End of jewish modernity

End of Jewish Modernity

A provocative take on Jewish history, explaining the metamorphoses of mainstream Jewish culture and politics

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HEBREW JEWISH MONTHLY NOTE PLANNER 2019

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Mestizo Modernity

After the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1917, post-revolutionary leaders hoped to assimilate the country's racially diverse population into one off

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Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919-1939

Rewrites Jewish literary modernity from the point of view of women. Focusing on works by interwar Hebrew and Yiddish writers, Allison Schachter illumi

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Codification of Jewish Law on the Cusp of Modernity

Aimed at legal historians and students of Jewish law, this work explains how three of the most important codifiers of Jewish law arrived at their deci

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Unfinished Modern Project at the End of Modernity

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Judaism and Modernity

A reinterpretation of thinkers from Benjamin and Rosenzweig to Simone Weil and Derrida, not as secular figures who happened to be Jewish, but as Jews

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Jewish Lives under Communism

This volume provides new, groundbreaking views of Jewish life in the pro-Soviet bloc from the end of the Second World War until the collapse of Commun

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Architecture of Memory

Recalling how they lived in a single house that was occupied by several Jewish and Muslim families, in the generation before Algerian independence, Joelle Bahloul's informants build up a multivocal micro-history of a way of life which came to an end in the early 1960s. Uprooted and dispersed, these former neighbours constantly refer back to the architecture of the house i...

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Tales of the Prague Ghetto - Siegfried Kapper e-kniha

The three stories in this collection, which first appeared in the press in the 1840s and were posthumously published as a collection at the end of the century, offer a Romantic and folkloric vision of Jewish culture in Prague.

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Prague at the Turn of the Century - Pavel Scheufler

Anotace: Towards the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Prague still possessed its venerable majesty, but now it was fast becoming a modern European metropolis. The old Jewish Quarter had been replaced with broad boulevards, modern bridges spanned the river, and the first steam trains from Vienna were arriving at the station. While only recently the Emperor and his guard...

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Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius - Freedman Harry

Anotace: `Leonard Cohen taught us that even in the midst of darkness there is light, in the midst of hatred there is love, with our dying breath we can still sing Hallelujah.` - The late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks`Among the finest volumes on Cohen`s life and lyrics ... An exploration which would have intrigued and engaged Leonard himself.` - John McKenna, writer and frien...

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Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius - Harry Freedman

<p>'Leonard Cohen taught us that even in the midst of darkness there is light, in the midst of hatred there is love, with our dying breath we can still sing Hallelujah.' - The late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks 'Among the finest volumes on Cohen's life and lyrics ... An exploration which would have intrigued and engaged Leonard himself.' - John McKenna, writer and frie...

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Judaism in a Digital Age

Noting the declining strength of Conservative and Reform Judaism, the largest US Jewish movements of modernity, he argues for new iterations of Judais

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Coherent Judaism

Explains why pre-modern Judaism opted to privilege consensus around Jewish behaviour (halakhah) over belief. The stresses of modernity have conspired

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Living in Two Worlds

This unique collection of diaries and letters offers a vivid, personal account of the experiences of a Jewish couple living parallel lives – Else end

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Journey Through a Small Planet

Recalls the author's working-class Jewish childhood in the East End of London. This book describes the overcrowded tenements of Brick Lane and Whitech

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Island Promise

In 1943, our comfortable family life came to an abrupt end, thanks to Hitler. During the Nazi occupation of Athens, Daphne, a young Greek Jewish art

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Elected Member

The 1970 Booker Prize-winning novel. Norman is the clever one of a closely-knit Jewish family in London's East End. Infant prodigy, brilliant barriste

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Antisemitism Before the Holocaust Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book examines the history of antisemitism in the United States and Germany in a novel way by placing the two countries side by side for a sustained comparison of the anti-Jewish environments in both countries from the 1880s to the end of the Second World War. Antisemitism Before the Holocaust is an essential volume for students and scholars alike interested in Europ...

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Videology 2 - Armand Louis

Anotace: VIDEOLOGY 2 continues Louis Armand´s broad-ranging critique of realism in film, visual arts and literature. From Nam June Paik´s experimental TV to the militant cinema of Pontecorvo, Fassbinder & Godard; from Karel Teige´s cine-poetics to Neo-Attack; from anti-American filmographies of Petit, Jarmusch & Wenders, to the "cinema at the end of the world."Includes e...

