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Boston's Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them
ISBN: PB: 9781684580392, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2021
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 160 colour plates
As Boston approaches its four-hundredth anniversary, it is remarkable that it still maintains its historic character despite constant development. The fifty buildings featured in this book all pre-date1800 and illustrate Boston's early history. This...
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Jewish Legal Theories Writings on State, Religion, and Morality
ISBN: PB: 9781584657446, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2018
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Contemporary arguments about Jewish law uniquely reflect both the story of Jewish modernity and a crucial premise of modern conceptions of law generally: the claim of autonomy for the intellectual subject and practical sphere of the law. Jewish Legal...
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£21,00
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Gender and Justice in Family Law Disputes Women, Mediation, and Religious Arbitration
ISBN: PB: 9781512600353, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Recently, new methods of dispute resolution in matters of family law – such as arbitration, mediation, and conciliation – have created new forms of legal culture that affect minority communities throughout the world. There are now multiple ways of ob...
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£34,00
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Exiles and Expatriates in the History of Knowledge, 1500-2000
ISBN: PB: 9781512600384, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2017
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this wide-ranging consideration of intellectual diasporas, historian Peter Burke questions what distinctive contribution to knowledge exiles and expatriates have made. The answer may be summed up in one word: deprovincialization. Historically, the...
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Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families Paradoxes of a Social Revolution
ISBN: PB: 9781611688603, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2015
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The concepts of gender, love, and family – as well as the personal choices regarding gender-role construction, sexual and romantic liaisons, and family formation – have become more fluid under a society-wide softening of boundaries, hierarchies, and...
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Jewish Rhetorics History, Theory, Practice
ISBN: PB: 9781611686401, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2014
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This volume, the first of its kind, establishes and clarifies the significance of Jewish rhetorics as its own field and as a field within rhetoric studies. Diverse essays illuminate and complicate the editors' definition of a Jewish rhetorical stance...
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Woody on Rye Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen
ISBN: PB: 9781611684803, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2013
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Although Woody Allen's films have received extensive attention from scholars and critics, no book has focused exclusively on Jewishness in his work, particularly that of the late 1990s and beyond. In this anthology, a distinguished group of contribut...
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£28,00
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Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought Writings on Identity, Politics, and Culture, 1893-1958
ISBN: PB: 9781584658856, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This volume opens the canon of modern Jewish thought to the all too often overlooked writings of Jews from the Arab East, from the close of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Whether they identified as Sephardim, Mizrahim, anticol...
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Pure Element of Time
ISBN: PB: 9781611684315, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2012
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Published in 1998 as Havalim, "The Pure Element of Time" is a rich and evocative autobiographical novel about a writer's development. With his keen eye and opulent writing style, Haim Be'er turns the story of his childhood and maturity into a complex...
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Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity
ISBN: PB: 9781611683219, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2012
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this book, based on lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel, the famed historian G. W. Bowersock presents a searching examination of political developments in the Arabian Peninsula on the eve of the rise of Islam. Recounting the gro...
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