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  • The Shaping of Jewish Identity in Nineteenth–Century France

    by Jay R. Berkovitz ...
    Focusing on the ideology of regeneration, Jay Berkovitz traces the social, economic, and religious struggles of nineteenth-century French Jews.Nineteenth-century French Jewry was a community struggling to meet the challenges of emancipation and modernity. This struggle, with its origins in the founding of the French nation, constitutes the core of modern Jewish identity. With the Revolution of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Formulating Responses in an Egalitarian Age

    by Aharon Lichtenstein, Suzanne Last Stone, David Berger, Michael J. Broyde, Jay R. Berkovitz, Edward Breuer, Jack Bieler, Gidon Rothstein ...
    Series series The Orthodox Forum Series
    At first glance, Orthodox Judaism is not compatible with the prevailing world view of equal treatment for all people, regardless of their race, gender or religion. But modern Orthodox Jews share the sense that egalitarianism is a positive moral value, so they cannot simply dismiss this contemporary ethos as incompatible with their faith. In a range of ways and variety of perspectives from the ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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    by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx ...
    'An astonishing masterpiece ... a political classic ... has an almost biblical force' Eric HobsbawmThe Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels' revolutionary 1848 summons to the working classes, is one of the most influential political theories ever formulated. After four years of collaboration, the authors produced this incisive account of their idea of Communism, in which they envisage a society ... Read more

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  • The Jews in America

    by Max I. Dimont ...
    "A wondrous tale of American Judaism" from the Colonial Era to the twentieth century, by the acclaimed author of Jews, God, and History ( Kirkus Reviews ).Beginning with the Sephardim who first reached the shores of America in the 1600s, this fascinating book by historian Max Dimont traces the journey of the Jews in the United States. It follows the various wav... ... Read more

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  • Power & Powerlessness in Jewish History

    by David Biale ...
    To shed light on the tensions he observed between Jewish perceptions of power versus political realitieswhich "are often the cause of misguided political decisions," like Israel's Lebanese WarBiale analyzes Jewish history from the point of view of politics and power.The author of Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and Counter-History here challenges the conventions of what he terms the Jewish "mythical ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Capitalism and the Jews

    by Jerry Z. Muller ...
    How the fate of the Jews has been shaped by the development of capitalismThe unique historical relationship between capitalism and the Jews is crucial to understanding modern European and Jewish history. But the subject has been addressed less often by mainstream historians than by anti-Semites or apologists. In this book Jerry Muller, a leading historian of capitalism, separates myth from reality ... Read more

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  • Emancipation

    How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance

    by Michael Goldfarb ...
    The first popular history of the Emancipation of Europe’s Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—a transformation that was startling to those who lived through it and continues to affect the world today.Freed from their ghettos, Jews ushered in a second renaissance. Within a century Marx, Freud, and Einstein created revolutions in politics, human science, and physics that continue to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A World Without Jews

    by Karl Marx, Dagobert D. Runes ...
    The first English translation of Karl Marx's anti-Semitic writings, with critical analysis by the founder of the Philosophical Library.Long available to the readers of Soviet Russia, here are the unexpurgated papers of Karl Marx on the so-called Jewish question, translated into English by philosopher Dagobert D. Runes. While most of Marx's anti-Semitic diatribes were carefully eliminated by the ... 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 Holocaust, the Church, and the Law of Unintended Consequences

    How Christian Anti-Judaism Spawned Nazi Anti-Semitism, a Judge’S Verdict

    by Anthony J. Sciolino ...
    I admire greatly the way in which Deacon Sciolino has been able to absorb a vast amount of material and weave it into a coherent account of the R. C. Church vis--vis the Holocaust. Telling the story from the inside has an especial relevance and importance. Rev. Hubert G. Locke, cofounder of the Annual Scholars Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches The image of Jews as God-killers and their ... Read more

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  • Fire in the Minds of Men

    Origins of the Revolutionary Faith

    by James Billington ...
    This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of traditional authority. This inherently implausible idea energized Europe in the nineteenth century, and became ... Read more

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  • A Moral Reckoning

    The Role of the Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair

    by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen ...
    With his first book, Hitler’s Willing Executioners, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen dramatically revised our understanding of the role ordinary Germans played in the Holocaust. Now he brings his formidable powers of research and argument to bear on the Catholic Church and its complicity in the destruction of European Jewry. What emerges is a work that goes far beyond the familiar inquiries—most of which ... Read more

    $14.99 USD