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ISBN: 9781845192617 - Jewish Entrepreneurship in Salonica, 1912-1940 Jewish Entrepreneurship in Salonica, 1912-1940
Orly C Meron

ISBN10: 1845192613  ISBN13: 9781845192617
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 06 Feb 2012
Provides a multidisciplinary exploration of Salonica's Jewish-owned economy between the years 1912-1940, a period prior to and during Greece's national consolidation. This book presents the results of the author's comparative and inter... More

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ISBN: 9780753828236 - Treasures from the Attic Treasures from the Attic
Mirjam Pressler

ISBN10: 0753828235  ISBN13: 9780753828236
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 26 Jan 2012
The story of Anne Frank, her family and the famous diaries, told with the help of thousands of letters, documents and photographs recently discovered in an attic. Anne Frank wrote a diary from the age of 13 as she hid for over two years in the... More

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ISBN: 9781107014091 - The Origins of Israeli Mythology The Origins of Israeli Mythology
David Ohana

ISBN10: 1107014093  ISBN13: 9781107014091
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 23 Jan 2012
Examines Israeli identity by exploring its historical narratives, such as crusader and Canaanite challenges, and proposes a new meta-narrative - Mediterraneanism. It is claimed that Zionism as a meta-narrative has been formed through contradiction... More

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ISBN: 9780814732861 - Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah
Frederick E Greenspahn

ISBN10: 0814732860  ISBN13: 9780814732861
Publisher: New York University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 16 Jan 2012
Describes recent discoveries and insights into the various expressions of Jewish mysticism from antiquity to the modern day Over the past generation, scholars have devoted increasing attention to the diverse forms that Jewish mysticism has taken... More

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ISBN: 9780253223289 - City of Rogues and Schnorrers City of Rogues and Schnorrers
Jarrod Tanny

ISBN10: 0253223288  ISBN13: 9780253223289
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 09 Dec 2011
Odessa--celebrated and vilifi ed as a Jewish city of sin Old Odessa, on the Black Sea, gained notoriety as a legendary city of Jewish gangsters and swindlers, a frontier boomtown mythologized for the adventurers, criminals, and merrymakers who... More

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ISBN: 9780981954387 - Convenient Hatred Convenient Hatred
Phyllis Goldstein

ISBN10: 0981954383  ISBN13: 9780981954387
Publisher: Facing History & Ourselves
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 08 Dec 2011
Chronicles a particular hatred through stories that allow readers to see themselves in the tarnished mirror of history. This book raises important questions about the consequences of our assumptions and beliefs and the ways we, as individuals and... More

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ISBN: 9780674047280 - The Jewish Dark Continent The Jewish Dark Continent
Nathaniel Deutsch

ISBN10: 0674047281  ISBN13: 9780674047280
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Nov 2011
The Jews of the Pale of Settlement created a distinctive way of life little known beyond its borders. Just before World War I, a socialist revolutionary named An-sky and his team collected jokes, recorded songs, took thousands of photographs... More

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ISBN: 9780674053038 - Shattered Spaces Shattered Spaces
Michael Meng

ISBN10: 0674053036  ISBN13: 9780674053038
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Nov 2011
After the Holocaust, the empty, silent spaces of bombed-out synagogues, cemeteries, and Jewish districts were all that was left of Jewish life in many German and Polish cities. What happened to this scarred landscape after the war, and how... More

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ISBN: 9781907869181 - Battle for the East End: Jewish Responses to Fascism in the 1930s Battle for the East End: Jewish Responses to Fascism in the 1930s
David Rosenberg

ISBN10: 1907869182  ISBN13: 9781907869181
Publisher: Five Leaves Publications
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Oct 2011

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ISBN: 9780300177985 - In Ishmael's House In Ishmael's House
Martin Gilbert

ISBN10: 0300177984  ISBN13: 9780300177985
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 20 Sep 2011
The relationship between Jews and Muslims has been a flashpoint that affects stability in the Middle East and has consequences around the globe. This book challenges the standard media portrayal and presents an account of hope, opportunity, fear... More