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8vo, 628 pp. plates, hardcover, very good in a good dust jacket.
8vo. br. ed bandelle sopraccop.fig. cm.14x22, pp.206, Con una postilla sul Midrash di David Del Vecchio,
8vo. 24 cm. br. editoriale; p. 213, fotografie e documenti . ristampa anastatica del celebre Sindacato Italiano Arti Grafiche Editore, 1920 , a cura del Ministero delle Colonie., documentato studio sulla situazione degli ebrei in Libia, preziosa fonte di conoscenza sulle loro condizioni nel paese africano: credenze religiose degli ebrei libici, superstizioni degli ebrei libici, il Sabato, festività ebraiche, Pasqua, Shabu'ot, digiuni, Hanukkà, Purim, liturgia, nascita e circoncisione, "fanciullezza dell'israelita libico", matrimonio, usi funebri. In appendice, prospetto delle feste ebraiche in Libia e indice alfabetico. fuori catalogo
8vo, ril. tela ed. in sovracop. pp.508
8vo, Hardcover in dj, pp.624. . 16.46 x 24.18 cm. escribes how Judaism has been viewed as a dangerous force to be opposed, criticized, attacked and eliminated for centuries, from the Romans' destruction of the Second Temple, through the Inquisition and up to the Holocaust. Questions of how we are Jewish and, more critically, how and why we are not have been churning within the Western imagination throughout its history. Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans; Christians and Muslims of every period; even the secularists of modernity have used Judaism in constructing their visions of the world. The thrust of this tradition construes Judaism as an opposition, a danger often from within, to be criticized, attacked, and eliminated.
8vo, br. ed. pp.301. In the wake of modern genocide, we tend to think of violence against minorities as a sign of intolerance, or, even worse, a prelude to extermination. Violence in the Middle Ages, however, functioned differently, according to David Nirenberg. In this provocative book, he focuses on specific attacks against minorities in fourteenth-century France and the Crown of Aragon (Aragon, Catalonia, and Valencia). He argues that these attacks--ranging from massacres to verbal assaults against Jews, Muslims, lepers, and prostitutes--were often perpetrated not by irrational masses laboring under inherited ideologies and prejudices, but by groups that manipulated and reshaped the available discourses on minorities. Nirenberg shows that their use of violence expressed complex beliefs about topics as diverse as divine history, kinship, sex, money, and disease, and that their actions were frequently contested by competing groups within their own society. Nirenberg's readings of archival and literary sources demonstrates how violence set the terms and limits of coexistence for medieval minorities. The particular and contingent nature of this coexistence is underscored by the book's juxtapositions--some systematic (for example, that of the Crown of Aragon with France, Jew with Muslim, medieval with modern), and some suggestive (such as African ritual rebellion with Catalan riots). Throughout, the book questions the applicability of dichotomies like tolerance versus intolerance to the Middle Ages, and suggests the limitations of those analyses that look for the origins of modern European persecutory violence in the medieval past.
8vo, tela in sovrac.pp.264. Dal Medioevo a fine Ottocento Riforma e Controriforma Historical and Political studies From Middle Ages to the end of the 19th Century Reformation and Counter-reformation it. prima ed. La Storia da vicino trad. Aldo Audisio tela edit. con sovrac. ill. una cartina nel testo.
