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The Jewish Bible
A Material History
In The Jewish Bible: A Material History, David Stern explores the Jewish Bible as a material object—the Bibles that Jews have actually held in their hands—from its beginnings in the Ancient...
ISBN: 9780295746173
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What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans)
Why Hebrew, here and now? What is its value for contemporary Americans? In What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans) scholars, writers, and translators...
ISBN: 9780295743769
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Lotty's Bench
The Persecution of the Jews of Amsterdam Remembered
August 26, 1945: Lotty Veffer arrived in Amsterdam. She was the only member of her family to have survived the war. Her parents and younger sister Carla had been gassed in Sobibor. There was no heartfelt...
ISBN: 9789460224997
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Losing Trust in the World
Holocaust Scholars Confront Torture
In July 1943, the Gestapo arrested an obscure member of the resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Belgium. When his torture-inflicting interrogators determined he was no use to them and that he was...
ISBN: 9780295998466
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Facing Death
Confronting Mortality in the Holocaust and Ourselves
What do we learn about death from the Holocaust and how does it impact our responses to mortality today?Facing Death: Confronting Mortality in the Holocaust and Ourselves brings together...
ISBN: 9780295999272
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Lifesaving Letters
A Child's Flight from the Holocaust
In 1939, in the shadow of Hitler’s occupation of Czechoslovakia, six-year-old Milena Roth was sent away from her home and her loving parents and taken to safety by what came to be know as the Kindertransport,...
ISBN: 9780295999043
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I. L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture
I. L. Peretz (1852–1915), the father of modern Yiddish literature, was a master storyteller and social critic who advocated a radical shift from religious observance to secular Jewish culture....
ISBN: 9780295994796
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A Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era
The Book of the Covenant of Pinhas Hurwitz and Its Remarkable Legacy
In 1797, in what is now the Czech Republic, Pinḥas Hurwitz published one of the best-selling Hebrew books of the modern era. Nominally an extended commentary on a sixteenth-century kabbalist text,...
ISBN: 9780295994130
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Agnon's Moonstruck Lovers
The Song of Songs in Israeli Culture
Agnon's Moonstruck Lovers explores the response of Israel’s Nobel laureate S. Y. Agnon to the privileged position of the Song of Songs in Israeli culture. Standing at a unique crossroads...
ISBN: 9780295993034
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Writing in Tongues
Translating Yiddish in the Twentieth Century
Writing in Tongues examines the complexities of translating Yiddish literature at a time when the Yiddish language is in decline. After the Holocaust, Soviet repression, and American assimilation,...
ISBN: 9780295992976
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Jewish Philanthropy and Enlightenment in Late-Tsarist Russia
The Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia (OPE) was a philanthropic organization, the oldest Jewish organization in Russia. Founded by a few wealthy Jews in St. Petersburg...
ISBN: 9780295988986
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I'm No Hero
Journeys of a Holocaust Survivor
Henry Friedman was robbed of his adolescence by the monstrous evil that annihilated millions of European Jews and changed forever the lives of those who survived. When the Nazis overran their home...
ISBN: 9780295981161
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The Jewish Life Cycle
Rites of Passage from Biblical to Modern Times
In this original and sweeping review of Jewish culture and history, Ivan Marcus examines how and why various rites and customs celebrating stages in the life cycle have evolved through the ages and...
ISBN: 9780295984414
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Studying the Jewish Future
Studying the Jewish Future explores the power of Jewish culture and assesses the perceived threats to the coherence and size of Jewish communities in the United States, Europe, and Israel....
ISBN: 9780295983899
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Theater of Acculturation
The Roman Ghetto in the Sixteenth Century
Generations of tourists visiting Rome have ventured into the small section between the Tiber River and the Capitoline Hill whose narrow, dark streets lead to the charming Fountain of the Tortoises,...
ISBN: 9780295980225
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Different Horrors, Same Hell
Gender and the Holocaust
Different Horrors, Same Hell brings together a variety of essays demonstrating the breadth of contributions that feminist theory and gender analysis make to the study of the Holocaust. The...
ISBN: 9780295992433
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Encountering the Stranger
A Jewish-Christian-Muslim Trialogue
In an age when "collisions of faith" among the Abrahamic traditions continue to produce strife and violence that threatens the well-being of individuals and communities worldwide, the contributors...
ISBN: 9780295992020
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Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America
The Holocaust took place far from the United States and involved few Americans, yet rather than receding, this event has assumed a greater significance in the American consciousness with the passage...
ISBN: 9780295981611
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Imagining Russian Jewry
Memory, History, Identity
This subtle, unusual book explores the many, often overlapping ways in which the Russian Jewish past has been remembered in history, in literature, and in popular culture. Drawing on a wide range...
ISBN: 9780295977904
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Jews and Muslims
Images of Sephardi and Eastern Jewries in Modern Times
Following the rise of Islam, many Jewish communities lived in predominantly Muslim lands. Muslim-Jewish co-existence was not seriously challenged until the modern period when European colonialism...
ISBN: 9780295983141
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