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  • Religion and Genocide

    Changing the Conversation

    by Steven Leonard Jacobs ...
    Religion and Genocide: Changing the Conversation is a cutting-edge introduction to the complex and controversial relationship between religion and genocide. This book aims to widen the reader’s understanding of religion and those who practice it, the nexus of religion and violence, and those who legitimate their violence by framing it in religious terms by looking at notions of holy wars, ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • A Short History of Judaism and the Jewish People

    by Steven Leonard Jacobs ...
    Series series Short Histories
    In this exciting addition to Bloomsbury's Short Histories series, Steven Leonard Jacobs critically yet concisely examines the history of Judaism and the Jewish people, drawing from maps, photographs and archives to illuminate the history of one of the world's oldest religions.Beginning by establishing a definition of Judaism, Jacobs explores the historiography of the Jewish people, in addition to ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Lemkin on Genocide

    by Steven Leonard Jacobs ...
    Providing an annotated commentary on two unpublished manuscripts written by international law and genocide scholar Raphael Lemkin, Steven L. Jacobs offers a critical introduction to the father of genocide studies. Lemkin coined the term "genocide" and was the motivating force behind the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide. The materials ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Antisemitism

    Exploring the Issues

    by Steven Leonard Jacobs ...
    Series series Religion in Politics and Society Today
    With an overview essay, timeline, reference entries, and annotated bibliography, this resource is a concise, one-stop reference on antisemitism in today's society.Stretching back to biblical times, antisemitism is perhaps the world's oldest hatred of a group. It has manifested itself around the world, sometimes taking the form of superficially innocent jokes and at other times promoting such ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Writing Religion

    The Case for the Critical Study of Religion

    by Steven W. Ramey, Theodore Louis Trost, Steven Leonard Jacobs, Russell T. McCutcheon, Russell T. McCutcheon, Arjun Appadurai, Aaron W. Hughes0, Martin S. Jaffee1, Nathan Katz2, Amy-Jill Levine3, Bruce Lincoln4, Tomoko Masuzawa5, Ann Pellegrini6, Judith Plaskow7, Jonathan Z. Smith8 ...
    In 2002, the University of Alabama's Department of Religious Studies established the annual Aronov Lecture Series to showcase the works of nationally recognized scholars of religion capable of reflecting on issues of wide relevance to scholars from across the humanities and social sciences. Writing Religion: The Case for the Critical Study of Religion is an edited collection of essays that ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Life Must Go On

    The Remarkable Story of Sol Lurie, the Kovno Ghetto, and the Tragic Fate of Lithuania's Jews

    by Bea Lurie, Dr. Steven Leonard Jacobs ...
    Narrated by Adam Barr ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 46 min

    After a bucolic childhood in Kovno, Lithuania, Sol was just eleven when the Nazis invaded and he and his family were forced to move into the Kovno Ghetto. The Kovno Ghetto was one of the only ghettos to later become a concentration camp, and Sol was among just a few Jewish survivors from Kovno.In this inspiring story of tenacity, character, faith, love, and forgiveness, we follow young Sol through ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Modern Genocide

    The Definitive Resource and Document Collection [4 volumes]

    Edited by Steven Leonard Jacobs, Professor Paul R. Bartrop ...
    This massive, four-volume work provides students with a close examination of 10 modern genocides enhanced by documents and introductions that provide additional historical and contemporary context for learning about and understanding these tragic events.Modern Genocide: The Definitive Resource and Document Collection spans nearly 1,700 pages presented in four volumes and includes more than 120 ... Read more

    $404.99 CAD

  • Reflections of an Unconverted Convert

    Elie Wiesel, the Problem of God, and One Jew’s Return Home

    by Murray Joseph Haar ...
    This is the story of Dr. Murray Haar's odyssey from Jewish tradition to Christianity and back again. As the child of Holocaust survivors, he struggled with questions of God and faith and finally left the religious tradition of his youth behind. He became an ordained Lutheran pastor and professor at a midwestern Lutheran College. Ultimately, through the influence of Elie Wiesel, he found the way ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Translated Memories

    Transgenerational Perspectives on the Holocaust

    by Bettina Hofmann, Anne Ranasinghe, Carol Ascher, Daniel Feldman, Bruno Arich-Gerz, Doron Ben-Atar, Julia Epstein, Elizabeth Rosner, Federico Dal Bo, Christoph Houswitschka0, Naomi Shmuel1, Joseph Swann2, Richard Aronowitz3, Christoph Heyl4, Yael Munk5, Lilian Gergely6, Sue Lieberman7, Dani Kranz8, Peter Wortsman9, Ursula Reuter1, Lori Hope Lefkovitz2, Maria Roca Lizarazu3, Rebecca Margolis4, Steven Leonard Jacobs5, Victoria Aarons6 ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Jewish Literature
    This volume engages with memory of the Holocaust as expressed in literature, film, and other media. It focuses on the cultural memory of the second and third generations of Holocaust survivors, while also taking into view those who were children during the Nazi period. Language loss, language acquisition, and the multiple needs of translation are recurrent themes for all of the authors discussed. ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

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  • Why the Jews?

    The Reason for Antisemitism

    by Dennis Prager, Joseph Telushkin ...
    Series series An Examination of Antisemitism
    From the bestselling authors of The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism, a compelling discussion of the dangerous rise in antisemitism during the twenty-first century.The very word Jew continues to arouse passions as does no other religious, national, or political name. Why have Jews been the object of the most enduring and universal hatred in history? Why did Hitler consider murdering Jews ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • “A Problem from Hell”

    America and the Age of Genocide

    by Samantha Power ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize!An impassioned critique of America’s repeated failure to stop genocides around the world, from a New York Times bestselling author and former US Ambassador to the UN.**“An angry, brilliant, fiercely useful, absolutely essential book.” —**New RepublicIn her Pulitzer Prize-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, for... ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Bonhoeffer's the Cost of Discipleship

    Edited by Greg Ligon ...
    Series series Shepherd's Notes
    Shepherd's Notes- Christian Classics Series is designed to give readers a quick, step by step overview of some of the enduring treasures of the Christian faith. They are designed to be used along side the classic itself- either in individual study or in a study group. The faithful of all generations have found spiritual nourishment in the Scriptures and in the works of Christians of earlier ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus