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  • Eat and Be Satisfied
    John Cooper
    Eat and Be Satisfied is the first comprehensive and critical history of Jewish food from biblical times until the present. John Cooper explores the traditional foods-the everyday diets as well as the specialties for the Sabbath and festivals-of both the Ashkenazic and Sephardic cuisines. He discusses the often debated question of what makes certain foods 'Jewish' and details th...
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    76,19 €

  • The Jews of Kurdistan
    Eric Brauer
    Following World War II, members of the sizable Jewish community in what had been Kurdistan, now part of Iraq, left their homeland and resettled in Palestine where they were quickly assimilated with the dominant Israeli-Jewish culture.The Jews of Kurdistan is a unique historical document in that it presents a picture of Kurdish Jewish life and culture prior to World War II. It i...
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    74,52 €

  • The Death of an American Jewish Community
    Hillel Levine / Lawrence Harmon
    ’The Death Of An American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions, ’ with much of its concentration on the policies of banks and real estate interests on ethnic communities in the 1960s, should help fill in the time line and develop an focus on ethnic relations and urban affairs more in the social structural direction. ...
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    22,37 €

  • The Industrial Revolution and British Society
    O'Brien Quinault / O’Brien Quinault
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    41,89 €

  • American Indian Children at School, 1850-1930
    Michael C. Coleman
    From more than a hundred autobiographical accounts written by American Indians recalling their schooling in government and missionary institutions this book recovers a perspective that was almost lost. In a system of pedagogy that was alien to their culture these and hundreds of others were wrested as youngsters from their tribal life and regimented to become American citizens....
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    50,09 €

  • Masonic Baptism
    Albert Pike
    Masonic Baptism: Reception of a Louveteau and Adoption is a book written by Albert Pike, a prominent figure in the history of Freemasonry. The book explores the ritual of Masonic baptism, specifically the reception of a Louveteau, which refers to a new member who is being initiated into the Masonic order. Pike delves into the symbolism and significance of the Masonic baptism ri...
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    31,22 €

  • Children of the Dream
    Audrey Edwards / Craig K. Polite / Craig KPolite
    Edwards and Polite focus on African American baby-boomers who have grown up possessing something no generation of African Americans has ever before experienced--entitlement. Surprising and often controversial, this groundbreaking book stands as vivid testimony to the increasingly complex world in which African Americans strive to succeed. ...
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    17,76 €

  • The Jewish Family in Antiquity
    Shaye J. D. Cohen / Shaye JDCohen
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    20,02 €

  • Diasporas in Antiquity
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    16,45 €

  • For Good and Evil
    Charles Adams / Lorenz Books
    The very word Taxes sends shivers up spines. Yet, very few realize the tremendous impact that taxation has had on civilization. The author changes that in this fascinating history. ...
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    27,28 €

  • The Jews
    Howard Fast
    A classic of popular history, Howard Fast’s masterwork on the 4,000-year history of a people is now available in trade paperback. ...
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    17,28 €

  • Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity
    Ian Morris / Morris Ian
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    68,11 €

  • The Hidden and Manifest God
    Peter Schaefer
    This book represents the first wide-scale presentation and interpretation of pre-kabbalistic, Jewish mysticism. This is the Hekhalot or Merkavah mysticism. The emphasis is on the conceptions of God, the angels, and man that the texts provide and that are the framework of the Judaic world view in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages.This interpretation is based on the maj...
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    40,92 €

  • People of the Body
    Howard Eilberg-Schwartz
    By shifting attention from the image of Jews as a textual community to the ways Jews understand and manage their bodies - for example, to their concerns with reproduction and sexuality, menstruation and childbirth- this volume contributes to a revisioning of what Jews and Judaism are and have been. The project of re-membering the Jewish body has both historical and constructiv...
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    42,76 €

  • Slavery and Abolition in Early Republican Peru (Latin American Silhouettes)
    Peter Blanchard
    In this work, Professor Blanchard examines why slavery managed to survive for more than three decades after Peru declared its independence despite anti-slavery legislation passed by the liberators at that time. The book focuses on the economics of Peruvian slavery, slave life and the abolition movement. Slavery and Abolition aims to offer an alternative example of a slavery sys...
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    55,65 €

