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Judaism A Way of Being
ISBN: PB: 9780300168150, Yale University Press, April 2011
248 pp., 20.6x14 cm, 4 colour illus.
Written for observant and non-observant Jews and anyone interested in religion, this remarkable book by the distinguished scholar David Gelernter seeks to answer the deceptively simple question: What is Judaism really about? Gelernter views Judaism a...
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£14,99
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Kabbalah in Italy, 1280-1510 A Survey
ISBN: HB: 9780300126266, Yale University Press, April 2011
512 pp., 23.6x16 cm
This sweeping survey of the history of Kabbalah in Italy represents a major contribution from one of the world's foremost Kabbalah scholars. The first to focus attention on a specific centre of Kabbalah, Moshe Idel charts the ways that Kabbalistic th...
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£60,00
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Synagogues of Britain and Ireland An Architectural and Social History
ISBN: HB: 9780300170511, Yale University Press, March 2011
398 pp., 28.6x22.8 cm, 170 black&white illus., 80 colour illus.
The religious buildings of the Jewish community in Britain have never been explored in print. Lavishly illustrated with previously unpublished images and photographs taken specially by English Heritage, this book traces the architecture of the synago...
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£45,00
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Moses Mendelssohn Sage of Modernity
ISBN: HB: 9780300161755, Yale University Press, January 2011
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm
The "German Socrates", Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was the most influential Jewish thinker of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A Berlin celebrity and a major figure in the Enlightenment, revered by Immanuel Kant, Mendelssohn suffered the in...
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£22,00
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In the Demon's Bedroom Yiddish Literature and the Early Modern
ISBN: HB: 9780300141757, Yale University Press, January 2011
384 pp., 23.6x16.3 cm
A study that looks at a variety of early modern Yiddish masterworks – and their writers and readers – focusing on their treatment of supernatural themes and beings.
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£66,00
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Death of the Shtetl
ISBN: PB: 9780300167931, Yale University Press, January 2011
224 pp., 22.6x14.5 cm
In this book Yehuda Bauer, an internationally-acclaimed Holocaust historian, recounts the destruction of the shtetls, small Jewish towns in Poland and Russia, at the hands of the Nazis in 1941-1942. Bauer brings together all available documents, test...
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£25,00
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Plumes Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce
ISBN: PB: 9780300168181, Yale University Press, October 2010
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 map, 17 black&white illus.
The thirst for exotic ornament among fashionable women in the metropoles of Europe and America prompted a bustling global trade in ostrich feathers that flourished from the 1880s until the First World War. When feathers fell out of fashion with consu...
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£16,99
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Spirit of the Quakers
ISBN: PB: 9780300167368, Yale University Press, September 2010
224 pp., 21x14 cm
Who are the Quakers, what do they believe, and what do they practise? At the heart of their faith lies the conviction that everyone can have a direct experience of God without the mediation of priests or religious leaders. They express this in a uniq...
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£9,99
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Lenin's Jewish Question
ISBN: HB: 9780300152104, Yale University Press, September 2010
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 10 black&white illus.
In this first examination of Lenin's genealogical and political connections to East European Jews, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern reveals the broad cultural meanings of indisputable evidence that Lenin's maternal grandfather was a Jew. He examines why and...
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£57,00
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Radical Judaism Rethinking God and Tradition
ISBN: PB: 9780300152326, Yale University Press, March 2010
224 pp., 21x14 cm
How do we articulate a religious vision that embraces evolution and human authorship of Scripture? Drawing on the Jewish mystical traditions of Kabbalah and Hasidism, path-breaking Jewish scholar Arthur Green argues that a neomystical perspective can...
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£24,00
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