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  • Colonialism and the Jews

    Edited by Ethan B. Katz, Lisa Moses Leff, Maud S. Mandel ...
    Series series The Modern Jewish Experience
    The lively essays collected here explore colonial history, culture, and thought as it intersects with Jewish studies. Connecting the Jewish experience with colonialism to mobility and exchange, diaspora, internationalism, racial discrimination, and Zionism, the volume presents the work of Jewish historians who recognize the challenge that colonialism brings to their work and sheds light on the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Burdens of Brotherhood

    Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France

    by Ethan B. Katz ...
    An informative look at the ever-changing relationship between France's predominant non-Christian immigrant minorities over the course of 100 years.Headlines from France suggest that Muslims have renewed an age-old struggle against Jews and that the two groups are once more inevitably at odds. But the past tells a different story. The Burdens of Brotherhood is a sweeping history of Jews and Muslims ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When Jews Argue

    Between the University and the Beit Midrash

    Edited by Ethan B. Katz, Sergey Dolgopolski, Elisha Ancselovits ...
    Series series Routledge Approaches to History
    This book re-thinks the relationship between the world of the traditional Jewish study hall (the Beit Midrash) and the academy: Can these two institutions overcome their vast differences? Should they attempt to do so? If not, what could two methods of study seen as diametrically opposed possibly learn from one another? How might they help each other reconceive their interrelationship, themselves, ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Secularism in Question

    Jews and Judaism in Modern Times

    Edited by Ari Joskowicz, Ethan B. Katz ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    For much of the twentieth century, most religious and secular Jewish thinkers believed that they were witnessing a steady, ongoing movement toward secularization. Toward the end of the century, however, as scholars and pundits began to speak of the global resurgence of religion, the normalization of secularism could no longer be considered inevitable. Recent decades have seen the strengthening of ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Secularism in Question

    Jews and Judaism in Modern Times

    Edited by Ari Joskowicz, Ethan B. Katz ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    For much of the twentieth century, most religious and secular Jewish thinkers believed that they were witnessing a steady, ongoing movement toward secularization. Toward the end of the century, however, as scholars and pundits began to speak of the global resurgence of religion, the normalization of secularism could no longer be considered inevitable. Recent decades have seen the strengthening of ... Read more

    $113.99 CAD

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  • Left in Dark Times

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    The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective

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  • The Arabs and the Holocaust

    The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives

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    Colonialism, Terrorism, Justice

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  • Judaism, Liberalism, & Political Theology

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