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  • Persistence and Flexibility
    Using a variety of anthropological approaches, the authors illustrate how the Jewish identity has persisted in the United States despite great subcultural variation and a wide range of adaptations. Within the various essays, attention is given to both mainstream Jews and to the Hasidim, Yemenites, Indian Sephardim, Soviet Emigres, and 'Jews for Jesus.' Institutions such as the...
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    43,13 €

  • Burning Lights
    Bella Chagall / Norbert Guterman
    This is a charming portrait of childhood in the Russian market town where the great painter and his wife grew up. Bella’s warm, humorous stories of her pious Jewish family are illustrated by 36 of her husband’s pen-and-ink line drawings. ...
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    16,83 €

  • Oxen, Women, or Citizens?
    Paul Virgil McCracken Flesher
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    26,71 €

  • Goyim
    Gary G. Porton / Gary GPorton
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    42,27 €

  • Ideas of Jewish History
    Michael A Meyer
    Despite the vicissitudes of their anomalous historical experience, the Jews survive as am identifiable entity. They have withstood one challenge after another — both physical and intellectual — somehow maintaining an historical continuity. How Jewish writers have dealt with this enigma serves as the subject of this volume. With these words from the Preface, Michael A. Meyer ch...
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    34,77 €

  • A Living Tree
    Arthur Rosett / Arthur Rossett / Elliot N. Dorff / Elliot NDorff
    This book examines biblical and rabbinic law as a coherent, continuing legal tradition. It explains the relationship between religion and law and the interaction between law and morality. Abundant selections from primary Jewish sources, many newly translated, enable the reader to address the tradition directly as a living body of law with emphasis on the concerns that are pri...
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    45,79 €

  • The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia
    Moshe Idel
    The first wide-scale presentation of a major Jewish mystic, the founder of the ecstatic Kabbalah. ...
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    43,35 €

  • Imperialism and Popular Culture
    John M. MacKenzie
    Popular culture is invariably a vehicle for the dominant ideas of its age. Never was this more true than in the late-19th and early 20th centuries, when it reflected the nationalist and imperialist ideologies current throughout Europe. This text examines the various media through which nationalist ideas were conveyed in late-Victorian and Edwardian times - in the theatre, 'ethn...
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    33,11 €

  • The History of al-Ṭabarī Vol. 4
    Moshe Perlmann
    In this volume Ṭabarī takes up the history of the ancient world, focusing on the Iranians and the Israelites after the time of Solomon. He establishes a comparative chronology between the two nations; viewing Bahman, the Persian king, as the son of Esther, and his daughter, Khumani, the mother of Darius. Ṭabarī’s synchronization also leads him into a discussion of North and Sou...
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    42,20 €

  • Zanzibar in Contemporary Times
    Robert Nunez Lyne
    'It has been my endeavour in the following chapters to describe briefly the most interesting persons and events that are connected with the history of the Rulers of Zanzibar and their Dominions on the East Coast of Africa during the nineteenth century, and do give some account of this Island of the Southern East, its people and industries.'So writes the author in his preface to...
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    70,94 €

  • A Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas
    Ruth Wisse
    The five short novellas which comprise this anthology were written between 1890 and World War I. All share a common setting—the Eastern European Jewish town or shtetl, and all deal in different ways with a single topic—the Jewish confrontation with modernity. The authors of these novellas are among the greatest masters of Yiddish prose. In their work, today's reader will di...
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    39,40 €

  • The Enduring South
    John Shelton Reed
    First published in 1972, The Enduring South challenges the conventional wisdom that economic development, urbanization, and the end of racial segregation spelled the end of a distinctive Southern culture. In this edition, John Reed updates the public opinion data to the 1980s and reinforces the book’s original conclusions: Southerners are different and are likely to stay that w...
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    54,88 €

  • The French Peasantry in the Seventeenth Century
    Pierre Goubert / Ian J. Patterson / Ian JPatterson
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    35,88 €

