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Toward Nationalism's End An Intellectual Biography of Hans Kohn
ISBN: PB: 9781512600872, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This intellectual biography of Hans Kohn (1891-1971) looks at theories of nationalism in the twentieth century as articulated through the life and work of its leading scholar and activist. Hans Kohn was born in late nineteenth-century Prague, but his...
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Legalizing Plural Marriage The Next Frontier in Family Law
ISBN: PB: 9781611688351, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Polygamous marriages are currently recognized in nearly fifty countries worldwide. Although polygamy is technically illegal in the United States, it is practiced by members of some religious communities and a growing number of other "poly" groups. In...
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Israeli Society in the Twenty-First Century Immigration, Inequality, and Religious Conflict
ISBN: PB: 9781611687477, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This volume illuminates changes in Israeli society over the past generation. Goldscheider identifies three key social changes that have led to the transformation of Israeli society in the twenty-first century: the massive immigration of Jews from the...
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Palestine between Politics and Terror, 1945-1947
ISBN: PB: 9781611684506, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
British General Sir Allan Cunningham was appointed in 1945 as high commissioner of Palestine, and served in this capacity until the end of the British mandate on May 15, 1948. The three years of Cunningham's tenure were tremendously complex political...
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Language and Power in the Early Middle Ages
ISBN: PB: 9781611683912, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2013
136 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The eminent historian Patrick J. Geary has written a provocative book, based on lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel about the role of language and ideology in the study and history of the early Middle Ages. He includes a fascinatin...
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Moses Mendelssohn Writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible
ISBN: PB: 9781584656852, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2011
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) is best known in the English-speaking world for his Jerusalem (1783), the first attempt to present Judaism as a religion compatible with the ideas of the Enlightenment. While incorporating much...
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Wedding Song Memoirs of an Iranian Jewish Woman
ISBN: PB: 9781584654445, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2004
220 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Farideh Goldin was born to her fifteen-year-old mother in 1953 and into a Jewish community living in an increasingly hostile Islamic state – prerevolutionary Iran. This memoir is Goldin's passionate and painful account of her childhood in a poor Jewi...
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Pious and Rebellious Jewish Women in Medieval Europe
ISBN: PB: 9781584653929, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2004
351 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This volume, an amazing act of historical recovery and reconstruction, offers a comprehensive examination of Jewish women in Europe during the High Middle Ages (1000-1300). Avraham Grossman covers multiple aspects of women's lives in medieval Jewish...
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£28,00
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Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars
ISBN: PB: 9780874515558, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 1991
544 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Jews have long seen the interwar years as a "golden age" for Polish Jewry and hold it in special reverence because of the community's heroic struggle against the encroaching darkness of antisemitism. During the years 1918 to 1939, Polish Jews constit...
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