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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.

Jews and Sex (Paperback, Illustrated Ed): Nathan Abrams Jews and Sex (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
Nathan Abrams
R403 Discovery Miles 4 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This collection of essays discusses Jews in pornography and the adult film industry, sexual propaganda, Woody Allen, homosexuality and Judaism, lesbian Yiddish poetry, the Jewish American Princess, sex and the British novel, and more.

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.

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."

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
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.

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
Jews in Weimar Germany (Paperback): Donald L. Niewyk Jews in Weimar Germany (Paperback)
Donald L. Niewyk
R1,497 Discovery Miles 14 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The first comprehensive history of the German Jews on the eve of Hitler's seizure of power, this book examines both their internal debates and their relations with larger German society. It shows that, far from being united, German Jewry was deeply divided along religious, political, and ideological fault lines. Above all, the liberal majority of patriotic and assimilationist Jews was forced to sharpen its self-definition by the onslaught of Zionist zealots who denied the "Germanness" of the Jews. This struggle for the heart and soul of German Jewry was fought at every level, affecting families, synagogues, and community institutions.

Although the Jewish role in Germany's economy and culture was exaggerated, they were certainly prominent in many fields, giving rise to charges of privilege and domination. This volume probes the texture of German anti-Semitism, distinguishing between traditional and radical Judeophobia and reaching conclusions that will give no comfort to those who assume that Germans were predisposed to become "willing executioners" under Hitler. It also assesses the quality of Jewish responses to racist attacks. The self-defense campaigns of the Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith included publishing counter-propaganda, supporting sympathetic political parties, and taking anti-Semitic demagogues to court. Although these measures could only slow the rise of Nazism after 1930, they demonstrate that German Jewry was anything but passive in its responses to the fascist challenge.

The German Jews' faith in liberalism is sometimes attributed to self-delusion and wishful thinking. This volume argues that, in fact, German Jewry pursued a clear-sighted perception of Jewish self-interest, apprehended the dangers confronting it, and found allies in socialist and democratic elements that constituted the "other Germany." Sadly, this profound and genuine commitment to liberalism left the German Jews increasingly isolated as the majority of Germans turned to political radicalism in the last years of the Republic. This full-scale history of Weimar Jewry will be of interest to professors, students, and general readers interested in the Holocaust and Jewish History.

The Jewish Philosophy Reader (Hardcover): Dan Frank, Oliver Leaman, Charles Manekin The Jewish Philosophy Reader (Hardcover)
Dan Frank, Oliver Leaman, Charles Manekin
R4,538 Discovery Miles 45 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


The Jewish Philosophy Reader is the first comprehensive anthology of classic writings on Jewish philosophy from the Bible to the present. Complementing the History of Jewish Philosophy, the Reader is divided into four parts:
* Foundations and First Principles
* Medieval and Renaissance Jewish Philosophy
* Modern Jewish Thought
* Contemporary Jewish philosophy

eBook available with sample pages: PB:0415168600

The Last Deposit - Swiss Banks and Holocaust Victims' Accounts (Hardcover): Natasha Dornberg, Itamar Levin The Last Deposit - Swiss Banks and Holocaust Victims' Accounts (Hardcover)
Natasha Dornberg, Itamar Levin
R1,516 Discovery Miles 15 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The injustices committed against millions of Europe's Jews did not end with the fall of the Third Reich. Long after the Nazis had seized the belongings of Holocaust victims, Swiss banks concealed and appropriated their assets, demanding that their survivors produce the death certificates or banking records of the depositors in order to claim their family's property--demands that were usually impossible for the petitioners to meet. Now the full account of the Holocaust deposits affair is revealed by the journalist who first broke the story in 1995. Relying on archival and contemporary sources, Itamar Levin describes the Jewish people's decades-long effort to return death camp victims' assets to their rightful heirs. Levin also uncovers the truth about the behavior of Swiss banking institutions, their complicity with the Nazis, and their formidable power over even their own neutral government.

From the first attempt to settle the fate of German property in neutral countries at the Potsdam Conference in 1945, through the heated negotiations following publication of Levin's investigative article in 1995, to the Swiss banks' ultimate agreement to a $1.25 billion payment in 1997, the pursuit of restitution is a story of delaying tactics and legal complications of almost unimaginable dimensions. Terrified that the traditional and highly marketable wall of secrecy surrounding the Swiss banks would tumble and destroy the industry, the banks' managements were dismissive and uncooperative in determining the location and extent of the assets in question, forcing the United States, other European countries, and Jewish organizations worldwide to apply tremendous pressure for a just resolution. The details and the central characters involved in this struggle, as well as new information about Switzerland's controversial policies during World War II, are fascinating reading for anyone concerned with the Holocaust and its aftermath.

History as Prelude - Muslims and Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean (Hardcover): Joseph V. Montville History as Prelude - Muslims and Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean (Hardcover)
Joseph V. Montville; Contributions by Mark R. Cohen, Olivia Remie Constable, Ahmad Dallal, Thomas F. Glick, …
R3,669 R2,583 Discovery Miles 25 830 Save R1,086 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This collection of essays by seven highly respected scholars is a straightforward narrative of real world intellectual, commercial, spiritual, philosophical, scientific, esthetic creative engagement among Jews, Muslims, and some Christians in daily life in Spain and around the Mediterranean. History as Prelude is a major contribution to the Israeli-Arab peace process because it undermines in fact, blows away the efforts of propagandists who serve governments or political movements to negate the reality of the Arab-Jewish relationship in the medieval Mediterranean. The contributors, in unassuming, well-researched scholarship have erected a wall protecting historical reality from distortion, providing irrefutable and often delightful examples of creative coexistence."

New Jews - The End of the Jewish Diaspora (Hardcover, New): Caryn S. Aviv, David Shneer New Jews - The End of the Jewish Diaspora (Hardcover, New)
Caryn S. Aviv, David Shneer
R3,098 Discovery Miles 30 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For many contemporary Jews, Israel no longer serves as the Promised Land, the center of the Jewish universe and the place of final destination. In New Jews, Caryn Aviv and David Shneer provocatively argue that there is a new generation of Jews - the eponymous New Jews - who don't consider themselves to be eternally wandering, forever outsiders within their communities and seeking to one day find their homeland. Instead, these New Jews are at home, whether it be in Buenos Aires, San Francisco, or Berlin, and are rooted within communities of their own choosing. In this sense Shneer and Aviv argue that Jews have come to the end of their diaspora; wandering no more, today's Jews are settled. In this wide-ranging book, the authors take us around the world, to Moscow, Jerusalem, New York, and Los Angeles, among other places, and find vibrant, dynamic Jewish communities where Jewish identy is increasingly flexible and inclusive, not something to be hidden but a part of one's identity to be proud of. heritage industry, the emergence of a distinct queer Jewish community, the increasingly complicated relation to Israel, and the central role America, especially New York, plays in global Jewish life. New Jews offers a compelling portrait of Jewish life today.

Loyalty Betrayed - Jewish Chaplains in the German Army During the First World War (Paperback, Annotated Ed): Peter C. Appelbaum Loyalty Betrayed - Jewish Chaplains in the German Army During the First World War (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
Peter C. Appelbaum
R753 Discovery Miles 7 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Jews of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic (Hardcover): Stanford J. Shaw The Jews of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic (Hardcover)
Stanford J. Shaw
R4,592 Discovery Miles 45 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book studies the role of the Ottoman Empire and Republic of Turkey in providing refuge and prosperity for Jews fleeing from persecution in Europe and Byzantium in medieval times and from Russian pogroms and the Nazi holocaust in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It studies the religiously-based communities of Ottoman and Turkish Jews as well as their economic, cultural and religious lives and their relations with the Muslims and Christians among whom they lived.

Jewish Neighborhoods in California - History and Development (Hardcover): Keith Warwick Jewish Neighborhoods in California - History and Development (Hardcover)
Keith Warwick
R2,247 R1,781 Discovery Miles 17 810 Save R466 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Torah. The family. The kiddush. The joy. In Jewish Neighborhoods in California: History and Development, Keith Warwick amplifies the essence of Judaism as experienced in California s historic Jewish neighborhoods. Both memory and history, this book contains facts, images, inspiration and a little of what the author calls poetry. There have been, are, and will be Jewish neighborhoods in California, which is home to over a million Jews. These range from Oakland's Jewish Community Center, which was active in West Oakland until the 1960s, to several Jewish enclaves in San Francisco. Los Angeles is a national Center of Judaism. Warwick traces its development over time. The city's Fairfax District contains only a sliver of the Jewry that it held in the early 1900s, while the Pico Robertson Jewish neighborhood is actively growing and is currently home to a growing community of Orthodox Jews. This book captures their vibrant history and changing present.

Passionate Publishers - The Founders of the Black Star Photo Agency (Hardcover): Phoebe Kornfeld Passionate Publishers - The Founders of the Black Star Photo Agency (Hardcover)
Phoebe Kornfeld
R932 Discovery Miles 9 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Progressive Politics in the Democratic Party - Samuel Untermyer and the Jewish Anti-Nazi Boycott Campaign (Hardcover): Richard... Progressive Politics in the Democratic Party - Samuel Untermyer and the Jewish Anti-Nazi Boycott Campaign (Hardcover)
Richard A. Hawkins
R2,637 R1,620 Discovery Miles 16 200 Save R1,017 (39%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In the era of the appeasement of the dictators, Samuel Untermyer stands out as a champion of the human rights of not just German Jewry, but of other persecuted communities in Germany such as trade unionists, Roman Catholics and Freemasons. This is the first full biography of Untermyer, a prominent Wall Street lawyer who founded the principles on which Jewish democratic politics still stands today. The first to oppose Hitler, he organised the anti-Nazi league in the early 1930s, and proposed a unique global socialist/capitalist worldview which still informs American politics today.

A Mask for Privilege - Anti-semitism in America (Paperback, New Ed): Carey McWilliams, Wilson Carey McWilliams A Mask for Privilege - Anti-semitism in America (Paperback, New Ed)
Carey McWilliams, Wilson Carey McWilliams
R1,509 Discovery Miles 15 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Why in America should the most sinister of European social diseases have taken root? Why should that disease have spread from its seemingly anachronistic beginning in the Gilded Age until it infected many of our great magazines and newspapers? Until it determined not only where a man might stay the night, but where he got his education and how he earned his living? This book answers such questions by exposing the myths with which the anti-Semite surrounds his position. By taking away the "mask of privilege" it reveals the source of such prejudice for what it is--the determination of the forces of special privilege, with their hangers-on, to maintain their select and exclusive status regardless of the consequences to other human beings.

Like Carey McWilliams's other books on minorities in America, "A Mask for Privilege "reveals the facts of discrimination so that the fogs of prejudice may be dispersed by the truth. It traces the growth of discrimination and persecution in America from 1877 to 1947, shows why Jews are such good scapegoats, and contrasts the Jewish stereotype--"too pushing, too cunning" with that of other minority groups. Then it looks at the anti-Semitic personality and concludes, with Sartre, that here is "a man who is afraid"--of himself.

In his stirring new introduction, Wilson Carey McWilliams calls this a work of recovery "evoking names and moods and incidents now either half-forgotten or lost to memory." This brilliant analysis of anti-Semitism is a documented and forceful attempt to inform Americans about the danger of the undemocratic, antisocial practices in their midst, and to suggest a positive program to arrest a course too similar to that which led to the Holocaust. It transcends majority-minority relations and becomes an analysis of antidemocratic practices, which affect the whole fabric of American life.

The Story Keeper - Weaving the Threads of Time and Memory, A Memoir (Hardcover): Fred Feldman The Story Keeper - Weaving the Threads of Time and Memory, A Memoir (Hardcover)
Fred Feldman
R801 Discovery Miles 8 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Oxford Circle - The Jewish Community of Northeast Philadelphia (Hardcover): Allen Meyers Oxford Circle - The Jewish Community of Northeast Philadelphia (Hardcover)
Allen Meyers
R674 Discovery Miles 6 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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