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Yearnings of the Soul Psychological Thought in Modern Kabbalah
ISBN: HB: 9780226295800, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In "Yearnings of the Soul", Jonathan Garb uncovers a crucial thread in the story of modern Kabbalah and modern mysticism more generally: psychology. Returning psychology to its roots as an attempt to understand the soul, he traces the manifold intera...
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£36,00
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Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929
ISBN: PB: 9781611688115, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2015
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In late summer 1929, a countrywide outbreak of Arab-Jewish-British violence transformed the political landscape of Palestine forever. In contrast with those who point to the wars of 1948 and 1967, historian Hillel Cohen marks these bloody events as y...
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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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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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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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War, Peace, and Prosperity in the Name of God The Ottoman Role in Europe's Socioeconomic Evolution
ISBN: HB: 9780226388434, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 2 line drawings, 6 tables
Differences among religious communities have motivated – and continue to motivate – many of the deadliest conflicts in human history. But how did political power and organized religion become so thoroughly intertwined? And how have religion and relig...
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Metropolitan Jews Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit
ISBN: HB: 9780226247830, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
In this provocative and accessible urban history, Lila Corwin Berman considers the role that Detroit's Jews played in the city's well-known narrative of migration and decline. Taking its cue from social critics and historians who have long looked tow...
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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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