New History of the Jews, Paperback

Reducere. The time between the historical end of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New Testament was approximately 420 years. Bible-study classes ra...

Known as Lemberg in German and Lw w in Polish, the city of L'viv in modern Ukraine was in the crosshairs of imperial and national aspirations for m...

Reducere. This classic study, by the late John Doyle Klier, is considered a seminal text in modern Jewish history by one of the foremost scholars in the fiel...

Reducere. In 1981, while working as New Mexico State Historian, Stanley M. Hordes began to hear stories of Hispanos who lit candles on Friday night and absta...

Reducere. The last several decades have seen the emergence of a remarkable phenomenon: a Jewish rebirth that is occurring throughout Africa. A variety of dif...

Reducere. Winner of the R.B.Y. Scott Award from the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies Even in antiquity, writers were intrigued by the origins of the peop...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Marc DollingerMarc Dollinger charts the transformation of American Jewish political culture from the Cold War liberal conse...

Reducere. "Quite ambitious, tracing religion in the United States from European colonization up to the 21st century.... The writing is strong throughout."--P...

Reducere. Kalonymus Kalman Shapira (1889-1943) was a remarkable Hasidic mystic, leader, and educator. He confronted the secularization and dislocation of Pol...

Between 1938 and 1941, the Philippine Commonwealth provided safe asylum to more than 1, 300 German Jews. In highlighting the efforts by Philippine ...

Reducere. At least 8, 000 Jewish soldiers fought for the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War. A few served together in Jewish companies while most fou...

Demonstrates that Romans, Greeks, Jews and Christians imagined the future of Rome in strikingly different ways, revealing profound differences in t...

Reducere. In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence and the erasure of Arab Palestine. Over twenty months, thousands of Jews and Ara...

Reducere. Following the 1972 Olympics one sportswriter referred to Mark Spitz, winner of seven gold medals, as "the first great Jewish athlete." He couldn't ...

Reducere. Oskar Skarsaune makes a fresh contribution to our understanding of the development of the early church in its practice (e.g., worship, baptism and ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Alexandra ZapruderThis stirring collection of diaries written by young people, aged twelve to twenty-two years, during the ...

Reducere. For many queer Jews, Jewish tradition seems like a rich tapestry which at best ignores them and at worst rejects them entirely. In reality, queerne...

Reducere. [The Mellah of Marrakesh] captures the vibrancy of Jewish society in Marrakesh in the tumultuous last decades prior to colonial rule and in the fir...

From the Nuremberg Trials onwards, Jews figure prominently in international legal history. Yet ties between Jewish identity and legal thought rarel...

In the wake of the civil rights movement, a great divide has opened up between African American and Jewish communities. What was historically a har...

Reducere. Uncovering a history buried by different nationalist narratives (Jewish, Israeli, Arab and Palestinian) this book looks at how the late Ottoman era...

DescriptionThis masterwork of interpretative history begins with a bold declaration: "The Modern Age is the Jewish Age, and the twentieth century, ...

Reducere. This timely book is the first to cover the history of Jews from the times of Alexander the Great and Caesar to Idi Amin and Nelson Mandela. Jews ha...

Reducere. In his short life (1865-1921), Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky was a versatile and influential man of letters: an innovative Hebrew prose stylist; a coll...

Under the code name Operation Reinhard, more than one and a half million Jews were murdered between 1942 and 1943 in the concentration camps of Bel...

Reducere. When The Search for Major Plagge was published last spring, the world finally learned about a unique hero--and about one American doctor's extraord...

Traces of History presents a new approach to race and to comparative colonial studies. Bringing a historical perspective to bear on the regimes of ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1889, Moses Klein published Migdal Zophim, a collection of essays that offers farming--in both Palestine and New Jersey--as a solutio...

Reducere. One Palestine, Complete explores the tumultuous period before the creation of the state of Israel. This was the time of the British Mandate, when B...

Reducere. The current revival of antisemitism in Europe and the demonization of Jews in parts of the Muslim world give special importance to the exposure of ...

Reducere. This major reinterpretation of the Holocaust surveys the destruction of the European Jews within the broader context of Nazi violence against other...

"A remarkable achievement. Bartal presents the broad contours of nineteenth-century East European Jewish history even as he reworks them into a non...

DescriptionThis volume provides for the first time a collection of writing that investigates the stories and struggles of survivors in the context ...

Reducere. Ralph Ellis brings us his new book, which he asserts is the book that the Catholic Church has been dreading for the last 1, 700 years. Ellis' lates...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Henry AbramsonDiscovered in the rubble of the Warsaw Ghetto, Rabbi Kalonymus Kalmish Shapira's wartime writings exemplify t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Firpo CarrIn the 1890s Blacks were tortured in German concentration camps in Southwest Africa (now called Namibia) when Ado...

Although Iraqi Jews saw themselves as Iraqi patriots, their community--which had existed in Iraq for more than 2, 500 years--was displaced followin...

Reducere. "As a researcher and collector of historical source material, Mr. Gilbert has no peer among contemporary historians." --The New York Times Accordin...

Reducere. The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670 brings together a collection of documents - all in new English translation - that illustrate aspects of th...

Reducere. Eli Lederhendler's Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880-1920: From Caste to Class reexamines the immigration of Russian Jews to the Unit...

Since the end of World War II, the ongoing efforts aimed at criminal prosecution, restitution, and other forms of justice in the wake of the Holoca...

When did the Arab-Israeli conflict begin? Some discussions focus on the 1967 war, some go back to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, and ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James H. Jr. WardenAbraham and his wife made their African slave a surrogate mother and she bore Abraham a half-black heir....

Reducere. DescriptionA mysterious figure called the "Messiah" is the central theme of the entire Bible. In this book that Messianic theme is traced from its ...

Contributor(s): Author: Devin E. NaarTouted as the "Jerusalem of the Balkans, " the Mediterranean port city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once hom...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joseph AtwillWas Jesus the invention of a Roman emperor? The author of this ground-breaking book believes he was. "Caesar's...

Reducere. The Origin of the Book of Revelation An explosive tale of spiritual warfare and the origin story of the most controversial book of the Bible: Revel...

Reducere. Description: Edith Schaeffer lovingly encourages Christians to embrace the Jewishness of their faith. When the early church repudiated its Jewish r...

You never know what treasures a visitor might discover in a new place-perhaps even a lost world. In the Deadwood of 1959, echoes of the Black Hills...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Henry Makow PhdTHE EMERGING NEW WORLD ORDER A depraved satanic cult called the Illuminati is waging a covert war against hu...

David Lurie learns that all beginnings are hard. He must fight for his place against the bullies in his Depression-shadowed Bronx neighborhood and ...

Description World War I utterly transformed the lives of Jews around the world: it allowed them to display their patriotism, to dispel antisemitic ...

Reducere. Comedy is full of famously funny Jews, from Groucho Marx to Larry David to Sarah Silverman. This smart and funny book includes tales from many of t...

Reducere. History began with a Divine warning not to approach a forbidden tree of lust to rule over others. History is ending with that new actor on the stag...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the authors of the bestselling "The Secret War Against the Jews" comes an explosive work that explores the links between the Vatica...

Reducere. The Jewish Metropolis: New York from the 17th to the 21st Century covers the entire sweep of the history of the largest Jewish community of all tim...

Reducere. Jesus' preaching was first and foremost about simple living, pacifism, and vegetarianism; he never intended to create a new religion separate from ...

Reducere. Rastafari Preliminary Notes on the H.I.M. Haile Selassie I Amharic] Bible: An Introduction to the Book of the Seven Seals by Ras Iadonis Tafari & t...

Reducere. A provocative and insightful analysis that sheds new light on one of the most puzzling and historically unsettling conundrumsWhy did the Holocaust ...

Reducere. How Far Would You Go To Stay True to Yourself? Spain, 1492. On the eve of the Jewish expulsion from Spain, Amalia Riba stands at a crossroads. In a...

Reducere. The Apocrypha consists of the books that are found in the Greek version of the Jewish Bible--the Septuagint, the earliest complete version of the B...

Alon Confino seeks to rethink dominant interpretations of the Holocaust by examining it as a problem in cultural history. As the main research inte...

Reducere. In How Jesus Became Christian, Barrie Wilson Ph.D. confronts one of the simplest--yet undiscovered--questions of religious history: How did a young...

Reducere. As the first Jewish woman and Sephardic poet of importance in the United States, Emma Lazarus, struggled with recognition and acceptance among her ...

In 70CE, after four years of Jewish rebellion, Roman legions devastated the great city of Jerusalem. Sixty years later, its ruin was completed when...

Reducere. The basic vocabulary of Jewish spiritual life, explained with humor, insight and relevance to guide you on a historical and spiritual journey throu...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen Mazal and Ezra ben-Yichya embarked in 1882 on their long journey from Sana'a to the Holy Land, their young hearts were filled with ...

In this touching account, veteran New York Times reporter Joseph Berger describes how his own family of Polish Jews -- with one son born at the clo...

Reducere. Long before the Jewish settlements in North America, Sephardic Jews came to the Caribbean, first as crew members on Columbus's ships. By the 1600s,...

Reducere. On the last Tuesday of November 1095, Pope Urban II delivered an electrifying speech that launched the First Crusade. His words set Christendom afi...