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The Bridge to the New Testament - A Comprehensive Guide to the Forgotten Years of the Inter-Testament Period (Hardcover): Denny... The Bridge to the New Testament - A Comprehensive Guide to the Forgotten Years of the Inter-Testament Period (Hardcover)
Denny Sissom
R1,999 Discovery Miles 19 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Secret Judaism and the Spanish Inquisition (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Michael Alpert Secret Judaism and the Spanish Inquisition (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Michael Alpert
R436 Discovery Miles 4 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From the end of the 15th century until the 18th, Spanish Jews carried on Jewish practices in the shadow of the Inquisition. Those caught were forced to recant or be burnt at the stake. Drawing on their confessions and trial documents, this book tells their story.

Krakow - Sources of Information for Jewish Genealogy and History - HardCover (Hardcover): Geoffrey Weisgard Krakow - Sources of Information for Jewish Genealogy and History - HardCover (Hardcover)
Geoffrey Weisgard; Cover design or artwork by Rachel Kolokoff Hopper; Index compiled by Jonathan Wind
R950 R814 Discovery Miles 8 140 Save R136 (14%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Unraveling the Family History of Jesus - History of the Extended Family of Jesus from 100 BC (Hardcover): Steven Donald Norris Unraveling the Family History of Jesus - History of the Extended Family of Jesus from 100 BC (Hardcover)
Steven Donald Norris
R667 Discovery Miles 6 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Memorial Book of Radzivilov - Translation of Radzivilov: Sefer Zikaron (Hardcover): Ya'acov Adini, Ellen Garshick Memorial Book of Radzivilov - Translation of Radzivilov: Sefer Zikaron (Hardcover)
Ya'acov Adini, Ellen Garshick
R1,160 Discovery Miles 11 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Nobel Affair - The Correspondence between Alfred Nobel and Sofie Hess (Hardcover): Erika Rummel A Nobel Affair - The Correspondence between Alfred Nobel and Sofie Hess (Hardcover)
Erika Rummel
R2,511 Discovery Miles 25 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Alfred Nobel made his name as an inventor and successful entrepreneur and left a legacy as a philanthropist and promoter of learning and social progress. The correspondence between Nobel and his Viennese mistress, Sofie Hess, shines a light on his private life and reveals a personality that differs significantly from his public image. The letters show him as a hypochondriac and workaholic and as a paranoid, jealous, and patriarchal lover. Indeed, the relationship between the aging Alfred Nobel and the carefree, spendthrift Sofie Hess will strike readers as dysfunctional and worthy of Freudian analysis. Erika Rummel's masterful translation and annotations reveal the value of the letters as commentary on 19th century social mores: the concept of honour and reputation, the life of a "kept" woman, the prevalence of antisemitism, the importance of spas as health resorts and entertainment centres, the position of single mothers, and more generally the material culture of a rich bourgeois gentleman. A Nobel Affair is the first translation into English of the complete correspondence between Alfred Nobel and Sofie Hess.

Save my Children - An Astonishing Tale of Survival and its Unlikely Hero (Hardcover): Leon Kleiner, Edwin Stepp Save my Children - An Astonishing Tale of Survival and its Unlikely Hero (Hardcover)
Leon Kleiner, Edwin Stepp
R713 Discovery Miles 7 130 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Visualizing Jewish Narratives - Jewish Comics and Graphic Novels (Hardcover): Derek Parker Royal Visualizing Jewish Narratives - Jewish Comics and Graphic Novels (Hardcover)
Derek Parker Royal
R4,315 Discovery Miles 43 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Examining a wide range of comics and graphic novels - including works by creators such as Will Eisner, Leela Corman, Neil Gaiman, Art Spiegelman, Sarah Glidden and Joe Sacco - this book explores how comics writers and artists have tackled major issues of Jewish identity and culture. With chapters written by leading and emerging scholars in contemporary comic book studies, Visualizing Jewish Narrative highlights the ways in which Jewish comics have handled such topics as: *Biography, autobiography, and Jewish identity *Gender and sexuality *Genre - from superheroes to comedy *The Holocaust *The Israel-Palestine conflict *Sources in the Hebrew Bible and Jewish myth Visualizing Jewish Narrative also includes a foreword by Danny Fingeroth, former editor of the Spider-Man line and author of Superman on the Couch and Disguised as Clark Kent..

