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Vulture The Private Life of an Unloved Bird
ISBN: PB: 9781684580330, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2020
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates
Few animals have a worse reputation than the vulture. But is it deserved? With Vulture, Katie Fallon offers an irresistible argument to the contrary, tracing a year in the life of a typical North American turkey vulture. Turkey vultures, also known a...
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Jewish Woman of Distinction The Life and Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova
ISBN: HB: 9781684580026, ISBN: PB: 9781684580019, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2019
400 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm, 17 halftones, 6 line drawings
Zinaida Poliakova (1863-1953) was the eldest daughter of Lazar Solomonovich Poliakov, one of the three brothers known as the Russian Rothschilds. They were moguls who dominated Russian finance and business and built almost a quarter of the railroad l...
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£23,00
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Individual in History Essays in Honor of Jehuda Reinharz
ISBN: HB: 9781611687323, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2015
580 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Jehuda Reinharz, born in Haifa in 1944, spent his childhood in Israel and his adolescence in Germany, and moved with his family to the United States when he was seventeen. These three diverse geographies and the experiences they engendered shaped his...
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£36,00
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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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Jewish Kapo in Auschwitz History, Memory, and the Politics of Survival
ISBN: PB: 9781611685879, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Eliezer Gruenbaum (1908-1948) was a Polish Jew denounced for serving as a Kapo while interned at Auschwitz. He was the communist son of Itzhak Gruenbaum, the most prominent secular leader of interwar Polish Jewry who later became the chairman of the...
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£32,00
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Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia Select Documents, 1772-1914
ISBN: PB: 9781611684551, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2013
664 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This book makes accessible – for the first time in English – declassified archival documents from the former Soviet Union, rabbinic sources, and previously untranslated memoirs, illuminating everyday Jewish life as the site of interaction and negotia...
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£36,00
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Gender, Religion, and Family Law Theorizing Conflicts between Women's Rights and Cultural Traditions
ISBN: PB: 9781611683264, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2012
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In many regions of the world, rights guaranteed under the civil law, including rights to gender equality within marriage and rights in the distribution of family property and child custody upon divorce, are in conflict with the principles of religiou...
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Forsaken The Menstruant in Medieval Jewish Mysticism
ISBN: PB: 9781584659822, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2011
306 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This book addresses a central question in the study of Jewish mysticism in the medieval and early modern periods: why are there no known female mystics in medieval Judaism, unlike contemporaneous movements in Christianity and Islam? Sharon Faye Koren...
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Citizenship, Faith, and Feminism Jewish and Muslim Women Reclaim Their Rights
ISBN: PB: 9781584659730, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2011
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Religious women in liberal democracies are "dual citizens" because of their contrasting status as members of both a civic community (in which their gender has no impact on their constitutional guarantee of equal rights) and a traditional religious co...
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Song of Songs Love Lyrics from the Bible
ISBN: PB: 9781584654230, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2004
113 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Striking in its appeal to the senses, the Song of Songs – the Bible's only book of love poems – is remarkable for its lack of sexual stereotyping and its expression of mutuality in relationships between men and women. Marcia Falk's rich and lyrical t...
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