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  • History of the Jews in Modern Times

    by Lloyd P. Gartner ...
    Lloyd Gartner presents, in chronologically-arranged chapters, the story of the changing fortunes of the Jewish communities of the Old World (in Europe and the Middle East and beyond) and their gradual expansion into the New World of the Americas. The book starts in 1650, when there were no more than one and a quarter million Jews in the world (less than a sixth of the number at the start of the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry

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    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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  • A History of Antisemitism in Canada

    by Ira Robinson, Ph.D ...
    This state-of-the-art account gives readers the tools to understand why antisemitism is such a controversial subject. It acquaints readers with the ambiguities inherent in the historical relationship between Jews and Christians and shows these ambiguities in play in the unfolding relationship between Jews and Canadians of other religions and ethnicities. It examines present relationships in light ... Read more

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  • Jewish Questions

    Responsa on Sephardic Life in the Early Modern Period

    by Matt Goldish ...
    In Jewish Questions, Matt Goldish introduces English readers to the history and culture of the Sephardic dispersion through an exploration of forty-three responsa--questions about Jewish law that Jews asked leading rabbis, and the rabbis' responses. The questions along with their rabbinical decisions examine all aspects of Jewish life, including business, family, religious issues, and relations ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Global Impact of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion

    A Century-Old Myth

    Edited by Esther Webman ...
    Series series Routledge Jewish Studies Series
    The Protocols of the Elders of Zion has attracted the interest of politicians and academicians, and generated extensive research, since the tract first appeared in the early twentieth century. Despite having repeatedly been discredited as a historical document, and in spite of the fact that it served as an inspiration for Hitler’s antisemitism and the Holocaust, it continues, even in our time, to ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Jewish Peoplehood

    An American Innovation

    by Noam Pianko ...
    Series Book 6 - Key Words in Jewish Studies
    Winner of the 2017 Saul Viener Book Prize from the American Jewish Historical SocietyAlthough fewer American Jews today describe themselves as religious, they overwhelmingly report a strong sense of belonging to the Jewish people. Indeed, Jewish peoplehood has eclipsed religion—as well as ethnicity and nationality—as the essence of what binds Jews around the globe to one another. In Jewish ... Read more

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  • A Jewish Kapo in Auschwitz

    History, Memory, and the Politics of Survival

    by Tuvia Friling ...
    Translated by Haim Watzman ...
    Series series The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies
    Eliezer Gruenbaum (1908–1948) was a Polish Jew denounced for serving as a Kapo while interned at Auschwitz. He was the communist son of Itzhak Gruenbaum, the most prominent secular leader of interwar Polish Jewry who later became the chairman of the Jewish Agency’s Rescue Committee during the Holocaust and Israel’s first minister of the interior. In light of the father’s high placement in both ... Read more

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  • Jewish Albuquerque

    1860-1960

    by Naomi Sandweiss ...
    Series series Images of America
    Albuquerque, founded by Spanish colonists in 1706, seems an unusual place for Jewish immigrants to settle. Yet long before New Mexico statehood in 1912, Jewish settlers had made their homes in the high desert town, located on the banks of the Rio Grande River. Initially, business opportunities lured German Jews to the Santa Fe Trail; during the expansive railroad days of the 1880s, Jewish citizens ... Read more

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  • Jew

    by Cynthia M. Baker ...
    Series series Key Words in Jewish Studies
    Jew. The word possesses an uncanny power to provoke and unsettle. For millennia, Jew has signified the consummate Other, a persistent fly in the ointment of Western civilization’s grand narratives and cultural projects. Only very recently, however, has Jew been reclaimed as a term of self-identification and pride.With these insights as a point of departure, this book offers a wide-ranging ... Read more

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  • The New Jewish Diaspora

    Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel, and Germany

    by Zvi Gitelman, Mark Tolts, Uzi Rebhun, Marina Sapritsky, Jonathan Dekel-Chen, Hannah Pollin-Galay, Steven J. Gold, Olena Bagno-Moldavski, Yaacov Ro'i, Gur Ofer0, Eliezer Ben-Rafael1, Sveta Roberman2, Elena Nosenko-Shtein3, Nelly Elias4, Julia Lerner5, Anna Shternshis6, Mikhail Krutikov7, Stephanie Sandler8, Adrian Wanner9 ...
    In 1900 over five million Jews lived in the Russian empire; today, there are four times as many Russian-speaking Jews residing outside the former Soviet Union than there are in that region. The New Jewish Diaspora is the first English-language study of the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora. This migration has made deep marks on the social, cultural, and political terrain of many countries, in ... Read more

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  • Gender and Jewish Difference from Paul to Shakespeare

    by Lisa Lampert ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Although representations of medieval Christians and Christianity are rarely subject to the same scholarly scrutiny as those of Jews and Judaism, "the Christian" is as constructed a term, category, and identity as "the Jew." Medieval Christian authors created complex notions of Christian identity through strategic use of representations of Others: idealized Jewish patriarchs or demonized ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century

    Edited by Sorrel Kerbel ...
    Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study.This volume:examines canonical Jewish writers, less well-known authors of Yiddish and Hebrew, and emerging Israeli writersincludes entries on figures as diverse as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Tristan Tzara, Eugene Ionesco, Harold ... Read more

    $87.99 USD