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Jewish Travellers in the Middle Ages 19
by Elkan Nathan Adler  Publisher Comments Fascinating narratives by Benjamin of Tudela, Eldad the Danite, other scholars, merchants, pilgrims, etc. Illustrated....
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The Jewish War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics)
by Flavius Josephus Synopsis It took seven years and several Roman legions to suppress the Jewish rebellion of 66 AD. This text describes the events....
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The Creation of History in Ancient Israel
by Marc Brettler Synopsis Much of the Hebrew Bible narrates what it claims to be the history of Israel. However, a close reading of the biblical text in junction with other literary and archaeological evidence indicates that the "history" provided by the Hebrew Bible is...
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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...
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Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father's German Village
by Mimi Schwartz Publisher Comments Mimi Schwartz grew up on milkshakes and hamburgers—and her father’s boyhood stories. She rarely took the stories seriously. What was a modern American teenager supposed to make of these accounts of a village in Germany where, according to her...
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Ancient Jewish Magic: A History
by Gideon Bohak Publisher Comments This is a pioneering history of ancient Jewish magic, from the Second Temple to the rabbinic period. It is based both on the ancient magicians' own compositions (and products) in Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek, and on the descriptions and prescriptions of...
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Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews
by Albert Lindemann Publisher Comments Esau's Tears explores the rise of modern racial-political anti-Semitism in Europe and the United States. Previous histories have been more concerned with description than analysis and most have lacked balance. The evidence presented in this volume...
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Betraying Spinoza (06 Edition)
by Goldstein Publisher Comments In 1656, Amsterdam's Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty-three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original....
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Money (Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices)
by Elliot N. (edt) Dorff Publisher Comments This new JPS ethics series deals with some of the most critical moral issues of our time Each volume in this series presents traditional and contemporary sources on specific topics, followed by hypothetical cases and study questions to provoke discussion....
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Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism (Jewish Culture and Contexts)
by Jeffrey Howard Chajes Publisher Comments After a nearly two-thousand-year interlude, and just as Christian Europe was in the throes of the great Witch Hunt and what historians have referred to as The Age of the Demoniac, accounts of spirit possession began to proliferate in the Jewish world...
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Judaism in Practice: From the Middle Ages Through the Early Modern Period (Princeton Readings in Religions)
by Lawrence Fine Publisher Comments This collection of original materials provides a sweeping view of medieval and early modern Jewish ritual and religious practice. Including such diverse texts as ritual manuals, legal codes, mystical books, autobiographical writings, folk literature, and...
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Scattered Among the Peoples
by Allan Levine Publisher Comments From Seville in 1492 to Kiev in 1967, Allan Levine’s dazzling new history brings to life ten defining points in the Jewish Diaspora in a series of moment-in-time portraits of individual people, their families and communities, and the cities they...
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Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God of Life
by Jon D. Levenson Publisher Comments This provocative volume explores the origins of the Jewish doctrine of the resurrection of the dead. Jon D. Levenson argues that, contrary to a very widespread misconception, the ancient rabbis were keenly committed to the belief that at the end of time,...
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A History of Ancient Israel and Judah
by J. Maxwell Miller Synopsis This classic textbook, widely used for over two decades, constructs a history of ancient Israel and Judah through a thorough investigation of epigraphical, archaeological, and biblical sources. Approaching biblical history as history, Miller and Hayes...
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To Rule Jerusalem
by Roger Friedland Synopsis ""To Rule Jerusalem" is a study of religion and politics, Judaism and Zionism as well as Palestinian nationalism and Islam, and it brings a most remarkable perspective to a topic--conflict over Jerusalem--with which we all are, unfortunately, far more...
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The Jewish Writings
by Hannah Arendt Publisher Comments Although Hannah Arendt is not primarily known as a Jewish thinker, she probably wrote more about Jewish issues than any other topic. As a young adult in Germany, she wrote about German Jewish history. After moving to France in 1933, she helped Jewish...
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Portraits of Our Past: Jews of the German Countryside
by Emily Rose Synopsis Emily Rose grew up looking at two large oil paintings hanging above the fireplace mantel in her grandfather's home in New York City. These paintings led her on a five-year journey to discover her heritage and the world of rural Germany. In the course of...
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion
by Israel Shahak Publisher Comments Israel Shahak, an Israeli Jew, born in Poland, incarcerated in Belsen and a resident in Israel for over 40 years, has produced an intriguing and controversial study of the extent to which the secular state of Israel has been shaped by religious...
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The Jewish Time Line Encyclopedia
by Mattis Kantor Publisher Comments This volume employs chronologies and time lines to convey Jewish history's greatest people and events....
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My Future Is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants
by Jocelyn Cohen Publisher Comments "Cohen and Soyer have done a masterful job of collecting and translating these gripping immigrant narratives. A must read for anyone interested in immigration, American history, or the Jewish experience in America." —Beth S. Wenger, Katz Family...
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