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The Ethnography of Reading by Jonathan Boyarin 9780520081338
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £24.40Writing, the subject of much innovative scholarship in recent years, is only half of what we call literacy. The other half, reading, now finally receives its due in these groundbreaking essays by a... -
Jewishness and the Human Dimension by Jonathan Boyarin
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £57.32Jewishness and the Human Dimension is a leading scholar's progress report on an effort to bring Jewishness broadly construed into dialogue with a wide range of thought in contemporary criticism,... -
Thinking in Jewish by Jonathan Boyarin 9780226069265
Booksplease Price: £91.52How does one "think" in Jewish? What does it mean to speak in English of Yiddish as Jewish, as a certain intermediary generation of immigrants and children of immigrants from Jewish Eastern Europe... -
Time and Human Language Now by Jonathan Boyarin 9780979405730
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.43What can you say after you say that the world - or at least human life on it - looks like it's nearing its end? How about starting with wonder at the possibility that dialogue and subjectivity, the... -
Jewish Families: Volume 4 by Jonathan Boyarin 9780813562926
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £89.42From stories of biblical patriarchs and matriarchs and their children, through the Gospel's Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, and to modern Jewish families in fiction, film, and everyday life,... -
Remapping Memory: The Politics of TimeSpace by Jonathan Boyarin 9780816624539
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.05Remapping Memory was first published in 1994. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original... -
Jewish Families: Volume 4 by Jonathan Boyarin 9780813562919
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.60From stories of biblical patriarchs and matriarchs and their children, through the Gospel's Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, and to modern Jewish families in fiction, film, and everyday life,... -
Yeshiva Days: Learning on the Lower East Side by Jonathan Boyarin
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69An intimate and moving portrait of daily life in New York's oldest institution of traditional rabbinic learningNew York City's Lower East Side has witnessed a severe decline in its Jewish population... -
Storm from Paradise: The Politics of Jewish Memory by Jonathan Boyarin 9780816620951
Booksplease Price: £21.81Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Unconverted Self: Jews, Indians, and the Identity of Christian Europe by Jonathan Boyarin
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £31.55Europe's formative encounter with its 'others' is still widely assumed to have come with its discovery of the people of the New World. But, as Jonathan Boyarin argues, long before 1492, Christian... -
Yeshiva Days: Learning on the Lower East Side by Jonathan Boyarin 9780691203980
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £78.51An intimate and moving portrait of daily life in New York's oldest institution of traditional rabbinic learningNew York City's Lower East Side has witnessed a severe decline in its Jewish population... -
Palestine and Jewish History: Criticism at the Borders of Ethnography by Jonathan Boyarin 9780816627653
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.08Palestine and Jewish History was first published in 1996. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from... -
Powers Of Diaspora: Two Essays On The Relevance Of Jewish Culture by Jonathan Boyarin 9780816635979
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Reasserts the centrality of Jewish culture to contemporary discussions of diasporaDiaspora: the scattering of a people, often described as a condition of helplessness and a pathology to be overcome... -
Jews and Other Differences: The New Jewish Cultural Studies by Jonathan Boyarin 9780816627516
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46The goal of this diverse and intriguing volu me is to shape a space of common discourse between Jews and others who share a critical apporach to the politics of cult ure and the cultural politics of... -
Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul: A Summer on the Lower East Side by Jonathan Boyarin 9780823239009
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £61.23In these pages Jonathan Boyarin invites us to share the intimate life of the Stanton Street Shul, one of the last remaining Jewish congregations on New York's historic Lower East Side. This narrow... -
The Lithuanian Slaughter of its Jews: The Testimonies of 121 Jewish survivors of the Holocaust in Lithuanian, recorded by Leyb Koniuchowsky, in Displaced Persons' Camps (1946-48) by Jonathan Boyarin 9780994619518
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £60.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994619518Author Jonathan BoyarinFormat PaperbackPage Count 570Imprint David Solly SandlerPublisher... -
Leaving Other People Alone: Diaspora, Zionism, and Palestine in Contemporary Jewish Fiction by Aaron Kreuter
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £22.97Leaving Other People Alone reads contemporary North American Jewish fiction about Israel/Palestine through an anti-Zionist lens. Aaron Kreuter argues that since Jewish diasporic fiction played a... -
Connecting Histories Gemma Romain 9780415760225
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63First published in 2006. The dynamics of ethnicity, diaspora, identity and community are the defining features of contemporary life, giving rise to important and exciting new interdisciplinary fields... -
Jews and the Ends of Theory by Shai Ginsburg 9780823281992
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.88Theory, as it's happened across the humanities, has often been coded as "Jewish." This collection of essays seeks to move past explanations for this understanding that rely on the self-evident (the... -
A Fire Burns in Kotsk: A Tale of Hasidism in the Kingdom of Poland by Menashe Unger 9780814338131
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Half a century after Hasidism blossomed in Eastern Europe, its members were making deep inroads into the institutional structure of Polish Jewish communities, but some devotees believed that the... -
Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures: Comparative Perspectives by Joshua Miller
Booksplease Price: £79.55This collection of essays brings to Jewish Language Studies the conceptual frameworks that have become increasingly important to Jewish Studies more generally: transnationalism, multiculturalism,... -
