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Jewish Studies

Don Isaac Abravanel An Intellectual Biography

Cohen-Skalli Cedric

ISBN: HB: 9781684580231, University of Chicago Press, Gingko Library, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) was one of the great inventors of Jewish modernity. A merchant, banker, and court financier, a scholar versed in both Jewish and Christian writings, a preacher and exegete, a prominent political actor in royal entourag...

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Jewish Studies

Survivors Children's Lives After the Holocaust

Clifford Rebecca

ISBN: HB: 9780300243321, Yale University Press, August 2020
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

How can we make sense of our lives when we do not know where we come from? This was a pressing question for the youngest survivors of the Holocaust, whose prewar memories were vague or nonexistent. In this beautifully written account, Rebecca Cliffor...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Disraeli The Novel Politician

Cesarani David

ISBN: HB: 9780300137514, Yale University Press, April 2019
288 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Lauded as a "great Jew", excoriated by antisemites, and one of Britain's most renowned prime ministers, Benjamin Disraeli has been widely celebrated for his role in Jewish history. But is the perception of him as a Jewish hero accurate? In what ways...

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Jewish Studies

Refugees or Migrants Pre-Modern Jewish Population Movement

Chazan Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300218572, Yale University Press, February 2019
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

For millennia, Jews and non-Jews alike have viewed forced population movement as a core aspect of the Jewish experience. This involuntary Jewish wandering has been explained as the result of divine punishment, or as a response to maltreatment of Jews...

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Jewish Studies

Not Bad for Delancey Street The Rise of Billy Rose

Cohen Mark

ISBN: HB: 9781611688900, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

He was amazing. "A little man with a Napoleonic penchant for the colossal and magnificent, Billy Rose is the country's No. 1 purveyor of mass entertainment", Life magazine announced in 1936. The Times reported that with 1,400 people on his payroll, R...

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Photography

Jewish Studies

Ferdinando Scianna The Venice Ghetto 500 Years After

Curti Denis

ISBN: HB: 9788831724777, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2017
100 pp., 25.4x20.9 cm, 53 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The ghetto today: a story told in pictures, a history in the making. The forty-four black-and-white photographs presented here have been selected from the many pictures taken by Ferdinando Scianna on a succession of visits...

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History of Art

Jewish Studies

Venice, the Jews, and Europe 1516-2016

Calabi Donatella

ISBN: HB: 9788831724944, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2016
536 pp., 30.4x20.3 cm, 241 colour illus., 11 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Five hundred years of the Jewish Ghetto of Venice through art. This book aims to tell the story of the Ghetto of Venice, the first in the world – the way it grew within itself, its architecture, social makeup, crafts and t...

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Biography & Memoires

History of Art

Mark Rothko

Cohen-Solal Annie

ISBN: PB: 9780300219685, ISBN: HB: 9780300182040, Yale University Press, May 2016
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Mark Rothko was not only one of the most influential American painters of the twentieth century; he was a scholar, an educator, and a deeply spiritual human being. Born Marcus Yakovlevich Rotkovitch, he emigrated from the Russian Empire to the United...

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Jewish Studies

Military

Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929

Cohen Hillel

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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Jewish Studies

World Without Jews Nazi Germany, Representations of the Past, and the Holocaust, 1933-1945

Confino Alon

ISBN: PB: 9780300212518, ISBN: HB: 9780300188547, Yale University Press, June 2015
296 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

Why exactly did the Nazis burn the Hebrew Bible everywhere in Germany on November 9, 1938? The perplexing event has not been adequately accounted for by historians in their large-scale assessments of how and why the Holocaust occurred. In this grippi...

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