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  • Jewish Women in Historical Perspective (Revised)
    Judith Baskin
    The last decades have seen a growing debate over the status of women in contemporary Judaism. As the conditions of secular Western life have allowed women greater choice in their educational and vocational opportunities and society has begun to endorse female equality with men, dissatisfaction with traditional Jewish limitations on women's participation in communal, religio...
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    39,10 €

  • Three Golden Ages
    Alf J. Mapp / Alf JMapp
    In this intriguing book, best-selling author Alf Mapp, Jr. explores three periods in Western history that exploded with creativity: Elizabethan England, Renaissance Florence, and America’s founding. What enabled these societies to make staggering jumps in scientific knowledge, develop new political structures, or create timeless works of art? ...
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    31,45 €

  • Christian Polemic against the Jews in the Middle Ages, The
    Gilbert Dahan / Jody Gladding
    Gilbert Dahan offers a compact overview of Jewish conditions in medieval Western Christendom, then moves to a discussion of the changing patterns of Christian-Jewish polemical confrontation. Dahan lays particular emphasis on the shift during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries from a fairly open exchange of views to a concerted Christian effort to convert the Jews. After esta...
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    28,65 €

  • Aristocratic Redoubt
    William D. Godsey Jr. / William DGodsey Jr.
    Aristocratic Redoubt: The Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office on the Eve of the First World War is a study of the nobility who served in the foreign office prior to World War I. Following the lead of historians who are reexamining pre-industrial elites in England and Germany, Godsey deals with such facets of aristocratic life as education, wealth, religion, and ethnicity. He conten...
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    27,60 €

  • With Good Intentions?
    Bill Kauffman
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    96,00 €

  • Resisting the Holocaust
    Ruby Rohrlich
    Although much has been written about the resistance to the Holocaust, public discussion still almost exclusively focuses on the resistance of male non-Jews. This reader seeks to redress the imbalance by looking at resistance from the perspective of the victims, almost exclusively Jewish and, in some cases, female. Their resistance embraces a variety of actions and movements, pa...
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    57,49 €

  • England’s Jewish Solution
    Robin R. Mundill / Robin RMundill
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    191,86 €

  • The Experts Speak
    Christopher Cerf / Victor Navasky / Victor S Navasky
    The new and updated version of a classic reference work brings the history of distortions, errors, half-truths, and outright lies into the information age.Who said the following?-- 'The one thing I won’t let happen to me is I won’t let a ball go through my legs'.(1)-- '640K ought to be enough for anybody'.(2)-- 'Bill Clinton will lose to any Republican nominee who doesn’t drool...
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    19,73 €

  • A Short History of Jerusalem
    Abraham EMillgram / Abraham Ezra Millgram
    A Short History of Jerusalem offers a concise, easy-to-read history of the land, and the country’s significance to the rest of the world. ...
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    124,84 €

  • Christian Polemic against the Jews in the Middle Ages, The
    Gilbert Dahan / Jody Gladding
    Gilbert Dahan offers a compact overview of Jewish conditions in medieval Western Christendom, then moves to a discussion of the changing patterns of Christian-Jewish polemical confrontation. Dahan lays particular emphasis on the shift during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries from a fairly open exchange of views to a concerted Christian effort to convert the Jews. After estab...
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    143,78 €

  • Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora
    John M.G. Barclay
    The first book to provide a comprehensive survey of the history of the Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora in the Hellenistic and early Roman period. Uniquely, it combines a study of all the important Jewish communities with a thorough examination of the Diaspora literature as a whole.An important reference for all scholars and students with an interest in Second Temple Judaism,...
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    121,53 €

  • The Times Were a Changin’
    Debi Unger / Irwin Unger
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    18,28 €

  • Jane Austen and Leisure
    David Selwyn
    Jane Austen’s novels portray a leisured society of gentlemen and ladies who do not need to work. Even the minority of clergymen, soldiers and sailors - men with professions - are almost never seen working. Jane Austen herself, despite responsibility for some domestic tasks, wrote as a woman of leisure. Yet leisure, the distinguishing mark of a gentleman, was not meant to be an ...
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    147,13 €

