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Zionism: Movements in Judaism
by Richard J. H. Gottheil  Synopsis This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional...
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Legends of the Jews #07: The Legends of the Jews: Volume 7: Index to Volumes 1 Through 6
by Louis Ginzberg Publisher Comments Ginzberg devotes most of his life to gathering these Jewish legends from their original sources - written in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Syrian, Aramaic, Ethiopic, Arabic, Persian, and Old Slavic - and reproducing them completely, accurately, and vividly. He...
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Beyond the Pale
by Benjamin Nathans Publisher Comments A surprising number of Jews lived, literally and figuratively, beyond the Pale of Jewish Settlement in tsarist Russia during the half-century before the Revolution of 1917. Thanks to the availability of long-closed Russian archives, along with a wide...
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From Text to Context: The Turn of History in Modern Judaism
by Ismar Schorsch Publisher Comments Essays examining the emergence of Jewish scholarship during the period 1818 - 1919, concentrating on the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement....
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Far from Zion: Jews, Diaspora, Memory
by Jason Francisco Publisher Comments Part document and part visual poem, Far from Zion is the response of a young American Jew to the historical experience of Ashkenazic Jewry in the last century. In the spirit of a contemplative but unsentimental reckoning, the photographs consider the...
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Toledoth - City of Generations
by Sheldon Mike Young Publisher Comments There is a legend that some Jews, after the Babylonian conquest of Israel, were taken as slaves to Spain. Ultimately, they allegedly founded Toledoth - the City of Generations - now Toledo. On the expulsion of Jews from Spain, ghostly testimonials...
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Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel
by Israel Shahak Publisher Comments Could Jewish fundamentalism derail the peace process, plunging Israel into civil war? In this controversial book, acclaimed Israeli writer Israel Shahak and American scholar Norton Mezvinsky explore the consequences of the fundamentalist belief that...
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The Shtetl
by Joachim Neugroschel Publisher Comments "The initiated and the uninitiated . . . both will benefit from the selection and quality here." (New York Times Book Review) "These stories constitute a lively-and sometimes tragic-history of a vanished civilization." (Chicago Tribune) This marvelous...
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Jewish Babylonia Between Persia and Roman Palestine: Decoding the Literary Record
by Richard Lee Kalmin Publisher Comments The Babylonian Talmud was compiled in the third through sixth centuries CE, by rabbis living under Sasanian Persian rule in the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. What kind of society did these rabbis inhabit? What effect did that society have...
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Jewish Eating and Identity
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...
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The Amazing Adventures of the Jewish People
by Max I Dimont Publisher Comments Presents a history of the Jewish people throughout the ages....
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Isaiah Among the Ancient Near Eastern Prophets Isaiah Among the Ancient Near Eastern Prophets: A Comparative Study of the Earliest Stages of the Isaia (Vetus Testamentum, Supplements Vetus Testamentum
by Matthijs J. De Jong Synopsis Offering a comparison between the earliest parts of the book of Isaiah and the Assyrian prophecies, this book maintains that ancient Israelite prophecy, of which Isaiah was an exponent, was much in conformity with ancient Near Eastern prophecy in general....
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Cultures of the Jews Volume III: Modern Encounters
by David Biale Publisher Comments Scattered over much of the world throughout most of their history, are the Jews one people or many? How do they resemble and how do they differ from Jews in other places and times? What have their relationships been to the cultures of their neighbors? To...
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Legends of the Jews Volume 1
by Louis Ginzberg Publisher Comments At this early moment the Torah interfered. She addressed herself to God: "O Lord of the world! The world is Thine, Thou canst do with it as seemeth good in Thine eyes. But the man Thou art now creating will be few of days and full of trouble and sin. If...
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The Early Enoch Literature (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism)
by Gabriele (edt) Boccaccini Synopsis This book provides an overview of the current debate about the early Enoch literature and its place in ancient Judaism, especially in relation to the Torah of Moses and to the Dead Sea Scrolls....
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Legends of the Jews Volume 6 Notes To Volume 3
by Louis Ginzberg Publisher Comments Ginzberg devotes most of his life to gathering these Jewish legends from their original sources - written in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Syrian, Aramaic, Ethiopic, Arabic, Persian, and Old Slavic - and reproducing them completely, accurately, and vividly. He...
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A History of the Jews in the Modern World
by Howard Morle Sachar Publisher Comments The distinguished historian of the Jewish people, Howard M. Sachar, gives us a comprehensive and enthralling chronicle of the achievements and traumas of the Jews over the last four hundred years. <BR>Tracking their fate from Western Europe's age...
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The Jews in the Twentieth Century
by Martin Gilbert Review "Gilbert's goal for this book was to show the accomplisments of the Jews even as they confronted tragedy. Jewish participation in the two world wars, the quest for Israeli statehood, and the everyday life of the countries they came to call home...
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Jews and Power
by Ruth R Wisse Publisher Comments It is Wisses bracing theory that the Jewish people have been corrupted--not by power but by powerlessness. She argues that in displaying the resilience necessary to survive in exile, the Jews left too much to God thereby increasing their vulnerability to...
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The Emergence of Judaism (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Ancient World)
by Christine Elizabeth Hayes Publisher Comments Although the ethnic-religious tradition that became classical Judaism solidified around 100 CE, its roots are found in the ancient biblical tales of the Israelites. Stories of the descent into Egypt, the Exodus under Moses, and the eventual rise of the...
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