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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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Gershom Scholem From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back
ISBN: PB: 9781512601138, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
German-born Gerhard (Gershom) Scholem (1897-1982), the preeminent scholar of Jewish mysticism, delved into the historical analysis of kabbalistic literature from late antiquity to the twentieth century. His writings traverse Jewish historiography, Zi...
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German-Jewish Cookbook Recipes and History of a Cuisine
ISBN: HB: 9781611688733, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This cookbook features recipes for German-Jewish cuisine as it existed in Germany prior to World War II, and as refugees later adapted it in the United States and elsewhere. Because these dishes differ from more familiar Jewish food, they will be a d...
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£27,00
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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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Girls of Liberty The Struggle for Suffrage in Mandatory Palestine
ISBN: PB: 9781611688863, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2016
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Following the Balfour Declaration and the British conquest of Palestine (1917-1918), the small Jewish community that lived there wanted to establish an elected assembly as its representative body. The issue that hindered this aim was whether women wo...
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£32,00
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Germany's Prophet Paul de Lagarde and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism
ISBN: HB: 9781584657552, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2013
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Recognized in his own time and also today as a leading scholar of the origins and development of the Septuagint and its sources, Paul de Lagarde (1827-1891) was a vituperative German nationalist and an antisemite whose writings inspired the National...
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£36,00
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Gender, Religion, and Family Law Theorizing Conflicts between Women's Rights and Cultural Traditions
ISBN: PB: 9781611683264, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2012
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In many regions of the world, rights guaranteed under the civil law, including rights to gender equality within marriage and rights in the distribution of family property and child custody upon divorce, are in conflict with the principles of religiou...
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£32,00
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German City, Jewish Memory The Story of Worms
ISBN: PB: 9781584659228, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2010
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
German and Jewish ways of life have been interwoven in Worms, Germany, for over a thousand years. Despite radical changes brought about by expulsion of Jews, wartime devastation, social advancement, cultural and religious renewal, and the Jewish comm...
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£32,00
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Gender and American Jews Patterns in Work, Education, and Family in Contemporary Life
ISBN: PB: 9781584657569, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2009
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In "Gender and American Jews", Harriet Hartman and Moshe Hartman interpret the results of the two most recent National Jewish Population Surveys. Building on their critical work in "Gender Equality and American Jews" (1996), and drawing on relevant s...
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£24,00
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Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses The Synagogue to the Carousel, Jewish Carving Traditions
ISBN: HB: 9781584656371, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2007
196 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Based on more than 20 years of original research in Europe, Israel, and the United States by artist Murray Zimiles, and accompanied by an essay by distinguished Judaica scholar Vivian B.Mann, this book is the first fully developed study of the secula...
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