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Social History of Hebrew Its Origins Through the Rabbinic Period
ISBN: HB: 9780300176681, Yale University Press, December 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
More than simply a method of communication shared by a common people, the Hebrew language was always an integral part of the Jewish cultural system and, as such, tightly interwoven into the lives of the prophets, poets, scribes and priests who used i...
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£30,00
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Primo Levi The Matter of a Life
ISBN: HB: 9780300137231, Yale University Press, December 2013
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.
In 1943, twenty-four-year-old Primo Levi had just begun a career in chemistry when, after joining a partisan group, he was captured by the Italian Fascist Militia and deported to Auschwitz. Of the 650 Italian Jews in his transport, he was one of only...
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£18,99
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Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia Select Documents, 1772-1914
ISBN: PB: 9781611684551, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2013
664 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This book makes accessible – for the first time in English – declassified archival documents from the former Soviet Union, rabbinic sources, and previously untranslated memoirs, illuminating everyday Jewish life as the site of interaction and negotia...
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£36,00
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Holocaust Mothers and Daughters Family, History, and Trauma
ISBN: PB: 9781611684766, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2013
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this brave and original work, Federica Clementi focuses on the mother-daughter bond as depicted in six works by women who experienced the Holocaust, sometimes with their mothers, sometimes not. The daughters' memoirs, which record the "all-too-hum...
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£30,00
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Best School in Jerusalem Annie Landau's School for Girls, 1900-1960
ISBN: PB: 9781611684858, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2013
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Annie Edith (Hannah Judith) Landau (1873-1945), born in London to immigrant parents and educated as a teacher, moved to Jerusalem in 1899 to teach English at the Anglo-Jewish Association's Evelina de Rothschild School for Girls. A year later she beca...
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£32,00
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Woody on Rye Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen
ISBN: PB: 9781611684803, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2013
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Although Woody Allen's films have received extensive attention from scholars and critics, no book has focused exclusively on Jewishness in his work, particularly that of the late 1990s and beyond. In this anthology, a distinguished group of contribut...
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£28,00
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Bernard Berenson A Life in the Picture Trade
ISBN: HB: 9780300149425, Yale University Press, November 2013
288 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.
Few would have predicted that Bernard Berenson, from a poor Lithuanian Jewish immigrant family, would rise above poverty. Yet Berenson left his crowded home near Boston's railyards and transformed himself into the world's most renowned expert on Ital...
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£18,99
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German Idealism and the Jew The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses
ISBN: PB: 9780226500966, ISBN: HB: 9780226500942, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
237 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In "German Idealism and the Jew", Michael Mack uncovers the deep roots of anti-Semitism in the German philosophical tradition. While many have read German anti-Semitism as a reaction against Enlightenment philosophy, Mack instead contends that the re...
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£24,00
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£37,00
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Most Musical Nation Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire
ISBN: PB: 9780300198300, Yale University Press, October 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.
No image of prerevolutionary Russian Jewish life is more iconic than the fiddler on the roof. But in the half century before 1917, Jewish musicians were actually descending from their shtetl roofs and streaming in dazzling numbers to Russia's new cla...
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£35,00
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Emma Goldman Revolution as a Way of Life
ISBN: PB: 9780300198232, Yale University Press, October 2013
160 pp., 21x14.6 cm
"Emma Goldman" is the story of a modern radical who took seriously the idea that inner liberation is the first business of social revolution. Her politics, from beginning to end, was based on resistance to that which thwarted the free development of...
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£10,99
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