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  • Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship

    de Jack Kugelmass, John Hoberman, Stephen J Whitfield, Joshua Shanes, Anat Helman, Jack Jacobs, Harvey E Goldberg, Andre Levy, Tamir Sorek, Edward Shapiro0, Jeffrey S. Gurock1 ...
    To many, an association between Jews and sports seems almost oxymoronic--yet Jews have been prominent in boxing, basketball, and fencing, and some would argue that hurler Sandy Koufax is America's greatest athlete ever. In Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship, Jack Kugelmass shows that sports--significant in constructing nations and in determining their degree of exclusivity--also figures ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • No Small Matter

    Features of Jewish Childhood

    Edición de Anat Helman ...
    Series series Studies in Contemporary Jewry
    For many centuries Jews have been renowned for the efforts they put into their children's welfare and education. Eventually, prioritizing children became a modern Western norm, as reflected in an abundance of research in fields such as pediatric medicine, psychology, and law. In other academic fields, however, young children in particular have received less attention, perhaps because they rarely ... Leer más

    $93.99 USD

  • Jews and Their Foodways

    Edición de Anat Helman ...
    Series series Studies in Contemporary Jewry
    Food is not just a physical necessity but also a composite commodity. It is part of a communication system, a nonverbal medium for expression, and a marker of special events. Bringing together contributions from fourteen historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and literary critics, Volume XXVIII of Studies in Contemporary Jewry presents various viewpoints on the subtle and intricate relations ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • Becoming Israeli

    National Ideals and Everyday Life in the 1950s

    de Anat Helman ...
    Series series The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies
    With a light touch and many wonderful illustrations, historian Anat Helman investigates "life on the ground" in Israel during the first years of statehood. She looks at how citizens--natives of the land, longtime immigrants, and newcomers--coped with the state's efforts to turn an incredibly diverse group of people into a homogenous whole. She investigates the efforts to make Hebrew the lingua ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • A Coat of Many Colors: Dress Culture in the Young State of Israel

    de Anat Helman ...
    A Coat of Many Colors investigates Israel's first seven years as a sovereign state through the unusual prism of dress. Clothes worn by Israelis in the 1950s reflected political ideologies, economic conditions, military priorities, social distinctions, and cultural preferences, and all played a part in consolidating a new national identity. Based on a wide range of textual and visual historical ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

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  • Israel in History

    The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective

    de Derek Penslar ...
    Covering topical issues concerning the nature of the Israeli state, this engaging work presents essays that combine a variety of comparative schemes, both internal to Jewish civilization and extending throughout the world, such as:modern Jewish society, politics and culturehistorical consciousness in the twentieth centurycolonialism, anti-colonialism and postcolonial state-building.With its open ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • How to Fight Anti-Semitism

    de Bari Weiss ...
    **WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • BARI WEISS NAMED TO THE 2025 TIME100 NEXT LISTThe prescient founder of The Free Press and editor-in-chief of CBS News delivers an urgent wake-up call to all Americans exposing the alarming rise of anti-Semitism in this country—and explains what we can do to defeat it.**“A praiseworthy and concise brief against modern-day anti-Semitism.”—The New York ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • No Joke

    Making Jewish Humor

    de Ruth R. Wisse ...
    Series series Library of Jewish Ideas
    Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. At the same time, Wisse draws attention to the precarious conditions that call Jewish ... Leer más

    $16.59 USD

  • The Holocaust In American Life

    de Peter Novick ...
    This "courageous and thought-provoking book" examines how the Holocaust came to hold its unique place in American memory ( Foreign Affairs).Prize–winning historian Peter Novick explores in absorbing detail the decisions that moved the Holocaust to the center of American life. He illuminates how Jewish leaders invoked its memory to muster support for Israel, and how politicians in turn used it to ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Free as a Jew

    A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation

    de Ruth R. Wisse ...
    First came parents with the good sense to flee Europe in 1940 and the good fortune to reach the land of freedom. Their daughter, Ruth, grew up in the shadow of genocide—but in tandem with the birth of Israel, which remained her lodestar. She learned that although Jewishness is biologically transmitted, democracy is not, and both require intensive, intelligent transmission through education in each ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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  • The Making of Modern Zionism

    The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State

    de Shlomo Avineri ...
    An expanded edition of a classic intellectual history of Zionism, now covering the rise of religious Zionism since the 1970sFor eighteen centuries pious Jews had prayed for the return to Jerusalem, but only in the revolutionary atmosphere of nineteenth-century Europe was this yearning transformed into an active political movement: Zionism. In The Making of Modern Zionism, the distinguished ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Lessons of the Holocaust

    de Michael R. Marrus ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    Although difficult to imagine, sixty years ago the Holocaust had practically no visibility in examinations of the Second World War. Yet today it is understood to be not only one of the defining moments of the twentieth century but also a touchstone in a quest for directions on how to avoid such catastrophes.In Lessons of the Holocaust, the distinguished historian Michael R. Marrus challenges the ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD