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Glikl Memoirs 1691-1719
ISBN: PB: 9781684580040, ISBN: HB: 9781684580057, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2019
375 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 6 line drawings
"My dear children, I write this for you in case your dear children or grandchildren come to you one of these days, knowing nothing of their family. For this reason I have set this down for you here in brief, so that you might know what kind of people...
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Gershom Scholem An Intellectual Biography
ISBN: PB: 9780226683324, ISBN: HB: 9780226428635, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was ostensibly a scholar of Jewish mysticism, yet he occupies a powerful role in today's intellectual imagination, having an influential contact with an extraordinary cast of thinkers, including Hans Jonas, Martin Buber, W...
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Groucho Marx The Comedy of Existence
ISBN: PB: 9780300244540, ISBN: HB: 9780300174458, Yale University Press, April 2019
184 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be known as Groucho was the most verbal of the famed comedy team, the Marx Brothers, his broad slapstick portrayals elevated by ingenious wordplay and double entendre. In his spirite...
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Gershom Scholem Master of the Kabbalah
ISBN: HB: 9780300215908, Yale University Press, June 2018
256 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was perhaps the foremost Jewish intellectual of the twentieth century. Pioneering the study of Jewish mysticism as a legitimate academic discipline, he overturned the rationalist bias of his predecessors and revealed an ex...
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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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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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Gender and Justice in Family Law Disputes Women, Mediation, and Religious Arbitration
ISBN: PB: 9781512600353, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Recently, new methods of dispute resolution in matters of family law – such as arbitration, mediation, and conciliation – have created new forms of legal culture that affect minority communities throughout the world. There are now multiple ways of ob...
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Girls of Liberty The Struggle for Suffrage in Mandatory Palestine
ISBN: PB: 9781611688863, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2016
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Following the Balfour Declaration and the British conquest of Palestine (1917-1918), the small Jewish community that lived there wanted to establish an elected assembly as its representative body. The issue that hindered this aim was whether women wo...
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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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Germany's Prophet Paul de Lagarde and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism
ISBN: HB: 9781584657552, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2013
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Recognized in his own time and also today as a leading scholar of the origins and development of the Septuagint and its sources, Paul de Lagarde (1827-1891) was a vituperative German nationalist and an antisemite whose writings inspired the National...
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