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Darker Side of Genius Richard Wagner's Anti-Semitism
ISBN: PB: 9781584652403, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2002
172 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
For some, Richard Wagner is infamous as the favorite composer of Hitler, who seems to have admired Wagner as an early exponent of his own racist ideology and worldview. Impressed by this assumption victims of Hitler have also associated Wagner and hi...
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£18,00
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Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig
ISBN: PB: 9781584652496, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2002
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Eleven essays on the life and thought of the Jewish philosopher and theologian Franz Rosenzweig.
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£24,00
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Kabbalah and Art
ISBN: PB: 9781584652250, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2002
148 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Told as a series of reflections, this study traces links between cultures as diverse as pre-Vedic India and late 19th-century France. An array of unrelated artists are all in fact linked by the Kabbalah and the correlation between art and this mystic...
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£20,00
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Between Mussolini and Hitler The Jews and the Italian Authorities in France and Tunisia
ISBN: PB: 9781584652281, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2002
351 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939 plunged the world into its second global conflict. The Third Reich's attack, mounted without consulting its Italian ally, had other reverberations as well. Chief among them was Mussolini's decision to conduct a "pa...
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£28,00
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Midrashic Women Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature
ISBN: PB: 9781584651789, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2002
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
While most gender-based analyses of rabbinic Judaism concentrate on the status of women in the halakhah (the rabbinic legal tradition), Judith R. Baskin turns her attention to the construction of women in the aggadic midrash, a collection of expansio...
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£24,00
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Modern English-Hebrew Dictionary
ISBN: PB: 9780300090055, Yale University Press, April 2002
464 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
This comprehensive English-Hebrew dictionary is designed for easy use, speed and accuracy. Its 30,000 entries include many contemporary technical terms, recently coined Hebrew words, and translations for common idioms. It aims to address the need of...
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£39,00
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Rethinking the Holocaust
ISBN: PB: 9780300093001, Yale University Press, March 2002
352 pp., 19.5x12.7 cm
A study of the Holocaust, evaluating accepted views of its history and meaning. Yehuda Bauer offers his own interpretation of why the Holocaust occurred and how another can be prevented. He presents opinions on topics ranging from how Jews reacted to...
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£15,99
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Princess or Prisoner? Jewish Women in Jerusalem, 1840-1914
ISBN: HB: 9781584654834, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2002
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This is a fascinating journey into the world of women in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community of Jerusalem toward the end of Ottoman rule in the Holy Land. Until now, the story of life in the Land of Israel in this period has been told exclusively fro...
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£52,00
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Under His Very Windows The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy
ISBN: PB: 9780300093100, Yale University Press, February 2002
434 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, black&white illus.
Pope Pius XII has often been criticized for his silence during the extermination of European Jewry during World War II. In his defense, some have alleged that the pope was doing a great deal to help the Jews but that his efforts were necessarily behi...
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£31,00
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