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Polacos in Argentina
Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture
Inbunden, 2019
568 kr
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An examination of the social and cultural repercussions of Jewish emigration from Poland to Argentina in the 1920s and 1930s.Between the 1890s and 1930s, Argentina, following the United States and Palestine, became the main destination for Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews seeking safety, civil …
Zionism and the Melting Pot
Preachers, Pioneers, and Modern Jewish Politics
Inbunden, 2020
622 kr
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Traces the roots of ideologies and outlooks that shape Jewish life in Israel and the United States today.Zionism and the Melting Pot pivots away from commonplace accounts of the origins of Jewish politics and focuses on the ongoing activities of actors instrumental in the theological, political, …
Sephardim in the Holocaust
A Forgotten People
Av Isaac Jack Lévy, Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
Inbunden, 2020
902 kr
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Documents the first-hand experiences in the Holocaust of the Sephardim from Greece, the Balkans, North Africa, Libya, Cos, and RhodesThe Sephardim suffered devastation during the Holocaust, but this facet of history is poorly documented. What literature exists on the Sephardim in the Holocaust …
Maurice Samuel
Life and Letters of a Secular Jewish Contrarian
Inbunden, 2022
661 kr
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An intellectual biography that reassesses one of the premier Jewish humanists of the mid-twentieth centuryIn Maurice Samuel: Life and Letters of a Secular Jewish Contrarian Alan T. Levenson recaptures the life, works, and milieu of the Romanian-born, English-educated, American belletrist Maurice …
We Shall Build Anew
Stephen S. Wise, the Jewish Institute of Religion, and the Reinvention of American Liberal Judaism
Inbunden, 2022
400 kr
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How Rabbi Stephen S. Wise changed the trajectory of American Reform Judaism over the course of the twentieth century and well into the twenty-firstIn 1922, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, a leader of the Zionist movement, established the Jewish Institute of Religion (JIR), a nondenominational rabbinical …
Soloveitchik’s Children
Irving Greenberg, David Hartman, Jonathan Sacks, and the Future of Jewish Theology in America
Inbunden, 2023
1350 kr
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Orthodox Judaism is one of the fastest-growing religious communities in contemporary American life. Anyone who wishes to understand more about Judaism in America will need to consider the tenets and practices of Orthodox Judaism: who its adherents are, what they believe in, what motivates them, and …
Between Two Homelands
Argentine Migration to and from Israel
Inbunden, 2023
1294 kr
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Examines the experiences of thousands of Jewish Argentines who built their life trajectories through migrations to and from IsraelEmigration from Israel to other parts of the world has not yet received significant scholarly attention, as the subject is a sensitive one in Israeli society. Zionist …
Samson Raphael Hirsch's Religious Universalism and the German-Jewish Quest for Emancipation
Inbunden, 2024
1238 kr
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An account of how Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch promulgated an inclusive vision of Judaism in the context of advancing the civic equality of German Jews in the nineteenth centuryIn Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Religious Universalism and the German-Jewish Quest for Emancipation, Moshe Miller contends that …
So We Died
A Memoir of Life and Death in the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania
Av Levi Shalit
Inbunden, 2024
1314 kr
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A translation from the Yiddish of a powerful eyewitness account of life in the Shavl (Šiauliai, Lithuania) ghetto from 1941 to 1944.
Secrets I Won't Take with Me
Home, War, and the Struggle for Peace in Israel
Av Yossi Beilin
Inbunden, 2025
1433 kr
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The story of the birth and evolution of modern Israel, especially concerning the struggle for Israeli-Palestinian peace, from the view of a journalist, politician and diplomat who wrote with his own hands several important chapters in that history.
