Out of the Ghetto: The Social Background of Jewish Emancipation, 1770-1870, Paperback - Jacob Katz

Reducere. From both Jewish and non-Jewish viewpoints, this study presents the developing interrelationship between Jews and their Gentile environment from 17...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the Babylonian period to the twentieth century, strictly observant Jews have depended on a non-Jew, or "shabbes goy" to perform wor...

A Jewish boy kills a Nazi by the Polish ghetto. He must escape the Third Reich, at all costs.Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General DivisionAuthor(s...

A Jewish boy kills a Nazi by the Polish ghetto. He must escape the Third Reich, at all costs.

Reducere. Federica Francesconi writes the history of the Jewish merchants who lived and prospered in the northern Italian city of Modena, capital city of the...

DescriptionModern Catholics may be dissuaded from reading or studying the Old Testament simply because the stories seem unusual or implausible and ...

The Venice Ghetto was founded in 1516 by the Venetian government as a segregated area of the city in which Jews were compelled to live. This interd...

The first definitive illustrated biography of this key figure in mid 20th-century British art.Illustrations: Illustrated throughout

Reducere. The first popular history of the Emancipation of Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries--a transformation that was startling to t...

The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern world For all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the foun...

Sex and the Weimar Republic shows how, in Weimar Germany, the citizen's right to sexual freedom came with a duty to keep sexuality private, non-com...

Publisher: SkyhorseAuthor(s): Alan KatzNumber of pages: 32Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 165 x 220 x 14Cover type: HardbackIllustrator: Craig Or...

New essays exploring Jewish cultural trends of the past two decades, interspersed with choice material from the Jewish Renaissance magazine archive...

Reducere. As Atlanta evolved from a sleepy, backwater, 19th-century frontier railroad town into a 21st-century international metropolis, Jewish men and women...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom its founding in the late 1800s through the 1950s, Brownsville, a section of eastern Brooklyn, was a white, predominantly Jewish, wo...

"Heterosexuality" is assumed to denote a universal sexual and cultural norm. This work challenges the common notion that the distinction between he...

Reducere. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising has become a symbol of heroism throughout the world. A short time before the uprising began, Pawel Frenkel addressed a m...

Reducere. Now bigger, better, and with more guilt: a completely revised, updated, and expanded second edition (would it hurt to have a little more?) of Jewis...

There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart o...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the mid-nineteenth century until the 1930s, many Latin American leaders faced a difficult dilemma regarding the idea of race. On th...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Kris ManjapraIllustration(s): 1x8pp mono insetNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 24...

Published to mark the 500th anniversary of the creation of the Venice ghetto, and accompanies an exhibition currently taking place in Venice. Relev...

Based on never previously explored personal accounts and archival documentation, this book examines life and death in the Theresienstadt ghetto, se...

Reducere. In Warsaw Ghetto Police, Katarzyna Person shines a spotlight on the lawyers, engineers, young yeshiva graduates, and sons of connected businessmen ...

Thulani Davis provides a sweeping rethinking of Reconstruction by tracing how the four million people newly freed from bondage created political or...

Reducere. For enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves and their families would have been ...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Jacob BreslowNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 139 x 215 x 18Cover type: Pap...

Explores an era of comic history that has been entirely neglected. This buried cache of mid-Victorian graphic humour is marvelously rich in pictori...

Publisher: Lit VerlagAuthor(s): Thomas BenedikterNumber of pages: 314Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 234 x 21Cover type: Paperback / softba...

Reducere. The Arab Revolutions that began in 2011 reignited interest in the question of theory and practice, imbuing it with a burning political urgency. In ...

Reducere. DescriptionAcknowledged as one of the greatest of the western mystics, Jacob Boehme was born in 1575 at Old Seidenberg, a small village in Silesia....

The brilliant untold story of three daughters of diplomacy: Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, glamorous, fascinating young wo...

Reducere. Irish Presbyterians and the Shaping of Western Pennsylvania, 1770-1830 is a historical study examining the religious culture of Irish immigrants in...

Reducere. While it is well known that more Africans fought on behalf of the British than with the successful patriots of the American Revolution, Gerald Horn...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Gregory Jones-KatzNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 226 x 33Cover ty...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This book investigates the relationship between the ideas of nation and race in the Risorgimento nationalist intelligentsia and argues that ideas o...

Features the lyrics of fifteen slave songs and fifteen abolitionist songs, placing them in proper historical context and making them available agai...

This book shines a light on the personal stories of people with lived experiences and the important and valuable role that social workers have play...

Reducere. "Emancipation is an important and impressive work; one cannot read it without being inspired by the legal acumen, creativity, and resiliency these ...

Juxtaposing Muslim scholars' debates over women's attendance in mosques with historical descriptions of women's activities within Middle Eastern an...

What if racialized mass incarceration is not a perversion of our criminal justice system's liberal ideals, but rather a natural conclusion? Adam Ma...

Reducere. As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 186...

The book reports on a major research project on changes in dining out in three cities in England. It compares systematically popular practice in 19...