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Babel in Zion Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948
ISBN: HB: 9780300197488, Yale University Press, December 2014
328 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.
The promotion and vernacularization of Hebrew, traditionally a language of Jewish liturgy and study, was a central accomplishment of the Zionist movement in Palestine in the years following World War I. Viewing twentieth-century history through the l...
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£52,00
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Ben-Gurion
ISBN: HB: 9780300180459, Yale University Press, December 2014
256 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.
David Ben-Gurion cast an enormous shadow across his world, and his legacy in the Middle East and beyond continues to be hotly debated to this day. There have been many books written about the life and accomplishments of the Zionist icon and founder o...
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Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady The Origins of Chabad Hasidism
ISBN: HB: 9781611686777, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2014
364 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady (1745-1812), in imperial Russia, was the founder and first rebbe of Chabad, a branch of Hasidic Judaism that flourishes to the present day. The Chabad-Lubavitch movement he founded in the region now known as Belarus playe...
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Jewish Rhetorics History, Theory, Practice
ISBN: PB: 9781611686401, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2014
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This volume, the first of its kind, establishes and clarifies the significance of Jewish rhetorics as its own field and as a field within rhetoric studies. Diverse essays illuminate and complicate the editors' definition of a Jewish rhetorical stance...
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Socrates and the Jews Hellenism and Hebraism from Moses Mendelssohn to Sigmund Freud
ISBN: PB: 9780226213347, ISBN: HB: 9780226472478, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
248 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 halftones
"What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?" Asked by the early Christian Tertullian, the question was vigorously debated in the nineteenth century. While classics dominated the intellectual life of Europe, Christianity still prevailed and conflicts raged...
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£47,00
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American Jewish History A Primary Source Reader
ISBN: PB: 9781611685107, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2014
478 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Presenting the American Jewish historical experience from its communal beginnings to the present through documents, photographs, and other illustrations, many of which have never before been published, this entirely new collection of source materials...
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Zionist Paradox Hebrew Literature and Israeli Identity
ISBN: HB: 9781584658948, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2014
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Many contemporary Israelis suffer from a strange condition. Despite the obvious successes of the Zionist enterprise and the State of Israel, tension persists, with a collective sense that something is wrong and should be better. This cognitive disson...
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Autonomy After Auschwitz Adorno, German Idealism, and Modernity
ISBN: HB: 9780226155487, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Ever since Kant and Hegel, the notion of autonomy – the idea that we are beholden to no law except one we impose upon ourselves – has been considered the truest philosophical expression of human freedom. But could our commitment to autonomy, as Theod...
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Days Between Blessings, Poems, and Directions of the Heart for the Jewish High Holiday Season
ISBN: HB: 9781611686050, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2014
260 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Jewish High Holidays – the ten days beginning with the New Year Festival of Rosh Hashanah and culminating with Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement – constitute the most sacred period of the Jewish year. During this season, religious as well as nonaf...
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Photographing the Jewish Nation Pictures from S. An-sky's Ethnographic Expeditions
ISBN: PB: 9781611686838, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2014
228 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
From 1912 to 1914, S. An-sky and the photographer Solomon Iudovin gathered materials and took photographs of Jewish daily life in pre-Revolutionary Russia's Pale of Settlement. Photographing the Jewish Nation offers English-language readers their fir...
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