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  • The Way of Woman
    Helen M. Luke / Helen MLuke
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    16,11 €

  • Zionist Culture and West European Jewry Before the First World War
    Michael Berkowitz
    Focusing on the cultural invention of Zionism, Michael Berkowitz explores how and why the Jewish nationalist movement was embraced by assimilated Jews of Western Europe before World War I. He pays special attention to the symbolism, artistic representations, and mythology that attracted European Jews to Zionism, which coexisted equally with the nationalisms of their home countr...
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    61,00 €

  • In Memory’s Kitchen
    Cara de Silva / Bianca Steiner Brown
    A beautiful memorial to the brave women who defied Hitler by preserving a part of their hertiage and a part of themselves in this handwritten collection of recipes, proving that the Nazis could not break the spirit of the Jewish people. ...
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    37,18 €

  • After The Ruins
    Hugh Clout / Hugh Prof. Clout
    After the Ruins uses both official and unofficial records to explore a relatively ignored aspect of recent rural history: how the fields, farms, villages and market towns of Northern France were restored during the 1920s in the aftermath of the Great War. ...
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    116,52 €

  • The History of Lesbian Hair
    Mary Dugger
    In The History of Lesbian Hair, Mary Dugger delivers an unrelentingly hilarious view of the modern world. The redoubtable Ms. D. offers an uproarious array of illustrated essays, diagrams, and short takes, subdivided into Life ('The Downside to Lesbian Chic', how to 'Build Your Own Lesbian', 'So You Want to Be a Straight Girl', and the ultimate definition of children - 'pets wi...
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    14,52 €

  • South
    B. C. Hall / BCHall / C. T. Wood / CTWood
    An anecdotal, rollicking tour through America’s most colorful region. From the Tidewater through Appalachia, down the Blue Ridge country and into the sunbelt, B.C. Hall and C.T. Wood take us through the American South, inviting us to listen to its music -- blues, country, gospel, and rock -- and to the voices that have shaped its extraordinary, distinctive literature. Interweav...
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    22,35 €

  • A History of Jewish Life from Eastern Europe to America
    Milton Meltzer
    Tens of thousands of Jews were injured or killed in the pogroms of the early 1880s and those of the early 1900s. Ninety-five percent of the Jewish population was restricted to a life of poverty and starvation in the ghetto and barred from schools and universities. Ultimately, four million Jews left Eastern Europe between 1880 and 1924, three million of whom settled in America. ...
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    150,80 €

  • Guardians of the Lights
    Elinor De Wire
    In a charming blend of history and human interest, this book paints a colorful portrait of the lives of a vanished breed—the lighthouse keepers—from the year 1716, when the first lighthouse was established in America, to the early 1980s when automation replaced the last human 'guardian of the light.' A wealth of material from the archives of the 19th and 20th centuries—primaril...
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    18,72 €

  • Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine
    Peter Garnsey
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    61,58 €

  • The Jews of Hungary
    Raphael Patai
    The Jews of Hungary is the first comprehensive history in any language of the unique Jewish community that has lived in the Carpathian Basin for eighteen centuries, from Roman times to the present. Noted historian and anthropologist Raphael Patai, himself a native of Hungary, tells in this pioneering study the fascinating story of the struggles, achievements, and setbacks that ...
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    84,82 €

  • Maimonides on the 'Decline of the Generations' and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority
    Menachem Kellner
    Shows to what extent and in what fashion Jews are bound to accept the opinions and the pronouncements of religious authorities. ...
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    41,19 €

  • The Net of Dreams
    Julie Salamon
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    17,58 €

  • The Non-Jewish Origins of the Sephardic Jews
    Paul Wexler
    The author uses linguistic, ethnographic, and historical evidence to support his theory that the origins of Sephardic Jews are predominantly Berber and Arab. ...
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    43,01 €

  • Reading Ruth
    Judith Kates
    In Reading Ruth, thirty contemporary Jewish novelists, essayists, poets, rabbis, psychologists, and scholars - including Cynthia Ozick, Marge Piercy, Francine Klagsbrun, and Nessa Rapoport - explore this biblical work and reclaim it for women on their own terms. In lively essays, poetry, fiction, and personal narrative, a breathtaking gamut of women’s experience in the modern w...
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    19,99 €

  • The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated
    Florentino García Martínez
    One of the world's foremost experts on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Qumran community that produced them provides an authoritative new English translation of the two hundred longest and most important nonbiblical Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran, along with an introduction to the history of the discovery and publication of each manuscript and the background necessary for pla...
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    55,87 €

  • From Deliverance To Destruction
    Mark Prof. Stoyle / Mark Stoyle
    This is a study of the city of Exeter during the Great Civil War of 1642-46; it offers a lively, immediate account of how one English city slid, inexorably, into the chaos of civil war. The main text is accompanied by a generous collection of transcripts from original seventeenth-century documents. ...
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    30,84 €

  • Loyalty And Locality
    Mark Prof. Stoyle / Mark Stoyle
    This volume is a study of popular behaviour during the English Civil War, in particular the way in which regions and cities allied themselves with either side and the social and cultural roots of this choice. ...
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    36,48 €

  • The Place of Judaism in Philo's Thought
    Ellen Birnbaum
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    28,29 €

  • Cornish Studies Volume 3
    The third volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation. ...
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    27,26 €

  • The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells
    Ida B. Wells / Ida B. Wells-Barnett / Ida BWells / Ida BWells-Barnett
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    18,78 €

  • Living in the Shadow of Death
    Sheila M. Rothman
    For more than 150 years, until well into the twentieth century, tuberculosis was the dreaded scourge that AIDS is for us today. Based on the diaries and letters of hundreds of individuals over five generations, Living in the Shadow of Death is the first book to present an intimate and evocative portrait of what it was like for patients as well as families and communities to str...
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    44,42 €

  • Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism
    Lance J. Sussman
    More than any other person of his time, Isaac Leeser 0806-1868) envisioned the development of a major center of Jewish culture and religious activity in the United States. He single-handedly provided American Jews with many of the basic religious texts, institutions, and conceptual tools they needed to construct the cultural foundation of what would later emerge as the largest ...
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    34,21 €

  • The Sacred Chain
    Norman F Cantor / Norman F. Cantor / Norman FCantor
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    16,38 €

  • Disease, Medicine and Society in England, 1550 1860
    Roy Porter
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    49,24 €

  • Philosopher and Prophet
    Yochanan Silman
    This book relates the various strata of Halevi’s Book of Kuzari to the different periods of Halevi’s philosophical development. ...
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    42,84 €

  • Circle in the Square
    Elliot R Wolfson / Elliot R. Wolfson
    This book deals with the issue of gender in Jewish mysticism showing the thematic correlation of eroticism and esotericism that is central to the kabbalah. ...
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    43,25 €

  • The Shape of Athenian Law
    S. C. Todd / SCTodd
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    136,55 €

  • English Society in the Later Middle Ages
    S.H. Rigby
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    66,20 €

  • Food in History
    Reay Tannahill
    An enthralling world history of food from prehistoric times to the present. A favorite of gastronomes and history buffs alike, Food in History is packed with intriguing information, lore, and startling insights--like what cinnamon had to do with the discovery of America, and how food has influenced population growth and urban expansion. ...
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    16,20 €

  • From Ta’izz To Tyneside
    Richard I. Lawless / Richard Lawless
    This book is the first in-depth study of early Arab immigrants to Britain, and provides a unique insight into their everyday lives. ...
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    50,79 €


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