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Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 9 Catastrophe and Rebirth, 1939-1973
ISBN: HB: 9780300188530, Yale University Press, January 2021
1088 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 115 colour illus., 83 black&white illus.
Volume 9 of the Posen Library covers the years 1939 to 1973, a period that editors Kassow and Roskies call "one of the most tragic and dramatic in Jewish history". Organized geographically and then by genre, this book details Jewish cultural and inte...
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£150,00
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Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization Volume 8: Crisis and Creativity between World Wars, 1918-1939
ISBN: HB: 9780300135527, Yale University Press, May 2020
1392 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 67 colour illus., 37 black&white illus.
An anthology of Jewish culture between the world wars, the editors' selections convey the variety, breadth, and depth of Jewish creativity in those tempestuous decades. Despite – or perhaps because of – external threats, Jews vigorously fought over r...
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Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization Volume 6: Confronting Modernity, 1750-1880
ISBN: HB: 9780300190007, Yale University Press, January 2020
600 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 133 colour images, 59 black&white illus.
A landmark project to collect, translate, and transmit primary material from a momentous period in Jewish culture and civilization, this volume covers what Elisheva Carlebach describes as a period "in which every aspect of Jewish life underwent the m...
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£115,00
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Prince of the Press How One Collector Built History's Most Enduring and Remarkable Jewish Library
ISBN: HB: 9780300234909, Yale University Press, February 2019
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 34 black&white illus.
David Oppenheim (1664-1736), chief rabbi of Prague in the early eighteenth century, built an unparalleled collection of Jewish books and manuscripts, all of which have survived and are housed in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. His remarkable collecti...
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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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Peggy Guggenheim The Shock of the Modern
ISBN: PB: 9780300224290, Yale University Press, November 2016
240 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
<p>A spirited portrait of the colorful, irrepressible, and iconoclastic American collector who fearlessly advanced the cause of modern art One of twentieth-century America's most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) broug...
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Proust The Search
ISBN: PB: 9780300224283, Yale University Press, November 2016
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
An arresting new study of the life, times, and achievement of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Taylor's endeavor is not to explain the life by the novel or the novel by the life but to show how different events, different...
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Proust The Future's Secret
ISBN: HB: 9780300164169, Yale University Press, November 2015
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
An arresting new study of the life, times, and achievement of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Taylor's endeavor is not to explain the life by the novel or the novel by the life but to show how different events, different...
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£16,99
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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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Poetry of Kabbalah Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition
ISBN: PB: 9780300205695, ISBN: HB: 9780300169164, Yale University Press, June 2014
320 pp., 21x14 cm
This groundbreaking collection presents for the first time in English a substantial body of poetry from the world of Jewish mysticism. Taking up Gershom Scholem's call to plumb the "tremendous poetic potential concealed" in the Kabbalistic tradition,...
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