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  • War and Peace in Jewish Tradition

    From the Biblical World to the Present

    Edited by Yigal Levin, Amnon Shapira ...
    Series series Routledge Jewish Studies Series
    The transition between the reality of war and a hope for peace has accompanied the Jewish people since biblical times. However, the ways in which both concepts are understood have changed many times over the ages, and both have different implications for an independent nation in its own land than they do for a community of exiles living as a minority in foreign countries.This book explores the ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

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  • The Jews: Story of a People

    Story of a People

    by Howard Fast ...
    A vivid and eminently readable story of Jewish history covering 4,000 years, and including extensive illustrations and historical photographsHoward Fast, the bestselling author of Spartacus, tells the sweeping story of the Jewish people and Judaism over four millennia, from their nomadic beginnings and the rise of Moses, to the kings David and Solomon, through the Diaspora and the unthinkable ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Invention of the Jewish People

    by Shlomo Sand ...
    Translated by Yael Lotan ...
    A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend from converts, whose native lands were scattered across the Middle East and Eastern Europe.In this ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Anti-Judaism

    by David Nirenberg ...
    A magisterial history, ranging from antiquity to the present, that reveals anti-Judaism to be a mode of thought deeply embedded in the Western tradition.There is a widespread tendency to regard anti-Judaism – whether expressed in a casual remark or implemented through pogrom or extermination campaign – as somehow exceptional: an unfortunate indicator of personal prejudice or the shocking outcome ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Legends of the Jews

    by Louis Ginzberg ...
    Bible times and characters from creation to Esther. The introduction begins: "The term Rabbinic was applied to the Jewish Literature of post-Biblical times by those who conceived the Judaism of the later epoch to be something different from the Judaism of the Bible, something actually opposed to it. Such observers held that the Jewish nation ceased to exist with the moment when its political ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Palestine Betrayed

    by Efraim Karsh ...

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Rise of Israel

    A History of a Revolutionary State

    by Jonathan Adelman ...
    Series Book 10 - Israeli History, Politics and Society
    The state of Israel is one of the most controversial countries in the world. Yet, its unique creation and rise to power in 1948 has not been adequately explained either by its friends (mainstream Zionists) nor by its detractors (Arabists and post-Zionists).Using a variety of comparative methodologies; from contrasting the Jewish state to other minorities in the Ottoman Turkish Empire to the rise ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • A History of the Jews in the Modern World

    by Howard M. Sachar ...
    The distinguished historian of the Jewish people, Howard M. Sachar, gives us a comprehensive and enthralling chronicle of the achievements and traumas of the Jews over the last four hundred years.Tracking their fate from Western Europe’s age of mercantilism in the seventeenth century to the post-Soviet and post-imperialist Islamic upheavals of the twenty-first century, Sachar applies his renowned ... Read more

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  • The Jewish State

    by Theodor Herzl ...
    Series series Penguin Great Ideas
    'We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and die peacefully in our own homes'Theodor Herzl's passionate advocacy of the founding of a Jewish state grew out of his conviction that Jews would never be assimilated into the populations in which they lived. Herzl concluded that the only solution for the majority of Jews would be organised emigration to a state of their own.Herzl's political ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Love of God

    Divine Gift, Human Gratitude, and Mutual Faithfulness in Judaism

    by Jon D. Levenson ...
    Series series Library of Jewish Ideas
    "[An] original point of view. . . . A way of finding new meaning in . . . talking about God. It succeeds brilliantly on all counts." ― Jewish Book CouncilThe love of God is the most essential element in Judaism—but also the most confounding. In biblical and rabbinic literature, the obligation to love God appears as a formal commandment. Yet most people today think of love as a feeling. How can an ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Operation Solomon

    The Daring Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews

    by Stephen Spector ...
    "Operation Solomon" was one of the most remarkable rescue efforts in modern history, in which more than 14,000 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel in little more than a day. In this riveting volume, Stephen Spector offers the definitive account of this incredible story, based on over 200 interviews and exclusive access to confidential documents. Written with the pace and immediacy of a novel, ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Origin of the Jews

    The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age

    by Steven Weitzman ...
    The first major history of the scholarly quest to answer the question of Jewish originsThe Jews have one of the longest continuously recorded histories of any people in the world, but what do we actually know about their origins? While many think the answer to this question can be found in the Bible, others look to archaeology or genetics. Some skeptics have even sought to debunk the very idea ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD