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Third Walpurgis Night The Complete Text
ISBN: HB: 9780300236002, Yale University Press, August 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Now available in English for the first time, Austrian satirist and polemicist Karl Kraus's "Third Walpurgis Night" was written in immediate response to the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 but withheld from publication for fear of reprisals against Jews...
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£25,00
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Theodor Herzl The Charismatic Leader
ISBN: HB: 9780300180404, Yale University Press, April 2020
256 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
The life of Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) was as puzzling as it was brief. How did this cosmopolitan and assimilated European Jew become the leader of the Zionist movement? How could he be both an artist and a statesman, a rationalist and an aesthete, a...
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£16,99
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T. G. Masaryk and the Jewish Question
ISBN: PB: 9788024638799, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
300 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 25 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this book, Miloڑ Pojar traces the development and transformation of the opinions about Jews and Judaism of the first Czechoslovak president, T. G. Masaryk. Pojar describes the key event...
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£17,00
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Three Books 3 Volumes set
ISBN: HB: 9781910221044, Casemate, Anomie Publishing, June 2015
0 pp., 21x13.5 cm
"Three Books" by Tamara Tracz is a very special three-hardback-volume slipcased book. It is, first and foremost, a story that follows several generations of a family as their lives unfold in various cities, countries and continents during the course...
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£35,00
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Through the Sands of Time A History of the Jewish Community of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
ISBN: PB: 9781611683097, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, February 2012
332 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In 1796, the Jews of St. Thomas founded the first Jewish congregation on this Caribbean island. By 1803, new arrivals from England, France, and the neighboring islands of St. Eustatius and Curacao increased the original number from a handful of congr...
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£32,00
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Terezin Album of Marianka Zadikow
ISBN: HB: 9780226511863, University of Chicago Press, October 2008
280 pp., 26.7x20.8 cm, 124 colour illus.
"With simple means, without any 'title', this book should in distant times always be in your memory". An imprisoned bookbinder wrote these words in a small blank book that he had secretly crafted from pilfered materials at the Terezin (Theresienst...
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£26,50
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Two Jews on a Train Stories from the Old Country and the New
ISBN: PB: 9780226052168, ISBN: HB: 9780226052144, University of Chicago Press, May 2001
144 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
"Two Jews were traveling on a train..". Many Eastern European jokes – and several of the charming and often hilarious conversations in this book – begin this way. From all regions of the world and from all walks of life, the characters are young and...
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£11,00
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£24,00
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