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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “marc volovici”
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  • German as a Jewish Problem

    The Language Politics of Jewish Nationalism

    by Marc Volovici ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    The German language holds an ambivalent and controversial place in the modern history of European Jews, representing different—often conflicting—historical currents. It was the language of the German classics, of German Jewish writers and scientists, of Central European Jewish culture, and of Herzl and the Zionist movement. But it was also the language of Hitler, Goebbels, and the German guards in ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • Antisemitism, Islamophobia and the Politics of Definition

    Edited by David Feldman, Marc Volovici ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book, the first to explore the politics of definitions from an interdisciplinary perspective, encourages readers to reconsider the value and limits of definitions in confronting antisemitism and Islamophobia. In recent years, definitions of antisemitism and Islamophobia have become central to the struggle to combat the hostility, harassment and discrimination experienced by Jews and Muslims. ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

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    Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad

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  • The Devil That Never Dies

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  • Representations of the Intellectual

    The 1993 Reith Lectures

    by Edward W. Said ...
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  • Left in Dark Times

    A Stand Against the New Barbarism

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    by Bernard-Henri Lévy ...
    In this unprecedented critique, Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of the world’s leading intellectuals revisits his political roots, scrutinizes the totalitarianisms of the past as well as those on the horizon, and argues powerfully for a new political and moral vision for our times. Are human rights Western or universal? Does anti-Semitism have a future, and, if so, what will it look like? And how is it ... Read more

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  • Black Mass

    How Religion Led the World into Crisis

    by John Gray ...
    Fascinating, enlightening, and epic in scope, Black Mass looks at the historic and modern faces of Utopian ideology: Society’s Holy Grail, but at what price?During the last century global politics was shaped by Utopian projects. Pursuing a dream of a world without evil, powerful states waged war and practised terror on an unprecedented scale. From Germany to Russia to China to Afghanistan, entire ... Read more

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Stanislawski ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Zionism is the nationalist movement affirming Jewish people's right to self-determination through the establishment of a Jewish national state in its ancient homeland. It is one of the most controversial ideologies in the world. Its supporters laud its success at liberating the Jewish people after millennia of persecution and at securing the creation of Israel. But to its opponents, Zionism relies ... Read more

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  • Israel in History

    The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective

    by Derek Penslar ...
    Covering topical issues concerning the nature of the Israeli state, this engaging work presents essays that combine a variety of comparative schemes, both internal to Jewish civilization and extending throughout the world, such as:modern Jewish society, politics and culturehistorical consciousness in the twentieth centurycolonialism, anti-colonialism and postcolonial state-building.With its open ... Read more

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    A Century-Old Myth

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    The Protocols of the Elders of Zion has attracted the interest of politicians and academicians, and generated extensive research, since the tract first appeared in the early twentieth century. Despite having repeatedly been discredited as a historical document, and in spite of the fact that it served as an inspiration for Hitler’s antisemitism and the Holocaust, it continues, even in our time, to ... Read more

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    by Natan Sharansky ...
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