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Maimonides' "Guide of the Perplexed" in Translation A History from the Thirteenth Century to the Twentieth
ISBN: HB: 9780226457635, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 tables
Moses Maimonides's "Guide of the Perplexed" is the greatest philosophical text in the history of Jewish thought and a major work of the Middle Ages. For almost all of its history, however, the Guide has been read and commented upon in translation – i...
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£42,00
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Martin Buber A Life of Faith and Dissent
ISBN: HB: 9780300153040, Yale University Press, May 2019
440 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
An authority on the twentieth-century philosopher Martin Buber (1878-1965), Paul Mendes-Flohr offers the first major biography in English in thirty years of this seminal modern Jewish thinker. Organized around several key moments – such as his sudden...
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£16,99
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Menasseh ben Israel Rabbi of Amsterdam
ISBN: HB: 9780300224108, Yale University Press, August 2018
312 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Menasseh ben Israel (1604-1657) was among the most accomplished and cosmopolitan rabbis of his time, and a pivotal intellectual figure in early modern Jewish history. He was one of the three rabbis of the "Portuguese Nation" in Amsterdam, a community...
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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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£35,00
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Modern French Jewish Thought Writings on Religion and Politics
ISBN: PB: 9781512601862, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Modern Jewish thought" is often defined as a German affair, with interventions from Eastern European, American, and Israeli philosophers. The story of France's development of its own schools of thought has not been substantially treated outside the...
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£20,00
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Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought
ISBN: PB: 9780226460550, ISBN: HB: 9780226460413, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 tables
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prominent social thinkers in France, Germany, and the United States sought to understand the modern world taking shape around them. Although they worked in different national traditions and emphas...
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£26,50
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£79,00
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Mark Rothko
ISBN: PB: 9780300219685, ISBN: HB: 9780300182040, Yale University Press, May 2016
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
Mark Rothko was not only one of the most influential American painters of the twentieth century; he was a scholar, an educator, and a deeply spiritual human being. Born Marcus Yakovlevich Rotkovitch, he emigrated from the Russian Empire to the United...
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£10,99
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£18,99
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Metropolitan Jews Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit
ISBN: HB: 9780226247830, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
In this provocative and accessible urban history, Lila Corwin Berman considers the role that Detroit's Jews played in the city's well-known narrative of migration and decline. Taking its cue from social critics and historians who have long looked tow...
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£28,00
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Most Musical Nation Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire
ISBN: PB: 9780300198300, Yale University Press, October 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.
No image of prerevolutionary Russian Jewish life is more iconic than the fiddler on the roof. But in the half century before 1917, Jewish musicians were actually descending from their shtetl roofs and streaming in dazzling numbers to Russia's new cla...
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Music Libel Against the Jews
ISBN: PB: 9780300194777, Yale University Press, July 2013
532 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 colour images, 80 black&white illus.
This deeply imaginative and wide-ranging book shows how, since the first centuries of the Christian era, gentiles have associated Jews with noise. Ruth HaCohen focuses her study on a "musical libel" – a variation on the Passion story that recurs in v...
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