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America

Travel

Boston's Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them

Bagley Joseph M.

ISBN: PB: 9781684580392, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2021
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 160 colour plates

As Boston approaches its four-hundredth anniversary, it is remarkable that it still maintains its historic character despite constant development. The fifty buildings featured in this book all pre-date1800 and illustrate Boston's early history. This...

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America

Blood and Boundaries The Limits of Religious and Racial Exclusion in Early Modern Latin America

Schwartz Stuart B.

ISBN: PB: 9781684580200, ISBN: HB: 9781684580194, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates

In "Blood and Boundaries", Stuart B. Schwartz takes us to late medieval Latin America to show how Spain and Portugal's policies of exclusion and discrimination based on religious origins and genealogy were transferred to their colonies in Latin Ameri...

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America

Jewish Studies

American Jewish History A Primary Source Reader

Phillip Zola Gary, Dollinger Marc

ISBN: PB: 9781611685107, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2014
478 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Presenting the American Jewish historical experience from its communal beginnings to the present through documents, photographs, and other illustrations, many of which have never before been published, this entirely new collection of source materials...

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Jewish Studies

America

New Jewish Leaders Reshaping the American Jewish Landscape

Wertheimer Jack

ISBN: PB: 9781611681833, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2011
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

By the end of the twentieth century, a new generation of leaders had begun to assume positions of influence within established organizations. They quickly launched a slew of new initiatives directed at their age peers. Born during the last quarter of...

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America

Jewish Studies

Becoming American Jews Temple Israel of Boston

Dwyer-Ryan Meaghan, Porter Susan L., Fagin Davis Lisa

ISBN: PB: 9781584657903, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2009
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From its beginning in 1854 as a traditional German shul to its current status as the largest Reform synagogue in New England, Temple Israel has been an important force in Boston and American Jewish life. The congregation's ongoing efforts to adapt to...

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Jewish Studies

America

Observing America's Jews

Sklare Marshall

ISBN: PB: 9781584655640, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, February 2006
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Collected essays by a preeminent authority on American Jewish history.

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America

Jewish Studies

American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise

Reinharz Shulamit, Raider Mark A.

ISBN: PB: 9781584654391, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2004
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Despite a historical record that shows sustained involvement of American Jewish women with early Zionism and Palestine, this topic has received scant scholarly attention. A major contribution to Zionist history, women's history, and American history,...

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America

Jewish Studies

American Synagogue A Sanctuary Transformed

Wertheimer Jack

ISBN: PB: 9780874517095, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 1995
455 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

When first published in 1987, The American Synagogue quickly established itself as the standard work on the subject. The strength of the book lies in its combination of broad overviews of denominational differentiation that took place and case studie...

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