Jewish Studies
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Pepper, Silk & Ivory
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£25.99| /There is a missing page in Jewish history. We tend to assume that Jewish history is to be found in the Middle East, Europe, North Africa, and the A...
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Performances of Ancient Jewish Letters
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£123.99| /This ambitious and engaging book sets itself the task of combining a wide range of approaches to cast new light on the form and function of several...
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Psychological Interpretation of Ruth
Daimon Verlag (CH)£32.99| /The biblical Book of Ruth is a love story, apparently personal and simple -- of love between women and between man and woman -- told in poetic imag...
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Questioning Jewish Caribbean Identity
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£97.99| /This book lends a fresh, psychological approach to identity and Jewishness in the Caribbean. It explores the ways in which individuals in the islan...
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Rabbinate in Stormy Days
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£25.99| /From his days as a precocious youngster in Lomzha to his service as rabbi of Belfast and Dublin, chief rabbi of the Irish Free State, and then chie...
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Recipes of My 15 Grandmothers
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£20.99| /This is a collection of recipes and stories from the times of the Crypto-Jews - who were hiding and pretending to be Catholic during the Spanish I...
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Search for M
Ariadne Press (US)£19.99| /The plot of "The Search for M" revolves around the lives in contemporary Vienna of two generations of European Jews, the survivors of the Holocaust...
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Secrets of the Eternal Book
Laitman Kabbalah Publishers (CA)£10.00| /This book decodes some of the Bible's most enigmatic, yet oft-cited epochs. The author's lively and easygoing style makes for a smooth entrance int...
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Sifting Through Ashes
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£18.99| /In August 2015, Robert Miller and Bruce Gendelman toured sites of the Holocaust's atrocities. Led by the former Special Envoy to Combat and Monitor...
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Solomon's Wisdom & Other Stories
Micah Publications, Inc (US)£15.99| /Ten stories which deal with religious or revelatory experiences as they orginiate out of an historical or psychological background.
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Space, Memory & Jewish National Identity
New Century Publications (IND)£38.99| /This book is an attempt to analyse the evolution of territorial orbit of the Jewish national identity through three seminal events in the Jewish hi...
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Spinoza der Hebräer
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£23.99| /The work of Baruch de Spinoza (1632−1677) experienced a changeable and complex reception. Ostracized as a heretic during his lifetime, the Dutch ph...
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Story of an Underground
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£35.99| /This is the story of the fighting underground of the Jews of Kovno, Lithuania, in World War II. The authors, historians Zvie A Brown and Dov Levin,...
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Stronger than Iron
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£30.99| /This eye-witness account details the destruction of Vilna Jewry at the hands of the Nazis. Its chronicle of life in the two Vilna ghettos is the on...
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Survivors
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£30.99| /This is not just another Holocaust photo album. It is a special work that confirms optimism and vitality. It deals with the cycle of life and its w...
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The Faces of Torah
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£152.99| /This volume is a festschrift in honor of Steven Fraade, the Mark Taper Professor of the History of Judaism at Yale University. The contributions to...
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The Galilean Kitchen
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£20.99| /If you really want to make a friend, go to someones house and eat with him the people who give you their food, give you their heart. The true wor...
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The Ghetto Men
Schiffer Military£54.99| /The twenty-eight day siege of the Warsaw Ghetto was one of the most protracted large-scale urban battles in World War II. Only the fighting at Leni...
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The Jewish Nation of the Caribbean
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£35.99| /Occasionally one comes across a book, which is unexpected, delights and inspires. Surinam, known as the Jewish Savannah, where a vibrant Jewish c...
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The Taming of the Jew
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£25.99| /The Taming of the Jew, Israel's number one best-selling e-book, is Tuvia Tenenbom's funniest and most disturbing book to date. For months on end, T...
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Timeless People
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£51.99| /In August 1654, a few Ashkenazic Jews arrived in the Dutch colonial settlement of New Amsterdam (later renamed New York), and thus began the astoni...
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Titus, Trump and the Triumph of Israel
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£19.99| /We are living in mysterious yet miraculous times. On the one hand, we have witnessed the most remarkable fulfillment of Biblical prophecy: the Jewi...
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To America & Around the World
Branden Publishing Co (US)£19.99| /This book contains the daily logs kept by Columbus -- himself, and by Magellan's scribe, Antonio Pigafetta, on their fateful voyages to the unknown...
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Touching History
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£30.99| /This gripping memoir tells the personal story of a man who has lived at the epicentre of the major events of modern Jewish history. From the ashes ...
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Townhouse in Jerusalem
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£20.99| /The story of an American who grew up in a Jewish ghetto in Newark, where assimilation is the unspoken standard. His ultimate rejection of the norm ...
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Ukrainian-Jewish Relations in Historical Perspective
University of Alberta Press (CA)£34.99| /Ukrainian-Jewish Relations in Historical Perspective contains papers from a historic conference on Ukrainian-Jewish relations that was held at McMa...
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Under Swiss Protection
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£18.00| /This volume retraces Carl Lutzs diplomatic wartime rescue efforts in Budapest, Hungary, through the lens of Jewish eyewitness testimonies. Togethe...
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Unusual Bible Interpretations
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£25.99| /Most people suppose that the book of Judges is filled with tales of pious leaders called judges who performed acts that protected the Israelites an...
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Vegetarian Shabbat Cookbook
Micah Publications, Inc (US)£26.99| /This cookbook combines the great tradition of the Sabbath with vegan cooking. Most of these recipes require little cooking and keep very well at ro...
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Victor Kugler
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£15.99| /Of all the personalities associated with Anne Frank, the most important figure, without whom Anne Frank would never have been able to write her dia...
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Voice Called
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£15.99| /This is a collection of articles about some of the great Jewish heroes of modern times. The book is a collage of role-models and inspiring makers o...
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Who Am I?
Aspekt Uitgeverij BV (NL)£16.50| /On 8 May 1945, a few days after the end of the war, the Minister of Justice published the War Foster Children Decree. The National Committee for Wa...
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Who Knew?!
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£22.99| /Did you know that the great Jewish sage and physician Maimonides practiced medicine while lying flat on his back? That a famous passage penned by G...
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Writings of the Last Generation & the Nation
Laitman Kabbalah Publishers£15.00| /In 1940, Rav Yehuda Ashlag published the first, and only copy of the paper, The Nation. After WWII, he wrote The Writings of the Last Generation, c...
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Yearning to Breathe Free
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£30.99| /On 1 February 1940, a thirty-three-year-old Jewish woman arrived alone in New York Harbor bearing, in her womb, the person who would eventually bec...
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Yes, It's Possible
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£25.99| /Ehud Diskin's mother wanted him to play it safe when he was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces. Instead, he volunteered for one of the IDF's mo...
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Yiddish and the Field of Translation
Bohlau Verlag GmbH & Co.KG£71.99| /Yiddish literature and culture take a central position in Jewish literatures. They are shaped to a high degree, not least through migration, by enc...
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