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Historic Photos of Broadway

New York Theater 1850-1970

by Leonard Jacobs ...

Series series Historic Photos
The history of theater in New York is captured in the images of the Billy Rose Theatre Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. From this valuable archive, author Leonard Jacobs spotlights the evolution of the world’s most storied dramatic community. Reaching from the 1850s to the recent past, these images give insight into the passion and character of the theaters, the ... Read more

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The history of theater in New York is captured in the images of the Billy Rose Theatre Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. From this valuable archive, author Leonard Jacobs spotlights the evolution of the world’s most storied dramatic community. Reaching from the 1850s to the recent past, these images give insight into the passion and character of the theaters, the
... Read more
Reflections of an Unconverted Convert

Elie Wiesel, the Problem of God, and One Jew’s Return Home

by Murray Joseph Haar ...

This is the story of Dr. Murray Haar's odyssey from Jewish tradition to Christianity and back again. As the child of Holocaust survivors, he struggled with questions of God and faith and finally left the religious tradition of his youth behind. He became an ordained Lutheran pastor and professor at a midwestern Lutheran College. Ultimately, through the influence of Elie Wiesel, he found the way ... Read more

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This is the story of Dr. Murray Haar's odyssey from Jewish tradition to Christianity and back again. As the child of Holocaust survivors, he struggled with questions of God and faith and finally left the religious tradition of his youth behind. He became an ordained Lutheran pastor and professor at a midwestern Lutheran College. Ultimately, through the influence of Elie Wiesel, he found the way
... Read more
A Short History of Judaism and the Jewish People

by Steven Leonard Jacobs ...

Series series Short Histories
In this exciting addition to Bloomsbury's Short Histories series, Steven Leonard Jacobs critically yet concisely examines the history of Judaism and the Jewish people, drawing from maps, photographs and archives to illuminate the history of one of the world's oldest religions.Beginning by establishing a definition of Judaism, Jacobs explores the historiography of the Jewish people, in addition to ... Read more

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In this exciting addition to Bloomsbury's Short Histories series, Steven Leonard Jacobs critically yet concisely examines the history of Judaism and the Jewish people, drawing from maps, photographs and archives to illuminate the history of one of the world's oldest religions.Beginning by establishing a definition of Judaism, Jacobs explores the historiography of the Jewish people, in addition to
... Read more
Cooking with Seitan

by Barbara Jacobs, Leonard Jacobs ...

Seitan (pronounced say-tan) is a spectacular meat substitute with a look, taste, and texture that satisfies the heartiest of appetites. Derived from wheat flour, seitan is naturally nutritious and low in fat, cholesterol, and calories. Perhaps best of all, it is amazingly adaptable and can be seasoned and prepared to fit into any menu.Cooking with Seitan provides a wonderful introduction to this ... Read more

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Seitan (pronounced say-tan) is a spectacular meat substitute with a look, taste, and texture that satisfies the heartiest of appetites. Derived from wheat flour, seitan is naturally nutritious and low in fat, cholesterol, and calories. Perhaps best of all, it is amazingly adaptable and can be seasoned and prepared to fit into any menu.Cooking with Seitan provides a wonderful introduction to this
... Read more
Religion and Genocide

Changing the Conversation

by Steven Leonard Jacobs ...

Religion and Genocide: Changing the Conversation is a cutting-edge introduction to the complex and controversial relationship between religion and genocide. This book aims to widen the reader’s understanding of religion and those who practice it, the nexus of religion and violence, and those who legitimate their violence by framing it in religious terms by looking at notions of holy wars, ... Read more

$51.99 USD

Religion and Genocide: Changing the Conversation is a cutting-edge introduction to the complex and controversial relationship between religion and genocide. This book aims to widen the reader’s understanding of religion and those who practice it, the nexus of religion and violence, and those who legitimate their violence by framing it in religious terms by looking at notions of holy wars,
... Read more
Understanding Atrocities

Remembering, Representing and Teaching Genocide

by Amarnath Amarasingam, Andrew R. Basso, Kristin Burnett, Lori Chambers, Laura Beth Cohen, Travis Hay, Stephen Leonard Jacobs, Lorraine Markotic, Sarah Minslow, Donia Mounsef, Adam Muller, Christopher Powell, Raffi Sarkissian ...

Series Book 1 - Arts in Action
Understanding Atrocities is a wide-ranging collection of essays bridging scholarly and community-based efforts to understand and respond to the global, transhistorical problem of genocide. The essays in this volume investigate how evolving, contemporary views on mass atrocity frame and complicate the possibilities for the understanding and prevention of genocide. The contributors ask, among other ... Read more

$25.19 USD

Understanding Atrocities is a wide-ranging collection of essays bridging scholarly and community-based efforts to understand and respond to the global, transhistorical problem of genocide. The essays in this volume investigate how evolving, contemporary views on mass atrocity frame and complicate the possibilities for the understanding and prevention of genocide. The contributors ask, among other
... Read more
Modern Genocide

The Definitive Resource and Document Collection [4 volumes]

Edited by Steven Leonard Jacobs, Professor Paul R. Bartrop ...

