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Glikl Memoirs 1691-1719
ISBN: PB: 9781684580040, ISBN: HB: 9781684580057, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2019
375 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 6 line drawings
"My dear children, I write this for you in case your dear children or grandchildren come to you one of these days, knowing nothing of their family. For this reason I have set this down for you here in brief, so that you might know what kind of people...
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£15,00
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£30,00
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Jewish Woman of Distinction The Life and Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova
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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£68,00
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£23,00
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Yehuda Amichai The Making of Israel's National Poet
ISBN: PB: 9781684580002, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2019
468 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Yehuda Amichai is one of the twentieth century's (and Israel's) leading poets. In this remarkable book, Nili Scharf Gold offers a profound reinterpretation of Amichai's early works and reconstructs his poetic biography. Her close reading of his oeuvr...
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£32,00
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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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Spinoza's Challenge to Jewish Thought Writings on His Life, Philosophy, and Legacy
ISBN: PB: 9781584657125, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2019
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Arguably, no historical thinker has had as varied and fractious a reception within modern Judaism as Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza (1632-1677), the seventeenth-century philosopher, pioneering biblical critic, and Jewish heretic from Amsterdam. Revered in...
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£20,00
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Let's Make a Better World Stories and Songs by Jane Sapp
ISBN: PB: 9781512603552, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2019
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Jane Sapp is a nationally admired cultural worker, musician, educator, and activist whose approach to social transformation is rooted in African American musical traditions and made available here as a resource for communities around the world. Jane...
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£24,00
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