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Days of Awe Reimagining Jewishness in Solidarity with Palestinians
ISBN: PB: 9780226616070, ISBN: HB: 9780226615912, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 2 line drawings
For many Jewish people in the mid-twentieth century, Zionism was an unquestionable tenet of what it meant to be Jewish. Seventy years later, a growing number of American Jews are instead expressing solidarity with Palestinians, questioning old allegi...
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£27,00
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£79,00
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Watercolours A Story from Auschwitz
ISBN: PB: 9789385932038, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
300 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm
A Czechoslovakian Jew who was imprisoned at Auschwitz, Dina Gottliebova-Babbitt (1923-2009) was saved by her artistic abilities. Gottliebova painted the walls of the children's barracks with images of the Disney film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves...
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£14,50
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Jews and Words
ISBN: PB: 9780300205848, Yale University Press, February 2014
160 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Why are words so important to Jews? Novelist Amos Oz and historian Fania Oz-Salzberger roam the gamut of Jewish history to explain the integral relationship of Jews and words. Through a blend of storytelling and scholarship, conversation and argument...
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£9,99
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When Peace Is Not Enough How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks about Religion, Nationalism, and Justice
ISBN: PB: 9780226008103, ISBN: HB: 9780226008073, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
376 pp., 23x15 cm
The state of Israel is often spoken of as a haven for the Jewish people, a place rooted in the story of a nation dispersed, wandering the earth in search of their homeland. Born in adversity but purportedly nurtured by liberal ideals, Israel has neve...
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£22,00
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£65,00
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Women in the Holocaust
ISBN: PB: 9780300080803, Yale University Press, October 1999
414 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
As Jews throughout Europe faced Nazi persecution, Jewish women-wives, daughters, mothers-encountered special problems and had particular vulnerabilities. This is the first book of original scholarship devoted to women in the Holocaust. Testimonies of...
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£26,00
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