Examines the Mizrahi Jews (Jews from the Muslim world) in Israel, focussing on social and political movements such as the Black Panthers and SHAS. This book charts the relations and political struggle between Ashkenazi-Zionists and the Mizrahim in Israel since the post-war relocation.

Over fifty years after the Holocaust, this title explores interfaith dialogue between the Jewish and Christian communities and attempts to evaluate what goals these communities have reached and where they now stand.

Hard-hitting thoughts and factual reportage on the new anti-semitism throughout Europe.

This book collects first-person accounts from Iraqi Jews about the lives they led in Iraq's once-vibrant, 2,500-year-old Jewish community - once the world centre of Jewish life.

Examines what the numerous would-be cultural revolutionaries, such as El Lissitzky and Haim Nahman Bialik, meant by a new Jewish culture. This book details their fierce disagreements but also their shared assumptions about what culture was and why it was so important.

Looks into the world's obsession with Jews, positive as well as negative, to find answers about where it comes from and where it might be going. This book identifies four categories of exaggeration about Jews: positive bias by Jews and non-Jews, and negative bias by Jews and non-Jews.

In Jewish tradition it is incumbent upon every generation to attempt to make meaning of its history. This work addresses the interface of Jewish thought and psychoanalysis.

Toward an Intellectually Vibrant Judaism.

A study that applies the 'ethnic economy' approach in explaining Jewish entrepreneurial dynamics, and contributes fresh theoretical insights. It provides details about the economic and demographic history of the Jewish community of Salonica, a city known as the 'Jerusalem of the Balkans'.

An analysis that focuses on the nineteenth-century Judeo-Arabic manuscript The Story of Our Master Joseph - a Jewish text taking its form from an Islamic prototype extending back to the earliest human stories of parental favoritism, sibling rivalry, sexual mores, and the struggles for a continued communal existence outside the homeland.

A new edition of 'Access to History: Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust' updated for the new 2008 specifications, with revised content, an accessible design and exam support through the examiner-authored study guides.

This collection of essays examines the dialogue between Jewish history and historiography in terms of changing national and popular myths, folk memory and the hidden consciousness of Jews in modern times.

Presents Moshe Shokeid's explorations and feelings about the vicissitudes of social life which he observed in three major arenas of contemporary Jewish life: Moroccan Jews who immigrated from Atlas Mountains; Israeli-born citizens; and, American gay Jews who chose to maintain spiritual synagogue life as part of the mosaic of New York Jews.

A collection of scholarly articles on the Jewish Workers' Bund the first modern Jewish political party in Eastern Europe written by academics from eight countries. This work represents a broad range of perspectives, Jewish and non-Jewish, sympathetic to the Bund and critical of its work.

An analysis of the discourse of victimhood in Judaism.

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Examines the role of Jewish Daily Forward during the heyday of Jewish immigration to the United States, from 1897 to 1917. This book offers an assessment of this newspaper as its writers and columnists engaged with the centenary transition that saw myriad political and social change. It is suitable for those interested in modern Jewish history.

The book walks you through your language in 23 easy steps. Almost automatically you will acquire a large working vocabulary that will suit your needs. As you work through the steps, use the sticky labels (included). At the back of the book, you will also find cut-out flash cards to make learning fun. When you have completed the book, cut out the menu at the back and take it along on your trip. ...