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Houdini The Elusive American
ISBN: HB: 9780300230796, Yale University Press, May 2020
232 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.
In 1916, the war in Europe having prevented a tour abroad, Harry Houdini wrote a film treatment for a rollicking motion picture. Though the movie was never made, its title, "The Marvelous Adventures of Houdini: The Justly Celebrated Elusive American"...
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£16,99
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Moses Mendelssohn's Hebrew Writings
ISBN: HB: 9780300229028, Yale University Press, July 2018
560 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was one of the most influential thinkers of the Enlightenment. Until now, attention was focused on Mendelssohn's German works – such as his groundbreaking "Jerusalem" – which have been duly tran...
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Gershom Scholem Master of the Kabbalah
ISBN: HB: 9780300215908, Yale University Press, June 2018
256 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was perhaps the foremost Jewish intellectual of the twentieth century. Pioneering the study of Jewish mysticism as a legitimate academic discipline, he overturned the rationalist bias of his predecessors and revealed an ex...
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Feeling Jewish (A Book for Just About Anyone)
ISBN: HB: 9780300212440, Yale University Press, January 2018
296 pp., 21x14 cm
Self-hatred. Guilt. Resentment. Paranoia. Hysteria. Overbearing Mother-Love. In this witty, insightful, and poignant book, Devorah Baum delves into fiction, film, memoir, and psychoanalysis to present a dazzlingly original exploration of a series of...
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Jewish Legal Theories Writings on State, Religion, and Morality
ISBN: PB: 9781584657446, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2018
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Contemporary arguments about Jewish law uniquely reflect both the story of Jewish modernity and a crucial premise of modern conceptions of law generally: the claim of autonomy for the intellectual subject and practical sphere of the law. Jewish Legal...
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£21,00
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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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Exiles and Expatriates in the History of Knowledge, 1500-2000
ISBN: PB: 9781512600384, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2017
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this wide-ranging consideration of intellectual diasporas, historian Peter Burke questions what distinctive contribution to knowledge exiles and expatriates have made. The answer may be summed up in one word: deprovincialization. Historically, the...
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£32,00
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Berlin for Jews A Twenty-First-Century Companion
ISBN: HB: 9780226010663, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 2 maps
What is it like to travel to Berlin today, particularly as a Jew, and bring with you the baggage of history? And what happens when an American Jew, raised by a secular family, falls in love with Berlin not in spite of his being a Jew but because of i...
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Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families Paradoxes of a Social Revolution
ISBN: PB: 9781611688603, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2015
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The concepts of gender, love, and family – as well as the personal choices regarding gender-role construction, sexual and romantic liaisons, and family formation – have become more fluid under a society-wide softening of boundaries, hierarchies, and...
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Auschwitz The Complete Guide
ISBN: PB: 9781742577562, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, November 2015
192 pp., 23.2x22.7 cm, black&white illus.
"Auschwitz: The Complete Guide" brings the history, cultural impact and modern-day travel experiences of Auschwitz together in a single volume for the very first time. Although Auschwitz was one of many German concentration and extermination camps o...
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