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...

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

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...

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

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

Contributor(s): Author: Giambattista VicoTranslator: Dave MarshIntroduction by: Anthony GraftonBarely acknowledged in his lifetime, the New Science...

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. [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...

DescriptionSo shattering were the aftereffects of Kishinev, the rampage that broke out in late-Tsarist Russia in April 1903, that one historian rem...

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

Reducere. DescriptionThis is the first in a series of four historical fiction novels based on the writings of the eyewitness Josephus.In Act I of the book on...

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

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

``A most valuable book.`` --Christian Science Monitor For readers of The Monuments Men and The Hare with Amber Eyes, the story of the Nazis' system...

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. 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...

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

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

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. 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. Description"Vivid, gripping and actually riveting as the Red Danger takes a whole new meaning here. Loved it." --The Book Smugglers It is the wanin...

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

Reducere. Hero - Martyr - PoetThe inspiring story of a remarkable life cut short. "I don't think Hannah wanted to die for the sake of having her memory exalt...

Reducere. Estrella is a Marrano: During the time of the Spanish Inquisition, she is one of a community of Spanish Jews living double lives as Catholics. And ...

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...

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman - the Pulitzer prize-winning Holocaust survivor story'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done abo...

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

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. This is the story of one remarkable woman's unimaginable journey through the rise of the Nazi regime, the Second World War, and the aftermath. Mani...

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

Reducere. "The single most resonant and carefully imagined book of Dick's career." --New York Times It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The fe...

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 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. The Bible tells the stories of many empires, and many are still considered some of the largest of the ancient and classical world: the Assyrians, t...

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...

Reducere. Now an Amazon Original series Winner of the Hugo Award "The single most resonant and carefully imagined book of Dick's career"--New York Times It's...

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...

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. 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...

Reducere. A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICEA SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BESTSELLERIn AD 70, when the Second Temple was destroyed, a handful of vision...

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...

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. In Enemies and Neighbors, Ian Black, who has spent four decades studying and covering the Middle East, offers a major new history of the Arab-Zioni...

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 ...

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

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. Seventy years after her grandmother helped hide a Jewish family on a Greek island during World War II, a woman sets out to track down their descend...

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

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...

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. 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. 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. 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...

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...

In turbulent times, King David united a nation--and his hard-earned wisdom can bring us together today. This new 30 Days With book offers a month o...

Reducere. In many corners of the world these days the climate of hostility hangs over any overt Christian faith commitment. Any kind of Christian commitment ...

DescriptionIs Jerusalem the centre of the world or the place where it will end? For the people of this novel set around 1960 in the divided city, i...