  • Tennessee Stories
    James Dumas
    Tennessee Stories’ vivid description of characters from the Eastern mountains to the Western flatlands creates an accurate, humorous, entertaining, and friendly image of the volunteer state’s personality. Their very presence speaks the same gutsy tongue as the sturdy pioneers who carved Tennessee from the wilderness.Tennessee Stories is Dumas’ second work in fifteen months. His...
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    21,83 €

  • Resistance
    Asrael Gutman / Israel Gutman
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    18,09 €

  • From Prejudice to Persecution
    Bruce F. Pauley / Bruce FPauley
    According to Simon Wiesenthal, nearly half of the crimes associated with the Holocaust were committed by Austrians, who comprised just 8.5 percent of the population of Hitler’s Greater German Reich. Bruce Pauley’s book explains this phenomenon by providing a history of Austrian anti-Semitism and Jewish responses to it from the Middle Ages to the present, with a particular focus...
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    70,02 €

  • A Family Occupation. Children of the War and the Memory of World War II in Dutch Literature of the 1980s
    Jolanda Vanderwal Taylor
    Many of today’s Dutch writers were children during World War II. Even today, the traumatic childhood experience of enemy occupation is still central to the work of many of them. This interest cuts across the traditional boundaries between fiction, autobiography and the literature of trauma and recovery. A Family Occupation is the first English-language introduction to Dutch-lan...
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    43,42 €

  • Pre-Historic Nations or Inquiries Concerning Some of the Great Peoples and Civilizations of Antiquity and their Probable Relation to a still Older Civilization of the Ethiopians or Cushites of Arabia
    John D. Baldwin / John DBaldwin
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    33,60 €

  • When Memory Speaks
    Nelly S. Toll / Nelly SToll
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    124,58 €

  • Roads to the Palace
    M. Rosenak / Michael Rosenak / MRosenak
    'Michael Rosenak is the world’s preeminent philosopher of Jewish education. His new book is a deep and imaginative exploration of the relationship between the great texts of the Jewish pastand the most profound issues of contemporary Jewish education. It is a marvelous accomplishment.' · Berry W. Holtz, Jewish Theological Seminary of America'Michael Rosenak has written a beaut...
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    184,00 €

  • Through a Speculum That Shines
    Elliot R. Wolfson / Elliot RWolfson
    A comprehensive treatment of visionary experience in some of the main texts of Jewish mysticism, this book reveals the overwhelmingly visual nature of religious experience in Jewish spirituality from antiquity through the late Middle Ages. Using phenomenological and critical historical tools, Wolfson examines Jewish mystical texts from late antiquity, pre-kabbalistic sources fr...
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    92,22 €

  • Esau’s Tears
    Albert S. Lindemann / Albert SLindemann
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    132,07 €

  • The New History Of The Italian South
    This collection brings together the work of a new generation of revisionist historians who argue that the true history of Southern Italy has been reduced to that of a ’Southern problem’ viewed through a Northern prism. ...
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    31,19 €

  • Cornish Studies Volume 5
    The fifth volume in this acclaimed paperback series covers a wide range of topics, including Celtic Cornwall, Cornish politics, the Cornish economy, Cornish genetics, constructions of language and race in contemporary Cornwall, Cornish rugby, and education in Cornwall. ...
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    27,38 €

  • Daily Life in the United States, 1960-1990
    Myron Marty
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    94,81 €

  • History, Experience and Cultural Studies
    Michael Pickering
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    68,06 €

  • Through a Glass Darkly
    These thirteen original essays are provocative explorations in the construction and representation of self in America’s colonial and early republican eras. Highlighting the increasing importance of interdisciplinary research for the field of early American history, these leading scholars in the field extend their reach to literary criticism, anthropology, psychology, and materi...
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    60,15 €

  • Children, Childhood and English Society, 1880 1990
    Harry Hendrick
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    42,63 €

  • Children, Childhood and English Society, 1880 1990
    Harry Henderick / Harry Hendrick / Hendrick Harry
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    76,58 €

  • Jewish Messiah
    Dan Cohn-Sherbok / Daniel C. Cohn-Sherbok
    A detailed exploration of the biblical idea of the Messiah and its development over three thousand years. ...
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    64,21 €


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