8vo, hardcover in dj, small owner signature, ow. as new in as new wrapper. 161 pages. 23 cm. First edition. Covers the period of the Chmielnicki Massacre and the Thirty Years War, and the movement of impoverished refugees into Western Europe. Moses Avigdor Shulvass (1909–1988) , "scholar and educator. Born in Plonsk, Poland, Shulvass studied in Berlin. He lived in Erez Israel from 1938 to 1948 and then immigrated to the United States, where he eventually became professor of Jewish history at Spertus College of Jewish Studies in Chicago. His publications in many languages include historical studies on Italian Jewry. Of special interest are his books Roma ve-Yerushalayim (‘Rome and Jerusalem, ’ 1945) ; Hayyei ha-Yehudim be-Italyah bi-Tekufat ha-Renaissance (‘Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy, ’ 1955) ; and his biographical sketch of Samuel David Luzzatto with documentary supporting material, Pirkei Hayyim (1951) . He also published two volumes of essays on various aspects of Jewish history, Bi-Zevat ha-Dorot (‘In the Grip of Generations, ’ 1960) and Between the Rhine and Bosphorus (1964) as well as Die Juden in Wuerzburg waehrend des Mittelalters (1934) . He also wrote From East to West (1971) , Jewish Culture in Eastern Europe (1975) , and The History of the Jewish People (1982) . " (EJ 2008) Subjects: Jews - Germany - History - 1096-1800. Jews - Poland - History. Jews - Migrations. Joden. Migratie (demografie) Migration. Geschichte 1600-1800
8vo, br. ed. 288 pages. 8.98x5.91x0.87 inches.]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 to seek easy wealth and lead lives of debauchery and excess. Odessa is also famed for the brand of Jewish humor brought there in the 19th century from the shtetls of Eastern Europe and that flourished throughout Soviet times. From a broad historical perspective, Jarrod Tanny examines the hybrid Judeo-Russian culture that emerged in Odessa in the 19th century and persisted through the Soviet era and beyond. The book shows how the art of eminent Soviet-era figures such as Isaac Babel, Il'ia Ilf, Evgenii Petrov, and Leonid Utesov grew out of the Odessa Russian-Jewish culture into which they were born and which shaped their lives.
16mo, br. ed. piccola firma di app. altrimenti come nuovo.
8vo, br. ed. 560pp. L'opera di Israel Zangwill ha svolto un ruolo fondamentale per la conoscenza del mondo ebraico. Prima di lui, l'ebreo era solitamente rappresentato nella letteratura come un individuo gretto e furbo, dedito a loschi traffici di denaro e di merci, sulla falsariga dello Shylock del Mercante di Venezia. Nei libri di Zangwill, nato e cresciuto nel ghetto di Londra, i suoi correligionari appaiono invece per quello che sono, «uomini come tutti gli altri, a volte miseri e a volte sublimi, che solo a differenza degli altri uomini formano una nazionalità senza nazione, sottoposti alle condizioni più tragiche che la Storia registri, esposti non solo allo sprezzo e ai dileggi, ma alle persecuzioni e ai massacri». I protagonisti de I sognatori del ghetto dedicano sé stessi alla ricerca di una formula spirituale che li consoli della morte e appaghi la loro curiosità del Mistero, sono dei sognatori che perseguono un sogno che non si è avverato e che i più pensano che non si avvererà mai. Pur nella loro autonomia e nonostante l'azione si svolga in epoche e in luoghi diversi - da Amsterdam a Roma, da Venezia a Londra e Berlino -, le storie che compongono questa raccolta costituiscono una narrazione unitaria e armonica. Gian Dàuli, che le ha tradotte, annota: «Un unico filo corre per i quindici racconti, li tiene uniti attraverso lo spazio e il tempo, mostra quanto poco possono gli eventi e i secoli mutare l'anima dell'uomo, e come i vivi non siano che la continuità dei morti, da formare quasi un'unica anima immortale».
