Balaam's Prophecy by Naphtali Lau-Lavie
36.95 AUD
Category: Judaica
A personal account of Jewish History in the years 1939-89. Written by Ambassador Naphtali Lau-Lavie, journalist and diplomat, who survived the horrors of Nazi concentration camps and later became a leading personality in the government of Israel, this book reflects upon major historic events during the ...Show more
Abraham on Trial: The Social Legacy of Biblical Myth by Carol Delaney
56.95 AUD
Category: Judaica
"Abraham on Trial" questions the foundations of faith that have made a virtue out of the willingness to sacrifice a child. Through his desire to obey God at all costs, even if it meant sacrificing his son, Abraham became the definitive model of faith for the major world religions of Judaism, Christianit ...Show more
Jewellery in Israel: Multicultural Diversity 1948 to the Present by Iris Fishof
69.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
In Israel East meets West. Their jewellery traditions blend, resulting in creative innovations. In the 1930s, European immigrants introduced the spirit of the Bauhaus, while oriental craftsmanship was invigorated in the 1950s and 1960s by immigration from Islamic countries. State jewellery companies pre ...Show more
Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life by Vivian Gornick
22.95 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: Jewish Lives
Emma Goldman is the story of a modern radical who took seriously the idea that inner liberation is the first business of social revolution. Her politics, from beginning to end, was based on resistance to that which thwarted the free development of the inner self. The right to stay alive in one's senses, ...Show more
Inside Concentration Camps: Social Life at the Extremes by Maja Suderland
37.95 AUD
Category: Judaica
Terror was central to the Nazi regime, and the Nazi concentration camps were places of horror where prisoners were dehumanized and robbed of their dignity and where millions were murdered. How did prisoners cope with the brutal and degrading conditions of life within the camps? In this highly original b ...Show more
Unscrolled: 54 Writers and Artists Wrestle with the Torah by Roger Bennett
29.95 AUD
Category: Judaica
An unlikely cast of characters reinterprets the first five books of the Bible, as divided into the 54 Torah portions that are traditionally read over the course of the year. Writers include: Damon Lindelof, creator of the television series Lost (on Abraham's binding of Issac); essayist Sloane Crosley on ...Show more
There Was a Fire: Jews, Music and the American Dream by Ben Sidran
29.95 AUD
Category: Judaica
A comprehensive social history of Jewish contributions to American popular music in the twentieth century. Musician-journalist-producer-author Sidran uses his first person experience to frame the story behind the story of Jews in American popular music.
Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience by Gitta Sereny
29.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
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Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History by Joseph Telushkin
79.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
What does it mean to be a Jew? How does one begin to answer so extensive a question? In this insightful and completely updated tome, esteemed rabbi and bestselling author Joseph Telushkin helps answer the question of what it means to be a Jew, in the largest sense. Widely recognized as one of the most r ...Show more
Between God and Man: Interpretation of Judaism by Abraham Joshua Heschel
39.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
More than just a comprehensive introduction to contemporary Judaism, BETWEEN GOD AND MAN is a theological tour-de-force by one of the great religious thinkers of the twentieth century. Through Biblical textual analysis, and with extensive references to the philosophy and literature of both the East and ...Show more
Stranger in My Own Country by Yascha Mounk
34.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
As a Jew in post war Germany, Yascha Mounk felt like a foreigner in his own country. When he mentioned that he is Jewish, some made anti-Semitic jokes or talked about the superiority of the Aryan race. Others, sincerely hoping to atone for the country's past, fawned over him with a forced friendliness h ...Show more
Exodus: A Memoir by Deborah Feldman
29.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
In 2009, at the age of twenty-three, Deborah Feldman packed up her young son and their few possessions and walked away from her insular Hasidic roots. She was determined to forge a better life for herself, away from the rampant oppression, abuse, and isolation of her Satmar upbringing in Williamsburg, B ...Show more