New History of the Jews, Paperback

Reducere. Flamboyant mobster Arnold Rothstein was gambling and money. He was the inspiration for Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby and Nathan Detroit in Gu...

Reducere. In a journey across four continents, acclaimed science writer Steve Olson traces the origins of modern humans and the migrations of our ancestors t...

Reducere. "The most important book you will read this year."--Caitlin Flanagan, author of To Hell with All That WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD - Th...

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,...

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

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. Following natural history writings from Aristotle to Darwin, The Store-House of Wonder and Astonishment celebrates the combination of discovery and...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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. Inspired by true events during World War II, Lia Levi's prize-winning novel of loss, despair, and courage tells the tragic history of mid-century E...

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. Richie Zweigenhaft's Jews, Palestinians, and Friends: 45 Years at a Quaker College (Sort of a Memoir) is a history of the intersection of religions...

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...

Reducere. W. D. Mahan investigates Roman, Greek and Jewish writings corresponding to the time of the death of Jesus Christ, including letters apparently writ...

Reducere. Robert W. Snyder's Crossing Broadway tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restor...

The other SchindlersPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Agnes Grunwald-SpierNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 159 x 185 ...

From the award-winning historian of the Holocaust, Europe Against the Jews, 1880-1945 is the first book to move beyond Germany's singular crime to ...

Inspiration for the hit new podcast "Hunting the Butcher" The untold story of an Israeli spy's epic journey to bring the notorious Butcher of Latvi...

Reducere. Today's prophecy students continue to benefit from the insightful and biblical writings of 19th-century theologian George H. Pember. Though "Earth'...

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. With her husband's name on a hit list, the fight got personal.It is 1940 when World War II invades the lives of history teacher Mija Adamsons and h...

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...

Reducere. The Bridge to the New Testament covers the 420 years between the end of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New Testament. This period gave ...

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. NAMED ONE OF THE "100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR" BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW From the widely celebrated New York Times bestselling author of ...

Reducere. Explore the wisdom and traditions of the Jewish faith and examine what they mean for Christians. "In this extraordinary book, Rabbi Evan Moffic tak...

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

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. DescriptionWinner, 2015 National Jewish Book Award presented by the Jewish Book CouncilFor much of the twentieth century, the New York Jewish deli ...

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. Esther Amini grew up in Queens, New York, during the freewheeling 1960s. She also grew up in a Persian-Jewish household, the American-born daughter...

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

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 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. [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...

DescriptionA historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Israeli history, The Invention of the Je...

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

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. 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...

By Elias Friedman, O.C.D. Preface by Msgr. Eugene Kevane Introduction by Ronda Chervin, Ph.D. Jewish Identity is a prophetic reading of the signs o...

Reducere. It's March, 1941. Captain America appears in a comic book for the very first time. New York City receives 18.1 inches of snow, its 3rd largest snow...

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. In a world torn by religious antagonism, lessons can be learned from medieval Spanish villages where Muslims, Christians, and Jews rubbed shoulders...

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. 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...

The most memorable prayer of the Jewish New Year--what it means, why we sing it, and the secret of its magical appeal.Through a series of lively co...

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...

Within the pages of this book lie over forty years of intense Bible study and research that I am going to share with you. The Jerusalem Council is ...

Reducere. The rise of capitalism to global dominance is still largely associated - by both laypeople and Marxist historians - with the industrial capitalism ...

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

Reducere. For the last thirty years, Dr. Ilana Oren was honored to work with patients who trusted her with their secrets and were willing to heal the emotion...

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...

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

Reducere. DescriptionJudaism is a religion and culture based on memory. Upon one festival to another, Jews are rminded of what brought them to the land of Is...

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...

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. Description"It has been a series of cycles invariably following the same steps. The Jew comes to an alien society, at first in small numbers. He th...

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

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. 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...