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  • A Time for Building, Volume 3
    Gerald Sorin / TBD
    Volume III: A Time for Building. The years between 1880 and 1920 marked the third great migration of Jews tothe U.S.--including more than two million from the Russian empire, Austria-Hungary, and Rumania. A Time for Building describes the experiences of Jews who stayed in the large cities of the Northeast and Midwest as well as those who moved to smaller towns in the deep South...
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    35,21 €

  • A Time for Searching
    Henry L. Feingold
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    40,30 €

  • A Time for Healing
    Edward S. Shapiro
    Volume V: A Time for Healing. A Time for Healing chronicles a time of rapid economic and social progress. Yet this phenomenal success, explains Edward S. Shapiro, came at a cost. Shapiro takes seriously the potential threat to Jewish culture posed by assimilation and intermarriage-asking if the Jewish people, having already endured so much, will survive America’s freedom and af...
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    35,18 €

  • Iron and Steel
    Henry M. McKiven Jr. / Henry MMcKiven Jr.
    In this study of Birmingham’s iron and steel workers, Henry McKiven unravels the complex connections between race relations and class struggle that shaped the city’s social and economic order. He also traces the links between the process of class formation and the practice of community building and neighborhood politics. According to McKiven, the white men who moved to Bir...
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    54,60 €

  • About the House
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    75,83 €

  • Philosophy and Law
    Leo Strauss / Eve Adler
    A groundbreaking study of the political philosophy of Maimonides and his Islamic predecessors. ...
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    41,13 €

  • The Care of Strangers
    Charles E. Rosenberg
    This widely acclaimed history traces every facet of the hospital’s social and professional transformations. Many of today’s obsessions with technology, rigid bureaucracy, and uncontrolled cost can be found in hospitals more than half a century ago. Illustrated. ...
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    45,20 €

  • America in European Consciousness, 1493-1750
    Karen Ordahl Kupperman
    The five hundredth anniversary of Columbus’s first transatlantic voyage has provoked an outpouring of scholarship on how European exploration and colonization affected America. This book of eleven essays from leading scholars in the fields of intellectual and cultural history reverses that trend by focusing on the ways in which contact with the Americas transformed European tho...
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    70,09 €

  • Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America
    A distinguished international group of historians, anthropologists, and sociologists examines the production, processing, and marketing of coffee. Using this important commodity as a common denominator and focusing on landholding patterns, labor mobilization, class structure, and political ideologies, the authors examine how Latin American countries of the late 19th and early 2...
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    43,15 €

  • Hasidism
    Moshe Idel
    Approaches Hasidism as an important stage in Jewish mysticism, rather than as a mere reaction to or result of historical and social forces. ...
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    46,48 €

  • Hasidic Williamsburg
    George Kranzler
    Hasidic Williamsburg recounts the dramatic emergence of this unique community in the face of major crises. It is the story of the loyalty of its members to their rebbes and their teachings and to the milieu they created in an old Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. Based on his previous book Williamsburg: A Jewish Community in Transition, which reported the transformatio...
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    155,34 €

  • The Middling Sort of People
    Christopher Brooks / Jonathan Barry
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    66,55 €

  • American Consuls in the Holy Land, 1832-1914
    Ruth Kark
    This volume provides new insights into the role of U.S. consuls in the Ottoman Middle East in the special context of the Holy Land. The motivations and functioning of the American consuls in Jerusalem, and of the consular agents in Jaffa and Haifa, are analyzed as part of the US diplomatic and consular activity throughout the world, and of Western involvement in the Ottoman Emp...
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    77,69 €

  • Poisoned Embrace
    Lawrence Osborne
    Since the days of the Early Fathers, sex and death have formed a theological equation known as 'sexual pessimism'--an aversion to the carnal which consequently elevates the virginal and the chaste. Here, Osborne gives a bracing account of how we imagine one of the most intimate aspects of our lives. ...
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    16,87 €

  • The Black Death
    Rosemary Horrox
    This book surveys contemporary responses to the Black Death. The sources illustrate the fear that spread with the disease and the diverse ways that such terror influenced social behaviour. ...
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    29,17 €

  • Idlewild and Woodland Park, Michigan an African American Remembers
    Rose Louise Hammond
    Idlewild and Woodland Park, Michigan is one of the countries first African American resorts, owned and operated by African Americans. This book is a historical compilation of interviews conducted during the summers of 1994 and 1995 with some of the few original owners or families still holding property ownership in Idlewild and Woodland Park, Michigan The reader will see some...
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    9,38 €

  • Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece
    Nancy Demand
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    49,76 €

  • Jews of Spain
    Jane S. Gerber / Jane SGerber
    The history of the Jews of Spain is a remarkable story that begins in the remote past and continues today. For more than a thousand years, Sepharad (the Hebrew word for Spain) was home to a large Jewish community noted for its richness and virtuosity. Summarily expelled in 1492 and forced into exile, their tragedy of expulsion marked the end of one critical phase of their histo...
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    23,26 €

  • Gringo Justice
    Alfredo Mirandé
    Gringo Justice is a comprehensive analysis and interpretation of the experiences of the Chicano people with the legal and judicial system in the United States. Beginning in 1848 and working to the present, a theory of Gringo justice is developed and applied to specific areas-displacement from the land, vigilantes and social bandits, the border, the police, gangs, and prisons. A...
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    41,09 €

  • Elie Wiesel
    Robert McAfee Brown
    Upon presenting the 1986 Nobel Prize for Peace to Elie Wiesel, Egil Aarvick, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee, hailed him as 'a messenger to mankind--not with a message of hate and revenge but with one of brotherhood and atonement.' Elie Wiesel: Messenger to All Humanity, first published in 1983, echoes this theme and still affirms that message, a call to both C...
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    41,26 €

  • The Masterless
    Wilfred M. McClay / Wilfred MMcClay
    In this provocative book, Wilfred McClay considers the long-standing tension between individualism and social cohesion in conceptions of American culture. Exploring ideas of unity and diversity as they have evolved since the Civil War, he illuminates the historical background to our ongoing search for social connectedness and sources of authority in a society increasingly domin...
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    70,34 €

  • Feminine Ingenuity
    Anne L. MacDonald / Anne LMacDonald
    'What useful things have American women conceived of and developed that have contributed to the progress of technology, science, and engineering?' Raise that question, even among educated feminists of the 1990s, and you are likely to be met with a fumbling for names. Raise it among the skeptics of women’s creative talents and they will reply 'Where, after all, is the historical...
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    22,81 €

  • African-American Voices in Young Adult Literature
    Karen Patricia Smith
    Now in paperback! A collection of fourteen essays that address major issues related to significant works of African-American young adult literature. ...
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    128,26 €

  • On the Edge of Destruction
    Celia S. Heller
    On the Edge of Destruction, focusing on the Jews of Poland between the two World Wars, illuminates a critical time in the recent Jewish past that has received surprisingly little attention. The Holocaust virtually destroyed the Jews of Poland, once a community of more than three million, constituting ten percent of the population, and the oldest continuous Jewish community in a...
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    34,65 €

  • Lay My Burden Down
    Jerrold I. Hirsch
    This collection of nearly 300 narratives tells the real story of life under slavery, as told by those who actually lived it. 'Every historian, every teacher, every citizen who is concerned about the problem of intercultural education and understanding will want to read this book'.--Christian Science Monitor. 16 pages of photos. ...
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    17,52 €

  • Black Neighbors
    Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
    Professing a policy of cultural and social integration, the American settlement house movement made early progress in helping immigrants adjust to life in American cities. However, when African Americans migrating from the rural South in the early twentieth century began to replace white immigrants in settlement environs, most houses failed to redirect their efforts toward thei...
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    61,12 €

  • The Jewish Time Line Encyclopedia
    Mattis Kantor
    Beginning with the creation of the universe in the Jewish year (3760 B.C.E.) and ending with the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon in 5745 (1985). This volume employs chronologies and time lines to convey Jewish history’s people and events. Kantor writes from the perspective of a traditional Jew, covering events such as the Flood, giving of the Torah, and the fall of the Tower of...
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    70,36 €

  • Cornish Studies Volume 1
    The first 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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    27,65 €

  • A Pilgrim’s Path
    John J. Robinson / John JRobinson
    It’s a masterpiece...if you’re interested in American Masonry and its impact on our country, this book is for you.-Brent Morris, The Scottish Rite Journal ...
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    13,94 €

  • Bassically Speaking
    Benny Carter / David Chevan / Edward Berger
    Duvivier’s reflections on growing up in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s, the evolution of the bass, life in the commercial studios, and his memories of close associates. With discography/solography and previously unpublished photographs. ...
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    156,72 €


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