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  • A Chosen Calling

    Jews in Science in the Twentieth Century

    by Noah J. Efron ...
    Series series Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context
    Questions traditional explanations for Jewish excellence in science in the United States, the Soviet Union, and Palestine in the twentieth century.Scholars have struggled for decades to explain why Jews have succeeded extravagantly in modern science. A variety of controversial theories—from such intellects as C. P. Snow, Norbert Wiener, and Nathaniel Weyl—have been promoted. Snow hypothesized an ... Read more

    $24.99 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

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  • The Golden Age Shtetl

    A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe

    by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern ...
    A major history of the shtetl's golden ageThe shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience. This book provides the first grassroots social, economic, and cultural history of the shtetl. Challenging popular misconceptions of the shtetl as an isolated, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Jewish Body

    An Anatomical History of the Jewish People

    by Melvin Konner ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    A history of the Jewish people from bris to burial, from “muscle Jews” to nose jobs.Melvin Konner, a renowned doctor and anthropologist, takes the measure of the “Jewish body,” considering sex, circumcision, menstruation, and even those most elusive and controversial of microscopic markers–Jewish genes. But this is not only a book that examines the human body through the prism of Jewish culture. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Were We Our Brothers' Keepers?

    The Public Response of American Jews to the Holocaust, 1938–1944

    by Haskel Lookstein ...
    In this major work exploring the American Jewish response to the Holocaust as it occurred, by examining contemporary Jewish press accounts of such events as Kristallnacht, the refusal to allow the refugee ship St. Louis to land in America, the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto, and the deportation of the Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz, Haskel Lookstein provides us with an important perspective on the way ... Read more

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  • The Hero of Budapest

    The Triumph and Tragedy of Raoul Wallenberg

    by Bengt Jangfeldt ...
    Translated by Harry D. Watson ...
    The story of Raoul Wallenberg - the Swedish businessman who, at immense personal risk, rescued many of Budapest's Jews from the Holocaust and subsequently disappeared into the Soviet prison system - is one of the most fascinating episodes of World War II. Yet the complete story of his life and fate can only be told now - and for the first time in this book - following access to the Russian and ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Scattered Ghosts

    One Family's Survival through War, Holocaust and Revolution

    by Nick Barlay ...
    When two Hungarian Jewish refugees landed by accident in Britain in the winter of 1956, they had little idea what the future would hold. But they carried with them the traces of their turbulent past, just enough to provide the clues to their past. Scattered Ghosts combines memoir, investigation and travel to resurrect 200 years of wars and revolutions, from the Austro-Hungarian Empire via two ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Imperialism and Jewish Society

    200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E.

    by Seth Schwartz ...
    Series series Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
    This provocative new history of Palestinian Jewish society in antiquity marks the first comprehensive effort to gauge the effects of imperial domination on this people. Probing more than eight centuries of Persian, Greek, and Roman rule, Seth Schwartz reaches some startling conclusions--foremost among them that the Christianization of the Roman Empire generated the most fundamental features of ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Semites and Anti-Semites

    by Bernard Lewis, Ph.D. ...
    "A powerful book. It combines the coolness of scholarship with conclusions that cannot fail to engage the passions."—Saul BellowThe Arab-Israeli conflict has unsettled the Middle East for over half a century. This conflict is primarily political, a clash between states and peoples over territory and history. But it is also a conflict that has affected and been affected by prejudice. For a long ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Jewish War

    by Josephus ...
    Translated by Martin Hammond ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I am Josephus...I myself fought against the Romans' In August of AD 70 the city of Jerusalem was destroyed by Roman forces after a six-month siege. This was the disastrous outcome of a Jewish revolt against Roman domination which began in AD 66 with some early success, but soon became mired in factional conflict. The war ended in the destruction of the famous Jewish Temple (rebuilt by Herod the ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • You Never Call! You Never Write!

    A History of the Jewish Mother

    by Joyce Antler ...
    In You Never Call, You Never Write, Joyce Antler provides an illuminating and often amusing history of one of the best-known figures in popular culture--the Jewish Mother. Whether drawn as self-sacrificing or manipulative, in countless films, novels, radio and television programs, stand-up comedy, and psychological and historical studies, she appears as a colossal figure, intensely involved in the ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Why Should Jews Survive?

    Looking Past the Holocaust Toward a Jewish Future

    by Michael Goldberg ...
    In the fifty years since the Holocaust, the Jewish People have felt one overriding concern: survival. The ghosts of the murdered six million, along with the living generation of survivors, have called out the unifying chant, "never again." In 1948, this concern found a second focus in the state of Israel, the ultimate refuge of Jews worldwide. But Rabbi Michael Goldberg finds that these twin ... Read more

    $18.99 USD