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  • Living Together, Living Apart

    Rethinking Jewish-Christian Relations in the Middle Ages

    by Jonathan Elukin ...
    Series series Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
    This historical study of Jewish life in Medieval Europe provides "a much-needed corrective" to the popular notion of constant persecution (Ivan G. Marcus, Yale University).In Living Together, Living Apart, Jonathan Elukin traces the experience of Jews in Europe from late antiquity through the Renaissance and Reformation, revealing how the pluralism of medieval society allowed Jews to feel part of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • 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

    $24.59 USD

  • 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

    $9.99 USD

  • God of Vengeance

    by Sholom Asch, Donald Margulies ...
    Intro by Alicia Solomon of the Village Voice ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The Provincials

    A Personal History of Jews in the South

    by Eli N. Evans ...
    In this classic portrait of Jews in the South, Eli N. Evans takes readers inside the nexus of southern and Jewish histories, from the earliest immigrants to the present day. Evoking the rhythms and heartbeat of Jewish life in the Bible belt, Evans weaves together chapters of recollections from his youth and early years in North Carolina with chapters that explore the experiences of Jews in many ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Cultural Exchange

    Jews, Christians, and Art in the Medieval Marketplace

    by Joseph Shatzmiller ...
    Series series Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
    Demonstrating that similarities between Jewish and Christian art in the Middle Ages were more than coincidental, Cultural Exchange meticulously combines a wide range of sources to show how Jews and Christians exchanged artistic and material culture. Joseph Shatzmiller focuses on communities in northern Europe, Iberia, and other Mediterranean societies where Jews and Christians coexisted for ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Prophets of the Past

    Interpreters of Jewish History

    by Michael Brenner ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    Prophets of the Past is the first book to examine in depth how modern Jewish historians have interpreted Jewish history. Michael Brenner reveals that perhaps no other national or religious group has used their shared history for so many different ideological and political purposes as the Jews. He deftly traces the master narratives of Jewish history from the beginnings of the scholarly study of ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Ordinary Jews

    Choice and Survival during the Holocaust

    by Evgeny Finkel ...
    How Jewish responses during the Holocaust shed new light on the dynamics of genocide and political violenceFocusing on the choices and actions of Jews during the Holocaust, Ordinary Jews examines the different patterns of behavior of civilians targeted by mass violence. Relying on rich archival material and hundreds of survivors' testimonies, Evgeny Finkel presents a new framework for ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Jews, Catholics, and the Burden of History

    Edited by Eli Lederhendler ...
    Series series Studies in Contemporary Jewry
    Volume XXI of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry marks sixty years since the end of the Second World War and forty years since the Second Vatican Council's efforts to revamp Church relations with the Jewish people and the Jewish faith. Jews, Catholics, and the Burden of History offers a collection of new scholarship on the nature of the Jewish-Catholic encounter between 1945 ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Aversion and Erasure

    The Fate of the Victim after the Holocaust

    by Carolyn J. Dean ...
    In Aversion and Erasure**, Carolyn J. Dean offers a bold account of how the Holocaust's status as humanity's most terrible example of evil has shaped contemporary discourses about victims in the West**. Popular and scholarly attention to the Holocaust has led some observers to conclude that a "surfeit of Jewish memory" is obscuring the suffering of other peoples. Dean explores the pervasive idea ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • The Jewish Community of South Philadelphia

    by Allen Meyers ...
    Series series Images of America
    The Jewish Community of South Philadelphia is a tribute to tradition and pride that will serve as a valuable tool in teaching the history of Jewish immigrants in America. For many Jewish immigrants to America, Philadelphia's row houses provided an instant community of neighbors where they were able to combine the traditions of the Old World with new American ideals. In their flight to a new land ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On the Defensive

    Reading the Ethical in Nazi Camp Testimonies

    by Sharon Marquart ...
    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

    $48.99 USD