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  • The Jews of Pinsk, 1881 to 1941

    by Azriel Shohet ...
    Translated by Faigie Tropper ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    The Jews of Pinsk is the most detailed and comprehensive history of a single Jewish community in any language. This second portion of this study focuses on Pinsk's turbulent final sixty years, showing the reality of life in this important, and in many ways representative, Eastern European Jewish community. From the 1905 Russian revolution through World War One and the long prologue to the ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

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  • Decoding the Conflict Between Israel and the Palestinians: The History and Terms of the Middle East Peace Process

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Decoding the Conflict Between Israel and the Palestinians cannot solve the peace process, nor does it heap credit or blame on any of the sides. This book goes about breaking down all the terms often thrown around in the Middle East that make the peace process a political minefield, and one that both beginners and sophisticated followers have a hard time keeping up with. Serving as both a glossary ... Read more

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  • Kitab al Khazari, in English translation

    by Judah Hallevi ...
    Translated by Hartwig Hirschfeld ...
    "Framed as a dialog between the king of the Khazars, a Central Asian kingdom, and a Rabbi, the Khazari is an exposition of late medieval Jewish philosophy. Legend has it that the king of the Khazars held a symposium to decide whether his people should convert to Judaism, Christianity or Islam. This book is a fictional account of the Jewish side of this debate. Judah Ha-Levi, the author, was born ... Read more

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  • A Chosen Few

    The Resurrection of European Jewry

    by Mark Kurlansky ...
    A POWERFUL, DEEPLY MOVING NARRATIVE OF HOPE REBORNIN THE SHADOW OF DESPAIRFifty years after it was bombed to rubble, Berlin is once again a city in which Jews gather for the Passover seder. Paris and Antwerp have recently emerged as important new centers of Jewish culture. Small but proud Jewish communities are revitalizing the ancient centers of Budapest, Prague, and Amsterdam. These brave, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Devil and the Jews

    The Medieval Conception of the Jew and Its Relation to Modern Anti-Semitism

    by Joshua Trachtenberg ...
    A JPS bestseller, this is the definitive work of scholarship on the medieval conception of the Jew as devil—literally and figuratively. Through documents, analysis, and illustrations, the book exposes the full spectrum of the Jew’s demonization as devil, sorcerer, and ritual murderer. The author reveals how these myths, many with origins traced to Christian Europe in the late Middle Ages, still ... Read more

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  • Living Memory

    by Andor Schwartz ...
    They have no graves, no markers of ever having existed.The millions of people murdered by the Nazis live on only in the memories of the survivors. In his seventy-ninth year, Andor Schwartz was driven to record the lives of his family and friends who perished.Writing with the instincts of a born storyteller, Andor takes us back to the world of his childhood in rural Hungary in the years leading up ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Trial and Error: The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann (Book Two)

    by Chaim Weizmann ...
    Series Book 2 - Trial and Error: The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann
    Trial and Error: The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann (Book Two) by Chaim Weizmann Chaim Weizmann’s autobiography is a highly personal account of his life in the Zionist movement. Book One, completed in 1941, covers the years 1874-1917 and Book Two covers the years 1918-1948. Weizmann describes the Russian shtetl where he was born in 1874, his schooling in Pinsk and his university studies in Berlin ... Read more

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  • Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria

    by Sarah Abrevaya Stein ...
    The history of Algerian Jews has thus far been viewed from the perspective of communities on the northern coast, who became, to some extent, beneficiaries of colonialism. But to the south, in the Sahara, Jews faced a harsher colonial treatment. In Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria, Sarah Abrevaya Stein asks why the Jews of Algeria’s south were marginalized by French authorities, how they ... Read more

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  • Jewish People, Yiddish Nation

    Noah Prylucki and the Folkists in Poland

    by Kalman Weiser ...
    Noah Prylucki (1882-1941), a leading Jewish cultural and political figure in pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe, was a proponent of Yiddishism, a movement that promoted secular Yiddish culture as the basis for Jewish collective identity in the twentieth century. Prylucki's dramatic path - from russified Zionist raised in a Ukrainian shtetl, to Diaspora nationalist parliamentarian in metropolitan Warsaw, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Rabbi Outcast: Elmer Berger and American Jewish Anti-Zionism

    by Jack Ross ...
    Dramatic changes have taken place in the last decade with respect to the views of the American Jewish community toward Israel and Zionism. Since the beginning of the Second Intifada in 2000, the involvement of the Israel lobby in precipitating the Iraq War and promoting war on Iran, and Israel's widely condemned wars in Lebanon and Gaza, large swaths of the American Jewish community have been ... Read more

    $16.95 USD

  • The Zionist Paradox

    Hebrew Literature and Israeli Identity

    by Yigal Schwartz ...
    Translated by Michal Sapir ...
    Series series The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies
    Many contemporary Israelis suffer from a strange condition. Despite the obvious successes of the Zionist enterprise and the State of Israel, tension persists, with a collective sense that something is wrong and should be better. This cognitive dissonance arises from the disjunction between “place” (defined as what Israel is really like) and “Place” (defined as the imaginary community comprised of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD