The Marais: The Story of a Quartier
ISBN: 9781802078091 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A cultural history of one of Paris’s most fascinating and variegated areas, whose history can be summarized as ‘from riches to rags and back again.’ The Marais was the beating heart of fashionable Paris from the Middle Ages through to the time of Louis XIV, when the court’s move to Versailles marked the start of a decline in its fortunes. Thereafter it became a working-class, largely Jewish area, sometimes described as a ‘ghetto’, and by the early twentieth century was in a parlous condition from which it was extricated by the Paris City Council and the 1960s restoration plan of...
A cultural history of one of Paris’s most fascinating and variegated areas, whose history can be summarized as ‘from riches to rags and back again...
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Broken Gospel?: Christianity and the Holocaust
ISBN: 9780227178454 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Holocaust lies, often unacknowledged, near the heart of our contemporary crisis of religious faith. The horrific fruit of two millennia of Christian antisemitism, the slaughter calls into sharp question the moral and intellectual credibility of the Churches and the Christian faith itself. Can Christianity ever recover? In Broken Gospel? Peter Waddell suggests that it can, but only by facing unflinchingly the history that paved the way for the Nazi genocide, and the Churches' sins of omission and commission as it took place. Engaging with both Christian and Jewish...
The Holocaust lies, often unacknowledged, near the heart of our contemporary crisis of religious faith. The horrific fruit of two millennia of Chris...
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146,77 zł |
A Brief and Visual History of Anti-Semitism
ISBN: 9789657801109 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Daughter of History: Traces of an Immigrant Girlhood
ISBN: 9781503634817 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A photograph with faint writing on the back. A traveling chess set. A silver pin. In her new memoir, noted scholar and author Susan Rubin Suleiman uses such everyday objects and the memories they evoke to tell the story of her early life as a Holocaust refugee and American immigrant. In this coming-of-age story that probes the intergenerational complexities of immigrant families and the inevitability of loss, Susan looks to her own life as an example of how historical events shape our private lives. After the Nazis marched into Hungary in 1944, five-year old Susan learned to call herself by...
A photograph with faint writing on the back. A traveling chess set. A silver pin. In her new memoir, noted scholar and author Susan Rubin Suleiman use...
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105,11 zł |
Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe and North America
ISBN: 9783030889623 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates the place and meaning of consumption in Jewish lives and the roles Jews played in different consumer cultures in modern Europe and North America. Drawing on innovative, original research into this new and challenging field, the volume brings Jewish studies and the history and theory of consumer culture into dialogue with each other. Its chapters explore Jewish businesspeople's development of niche commercial practices in several transnational contexts; the imagining, marketing, and realization of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine through consumer goods and...
This book investigates the place and meaning of consumption in Jewish lives and the roles Jews played in different consumer cultures in modern Europe ...
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500,03 zł |
Kibbitz and Nosh: When We All Met at Dubrow's Cafeteria
ISBN: 9781501766510 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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141,29 zł |
Germans and Jews: The Right, the Left, and the Search for a \"Third Force\" in Pre-Nazi Germany
ISBN: 9780299342845 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1970, Germans and Jews brings together George L. Mosse’s thoughts on a critical time in German history when thinkers on both the left and the right shared a common goal. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, intellectuals across the political spectrum aimed to solve the problems of contemporary society by creating a force that would eliminate both state Marxism and bourgeois society: a “third force” beyond communism and capitalism. This pervasive turn in ideology had profound effects on German history. In Mosse’s reading, left-wing political...
Originally published in 1970, Germans and Jews brings together George L. Mosse’s thoughts on a critical time in German history when thinkers on both...
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130,53 zł |
Ode to the Dove: A Yiddish poem by Abraham Sutzkever
ISBN: 9781953829504 / Angielski / Miękka / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,38 zł |
Jewish Cattle Traders in the German Countryside, 1919-1939: Economic Trust and Antisemitic Violence
ISBN: 9780253068729 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jewish Cattle Traders in the German Countryside, 1919–1939, explores the social and economic networks in which this group operated and the informal but durable bonds between Jewish cattle traders and farmers that not even incessant Nazi attacks could break. Stefanie Fischer combines approaches from social history, economic history, and sociology to challenge the longstanding cliché of the shady Jewish cattle dealer. By focusing on trust and social connections rather than analyzing economic trends, Fischer exposes the myriad inconsistencies that riddled the process of expelling the Jews...
Jewish Cattle Traders in the German Countryside, 1919–1939, explores the social and economic networks in which this group operated and the informal ...
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210,89 zł |
Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical
ISBN: 9780691254692 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The life and politics of an American Jewish activist who preached radical and violent means to Jewish survival Meir Kahane came of age amid the radical politics of the counterculture, becoming a militant voice of protest against Jewish liberalism. Kahane founded the Jewish Defense League in 1968, declaring that Jews must protect themselves by any means necessary. He immigrated to Israel in 1971, where he founded KACH, an ultranationalist and racist political party. He would die by assassination in 1990. Shaul Magid provides an in-depth look at this controversial figure, showing how the...
The life and politics of an American Jewish activist who preached radical and violent means to Jewish survival Meir Kahane came of age amid the radic...
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108,15 zł |
Hidden Light: Judaism and Mystical Experience in Israeli Cinema
ISBN: 9780814350676 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the Judaic turn in contemporary Israeli filmmaking for what it can tell us about Israel's cultural landscape, as well as about the cinematic medium in general. Judaic-themed Israeli cinema emerges as a crucial example of how film's particular form of 'magic' may be exploited for the purpose of affecting mystical states in the audience.
Explores the Judaic turn in contemporary Israeli filmmaking for what it can tell us about Israel's cultural landscape, as well as about the cinematic ...
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216,03 zł |
Hidden Light: Judaism and Mystical Experience in Israeli Cinema
ISBN: 9780814350683 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the Judaic turn in contemporary Israeli filmmaking for what it can tell us about Israel's cultural landscape, as well as about the cinematic medium in general. Judaic-themed Israeli cinema emerges as a crucial example of how film's particular form of 'magic' may be exploited for the purpose of affecting mystical states in the audience.
Explores the Judaic turn in contemporary Israeli filmmaking for what it can tell us about Israel's cultural landscape, as well as about the cinematic ...
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508,31 zł |
Anti-Semitism in Hungary: Appearance and Reality; Volume II
ISBN: 9781943596294 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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262,76 zł |
Israel and the Nations: The Bible, the Rabbis, and Jewish-Gentile Relations
ISBN: 9798887190051 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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535,29 zł |
Yearning to Breathe Free - Jews in Gilded Age America. Essays by Twenty Contributing Scholars
ISBN: 9780878110643 / Angielski / Twarda / 696 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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205,49 zł |
Jewish Cattle Traders in the German Countryside, 1919-1939: Economic Trust and Antisemitic Violence
ISBN: 9780253068712 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jewish Cattle Traders in the German Countryside, 1919–1939, explores the social and economic networks in which this group operated and the informal but durable bonds between Jewish cattle traders and farmers that not even incessant Nazi attacks could break. Stefanie Fischer combines approaches from social history, economic history, and sociology to challenge the longstanding cliché of the shady Jewish cattle dealer. By focusing on trust and social connections rather than analyzing economic trends, Fischer exposes the myriad inconsistencies that riddled the process of expelling the Jews...
Jewish Cattle Traders in the German Countryside, 1919–1939, explores the social and economic networks in which this group operated and the informal ...
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400,16 zł |
The Holocaust across Borders: Trauma, Atrocity, and Representation in Literature and Culture
ISBN: 9781793612076 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, scholars with expertise in various national literatures and cultures explore how the Holocaust has been represented in novels, memoirs, film, television, and architecture. This book provides a unique vantage point for the scholar and student to compare how national context impacts representations of the Holocaust.
In this book, scholars with expertise in various national literatures and cultures explore how the Holocaust has been represented in novels, memoirs, ...
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162,23 zł |
Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19
ISBN: 9783030948528 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19brings a holistic and comparative perspective to “plague writing” from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. It argues that while the human “hardware” has changed enormously between the medieval past and the present (urbanization, technology, mass warfare, and advances in medical science), the human “software” (emotional and psychological reactions to the shock of pandemic) has remained remarkably similar across time. Through close readings of works by medieval writers like Guillaume de Machaut,...
Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19brings a holistic and comparative perspective to “plague writing” from the l...
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423,10 zł |
A Cultural History of the Punisher: Marvel Comics and the Politics of Vengeance
ISBN: 9781789388589 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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161,95 zł |
Jews in the Netherlands: A Short History
ISBN: 9789463726696 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most people know little more than fragments of Dutch Jewish history: the Portuguese Jews of Amsterdam; Jewish socialism; the devastating years of the Second World War. So where is the storyline? What happened to the Jews in the Netherlands from the moment they first settled there permanently? This book answers that question. It presents the central points of 700 years of Jewish history in the Netherlands briefly and succinctly. One hundred elements of the story have been chosen that taken as a whole create a balanced and representative picture. Each relates to a central event, place, person...
Most people know little more than fragments of Dutch Jewish history: the Portuguese Jews of Amsterdam; Jewish socialism; the devastating years of the ...
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123,04 zł |