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Don Isaac Abravanel An Intellectual Biography
ISBN: HB: 9781684580231, University of Chicago Press, Gingko Library, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) was one of the great inventors of Jewish modernity. A merchant, banker, and court financier, a scholar versed in both Jewish and Christian writings, a preacher and exegete, a prominent political actor in royal entourag...
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£36,00
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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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Disraeli The Novel Politician
ISBN: HB: 9780300137514, Yale University Press, April 2019
288 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Lauded as a "great Jew", excoriated by antisemites, and one of Britain's most renowned prime ministers, Benjamin Disraeli has been widely celebrated for his role in Jewish history. But is the perception of him as a Jewish hero accurate? In what ways...
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£16,99
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Donigers of Great Neck A Mythologized Memoir
ISBN: PB: 9781512603521, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2019
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Many memories, many myths" – this is how Wendy Doniger begins the story of her parents' origins in Europe and sharply bifurcated life in America. Recalling their contrasting attitudes toward Judaism and religion in general – and acknowledging the my...
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£16,00
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Deadly Legacy German Jews and the Great War
ISBN: HB: 9780300192049, Yale University Press, August 2017
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.
This book is the first to offer a full account of the varied contributions of German Jews to Imperial Germany's endeavors during the Great War. Historian Tim Grady examines the efforts of the 100,000 Jewish soldiers who served in the German military...
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£25,00
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Days Between Blessings, Poems, and Directions of the Heart for the Jewish High Holiday Season
ISBN: HB: 9781611686050, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2014
260 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Jewish High Holidays – the ten days beginning with the New Year Festival of Rosh Hashanah and culminating with Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement – constitute the most sacred period of the Jewish year. During this season, religious as well as nonaf...
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£20,00
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Death of the Shtetl
ISBN: PB: 9780300167931, Yale University Press, January 2011
224 pp., 22.6x14.5 cm
In this book Yehuda Bauer, an internationally-acclaimed Holocaust historian, recounts the destruction of the shtetls, small Jewish towns in Poland and Russia, at the hands of the Nazis in 1941-1942. Bauer brings together all available documents, test...
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£25,00
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Destruction of the European Jews
ISBN: HB: 9780300095579, Yale University Press, June 2003
1536 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
A three-volume study of the Holocaust. First published in 1961, Raul Hilberg's comprehensive account of how Germany annihilated the Jewish community of Europe spurred discussion, galvanized further research, and shaped the entire field of Holocaust s...
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£165,00
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Darker Side of Genius Richard Wagner's Anti-Semitism
ISBN: PB: 9781584652403, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2002
172 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
For some, Richard Wagner is infamous as the favorite composer of Hitler, who seems to have admired Wagner as an early exponent of his own racist ideology and worldview. Impressed by this assumption victims of Hitler have also associated Wagner and hi...
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£18,00
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Death and Dissymmetry The Politics of Coherence in the Book of Judges
ISBN: PB: 9780226035550, ISBN: HB: 9780226035543, University of Chicago Press, January 1989
319 pp., 23x15 cm
Combining literary criticism and feminist analysis, "Death and Dissymmetry" radically reinterprets not only the Book of Judges but also the tradition of its reception and understanding in the West. In Mieke Bal's account, Judges documents the Israeli...
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£97,00
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