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Storielle Ebraiche

16mo, br. ed.

Studies in the History of Istanbul Jewry, 1453-1923: A Journey Through Civilizations

8vo. ril. ed. XIV+518 p., 55 b/w ill. + 8 colour ill., 12 b/w tables, 15 b/w line art. Hardback A cross-cultural and cross-temporal journey in the city of Istanbul and its Jewish community from the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople (1453) to the establishment of the Turkish Republic (1923). This book presents ten chapters in the history of the Jewish community of Istanbul from the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople (1453) to the establishment of the Turkish Republic (1923). While delving into specific subjects such as the Romaniot presence in the city, the Karaite society, family life throughout the generations, material culture and its meaning, social life, urban history, economic life, and relations with the Ottoman regime, a common thread binds all of them. Each of the chapters, individually and together, constitutes a journey between different cultures and religions. The history of Istanbuls Jews carries the imprint of Greek Orthodoxy and Catholicism, as well as Islam. It moves in cycles between the Byzantine and Ottoman realms, between Catholic Europe and the Muslim Ottoman Empire, and finally, between the Ottoman Jewish culture and a modern Europe in the throes of secularization. Over fifty images are included to illustrate the multicultural aspect of the history presented here. The essays in this volume present high quality scholarship, but equally they provide a fascinating insight to general readers with an interest in Constantinople-Istanbul-Qosta, as well as readers interested in Jewish urban history, the transmission of culture, and multiculturalism

Superman Is Jewish?: How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice, and the Jewish-American Way

8vo, 209pp. In Superman Is Jewish Harry Brod reveals the links between Jews and superheroes in a penetrating investigation of iconic comic book figures. He describes how the role of each hero reflects the evolution of the Jewish place in American culture-an alien in a foreign land, like Superman; a figure plagued by guilt for not having saved his family, like Spider-Man; outsiders persecuted for being different (X-Men); a nice, smart guy afraid people wont like him when hes angry (the Hulk). Brod blends humor and sharp observation as he considers these well-known figures overtly and discreetly Jewish characteristics and talks about how their creators-including Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Stan Lee, and Jack Kirby-integrated their Jewish identities and their creativity. His lively guided tour takes us from the Passover Haggadahs exciting action scenes of Mosess superpowers to acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winners and overseas animators. Brod has written and lectured extensively on this fun and provocative topic and through his expertise explores the deeper story of how one immigrant group can influence the larger culture through entertainment and, in the process, see itself in new, more empowering ways. superman ebreo?

Surplus of Memory, A: Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

8vo Or.cloth. with dustjacket, XVIII, 702 pp.

Swann Galleries Hebraica & Judaica Public Auction Sale 1580 December 19, 1993

softcover 346 lots. Many illustrations of Jewish books and Judaica art

Tempi Felici

16mo, br. ed. pp.120. Molto più della guerra, delle bombe che riducono Budapest in macerie, molto più dei rischi che lui stesso corre in quanto ebreo, a occupare i pensieri di Józsi Beregi è il campionato di calcio. E poi trovare il modo di procurarsi quello che più gli manca: un po'di carne da mettere sotto i denti. Ma non dovrà sforzarsi troppo, giacché a offrirgli, con entusiastica e spontanea generosità, tutto ciò di cui ha bisogno saranno le donne, nessuna delle quali sembra poter resistere al suo fascino. Se "Epepe" si presentava da subito come un incubo, "Tempi felici" appare sin dalle prime battute come un divertissement - quasi uno schnitzleriano girotondo. Solo in una commedia, infatti, farsi crescere un paio di baffi può sottrarre un giovane ebreo alle terribili Croci frecciate nell'Ungheria dell'inverno del 1945; e solo in una commedia il giovanotto in questione può vivere le sei drammatiche settimane dell'assedio dei Sovietici, in una città squassata dai bombardamenti e ridotta allo stremo, come una parentesi beata, deliziosamente propizia agli amori clandestini, riuscendo a farsi proteggere, nutrire e coccolare da prostitute e borghesi, da giovani e da vecchie - e perfino da una miliziana fascista. Con una nota di Marion Van Renterghem.