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Videology 2

VIDEOLOGY 2 continues Louis Armand’s broad-ranging critique of realism in film, visual arts and literature. From Nam June Paik’s experimental TV to the militant cinema of Pontecorvo, Fassbinder & Godard; from Karel Teige’s cine-poetics to Neo-Attack; from anti-American filmographies of Petit, Jarmusch & Wenders, to the “cinema at the end of the world.” Includes essays on...

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Videology 2 - Louis Armand

<p>VIDEOLOGY 2 continues Louis Armand’s broad-ranging critique of realism in film, visual arts and literature. From Nam June Paik’s experimental TV to the militant cinema of Pontecorvo, Fassbinder &amp; Godard; from Karel Teige’s cine-poetics to Neo-Attack; from anti-American filmographies of Petit, Jarmusch &amp; Wenders, to the “cinema at the end of the wo...

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Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitl - neuveden

Anotace: The gripping story of a team of Nazi hunters at the U.S. Department of Justice as they raced against time to expose members of a brutal SS killing force who disappeared in America after World War Two. In 1990, in a drafty basement archive in Prague, two American historians made a startling discovery: a Nazi roster from 1945 that no Western investigator had ever ...

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Citizen 865 : The Hunt for Hitler´s Hidden Soldiers in America - Cenziper Debbie

Anotace: In 1990, in a drafty basement archive in Prague, two American historians made a startling discovery: a Nazi roster from 1945 that no Western investigator had ever seen. The long-forgotten document, containing more than 700 names, helped unravel the details behind the most lethal killing operation in World War Two.In the tiny Polish village of Trawniki, the SS se...

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Citizen 865 : The Hunt for Hitler´s Hidden Soldiers in America - Debbie Cenziper

<p>In 1990, in a drafty basement archive in Prague, two American historians made a startling discovery: a Nazi roster from 1945 that no Western investigator had ever seen. The long-forgotten document, containing more than 700 names, helped unravel the details behind the most lethal killing operation in World War Two. In the tiny Polish village of Trawniki, the SS s...

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Praha za císaře pána - Pavel Scheufler

<p>Towards the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Prague still possessed its venerable majesty, but now it was fast becoming a modern European metropolis. The old Jewish Quarter had been replaced with broad boulevards, modern bridges spanned the river, and the first steam trains from Vienna were arriving at the station. While only recently the Emperor and his guard ...

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Katerina

‘Read this book . . .what a gift of lyric language and style, of emotion purified by pain this is’ Los Angeles TimesFleeing an abusive home, Katerina, a teenager in 1880s Ukraine, is taken in by a Jewish family, finding safety in their warmth and rituals. When a pogrom is wrought upon the family, she is alone again. Decades later, having suffered and retaliated for that s...

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Galerie - Greenberg Steven

Anotace: One woman`s quest for truth reveals a dark family secret long buried in Prague`s Nazi past. WINNER: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Fall 2015 -- Best Books in Fiction "Imagine Stephen King wrote Schindler`s List..." Nikki [Historical, Thriller, Literary, Holocaust] Every family holds to secrets, but some are far darker, reach deeper, and touch a rawer nerve tha...

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Galerie - Steven Greenberg

<p>One woman's quest for truth reveals a dark family secret long buried in Prague's Nazi past. WINNER: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Fall 2015 -- Best Books in Fiction "Imagine Stephen King wrote Schindler's List..." Nikki [Historical, Thriller, Literary, Holocaust] Every family holds to secrets, but some are far darker, reach deeper, and touch a rawer ...

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The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter - The Sunday Times Bestseller - Josef Lewkowicz

<p>**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**'A riveting, compelling, mesmerizing journey. Josef Lewkowicz is a hero in every sense of the word. The Survivor both terrifies us and inspires us. It's a must read.'Tova Friedman, author of The Daughter of Auschwitz.One of the last great untold stories of the Holocaust, The Survivor is an astonishing account of one man's unbreakabl...

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The Trial: The No. 1 bestselling whodunit by Britain´s best-known criminal barrister - Rinder Rob

Anotace: `Hugely enjoyable` Steve Cavanagh`Ridiculously entertaining` Tom Hindle`I didn`t want it to end` Heidi Perks______________________*NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*ONE MURDER. ONE IMPOSSIBLE CASE. WHO IS GUILTY?When hero policeman Grant Cliveden dies from a poisoning in the Old Bailey, it threatens to shake the country to its core.The evidence points to one ma...

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