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Jewish Woman of Distinction The Life and Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova
ISBN: HB: 9781684580026, ISBN: PB: 9781684580019, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2019
400 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm, 17 halftones, 6 line drawings
Zinaida Poliakova (1863-1953) was the eldest daughter of Lazar Solomonovich Poliakov, one of the three brothers known as the Russian Rothschilds. They were moguls who dominated Russian finance and business and built almost a quarter of the railroad l...
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£68,00
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£23,00
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Individual in History Essays in Honor of Jehuda Reinharz
ISBN: HB: 9781611687323, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2015
580 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Jehuda Reinharz, born in Haifa in 1944, spent his childhood in Israel and his adolescence in Germany, and moved with his family to the United States when he was seventeen. These three diverse geographies and the experiences they engendered shaped his...
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£36,00
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Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia Select Documents, 1772-1914
ISBN: PB: 9781611684551, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2013
664 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This book makes accessible – for the first time in English – declassified archival documents from the former Soviet Union, rabbinic sources, and previously untranslated memoirs, illuminating everyday Jewish life as the site of interaction and negotia...
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£36,00
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Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial Russia
ISBN: PB: 9781584651604, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2001
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
ChaeRan Freeze explores the impact of various forces on marriage and divorce among Jews in 19th-century Russia. Challenging romantic views of the Jewish family in the shtetl, she shows that divorce rates among Russian Jews in the first half of the ce...
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£32,00
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