著者:Matt Goldish
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2008年07月01日
In Jewish Questions, Matt Goldish introduces English readers to the history and culture of the Sephardic dispersion through an exploration of forty-three responsa--questions about Jewish law that Je……続きを見る
著者:Edward Kritzler
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2008年11月18日
In this lively debut work of history, Edward Kritzler tells the tale of an unlikely group of swashbuckling Jews who ransacked the high seas in the aftermath of the Spanish Inquisition. At the end of……続きを見る
Acclaimed by literary critic Carl Van Doren as "the most important of all immigrant novels," The Rise of David Levinsky takes place amid America's biggest and most diverse Yiddish-speaking community……続きを見る
著者:André Aciman
出版社: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
発売日: 2007年01月23日
This richly colored memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in cosmopolitan Alexandria to its defeated exodus three generations later.
In elegant and witt……続きを見る
著者:Stefan Kanfer
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2009年03月12日
In Stardust Lost, Stefan Kanfer brings the colorful Yiddish stage roaring back to life. Born of ancient traditions stretching back to the drama of the Old Testament, the Yiddish theater was a vibran……続きを見る
著者:Frederic Raphael
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年01月22日
From the acclaimed biographer, screenwriter, and novelist Frederic Raphael, here is an audacious history of Josephus (37–c.100), the Jewish general turned Roman historian, whose emblematic betrayal ……続きを見る
Like a Bundle of Reeds explains why unity and mutual responsibility can heal our society and mitigate anti-Semitism. Using numerous quotes and references from Jewish sages and historians, the author……続きを見る
When The World Was Whole: Three Centuries of Memories by Charles Fenyvesi (76,000 words, 40 illustrations)
In this family memoir, Charles Fenyvesi brings back to life his ancestors who loved and imp……続きを見る
In this pathbreaking study Jeffrey L. Rubenstein reconstructs the cultural milieu of the rabbinic academy that produced the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, which quickly became the authoritative text o……続きを見る
著者:Howard M. Sachar
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年07月31日
First published in 1976, Howard M. Sachar’s A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time was regarded one of the most valuable works available detailing the history of this still relati……続きを見る
Coenen Snyder considers what the architecture and construction of nineteenth-century European synagogues reveal about the social progress of modern European Jews. The process of claiming a Jewish sp……続きを見る
著者:Mark Kurlansky
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2008年12月24日
A POWERFUL, DEEPLY MOVING NARRATIVE OF HOPE REBORN
IN THE SHADOW OF DESPAIR
Fifty years after it was bombed to rubble, Berlin is once again a city in which Jews gather for the Passover seder. Paris ……続きを見る
著者:Ephraim Kanarfogel
出版社: Wayne State University Press
発売日: 2000年05月01日
During the high Middle Ages, the tosafists flourished in northern Europe and revolutionized the study of the Talmud. These Jewish scholars did not participate in the philosophical and religious thou……続きを見る
著者:Arthur J. Magida
出版社: St. Martin's Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年11月29日
World War I left Berlin, and all of Germany, devastated. Charlatans and demagogues eagerly exploited the desperate crowds. Fascination with the occult was everywhere – in private séances, personaliz……続きを見る
En un texto de lectura apasionante y conmovedora, se narra la vida de Simon Wiessenthal, sobreviviente de varios campos de concrentración alemanes, quien dedicara su vida a localizar y llevar al ban……続きを見る
Learn the role these men and women played in the American Revolution, World Wars I & II, the Civil War, the Women's Rights Movement, labor unions, and a great deal more.
Did You Know:
Jewish conver……続きを見る
The untold story, based on groundbreaking original research, of the actions and inactions that created the Israeli settlements in the occupied territories
After Israeli troops defeated the armies of……続きを見る
著者:Peter Demetz
出版社: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
発売日: 2009年04月14日
A dramatic account of life in Czechoslovakia's great capital during the Nazi Protectorate
With this successor book to Prague in Black and Gold, his account of more than a thousand years of Central E……続きを見る
Prophets Without Honour: Freud, Kafka, Einstein, and Their World by Frederic V. Grunfeld (with an introduction by Michael Brenner; 134,000 words, 16 illustrations)
Prophets Without Honour is a colle……続きを見る
Nel 1945, presso in una località desertica vicino Nag-Hammadi (un piccolo villaggio nel basso Egitto), viene riportato alla luce il Vangelo dei detti segreti di Tommaso.
Le aspettative tra gli studi……続きを見る
An unrivalled insight into the early life of Henry Kissinger
**'**A triumph of journalistic digging, and it makes for a little gem of a book.. a magnificent story about boyhood, identity and belongi……続きを見る
The superb, bestselling diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jew in Dresden who survived the war - hailed as one of the 20th century's most important chronicles.
'Compulsive reading' LITERARY REVIEW 'Deep……続きを見る
The story of Freud's involvement with cocaine and how it affected research long after he died... The book tells of a number of drug related tragedies Freud was involved in including the death of Ern……続きを見る
著者:Matthew Shaer
出版社: Turner Publishing Company
発売日: 2011年12月27日
Inside the hidden world of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn's Crown Heights--a close-knit but divided community.
On a cold night in December, the members of a Hasidic anti-crime patrol called the Shomrim ar……続きを見る
著者:Larry Tye
出版社: Henry Holt and Co.
発売日: 2002年09月01日
The idea for this book came to Larry Tye as he traveled overseas as a reporter for the Boston Globe. In each city he visited he was intrigued by a reawakening of practice and spirit of the long repr……続きを見る
著者:Steven Gimbel
出版社: Johns Hopkins University Press
発売日: 2012年05月21日
Finalist for the Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award of the Jewish Book Council
Is relativity Jewish? The Nazis denigrated Albert Einstein’s revolutionary theory by calling it “Jewish science,” a……続きを見る
The first part of this illustrated volume offers a survey of Jewish history and literature. The second part presents what the preface describes as "a thematic analysis of the teachings and practice ……続きを見る
From the time of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem to 500 CE, the world's Jewish population had shrunk from 4.5 million to 1.1 million; then the Jewish population increased at more than fiv……続きを見る
著者:Shalev, Zeruya
出版社: The Toby Press, LLC
発売日: 2013年10月06日
Ella Miller is a 36-year-old archaeologist studying one of the largest volcanic blasts in history, the famous Thera eruption. She develops a novel theory that the devastating blast sparked the bibli……続きを見る