Historicizing Anti-Semitism (Proceedings of the International Conference on The Post-September 11 New Ethnic/Racial... Historicizing Anti-Semitism (Proceedings of the International Conference on The Post-September 11 New Ethnic/Racial Configurations in Europe and the United States - The Case of Anti-Semitism, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, June 29-30, 2007) (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Mohammad H. Tamdgidi; Edited by (ghost editors) Lewis R Gordon, Ramon Grosfoguel
R2,194 Discovery Miles 21 940 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Jewish State (Hardcover): Theodor Herzl The Jewish State (Hardcover)
Theodor Herzl; Foreword by Jerold S Auerbach
R535 Discovery Miles 5 350 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Book of Stryj (Ukraine) - Translation of Sefer Stryj (Hardcover): N Kudish Book of Stryj (Ukraine) - Translation of Sefer Stryj (Hardcover)
N Kudish; Translated by Susan Rosin, Yocheved Klausner
R1,422 Discovery Miles 14 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Journey to Christ Through the Tabernacle (Hardcover): Leonard Carter A Journey to Christ Through the Tabernacle (Hardcover)
Leonard Carter
R896 Discovery Miles 8 960 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Korelitz - The Life and Destruction of a Jewish Community - Translation of Korelits: hayeha ve-hurbana shel kehila yehudit... Korelitz - The Life and Destruction of a Jewish Community - Translation of Korelits: hayeha ve-hurbana shel kehila yehudit (Abridged, Hardcover, Abridged edition)
Michael Walzer-Fass; Edited by Ann Belinsky, Merle Horwitz
R1,162 Discovery Miles 11 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
DZIALOSZYCE Memorial Book - an English Translation of Sefer Yizkor Shel Kehilat Dzialoshitz Ve-ha-seviva (Hardcover,... DZIALOSZYCE Memorial Book - an English Translation of Sefer Yizkor Shel Kehilat Dzialoshitz Ve-ha-seviva (Hardcover, Translation ed.)
Fay Bussgang, Julian Bussgang; Contributions by Menachem Daum
R1,223 R1,037 Discovery Miles 10 370 Save R186 (15%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Dzailoszyce in Polish is also known as Zaloshitz in Yiddish, Dzyaloshitse in Russian, and Dzialoshitz, Zalazhtsy, Zaleshits, Zaloshits and Salshits. Dzia oszyce is a small town in southeastern Poland, 27 miles northeast of Krakow, that sits on a fertile plain surrounded by mountains. The first Jews arrived there in the 16th century, attracted perhaps by the fact that Dzia oszyce was on the trade route from Krakow to the north. By 1820, 75 percent of the town's 1700 residents were Jews; in the late 1930s, more than 80 percent of its 8,000 residents were Jewish. Most Jews in Dzia oszyce made their living through trade or crafts. The town was surrounded by small villages inhabited by peasants. Jewish peddlers went from village to village selling merchandise and purchasing agricultural products. While most Jews in Dzia oszyce were not very prosperous, some owned large estates in the surrounding areas, and the proprietors of most flour and barley mills, the oil refinery, and the town power plant were Jews. Religious life centered around the beautiful town synagogue and the small Hasidic houses of prayer. Communal life was organized through the kahal community council] and khevres societies] with various functions. In the interwar period, theater productions and sports events were popular. Zionist organizations sprang up and trained young people to be pioneers; a sizeable number emigrated to Palestine. During the war, mass killings and deportations virtually destroyed the Jewish community. Some were sent to their deaths at the Be ec camp, others to the Krakow ghetto and then to P aszow. Today, the formerly Jewish town has no Jews and only 1200 inhabitants. This Yizkor book, written originally in Yiddish and Hebrew by former residents as a memorial to their beloved town, provides a vivid portrayal of what Jewish life was like in Dzia oszyce before and during the war.

Bridges across an Impossible Divide - The Inner Lives of Arab and Jewish Peacemakers (Hardcover): Marc Gopin Bridges across an Impossible Divide - The Inner Lives of Arab and Jewish Peacemakers (Hardcover)
Marc Gopin
R1,142 Discovery Miles 11 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Marc Gopin offers a groundbreaking exploration of Arab/Israeli peace partnerships: unlikely friendships created among people who have long been divided by bitter resentments, deep suspicions, and violent sorrows. In Bridges Across an Impossible Divide, Gopin shows how the careful examination of their inner spiritual lives has enabled Jewish and Arab individuals to form peace partnerships, and that these partnerships may someday lead to peaceful coexistence. The peacemakers in this book have no formal experience in conflict resolution or diplomacy. Instead, through trial and error, they have devised their own methods of reaching out across enemy lines. The obstacles they face are unimaginable, the pressure from both sides to desist is constant, and the guilt-ridden thoughts of betrayal are pervasive and intense. Peace partners have found themselves deserted by their closest friends, family members, and neighbors. Bridges Across an Impossible Divide tells their stories - stories not of saints, but of singular people who overcame seemingly unbeatable odds in their dedication to work toward peace with their estranged neighbors. Gopin provides insightful analysis of the lessons to be learned from these peacebuilders, outlining the characteristics that make them successful. He argues that lasting conflict and misery between enemies is the result of an emotional, cognitive, and ethical failure to self-examine, and that the true transformation of a troubled society is brought about by the spiritual introspection of extraordinary, determined individuals.

