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Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial Russia
ISBN: PB: 9781584651604, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2001
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
ChaeRan Freeze explores the impact of various forces on marriage and divorce among Jews in 19th-century Russia. Challenging romantic views of the Jewish family in the shtetl, she shows that divorce rates among Russian Jews in the first half of the ce...
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£32,00
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In Search of American Jewish Culture
ISBN: PB: 9781584651710, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2001
333 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In drama and in musical comedy, in popular song and in symphonic music, in movies and in literature, Jews have contributed to American culture in the 20th century to a degree out of all proportion to their numbers. But does this vast creative output...
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£24,00
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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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Holocaust Encyclopedia
ISBN: HB: 9780300084320, Yale University Press, April 2001
816 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 19 maps, 276 black&white illus.
The Holocaust has been the subject of countless books, works of art, and memorials. Fiftyfive years after the fact the world still ponders the enormity of this disaster. The Holocaust Encylopedia is the only comprehensive single-volume work of refere...
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£57,00
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Jerusalem The Contested City
ISBN: PB: 9781850655763, Hurst Publishers, March 2001
369 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Although Israelis and Palestinians are adamant that they will not negotiate or indeed compromise over the status of Jerusalem, agreements have been made and understandings reached between the two protagonists, as well as betwee...
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£20,00
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