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French and Germans, Germans and French A Personal Interpretation of France under Two Occupations, 1914-1918/1940-1944
ISBN: PB: 9781512603378, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2018
222 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The noted historian Richard Cobb presents an engaging synthesis of research, combined with highly original observations and analyses of the war years in France. The reader is given access to a unique private chronicle of the relations between occupan...
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£20,00
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Fertility and Jewish Law Feminist Perspectives on Orthodox Responsa Literature
ISBN: HB: 9781611682397, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2012
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This book presents, from the perspective of feminist jurisprudence and feminist and liberal bioethics, a complete study of Jewish law (halakhah) on contemporary reproductive issues such as birth control, abortion, and assisted fertility. Irshai exami...
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£68,00
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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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£28,00
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Four Centuries of Jewish Women's Spirituality A Sourcebook
ISBN: PB: 9781584657309, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2008
404 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Much has changed for Jewish women since the first edition of Four Centuries of Jewish Women's Spirituality appeared in 1992. Associations of Jewish women – academic, religious, secular – have proliferated, making the women's voices heard. In collecti...
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£28,00
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Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism Resistance and Accommodation
ISBN: PB: 9781584656593, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, February 2008
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
University professor and social activist Tova Hartman, discouraged by failed attempts to make her modern Orthodox synagogue in Jerusalem more inclusive of women, together with other worshippers, set about creating their own own, Shira Hadasha ("a new...
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£16,00
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