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New Jewish Leaders Reshaping the American Jewish Landscape
ISBN: PB: 9781611681833, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2011
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
By the end of the twentieth century, a new generation of leaders had begun to assume positions of influence within established organizations. They quickly launched a slew of new initiatives directed at their age peers. Born during the last quarter of...
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£32,00
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Rise of the Individual in 1950s Israel A Challenge to Collectivism
ISBN: PB: 9781611680812, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2011
276 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this sharply argued volume, Orit Rozin reveals the flaws in the conventional account of Israeli society in the 1950s, which portrayed the Israeli public as committed to a collectivist ideology. In fact, major sectors of Israeli society espoused in...
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£28,00
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River Jordan The Mythology of a Dividing Line
ISBN: HB: 9780226319575, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 halftones
As the site of several miracles in the Jewish and Christian traditions, the Jordan is one of the world's holiest rivers. It is also the major political and symbolic border contested by Israelis and Palestinians. Combining biblical and folkloric studi...
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£39,00
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Israel, Jordan, and Palestine The Two-State Imperative
ISBN: PB: 9781611680393, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2011
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Since 1921, the Zionist movement, the Hashemites, and Palestinian nationalists have been vying for regional control. In this book, Asher Susser analyzes the evolution of the one- and two-state options and explores why a two-state solution has failed...
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£28,00
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Jews and Race Writings on Identity and Difference, 1880-1940
ISBN: PB: 9781584657170, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2011
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Many people think of Jews as victims of a particular sort of racism, not as active participants in the development of racial thinking in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Yet many Jews did take up racial discourse and used it to analyze Judaism...
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£23,00
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California Jews
ISBN: PB: 9781611682199, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2011
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The nation's thirty-first state emerged early as one of its most diverse as people immigrated to the west. California's indigenous tribes were forced off their lands first by Spanish settlers, then by the arrival of gold miners from every corner of t...
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£28,00
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Israelis and the Jewish Tradition An Ancient People Debating Its Future
ISBN: PB: 9780300184112, Yale University Press, November 2011
194 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
In this powerful book one of the most important Jewish thinkers in the world today grapples with issues that increasingly divide Israel's secular Jewish community from its religious Zionists. Addressing the concerns of both communities from the point...
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£16,00
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Men's Section Orthodox Jewish Men in an Egalitarian World
ISBN: PB: 9781611680799, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2011
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this illuminating book, Elana Maryles Sztokman investigates a fascinating new sociological phenomenon: Orthodox Jewish men who connect themselves to egalitarian or quasi-egalitarian religious enterprises. She examines the men who have enabled thes...
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£24,00
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Settlers And the Struggle Over the Meaning of Zionism
ISBN: PB: 9780300177640, ISBN: HB: 9780300141016, Yale University Press, October 2011
240 pp., 21x14 cm
The controversy over settlements in the occupied territories is a far more intractable problem for Israel than is widely perceived, Gadi Taub observes in this illuminating book. The clash over settlement is no mere policy disagreement, he maintains,...
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£24,00
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£22,50
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Cultural Revolution in Berlin Jews in the Age of Enlightenment
ISBN: PB: 9781851242917, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2011
104 pp., 24x16 cm, 84 colour illus.
The process of secularization, which is one of the sources of present-day democracy, has its radical origins in eighteenth-century Europe. Criticism of religious norms and discipline, institutions and ideology led to the movement known as the Enlight...
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£19,99
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