8vo, br. ed., 377 pages, Until the publication of this remarkably comprehensive history of the Sephardi diaspora, only limited attention had been given to the distinctive Judeo-Spanish cultural entity that flourished in the Balkans and Asia Minor for more than four centuries. Yet the great majority of Sephardi Jews, after their expulsion from Spain in 1492 and subsequently from Portugal, found their way to this region, drawn by the political stability and relatively tolerant rule of the Ottoman Empire, as well as by promising socioeconomic conditions. Esther Benbassa and Aron Rodrigue show how Sephardi society and culture developed in the Levant, sharing language, religion, customs, and communal life as they did nowhere else, both during prosperous times and during the declining fortunes of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The impact of westernization, the end of Ottoman power, and the rise of fragmenting nation-states transformed this vital community in the modern era. And, like many other Jewish communities, the unique Judeo-Spanish culture was dispersed and destroyed by the Holocaust and the migrations of the twentieth century. Sephardi Jewry presents its vivid history in a readable, well-documented narrative
University of Illinois Press, United States, 2008. Paperback. Condition: New. Language: English. Brand new Book. This is the first published edition of the diary of Abraham Plotkin, an American labor leader of immigrant Jewish origin who lived in Berlin between November 1932 and May 1933. A firsthand account of the Weimar Republic's final months and the early rise of Nazi power in Germany, Plotkin's diary focuses on the German working class, the labor movement, and the plight of German Jews. Plotkin investigated Berlin's social conditions with the help of German Social-Democratic leaders whose analyses of the situation he records alongside his own.Most accounts of Hitler's rise to power emphasize political institutions by focusing on the Nazi party's clashes with other political forces. In contrast, Plotkin is especially attentive to socioeconomic factors, providing an alternative view from the left that stems from his access to key German labor and socialist leaders. Chronologically, the diary reports on the moment when Hitler's seizure of power was not yet inevitable and when leaders on the left still believed in a different outcome of the crisis, but it also includes Plotkin's account of the complete destruction of German labor in May 1933.
8vo, tela ed. sovrac. 284pp. Molte sono le opere di Rembrandt con oggetti tratti dalla Bibbia ebraica e numerosi sono i suoi ritratti di notabili ebrei. Ma quali furono i concreti legami tra Rembrandt e la comunità ebraica? Steven Nadler documenta i rapporti quotidiani, non sempre facili, tra il pittore e i suoi vicini di casa a Vlooienburg, nel cuore del mondo ebraico di Amsterdam. E ben presto, partendo dal lavoro del grande artista, il rinomato studioso di Spinoza estende il campo d'indagine, per descrivere alcune pagine centrali della vita dei sefarditi e degli ashkenaziti all'indomani del loro insediamento presso lo Zuiderzee: l'assimilazione da parte di una società cosmopolita di queste comunità di migranti, oggetto di interesse intellettuale e sospetto, curiosità e pregiudizio, e talvolta ammirazione. L'attento esame di dipinti, incisioni e di segni sfocia nell'analisi della vita culturale e sociale del Secolo d'oro olandese, e approfondisce le fondamentali questioni di carattere spirituale, teologico e politico dell'epoca. Un viaggio lungo i canali e sotto i cieli annuvolati dell'affollata Amsterdam, tra personalità fuori del comune, accese discussioni e splendidi capolavori artistici.
In 8° 192 pp. Prima edizione. Ampia e non comune documentazione, moltissime riproduz. a colori di lettere, buste, cartoline, francobolli, timbri, documenti, ecc. Con interess. notizie e commenti. Testo italiano e inglese, glossario e bibliografia. Bross.ed., cop.ill. Ottimo, come nuovo
8vo, br. ed. - 158 pagine
New English Paperback. Pbo. Demy 8vo. (21 x 13,5 cm). In English. 136 p. This study focuses on the pardons of the Hamidian era by using the petitions which were written by the convicts, accused people or their relatives to the Sublime Porte. Beside the lives, prison conditions and accusations of the convicts, the pardon petitions constitute a useful source to see the nature of the relationship between state and the ordinary people. This study argues that although requesting a pardon seems to have been a kind of obedience to the authority, the relationship established on pardons was established through bargains and negotiations. The process of granting pardons was an interactive one in which the actors negotiated on the conditions according to the position of supplicant. Also, the petitions allow us to see the debated characteristics of the Hamidian era from the eyes of the ordinary people. This study claims that the pardon was a state policy and it was especially applied during the Armenian Events of the 1890s, the banditry problem and tribal conflicts. Moreover, to gain the loyalties of the outlaws, to use them as informers and collaborate with them in the critical areas of the Empire, pardons were a step in allowing the state to make alliances without losing its prestige. Through the discretionary power of forgiveness, the Sultan tried to restore the monarchical ideology, namely the merciful image of Sultanic rule, which was a distinctive element of monarchical power. While granting pardons, the Abdülhamid regime expected from the convict less loyalty or regret than certain services, and active collaboration on particular issues - a tension which constituted the dynamics of the pardon negotiations.
