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  • Streets

    A Memoir of the Lower East Side

    by Bella Spewack ...
    "A startling, clear-eyed" memoir of an immigrant girl's childhood in early 20th century NYC from the journalist and Tony-winning co-author of Kiss Me Kate ( Booklist).Born in Transylvania in 1899, Bella Spewack arrived on the streets of New York's Lower East Side when she was three. At twenty-two, while working as a reporter with her husband in Europe, she wrote a memoir of her childhood that was ... Read more

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    The distinguished historian of the Jewish people, Howard M. Sachar, gives us a comprehensive and enthralling chronicle of the achievements and traumas of the Jews over the last four hundred years.Tracking their fate from Western Europe’s age of mercantilism in the seventeenth century to the post-Soviet and post-imperialist Islamic upheavals of the twenty-first century, Sachar applies his renowned ... Read more

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  • Why Are Jews Liberals?

    From the bestselling author of World War IV, a brilliant investigation of a central question in American politics and culture.During his career as a neoconservative thinker, Norman Podhoretz has been asked no question more often than “Why are so many Jews liberals?” In this provocative book he sets out to solve this puzzle. He first offers a fascinating account of anti-Semitism in the West to show ... Read more

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  • Revolutionary Yiddishland

    A History of Jewish Radicalism

    Translated by David Fernbach ...
    This “rich and poignant” history traces Jewish radicals from their Eastern European roots through years of hope, Nazi resistance, and beyond—“with fascinating asides on Spain and Palestine” (Noam Chomsky).Jewish radicals manned the barricades on the avenues of Petrograd and the alleys of the Warsaw ghetto; they were in the vanguard of those resisting Franco and the Nazis. They originated in ... Read more

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  • The Many Deaths of Jew Süss

    The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew

    by Yair Mintzker ...
    A "shrewd, elegant and illuminating" analysis of Joseph Süss Oppenheimer's trial and execution—one of history's most infamous episodes of antisemitism ( Times Literary Supplement).Joseph Süss Oppenheimer—"Jew Süss" —is one of the most iconic figures in the history of anti-Semitism. In 1733, Oppenheimer became the "court Jew" of Carl Alexander, the duke of the small German state of Württemberg. ... Read more

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  • Jewish Peoplehood

    An American Innovation

    by Noam Pianko ...
    Series Book 6 - Key Words in Jewish Studies
    Winner of the 2017 Saul Viener Book Prize from the American Jewish Historical SocietyAlthough fewer American Jews today describe themselves as religious, they overwhelmingly report a strong sense of belonging to the Jewish people. Indeed, Jewish peoplehood has eclipsed religion—as well as ethnicity and nationality—as the essence of what binds Jews around the globe to one another. In Jewish ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Jewish Life in Akron

    Series series Images of America
    In the mid-1800s, many Jewish families joined the western expansion and emigrated from Germany to Akron, a canal town that also had an inviting countryside. They sought economic security and religious freedom�a new start in a new town. But it was not an easy life. They organized their Jewish community into cultural and religious groups, and by the 20th century, their efforts attracted Central and ... Read more

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  • Jew

    Series series Key Words in Jewish Studies
    Jew. The word possesses an uncanny power to provoke and unsettle. For millennia, Jew has signified the consummate Other, a persistent fly in the ointment of Western civilization’s grand narratives and cultural projects. Only very recently, however, has Jew been reclaimed as a term of self-identification and pride.With these insights as a point of departure, this book offers a wide-ranging ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • On the Defensive

    Reading the Ethical in Nazi Camp Testimonies

    Series series University of Toronto Romance Series
    On the Defensive considers how our ethical responses to the Nazi camps have unintentionally repressed and denied the experiences of their victims. Through detailed readings of survivor narratives, particularly the works of political deportees Jorge Semprun and Charlotte Delbo, Sharon Marquart examines how well-intentioned people – including victims, their family members, and readers of witness ... Read more

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  • Jewish Community of Solano County

    Series series Images of America
    This book contains images and stories of some of the Jews who have impacted Solano County. It is not a record of every Jew to pass this way, some of whom may have come intending to shed their Jewish identity by changing their names or converting. Wonderful stories emerged about extraordinary people who made their marks here with few suspecting their Jewish roots, yet they were traceable often ... Read more

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  • The Jewish Quarterly Review - October, 1898 - The Testament of Solomon

    by Anon. ...
    First published in October, 1898 in the "Jewish Quarterly Review", "The Testament of Solomon" is an Old Testament catalogue of demons invoked by King Solomon, with instructions on how they can be countered by summoning angels and magical spells. Amongst the oldest magical texts attributed to King Solomon, it dates back to the First to Third Century A.D.. "The Testament of Solomon" will appeal to ... Read more

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  • Jews and Diaspora Nationalism

    Writings on Jewish Peoplehood in Europe and the United States

    Edited by Simon Rabinovitch ...
    Series series Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought
    The question of how to preserve, construct or transform Jewish peoplehood consumed Jewish intellectuals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Despite a rich array of writing from Jewish nationalists, liberals, and socialists about the vitality of Jewish existence in the diaspora, the key works have never been collected in a single volume, and few reliable English translations exist ... Read more

    $18.79 USD