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  • Eyewitness Auschwitz
    Filip Müller
    Filip Müller's firsthand account of three years in the gas chambers. One of the few prisoners who saw the Jewish people die and lived to tell about it, Müller has written one of the key documents of the Holocaust. ...
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    13,05 €

  • In the Blink of an Eye
    Pat Milton
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    17,45 €

  • The Tenochca Empire of Ancient Mexico
    Pedro Carrasco
    Volume 234 in the Civilization of the American Indian SeriesThe most important political entity in pre-Spanish Mesoamerica was the Tenochca Empire, founded in 1428 when the three kingdoms of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan formed an alliance that controlled the Basin of Mexico and other extensive areas of Mesoamerica.In a unique political structure, each of the three allie...
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    56,08 €

  • Great Moments in Sex
    Cheryl Rilly
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    16,89 €

  • History of Libraries of the Western World
    Michael H Harris / Michael H. Harris / Michael HHarris
    This edition of the History of Libraries in the Western World represents a substantial revision of the earlier edition, taking into account the 'information revolution' that has swept the West since 1945 and the political revolution that swept across Europe beginning in 1986. ...
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    88,70 €

  • Debating War and Peace
    Jonathan Mermin
    The First Amendment ideal of an independent press allows American journalists to present critical perspectives on government policies and actions; but are the media independent of government in practice? Here Jonathan Mermin demonstrates that when it comes to military intervention, journalists over the past two decades have let the government itself set the terms and boundaries...
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    61,46 €

  • Women’s Roles in Ancient Civilizations
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    105,21 €

  • The Twelfth-century Renaissance
    R. N. Swanson / R.N. Swanson / RNSwanson
    This volume surveys the wide range of cultural and intellectual changes in western Europe in the period c.1050-c.1250An up-to-date survey of previous historical work in this field, the book provides a useful starting point for those new to this period. . . . ...
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    28,46 €

  • Tyranny of the Common Man and the Perversion of American Liberties
    Ralph Cantafio
    Dr. Ralph Cantafio traces the great changes which have occurred in American society over the past twenty years as a result of political, ethical and moral decline. An in-depth look at the forces that have turned American society away from the path as envisioned by our forefathers. ...
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    23,65 €

  • Tyranny of the Common Man and the Perversion of American Liberties
    Ralph Cantafio
    Dr. Ralph Cantafio traces the great changes which have occurred in American society over the past twenty years as a result of political, ethical and moral decline. An in-depth look at the forces that have turned American society away from the path as envisioned by our forefathers. ...
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    10,25 €

  • Ancient Mesopotamia
    Pollock Susan / Susan Pollock
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    42,03 €

  • Ancient Mesopotamia
    Susan Pollock
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    126,92 €

  • Hiring the Black Worker
    Timothy J. Minchin / Timothy JMinchin
    In the 1960s and 1970s, the textile industry’s workforce underwent a dramatic transformation, as African Americans entered the South’s largest industry in growing numbers. Only 3.3 percent of textile workers were black in 1960; by 1978, this number had risen to 25 percent. Using previously untapped legal records and oral history interviews, Timothy Minchin crafts a compelling a...
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    60,66 €

  • Semites and Anti-Semites
    Bernard W. Lewis / Bernard WLewis
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    17,23 €

  • Monsters and Madonnas
    Judith Taylor Gold
    Gold challenges traditional views that trace the source of Christian antisemitism to the presentation of Jews in the first four books of the New Testament. ...
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    28,22 €

  • Provincial Lives
    Timothy R. Mahoney / Timothy RMahoney
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    144,68 €

  • Jews
    Arthur Hertzberg
    This book offers a new and startling perspective on how Jews relate to people of other traditions while also defining the challenge, responsibility, and essence of being a Jew in our time. Jews: The Essence and Character of a People defies the conventional view of Jews that has prevailed for centuries and presents a compelling and realistic portrait of contemporary Jews. This i...
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    18,28 €

  • Profiles of a Lost World
    Hirsz Abramowicz
    First published in a Yiddish edition in 1958, Profiles of a Lost World is a source of information about Eastern Europe before World War II as well as an touchstone for understanding a rich and complex cultural environment. Hirsz Abramowicz (1881-1960), a prominent Jewish educator, writer and cultural activist, knew that world and wrote about it, and his writings provide an eyew...
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    63,11 €

  • English Pasts
    Stefan Collini
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    74,66 €

  • ’Final Solution’
    G. Tz Aly / G?tz Aly / Gotz Aly
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    41,80 €

  • The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow
    Adam Czerniakow / Adam Hilberg / Joseph Kermish
    Before he killed himself in 1942, Czerniakow was for almost three years the Nazi-sponsored "mayor" of the Warsaw Ghetto—yet a Jew, devoted to his people. This secret journal is not only the testimony of an unbearable personal burden but the documentary of the Ghetto’s terminal agony. It is the most important diary to emerge from the Holocaust. ...
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    29,39 €

  • Courage
    Barbara Darling-Smith
    This timely book brings together ten scholars in the varied fields of philosophy, theology, history, anthropology, and literature to reflect on the theme of courage. Contributors to this volume agree that courage is not just for the few or the dramatically heroic. While some of the authors do invoke awe-inspiring instances of death-defying courage, all recognize that courage is...
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    34,41 €

  • The Politics of Ritual Kinship
    Nicholas Terpstra
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    219,43 €

  • Discontented America
    David J Goldberg
    Too often, notes historian David Goldberg, the mythic allure of the 'Roaring Twenties' has deafened our ears to the real voices of those who lived through the decade. In Discontented America, he integrates social and political history to provide a new take on the 1920s - an account deeply rooted in the perspectives of that time. Goldberg argues that this contentious and fascina...
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    39,62 €

  • A Society Transformed
    In the past half-century every Central and East European society has been twice subject to transformation. Initially, Hungary was transformed by communist-style modernization, increasing industry, expanding secondary education and improving health. The second shock was the collapse of the communist regime and the introduction of democratic institutions and a market economy. How...
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    87,93 €

  • Communings of the Spirit
    MORDECAI M KAPLAN
    Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881-1983), founder of Reconstructionism, is the preeminent American Jewish thinker and rabbi of our times. His life embodies the American Jewish experience of the first half of the twentieth century. With passionate intensity and uncommon candor, Kaplan compulsively recorded his experience in his journal (some 10,000 pages). This first volume of Communings...
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    41,19 €

  • Reconstructing the Society of Ancient Israel
    McNutt
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    47,01 €

  • Women and Womanhood in the Talmud
    Shulamit Valler / Betty Sigler Rozen
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    22,30 €

  • (God) After Auschwitz
    Zachary Braiterman
    The impact of technology-enhanced mass death in the twentieth century, argues Zachary Braiterman, has profoundly affected the future shape of religious thought. In his provocative book, the author shows how key Jewish theologians faced the memory of Auschwitz by rejecting traditional theodicy, abandoning any attempt to justify and vindicate the relationship between God and cata...
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    140,52 €

  • An Introduction to the Kabbalah
    Moshe Hallamish / Ora Wiskind-Elper / Ruth Bar-Ilan
    Provides an introduction to the world of the Kabbalah, focusing on both the Kabbalist as a person and the major teachings of the Kabbalah. ...
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    42,80 €


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