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  • 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

    $61.19 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

  • 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

  • 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 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

  • 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

  • OCT 7

    The War Against Hamas Through the Eyes of an Israeli Commando Officer

    by Capt. Elkana (Kuno) Cohen, Mark R. Levin ...
    A shocking, detailed account of present-day war as told by an Israeli commando officer**The persona of the Israeli officer who strives for absolute victory is well reflected in Capt. Elkana Cohen's new book—Prime Minister Benjamin NetanyahuElkana Cohen tells the story of thousands of young reservists who dropped everything on 10/7 and went out to defend our nation—Naftali Bennett, thirteenth Prime ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • 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

  • Specific Sports-Related Injuries

    Edited by Sérgio Rocha Piedade, Philippe Neyret, João Espregueira-Mendes, Moises Cohen, Mark R. Hutchinson ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive and detailed overview of specific sports-related injuries and a valuable guide for decision-making to establish the best strategies to prevent and manage such injuries.As a thorough understanding of each sports modality plays a key role, both in injury prevention and management, a dedicated chapter is devoted to each sports discipline. An international panel of ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Cities Transformed

    Demographic Change and Its Implications in the Developing World

    by Mark R. Montgomery, Richard Stren, Barney Cohen, Holly E. Reed ...
    Over the next 20 years, most low-income countries will, for the first time, become more urban than rural. Understanding demographic trends in the cities of the developing world is critical to those countries - their societies, economies, and environments. The benefits from urbanization cannot be overlooked, but the speed and sheer scale of this transformation presents many challenges.In this ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Bluetick Revenge

    by Mark Cohen ...
    In the bestselling tradition of Robert B. Parker and Elmore Leonard comes Mark Cohen's second novel featuring Colorado private eye and former Marine Corps JAG Pepper Keane.It doesn't seem like a bad idea when Pepper Keane agrees to steal a champion bluetick coonhound from the leader of a sadistic biker gang. After all, the dog also belongs to the biker's missing girlfriend, Karlynn Slade. And ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Not Bad for Delancey Street

    The Rise of Billy Rose

    by Mark Cohen ...
    Series series Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life
    He was amazing. “A little man with a Napoleonic penchant for the colossal and magnificent, Billy Rose is the country’s No. 1 purveyor of mass entertainment,” Life magazine announced in 1936. The Times reported that with 1,400 people on his payroll, Rose ran a larger organization than any other producer in America. “He's clever, clever, clever,” said Rose's first wife, the legendary Fanny Brice. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD