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Jewish Year Book 2008
ISBN: 9780853037989 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Essays: Eric Moonman: Liverpool, Cultural Capital 2008 and Liverpool Jewry --- Bernard Davis: Celia Rose and Lou Rose: Youth Club Leaders of the 1950s --- Jonathan Beckman: Sigmund Freud and His Arrival in London in 1938 --- Anthony J. Dunn: Novelist and Film-maker Wolf Mankowitz --- The Jewish Year Book 2008 provides a comprehensive directory of the communal institutions and organisations that make up the fabric of British Jewish society. It is a guide to the structures and networks of the religious, social, educational, cultural, and welfare organisations of the Jewish community across the...
Essays: Eric Moonman: Liverpool, Cultural Capital 2008 and Liverpool Jewry --- Bernard Davis: Celia Rose and Lou Rose: Youth Club Leaders of the 1950s...
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219,50 zł |
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Cecilia Razovsky and the American Jewish Women's Rescue Operations in the Second World War
ISBN: 9780853037651 / Angielski / Miękka / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book highlights Jewish women's activities in the 1930s and 1940s as they were reflected in one outstanding woman - Cecilia Razovsky. Her wide range of activities spanning more than fifty years and her outstanding devotion to assisting refugees and refugee children reveal her as a woman who dedicated her personal life and her professional skills to the Jewish people. Without doubt, she stands as a representative for the thousands of anonymous American-Jewish women, who made a difference. The book is based on primary sources. The Jewish-American campaign for the European refugees before...
This book highlights Jewish women's activities in the 1930s and 1940s as they were reflected in one outstanding woman - Cecilia Razovsky. Her wide ran...
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97,31 zł |
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The Memory of the Holocaust in Australia
ISBN: 9780853037958 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays considers the development of Holocaust memory in Australia since 1945. Bringing together the work of younger and more established scholars, the volume examines Holocaust memory in a variety of local and national contexts from both inside and outside of Australia's Jewish communities. The articles presented here emanate from a variety of different disciplinary perspectives, from history through literary, cultural and museum studies. This collection considers both the general development of Holocaust memory, engaging historically with particular moments when the Shoah...
This collection of essays considers the development of Holocaust memory in Australia since 1945. Bringing together the work of younger and more establ...
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97,31 zł |
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Jewish Socialists in the United States: The Cahan Debate, 1925-1926
ISBN: 9781898723981 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1925 Abe (Abraham) Cahan, the strong and influential editor of the most important Jewish newspaper, Forward, and an outstanding leader of the Jewish Labor movement in the United States, visited Palestine in order to come to terms with the problem of Jewish mass migration from East Europe. During and following his trip Cahan published his impressions about the Jewish National Home. His publications stirred a public debate, which lasted almost a year, between the supporters and Bundist antagonists to Palestine. A lmost all major leaders in the Jewish labour movement participated in this...
In 1925 Abe (Abraham) Cahan, the strong and influential editor of the most important Jewish newspaper, Forward, and an outstanding leader of the Jewis...
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539,12 zł |
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Jewish Parliamentarians
ISBN: 9780853038177 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. July 2008 marks the 150th anniversary of the passing of the Oath Act which enabled Jews to become members of parliament without taking the Oath of Allegiance "on the true faith of a Christian." Lionel de Rothschild was the first to be allowed to swear on the Old Testament, using less contentious wording. Since that time there have been just over 200 Jewish MPs and to mark the anniversary Lord Janner and Derek Taylor are writing a history of their work and achievements. The book describes the background to the political scene and includes a short biography of each of the MPs. Among the many...
July 2008 marks the 150th anniversary of the passing of the Oath Act which enabled Jews to become members of parliament without taking the Oath of All...
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97,31 zł |
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Hebrew Writing of the First World War
ISBN: 9780853037712 / Angielski / Miękka / 405 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discusses the works by Hebrew writers who served in the trenches of the Eastern Front and in the Ottoman army in Palestine.
Discusses the works by Hebrew writers who served in the trenches of the Eastern Front and in the Ottoman army in Palestine.
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97,31 zł |
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Latin American Jewish Cultural Production
ISBN: 9780826516237 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Latin America is home to roughly half a million Jews, preponderantly Ashkenazic Jews. The majority are concentrated in Argentina, but Brazil and Mexico are also home to significant Jewish communities, as are major urban centers in other countries. Jews in Latin America, in addition to their prominent role in business, commerce, and finance, have a significant presence in cultural production and the arts. Like Hollywood, the Argentine and Mexican film industry is heavily Jewish, while the media--print journalism, radio, and television--have long been associated with Jewish interests. The open...
Latin America is home to roughly half a million Jews, preponderantly Ashkenazic Jews. The majority are concentrated in Argentina, but Brazil and Mexic...
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544,05 zł |
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Latin American Jewish Cultural Production
ISBN: 9780826516244 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Latin America is home to roughly half a million Jews, preponderantly Ashkenazic Jews. The majority are concentrated in Argentina, but Brazil and Mexico are also home to significant Jewish communities, as are major urban centers in other countries. Jews in Latin America, in addition to their prominent role in business, commerce, and finance, have a significant presence in cultural production and the arts. Like Hollywood, the Argentine and Mexican film industry is heavily Jewish, while the media--print journalism, radio, and television--have long been associated with Jewish interests. The open...
Latin America is home to roughly half a million Jews, preponderantly Ashkenazic Jews. The majority are concentrated in Argentina, but Brazil and Mexic...
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221,24 zł |
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Jewish Eating and Identity Through the Ages
ISBN: 9780415476409 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the history of Jewish eating and identity, from the Bible to the present. In this colourful history, we get more than a taste of how expressive and crucial eating choices have always been.
This book explores the history of Jewish eating and identity, from the Bible to the present. In this colourful history, we get more than a taste of ho...
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277,99 zł |
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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
ISBN: 9780060822187 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lucette Lagnado's father, Leon, is a successful Egyptian businessman and boulevardier who, dressed in his signature white sharkskin suit, makes deals and trades at Shepherd's Hotel and at the dark bar of the Nile Hilton. After the fall of King Farouk and the rise of the Nasser dictatorship, Leon loses everything and his family is forced to flee, abandoning a life once marked by beauty and luxury to plunge into hardship and poverty, as they take flight for any country that would have them. A vivid, heartbreaking, and powerful inversion of the American dream, Lucette Lagnado's... Lucette Lagnado's father, Leon, is a successful Egyptian businessman and boulevardier who, dressed in his signature white sharkskin suit, makes dea... |
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65,29 zł |
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Cecilia Razovsky and the American Jewish Women's Rescue Operations in the Second World War
ISBN: 9780853037644 / Angielski / Twarda / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book highlights Jewish women's activities in the 1930s and 1940s as they were reflected in one outstanding woman - Cecilia Razovsky. Her wide range of activities spanning more than fifty years and her outstanding devotion to assisting refugees and refugee children reveal her as a woman who dedicated her personal life and her professional skills to the Jewish people. Without doubt, she stands as a representative for the thousands of anonymous American-Jewish women, who made a difference. The book is based on primary sources. The Jewish-American campaign for the European refugees before...
This book highlights Jewish women's activities in the 1930s and 1940s as they were reflected in one outstanding woman - Cecilia Razovsky. Her wide ran...
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219,50 zł |
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Book of Tahkemoni: Jewish Tales from Medieval Spain
ISBN: 9781874774983 / Angielski / Miękka / 732 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The crowning jewel of medieval Hebrew rhymed prose in vigorous translation vividly illuminates a lost Iberian world. With full scholarly annotation and literary analysis.
The crowning jewel of medieval Hebrew rhymed prose in vigorous translation vividly illuminates a lost Iberian world. With full scholarly annotation an...
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177,91 zł |
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When Fairy Tales Kill: The Origins and Transmission of Antisemitic Beliefs
ISBN: 9780595481408 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "When Fairy Tales Kill" offers the reader an understanding of why some beliefs e.g. antisemitism are more enduring than others. "When Fairy Tales Kill" begins with the unexplored region of fairy tales several of which quietly carry antisemitic messages. It then moves on to adult folk beliefs and provides examples of antisemitic folk tales from around the globe. The conclusions are inevitable. A listing of major antisemitic attacks, pogroms and mass killings is juxtaposed to the legend-rumor that triggered the attack. And the reasons that these legends persist in modern times, may surprise you.
"When Fairy Tales Kill" offers the reader an understanding of why some beliefs e.g. antisemitism are more enduring than others. "When Fairy Tales Kill...
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65,14 zł |
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Psalms of Solomon: A New Translation and Introduction
ISBN: 9781596890794 / Angielski / Twarda / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Psalms of Solomon is an ancient Jewish writing from the Second Century BC. As a primary source written by a Jewish writer living during the turmoil of the desecration of the Jerusalem Temple by King Antiochus IV Epiphanes of Syria, who forced Jews to eat non-kosher food, abstain from circumcision, and break the Sabbath Day, Psalms of Solomon accurately depicts the angst and trepidation that seized the whole Jewish populace in Jerusalem. Although the poet-composer of Psalms of Solomon witnessed the eventual victory of Jews over the Syrians in Jerusalem along with other Jewish survivors, he did...
Psalms of Solomon is an ancient Jewish writing from the Second Century BC. As a primary source written by a Jewish writer living during the turmoil of...
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275,31 zł |
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Psalms of Solomon: A New Translation and Introduction
ISBN: 9781596890800 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Psalms of Solomon is an ancient Jewish writing from the Second Century BC. As a primary source written by a Jewish writer living during the turmoil of the desecration of the Jerusalem Temple by King Antiochus IV Epiphanes of Syria, who forced Jews to eat non-kosher food, abstain from circumcision, and break the Sabbath Day, Psalms of Solomon accurately depicts the angst and trepidation that seized the whole Jewish populace in Jerusalem. Although the poet-composer of Psalms of Solomon witnessed the eventual victory of Jews over the Syrians in Jerusalem along with other Jewish survivors, he did...
Psalms of Solomon is an ancient Jewish writing from the Second Century BC. As a primary source written by a Jewish writer living during the turmoil of...
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127,79 zł |
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Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 15: Focusing on Jewish Religious Life, 1500-1900
ISBN: 9781874774723 / Angielski / Miękka / 574 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume highlights new research on Jewish spiritual and religious life in Poland before modern political ideas began to transform the Jewish world. It covers a range of topics. Three articles deal with rabbinic scholarship in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and a fourth presents accounts of Purim festivities at that time. The eighteenth-century studies focus on Jewish spirituality. Four articles deal with the Frankist movement, the main topics being Frankist propaganda; non-Christian Frankists; Jonathan Eibeschuetz and the Frankists; and the influence of Frankism on Polish...
This volume highlights new research on Jewish spiritual and religious life in Poland before modern political ideas began to transform the Jewish world...
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177,91 zł |
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Folklare Of The Jews
ISBN: 9780710311986 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rappoport draws together the popular beliefs, practices, superstitions, and traditional wisdom relating to all aspects of Jewish life.
Rappoport draws together the popular beliefs, practices, superstitions, and traditional wisdom relating to all aspects of Jewish life.
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1073,11 zł |
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Creation and Guilt
ISBN: 9780853030294 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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268,28 zł |
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The Medieval Jewish Mind
ISBN: 9780853030430 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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97,31 zł |
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Philip Magnus: Victorian Educational Pioneer
ISBN: 9780853030447 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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170,72 zł |