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  • Moroccan Jews in France and Canada

    by Yolande Cohen, Sara Cohen Fournier, Noureddine Harrami, Martin Messika, Stephanie Tara Schwartz ...
    Series Book 14 - Canadian Studies
    In this volume are gathered articles published by Yolande Cohen and her team, offering for the first time a global perspective on Moroccan Jews' post-colonial migrations to France and Canada. Having herself migrated from Morocco to Montreal, Cohen is uniquely attuned to the difficulties of living through such a massive exile. Why did members of the Jewish community leave Morocco? When did this ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • The Ever-Dying People?

    Canada’s Jews in Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Robert Brym, Randal F. Schnoor ...
    Demise by assimilation or antisemitism is often held to be the inevitable future of Jews in Canada and other diaspora countries. The Ever-Dying People? shows that the Jewish diaspora, while often held to be in decline, is influenced by a range of identifiable sociological and historical forces, some of which breathe life into Jewish communities, including Canada’s.Bringing together leading ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Memories of Absence

    How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco

    by Aomar Boum ...
    There is a Moroccan saying: A market without Jews is like bread without salt. Once a thriving community, by the late 1980s, 240,000 Jews had emigrated from Morocco. Today, fewer than 4,000 Jews remain. Despite a centuries-long presence, the Jewish narrative in Moroccan history has largely been suppressed through national historical amnesia, Jewish absence, and a growing dismay over the Palestinian ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Nazism in Syria and Lebanon

    The Ambivalence of the German Option, 1933–1945

    by Götz Nordbruch ...
    Series series SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East
    The increasingly vibrant political culture emerging in Lebanon and Syria in the 1930s and early 1940s is key to the understanding of local approaches towards the Nazi German regime. For many contemporary observers in Beirut and Damascus, Nazism not only posed a risk to Europe, but threatened to take root in Arab societies as well.In the first publication to reconstruct Lebanese and Syrian ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Defending Identity

    Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy

    by Natan Sharansky ...
    Who is better prepared to confront challenges and defend principles in a volatile modern world? Those with strong national, religious, ethnic, or tribal identities who accept democracy, or democrats who renounce identity as a kind of divisive prejudice?Natan Sharansky, building on his personal experience as a dissident, argues that valueless cosmopolitanism, even in democracies, is dangerous. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • The Berber Identity Movement and the Challenge to North African States

    by Bruce Maddy-Weitzman ...
    Like many indigenous groups that have endured centuries of subordination, the Berber/Amazigh peoples of North Africa are demanding linguistic and cultural recognition and the redressing of injustices. Indeed, the movement seeks nothing less than a refashioning of the identity of North African states, a rewriting of their history, and a fundamental change in the basis of collective life. In so ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Resurgent Antisemitism

    Global Perspectives

    Edited by Alvin H. Rosenfeld ...
    Series series Studies in Antisemitism
    Dating back millennia, antisemitism has been called "the longest hatred." Thought to be vanquished after the horrors of the Holocaust, in recent decades it has once again become a disturbing presence in many parts of the world. Resurgent Antisemitism presents original research that elucidates the social, intellectual, and ideological roots of the "new" antisemitism and the place it has come to ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism

    by Gilbert Achcar ...
    In this collection of essays, Gilbert Achcar examines the controversial relationship of Marxism to religion, to Orientalism and its critique by Edward Said, and to the concept of cosmopolitanism. A compelling range of issues is discussed within these pages, including a comparative assessment of Christian liberation theology and Islamic fundamentalism; "Orientalism in reverse", which can take the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of Antisemitism in Canada

    by Ira Robinson, Ph.D ...
    This state-of-the-art account gives readers the tools to understand why antisemitism is such a controversial subject. It acquaints readers with the ambiguities inherent in the historical relationship between Jews and Christians and shows these ambiguities in play in the unfolding relationship between Jews and Canadians of other religions and ethnicities. It examines present relationships in light ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Nation, Society and the State

    The Reconciliation of Palestinian and Jewish Nationhood

    by Dr. Abraham Weizfeld ...
    This work treats the European political philosophy that has engendered the Nation-State concept -- considered to be the logical evolution of human history as a linear periodization into the Modern State. This Modern State concept is treated as the end of history in liberal democratic theory, in spite of it remaining a European phenomenon. Where it has been imposed beyond the European political ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • 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

  • Jews and Muslims in Morocco

    Their Intersecting Worlds

    by Joseph Chetrit, José Alberto Rodrigues da Silva Tavim, Noam Sienna, Sarah Levin, André Elbaz, Moche Amar, Elimelech (Melech) Westreich, Ahmed Chouari, Maurice Arama0, Jane S. Gerber2, Daniel J. Schroeter3, Jonathan G. Katz4, Vanessa Paloma Elbaz5, David Moshe Biton6, Michal Ben Ya’akov7, Edwin Seroussi8, Professor Aomar Boum9 ...
    Series series Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies
    Multiple traditions of Jewish origins in Morocco emphasize the distinctiveness of Moroccan Jewry as indigenous to the area, rooted in its earliest settlements and possessing deep connections and associations with the historic peoples of the region. The creative interaction of Moroccan Jewry with the Arab and Berber cultures was noted in the Jews’ use of Morocco’s multiple languages and dialects, ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD