Hustling Hitler: The Jewish Vaudevillian Who Fooled the Fuhrer
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Vaudeville manager, boxing promoter, stock swindler and card shark Freeman Bernstein was no stranger...
Graphic Details: Jewish Women's Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews
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The comics within capture in intimate, often awkward, but always relatable detail the tribulations...
Jewish Drama & Theatre: From Rabbinical Intolerance to Secular Liberalism
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Jewish drama and theatre has followed a tortuous path from extreme rabbinical intolerance to...
The Making of Modern Zionism: The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State
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For eighteen centuries pious Jews had prayed for the return to Jerusalem, but only in the...
Old Worlds, New Mirrors: On Jewish Mysticism and Twentieth-century Thought
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There emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a new Jewish elite, notes Moshe Idel, no...
House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family
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After her grandmother died, Hadley Freeman travelled to her apartment to try and make sense of a...
Jewish Masculinity in the Holocaust: Between Destruction and Construction
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This book draws on historical and sociological arguments to explore, for the first time, the impact...