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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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Eddie Cantor Story A Jewish Life in Performance and Politics
ISBN: HB: 9781512600483, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This absorbing biography chronicles the life and work of one of the most important entertainers of the twentieth century. Eddie Cantor (1892-1964) starred in theater, film, radio, and television. His immense popularity across a variety of media, his...
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£28,00
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Exiles and Expatriates in the History of Knowledge, 1500-2000
ISBN: PB: 9781512600384, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2017
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this wide-ranging consideration of intellectual diasporas, historian Peter Burke questions what distinctive contribution to knowledge exiles and expatriates have made. The answer may be summed up in one word: deprovincialization. Historically, 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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Educating in the Divine Image Gender Issues in Orthodox Jewish Day Schools
ISBN: PB: 9781611684582, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2013
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Although recent scholarship has examined gender issues in Judaism with regard to texts, rituals, and the rabbinate, there has been no full-length examination of the education of Jewish children in day schools. Drawing on studies in education, social...
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£32,00
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Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity
ISBN: PB: 9781611683219, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2012
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this book, based on lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel, the famed historian G. W. Bowersock presents a searching examination of political developments in the Arabian Peninsula on the eve of the rise of Islam. Recounting the gro...
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£20,00
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Ethics through Literature Ascetic and Aesthetic Reading in Western Culture
ISBN: HB: 9781584656999, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2008
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Why do we read? Based on a series of lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel in 2005, Brian Stock presents a model for relating ascetic and aesthetic principles in Western reading practices. He begins by establishing the primacy of the...
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£36,00
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Eternally Eve Images of Eve in the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, and Modern Jewish Poetry
ISBN: PB: 9781584655732, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2007
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The biblical accounts of Eve's life are central to Western culture, occupying a privileged place in our literature and art, culture, and society. For both Judaism and Christianity, these stories involving Eve have for centuries been entangled with th...
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£24,00
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