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Pennies for Heaven The History of American Synagogues and Money
ISBN: PB: 9781512602753, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In the annals of American Jewish history, synagogue financial records have been largely overlooked. But as Daniel Judson shows in his examination of synagogue ledgers from 1728 to the present, these records provide an array of new insights into the d...
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Photographing the Jewish Nation Pictures from S. An-sky's Ethnographic Expeditions
ISBN: PB: 9781611686838, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2014
228 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
From 1912 to 1914, S. An-sky and the photographer Solomon Iudovin gathered materials and took photographs of Jewish daily life in pre-Revolutionary Russia's Pale of Settlement. Photographing the Jewish Nation offers English-language readers their fir...
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Pictures of People Alice Neel's American Portrait Gallery
ISBN: PB: 9781611685138, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2014
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this vibrant chronicle of the life and work of the prolific painter and bohemian eccentric Alice Neel, whose career spanned the decades from the 1920s to the 1970s, Pamela Allara highlights portraits that constitute a virtual gallery of American c...
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Palestine between Politics and Terror, 1945-1947
ISBN: PB: 9781611684506, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
British General Sir Allan Cunningham was appointed in 1945 as high commissioner of Palestine, and served in this capacity until the end of the British mandate on May 15, 1948. The three years of Cunningham's tenure were tremendously complex political...
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£32,00
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Poetics of Trauma The Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch
ISBN: PB: 9781611683554, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2013
198 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The work of the renowned Israeli poet, translator, peace activist, and 1998 Israel Prize laureate Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936-2005) portrays the emotional structure of a traumatized and victimized female character. Ilana Szobel's book, the first full-le...
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Pure Element of Time
ISBN: PB: 9781611684315, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2012
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Published in 1998 as Havalim, "The Pure Element of Time" is a rich and evocative autobiographical novel about a writer's development. With his keen eye and opulent writing style, Haim Be'er turns the story of his childhood and maturity into a complex...
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£20,00
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Pious and Rebellious Jewish Women in Medieval Europe
ISBN: PB: 9781584653929, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2004
351 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This volume, an amazing act of historical recovery and reconstruction, offers a comprehensive examination of Jewish women in Europe during the High Middle Ages (1000-1300). Avraham Grossman covers multiple aspects of women's lives in medieval Jewish...
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Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig
ISBN: PB: 9781584652496, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2002
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Eleven essays on the life and thought of the Jewish philosopher and theologian Franz Rosenzweig.
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£24,00
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Princess or Prisoner? Jewish Women in Jerusalem, 1840-1914
ISBN: HB: 9781584654834, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2002
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This is a fascinating journey into the world of women in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community of Jerusalem toward the end of Ottoman rule in the Holy Land. Until now, the story of life in the Land of Israel in this period has been told exclusively fro...
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People Divided Judaism in Contemporary America
ISBN: PB: 9780874518481, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 1997
287 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This brilliant analysis of American Judaism in the last half of the 20th century won the 1993-94 National Jewish Book Award for the best book on contemporary Jewry and also was named an Outstanding Book of 1993 by Choice. Jack Wertheimer examines how...
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