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Glikl Memoirs 1691-1719
ISBN: PB: 9781684580040, ISBN: HB: 9781684580057, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2019
375 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 6 line drawings
"My dear children, I write this for you in case your dear children or grandchildren come to you one of these days, knowing nothing of their family. For this reason I have set this down for you here in brief, so that you might know what kind of people...
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£15,00
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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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Becoming Diaspora Jews Behind the Story of Elephantine
ISBN: HB: 9780300243512, Yale University Press, November 2019
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
This book tells the story of the earliest Jewish diaspora in Egypt in a way it has never been told before. The colony that lived at Elephantine Island in the fifth century BCE is an icon of the Jewish diaspora, but there is something unusual about it...
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£50,00
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Harvey Milk His Lives and Death
ISBN: PB: 9780300248555, ISBN: HB: 9780300222616, Yale University Press, November 2019
304 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.
Harvey Milk – eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck – was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not even served a full year in office when he was shot by a homophobic fellow supervisor. Milk's assassination at the a...
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Karl Marx Philosophy and Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300211702, Yale University Press, September 2019
240 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Karl Marx (1818-1883) – philosopher, historian, sociologist, economist, current affairs journalist, and editor – was one of the most influential and revolutionary thinkers of modern history, but he is rarely thought of as a Jewish thinker, and his Je...
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£16,99
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When Christians Were Jews The First Generation
ISBN: PB: 9780300248401, Yale University Press, September 2019
280 pp., 21x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.
<p>How did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of God's promises to Israel, end up inaugurating a movement that would grow into the gentile church? Committed to Jes...
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Gershom Scholem An Intellectual Biography
ISBN: PB: 9780226683324, ISBN: HB: 9780226428635, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was ostensibly a scholar of Jewish mysticism, yet he occupies a powerful role in today's intellectual imagination, having an influential contact with an extraordinary cast of thinkers, including Hans Jonas, Martin Buber, W...
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£24,00
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Maimonides' "Guide of the Perplexed" in Translation A History from the Thirteenth Century to the Twentieth
ISBN: HB: 9780226457635, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 tables
Moses Maimonides's "Guide of the Perplexed" is the greatest philosophical text in the history of Jewish thought and a major work of the Middle Ages. For almost all of its history, however, the Guide has been read and commented upon in translation – i...
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£42,00
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Right to Difference French Universalism and the Jews
ISBN: PB: 9780226677323, ISBN: HB: 9780226397054, University of Chicago Press, August 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
Universal equality is a treasured political concept in France, but recent anxiety over the country's Muslim minority has led to an emphasis on a new form of universalism, one promoting loyalty to the nation at the expense of all ethnic and religious...
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£28,00
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£36,00
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Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto Writing Our History
ISBN: HB: 9780300236729, Yale University Press, June 2019
280 pp., 21x14 cm, 7 black&white illus.
Hidden in metal containers and buried underground during World War II, these writings from the Warsaw Ghetto record the Holocaust in the words of its first interpreters, the victims themselves. Gathered clandestinely by an underground ghetto collecti...
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