Yiddish & Jewish Culture
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Tourists, Travellers and Hotels in 19th-Century Jerusalem [Hardback]
Rupert L. Chapman III (Editor); Shimon Gibson (Editor); Yoni Shapira (Editor)
£48.00ISBN: 9781907975288
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Palestine Exploration Fund Annuals
Volume: 11
Jerusalem was a constant focus in the hearts and minds of all pilgrims and tourists travelling to the Holy Land in the nineteenth century, but knowing exactly where they might get clean and decent accommodations on arrival was of ... .... Learn More -
Jews in Medieval Britain: Historical, Literary and Archaeological Perspectives [Paperback]
Patricia Skinner (Author)
£19.99ISBN: 9781843837336
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Although clouded in some debate, the first Jewish immigrants came to England with the Normans in c.1066 and by 1189 had established 24 provincial Jewries in places such as Norwich, Oxford, Cambridge, Coventry, Lincoln, Exeter and Gloucester. Ou... .... Learn More -
Pesher Nahum: Texts and Studies in Jewish History and Literature from Antiquity through the Middle Ages Presented to Norman (Nahum) Golb [Paperback]
Joel L. Kraemer (Editor); M.G. Wechsler (Editor)
£25.00ISBN: 9781885923875
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilisation
Volume: 66
Contained herein are 25 articles (20 in English, 5 in Hebrew) that, like the academic oeuvre of volume's honoree, span a broad array of topics within the fields of Hebraica, Judaica, and Biblica. The specific categories represented and the contrib... .... Learn More -
Translating Sholem Aleichem: History, Politics and Art [Hardback]
Gennady Estraikh (Editor); Jordan Finkin (Editor); Kerstin Hoge (Editor); Mikhail Krutikov (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975004
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Yiddish
Volume: 10
Sholem Aleichem, whose 150th anniversary was commemorated in March 2009, remains one of the most popular Yiddish authors. But few people today are able to read the original. Since the 1910s, however, Sholem Aleichem’s works ... .... Learn More -
The Gift and its Wages: The Land of Israel and the Jewish People in the Spiritual Life of Medieval Russia [Hardback]
Joel Raba (Author)
£70.00ISBN: 9782503534381
Published by : Brepols
Series: Diaspora
Volume: 1
Respect for the Old Testament and its heritage was an integral feature of Russian medieval culture and played a major role in determining Old Russia's value system and its attitude toward past and contemporary events. Jerusalem and the Holy Land w... .... Learn More -
Post-War Jewish Women's Writing in French [Hardback]
Lucille Cairns (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781906540401
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
How have French Jewish women reacted to the great traumas of the last century - the Holocaust, North African decolonization and the resulting migration of African Jews to France, the Arab-Israeli crisis and the aftermath of 9/11? Cairns's major... .... Learn More -
A Captive of the Dawn: The Life and Work of Peretz Markish (1895-1952) [Hardback]
Joseph Sherman (Editor); Gennady Estraikh (Editor); Jordan Finkin (Editor); David Shneer (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781906540524
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Yiddish
Volume: 9
Peretz Markish (1895-1952), one of Eastern Europe’s most important Yiddish poets in the period between the two world wars, was a fiercely independent maverick who published work in all literary genres. Although emerging from... .... Learn More -
Jews Among Christians: Hebrew Book Illumination from Lake Constance [Hardback]
Sarit Shalev-Eyni (Author)
£94.00ISBN: 9781905375097
Published by : Brepols
Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History
Volume: 41
Jews among Christians explores a corpus of illuminated Hebrew manuscripts of the Lake Constance region produced in the first decades of the fourteenth century. The author Sarit Shalev-Eyni, Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, provide... .... Learn More -
Ephrem, a 'Jewish' Sage: A Comparison of Exegetical Writings of St. Ephrem in the Syrian and Jewish Tradition [Paperback]
E Narinskaya (Author)
£57.00ISBN: 9782503534329
Published by : Brepols
Series: STUDIA TRADITIONIS THEOLOGIAE
Volume: 7
This book seeks to reconsider the commonly held view that some of Ephrem's writings are anti-Semitic, and that his relationship with Judaism is polemical and controversial. The outcome of the research highlights several key issues. First, it indic... .... Learn More -
Yiddish in Weimar Berlin: At the Crossroads of Diaspora Politics and Culture [Hardback]
Gennady Estraikh (Editor); Mikhail Krutikov (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781906540708
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Yiddish
Volume: 8
Berlin emerged from the First World War as a multicultural European capital of immigration from the former Russian Empire, and while many Russian emigrés moved to France and other countries in the 1920s, a thriving east Eur... .... Learn More