Three Thousand Years of Hebrew Versification - Essays in Comparative Prosody (Hardcover, New): Benjamin Harshav Three Thousand Years of Hebrew Versification - Essays in Comparative Prosody (Hardcover, New)
Benjamin Harshav
R2,137 Discovery Miles 21 370 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In this unparalleled study of the forms of Hebrew poetry, preeminent authority Benjamin Harshav examines Hebrew verse during three millennia of changing historical and cultural contexts. He takes us around the world of the Jewish Diaspora, comparing the changes in Hebrew verse as it came into contact with the Canaanite, Greek, Arabic, Italian, German, Russian, Yiddish, and English poetic forms. Harshav explores the types and constraints of free rhythms, the meanings of sound patterns, the historical and linguistic frameworks that produced the first accentual iambs in English, German, Russian, and Hebrew, and the discovery of these iambs in a Yiddish romance written in Venice in 1508/09. In each chapter, the author presents an innovative analytical theory on a particular poetic domain, drawing on his close study of thousands of Hebrew poems.

Conversations on Canaanite and Biblical Themes - Creation, Chaos and Monotheism (Hardcover): Rebecca S. Watson, Adrian H. W.... Conversations on Canaanite and Biblical Themes - Creation, Chaos and Monotheism (Hardcover)
Rebecca S. Watson, Adrian H. W. Curtis
R3,032 Discovery Miles 30 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Arguments over the relationship between Canaanite and Israelite religion often derive from fundamental differences in presupposition, methodology and definition, yet debate typically focuses in on details and encourages polarization between opposing views, inhibiting progress. This volume seeks to initiate a cultural change in scholarly practice by setting up dialogues between pairs of experts in the field who hold contrasting views. Each pair discusses a clearly defined issue through the lens of a particular biblical passage, responding to each other's arguments and offering their reflections on the process. Topics range from the apparent application of 'chaos' and 'divine warrior' symbolism to Yahweh in Habakkuk 3, the evidence for 'monotheism' in pre-Exilic Judah in 2 Kings 22-23, and the possible presence of 'chaos' or creatio ex nihilo in Genesis 1 and Psalm 74. This approach encourages the recognition of points of agreement as well as differences and exposes some of the underlying issues that inhibit consensus. In doing so, it consolidates much that has been achieved in the past, offers fresh ideas and perspective and, through intense debate, subjects new ideas to thorough critique and suggests avenues for further research.

The Jews of Iran - The History, Religion and Culture of a Community in the Islamic World (Hardcover): Houman M. Sarshar The Jews of Iran - The History, Religion and Culture of a Community in the Islamic World (Hardcover)
Houman M. Sarshar
R3,985 Discovery Miles 39 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Living continuously in Iran for over 2700 years, Jews have played an integral role in the history of the country. Frequently understood as a passive minority group, and often marginalized by the Zoroastrian and succeeding Muslim hegemony,, the Jews of Iran are instead portrayed in this book as having had an active role in the development of Iranian history, society, and culture. Examining ancient texts, objects, and art from a wide range of times and places throughout Iranian history, as well as the medieval trade routes along which these would have travelled, The Jews of Iran offers in-depth analysis of the material and visual culture of this community. Additionally, an exploration of modern novels and accounts of Jewish-Iranian women's experiences sheds light on the social history and transformations of the Jews of Iran from the rule of Cyrus the Great (c. 600-530 BCE) to the Iranian Revolution of 1978/9 and onto the present day. By using the examples of women writers such as Gina Barkhordar Nahai and Dalia Sofer, the implications of fictional representation of the history of the Jews of Iran and the vital importance of communal memory and tradition to this community are drawn out. By examining the representation of identity construction through lenses of religion, gender, and ethnicity, the analysis of these writers' work highlights how the writers undermine the popular imagining and imaging of the Jewish 'other' in an attempt to create a new narrative integrating the Jews of Iran into the idea of what it means to be Iranian. This long view of the Jewish cultural influence on Iran's social, economic, political, and cultural development makes this book a unique contribution to the field of Judeo-Iranian studies and to the study of Iranian history more broadly.

Jewish Families - Volume 4 (Hardcover, New): Jonathan Boyarin Jewish Families - Volume 4 (Hardcover, New)
Jonathan Boyarin
R2,979 Discovery Miles 29 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From stories of biblical patriarchs and matriarchs and their children, through the Gospel's Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, and to modern Jewish families in fiction, film, and everyday life, the family has been considered key to transmitting Jewish identity. Current discussions about the Jewish family's supposed traditional character and its alleged contemporary crisis tend to assume that the dynamics of Jewish family life have remained constant from the days of Abraham and Sarah to those of Tevye and Golde in Fiddler on the Roof and on to Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint. Jonathan Boyarin explores a wide range of scholarship in Jewish studies to argue instead that Jewish family forms and ideologies have varied greatly throughout the times and places where Jewish families have found themselves. He considers a range of family configurations from biblical times to the twenty-first century, including strictly Orthodox communities and new forms of family, including same-sex parents. The book shows the vast canvas of history and culture as well as the social pressures and strategies that have helped shape Jewish families, and suggests productive ways to think about possible futures for Jewish family forms.

Dialogues in the Diaspora - Essays and Conversations on Cultural Identity (Hardcover): Nikos Papastergiadis Dialogues in the Diaspora - Essays and Conversations on Cultural Identity (Hardcover)
Nikos Papastergiadis
R957 Discovery Miles 9 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Addressing the pleasures and dangers of cultural identity in the age of mass media and global migration, these essays range from a commentary on the redrawing of the boundaries of contemporary art to a mapping of the controversial theory of hybridity.

A Persistent Prejudice - Anti-Semitic Tropes and Double Standards in the Anti-Israel Movement (Hardcover): Jeremy Havardi A Persistent Prejudice - Anti-Semitic Tropes and Double Standards in the Anti-Israel Movement (Hardcover)
Jeremy Havardi
R1,095 Discovery Miles 10 950 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Antisemitism in the twenty-first century remains a major threat to Jewish communities around the world, and a potent challenge to the liberal international order. But it can so often be a more hidden form of racism, relying on codes, images, cues, and ciphers embedded in the cultural mythology of prejudice against Jews. It is about the invocation of the blood libel, attacks on so-called "cosmopolitans," accusations of "dual loyalty," and conspiratorial notions of malign "Jewish power." It is also a highly protean prejudice, ever adaptable to a multitude of changes in political and social circumstances, always ready to mutate and shape-shift to fit a new environment. That is why it has so easily become a feature of the modern anti-Israel movement. This short volume will explore how anti-Israelism has reproduced many of the canards, tropes, and ciphers of historic Jew-hatred and regurgitated them as attacks on Zionism and Israel. The adverse treatment of Jews within Gentile societies has also been replicated in an endless array of double standards against Israel in the international community. Today, the "Jewish question" has been replaced by the "Israel question," with a similarly obsessive and ritualistic form of demonization and delegitimization. Anyone concerned about the future of liberal democracy should take note.

Translation of ROZANA - A MEMORIAL TO THE RUZHINOY JEWISH COMMUNITY (Hardcover, New): Meir Sokolowsky, Joseph Abramovitsch Translation of ROZANA - A MEMORIAL TO THE RUZHINOY JEWISH COMMUNITY (Hardcover, New)
Meir Sokolowsky, Joseph Abramovitsch; Edited by Edith Taylor
R1,315 R1,108 Discovery Miles 11 080 Save R207 (16%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book is a translation of the Ruzhany Memorial (Yizkor) Book that was published in 1957 in Hebrew and Yiddish; it is based upon the memoirs of former Jewish residents of the town who had left before the war. Ruzhany, called Rozana in Polish and Ruzhnoy in Yiddish, is now a small town in Belarus. It was part of Russia at the time of World War I and Poland afterwards for a short period, and then the Soviet Union. In 1939, the Jewish population was at its peak 3,500, comprising 78% of the town's population. In November 1942, every Jewish resident was murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators. Founded in the mid-1500s, Jews were welcomed by the private owner, the Grand Chancellor, Duke Leu Sapeiha. He valued Jewish settlers who would create a variety of businesses that would produce profits and generate collectable taxes. They opened schools, built many small synagogues, and the Great Synagogue in the main square. In addition they established many social institutions. The market town thrived. Starting in the early 1900s, many young Jews immigrated to the United States so that the young men could avoid prolonged conscription into the Czar's army.

The Debate Over Jewish Achievement - Exploring the Nature and Nurture of Human Accomplishment (Hardcover): Steven L. Pease The Debate Over Jewish Achievement - Exploring the Nature and Nurture of Human Accomplishment (Hardcover)
Steven L. Pease
R735 Discovery Miles 7 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
We Remember Lest the World Forget - Memories of the Minsk Ghetto (Hardcover): Maya Krapina, Vladimir Trachtenberg, Frieda... We Remember Lest the World Forget - Memories of the Minsk Ghetto (Hardcover)
Maya Krapina, Vladimir Trachtenberg, Frieda Reizman
R1,069 R913 Discovery Miles 9 130 Save R156 (15%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
L'Dor V'Dor - The Poliachek Family of Lida (Hardcover): Berna Heyman L'Dor V'Dor - The Poliachek Family of Lida (Hardcover)
Berna Heyman
R2,033 Discovery Miles 20 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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