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  • Under Crescent and Cross

    The Jews in the Middle Ages

    by Mark R. Cohen ...
    Did Muslims and Jews in the Middle Ages cohabit in a peaceful "interfaith utopia"? Or were Jews under Muslim rule persecuted, much as they were in Christian lands? Rejecting both polemically charged ideas as myths, Mark Cohen offers a systematic comparison of Jewish life in medieval Islam and Christendom--and the first in-depth explanation of why medieval Islamic-Jewish relations, though not ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi

    Leon Modena's Life of Judah

    by Leone Modena ...
    Leon (Judah Aryeh) Modena was a major intellectual figure of the early modern Italian Jewish community--a complex and intriguing personality who was famous among contemporary European Christians as well as Jews. Modena (1571-1648) produced an autobiography that documents in poignant detail the turbulent life of his family in the Jewish ghetto of Venice. The text of this work is well known to ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Maimonides and the Merchants

    Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World

    by Mark R. Cohen ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    The advent of Islam in the seventh century brought profound economic changes to the Jews living in the Middle East, and Talmudic law, compiled in and for an agrarian society, was ill equipped to address an increasingly mercantile world. In response, and over the course of the seventh through eleventh centuries, the heads of the Jewish yeshivot of Iraq sought precedence in custom to adapt Jewish ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Maimonides and the Merchants

    Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World

    by Mark R. Cohen ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    The advent of Islam in the seventh century brought profound economic changes to the Jews living in the Middle East, and Talmudic law, compiled in and for an agrarian society, was ill equipped to address an increasingly mercantile world. In response, and over the course of the seventh through eleventh centuries, the heads of the Jewish yeshivot of Iraq sought precedence in custom to adapt Jewish ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • The Jews of Islam

    Updated Edition

    by Bernard Lewis ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    This landmark book probes Muslims' attitudes toward Jews and Judaism as a special case of their view of other religious minorities in predominantly Muslim societies. With authority, sympathy and wit, Bernard Lewis demolishes two competing stereotypes: the Islamophobic picture of the fanatical Muslim warrior, sword in one hand and Qur'ān in the other, and the overly romanticized depiction of Muslim ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • History as Prelude

    Muslims and Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean

    by Olivia Remie Constable, Ahmad Dallal, Thomas F. Glick, Diana Lobel, Kathryn A. Miller, Raymond P. Scheindlin, Mark R. Cohen, Joseph V. Montville ...
    This collection of essays by seven highly respected scholars is a straightforward narrative of real world-intellectual, commercial, spiritual, philosophical, scientific, esthetic-creative engagement among Jews, Muslims, and some Christians in daily life in Spain and around the Mediterranean. History as Prelude is a major contribution to the Israeli-Arab peace process because it undermines-in fact, ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt

    by Mark R. Cohen ...
    Series series Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
    What was it like to be poor in the Middle Ages? In the past, the answer to this question came only from institutions and individuals who gave relief to the less fortunate. This book, by one of the top scholars in the field, is the first comprehensive book to study poverty in a premodern Jewish community--from the viewpoint of both the poor and those who provided for them.Mark Cohen mines the ... Read more

    $66.29 USD

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  • The Invention of the Jewish People

    by Shlomo Sand ...
    Translated by Yael Lotan ...
    A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend from converts, whose native lands were scattered across the Middle East and Eastern Europe.In this ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Invention of the Land of Israel

    From Holy Land to Homeland

    by Shlomo Sand ...
    Translated by Geremy Forman ...
    This groundbreaking work deconstructs the age-old legends surrounding the ‘Holy Land’ of Israel—and the prejudices that continue to suffocate it.What is a homeland, and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for them throughout the 20thcentury? What is the essence of the Promised Land? Following the acclaimed and controversial Invention of the Jewish ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Jews and Power

    by Ruth R. Wisse ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesTaking in everything from the Kingdom of David to the Oslo Accords, Ruth Wisse offers a radical new way to think about the Jewish relationship to power. Traditional Jews believed that upholding the covenant with God constituted a treaty with the most powerful force in the universe; this later transformed itself into a belief that, unburdened by a military, Jews ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Behind the Myths

    The Foundations of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

    by John Pickard ...
    There has never been a more important time for a study of the social, economic, and political origins of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the three important world religions that share a common root. This book adopts a Marxist, that is a materialist, view of human development, so it takes as its starting point the idea that gods, angels, miracles, and other supernatural phenomena do not exist in ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Abraham's Curse

    The Roots of Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

    by Bruce Chilton ...
    "When they arrived at the place which God had indicated to him, Abraham built an altar there, and arranged the wood. Then he bound his son and put him on the altar on top of the wood. Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to kill his son..." --The Book of GenesisThe story of Abraham's acceptance of God's command to sacrifice his son Isaac is one of the most disturbing of all biblical ... Read more

    $9.99 USD