Jewish Studies
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Ten Myths about Israel
$19.95 Add to cartThe myths and reality behind the state of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict–from “the most eloquent writer on Palestinian history” (New Statesman)
The outspoken and radical Israeli historia- Author: Pappe, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1804297046
- Language: English
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Sin-A-Gogue: Sin and Failure in Jewish Thought
$29.95 Add to cartThis volume presents the concepts of sin and failure in Jewish thought, weaving together biblical and rabbinic studies to reveal a holistic portrait of the notion of sin and failure within Jewish thou… [more below]
- Series: New Perspectives in Post-Rabbinic Judaism
- Author: Bashevkin, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: March 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1618117971
- Language: English
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De-Integrate!: A Jewish Survival Guide for the 21st Century
$22.00 Add to cartA controversial, best-selling polemic in Germany, De-Integrate! is a battle cry against Jewish assimilation into a dominant culture that seeks to paint over the past–and a handbook for minorities on … [more below]
- Author: Czollek, Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1632063182
- Language: English
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The Seventh Heaven: Travels Through Jewish Latin America
$28.00 Add to cart2020 Natan Notable BookWinner, 2020 Latino Book Awards Best Travel Book
Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling from across a dozen countrie… [more below]- Series: Pitt Latin American
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 082296631X
- Language: English
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The 7 Deadly Myths: Antisemitism from the Time of Christ to Kanye West (Second Edition, Revised and Supplemented)
$19.95 Add to cartThis revised and supplemented second edition features some of the author’s most probing essays and speeches on antisemitism, published here for the first time.
A 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year F… [more below]
- Author: Ryvchin, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887193304
- Language: English
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Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
$19.00 Add to cartAs the Israeli-Palestinian conflict escalates, a dangerous illusion persists that the American Jewish community speaks with a single voice, expressing universal, uncritical support for the policies of… [more below]
- Author: Kushner, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 13 2003
- ISBN10: 0802140157
- Language: English
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A History of Judaism
$24.95 Add to cartA sweeping history of Judaism over more than three millennia
Judaism has preserved its distinctive identity despite the extraordinarily diverse forms and beliefs it has embodied through the centuries.- Author: Goodman, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0691197105
- Language: English
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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
$16.99 Add to cart“Poignant . . . deeply personal . . . an indelible history of the largely forgotten Jews of Egypt . . . ”
–Miami Herald
In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty an
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Lagnado, Lucette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 006082218X
- Language: English
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Whites, Jews, and Us: Toward a Politics of Revolutionary Love
$15.95 Add to cartA scathing critique of the Left from an indigenous anti-colonial perspective.
Why am I writing this book? Because I share Gramsci’s anxiety: “The old are dying and the new cannot be born; in this inter
- Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention #22
- Author: Bouteldja, Houria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1635900034
- Language: English
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Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947
$20.99 Add to cartThis lively chronicle of the years 1847–1947–the century when the Jewish people changed how we see the world–is “[a] thrilling and tragic history…especially good on the ironies and chain-reaction… [more below]
- Author: Lebrecht, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1982134267
- Language: English
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How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
$29.99 Add to cartIs it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how ha
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1632062623
- Language: English
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Nurture the Wow
$23.99 Add to cartNational Jewish Book Award Finalist 2016
A deeply affecting, funny, insightful meditation that challenges readers to find the spiritual meaning of parenting.
Every day, parents are bombarded by demands
- Author: Ruttenberg, Danya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 22 2017
- ISBN10: 1250116945
- Language: English
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Out of Egypt: A Memoir
$22.00 Add to cartThis richly colored memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in cosmopolitan Alexandria to its defeated exodus three generations later.
In elegant and witty- Author: Aciman, André
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 23 2007
- ISBN10: 0312426550
- Language: English
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A Brief and Visual History of Anti-Semitism
$49.95 Read moreThe world is in crisis: antisemitism, the “longest hatred,” is rearing its ugliest heads, again. Although much has been written about the subject, very little has been done to educate the public speci
- Author: Bitton, Israel B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 632
- Publish Date: December 08 2022
- ISBN10: 9657801109
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism
$19.95 Add to cartRecovering the history of the revolutionary Jewish tradition
Jewish radicals manned the barricades on the avenues of Petrograd and the alleys of the Warsaw ghetto; they were in the vanguard of those r- Author: Brossat, Alain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 21 2017
- ISBN10: 1784786071
- Language: English
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Yiddish-English/English-Yiddish Dictionary & Phrasebook
$16.95 Add to cartThis handy dictionary and phrasebook provides practical vocabulary and pronunciation tools to help students, travelers, or businesspeople communicate when visiting Yiddish communities in Jerusalem, Lo… [more below]
- Author: Szabo, Vera
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0781812984
- Language: English
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My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Family’s Past
$19.99 Add to cartIn a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they w… [more below]
- Author: Sabar, Ariel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 345
- Publish Date: October 13 2009
- ISBN10: 1565129334
- Language: English
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Why Be Jewish ? Intermarriage, Assimilation, and Alienation
$19.99 Add to cartA battle plan for Jews who do not want to disappear.
- Author: Kahane, Meir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: August 02 2009
- ISBN10: 1607961555
- Language: English
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Looking for an Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism
$15.95 Add to cartFrom medieval accusations that Jews murder Christians for their blood to the far-right conspiracy theories animating present-day political discourse, it’s clear that the belief that Jews are plotting
- Author: Glanville, Jo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064544
- Language: English
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Jewish Comedy: A Serious History
$16.95 Add to cartIn a major work of scholarship that explores the funny side of some very serious business (and vice versa), Jeremy Dauber examines the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times
- Author: Dauber, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 23 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356299
- Language: English