  • Texas Quilts
    Texas Heritage Quilt Society
    (From the introduction) Collectively, these quilts and their stories tell the story of the women of Texas-hardships endured and overcome, friendships made, churches, schools, and communities established, of births, marriages, deaths-all the myriad experiences of mothers, daughters, sisters who created from whatever resources available, a bit of beauty in their quilts...These 't...
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    25,59 €

  • Texas Quilts
    Texas Heritage Quilt Society
    (From the introduction) Collectively, these quilts and their stories tell the story of the women of Texas-hardships endured and overcome, friendships made, churches, schools, and communities established, of births, marriages, deaths-all the myriad experiences of mothers, daughters, sisters who created from whatever resources available, a bit of beauty in their quilts...These 't...
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    39,96 €

  • The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation
    This volume represents one of the first efforts to harvest the rapidly emerging scholarship in the field of American rural history. Building on the insights and methodologies that social historians have directed toward urban life, the contributors explore the past as it unfolded in the rural settings in which most Americans have lived during most of American history.The essays...
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    70,41 €

  • Reliving the Past
    Charles Tilly / David William Cohen / Olivier Zunz
    Five historians uncover the ties between people’s daily routines and the all-encompassing framework of their lives. They trace the processes of social construction in Western Europe, the United States, Latin America, Africa, and China, discussing both the historical similarities and the ways in which individual history has shaped each area’s development. They stress the need fo...
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    70,49 €

  • How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household
    Blu Greenberg
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    26,47 €

  • A Journey Through the Yemen
    Walter B Harris
    'My recollections of the country are ones that I shall always treasure, in spite of the dangers and sickness, in spite of long marches and days in prison, the Yemen will always be for me, Arabic Felix.'First published in 1893, A Journey Through the Yemen appeared at a critical time in the turbulent history of the Yemen. The Turkish Empire had seized much of the country in an at...
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    70,65 €

  • The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century
    Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret / William Doyle
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    70,52 €

  • People’s Poland
    Wladysla Majowski / Wladyslaw Majkowski
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    82,42 €

  • Nazis in Skokie
    Donald Alexander Downs
    In 1977, a Chicago-based Nazi group announced its plans to demonstrate in Skokie, Illinois, the home of hundreds of Holocaust survivors. The shocked survivor community rose in protest and the issue went to court, with the ACLU defending the Nazis’ right to free speech. The court ruled in the Nazis’ favor. According to the 'content neutrality doctrine' governing First Amendment ...
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    41,26 €

  • Nazis in Skokie
    Donald Alexander Downs
    In 1977, a Chicago-based Nazi group announced its plans to demonstrate in Skokie, Illinois, the home of hundreds of Holocaust survivors. The shocked survivor community rose in protest and the issue went to court, with the ACLU defending the Nazis’ right to free speech. The court ruled in the Nazis’ favor. According to the 'content neutrality doctrine' governing First Amendment ...
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    143,58 €

  • Exegesis at Qumran
    George J. Brooke
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    37,00 €

  • The Legal Methodology of Hai Gaon
    Tsvi Groner
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    26,73 €

  • Heritage
    William W. Hallo / William WHallo
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    57,26 €

  • Galveston
    Bernard Marinbach
    While the massive flow of immigrants to the Northeast was taking place, a number of Jews were finding their way to America through the port of Galveston, Texas. The descendants of these immigrants, now scattered throughout the United States, are hardly aware that their ancestors participated in a unique attempt to organize and channel Jewish immigration. From their recruitmen...
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    43,25 €

  • An American Idol
    Robert J Loewenberg / Robert J. Loewenberg / Robert JLoewenberg
    Critiques modern liberal culture by means of a textual re-evaluation of Ralph Waldo Emerson, widely considered a prime formulator and archetype of liberal culture. ...
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    78,27 €

  • Forgotten Children
    Linda A. Pollock / Linda APollock
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    69,91 €

  • The Origins of the Liberal Welfare Reforms 1906-1914
    J R Hay
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    60,64 €


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