Author: Shulkin MD, Weiss Mark Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is an entertaining history of a Jewish immigrant family during its first century in America. How tragic if one were to journey to his past without recognizing where he was! In this book, the pr...
Author: Josephus, Flavius Publisher: Waking Lion Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The classic history of the Jewish people by the Greek author and warrior Flavius Josephus. If you're looking for an alternative version of biblical history, you won't want to miss this book. Newly des...
Author: Josephus, Flavius Publisher: Waking Lion Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The classic history of the Jewish people by the Greek author and warrior Flavius Josephus. If you're looking for an alternative version of biblical history, you won't want to miss this book. Newly des...
Author: Moskovits, D. J. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: One distinguishing quality of the Jewish nation is the prolonged periods of history in which the universalist ideology has replaced the ideal of national determination. In Beacon, author D. J. Moskovi...
Author: Einbinder, Susan L. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: When Crusader armies on their way to the Holy Land attacked Jewish communities in the Rhine Valley, many Jews chose suicide over death at the hands of Christian mobs. With their defiant deaths, the me...
Author: Muller, Jerry Z. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The unique historical relationship between capitalism and the Jews is crucial to understanding modern European and Jewish history. But the subject has been addressed less often by mainstream historian...
Author: Muller, Jerry Z. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The unique historical relationship between capitalism and the Jews is crucial to understanding modern European and Jewish history. But the subject has been addressed less often by mainstream historian...
Author: Ruderman, David B. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Early Modern Jewry boldly offers a new history of the early modern Jewish experience. From Krakow and Venice to Amsterdam and Smyrna, David Ruderman examines the historical and cultural factors unique...
Author: Volkov, Shulamit Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The ferocity of the Nazi attack upon the Jews took many by surprise. Volkov argues that a new look at both the nature of antisemitism and at the complexity of modern Jewish life in Germany is required...
Author: Schwartz, Seth Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This provocative new history of Palestinian Jewish society in antiquity marks the first comprehensive effort to gauge the effects of imperial domination on this people. Probing more than eight centuri...
Author: Aschheim, Steven E. Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The nineteenth- and twentieth-century relationship between European culture, German history, and the Jewish experience produced some of the West's most powerful and enduring intellectual creationsâ€...
Author: Clouser, Gordon Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Who was Jesus? An apocalyptic prophet? An aphoristic sage? The messiah of Jewish expectations? In Jesus, Joshua, Yeshua of Nazareth, Gordon Clouser analyzes the question of the historical Jesus and ar...
Author: Feldman, Louis H. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Relations between Jews and non-Jews in the Hellenistic-Roman period were marked by suspicion and hate, maintain most studies of that topic. But if such conjectures are true, asks Louis Feldman, how di...
Author: Shevitz, Amy Hill Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Jewish Communities on the Ohio River, Amy Hill Shevitz chronicles the settlement and development of small Jewish communities in towns along the river. In these small towns, Jewish citizens created ...
Author: Goldish, Matt Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Jewish Questions, Matt Goldish introduces English readers to the history and culture of the Sephardic dispersion through an exploration of forty-three responsa--questions about Jewish law that Jews...
Author: Matthäus, Jürgen Publisher: AltaMira Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933-1946 offers a new perspective on Holocaust history by presenting documentation that describes the manifestations and meanings of Nazi Germany's "final solution" f...
Author: Roemer, Nils Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: German Jews were fully assimilated and secularized in the nineteenth century—or so it is commonly assumed. In Jewish Scholarship and Culture in the Nineteenth Century, Nils Roemer challenges this ass...
Author: Rosen, Mark I. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: BEHIND THE SCENES AT AMERICA'S LARGEST JEWISH CHARITY The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, affectionately referred to as the "Joint," is considered to be one of the most effective and...
Author: Reitter, Paul Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Today, the term "Jewish self-hatred" often denotes a treasonous brand of Jewish self-loathing, and is frequently used as a smear, such as when it is applied to politically moderate Jews who are critic...
Author: Sanchez Ph. D., Dell F. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Dr. Dell Sanchez began his journey into the lineage of his Latino family when it surfaced from his research of Jewish survivors of the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions of the 15th - 17th Centuries....
Author: Cohen, Mark R. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What was it like to be poor in the Middle Ages? In the past, the answer to this question came only from institutions and individuals who gave relief to the less fortunate. This book, by one of the top...
Author: Brustein, William I. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How did the levels of anti-Semitism in the 1930s compare to those of earlier decades? Did anti-Semitism vary in content and intensity across societies? In other words, were Germans more anti-Semitic t...
Author: Aschheim, Steven E. Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Through an examination of the remarkable diaries and letters of three extraordinary and distinctive German-Jewish thinkers - Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, and Victor Klemperer, Steven E. Aschheim il...
Description: As World War II wages across Europe, Lucien wonders about the strangers who come to stay in his village, only to depart in secrecy a few days later. One day a young girl named Amelie appears on his do...
Author: Josephus, Flavius Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book traces the history of the Jews from creation to just before the outbreak of the revolt of AD 66-70. It was an attempt to favourably present Judaism to the world. This eBook is complete (All ...
Author: Schwartz, Daniel B. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Pioneering biblical critic, theorist of democracy, and legendary conflater of God and nature, Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was excommunicated by the Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam in 165...
Author: Holtschneider, K. Hannah Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The Holocaust and Representations of Jews examines how prominent national exhibitions in Europe represent the Jewish minority and its cultural and religious self-understandings, historically and today...
Author: Holtschneider, K. Hannah Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Holocaust and Representations of Jews examines how prominent national exhibitions in Europe represent the Jewish minority and its cultural and religious self-understandings, historically and today...
Author: Herzl, Theodor Publisher: Filiquarian Publishing, LLC Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Classic zionist author Theodor Herzl's popular book The Jewish State, originally published in 1896. This book features 19th century discussion on the state of Jews around the world and in the United S...
Author: Rutland, Suzanne D. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Jews form only a tiny proportion of the Australian population, yet they have made outstanding contributions and have influenced Australian society immeasurably. Stories such as that of Sir John Monash...
Author: Bartal, Israel Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "A remarkable achievement. Bartal presents the broad contours of nineteenth-century East European Jewish history even as he reworks them into a nontraditional narrative."—David Engel, New York U...
Author: Karp,Jonathan Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This study demonstrates the centrality of economic rationales to debates on Jews' status in Italy, Britain, France and Germany during the course of two centuries. It delineates the common themes that ...
Author: Donahue, Arwen Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe PDF
Description: At the end of World War II, many thousands of Jewish Holocaust survivors immigrated to the United States from Europe in search of a new beginning. Most settled in major metropolitan areas, usually in ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Urban Tourism and Urban Change: Cities in a Global Economy provides both a sociological / cultural analysis of change that has taken place in many of the world's cities. This focused treatment of urba...
Author: Steinhouse, Carl Publisher: FriesenPress Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The exciting story of how the Jews, in the face of violent opposition of five Arab armies and Palestinian Arab guerrillas, and the implacable hostility and obstructive tactics of the British, ushered ...
Author: Braiterman, Zachary Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The impact of technology-enhanced mass death in the twentieth century, argues Zachary Braiterman, has profoundly affected the future shape of religious thought. In his provocative book, the author sho...
Author: Einbinder, Susan L. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: When Crusader armies on their way to the Holy Land attacked Jewish communities in the Rhine Valley, many Jews chose suicide over death at the hands of Christian mobs. With their defiant deaths, the me...
Author: Tanny, Jarrod Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: 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 flocked there...
Author: Ruderman, David B. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Early Modern Jewry boldly offers a new history of the early modern Jewish experience. From Krakow and Venice to Amsterdam and Smyrna, David Ruderman examines the historical and cultural factors unique...
Author: Unterman, Alan Publisher: Scarecrow Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Historical Dictionary of the Jews presents the history of the Jewish people and their religious culture in a way that makes clear how and why this small, ancient people have survived nearly four m...
Author: Shevitz, Amy Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In Jewish Communities on the Ohio River, Amy Hill Shevitz chronicles the settlement and development of small Jewish communities in towns along the river. In these small towns, Jewish citizens created ...