Mel Gibson's Passion

Zev Garber

• Paperback | Engels | Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies
• Mel Gibson's film, The Passion of the Christ , was released on Ash Wednesday, February 24, 2004 to capacity audiences in theatres and auditoriums acro... Lees meer

Borders, Territories, and Ethics

Adia Mendelson-Maoz

• Paperback | Engels | Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies
• Borders, Territories, and Ethics: Hebrew Literature in the Shadow of the Intifada by Adia Mendelson-Maoz presents a new perspective on the multifacete... Lees meer

The Jewish Jesus

• Paperback | Engels | Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies
• There is a general understanding within religious and academic circles that the incarnate Christ of Christian belief lived and died a faithful Jew. Th... Lees meer

A Knight at the Opera

Leah Garrett

• Paperback | Engels | Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies
• A Knight at the Opera examines the remarkable and unknown role that the medieval legend (and Wagner opera) Tannhäuser played in Jewish cultural life i... Lees meer

Never Look Back

Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz

• Paperback | Engels | Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies | nr. 10
• Between December 1938 and September 1939, nearly ten thousand refugee children from Central Europe, mostly Jewish, found refuge from Nazism in Great B... Lees meer

The New York Public Intellectuals and Beyond

• Paperback | Engels | Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies
• New York Public Intellectuals and Beyond gathers a variety of distinguished scholars, from Eugene Goodheart to Peter Novick to Nathan Glazer, from Mor... Lees meer

Saving Lives in Auschwitz

Ewa Bacon

• Paperback | Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies
• In a 1941 Nazi roundup of educated Poles, Stefan Budziaszek - newly graduated from medical school in Krakow - was incarcerated and the transferred to ... Lees meer

Unfinalized Moments

• Paperback | Engels | Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies
• Focusing on a diversely rich selection of writers, the pieces featured in Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish Americ... Lees meer

Rebuilt from Broken Glass

Fred Behrend, Larry Hanover

• Hardcover | Engels | Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies
• Symbolized by a three-hundred-year-old Seder plate, the religious life of Fred Behrend's family had centered largely around Passover and the tale of t... Lees meer

Politics and the Intellectual

• Paperback | Engels | Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies
• Presented here is a compilation of Irving Howe's interviews during the last fifteen years of his life that could be viewed as the sequel to his intell... Lees meer

Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund

Bernard Goldstein

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• Bernard Goldstein's memoir describes a hard world of taverns, toughs, thieves, and prostitutes; of slaughterhouse workers, handcart porters, and wagon... Lees meer

Emergence of Modern Hebrew Creativity in Babylon, 1735-1950

Lev Hakak

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• This book begins with a brief history about the Jews in Babylon, now Iraq, their Hebrew creativity, and the fact that this creativity was excluded fro... Lees meer

The Writers, Artists, Singers, and Musicians of the National Hungarian Jewish Cultural Association (Omike), 1939-1944

• Paperback | Engels | Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies
• In May 1938, Hungary passed anti-Semitic laws causing hundreds of Jewish artists to lose their jobs. In response, Budapest's Jewish community leaders ... Lees meer

Multiculturalism in Israel

Adia Mendelson-Maoz

• Paperback | Engels | Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies
• By analyzing its position within the struggles for recognition and reception of different national and ethnic cultural groups, this book offers a bold... Lees meer

Edith Bruck in the Mirror

Philip Balma

• Paperback | Engels | Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies
• Author of more than thirteen books and several volumes of poetry, screenwriter, and director, Edith Bruck is one of the leading literary voices in Ita... Lees meer

Blowing the Whistle on Genocide

Rafael Medoff

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• Well, let's face it. There's no question in my mind that some of the people over there [U.S. State Department]--whose names are in my book --were actu... Lees meer

Maven in Blue Jeans

Steven Jacobs

• Paperback | Engels | Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies
• This collection of academic essays written by friends and colleagues of Professor Zev Garber, is a long-overdue tribute to an outstanding scholar, tea... Lees meer

Zionist Architecture and Town Planning

Nathan Harpaz

• Paperback | Engels | Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies
• Established as a Jewish settlement in 1909 and dedicated a year later, Tel Aviv has grown over the last century to become Israel's financial center an... Lees meer