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Jewish Studies

Jewish Decadence Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity

Freedman Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226581088, ISBN: HB: 9780226580920, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 halftones

As Jewish writers, artists, and intellectuals made their way into Western European and Anglo-American cultural centers, they encountered a society obsessed with decadence. An avant-garde movement characterized by self-consciously artificial art and l...

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Jewish Studies

Judaism for the World Reflections on God, Life, and Love

Green Arthur

ISBN: HB: 9780300249989, Yale University Press, October 2020
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Judaism, one of the world's great spiritual traditions, is not addressed to Jews alone. In this masterful book, Arthur Green calls out to seekers of all sorts, offering a universal response to the eternal human questions of who we are, why we exist,...

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Jewish Studies

Christianity

Jewish Christianity The Making of the Christianity-Judaism Divide

Jackson-McCabe Matt

ISBN: HB: 9780300180138, Yale University Press, August 2020
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm

In this provocative work, Matt Jackson-McCabe argues that the concept of Jewish Christianity represents an enduring legacy of Christian apologetics. Freethinkers of the English Enlightenment created the category of Jewish Christianity as a means of i...

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Jewish Studies

Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition

Mirvis Stanley

ISBN: HB: 9780300238815, Yale University Press, August 2020
312 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Based on last wills and testaments composed by Jamaican Jews between 1673 and 1815, this book explores the social and familial experiences of one of the most critical yet understudied nodes of the Atlantic Portuguese Jewish Diaspora. Stanley Mirvis e...

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Jewish Studies

Jews and the Reformation

Austin Kenneth

ISBN: HB: 9780300186291, Yale University Press, June 2020
288 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.

In this rich, wide-ranging, and meticulously researched account, Kenneth Austin examines the attitudes of various Christian groups in the Protestant and Catholic Reformations towards Jews, the Hebrew language, and Jewish learning. Martin Luther's wri...

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Jewish Studies

Jewish Treasures

Abrams Rebecca, Merchan-Hamann Cesar

ISBN: HB: 9781851245024, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2020
288 pp., 25.9x23.7 cm, 136 colour illus.

Representing four centuries of collecting and 1000 years of Jewish history, this book brings together extraordinary Hebrew manuscripts and rare books from the Bodleian Library and Oxford colleges. Highlights of the collections include a fragment of M...

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Jewish Studies

Women Studies

Jewish Woman of Distinction The Life and Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova

Freeze Chaeran Y.

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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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Jabotinsky A Life

Halkin Hillel

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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Jewish Studies

Jerusalem on the Amstel The Quest for Zion in the Dutch Republic

Pelham Lipika

ISBN: HB: 9781787380080, Hurst Publishers, December 2018
352 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Seventeenth-century Amsterdam was a cosmopolitan "carnival of nations": French Huguenots, North African merchants, Spanish Moriscos – and Iberian New Christians, formerly Jewish families forcibly converted to Catholicism, now f...

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Biography & Memoires

Performing Arts

Jerome Robbins A Life in Dance

Lesser Wendy

ISBN: HB: 9780300197594, Yale University Press, October 2018
216 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Jerome Robbins (1918-1998) was born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz and grew up in Weehawken, New Jersey, where his Russian-Jewish immigrant parents owned the Comfort Corset Company. Robbins, who was drawn to dance at a young age, resisted the idea of joini...

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