Touching History: From Williamsburg to Jerusalem
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This gripping memoir tells the personal story of a man who has lived at the epicentre of the major...
Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press
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Stories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social...
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Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-semitism in England
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Trials of the Diaspora presents the long and troubling history of anti-Semitism in England, from the...
Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine
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In Erased, Omer Bartov uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine,...
The History and Religious Heritage of Old Cairo: Its Fortress, Churches, Synagogue, and Mosque
Morris Jackson and Sherif Sonbol
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Just to the south of modern Cairo stands the historic enclave known as Old Cairo, which grew up in...
Kabbalah: A Very Short Introduction
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In Kabbalah: A Very Short Introduction, Joseph Dan, one of the world's leading authorities on Jewish...
Anna: A Teenager on the Run
Anna Podgajecki and Sandy Bloom
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Part of a new Holocaust remembrance series of important testimonies and memoirs from the unique...
Jacob-Isaac Segal: A Montreal Yiddish Poet and His Milieu
Pierre Anctil and Vivian Felsen
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Born in the Ukraine in 1896, and settling in Montreal in 1910, Segal became one of the first Yiddish...
Desiring Divinity: Self-Deification in Early Jewish and Christian Mythmaking
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Perhaps no declaration incites more theological and moral outrage than a human's claim to be divine....
