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“werner j cahnman”

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  • Jews and Gentiles

    A Historical Sociology of Their Relations

    by Werner J. Cahnman ...
    "Studies of the Jewish experience among peoples with whom they live share some similarities with the usual histories of anti-Semitism, but also some differences. When the focus is on anti-Semitism, Jewish history appears as a record of unmitigated hostility against the Jewish people and of passivity on their part. However, as Werner J. Cahnman demonstrates in this posthumous volume, Jewish-Gentile ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Social Issues, Geopolitics, and Judaica

    Edited by Werner J. Cahnman ...
    This volume brings together thirty-four essays and ar- ticles by Werner J. Cahnman representing four decades (1940-1980) of work by an extraordinary, multidisciplinary scholar. Cahnman's work encompasses the experiences of a German Jewish refugee, an economist turned sociologist, and a scholar of Judaism. Part 1 contains personal and autobiographical writings and includes analyses of the cultural ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • The Israeli Solution

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  • The Mossad

    Six Landmark Missions of the Israeli Intelligence Agency, 1960-1990

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  • Rashi

    by Elie Wiesel ...
    Translated by Catherine Temerson ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesFrom Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, comes a magical book that introduces us to the towering figure of Rashi—Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki—the great biblical and Talmudic commentator of the Middle Ages.Wiesel brilliantly evokes the world of medieval European Jewry, a world of profound scholars and closed communities ravaged by outbursts of anti-Semitism ... Read more

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  • End of the Jews: Radical Breaks, Remakes and What Comes Next

    by Dr. Dan Aviv ...
    End of the Jews: Radical Breaks, Remakes and What Comes Next explores a pattern of crisis followed by a radical break and remake as a persistent phenomenon in Jewish history. The Jewish people have collectively braved many turning points over the past four millennia and, in each instance, did so by making a radical break from past forms of worship, notions of self and nation as well as sense of ... Read more

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  • Abraham's Curse

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    Max Bornstein’s epic account of a poor Jewish boy born in 1920s Poland is breathtaking in scope. Not quite two when he immigrates to Canada, he returns to Europe in 1933, the year that Adolf Hitler came to power. Barely surviving as a stateless refugee in 1930s Paris, he manages to escape as France falls to the Nazis only to be interned in a Spanish concentration camp. Rich in details of pre-war ... Read more

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