The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century, Hardcover - Adam Kirsch

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An erudite and accessible survey of Jewish life and culture in the twentieth century, as reflected in seminal texts.Publisher: WW Norton & CoAuthor...

This research underscores the significance of the Transylvanian Saxons as actors in the cultural history of Europe. The presence of books in southe...

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

Reducere. Two brothers grow up on the Jewish streets of Warsaw. At the turn of the twentieth century, Adolphe leaves to seek work and start a family in Switz...

Reducere. A writer investigates her family's secret history, uncovering a story that spans a century, two World Wars, and three generations. Hadley Freeman k...

Reducere. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish immigrants upended Protestant control of vaudeville and the silent film industry. This book rejec...

This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverma...

Bringing together accounts of how intellectual disability was viewed, managed and experienced in countries across the globe, the book examines the ...

Contributor(s): Editor: David KaldeweyEditor: D. Schauz The distinction between basic and applied research was central to twentieth-century science...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestselling author of Alexander Hamilton, the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical, comes this definitive biogr...

Reducere. Written by the late Dr. Hugh J. Schonfield. Re-edited and re-printed by Bruce R. Booker under permission of The Hugh & Helene Schonfield World Serv...

Reducere. The message of the kingdom of God, as brought to us by Christ, is a message that overturns hierarchies, sets free the enslaved, and breaks the powe...

Reducere. This book is about the hidden, forgotten and hitherto untold history of the Jewish nation and Ethiopians. It is about kinship and the longest frien...

Reducere. Sydney Taylor Book AwardTake your child on a colorful adventure to share the many ways Jewish people celebrate Shabbat around the world. Shabbat Sh...

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 ...

Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, before closing its borders to Jewish refugees, the United States granted asylum to approximately ninety thous...

Reducere. This book explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, an...

Reducere. Hello, Little Love is an inspirational book written from a NICU parent's perspective. As parents read this book to their baby it will create a spec...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe Company of Critics provides a fascinating survey of the terrain of social criticism in the last century. Organizing the book as a se...

Reducere. 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 ...

DescriptionA dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of women scientists, who upended American ...

Reducere. 'Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.' Carl JungThe essence of successful therapy is the r...

Despite the widespread trends of secularization in the 20th century, religion has played an important role in several outbreaks of genocide since t...

A major new account of poetry in the twentieth century.

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A new edition of this seminal survey on the history of graphic design in the twentieth century.Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Richard Hol...

Reducere. Beauty in the Pulpit is a co-author anthology about real women in ministry who have endured hardship, rejection and abuse simply because they are b...