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  • Vladimir Jabotinsky's Russian Years, 1900–1925

    by Brian J. Horowitz ...
    This scholarly biography focuses on the early years of the influential Russian Jewish author and pioneer of Revisionist Zionism.In the first decades of the twentieth century, Russia was a place of intense social strife and political struggle. Vladimir Yevgenyevich "Ze'ev" Jabotinsky, who would go on to become the founder of the Revisionist Zionism Alliance in 1925, was already a Zionist leader and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jewish Philanthropy and Enlightenment in Late-Tsarist Russia

    by Brian J. Horowitz ...
    Series series Samuel and Althea Stroum Books
    The Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia (OPE) was a philanthropic organization, the oldest Jewish organization in Russia. Founded by a few wealthy Jews in St. Petersburg who wanted to improve opportunities for Jewish people in Russia by increasing their access to education and modern values, OPE was secular and nonprofit. The group emphasized the importance of the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • The Devil That Never Dies

    The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism

    by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen ...
    A groundbreaking — and terrifying — examination of the widespread resurgence of antisemitism in the 21st century, by the prize-winning and #1 internationally bestselling author of Hitler's Willing Executioners.Antisemitism never went away, but since the turn of the century it has multiplied beyond what anyone would have predicted. It is openly spread by intellectuals, politicians and religious ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Jewish Body

    An Anatomical History of the Jewish People

    by Melvin Konner ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    A history of the Jewish people from bris to burial, from “muscle Jews” to nose jobs.Melvin Konner, a renowned doctor and anthropologist, takes the measure of the “Jewish body,” considering sex, circumcision, menstruation, and even those most elusive and controversial of microscopic markers–Jewish genes. But this is not only a book that examines the human body through the prism of Jewish culture. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Why Are Jews Liberals?

    by Norman Podhoretz ...
    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

    $13.99 USD

  • Scattered Ghosts

    One Family's Survival through War, Holocaust and Revolution

    by Nick Barlay ...
    When two Hungarian Jewish refugees landed by accident in Britain in the winter of 1956, they had little idea what the future would hold. But they carried with them the traces of their turbulent past, just enough to provide the clues to their past. Scattered Ghosts combines memoir, investigation and travel to resurrect 200 years of wars and revolutions, from the Austro-Hungarian Empire via two ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • A Chosen Calling

    Jews in Science in the Twentieth Century

    by Noah J. Efron ...
    Series series Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context
    Questions traditional explanations for Jewish excellence in science in the United States, the Soviet Union, and Palestine in the twentieth century.Scholars have struggled for decades to explain why Jews have succeeded extravagantly in modern science. A variety of controversial theories—from such intellects as C. P. Snow, Norbert Wiener, and Nathaniel Weyl—have been promoted. Snow hypothesized an ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Distance from the Belsen Heap

    Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp

    by Mark Celinscak ...
    Winner of the 2016 Vine Award for NonfictionThe Allied soldiers who liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in April 1945 were faced with scenes of horror and privation. With breathtaking thoroughness, Distance from the Belsen Heap documents what they saw and how they came to terms with those images over the course of the next seventy years. On the basis of research in more than ... Read more

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  • Revolutionary Yiddishland

    A History of Jewish Radicalism

    by Alain Brossat, Sylvia Klingberg ...
    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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  • Why Should Jews Survive?

    Looking Past the Holocaust Toward a Jewish Future

    by Michael Goldberg ...
    In the fifty years since the Holocaust, the Jewish People have felt one overriding concern: survival. The ghosts of the murdered six million, along with the living generation of survivors, have called out the unifying chant, "never again." In 1948, this concern found a second focus in the state of Israel, the ultimate refuge of Jews worldwide. But Rabbi Michael Goldberg finds that these twin ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • A History of Antisemitism in Canada

    by Ira Robinson, Ph.D ...
    This state-of-the-art account gives readers the tools to understand why antisemitism is such a controversial subject. It acquaints readers with the ambiguities inherent in the historical relationship between Jews and Christians and shows these ambiguities in play in the unfolding relationship between Jews and Canadians of other religions and ethnicities. It examines present relationships in light ... Read more

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  • The European Jews, Patriotism and the Liberal State 1789-1939

    A Study of Literature and Social Psychology

    by David Aberbach ...
    Series series Routledge Jewish Studies Series
    The fragility of the liberal democratic state after 1789 is illustrated in the history of the European Jews from the French Revolution to the Holocaust. Emancipation and hope of emancipation amongst the European Jewish population created a plethora of Jewish identities and forms of patriotism.This book takes the original approach of studying European Jewish patriotism as a whole, with particular ... Read more

    $72.99 USD