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American Orthodox Dreamer Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Boston's Maimonides School
ISBN: HB: 9781584653387, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2003
228 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, born in 1903 and scion of a preeminent Lithuanian Orthodox family, was one of the most towering intellectual figures of American Orthodoxy in the twentieth century. After receiving rabbinic ordination and completing his...
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£28,00
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Destruction of the European Jews
ISBN: HB: 9780300095579, Yale University Press, June 2003
1536 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
A three-volume study of the Holocaust. First published in 1961, Raul Hilberg's comprehensive account of how Germany annihilated the Jewish community of Europe spurred discussion, galvanized further research, and shaped the entire field of Holocaust s...
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£165,00
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Covenant of Circumcision New Perspectives on an Ancient Jewish Rite
ISBN: PB: 9781584653073, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2003
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
According to Jewish law, the ritual practice of circumcising male infants signals the male child's entry into the covenant his forefather Abraham made with God. Circumcision, now a common medical procedure for male infants in the United States, has c...
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£24,00
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Invention of a Nation Zionist Thought and the Making of Modern Israel
ISBN: PB: 9781850655954, Hurst Publishers, March 2003
308 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The vulnerability which is the lot of any nation without a state was experienced in a particularly extreme way by the Jews. With the destitution and persecution of many Jewish communities in the 19th century, especially in East...
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£20,00
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Secret City The Hidden Jews of Warsaw, 1940-1945
ISBN: PB: 9780300204773, Yale University Press, January 2003
330 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white illus.
When the Nazis forced most of Warsaw's Jews into the city's infamous ghetto during the Second World War, some 28,000 Jews either hid and never entered the Warsaw Ghetto, or escaped from it later in what Gunnar S. Paulsson calls "the greatest prison-b...
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£25,00
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