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American Indian Persistence and Resurgence by Karl Kroeber 9780822314592 [USED COPY]
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £9.00This collection celebrates the resurgence of Native Americans within the cultural landscape of the United States. During the past quarter century, the Native American population in the United States... -
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American Indian Persistence and Resurgence by Karl Kroeber 9780822314875 [USED COPY]
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £2.70This collection celebrates the resurgence of Native Americans within the cultural landscape of the United States. During the past quarter century, the Native American population in the United States... -
Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures: Comparative Perspectives by Joshua Miller 9780472053018
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.44As trends in Jewish Studies have turned attention to transnationalism, globalization, and hybrid cultures, the moment for a major new collection of essays redefining the conceptual frameworks of... -
The Other in Jewish Thought and History: Constructions of Jewish Culture and Identity by Laurence J. Silberstein 9780814779897
Booksplease Price: £90.87Cultural boundaries and group identity are often forged in relation to the Other. In every society, conceptions of otherness, which often reflect a group's fears and vulnerabilities, result in... -
The Other in Jewish Thought and History: Constructions of Jewish Culture and Identity by Laurence J. Silberstein 9780814779903
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.12Cultural boundaries and group identity are often forged in relation to the Other. In every society, conceptions of otherness, which often reflect a group's fears and vulnerabilities, result in... -
Translating the Jewish Freud: Psychoanalysis in Hebrew and Yiddish by Naomi Seidman 9781503639263
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48There is an academic cottage industry on the "Jewish Freud," aiming to detect Jewish influences on Freud, his own feelings about being Jewish, and suppressed traces of Jewishness in his thought. This... -
To Be a Jewish State: Zionism as the New Judaism Yaacov Yadgar 9781479832408
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Examines the meaning of Jewish politics in Israel In one of the first books to ask head-on what it means for Israel to be a Jewish state, Yaacov Yadgar delves into what the designation "Jewish"... -
Remembering Histories of Trauma: North American Genocide and the Holocaust in Public Memory by Gideon Mailer
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.54Remembering Histories of Trauma compares and links Native American, First Nation and Jewish histories of traumatic memory. Using source material from both sides of the Atlantic, it examines the... -
Translating the Jewish Freud: Psychoanalysis in Hebrew and Yiddish by Naomi Seidman 9781503638563
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90There is an academic cottage industry on the "Jewish Freud," aiming to detect Jewish influences on Freud, his own feelings about being Jewish, and suppressed traces of Jewishness in his thought. This... -
Israel Has a Jewish Problem: Self-Determination as Self-Elimination by Joyce Dalsheim 9780190680251
RRP: £77.00Booksplease Price: £60.68Examining the production and assimilation of Jews as "the nation" in the modern state of Israel, this book shows how identity is constrained through myriad struggles over the meanings and practices... -
Is Critique Secular?: Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech by Talal Asad
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.01This volume interrogates settled ways of thinking about the seemingly interminable conflict between religious and secular values in our world today. What are the assumptions and resources internal to... -
Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity by Jonathan Freedman 9780231142786
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.76Klezmer is a continually evolving musical tradition that grows out of Eastern European Jewish culture, and its changes reflect Jews' interaction with other groups as well as their shifting relations... -
Race and Religion Among the Chosen People of Crown Heights by Henry Goldschmidt 9780813538976
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.12In August of 1991, the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights was engulfed in violence following the deaths of Gavin Cato and Yankel Rosenbaum-a West Indian boy struck by a car in the motorcade of a... -
The Lost World of Russia's Jews: Ethnography and Folklore in the Pale of Settlement by Abraham Rechtman
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61In 1913, Abraham Rechtman journeyed through the Russian Pale of Settlement on a mission to record its Jewish folk traditions before they disappeared forever. The Lost World of Russia's Jews is the... -
The Lost World of Russia's Jews: Ethnography and Folklore in the Pale of Settlement by Abraham Rechtman 9780253056948
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.94In 1913, Abraham Rechtman journeyed through the Russian Pale of Settlement on a mission to record its Jewish folk traditions before they disappeared forever. The Lost World of Russia's Jews is the... -
To Make the Hands Impure: Art, Ethical Adventure, the Difficult and the Holy by Adam Zachary Newton 9780823263516
Booksplease Price: £112.30How can cradling, handling, or rubbing a text be said, ethically, to have made something happen? What, as readers or interpreters, may come off in our hands in as we maculate or mark the books we... -
Selected Writings: On Self-Organization, Philosophy, Bioethics, and Judaism by Henri Atlan 9780823231829
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.38Best known for his pioneering work in theories of self-organization and complexity, the biophysicist and philosopher Henri Atlan has during the past thirty years been a major voice in contemporary... -
From a Ruined Garden, Second Expanded Edition: The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry by Jack Kugelmass
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.76"An indispensable sourcebook . . . Emphasis falls on the variegated, often joyful, culture of the Polish Jews, on what existed before the garden was ruined." -Geoffrey Hartmann, The New Republic"From... -
Judeities: Questions for Jacques Derrida by Bettina Bergo 9780823226429
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.88Invited to answer questions about his relationship to Judaism, Jacques Derrida spoke through Franz Kafka: "As for myself, I could imagine another Abraham." From the experience of a summons that...