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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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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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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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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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Forsaken The Menstruant in Medieval Jewish Mysticism
ISBN: PB: 9781584659822, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2011
306 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This book addresses a central question in the study of Jewish mysticism in the medieval and early modern periods: why are there no known female mystics in medieval Judaism, unlike contemporaneous movements in Christianity and Islam? Sharon Faye Koren...
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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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£24,00
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Three Ways to Be Alien Travails and Encounters in the Early Modern World
ISBN: PB: 9781584659921, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2011
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Sanjay Subrahmanyam's "Three Ways to Be Alien" draws on the lives and writings of a trio of marginal and liminal figures cast adrift from their traditional moorings into an unknown world. The subjects include the aggrieved and lost Meale, a "Persian"...
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£28,00
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Land and Desire in Early Zionism
ISBN: PB: 9781584659686, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2011
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This innovative study examines the responses of early-twentieth-century pioneers to "the Land" of Palestine. Early Zionist historiography portrayed these young settlers as heroic; later, more critical studies by the "new" historians and sociologists...
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