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Jews, God and History by Max I. Dimont Publisher Comments How have the Jews survived through so many millennia while other civilizations have declined and perished? What qualities mark the culture that has produced Moses, Christ, Spinoza, Marx, Freud, and Einstein? From ancient Palestine through Europe and the... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Sephardic Jews in America: A Diasporic History by Aviva Ben-ur Publisher Comments List Price $32.50 Your price: $30.75 New - Trade Paper
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The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible by James C. Vanderkam Publisher Comments The substantial value of the Dead Sea Scrolls for biblical studies is well known. However, it can be difficult to remain on the cutting edge of Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship. In this volume leading expert James C. Vander-Kam offers detailed summaries of... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Works of Josephus by Flavius Josephus Publisher Comments The writings of Josephus - the first century Jewish historian - are indispensible to a proper understanding of Jewish thought, background and history up to and around the time of Christ. His complete works are presented in this updated version.... (read more) List Price $14.97 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Wise Men and Their Tales: Portraits of Biblical, Talmudic, and Hasidic Masters by Elie Wiesel Publisher Comments In Wise Men and Their Tales, a master teacher gives us his fascinating insights into the lives of a wide range of biblical figures, Talmudic scholars, and Hasidic rabbis. The matriarch Sarah, fiercely guarding her son, Isaac, against the negative... (read more) Your price: $15.25 New - Trade Paper
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Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit: Jewish Daily Life in the Time of Jesus by Jodi Magness Publisher Comments Perhaps no epoch in history has been the subject of greater curiosity and more intensive study than the late Second Temple period in Palestine the time and place of Jesus life and ministry. Here Jodi Magness examines archaeological and literary evidence... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Trade Paper
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Hinges of History #2: The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels by Thomas Cahill Publisher Comments The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization has done it again. In The Gifts of the Jews Thomas Cahill takes us on another enchanting journey into history, once again recreating a time when the actions of a small band of people... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza by Adina Hoffman Publisher Comments One May day in 1896, at a dining-room table in Cambridge, England, a meeting took place between a Romanian-born maverick Jewish intellectual and twin learned Presbyterian Scotswomen, who had assembled to inspect several pieces of rag paper and parchment.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Mezuzah in the Madonnna's Foot: Marranos and Other Secret Jews--A Woman Discovers Her Spiritual Heritage by Trudi Alexy Publisher Comments Acclaimed in the Progressive's "Best Reading of 1993," these thrilling and harrowing firsthand stories of survivors and their rescuers vividly reveal the secret history of the Jews who found asylum from Hitler's Final Solution under Franco's Fascist... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hillel: If Not Now, When? by Joseph Telushkin Publisher Comments “What is hateful unto you, do not do unto your neighbor. That is the whole Torah, all the rest is commentary. Now, go and study.” This is the most famous teaching of Hillel, one of the greatest rabbis of the Talmudic era. What makes it... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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The Jewish War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Josephus Publisher Comments Revised with a new introduction.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Children of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, Islam (Princeton Classic Editions) by F E Peters Publisher Comments "I know of no more measured and thoughtful historical survey of the formative development of the conjoined tradition of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic thought and practice than this one."--William A. Graham, Dean, Harvard Divinity School "The Children of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy (Jewish Culture and Contexts) by Joseph R. (edt) Hacker Publisher Comments The rise of printing had major effects on culture and society in the early modern period, and the presence of this new technology--and the relatively rapid embrace of it among early modern Jews--certainly had an effect on many aspects of Jewish culture... (read more) Your price: $69.95 New - Hardcover
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The Jewish World: Revelation, Prophecy and History by Elie Kedourie Publisher Comments What has given the Jewish people their resilience, their power of survival, and their ability to adapt to radically new conditions without losing their identity? What combination of religious faith, social organization, intellectual toughness, and poetic... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Historical Atlas of the Jewish People : From the Time of the Patriarchs To the Present (92 Edition) by Elie Schocken Publisher Comments The history of the Jews spans more than two millenia and encompasses most parts of the globe--an extraordinary saga which is set forth pictorially in this comprehensive, and richly illustrated and designed volume. With hundreds of brilliantly detailed... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $22.00 Used - Hardcover
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History of the Jews in the Greco-roman World : Jews of Palestine From Alexander the Great To the Arab Conquest (03 Edition) by Peter Schafer Publisher Comments The History of the Jews in the Greco-Roman World examines Judaism in Palestine throughout the Hellenistic period, from Alexander the Great's conquest in 334BC to its capture by the Arabs in AD 636. Under the Greek, Roman and finally Christian supremacy... (read more) List Price $51.50 Your price: $31.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Yiddish Civilisation by Paul Kriwaczek Publisher Comments From the author of In Search of Zarathustra an illuminating chronicle of Yiddish civilization from its roots in the Diaspora to the present. Paul Kriwaczek begins his search when Jewish culture first spreads to Europe during the Roman Empire after the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Capitalism and the Jews by Jerry Z Muller Publisher Comments "This learned and suggestive little volume distills two centuries of wisdom concerning Jews and capitalism into four provocative essays. Drawing freely upon economic history, Jewish history, and the history of ideas, Jerry Muller moves deftly from... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance by Michael Goldfarb Publisher Comments The first popular history of the Emancipation of Europes Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—a transformation that was startling to those who lived through it and continues to affect the world today. Freed from their ghettos, Jews... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Temple Bombing by Melissa Fay Greene Publisher Comments At 3:37 in the morning of Sunday, October 12, 1958, a bundle of dynamite blew out the side wall of the Temple, Atlanta's oldest and richest synagogue. The devastation to the building was vast-but even greater were the changes those 50 sticks of dynamite... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $3.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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