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Gershom Scholem From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back
ISBN: PB: 9781512601138, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
German-born Gerhard (Gershom) Scholem (1897-1982), the preeminent scholar of Jewish mysticism, delved into the historical analysis of kabbalistic literature from late antiquity to the twentieth century. His writings traverse Jewish historiography, Zi...
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£30,00
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Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem
ISBN: HB: 9780226924519, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones
Few people thought as deeply or incisively about Germany, Jewish identity, and the Holocaust as Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem. And, as this landmark volume reveals, much of that thinking was developed in dialogue, through more than two decades of...
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£34,00
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Louis D. Brandeis American Prophet
ISBN: PB: 9780300230710, ISBN: HB: 9780300158670, Yale University Press, November 2017
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
According to Jeffrey Rosen, Louis D. Brandeis was "the Jewish Jefferson", the greatest critic of what he called "the curse of bigness", in business and government, since the author of the Declaration of Independence. Published to commemorate the hund...
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£10,99
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£16,99
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Barbra Streisand Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power
ISBN: PB: 9780300230611, Yale University Press, November 2017
296 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Barbra Streisand has been called the "most successful... talented performer of her generation" by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is "one of the natural wonders of the age". Streisand scaled the heights of entertainment-from a p...
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£10,99
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Eddie Cantor Story A Jewish Life in Performance and Politics
ISBN: HB: 9781512600483, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This absorbing biography chronicles the life and work of one of the most important entertainers of the twentieth century. Eddie Cantor (1892-1964) starred in theater, film, radio, and television. His immense popularity across a variety of media, his...
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£28,00
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Healthy Jewish Kitchen Fresh, Contemporary Recipes for Every Occasion
ISBN: HB: 9781454922902, GMC Group, Sterling, November 2017
168 pp., 29.5x22 cm, colour illus.
Jewish soul food... finally made healthy! Too often, Jewish cookbooks still feature many recipes that lack whole grains and include too much salt, fat, sugar, and processed foods. But Paula Shoyer's delicious take on Jewish cooking is different: she...
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£19,99
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Haifa City of Steps
ISBN: HB: 9781512601183, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2017
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Nili Gold, who was born in Haifa to German-speaking parents in 1948, the first year of Israeli statehood, here offers a remarkable homage to her native city during its heyday as an international port and cultural center. Spanning the 1920s and '30s,...
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£23,00
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German-Jewish Cookbook Recipes and History of a Cuisine
ISBN: HB: 9781611688733, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This cookbook features recipes for German-Jewish cuisine as it existed in Germany prior to World War II, and as refugees later adapted it in the United States and elsewhere. Because these dishes differ from more familiar Jewish food, they will be a d...
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£27,00
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Ferdinando Scianna The Venice Ghetto 500 Years After
ISBN: HB: 9788831724777, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2017
100 pp., 25.4x20.9 cm, 53 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! The ghetto today: a story told in pictures, a history in the making. The forty-four black-and-white photographs presented here have been selected from the many pictures taken by Ferdinando Scianna on a succession of visits...
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£30,00
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Deadly Legacy German Jews and the Great War
ISBN: HB: 9780300192049, Yale University Press, August 2017
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.
This book is the first to offer a full account of the varied contributions of German Jews to Imperial Germany's endeavors during the Great War. Historian Tim Grady examines the efforts of the 100,000 Jewish soldiers who served in the German military...
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£25,00
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