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Jews and Diaspora Nationalism Writings on Jewish Peoplehood in Europe and the United States
ISBN: PB: 9781584657620, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2012
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The question of how to preserve, construct or transform Jewish peoplehood consumed Jewish intellectuals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Despite a rich array of writing from Jewish nationalists, liberals, and socialists about the...
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£24,00
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Marriage and Divorce in the Jewish State Israel's Civil War
ISBN: HB: 9781611683639, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2012
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Israel currently has two recognized systems of law operating side by side: civil and religious. Israeli religious courts possess the exclusive right to conduct and terminate marriages. There is no civil marriage or divorce in Israel, irrespective of...
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£68,00
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Needle in the Bone How a Holocaust Survivor and a Polish Resistance Fighter Beat the Odds and Found Each Other
ISBN: HB: 9781612345680, Casemate, Potomac Books, November 2012
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 black&white illus.
"Needle in the Bone" highlights the astonishing stories of two Poles – a Holocaust survivor, Lou Frydman, and a Polish resistance fighter, Jarek Piekalkewicz. As mere teenagers during World War II, they defied daunting odds, lost everything and nearl...
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£18,00
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Pure Element of Time
ISBN: PB: 9781611684315, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2012
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Published in 1998 as Havalim, "The Pure Element of Time" is a rich and evocative autobiographical novel about a writer's development. With his keen eye and opulent writing style, Haim Be'er turns the story of his childhood and maturity into a complex...
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£20,00
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Jewhooing the Sixties American Celebrity and Jewish Identity – Sandy Koufax, Lenny Bruce, Bob Dylan, and Barbra Streisand
ISBN: PB: 9781611683141, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2012
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Sandy Koufax, Lenny Bruce, Bob Dylan, and Barbra Streisand first came to public attention in the early 1960s, a period Kaufman identifies as historically ripe for American Jews to reexamine their (Jewish) identities. All four achieved extraordinary s...
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£32,00
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Moshe Dayan Plow and Sword
ISBN: HB: 9780300149418, Yale University Press, July 2012
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm
Instantly recognizable with his iconic eye patch, Moshe Dayan (1915-1981) was a powerful yet controversial figure in Israel from the 1950s through 70s. A fearless warrior and a strong-headed, charismatic politician, he was admired for his leadership...
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£18,99
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Young Tel Aviv A Tale of Two Cities
ISBN: PB: 9781611683370, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2012
228 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Practical Zionism in the Mandate era (1920-1948) is usually associated with agricultural settlements (kibbutzim), organized socialist workers, and the creation of a formal high culture. This book fills a gap in historical research by presenting a dif...
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Abraham's Children Liberty and Tolerance in an Age of Religious Conflict
ISBN: PB: 9780300179378, Yale University Press, June 2012
288 pp., 15.6x14 cm
Scarcely any country in today's world can claim to be free of intolerance. Israel and Palestine, Northern Ireland, the Sudan, the Balkans, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, and the Caucasus are just some of the areas of intractable conflict, apparently ins...
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£25,00
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Socrates and the Fat Rabbis
ISBN: PB: 9780226069173, ISBN: HB: 9780226069166, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
408 pp., 23x15 cm
What kind of literature is the Talmud? To answer this question, Daniel Boyarin looks to an unlikely source: the dialogues of Plato. In these ancient texts he finds similarities, both in their combination of various genres and topics and in their dial...
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£26,00
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£43,50
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Sundays at Sinai A Jewish Congregation in Chicago
ISBN: HB: 9780226074542, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 16 halftones
First established 150 years ago, Chicago Sinai is one of America's oldest Reform Jewish congregations. Its founders were upwardly mobile and civically committed men and women, founders and partners of banks and landmark businesses like Hart Schaffner...
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£47,00
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