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Strangers We Became Lessons in Exile from One of Iraq's Last Jews
ISBN: HB: 9781611688054, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This riveting and utterly unique memoir chronicles the coming of age of Cynthia Shamash, an Iraqi Jew born in Baghdad in 1963. When she was eight, her family tried to escape Iraq over the Iranian border, but they were captured and jailed for five wee...
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£23,00
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Brandeis Modern Hebrew
ISBN: PB: 9781611689181, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2015
608 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Written by the core faculty of the Hebrew Program at Brandeis University, Brandeis Modern Hebrew is an accessible introduction to the Hebrew language for American undergraduates and high school students. Its functional and contextual elements are des...
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£68,00
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Aesthetic Theology and Its Enemies Judaism in Christian Painting, Poetry, and Politics
ISBN: PB: 9781611687781, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2015
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Through most of Western European history, Jews have been a numerically tiny or entirely absent minority, but across that history Europeans have nonetheless worried a great deal about Judaism. Why should that be so? This short but powerfully argued bo...
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£24,00
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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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Israeli Society in the Twenty-First Century Immigration, Inequality, and Religious Conflict
ISBN: PB: 9781611687477, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This volume illuminates changes in Israeli society over the past generation. Goldscheider identifies three key social changes that have led to the transformation of Israeli society in the twenty-first century: the massive immigration of Jews from the...
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£27,00
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Jewish Soul Food Traditional Fare and What It Means
ISBN: PB: 9781611685015, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Jewish traditional foods often have symbolic meanings. A Passover matzo is a taste of Egyptian slavery. The Hanukkah latke reminds us of the little jug of oil that burned, miraculously, for eight nights. Noshing hamentaschen at Purim, we remember the...
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£23,00
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Curtains? The Future of the Arts in America
ISBN: HB: 9781611687033, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, February 2015
172 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this clear-minded but sobering book, Michael M. Kaiser assesses the current state of arts institutions – orchestras; opera, ballet, modern dance, and theater companies; and even museums. According to Kaiser, new developments in the twenty-first ce...
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£21,00
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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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£36,00
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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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£32,00
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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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£32,00
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