Terra contesa. Israele, Palestina e il peso della Storia

8vo, br. ed. pp. 340, cm 12x24. (Frecce). Il volume fa luce sulle origini più profonde di una disputa iniziata molto prima del 1947, l'anno della partizione della Palestina da parte dell'ONU. Il ruolo delle religioni, lo sviluppo e la cristallizzazione delle identità, il possesso della terra, le strategie delle grandi potenze e quelle dei paesi arabi, l'antisemitismo e le discriminazioni, le prospettive dal basso degli abitanti che da oltre un secolo si contendono pochi chilometri quadrati: ognuno di questi tasselli è parte di un mosaico in cui spiccano le cicatrici della storia e vengono meno le verità assolute proprie di larga parte delle narrazioni correnti. Avere il controllo di questi luoghi millenari significa interpretarne il passato. È un aspetto che è rimasto costante nel corso dei secoli. Solo gli interpreti sono cambiati.

The Alexandrine Gospel

1333429126.G — paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback

The Autobiography of an Adventurer

8vo, Original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Ex-libris book plate inside front cover signatures of former owners. pp.280. From Renouncing Judaism to Working in Many countries from Canada to China and Tibet suspected of Spying in WW1 a full Life. hitler's jew.

The Book of Exodus: A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books 48)

8vo, hardcover in dj, pp.237. Exodus is the second book of the Hebrew Bible, but it may rank first in lasting cultural importance. It is here that the classic biblical themes of oppression and redemption, of human enslavement and divine salvation, are most dramatically expressed. Joel Baden tells the story of this influential and enduring book, tracing how its famous account of the Israelites? journey to the promised land has been adopted and adapted for millennia, often in unexpected ways. Baden draws a distinction between the Exodus story and the book itself, which is one of the most multifaceted in the Bible, containing poems, law codes, rituals, and architectural plans. He shows how Exodus brings together an array of oral and written traditions from the ancient Middle East, and how it came to be ritualized in the Passover Seder and the Eucharist. Highlighting the remarkable resilience and flexibility of Exodus, Baden sheds light on how the bestowing of the Torah to Moses on Mount Sinai divided Jewish and Christian thinkers, on the importance of Exodus during the Reformation and the American Revolution, and on its uses in debates for and against slavery. He also traces how the defining narrative of ancient Israel helped to define Mormon social identity, the American civil rights movement, and liberation theology. Though three thousand years old, the Exodus?as history, as narrative, as metaphor, as model?continues to be vitally important for us today. Here is the essential biography of this incomparable spiritual masterpiece.

The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town

8vo, br. ed.

The Chosen People [Magazine], November (Nov.) 1972 - Summer Camp in Jerusalem

20 page magazine. 9 x 6". Reproductions of black and white photos. A monthly publication intended as a medium of information concerning the Jews, Israel and the work of the American Board of Missions to the Jews, Inc. Features: Salutation by Daniel Fuchs discusses reaction of Jewish media to Christian Hebrews; Summer Camp in Jerusalem; "Jacob's Well" at First Baptist Church, Dallas; Long Island Missionary Team Reports - photo-illustrated article; Incidents from the Field; Why not acknowledge Christianity's debt to Judaism?; and more. Printed upon glossy stock. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A sound copy. Book

The Court Jew A Contribution To The History Of The Period Of Absolutism In Central Europe 1950

The Crime of My Very Existence Nazism and the Myth of Jewish Criminality

8vo, br. ed. xxix + 321pp., b/w pls., index. a rarely considered yet critical dimension of anti-Semitism that was instrumental in the conception and perpetration of the Holocaust: the association of Jews with criminality. Drawing from a rich body of documentary evidence, including memoirs and little-studied photographs, Michael Berkowitz traces the myths and realities pertinent to the discourse on "Jewish criminality" from the eighteenth century through the Weimar Republic, into the complex Nazi assault on the Jews, and extending into postwar Europe.

The Devil and the Jews : The Medieval Conception of the Jew and its relation to Modern Antisemitism

8vo, br. ed. Softcover. xvi-278 pages. The definitive work of scholarship on the medieval conception of the Jew as devil Through documents, analysis, and illustrations, the book exposes the full spectrum of the Jew's demonization as devil, sorcerer, and ritual murderer. The author reveals how these myths, many with origins traced to Christian Europe in the late Middle Ages, still exist in transmuted form in the modern era. (Key Words: Joshua Trachtenberg, Marc Saperstein, Anti-Semitism, Devil, Mythology, Judaica, Medieval Jews).

The Epistle to the Hebrews. [By F. F. Bruce]. (= The New International Commentary on the New Testament). Revised Edition / 15. Auflage.

2009 · 160951 — Grand Rapids, Michigan/Cambridge, U.K.: Eerdmans 2009. XXII, 426 Seiten. Gr. 8° (22,5-25 cm). Orig.-Leinenband mit illustriertem Orig.-Schutzumschlag. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].

The Epistle to the Hebrews. A commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews. [By Harold W. Attridge]. Edited by Helmut Koester. (= Hermeneia - a critical and historical commentary on the Bible).

2009 · 160860 — Philadelphia: Fortress Press 2009. XXVIII, 437 Seiten. Gr. 8° (22,5-25 cm). Orig.-Leinenband mit Orig.-Schutzumschlag. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].

The Epistle to the Hebrews. An Historical and Theological Reconsideration. The Baird Lecture 1949. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

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.

The Eternal Road. a Drama in Four Parts

8vo, pp.xi-144. ex library hardcover, ow good. biblical mystery play in the timeless night of istrael's persecution

The Extraordinary Life of Josef Ganz: The Jewish Engineer Behind Hitler's Volkswagen

8vo, . 227 x 152 mm. pp.274 The astonishing biography of Josef Ganz, a Jewish designer from Frankfurt, who in May 1931 created a revolutionary small car: the Maikafer (German for "May bug"). Seven years later, Hitler introduced the Volkswagen. The Nazis not only "took" the concept of Ganz's family car--their production model even ended up bearing the same nickname. The Beetle incorporated many of the features of Ganz's original Maikafer, yet until recently Ganz received no recognition for his pioneering work. The Nazis did all they could to keep the Jewish godfather of the German compact car out of the history books. Now Paul Schilperoord sets the record straight. Josef Ganz was hunted by the Nazis, even beyond Germany's borders, and narrowly escaped assassination. He was imprisoned by the Gestapo until an influential friend with connections to Goring helped secure his release. Soon afterward, he was forced to flee Germany, while Porsche, using many of his groundbreaking ideas, created the Volkswagen for Hitler. After the war, Ganz moved to Australia, where he died in 1967.

The Fortress of Faith: The Attitude towards Muslims in Fifteenth Century Spain

Dj. Bibliography. Index. Medieval Iberian Peninsula Texts and Studies, volume 12. ix, 254 pages. 24.5 cm.

The German-Jewish Dialogue: An Anthology of Literary Texts, 1749-1993

16mo, br. ed. 382pp. The German-Jewish Dialogue offers a unique selection of short stories, plays, poems, essays, letters, and diary entries that illustrates through literature the history of German-Jewish relations. From the eighteenth century, when civil rights for Jews were first proposed, through the 1990s and contemporary considerations of the Holocaust, this anthology sheds light on the interaction between Jews in Germany and Austria and their fellow Gentile Germans with works of high literary merit, each introduced with a short preface. Ritche Robertson's lucid introduction puts the selections in their historical context and his translations make available in English--in some cases for the first time--both Jewish writers on various aspects of Jewish experience and responses of Gentile writers to the Jews in their midst.

The Gospel According to the Hebrews Its Fragments Tr. and Annotated With a Critical Analysis of the Evidence Relating to It by E.B. Nicholson. With Corrections and Suppl. Notes

1019383267.G — hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover

The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought

8vom 240pp. According to a commonplace narrative, the rise of modern political thought in the West resulted from secularizationthe exclusion of religious arguments from political discourse. But in this pathbreaking work, Eric Nelson argues that this familiar story is wrong. Instead, he contends, political thought in early-modern Europe became less, not more, secular with time, and it was the Christian encounter with Hebrew sources that provoked this radical transformation. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Christian scholars began to regard the Hebrew Bible as a political constitution designed by God for the children of Israel. Newly available rabbinic materials became authoritative guides to the institutions and practices of the perfect republic. This thinking resulted in a sweeping reorientation of political commitments. In the books central chapters, Nelson identifies three transformative claims introduced into European political theory by the Hebrew revival: the argument that republics are the only legitimate regimes; the idea that the state should coercively maintain an egalitarian distribution of property; and the belief that a godly republic would tolerate religious diversity. One major consequence of Nelsons work is that the revolutionary politics of John Milton, James Harrington, and Thomas Hobbes appear in a brand-new light. Nelson demonstrates that central features of modern political thought emerged from an attempt to emulate a constitution designed by God. This paradox, a reminder that while we may live in a secular age, we owe our politics to an age of religious fervor, in turn illuminates fault lines in contemporary political discourse.