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Donigers of Great Neck A Mythologized Memoir
ISBN: PB: 9781512603521, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2019
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Many memories, many myths" – this is how Wendy Doniger begins the story of her parents' origins in Europe and sharply bifurcated life in America. Recalling their contrasting attitudes toward Judaism and religion in general – and acknowledging the my...
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£16,00
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Spinoza's Challenge to Jewish Thought Writings on His Life, Philosophy, and Legacy
ISBN: PB: 9781584657125, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2019
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Arguably, no historical thinker has had as varied and fractious a reception within modern Judaism as Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza (1632-1677), the seventeenth-century philosopher, pioneering biblical critic, and Jewish heretic from Amsterdam. Revered in...
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Refugees or Migrants Pre-Modern Jewish Population Movement
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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£30,00
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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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£25,00
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Beyond the Nation-State The Zionist Political Imagination from Pinsker to Ben-Gurion
ISBN: HB: 9780300230130, Yale University Press, January 2019
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
The Jewish nation-state has often been thought of as Zionism's end goal. In this bracing history of the idea of the Jewish state in modern Zionism, from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century until the establishment of the state of Israel, Dmi...
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£30,00
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Lost Library The Legacy of Vilna's Strashun Library in the Aftermath of the Holocaust
ISBN: PB: 9781512603095, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2018
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Strashun Library was among the most important Jewish public institutions in Vilna, and indeed in Eastern Europe, prior to its destruction during World War II. Mattityahu Strashun, descended from a long and distinguished line of rabbis, bequeathed...
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£28,00
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Survival of the Jews in France 1940-44
ISBN: HB: 9781787380141, Hurst Publishers, December 2018
360 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Between the French defeat in 1940 and liberation in 1944, the Nazis killed almost 80,000 of France's Jews, both French and foreign. Since that time, this tragedy has been well-documented. But there are other stories hidden with...
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£30,00
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Jerusalem on the Amstel The Quest for Zion in the Dutch Republic
ISBN: HB: 9781787380080, Hurst Publishers, December 2018
352 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Seventeenth-century Amsterdam was a cosmopolitan "carnival of nations": French Huguenots, North African merchants, Spanish Moriscos – and Iberian New Christians, formerly Jewish families forcibly converted to Catholicism, now f...
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Jerome Robbins A Life in Dance
ISBN: HB: 9780300197594, Yale University Press, October 2018
216 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Jerome Robbins (1918-1998) was born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz and grew up in Weehawken, New Jersey, where his Russian-Jewish immigrant parents owned the Comfort Corset Company. Robbins, who was drawn to dance at a young age, resisted the idea of joini...
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Not Bad for Delancey Street The Rise of Billy Rose
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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