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The Jews of Egypt from Rameses II to Emperor Hadrian

8vo large Paperback. 279pp. Hellenistic Egypt was the setting for perhaps the first Jewish Golden Age, a time "golden" in Jewish memory as an era of vibrant cultural interaction between the Jews and their gentile hosts. This is the story of the adventures and misadventures of the people of Israel in the land of Egypt the years shrouded in the mists of biblical history under the Pharaohs; the strange intermezzo of the Jewish mercenary detachment on the island of Elephantine on the upper Nile; the apogee of Jewish culture under Ptolemies; and finally, the Jewish community's rapid decline and catastrophic disappearance under Roman rule. Joseph Mélèze Modrzejewski uses scientific analysis to illuminate the reality underlying our image of the past. The biblical accounts and Jewish and pagan literary texts are juxtaposed with discoveries of a century of archaeological and papyrological research that has unearthed the edicts of emperors as well as the humble correspondence of common people. In a tantalizing epilogue, Modrzejewski probes a turning point in Western civilization: the brief but crucial episode when budding Christianity and the Alexandrian Jews parted company.

The Jews in China: their synagogue, their scriptures, their history &c.

8vo. 130 x 189 mm. viii, 86, [1] pp.Cloth. Fine. Documenting the Jewish community in Kai Feng Fu, from over a millenia of steady residence. Fascinating study of ancient jewish residents in China from over 1000 years ago

The Jewish Persona in the European Imagination. a Case of Russian Literature

8vo, hardcover in dj. This book proposes that the idea of the Jews in European cultures has little to do with actual Jews, but rather is derived from the conception of Jews as Christianity's paradigmatic Other, eternally reenacting their morally ambiguous New Testament role as the Christ-bearing and -killing chosen people of God. Through new readings of canonical Russian literary texts by Gogol, Turgenev, Chekhov, Babel, and others, the author argues that these European writers?Christian, secular, and Jewish?based their representation of Jews on the Christian exegetical tradition of anti-Judaism. Indeed, Livak disputes the classification of some Jewish writers as belonging to "Jewish literature," arguing that such an approach obscures these writers' debt to European literary traditions and their ambivalence about their Jewishness. This work seeks to move the study of Russian literature, and Russian-Jewish literature in particular, down a new path. It will stir up controversy around Christian-Jewish cultural interaction; the representation of otherness in European arts and folklore; modern Jewish experience; and Russian literature and culture. About the Author: Leonid Livak is Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, where he teaches at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and in the Centre for Jewish Studies. He is the author of How It Was Done in Paris: Russian Émigré Literature and French Modernism (2003).

The Jewish Joke: An essay with examples (less essay, more examples) (ISBN:9781781255230)

12mo, The Jewish joke is as old as Abraham, and like the Jews themselves it has wandered over the world, learned countless new languages, worked with a range of different materials, been performed in front of some pretty hostile crowds, but still retained its own distinctive identity. So what is it that animates the Jewish joke? Why are Jews so often thought of as funny ? And how old can a joke get? The Jewish Joke is a brilliant - and very funny - riff on Jewish jokes, about what marks them apart from other jokes, why they are important to Jewish identity and how they work. Ranging from self-deprecation to anti-Semitism, politics to sex, it looks at the past of Jewish joking and asks whether the Jewish joke has a future. With jokes from Woody Allen, Lena Dunham and Jerry Seinfeld, as well as Freud and Marx (Groucho mostly), this is both a compendium and a commentary, light-hearted and deeply insightful.

The Japanese and the Jews

Trade paperback, 6th (1987) printing, as news, 12mo., 193 pages., ISBN: 0834801582

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.

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

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

8vo, br. ed.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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