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  • Binah
    Joseph Dan
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    121,56 €

  • Binah
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    70,93 €

  • Landscape and Townscape in the South West
    This book examines recent views on the emerging settlement patterns of early medieval Britain and their relation to land use, drawing on both archaeological and documentary sources. ...
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    43,73 €

  • Zionism
    David Vital
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    79,47 €

  • Torah and the Chronicler’s History Work
    Judson R. Shaver / Judson RShaver
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    20,02 €

  • From Ancient Israel to Modern Judaism
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    38,94 €

  • Profiles of a Rabbi
    Bruce Chilton
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    26,67 €

  • From Ancient Israel to Modern Judaism
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    33,43 €

  • The Lost Cities of Africa
    Basil Davidson
    Combining archeological evidence and scholarly research, Davidson traces the exciting development of the rich kingdoms of the lost cities of Africa, fifteen hundred years before European ships first came to African shores. ...
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    27,93 €

  • The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi
    Leone Modena
    Leon (Judah Aryeh) Modena was a major intellectual figure of the early modern Italian Jewish community--a complex and intriguing personality who was famous among contemporary European Christians as well as Jews. Modena (1571-1648) produced an autobiography that documents in poignant detail the turbulent life of his family in the Jewish ghetto of Venice. The text of this work is...
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    71,99 €

  • The Social History of Rome
    Geza Alfoldy / David Braund / Frank Pollock
    This book treats such topics as the structure of archaic Roman society; social changes from the beginning of Roman expansion to the Second Punic War; slave uprisings and other conflicts in the society of the Late Republic; the social system of the early Empire; the crisis of the Roman Empire; and late Roman society to the fall of the Empire. ...
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    40,78 €

  • Manhattan Country Doctor
    Milton J. Slocum / Milton Jonathan Slocum
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    17,85 €

  • Out of Weakness
    Andrew Bard Schmookler / Andrew Schmookler
    A sweeping social critique in the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism that explores the irrational and unconscious forces that drive people to make war. ...
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    16,36 €

  • ’At Duty’s Call’
    W. J. Reader / WJReader
    In this book, Reader attempts to understand the extraordinary mass voluntary enlistment of two and a half million men in the British army in the first sixteenth months of the Great War ...
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    32,53 €

  • Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah
    Moshe Idel
    This book presents important topics regarding the more mystical trend of Kabbalah-the ecstatic Kabbalah. It includes the mystical union, the world of imagination, and concentration as a spiritual technique. The emphasis in the text is on the interaction between the 'original' Spanish stage of Kabbalah and Muslim mysticism in the East, mainly in the Galilee. The influence of ...
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    41,00 €

  • Persistence and Flexibility
    Using a variety of anthropological approaches, the authors illustrate how the Jewish identity has persisted in the United States despite great subcultural variation and a wide range of adaptations. Within the various essays, attention is given to both mainstream Jews and to the Hasidim, Yemenites, Indian Sephardim, Soviet Emigres, and 'Jews for Jesus.' Institutions such as the...
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    43,13 €

  • Burning Lights
    Bella Chagall / Norbert Guterman
    This is a charming portrait of childhood in the Russian market town where the great painter and his wife grew up. Bella’s warm, humorous stories of her pious Jewish family are illustrated by 36 of her husband’s pen-and-ink line drawings. ...
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    16,83 €

  • Oxen, Women, or Citizens?
    Paul Virgil McCracken Flesher
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    26,71 €

  • Goyim
    Gary G. Porton / Gary GPorton
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    42,27 €

  • Ideas of Jewish History
    Michael A Meyer
    Despite the vicissitudes of their anomalous historical experience, the Jews survive as am identifiable entity. They have withstood one challenge after another — both physical and intellectual — somehow maintaining an historical continuity. How Jewish writers have dealt with this enigma serves as the subject of this volume. With these words from the Preface, Michael A. Meyer ch...
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    34,77 €

  • A Living Tree
    Arthur Rosett / Arthur Rossett / Elliot N. Dorff / Elliot NDorff
    This book examines biblical and rabbinic law as a coherent, continuing legal tradition. It explains the relationship between religion and law and the interaction between law and morality. Abundant selections from primary Jewish sources, many newly translated, enable the reader to address the tradition directly as a living body of law with emphasis on the concerns that are pri...
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    45,79 €

  • The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia
    Moshe Idel
    The first wide-scale presentation of a major Jewish mystic, the founder of the ecstatic Kabbalah. ...
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    43,35 €

  • Imperialism and Popular Culture
    John M. MacKenzie
    Popular culture is invariably a vehicle for the dominant ideas of its age. Never was this more true than in the late-19th and early 20th centuries, when it reflected the nationalist and imperialist ideologies current throughout Europe. This text examines the various media through which nationalist ideas were conveyed in late-Victorian and Edwardian times - in the theatre, 'ethn...
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    33,11 €

  • The History of al-Ṭabarī Vol. 4
    Moshe Perlmann
    In this volume Ṭabarī takes up the history of the ancient world, focusing on the Iranians and the Israelites after the time of Solomon. He establishes a comparative chronology between the two nations; viewing Bahman, the Persian king, as the son of Esther, and his daughter, Khumani, the mother of Darius. Ṭabarī’s synchronization also leads him into a discussion of North and Sou...
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    42,20 €

  • Zanzibar in Contemporary Times
    Robert Nunez Lyne
    'It has been my endeavour in the following chapters to describe briefly the most interesting persons and events that are connected with the history of the Rulers of Zanzibar and their Dominions on the East Coast of Africa during the nineteenth century, and do give some account of this Island of the Southern East, its people and industries.'So writes the author in his preface to...
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    70,94 €

  • A Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas
    Ruth Wisse
    The five short novellas which comprise this anthology were written between 1890 and World War I. All share a common setting—the Eastern European Jewish town or shtetl, and all deal in different ways with a single topic—the Jewish confrontation with modernity. The authors of these novellas are among the greatest masters of Yiddish prose. In their work, today's reader will di...
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    39,40 €

  • The Enduring South
    John Shelton Reed
    First published in 1972, The Enduring South challenges the conventional wisdom that economic development, urbanization, and the end of racial segregation spelled the end of a distinctive Southern culture. In this edition, John Reed updates the public opinion data to the 1980s and reinforces the book’s original conclusions: Southerners are different and are likely to stay that w...
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    54,88 €

  • The French Peasantry in the Seventeenth Century
    Pierre Goubert / Ian J. Patterson / Ian JPatterson
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    35,88 €

  • Texas Quilts
    Texas Heritage Quilt Society
    (From the introduction) Collectively, these quilts and their stories tell the story of the women of Texas-hardships endured and overcome, friendships made, churches, schools, and communities established, of births, marriages, deaths-all the myriad experiences of mothers, daughters, sisters who created from whatever resources available, a bit of beauty in their quilts...These 't...
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    25,59 €

  • Texas Quilts
    Texas Heritage Quilt Society
    (From the introduction) Collectively, these quilts and their stories tell the story of the women of Texas-hardships endured and overcome, friendships made, churches, schools, and communities established, of births, marriages, deaths-all the myriad experiences of mothers, daughters, sisters who created from whatever resources available, a bit of beauty in their quilts...These 't...
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    39,96 €


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