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New Perspectives in American Jewish History A Documentary Tribute to Jonathan D. Sarna
ISBN: HB: 9781684580521, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2021
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
Widely regarded as today's foremost American Jewish historian, Jonathan D. Sarna had a huge impact on the academy. Sarna's influence is perhaps nowhere more apparent than among his former doctoral students – a veritable "Sarna diaspora" of over three...
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£76,00
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Hermann Cohen Writings on Neo-Kantianism and Jewish Philosophy
ISBN: PB: 9781684580439, ISBN: HB: 9781684580422, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2021
275 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) was among the most accomplished Jewish philosophers of modern times – if not the single most significant. But his work has not yet received the attention it deserves. This newly translated collection of his writings – most o...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Ducks on Parade!
ISBN: HB: 9781684580415, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2021
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 76 colour plates
Inspired by Robert McCloskey's beloved children's book of the same name, the iconic bronze Make Way for Ducklings sculpture in Boston's Public Garden has come to serve as something of a record of the recent decades of life in the city itself. In a se...
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£12,00
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Hadassah An American Story
ISBN: HB: 9781684580378, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2021
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
Born in Prague to Holocaust survivors, Hadassah Lieberman and her family immigrated in 1949 to the United States. She went on to earn a BA from Boston University in government and dramatics and an MA in international relations and American government...
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£23,00
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Wood Engraving The Art of Wood Engraving and Relief Engraving
ISBN: PB: 9781684580484, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2021
112 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 70 halftones
Written and illustrated by master wood engraver Barry Moser, this primer on the art of wood engraving is filled with valuable knowledge including how to prepare a printing block; how to think in the medium's properties of line, shape, and ink; and ho...
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£23,00
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Boston's Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them
ISBN: PB: 9781684580392, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2021
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 160 colour plates
As Boston approaches its four-hundredth anniversary, it is remarkable that it still maintains its historic character despite constant development. The fifty buildings featured in this book all pre-date1800 and illustrate Boston's early history. This...
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£24,00
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Memoirs Hans Jonas
ISBN: PB: 9781684580460, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2021
314 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones
When Hans Jonas died in 1993, he was revered among American scholars specializing in European philosophy, but his thought had not yet made great inroads among a wider public. In Germany, conversely, during the 1980s, when Jonas himself was an octogen...
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£32,00
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Expanding the Palace of Torah Orthodoxy and Feminism
ISBN: PB: 9781684580514, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2021
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Expanding the Palace of Torah offers a broad philosophical overview of the challenges the women's revolution poses to Orthodox Judaism, as well as Orthodox Judaism's response to those challenges. Writing as an insider – herself an Orthodox Jew – Tama...
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£32,00
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