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  • Bernard-Lazare: Antisemitism and the Problem of Jewish Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century France

    by Nelly Wilson ...
    Bernard-Lazare (1865-1903) was a French Jewish writer and a prime mover in the Dreyfus Affair. After being involved in the Symbolist and anarchist movements, he took up the cause of Dreyfus in his brochure “Une erreur judiciaire” which anticipated Zola’s “J’accuse” by three years. He was an early analyst of antisemitism and in later years an ardent Zionist whose outspoken views provoked much ... Read more

    $17.85 CAD

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    Forgotten Authors, The - Men Born 1850 - 1899

    Don't let great literature die

    by Lazar K Lazarevic, Ion Luca Caragiale, George Moore, Vladimir Korolenko, Bernard Capes, Georges Eekhourd, Richard Marsh, Fergus Hume, William Pett Ridge, Edward Lucas White, Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Nikolai Teleshov, Hugo Crackanthorpe, Oswald Sickert, Max Beerbohm, Thomas Mann ...
    Narrated by Jake Urry, Mark Rice-Oxley, David Shaw-Parker ...

    Unabridged

    Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

    $54.95 CAD

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  • Jews and Magic in Medici Florence

    The Secret World of Benedetto Blanis

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