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Nahmanides Law and Mysticism
ISBN: HB: 9780300140910, Yale University Press, October 2020
464 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Rabbi Moses b. Nahman (1194-1270), known in English as Nahmanides, was the greatest Talmudic scholar of the thirteenth century and one of the deepest and most original biblical interpreters. Beyond his monumental scholastic achievements, Nahmanides w...
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£45,00
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Bridge of Light Yiddish Film between Two Worlds
ISBN: PB: 9781584658702, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2020
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Published to great acclaim in 1991, J. Hoberman's "Bridge of Light" is now back in print with a new foreword and final chapter discussing recent research, rediscoveries, and restorations.
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£36,00
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Ben Hecht Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
ISBN: PB: 9780300251814, Yale University Press, April 2020
264 pp., 21x14.6 cm
He was, according to Pauline Kael, "the greatest American screenwriter". Jean-Luc Godard called him "a genius" who "invented 80 percent of what is used in Hollywood movies today". Besides tossing off dozens of now-classic scripts – including "Scarfac...
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£10,99
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Small Door Set in Concrete One Woman's Story of Challenging Borders in Israel/Palestine
ISBN: HB: 9780226666310, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
296 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
"I was taught from the start not to be silent". For years, renowned activist and scholar Ilana Hammerman has given the world remarkable translations of Kafka. With "A Small Door Set in Concrete", she turns to the actual surreal existence that is life...
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£19,00
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Jabotinsky A Life
ISBN: PB: 9780300244380, ISBN: HB: 9780300136623, Yale University Press, May 2019
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm
Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880-1940) was a man of huge paradoxes and contradictions and is one of the most misunderstood Zionist political leaders – a first-rate novelist, a celebrated Russian journalist, and founder of the branch of Zionism now headed by...
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£18,99
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Modern French Jewish Thought Writings on Religion and Politics
ISBN: PB: 9781512601862, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Modern Jewish thought" is often defined as a German affair, with interventions from Eastern European, American, and Israeli philosophers. The story of France's development of its own schools of thought has not been substantially treated outside the...
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£20,00
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Steven Spielberg A Life in Films
ISBN: PB: 9780300234473, ISBN: HB: 9780300186932, Yale University Press, March 2018
248 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
A film-centric portrait of the extraordinarily gifted movie director whose decades – long influence on American popular culture is unprecedented. "Everything about me is in my films", Steven Spielberg has said. Taking this as a key to understanding t...
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£16,99
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Hayim Nahman Bialik Poet of Hebrew
ISBN: HB: 9780300200669, Yale University Press, March 2017
264 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
A moving inquiry into the dramatic life, epic success, and ultimate tragedy of the great Hebrew poet. By the time he was twenty-eight, Hayim Nahman Bialik was already considered the National Hebrew Poet. He had only published a single collection, bu...
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£16,99
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Self as Nation Contemporary Hebrew Autobiography
ISBN: PB: 9781611688801, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2016
228 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Theorists of autobiography tend to emphasize the centrality of the individual against the community. By contrast, in her reading of Hebrew autobiography, Tamar Hess identifies the textual presence and function of the collective and its interplay with...
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£30,00
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Babel in Zion Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948
ISBN: HB: 9780300197488, Yale University Press, December 2014
328 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.
The promotion and vernacularization of Hebrew, traditionally a language of Jewish liturgy and study, was a central accomplishment of the Zionist movement in Palestine in the years following World War I. Viewing twentieth-century history through the l...
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