The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel by Uri Bar-Joseph
54.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
A gripping feat of reportage that exposes-for the first time in English-the sensational life and mysterious death of Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian senior official who spied for Israel, offering new insight into the turbulent modern history of the Middle East. As the son-in-law of Egyptian president Gamal A ...Show more
Israel's Edge: Talpiot -- The Idf's Most Elite Unit by Jason Gewirtz
36.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
This book is about the most elite unit in the Israeli army, Talpiot. Instead of only being trained to fight the soldiers brought into this unit are taught how to think. The book details how this unit which specialises in teaching young cadets the military applications for computer science, physics and m ...Show more
Redemption and Utopia: Jewish Libertarian Thought in Central Europe by Michael Lowy
19.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
Description: Towards the end of the 19th century, there appeared in Central Europe a generation of Jewish intellectuals whose work was to mark modern culture. Drawing at once on the traditions of German Romanticism and Jewish messianism, their thought was organized around the cabbalistic idea of the "ti ...Show more
Lucia the Luchadora by Cynthia Leonor Garza
27.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Reading Level: From 5
Lucia zips through the playground in her cape just like the boys, but when they tell her 'girls can't be superheroes', suddenly she doesn't feel so mighty. That's when her beloved abuela reveals a dazzling secret: Lucia comes from a family of luchadoras, the bold and valiant women of the Mexican lucha l ...Show more
Gaza Unsilenced by ALAREER REFAAT & EL HADDAD LAILA
39.95 AUD
Category: Judaica
During Israel's lengthy 2014 assault on Gaza, voices worldwide rose in stunned protest. Using numerous creative means, Palestinians and their allies bore witness to the Israeli attacks--and to the siege that has strangled Gaza ever since. Gaza Unsilenced foregrounds the words and images with which Gaza ...Show more
Confessions of a Rabbi by Jonathan Romain
24.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
The life of a congregational rabbi is often seen as an ivory-tower existence - full of prayers and piety - but Jonathan Romain's has radically departed from that image. Virtually no one has ever asked him about their spiritual life and instead he has dealt with a rollercoaster of crises, emotional traum ...Show more
The Jewish Century by Yuri Slezkine
65.00 AUD
Category: Judaica
This masterwork of interpretative history begins with a bold declaration: The Modern Age is the Jewish Age--and we are all, to varying degrees, Jews. The assertion is, of course, metaphorical. But it underscores Yuri Slezkine's provocative thesis. Not only have Jews adapted better than many other groups ...Show more
The Extraordinary Life of Josef Ganz: The Jewish Engineer Behind Hitler's Volkswagen by Paul Schilperoord
49.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
The astonishing biography of Josef Ganz, a Jewish designer from Frankfurt, who in May 1931 created a revolutionary small car: the Maikafer (German for "May bug"). Seven years later, Hitler introduced the Volkswagen. The Nazis not only "took" the concept of Ganz's family car-their production model even e ...Show more
A Vanished World: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain by Chris Lowney
24.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
In a world torn by religious antagonism, lessons can be learned from medieval Spanish villages where Muslims, Christians, and Jews rubbed shoulders on a daily basis--sharing irrigation canals, bathhouses, municipal ovens, and marketplaces. Medieval Spaniards introduced Europeans to paper manufacture, Hi ...Show more
Essays on Ethics by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
47.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
Why was Abraham ordered to sacrifice his son? Was Jacob right in stealing the blessings? Why were we commanded to destroy Amalek? What was Moses' sin in hitting the rock? And how did the Ten Commandments change the Jewish people, and humankind, for good? Essays on Ethics is the second companion volume ...Show more
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations by Ronen Bergman
69.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
Presents an assessment of Israel's state-sponsored assassination programs that evaluates the protective beliefs that are instituted into every Israeli citizen, the role of assassination in the state's history, and the ethical challenges of Israel's policies on targeted killings.
Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century by James Loeffler
64.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
A stunningly original look at the forgotten Jewish political roots of contemporary international human rights, told through the moving stories of five key activists The year 2018 marks the seventieth anniversary of two momentous events in twentieth-century history: the birth of the State of Israel and t ...Show more