  • Social Darwinism in American Thought
    Richard Hofstadter
    Are society’s disadvantaged doomed to get “selected out” of the economic pool? Is America’s social landscape a battleground for “survival of the fittest, where only the strong endure? Once again, biology is being used to explain human development, and right-wing ideologues claim reluctance to intervene in the “natural” workings of the economy. Richard Hofstadter’s now-classi...
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    25,25 €

  • Joseph Conrad
    Brian Spittles / Jonathan Parker
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    66,92 €

  • After Auschwitz
    Richard L. Rubenstein
    When first published in 1966, 'After Auschwitz' made headlines and sparked controversy as Jewish 'death-of-God' theology. In this substantially revised and expanded edition, Rubenstein returns to old questions and addresses new issues with the same passion and spirit that characterized his original work. 'Significant and often exciting . . . Rubenstein’s discussions are often s...
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    42,90 €

  • Chutzpah
    Alan M. Dershowitz / Alan MDershowitz
    The acclaimed #1 New York Times bestseller, written by a brilliant legal mind, on what it means to be a Jew in America today. Dershowitz discusses the changes they’ve witnessed, changes they’ve created, and the changes that must still take place. He examines anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, assimilation, Zionism, civil rights, changes in eastern Europe, and turmoil in the Middle E...
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    21,43 €

  • Legacy
    'Fourteen essays documenting the Vietnam War’s impact and continuing influence on American life, particularly on cinema, literature, the black community, and the combat veteran.' --Booklist ...
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    19,35 €

  • Manual of Freemasonry
    Richard Carlile
    A Manual of Freemasonry by Richard Carlile is a comprehensive guide to the history, principles, and practices of Freemasonry. The book delves into the origins of the fraternity, tracing its roots back to the ancient mysteries of Egypt, Greece, and Rome. It also explores the symbolism and rituals of Freemasonry, revealing the deeper meanings behind the symbols and ceremonies. Th...
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    38,56 €

  • Achaemenid Imperial Administration in Syria-Palestine & the Missions of Ezra & Nehemiah
    Kenneth G. Hoglund
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    28,26 €

  • Brothers
    Cynthia Cockburn
    ’Cockburn has managed that most difficult of tasks: to produce a book on an important social issue which is theoretically interesteing, factually informative and well written’ New Society ...
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    47,17 €

  • World of Ancient Israel
    This volume brings together work by scholars of international repute in order to explore fundamental questions about the kind of society we see reflected in the Bible. By adopting a cross-disciplinary approach, the various contributors recognise the valuable insights that can be gained when the social sciences are allowed to cross-fertilise with theology. ...
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    73,91 €

  • Maps And History In South-West England
    This volume of essays considers the practical and political purposes for which maps were used, the symbolic and ideological roles of maps in the history of South-Western England and the ways in which map evidence can be used to recover facts about the past for use in the writing of history. It is accompanied by 43 pages of maps and illustrations. ...
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    27,56 €

  • Black, Red and Deadly
    Art T. Burton / Arthur T. Burton
    Cherokee Bill, one of the meanest of the mean, was hanged for the murder of thirteen men by the time he was twenty. Author Art Burton recounts the exploits of Cherokee Bill and other black and Indian outlaws and lawmen in Black, Red, and Deadly, the story of law and lawlessness in the Indian Territory. He also tells of Dick Glass, the most notorious African American outlaw duri...
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    27,28 €

  • The Town That Started the Civil War
    Nat Brandt
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    17,66 €

  • Music and Musicians in Early Nineteenth-Century Cornwall
    Richard McGrady
    Taken from Africa into slavery by the Portuguese, kidnapped by the British Navy and held captive aboard ship during the French wars of the 1790s before being abandoned in Falmouth, the story of Joseph Emidy deserves telling in its own right. Emidy became a prominent figure in the musical scene in Cornwall for his remaining years. ...
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    31,30 €

  • The Making of the Modern Greek Family
    Paul Sant Cassia
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    207,81 €

  • Jews and the German State
    Peter Pulzer
    Unlike many historians who see the period between 1848 and 1933 primarily as one of growing anti-Semitism which culminated in the Nazi Party’s rise to power and the enactment of its program of genocide, Jews and the German State emphasizes the evolution of the ethnic identity, social roles, and political activities of German Jews. Pulzer documents their emergence of the Jews of...
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    33,23 €


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