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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “sarah ifft decker”
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  • The Fruit of Her Hands

    Jewish and Christian Women’s Work in Medieval Catalan Cities

    by Sarah Ifft Decker ...
    Series series Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755
    In the thriving urban economies of late thirteenth-century Catalonia, Jewish and Christian women labored to support their families and their communities. The Fruit of Her Hands examines how gender, socioeconomic status, and religious identity shaped how these women lived and worked.Sarah Ifft Decker draws on thousands of notarial contracts as well as legal codes, urban ordinances, and Hebrew ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Jewish Women in the Medieval World

    500–1500 CE

    by Sarah Ifft Decker ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    Jewish Women in the Medieval World offers a thematic overview of the lived experiences of Jewish women in both Europe and the Middle East from 500 to 1500 CE, a group often ignored in general surveys on both medieval Jewish life and medieval women.The volume blends current scholarship with evidence drawn from primary sources, originally written in languages including Hebrew, Latin, Aramaic, and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora

    by Tirsah Levie Bernfeld, Hannah Davidson, Cristina Galasso, David Graizbord, Ruth Lamdan ...
    Series series HBI Series on Jewish Women
    This collection of essays examines an important and under-studied topic in early modern Jewish social history”—the family life of Sephardi Jewish families in the Ottoman Empire as well as in communities in Western Europe. At the height of its power in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Ottoman Empire spanned three continents, controlling much of southeastern Europe, western Asia, and ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • After Expulsion

    1492 and the Making of Sephardic Jewry

    by Jonathan S Ray ...
    A "groundbreaking" portrait of the migration and resettlement of Spain's Jewish community after 1492, and how the Sephardic identity emerged ( American Historical Review).Honorable Mention, Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History presented by the Association for Jewish StudiesOn August 3, 1492, the same day that Columbus set sail from Spain, the long and glorious ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pope Francis

    Conversations with Jorge Bergoglio: His Life in His Own Words

    by Sergio Rubin, Francesca Ambrogetti ...
    An intimate and personal glimpse inside the mind of the former leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, through his own words...“I believe in the kindness of others, and that I must love them without fear.”—Jorge Bergoglio, Pope FrancisJorge Bergoglio was the first Latin American pope, the first Jesuit pope, and the first to take the name Francis, after Saint Francis of Assisi, the thirteenth ... Read more

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  • Why Catholics Are Right

    by Michael Coren ...
    A practicing Catholic defends the faith and offers a passionate response to current anti-Catholic opinion.In Why Catholics Are Right, author, columnist, and practicing Catholic Michael Coren examines four main aspects of Catholicism as they are encountered, understood, and more importantly, misunderstood today. Beginning with a frank examination of the tragedy of the Catholic clergy abuse scandal, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Neighboring Faiths

    Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today

    by David Nirenberg ...
    Essays on how Jews, Muslims, and Christians have coexisted—or not—over the centuries, from "a particularly incisive and trustworthy historian of religion" ( Commonweal).Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another. In Neighboring Faiths, David ... Read more

    $20.89 USD 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

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Triumph of Christianity

    How the Jesus Movement Became the World's Largest Religion

    by Rodney Stark ...
    The religious historian and author of God's Battalions delivers an accessible and illuminating account of Christianity's rise in the West.In The Triumph of Christianity, celebrated sociologist and religious historian Rodney Stark traces the extraordinary rise of Christianity through its most pivotal and controversial moments to offer fresh perspective on the history of the world's largest religion ... Read more

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  • The Spanish Inquisition

    A Historical Revision, Fourth Edition

    by Henry Kamen ...
    In this completely updated edition of Henry Kamen’s classic survey of the Spanish Inquisition, the author incorporates the latest research in multiple languages to offer a new—and thought-provoking—view of this fascinating period. Kamen sets the notorious Christian tribunal into the broader context of Islamic and Jewish culture in the Mediterranean, reassesses its consequences for Jewish culture, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • On Heaven and Earth

    Pope Francis on Faith, Family, and the Church in the Twenty-First Century

    by Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Abraham Skorka ...
    From the man who became Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio shares his thoughts on religion, reason, and the challenges the world faces in the 21st century with Abraham Skorka, a rabbi and biophysicist.For years Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Argentina, and Rabbi Abraham Skorka were tenacious promoters of interreligious dialogues on faith and reason. They both sought to build ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • A History of the Jews

    The Indestructible Jews, The Jews in America, and Appointment in Jerusalem

    by Max I. Dimont ...
    Three books on Jewish heritage from the author of Jews, God, and History, "the best popular history of the Jews written in the English language" ( Los Angeles Times).With over a million and a half copies sold, Jews, God and History introduced readers to "the fascinating reasoning" of acclaimed scholar Max I. Dimont's "bright and unorthodox mind" ( San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle). In ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus