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The Crisis of Zionism by Peter Beinart Publisher Comments Israel's next great crisis may come not with the Palestinians or Iran but with young American Jews A dramatic shift is taking place in Israel and America. In Israel, the deepening occupation of the West Bank is putting Israeli democracy at risk. In the... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover 
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Jewish Secularity: The Search for Roots and the Challenges of Relevant Meaning by Zachary I. (edt) Heller Publisher Comments A growing number of Jews identify themselves as secular or somewhat secular. Is this expansive definition of Jewishness a new phenomenon? What are its roots? What are its implications for the Jewish community, its institutions, and its future? In... (read more) Your price: $70.75 New - Hardcover
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Man Is Wolf to Man by Janusz Bardach Publisher Comments The gripping tale of a man's ability to survive the hard labor camps of the Soviet gulag.... (read more) Your price: $31.75 New - Trade Paper
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My Father's Paradise (08 Edition) by Ariel Sabar Publisher Comments In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hasidic Tale Synopsis Story-telling has been an integral part of the hasidic movement from its very beginnings in the eighteenth century to the present day. Stories about the holy hasidic leadersthe tsadikim, or rebbesand their mystical powers have been a... (read more) List Price $79.75 Your price: $65.00 New - Hardcover
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Shifting Ethnic Boundaries and Inequality in Israel: Or, How the Polish Peddler Became a German Intellectual (Studies in Social Inequality) by Aziza Khazzoom Publisher Comments Why do racial and ethnic groups discriminate against each other? The most common sociological answer is that they want to monopolize scarce resources—good jobs or top educations—for themselves. This book offers a different answer, showing that... (read more) Your price: $76.25 New - Hardcover
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Jewish Eating and Identity Through the Ages by David Charles Kraemer Publisher Comments This book explores the history of Jewish eating and Jewish identity, from the Bible to the present. The lessons of this book rest squarely on the much-quoted insight: 'you are what you eat.' But this book goes beyond that simple truism to recognise that... (read more) Your price: $57.95 New - Trade Paper
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Meshal Haqadmoni - Fables From the Distant Past by Isaac Ibn Sahula Synopsis The wondrous fables of Ibn Sahula in Meshal haqadmoni, presented here in English for the first time, provide a most unusual introduction to the intellectual and social universe of the Sephardi Jewish world of thirteenth-century Spain. Ibn Sahula wrote... (read more) List Price $150.25 Your price: $125.00 New - Hardcover
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Zionism and the Roads Not Taken: Rawidowicz, Kaplan, Kohn (Modern Jewish Experience) by Noam Pianko Publisher Comments Today, Zionism is understood as a national movement whose primary historical goal was the establishment of a Jewish state. However, Zionism's association with national sovereignty was not foreordained. Zionism and the Roads Not Taken uncovers the thought... (read more) Your price: $23.95 New - Trade Paper
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Time and Process in Ancient Judaism Publisher Comments This illuminating study is about the absence of a concept of time in ancient Judaism, and the predominance instead of process in the ancient Jewish world-view. Sacha Stern draws his evidence from the complete range of Jewish sources from this period... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Three Temples by Elior Synopsis In this ground-breaking study, Rachel Elior offers a comprehensive theory of the crystallization of the early stages of the mystical tradition in Judaism based on the numerous ancient scrolls and manuscripts published in the last few decades. Her wide... (read more) List Price $42.95 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Tony Kushner Publisher Comments A diverse panel of voices expressing their views on the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, and their relationship with Israel.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Victorian Jews Through British Eyes by Roger Cowen Publisher Comments In the period from 1840 to 1900 the British image of the Jew progressed from a collection of stereotypes -- the financier, the peddler, the sharp entrepreneur, the rather shady ancillary of the machinery of the law -- to a more accurate representation of... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Messianic Mysticism: Moses Hayim Luzzatto and the Padua School by Tishby Synopsis Moses Hayim Luzzatto (17071746), rabbi, mystic, teacher, poet, playwright, and writer of ethical works, gathered around him in his house of study in Padua an inner circle of devout Jews who shared his belief in the imminent arrival of the... (read more) List Price $84.95 Your price: $69.50 New - Hardcover
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Remembering Cable Street by Tony Kushner Publisher Comments Remembering Cable Street presents challenging new research on the 1936 confrontation between the police, fascists, and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. The collection includes chapters on the political... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Holocaust Is Over; We Must Rise from Its Ashes by Avraham Burg Publisher Comments Modern day Israel, and the Jewish community, is strongly influenced by the memory and horrors of Hitler and the Holocaust. Burg argues that the Jewish nation has been traumatized and has lost the ability to trust itself, its ... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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End of the Jews: Radical Breaks, Remakes and What Comes Next by Dan Mendelsohn Aviv Publisher Comments End of the Jews: Radical Breaks, Remakes and What Comes Next explores a pattern of crisis followed by a radical break and remake as a persistent phenomenon in Jewish history. The Jewish people have collectively braved many turning points over the past... (read more) Your price: $29.99 New - Trade Paper
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Jews Welcome Coffee: Tradition and Innovation in Early Modern Germany (Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry) by Robert Liberles Publisher Comments Tracing the introduction of coffee into Europe, Robert Liberles challenges long-held assumptions about early modern Jewish history and shows how the Jews harnessed an innovation that enriched their personal, religious, social, and economic lives... (read more) Your price: $36.25 New - Trade Paper
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Twentieth Century Jews by Monty Noam Penkower Synopsis This extensively-researched collection of essays lucidly explores how members of the ever-beleaguered Jewish people grappled with their identities during the past century in the United States and in Eretz Israel, the new centers of Jewry's long... (read more) Your price: $65.00 New - Hardcover
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With Wisdom as a Robe: Qumran and Other Jewish Studies in Honour of Ida Frhlich by Kroly Dniel Dobos Synopsis Professor Ida Frhlich, Professor of Hebrew Studies and Ancient Near Eastern History in the Pzmny Pter Catholic University, Budapest, is a celebrated scholar who has been in the forefront of the remarkable development of Hebrew and Jewish studies in... (read more) Your price: $127.25 New - Hardcover
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