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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “michael stanislawski”
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  • Zionism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Stanislawski ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Zionism is the nationalist movement affirming Jewish people's right to self-determination through the establishment of a Jewish national state in its ancient homeland. It is one of the most controversial ideologies in the world. Its supporters laud its success at liberating the Jewish people after millennia of persecution and at securing the creation of Israel. But to its opponents, Zionism relies ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Autobiographical Jews

    Essays in Jewish Self-Fashioning

    by Michael Stanislawski ...
    Series series Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
    Autobiographical Jews examines the nature of autobiographical writing by Jews from antiquity to the present, and the ways in which such writings can legitimately be used as sources for Jewish history. Drawing on current literary theory, which questions the very nature of autobiographical writing and its relationship to what we normally designate as the truth, and, to a lesser extent, the new ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Five

    A Novel of Jewish Life in Turn-of-the-Century Odessa

    by Vladimir Jabotinsky ...
    Translated by Michael R. Katz ...
    "The beginning of this tale of bygone days in Odessa dates to the dawn of the twentieth century. At that time we used to refer to the first years of this period as the 'springtime,' meaning a social and political awakening. For my generation, these years also coincided with our own personal springtime, in the sense that we were all in our youthful twenties. And both of these springtimes, as well ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Rebbe's Army

    Inside the World of Chabad-Lubavitch

    by Sue Fishkoff ...
    “Excuse me, are you Jewish?” With these words, the relentlessly cheerful, ideologically driven emissaries of Chabad-Lubavitch approach perfect strangers on street corners throughout the world in their ongoing efforts to persuade their fellow Jews to live religiously observant lives. In The Rebbe’s Army, award-winning journalist Sue Fishkoff gives us the first behind-the-scenes look at this small ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Ancient Jewish Proverbs (Illustrated Edition)

    by Abraham Cohen ...
    Abraham Cohens Ancient Jewish Proverbs contains hundreds of Jewish proverbs and sayings, many from the Talmud and Mishna. The proverbs are divided into categories, such as Family Life, Human Existence, and Human Virtues. This edition is illustrated and includes a table of contents for easier navigation. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Behind the Exclusive Brethren

    by Michael Bachelard ...
    Out of nowhere in 2004, an obscure religious sect burst onto the political stage in Australia. Almost unheard of until then, the Exclusive Brethren was suddenly spending up big in election advertising in support of conservative political parties. But its members were shy to the point of paranoia about who they were — preferring, as they said, to ‘fly under the radar’. Brethren members assiduously ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Holocaust

    A New History

    by Laurence Rees ...
    “This is by far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and also the best at explaining its origins and grotesque mentality, as well as its chaotic development.”―Antony Beevor, bestselling author of StalingradLaurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust. Now, he combines their never-before-seen eyewitness testimony with the latest ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Israeli Solution

    A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East

    by Caroline Glick ...
    A landmark manifesto issuing a bold call for a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestine conflict.The reigning consensus in elite and academic circles is that the United States must seek to resolve the Palestinians' conflict with Israel by implementing the so-called two-state solution. Establishing a Palestinian state, so the thinking goes, would be a panacea for all the region’s ills. In a time ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Discovering the City of Sodom

    The Fascinating, True Account of the Discovery of the Old Testament's Most Infamous City

    by Dr. Steven Collins, Dr. Latayne C. Scott ...
    The fascinating, true account of the quest for one of the Old Testament’s most infamous cities.Like many Christians today in the academic world, Dr. Steven Collins felt pulled in different directions when it came to apparent conflicts between the Bible and scholarly research and theory—an intellectual crisis that inspired him to lay it all on the line as he set off to locate the lost city of Sodom ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics

    by Mikhail Bakhtin ...
    Series series Theory and History of Literature
    This book is not only a major twentieth-century contribution to Dostoevsky’s studies, but also one of the most important theories of the novel produced in our century. As a modern reinterpretation of poetics, it bears comparison with Aristotle. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Rise of Athens

    The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization

    by Anthony Everitt ...
    A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history’s most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and HadrianFilled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens celebrates the city-state that transformed the world—from the democratic revolution that marked its beginning, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Chosen Few

    The Resurrection of European Jewry

    by Mark Kurlansky ...
    A POWERFUL, DEEPLY MOVING NARRATIVE OF HOPE REBORNIN THE SHADOW OF DESPAIRFifty years after it was bombed to rubble, Berlin is once again a city in which Jews gather for the Passover seder. Paris and Antwerp have recently emerged as important new centers of Jewish culture. Small but proud Jewish communities are revitalizing the ancient centers of Budapest, Prague, and Amsterdam. These brave, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD