspiration for such varied... -
Survivors and Exiles: Yiddish Culture after the Holocaust by Jan Schwarz 9780814339053
RRP: £77.00Booksplease Price: £76.11After the Holocaust's near complete destruction of European Yiddish cultural centers, the Yiddish language was largely viewed as a remnant of the past, tragically eradicated in its prime. In...