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The Meaning of Yiddish by Benjamin Harshav
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36With a rare combination of erudition and insight, the author investigates the major aspects of Yiddish language and culture, showing where Yiddish came from and what it has to offer, even as it... -
Language in Time of Revolution by Benjamin Harshav
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £39.60This book deals with two remarkable events - the worldwide transformations of the Jews in the modern age and the revival of the ancient Hebrew language. It is a book about social and cultural history... -
The Polyphony of Jewish Culture by Benjamin Harshav
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £46.14This book is a coat of many colors. It is a collection of essays written in English by the distinguished Israeli literary and cultural critic, Benjamin Harshav, covering the whole span of Jewish... -
Marc Chagall on Art and Culture by Benjamin Harshav
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Marc Chagall (1887-1985) traversed a long route from a boy in the Jewish Pale of Settlement, to a commissar of art in revolutionary Russia, to the position of a world-famous French artist. This book... -
Language in Time of Revolution by Benjamin Harshav 9780804735407
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48This book on culture and consciousness in history concerns the worldwide transformations of Jewish culture and society and the revival of the ancient Hebrew language following the waves of pogroms in... -
Marc Chagall on Art and Culture by Benjamin Harshav 9780804748308
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £68.02Marc Chagall (1887-1985) traversed a long route from a boy in the Jewish Pale of Settlement, to a commissar of art in revolutionary Russia, to the position of a world-famous French artist. This book... -
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... -
Sing, Stranger: A Century of American Yiddish Poetry-A Historical Anthology by Benjamin Harshav
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £46.94Sing, Stranger is a comprehensive historical anthology of a century of American poetry written in Yiddish and now translated into English for the first time. Here are the Proletarian or "sweat-shop"... -
Three Thousand Years of Hebrew Versification: Essays in Comparative Prosody by Benjamin Harshav 9780300144871
Booksplease Price: £73.16In this unparalleled study of the forms of Hebrew poetry, preeminent authority Benjamin Harshav examines Hebrew verse during three millennia of changing historical and cultural contexts. He takes us... -
The Labor of Life: Selected Plays by Hanoch Levin
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04Israeli playwright and director Hanoch Levin was one of the most original and innovative writers of his generation. Although Levin is familiar within the Israeli cultural context-and despite the... -
The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps, 1939-1944 by Herman Kruk 9780300044942
Booksplease Price: £88.05For five horrifying years in Vilna, the Vilna ghetto, and concentration camps in Estonia, Herman Kruk recorded his own experiences as well as the life and death of the Jewish community of the city... -
Who is Like Yahweh?: A Study of Divine Metaphors in the Book of Micah by Juan Cruz 9783525540473
RRP: £114.99Booksplease Price: £94.24Recent theology has seen a renewed vigour in debates about the nature and character of God. Juan Cruz turns to one of the prophetic books in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Micah, to consider the... -
A New Poetics of Chekhov's Major Plays: Presence Through Absence by Harai Golomb
Booksplease Price: £110.38One century after the death of Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), his plays are celebrated throughout the world as a major milestone in the history of theatre and drama. Outside the Russian-speaking...