8vo gr. pp. XXVIII-656, con 124 illustrazioni fotografiche su tavv. f. testo Tela editoriale, sovrac. illustrata, acetato trasp., fascetta editoriale Importante testo di storiografia spagnola. Prima edizione italiana
8vo., First Edition, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; plum cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo, tela ed. in sovracoperta, pp.710. L'ebraismo ha mantenuto invariata la sua fortissima identità nonostante le innumerevoli forme e credenze che hanno costellato il suo corso millenario. Il libro di Martin Goodman offre la prima storia complessiva della sua nascita, della sua evoluzione e delle sue diverse correnti e tradizioni. Dalle origini della religione ebraica nel mondo politeistico del secondo e primo millennio al culto del tempio d'epoca cristiana, Storia dell'ebraismo racconta le vicende di rabbini, mistici e messia medievali e agli albori dell'età moderna, descrive le varietà religiose contemporanee dall'Europa alle Americhe, dall'Africa all'India e alla Cina, così come le istituzioni e le idee sulle quali si fonda ogni forma di ebraismo. Intrecciando i diversi fili del dibattito filosofico e dottrinario che attraversa tutta la sua storia, questo libro, autorevole e coinvolgente insieme, restituisce la cronaca di una tradizione fondamentale per l'eredità spirituale umana.
8vo, cloth in dj, pp.265. Two thousand years ago, 967 Jewish men, women, and children?the last holdouts of the revolt against Rome following the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second Temple?reportedly took their own lives rather than surrender to the Roman army. This dramatic event, which took place on top of Masada, a barren and windswept mountain overlooking the Dead Sea, spawned a powerful story of Jewish resistance that came to symbolize the embattled modern State of Israel. The first extensive archaeological excavations of Masada began in the 1960s, and today the site draws visitors from around the world. And yet, because the mass suicide was recorded by only one ancient author?the Jewish historian Josephus?some scholars question if the event ever took place. Jodi Magness, an archaeologist who has excavated at Masada, explains what happened there, how we know it, and how recent developments might change understandings of the story. Incorporating the latest findings, she integrates literary and historical sources to show what life was like for Jews under Roman rule during an era that witnessed the reign of Herod and Jesus?s ministry and death. Featuring numerous illustrations, this is an engaging exploration of an ancient story that continues to grip the imagination today.
8vo, cloth on dj, 560pp.During the Second World War, three prominent members of the Frankfurt School--Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, and Otto Kirchheimer--worked as intelligence analysts for the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime forerunner of the CIA. This book brings together their most important intelligence reports on Nazi Germany, most of them published here for the first time. These reports provide a fresh perspective on Hitlers regime and the Second World War, and a fascinating window on Frankfurt School critical theory. They develop a detailed analysis of Nazism as a social and economic system and the role of anti-Semitism in Nazism, as well as a coherent plan for the reconstruction of postwar Germany as a democratic political system with a socialist economy. These reports played a significant role in the development of postwar Allied policy, including denazification and the preparation of the Nuremberg Trials. They also reveal how wartime intelligence analysis shaped the intellectual agendas of these three important German-Jewish scholars who fled Nazi persecution prior to the war. Secret Reports on Nazi Germany features a foreword by Raymond Geuss as well as a comprehensive general introduction by Raffaele Laudani that puts these writings in historical and intellectual context. (ISBN:069113413
