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Jews and the Reformation
ISBN: HB: 9780300186291, Yale University Press, June 2020
288 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.
In this rich, wide-ranging, and meticulously researched account, Kenneth Austin examines the attitudes of various Christian groups in the Protestant and Catholic Reformations towards Jews, the Hebrew language, and Jewish learning. Martin Luther's wri...
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£30,00
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Jewish Treasures
ISBN: HB: 9781851245024, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2020
288 pp., 25.9x23.7 cm, 136 colour illus.
Representing four centuries of collecting and 1000 years of Jewish history, this book brings together extraordinary Hebrew manuscripts and rare books from the Bodleian Library and Oxford colleges. Highlights of the collections include a fragment of M...
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£35,00
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Karl Marx Philosophy and Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300211702, Yale University Press, September 2019
240 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Karl Marx (1818-1883) – philosopher, historian, sociologist, economist, current affairs journalist, and editor – was one of the most influential and revolutionary thinkers of modern history, but he is rarely thought of as a Jewish thinker, and his Je...
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£16,99
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Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem
ISBN: HB: 9780226924519, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones
Few people thought as deeply or incisively about Germany, Jewish identity, and the Holocaust as Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem. And, as this landmark volume reveals, much of that thinking was developed in dialogue, through more than two decades of...
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£34,00
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Extraterritorial Dreams European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226368221, ISBN: HB: 9780226368191, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones
We tend to think of citizenship as something that is either offered or denied by a state. Modern history teaches otherwise. Reimagining citizenship as a legal spectrum along which individuals can travel, "Extraterritorial Dreams" explores the history...
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£24,00
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£62,00
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On the Edge of the Holocaust The Shoah in Latin American Literature and Culture
ISBN: PB: 9781611688566, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2015
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this bold study, Edna Aizenberg offers a much-needed corrective to both Latin American literary scholarship and popular assumptions that the whole of Latin America served as a Nazi refuge both during and after World War II. Analyzing the treatment...
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£32,00
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Kabbalah A Neurocognitive Approach to Mystical Experiences
ISBN: HB: 9780300152364, Yale University Press, August 2015
208 pp., 21x14 cm, 10 black&white illus.
In this original study, Moshe Idel, an eminent scholar of Jewish mysticism and thought, and the cognitive neuroscientist and neurologist Shahar Arzy combine their considerable expertise to explore the mysteries of the Kabbalah from an entirely new pe...
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£43,00
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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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£28,00
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Judaism and Disability Portrayals in Ancient Texts from the Tanach through the Bavli
ISBN: PB: 9781563683428, Gallaudet University Press, March 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Jewish religion owns a virtually uninterrupted record of scripture and commentary dating back to 1,000 B.C.E. (B.C.), portions of which allow the new book "Judaism and Disability: Portrayals in Ancient Texts" from the Tanach through the Bavli to...
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£52,00
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