Translating the Ketubah
The Jewish Marriage Contract in America and England
Inbunden, 2025
1350 kr
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Three Stars of Redemption
The Influential Women in the Life of Franz Rosenzweig
Inbunden, 2026
1195 kr
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A revelatory study of the overlooked ways that Franz Rosenzweig's closest relationships with women shaped his philosophical legacy and reframed Jewish thought Three Stars of Redemption: The Influential Women in the Life of Franz Rosenzweig by Amy Hill Shevitz offers a groundbreaking reexamination …
To Stand Aside or Stand Alone
Southern Reform Rabbis and the Civil Rights Movement
Av P. Allen Krause, Mark K. Bauman
Häftad, 2017
386 kr
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A landmark collection of previously unpublished interviews with Reform rabbis concerning their roles in the civil rights movement. In 1966, a young rabbinical student named P. Allen Krause conducted interviews with twelve Reform rabbis from southern congregations concerning their thoughts, …
Cosella Wayne
Or, Will and Destiny
Av Cora WIlburn, Jonathan D. Sarna
Häftad, 2019
379 kr
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The first novel written and published in English by an American Jewish woman.Published serially in the spiritualist journal Banner of Light in 1860, Cosella Wayne, or Will and Destiny is the first coming-of-age novel to depict Jews in the United States and transforms what we know about the history …
Sephardim in the Holocaust
A Forgotten People
Av Isaac Jack Lévy, Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
Häftad, 2020
330 kr
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Documents the first-hand experiences in the Holocaust of the Sephardim from Greece, the Balkans, North Africa, Libya, Cos, and RhodesThe Sephardim suffered devastation during the Holocaust, but this facet of history is poorly documented. What literature exists on the Sephardim in the Holocaust …
Memories of Two Generations
A Yiddish Life in Russia and Texas
Av Alexander Z. Gurwitz, Bryan Edward Stone
Häftad, 2022
408 kr
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The 1935 autobiography of Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz, an Orthodox Jew whose lively recounting of his life in Tsarist Russia and his immigration to San Antonio, Texas, in 1910 captures turbulent changes in early twentieth-century Jewish historyIn 1910, at the age of fifty-one, Alexander Ziskind …
Soloveitchik's Children
Irving Greenberg, David Hartman, Jonathan Sacks, and the Future of Jewish Theology in America
Häftad, 2023
330 kr
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Orthodox Judaism is one of the fastest-growing religious communities in contemporary American life. Anyone who wishes to understand more about Judaism in America will need to consider the tenets and practices of Orthodox Judaism: who its adherents are, what they believe in, what motivates them, and …
Between Two Homelands
Argentine Migration to and from Israel
Häftad, 2023
386 kr
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Examines the experiences of thousands of Jewish Argentines who built their life trajectories through migrations to and from IsraelEmigration from Israel to other parts of the world has not yet received significant scholarly attention, as the subject is a sensitive one in Israeli society. Zionist …
Samson Raphael Hirsch's Religious Universalism and the German-Jewish Quest for Emancipation
Häftad, 2024
386 kr
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An account of how Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch promulgated an inclusive vision of Judaism in the context of advancing the civic equality of German Jews in the nineteenth centuryIn Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Religious Universalism and the German-Jewish Quest for Emancipation, Moshe Miller contends that …
So We Died
A Memoir of Life and Death in the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania
Av Levi Shalit
Häftad, 2024
408 kr
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A translation from the Yiddish of a powerful eyewitness account of life in the Shavl (Šiauliai, Lithuania) ghetto from 1941 to 1944.
Secrets I Won't Take with Me
Home, War, and the Struggle for Peace in Israel
Av Yossi Beilin
Häftad, 2025
350 kr
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An Israeli political leader’s riveting first-hand account of pivotal moments from recent Israeli history, including the Oslo Peace Accords, the founding of the Birthright Initiative, the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the rise of the Israeli far right, and moreIn Secrets I Won't Take with Me, …
Translating the Ketubah
The Jewish Marriage Contract in America and England
Häftad, 2025
386 kr
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A groundbreaking exploration of the Jewish marriage contract and its evolution in English translationTranslating the Ketubah offers a fresh perspective on the ketubah, the Jewish marriage contract. Traditionally composed in Aramaic, ketubot have been examined in other books within the frameworks of …
Three Stars of Redemption
The Influential Women in the Life of Franz Rosenzweig
Häftad, 2026
443 kr
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In Three Stars of Redemption: Influential Women in the Life of Franz Rosenzweig , Amy Hill Shevitz highlights three women whose lives are linked by their individual relationships with the influential German-Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig—his mother Adele Alsberg Rosenzweig, his wife Edith Hahn …
New Vision of Southern Jewish History
Studies in Institution Building, Leadership, Interaction, and Mobility
Inbunden, 2019
678 kr
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Essays from a prolific career that challenge and overturn traditional narratives of southern Jewish history. Mark K. Bauman, one of the foremost scholars of southern Jewish history working today, has spent much of his career, as he puts it, ""rewriting southern Jewish history"" in ways that its …