This massive, four-volume work provides students with a close examination of 10 modern genocides enhanced by documents and introductions that provide additional historical and contemporary context for learning about and understanding these tragic events.Modern Genocide: The Definitive Resource and Document Collection spans nearly 1,700 pages presented in four volumes and includes more than 120 ... Read more

$329.99 USD

This massive, four-volume work provides students with a close examination of 10 modern genocides enhanced by documents and introductions that provide additional historical and contemporary context for learning about and understanding these tragic events.Modern Genocide: The Definitive Resource and Document Collection spans nearly 1,700 pages presented in four volumes and includes more than 120
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Translated Memories

Transgenerational Perspectives on the Holocaust

by Bettina Hofmann, Anne Ranasinghe, Carol Ascher, Daniel Feldman, Bruno Arich-Gerz, Doron Ben-Atar, Julia Epstein, Elizabeth Rosner, Federico Dal Bo, Christoph Houswitschka0, Naomi Shmuel1, Joseph Swann2, Richard Aronowitz3, Christoph Heyl4, Yael Munk5, Lilian Gergely6, Sue Lieberman7, Dani Kranz8, Peter Wortsman9, Ursula Reuter1, Lori Hope Lefkovitz2, Maria Roca Lizarazu3, Rebecca Margolis4, Steven Leonard Jacobs5, Victoria Aarons6 ...

Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Jewish Literature
This volume engages with memory of the Holocaust as expressed in literature, film, and other media. It focuses on the cultural memory of the second and third generations of Holocaust survivors, while also taking into view those who were children during the Nazi period. Language loss, language acquisition, and the multiple needs of translation are recurrent themes for all of the authors discussed. ... Read more

$42.99 USD

This volume engages with memory of the Holocaust as expressed in literature, film, and other media. It focuses on the cultural memory of the second and third generations of Holocaust survivors, while also taking into view those who were children during the Nazi period. Language loss, language acquisition, and the multiple needs of translation are recurrent themes for all of the authors discussed.
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Writing Religion

The Case for the Critical Study of Religion

by Steven W. Ramey, Theodore Louis Trost, Steven Leonard Jacobs, Russell T. McCutcheon, Russell T. McCutcheon, Arjun Appadurai, Aaron W. Hughes0, Martin S. Jaffee1, Nathan Katz2, Amy-Jill Levine3, Bruce Lincoln4, Tomoko Masuzawa5, Ann Pellegrini6, Judith Plaskow7, Jonathan Z. Smith8 ...

In 2002, the University of Alabama's Department of Religious Studies established the annual Aronov Lecture Series to showcase the works of nationally recognized scholars of religion capable of reflecting on issues of wide relevance to scholars from across the humanities and social sciences. Writing Religion: The Case for the Critical Study of Religion is an edited collection of essays that ... Read more

$25.19 USD

In 2002, the University of Alabama's Department of Religious Studies established the annual Aronov Lecture Series to showcase the works of nationally recognized scholars of religion capable of reflecting on issues of wide relevance to scholars from across the humanities and social sciences. Writing Religion: The Case for the Critical Study of Religion is an edited collection of essays that
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Antisemitism

Exploring the Issues

by Steven Leonard Jacobs ...

Series series Religion in Politics and Society Today
With an overview essay, timeline, reference entries, and annotated bibliography, this resource is a concise, one-stop reference on antisemitism in today's society.Stretching back to biblical times, antisemitism is perhaps the world's oldest hatred of a group. It has manifested itself around the world, sometimes taking the form of superficially innocent jokes and at other times promoting such ... Read more

$26.99 USD

With an overview essay, timeline, reference entries, and annotated bibliography, this resource is a concise, one-stop reference on antisemitism in today's society.Stretching back to biblical times, antisemitism is perhaps the world's oldest hatred of a group. It has manifested itself around the world, sometimes taking the form of superficially innocent jokes and at other times promoting such
... Read more
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Life Must Go On

The Remarkable Story of Sol Lurie, the Kovno Ghetto, and the Tragic Fate of Lithuania's Jews

by Bea Lurie, Dr. Steven Leonard Jacobs ...

Narrated by Adam Barr ...

Unabridged

7 hours 46 min

After a bucolic childhood in Kovno, Lithuania, Sol was just eleven when the Nazis invaded and he and his family were forced to move into the Kovno Ghetto. The Kovno Ghetto was one of the only ghettos to later become a concentration camp, and Sol was among just a few Jewish survivors from Kovno.In this inspiring story of tenacity, character, faith, love, and forgiveness, we follow young Sol through ... Read more

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After a bucolic childhood in Kovno, Lithuania, Sol was just eleven when the Nazis invaded and he and his family were forced to move into the Kovno Ghetto. The Kovno Ghetto was one of the only ghettos to later become a concentration camp, and Sol was among just a few Jewish survivors from Kovno.In this inspiring story of tenacity, character, faith, love, and forgiveness, we follow young Sol through
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Lemkin on Genocide

by Steven Leonard Jacobs ...

Providing an annotated commentary on two unpublished manuscripts written by international law and genocide scholar Raphael Lemkin, Steven L. Jacobs offers a critical introduction to the father of genocide studies. Lemkin coined the term "genocide" and was the motivating force behind the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide. The materials ... Read more

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Providing an annotated commentary on two unpublished manuscripts written by international law and genocide scholar Raphael Lemkin, Steven L. Jacobs offers a critical introduction to the father of genocide studies. Lemkin coined the term "genocide" and was the motivating force behind the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide. The materials
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