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  • The Train to Auschwitz

    An Investigative Journey into Wartime Slovakia

    by Tudor Parfitt ...
    Tudor Parfitt tells the extraordinary story of a Jewish child who survived the Holocaust in Slovakia by an almost impossible chain of events. In 1942, Vera, eight, was on a train from the concentration camp at Sered, in western Slovakia, bound for Auschwitz. Had she arrived there, she would certainly have been murdered. Instead, close to the holding camp at Zilina, she escaped. He reconstructs ... Read more

    $27.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lost Ark of the Covenant

    Solving the 2,500-Year-Old Mystery of the Fabled Biblical Ark

    by Tudor Parfitt ...
    "A real-life Indiana Jones" narrates his attempt to find a sacred religious relic in an account "cinematic in tone, with scenes of heartstopping action" ( Booklist).After 2,500 Years of Mystery, the Truth About the Ark of the Covenant Is RevealedThe Lost Ark of the Covenant is the real-life account of an astounding quest—professor Tudor Parfitt's effort to recover the revered artifact that ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Black Jews in Africa and the Americas

    by Tudor Parfitt ...
    Tudor explains how many African peoples came to think of themselves as descendants of the ancient tribes of Israel. Pursuing medieval and modern race narratives over a millennium in which Jews were cast as black and black Africans were cast as Jews, he reveals a complex interaction between religious and racial labels and their political uses. ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Hybrid Hate

    Conflations of Antisemitism & Anti-Black Racism from the Renaissance to the Third Reich

    by Tudor Parfitt ...
    Hybrid Hate is the first book to study the conflation of antisemitism and anti-Black racism. As objects of racism, Jews and Blacks have been linked together for centuries as peoples apart from the general run of humanity. In this book, Tudor Parfitt investigates the development of antisemitism, anti-Black racism, and race theory in the West from the Renaissance to the Second World War. Parfitt ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Beta Israel in Ethiopia and Israel

    Studies on the Ethiopian Jews

    by Tudor Parfitt, Emanuela Trevisan Semi ...
    For decade the Falashas - the Black Jews of Ethiopia - have fascinated scholars. Are they really Jews and in what sense? How can their origins be explained? Since the Falashas' transfer to Israel in the much publicised Israeli air lifts the fascination has continued and and new factors are now being discussed.Written by the leading scholars in the field the essays in this collection examine the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Genetics, Mass Media and Identity

    A Case Study of the Genetic Research on the Lemba

    by Tudor Parfitt, Yulia Egorova ...
    This is the first book to explore the effect of genetic research on the Lemba Judaising community of Southern Africa and the phenomenon of Israelite identity.The science of genetics as relayed by the media is perceived by laymen as being irreproachably objective 'hard science': its disinterested 'scientific' findings appear immensely impressive and may therefore act as a powerful catalyst for ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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    The Lost Ark of The Covenant

    Solving the 2,500 Year Old Mystery of the Fabled Biblical Ark

    by Tudor Parfitt ...
    Narrated by Graeme Malcolm ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 31 min

    The Lost Ark of the Covenant is the real-life account of Professor Tudor Parfitt's effort to recover the revered artifact that contained the Ten Commandments sacred to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This holy object disappeared from the Temple in Jerusalem when the Babylonians invaded in 586 BCE and was lost—apparently forever.With painstaking historical scholarship, groundbreaking genetic ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Jews of Ethiopia

    The Birth of an Elite

    Edited by Tudor Parfitt, Emanuela Trevisan Semi ...
    Series series Routledge Jewish Studies Series
    This book offers the results of the most recent research carried out in European and Israeli universities on Ethiopian Jews. With a special focus on Europe and the role played by German, English and Italian Jewish communities in creating a new Jewish Ethiopian identity, it investigates such issues as the formation of a new Ethiopian Jewish elite and the transformation of the identity from ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Jews, Muslims and Mass Media

    Mediating the 'Other'

    Edited by Yulia Egorova, Tudor Parfitt ...
    Series series Routledge Jewish Studies Series
    This text looks at the ways in which Jews, Muslims and the conflict between them has been covered in the modern media. Both Jews and Muslims generally receive a 'bad press'. This book will try to reveal why. The media have clearly played a pro-active role in the Middle East conflict, the coverage of which is obscured by the contrasting images of Jew and Muslim in western thought. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Judaising Movements

    Studies in the Margins of Judaism in Modern Times

    Edited by Tudor Parfitt, Emanuela Semi ...
    Series series Routledge Jewish Studies Series
    The history of Judaising movements has been largely ignored by historians of religion. This volume analyzes the interplay between colonialism, a Judaism not traditionally viewed as proselytising but which at certain points was struggling to heed the Prophets and become a light unto the Gentiles' and the attraction for many different peoples of the rooted historicity of Judaism and by the symbolic ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Jewish Education and Learning

    Published in Honour of Dr. David Patterson on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday

    Edited by Glenda Abramson, Tudor Parfitt ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education and Religion
    First published in 1994. This volume, dedicated to Dr David Patterson, founding President of the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, takes as its theme Jewish education and learning throughout the ages. But it is the ‘Academy’ - interpreted here to mean an institution of Judaic scholarship - which dominates this collection of essays. For almost three thousand years centres of Jewish ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Scattered Among the Nations

    Photographs and Stories of the World's Most Isolated Jewish Communities

    by Bryan Schwartz, Jay Sand, Sandy Carter ...
    "A beautifully presented book on Jewish diversity around the world . . . opens windows into lives from the hills of Portugal to the plains of Africa." — The Jerusalem PostWith vibrant photographs and intricate accounts Scattered Among the Nations tells the story of the world's most isolated Jewish communities in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Former Soviet Union and the margins of Europe. Over ... Read more

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