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Between Class and Nation - The Formation of the Jewish Working Class in the Period Before Israel's Statehood (Hardcover):... Between Class and Nation - The Formation of the Jewish Working Class in the Period Before Israel's Statehood (Hardcover)
Amir Ben-Porat
R1,944 Discovery Miles 19 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This important new study of Palestine in the years 1882 to 1948 looks at the formation of the Jewish working class and its pivotal and deliberate role in the forging of a nation. Drawing on historical studies as well as neo-Marxist theory, Professor Ben-Porat adds both empirical information and new critical perspectives to our understanding of class formation and of the unique historical circumstances attendant on the creation of modern Israel.

Tours That Bind - Diaspora, Pilgrimage, and Israeli Birthright Tourism (Hardcover): Shaul Kelner Tours That Bind - Diaspora, Pilgrimage, and Israeli Birthright Tourism (Hardcover)
Shaul Kelner
R3,105 Discovery Miles 31 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Winner, 2010 Association for Jewish Studies Jordan Schnitzer Book Award 2011 Honorable Mention for the American Sociological Association Culture Section's Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book Since 1999 hundreds of thousands of young American Jews have visited Israel on an all-expense-paid 10-day pilgrimage-tour known as Birthright Israel. The most elaborate of the state-supported homeland tours that are cropping up all over the world, this tour seeks to foster in the American Jewish diaspora a lifelong sense of attachment to Israel based on ethnic and political solidarity. Over a half-billion dollars (and counting) has been spent cultivating this attachment, and despite 9/11 and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict the tours are still going strong. Based on over seven years of first-hand observation in modern day Israel, Shaul Kelner provides an on-the-ground look at this hotly debated and widely emulated use of tourism to forge transnational ties. We ride the bus, attend speeches with the Prime Minister, hang out in the hotel bar, and get a fresh feel for young American Jewish identity and contemporary Israel. We see how tourism's dynamism coupled with the vibrant human agency of the individual tourists inevitably complicate tour leaders' efforts to rein tourism in and bring it under control. By looking at the broader meaning of tourism, Kelner brings to light the contradictions inherent in the tours and the ways that people understandtheir relationship to place both materially and symbolically. Rich in detail, engagingly written, and sensitive to the complexities of modern travel and modern diaspora Jewishness, Tours that Bind offers a new way of thinking about tourism as a way through which people develop understandings of place, society, and self.

A Portrait of the American Jewish Community (Hardcover, New): Jerome A. Chanes, Norman Linzer, David J. Schnall A Portrait of the American Jewish Community (Hardcover, New)
Jerome A. Chanes, Norman Linzer, David J. Schnall
R2,779 Discovery Miles 27 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This comprehensive look at the Jewish American community at the turn of the 21st century explores the many issues emerican Jews and their organizations are confronting, and shows how the Jewish community responds so as to remain a distinct entity while also becoming a part of the larger American culture. The contributors investigate the complex issues facing the American Jewish community in 12 areas that are at the heart of the Jewish communal enterprise. This work will be of interest to students and scholars of Jewish studies and interfaith studies, to professionals in social work and social services, and to anyone interested in American communal dynamics.

The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800 (Paperback): Paolo Bernardini, Norman Fiering The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800 (Paperback)
Paolo Bernardini, Norman Fiering
R1,145 Discovery Miles 11 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Jews and Judaism played a significant role in the history of the expansion of Europe to the west as well as in the history of the economic, social, and religious development of the New World. They played an important role in the discovery, colonization, and eventually exploitation of the resources of the New World. Alone among the European peoples who came to the Americas in the colonial period, Jews were dispersed throughout the hemisphere; indeed, they were the only cohesive European ethnic or religious group that lived under both Catholic and Protestant regimes, which makes their study particularly fruitful from a comparative perspective. As distinguished from other religious or ethnic minorities, the Jewish struggle was not only against an overpowering and fierce nature but also against the political regimes that ruled over the various colonies of the Americas and often looked unfavorably upon the establishment and tleration of Jewish communities in their own territory. Jews managed to survive and occasionally to flourish against all odds, and their history in the Americas is one of the more fascinating chapters in the early modern history of European expansion.

Jews and Gentiles - A Historical Sociology of Their Relations (Hardcover, New): Werner J. Cahnman Jews and Gentiles - A Historical Sociology of Their Relations (Hardcover, New)
Werner J. Cahnman
R4,485 Discovery Miles 44 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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 relations are far more complex. There is a long history of mutual contacts, positive as well as antagonistic, even if conflict continues to require particular attention.

Cahnman's approach, while following a historical sequence, is sociological in conception. From Roman antiquity through the Middle Ages, into the era of emancipation and the Holocaust, and finally to the present American and Israeli scene, there are basic similarities and various dissimilarities, all of which are described and analyzed. Cahnman tests the theses of classical sociology implicitly, yet unobtrusively. He traces the socio-economic basis of human relations, which Marx and others have emphasized, and considers Jews a "marginal trading people" in the Park-Becker sense. Simmel and Toennies, he shows, understood Jews as "strangers" and "intermediaries." While Cahnman shows that Jews were not "pariahs," as Max Weber thought, he finds a remarkable affinity to Weber's Protestantism-capitalism argument in the tension of Jewish-Christian relations emerging from the bitter theological argument over usury.

The primacy of Jewish-Gentile relations in all their complexity and variability is essential for the understanding of Jewish social and political history. This volume is a valuable contribution to that understanding.

After the Holocaust (Hardcover): Monty Noam Penkower After the Holocaust (Hardcover)
Monty Noam Penkower
R3,268 Discovery Miles 32 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The chapters in this volume examine a few facets in the drama of how the survivors of the Holocaust contended with life after the darkest night in Jewish history. They include the Earl Harrison mission and significant report, the effort to keep Europe's borders open to refugee infiltration, the murder of the first Jew in Germany after V-E Day and its aftermath, and the iconic sculptures of Nathan Rapoport and Poland's landscape of Holocaust memory up to the present day. Joining extensive archival research and a limpid prose, Professor Monty Noam Penkower again displays a definitive mastery of his craft.

When The Grey Beetles Took Over Baghdad (Paperback, New Ed): Mona Yahia When The Grey Beetles Took Over Baghdad (Paperback, New Ed)
Mona Yahia
R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Lina is trying to lead a normal girl's life in Baghdad, but being Jewish in an Arab country is not easy as politics keep intruding. Violent government coups are almost annual events and it's difficult for a child to understand what's going on or who to believe. The need for secrecy means Lina cannot tell her best friend that her family is just waiting for the right moment to flee. It is the 1960s and Lina is part of the dwindling Jewish community

The Israel Connection and American Jews (Hardcover, New): David Mittelberg The Israel Connection and American Jews (Hardcover, New)
David Mittelberg
R2,770 Discovery Miles 27 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Mittelberg analyzes the effect of the Israel visit/experience upon the ethnic identity of American Jews. For most American Jews, being Jewish carries both religious and ethnic connotations. It is because of this dual context that the Israel visit has a different significance for American Jews when compared to visits of members of other ethnic groups back to their homelands. As Mittelberg argues, the relationship of American Jews to Israel is bound up in the broader concept of peoplehood, a notion that encompasses a shared sense of religion, nationality, language, culture, and history.

Approximately one-third of the American Jewish population has visited Israel. Using a variety of survey data, Mittelberg examines the impact such visits have had on American Jews in terms of their affinity with Israel as well as their bonds to the American Jewish community.

A Cultural History of Jewish Dress (Hardcover, New): Eric Silverman A Cultural History of Jewish Dress (Hardcover, New)
Eric Silverman
R3,568 Discovery Miles 35 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A Cultural History of Jewish Dress is the first comprehensive account of how Jews have been distinguished by their appearance from Ancient Israel to the present. For centuries Jews have dressed in distinctive ways to communicate their devotion to God, their religious identity, and the proper earthly roles of men and women. This lively work explores the rich history of Jewish dress, examining how Jews and non-Jews alike debated and legislated Jewish attire in different places, as well as outlining the big debates on dress within the Jewish community today. Focusing on tensions over gender, ethnic identity and assimilation, each chapter discusses the meaning and symbolism of a specific era or type of Jewish dress. What were biblical and rabbinic fashions? Why was clothing so important to immigrant Jews in America? Why do Hassidic Jews wear black? When did yarmulkes become bar mitzvah souvenirs? The book also offers the first analysis of how young Jewish adults today announce on caps, shirts, and even undergarments their striving to transform Jewishness from a religious and historical heritage into an ethnic identity that is hip, racy, and irreverent. Fascinating and accessibly written, A Cultural History of Jewish Dress will appeal to anybody interested in the central role of clothing in defining Jewish identity.

It's Hanukkah Time! (Hardcover): Latifa Kropf It's Hanukkah Time! (Hardcover)
Latifa Kropf
R394 R360 Discovery Miles 3 600 Save R34 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Vibrant full-color photos show students lighting the menorah, playing dreidel, and telling the story of Judah Maccabee when they invite their grandparents to a Hanukkah party. Kids will love seeing children their own age in the pictures.

The Master of the Ladder - The Life and Teachings of Rabbi Yehudah Leib Ashlag (Paperback): Yedidah Cohen The Master of the Ladder - The Life and Teachings of Rabbi Yehudah Leib Ashlag (Paperback)
Yedidah Cohen; Rabbi Avraham Gottlieb
R841 R741 Discovery Miles 7 410 Save R100 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tamerlane and the Jews (Hardcover): Michael Shterenshis Tamerlane and the Jews (Hardcover)
Michael Shterenshis
R4,474 Discovery Miles 44 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


This book provides a general introduction to the history of Jewish life in 14th century Asia at the time of the conqueror Tamerlane (Timur). The author defines who are the Central Asian Jews, and describes the attitudes towards the Jews, and the historical consequences of this relationship with Tamerlane. Left alone to live within a stable empire, the Jews prospered under Tamerlane. In founding an empire, Tamerlane had delivered Central Asia from the last Mongols, and brought the nations of Transoxonia within the orbit of Persian civilisation. The Central Asian Jews accepted this spirit and preserved it until modern times in their language and culture.

The Israeli Diaspora (Paperback): Steven J. Gold The Israeli Diaspora (Paperback)
Steven J. Gold; Introduction by Robin Cohen
R1,633 Discovery Miles 16 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Israelis form a unique case in the field of diaspora studies. When the State of Israel was founded in 1948 it was seen as the longed-for end to the wandering and oppression which had characterised the Jewish diaspora over the centuries. For various reasons, however one per cent of the Israeli population chooses to live abroad despite the condemnation of those who see emigration as a threat to the ideological, demographic and moral viability of Israel itself. In this study, based on extensive field work in the major Israeli communities of New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris and Sydney, Steven J. Gold looks at their reasons for leaving - existing links abroad, political and economic dissatisfaction at home and in the case of the Sephardim or Israelis of non-European origin often a feeling of being treated as second class citizens - the tensions, compromises and satisfactions involved in their relations with Israelis who have not left and with the Jewish and non Jewish communities in the countries in which they settle. In a final chapter, he talks to those who after years as emigrants have made the decision to return. The end result is a contribution to the study not just of the Isra

Memoirs of a Jewish Prisoner of the Gulag (Hardcover): Zvi Preigerzon Memoirs of a Jewish Prisoner of the Gulag (Hardcover)
Zvi Preigerzon; Edited by Alex Lahav
R3,518 Discovery Miles 35 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A History of Curiosity - The Theory of Travel 1550-1800 (Paperback): Justin Stagl A History of Curiosity - The Theory of Travel 1550-1800 (Paperback)
Justin Stagl
R1,603 Discovery Miles 16 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The author's grasp of the vast, often obscure, but highly interesting body of literature which emerged in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries commands the attention of a wide readership outside purely academic boundaries. Stagl weaves together a series of separate studies, emphasizing links between the figures, the philosophies and the literature of early modern times; links which have previously only been suspected.
In focusing on the "ars apodemica," or "art of travelling," a body of formal instruction on how to travel, observe and record the information gathered, Stagl demonstrates the origins of the characteristic inquisitive and systematizing spirit of the modern West.
"A History of Curiosity" examines the early methodology of anthropological and social research from a critical-historical perspective. The two principal methods of research, travel and the questionnaire, are studied in the context of the social conditions and intellectual trends of early modern times.

2005 (Hardcover): Sara Grosvald 2005 (Hardcover)
Sara Grosvald
R7,575 Discovery Miles 75 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This work includes international secondary literature on anti-Semitism published throughout the world, from the earliest times to the present. It lists books, dissertations, and articles from periodicals and collections from a diverse range of disciplines. Written accounts are included among the recorded titles, as are manifestations of anti-Semitism in the visual arts (e.g. painting, caricatures or film), action taken against Jews and Judaism by discriminating judiciaries, pogroms, massacres and the systematic extermination during the Nazi period. The bibliography also covers works dealing with philo-Semitism or Jewish reactions to anti-Semitism and Jewish self-hate. An informative abstract in English is provided for each entry, and Hebrew titles are provided with English translations.

Memorial Book of Sochaczew (Hardcover): A Sh Sztejn Memorial Book of Sochaczew (Hardcover)
A Sh Sztejn; G Wejszman; Translated by Jerrold Landau
R1,444 Discovery Miles 14 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Mount Zion, on the Sides of the North - The Syrian and Anatolian roots of the biblical story (Hardcover): Davide Ventura Mount Zion, on the Sides of the North - The Syrian and Anatolian roots of the biblical story (Hardcover)
Davide Ventura
R1,023 Discovery Miles 10 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Palgrave Dictionary of Medieval Anglo-Jewish History (Hardcover, New): J. Hillaby The Palgrave Dictionary of Medieval Anglo-Jewish History (Hardcover, New)
J. Hillaby
R4,492 Discovery Miles 44 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is no conventional dictionary. For two centuries an extensive Jewish community played an important role in English history. The book opens up a society for which we have sources 'many hundreds of times richer than those for France' (Robert Chazan). Nearly 30 self-governing communities extended across the country, from York to Exeter, Hereford to Canterbury. 42 illustrations include 14 town plans. Vestiges of the medieval Jewry remain in street names; sites of Jewish houses, synagogues and cemeteries; and archaeological sites and artefacts. 30 biographic entries examine leading members of communities; 8 family trees show that in six cases they extended over at least five generations. A wide range of entries of general interest provide details on matters as diverse as synagogues, ritual child murder, women, libraries and books, mikva'ot, Usury, herb gardens, bezant, community, treasure and laving stone. 139

Iranian Jews in Israel - Between Persian Cultural Identity and Israeli Nationalism (Hardcover): Alessandra Cecolin Iranian Jews in Israel - Between Persian Cultural Identity and Israeli Nationalism (Hardcover)
Alessandra Cecolin
R4,225 Discovery Miles 42 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Since the establishment of the State of Israel in May 1948, more than 40,000 Iranian Jews have moved to Israel, with the last big wave arriving after the Iranian Revolution of 1978/79. As the governments of these two states continue to display animosity towards each other, an examination of the Jews of Iran who now live in Israel provides important insights into the nature of the relationship between these two key countries in the Middle East. Alessandra Cecolin combines a historical approach to the patterns of Iranian Jewish emigration to Israel with a political analysis of Iranian-Israeli relations, exploring how the political and diplomatic interactions between the two have shaped the processes of emigration and integration of Iranian Jewry in Israel. In this book she explores how this community is often caught between a Persian cultural identity and Israeli nationality, and draws out the implications this has both for the community in Israel and for the wider region.

All the World - Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days (Hardcover, Annotated edition): Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman All the World - Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman
R634 Discovery Miles 6 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Rosh Hashanah is just one of two surviving Jewish new years from antiquity, the other being the month in which Passover falls. The two are exactly six months apart, proper symbolism of the age-old Jewish struggle to balance two contrasting principles: universalism and particularism. Passover's central theme is the particularistic tale of the Jewish People released from servitude in Egypt to fulfill its historic destiny. The message of Rosh Hashanah, by contrast, is the universalistic definition of that destiny, the role that every Jew must play simply by virtue of being human, and the role of Judaism in helping Jews play that role with proper passion and commitment.

All the World combines the particularistic concern for Israel as a People called by God with the universalistic proclamation that Israel is called for universal ends. It assembles some forty contributors scholars, rabbis, artists and thinkers from Canada, France, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, the UK and USA to launch the crucial discussion of what the High Holy Days have to say about universalism and particularism in Judaism."

Nexus 5 - Essays in German Jewish Studies/Moments of Enlightenment: In Memory of Jonathan M. Hess (Hardcover): Ruth Von... Nexus 5 - Essays in German Jewish Studies/Moments of Enlightenment: In Memory of Jonathan M. Hess (Hardcover)
Ruth Von Bernuth, Eric Downing; Edited by William C. Donahue, Martha B. Helfer; Contributions by Ruth Von Bernuth, …
R3,220 R2,362 Discovery Miles 23 620 Save R858 (27%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Special volume treating exemplars of the vast number of texts arising from historic and imaginary encounters between Jews and non-Jewish Germans, from the early modern period to the present. Nexus is the official publication of the biennial German Jewish Studies Workshop, which was inaugurated at Duke University in 2009 and is now held at the University of Notre Dame. Together, Nexus and the Workshop constitute the first ongoing forum in North America for German Jewish studies. Nexus publishes innovative research in German Jewish Studies, introducing new directions, analyzing the development and definition of the field, and considering its place vis-a-vis both German Studies and Jewish Studies. Additionally, it examines issues of pedagogy and programming at the undergraduate, graduate, and community levels. Nexus 5 features essays written in honor of the memory of Jonathan M. Hess, a leading scholar in German Jewish Studies who, through both his person and publications, opened up the field for many others to explore new areas of research and inquiry. It offers exemplary instances of historic and imaginary encounters based on interactions of Jews and "other Germans" from the early modern period to the present day. It also discusses adaptations and translations of Yiddish and German texts, presenting insights into connections between literary texts and their Jewish and non-Jewish readers alike. By exploring multimodal cultural works ranging from performance to poems and illustrated fairy tales, and literature in German, Yiddish, and other languages, Nexus 5 works to expand the field of German Jewish studies in the spirit of Jonathan Hess himself.

Antisemitism in the North - History and State of Research (Hardcover): Jonathan Adams, Cordelia Hess Antisemitism in the North - History and State of Research (Hardcover)
Jonathan Adams, Cordelia Hess
R2,374 Discovery Miles 23 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Is research on antisemitism even necessary in countries with a relatively small Jewish population? Absolutely, as this volume shows. Compared to other countries, research on antisemitism in the Nordic countries (Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) is marginalized at an institutional and staffing level, especially as far as antisemitism beyond German fascism, the Second World War, and the Holocaust is concerned. Furthermore, compared to scholarship on other prejudices and minority groups, issues concerning Jews and anti-Jewish stereotypes remain relatively underresearched in Scandinavia - even though antisemitic stereotypes have been present and flourishing in the North ever since the arrival of Christianity, and long before the arrival of the first Jewish communities. This volume aims to help bring the study of antisemitism to the fore, from the medieval period to the present day. Contributors from all the Nordic countries describe the status of as well as the challenges and desiderata for the study of antisemitism in their respective countries.

Sefer Yetzirah - Ultimate Guide to Understanding the Earliest Extant Work on Jewish Mysticism that Was Mentioned in the Talmud... Sefer Yetzirah - Ultimate Guide to Understanding the Earliest Extant Work on Jewish Mysticism that Was Mentioned in the Talmud (Hardcover)
Mari Silva
R721 R637 Discovery Miles 6 370 Save R84 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The God of Egypt - Second Edition - Placing the Biblical Exodus in Egyptian History (Hardcover, 2nd ed.): Pamela Dawn... The God of Egypt - Second Edition - Placing the Biblical Exodus in Egyptian History (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Pamela Dawn O'Neal
R635 Discovery Miles 6 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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