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  • Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl

    The Memoirs of Yekhezkel Kotik

    by Yekhezkel Kotik ...
    Series series Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
    The first annotated English edition of a classic early-twentieth-century Yiddish memoir that vividly describes Jewish life in a small Eastern European town.Originally published in Warsaw in 1913, this beautifully written memoir offers a panoramic description of the author's experiences growing up in Kamieniec Litewski, a Polish shtetl connected with many important events in the history of ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hasidism

    A New History

    by David Biale, David Assaf, Benjamin Brown, Uriel Gellman, Samuel Heilman, Moshe Rosman, Arthur Green, Gadi Sagiv, Marcin Wodziński ...
    The first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern JudaismThis is the first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism. The book’s unique blend of intellectual, religious, and social history offers perspectives on the movement’s leaders as well as its followers, and demonstrates that, far from being a throwback to the Middle Ages, Hasidism ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • The Regal Way

    The Life and Times of Rabbi Israel of Ruzhin

    by David Assaf ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    This is a pioneering study of the nineteenth century Hasidic movement as shown through the life of one of the most controversial and influential Hasidic leaders, Rabbi Israel Friedman of Ruzhin (1796-1850). The dramatic episodes of his life—including his involvement in the murder of Jewish informers, his imprisonment in Russia, his subsequent escape to Austria where he successfully reestablished ... Read more

    $85.99 USD

  • Studying Hasidism

    Sources, Methods, Perspectives

    by Maya Balakirsky Katz, Gadi Sagiv, Levi Cooper, David Assaf, Shaul Magid, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Uriel Gellman, Galit Hasan-Rokem, Vladimir Levin, Edwin Seroussi ...
    Hasidism, a Jewish religious movement that originated in Poland in the eighteenth century, today counts over 700,000 adherents, primarily in the U.S., Israel, and the UK. Popular and scholarly interest in Hasidic Judaism and Hasidic Jews is growing, but there is no textbook dedicated to research methods in the field, nor sources for the history of Hasidism have been properly recognized. Studying ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    Story of a People

    by Howard Fast ...
    A vivid and eminently readable story of Jewish history covering 4,000 years, and including extensive illustrations and historical photographsHoward Fast, the bestselling author of Spartacus, tells the sweeping story of the Jewish people and Judaism over four millennia, from their nomadic beginnings and the rise of Moses, to the kings David and Solomon, through the Diaspora and the unthinkable ... Read more

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  • The Holocaust

    A New History

    by Laurence Rees ...
    “This is by far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and also the best at explaining its origins and grotesque mentality, as well as its chaotic development.”―Antony Beevor, bestselling author of StalingradLaurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust. Now, he combines their never-before-seen eyewitness testimony with the latest ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Invention of the Jewish People

    by Shlomo Sand ...
    Translated by Yael Lotan ...
    A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend from converts, whose native lands were scattered across the Middle East and Eastern Europe.In this ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone

    The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry

    by Gal Beckerman ...
    The "remarkable" story of the grass-roots movement that freed millions of Jews from the Soviet Union ( The Plain Dealer).At the end of World War II, nearly three million Jews were trapped inside the USSR. They lived a paradox—unwanted by a repressive Stalinist state, yet forbidden to leave. When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone is the astonishing and inspiring story of their rescue.Journalist Gal ... Read more

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  • Hitler's First Victims

    The Quest for Justice

    by Timothy W. Ryback ...
    The remarkable story of Josef Hartinger, the German prosecutor who risked everything to bring to justice the first killers of the Holocaust and whose efforts would play a key role in the Nuremberg tribunal.Before Germany was engulfed by Nazi dictatorship, it was a constitutional republic. And just before Dachau Concentration Camp became a site of Nazi genocide, it was a state detention center for ... Read more

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  • The Jewish Enlightenment

    by Shmuel Feiner ...
    Translated by Chaya Naor ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    At the beginning of the eighteenth century most European Jews lived in restricted settlements and urban ghettos, isolated from the surrounding dominant Christian cultures not only by law but also by language, custom, and dress. By the end of the century urban, upwardly mobile Jews had shaved their beards and abandoned Yiddish in favor of the languages of the countries in which they lived. They ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Love of God

    Divine Gift, Human Gratitude, and Mutual Faithfulness in Judaism

    by Jon D. Levenson ...
    Series series Library of Jewish Ideas
    "[An] original point of view. . . . A way of finding new meaning in . . . talking about God. It succeeds brilliantly on all counts." ― Jewish Book CouncilThe love of God is the most essential element in Judaism—but also the most confounding. In biblical and rabbinic literature, the obligation to love God appears as a formal commandment. Yet most people today think of love as a feeling. How can an ... Read more

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  • The Menorah

    From the Bible to Modern Israel

    by Steven Fine ...
    The menorah, the seven-branched candelabrum, has traversed millennia as a living symbol of Judaism and the Jewish people. Naturally, it did not pass through the ages unaltered. The Menorah explores the cultural and intellectual history of the Western world’s oldest continuously used religious symbol. This meticulously researched yet deeply personal history explains how the menorah illuminates the ... Read more

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