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Among radiant clouds
The literature of Vladimir (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky in its social context
Svetlana Natkovich
This study explores the intellectual biography of the founder of Revisionist Zionism Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky as an author. It examines the comprehensive relation of his literary writing to his ideological activities and to other genres and setti…
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A Pearl Hidden in the Sand
י"ל פרץ ומע שיות חסידים
Nicham Ross
This book highlights a specific feature characterizing some of the short stories of IL Peretz: His transparent and extensive reliance on popular and Hasidic sources. This is the rational for a comparative study of source and its adaptation, adding a…
$54.00
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Back to the past
Filmed history in Arab cinema
Sariel Bimbaum
Cinema is the most democratic form of art, dependent on the taste of millions of viewers. Within the cinematic historical genre in Arab cinema one finds a rich intellectual discourse, in a constant dialogue with state, censorship and audience. The b…
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Cutting the shoots
The worship of the Shekhinah in the world of early Kabbalistic literature
Tzahi Weiss
The feminine divine presence, the Shekhinah, has received detailed description in the Kabbalistic literature from the time of its inception at the end of the 12th century. The present book pursues the tracks of the belief in the Shekhinah and demons…
$48.00
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From empathy to denial
Arab responses to the Holocaust
Esther Webman, Meir Litvak
From Empathy to Denial is the first comprehensive study of the broad range of Arab responses to the Holocaust based on years of painstaking historical research. The book explores how Holocaust representations developed after the Second World War by …
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Habima in Berlin
The Institutionalization of a Zionist Theatre
Shelly Zer-Zion
The book 'Habima in Berlin' delineates the net of interconnections between Habima, a Hebrew theater troupe, and the German Jewish cultural and economic elite, that were woven together in the years 1926-1931. It analyzes how Berlin Jews, among them r…
$56.00
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Here dwells the Jewish people
A century of American Yiddish literature
Avraham Novershtern
Among the masses of immigrants that turned New York into the largest Jewish city in the world in the early twentieth century , grew a spectacular Yiddish culture - journalism, theater and literature. Dozens of artists designed varied life experience…
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Holey Land atlas
Judean Desert Caves
Amos Frumkin
The caves Atlas portrays some of the most famous caves in the world, including the hiding sites of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It also includes most of the largest caves in Israel, and some of the most exiting arid zone caves in the world. The maps and th…
$121.00
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Ideology and landscape
Reinterment of renowned Jews in the Land of Israel, 1904-1967
Doron Bar
The book deals with the formative years of Israel's evolving symbolic landscape. The research covers the story of a few dozen Jews who passed away in the Diaspora and later their remains were taken to be buried for the second time (and sometimes for…
$60.00
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Italia
Periodical for research in the history, culture and literature of the Jews of Italy
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Volume XXIII
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Robert Bonfil (ed.)
Periodical for research in the history, culture, and literature of the Jews of Italy. Whoever is dealing with Jewish thought and humanities knows well how important and influential the Italian Jews were and are in these wide ranges of fields. The la…
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Language and tradition
The Hebrew language tradition of the Jews of Southern Yemen: phonetics and Mishnaic Hebrew
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Volume XXXIV
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Doron Ya'akov
This book, stemming from a PhD dissertation under the advising of Prof. Moshe Bar Asher, offers a description of the traditional Hebrew of the Jews of southern Yemen. The description is based on a lengthy and intensive field work consisting of recor…
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Language and tradition
The Hebrew language tradition of the Jews of Southern Yemen: phonetics and Mishnaic Hebrew
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Volume XXXIII
)
Doron Ya'akov
This book, stemming from a PhD dissertation under the advising of Prof. Moshe Bar Asher, offers a description of the traditional Hebrew of the Jews of southern Yemen. The description is based on a lengthy and intensive field work consisting of recor…
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The end of a beautiful friendship
France-Israel relationship under De-Gaulle Presidency, 1958-1967
Gadi Heimann
The book sheds light on one of the most interesting episodes in the history of Israel's foreign policy. Since the Sinai war (1956), France was a friend and ally to Israel. She provided State-of-the-art weapons to help maintain the balance of power a…
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The history of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Who’s who prior to statehood: founders, designers, pioneers
Assaf Selzer
The four volume series of the History of the Hebrew University Project is devoted to the evolvement of the idea and of its implementation during the pre-state period. The previous three volumes expanded in a great number of scholarly articles on the…
$78.00
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The Jewish community of Cuba
Memory and history
Margalit Bejarano
The book combines the fruits of academic research with the personal reminiscences of protagonists, creating a collective narrative of Cuban Jews, particularly those who migrated to Miami, on their historical experience prior to the Castro revolution…
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The journals of the Haskalah in mid-nineteenth century
Hehalutz (1852-1889); Bikurim (1864-1865)
Moshe Pelli
This is the fifth book in the series of monographs and annotated indices on periodicals of the Haskalah.
It covers two major Hebrew periodicals Hehalutz (1852–1889) and Bikurim (1864–1865), and addresses major developments in the history of the Hebre…
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The national origins of the market economy
Economic developmentalism during the formation of the Israeli capitalism
Arie Krampf
It is rarely noticed, Joan Robinson wrote half a century ago, that "the very nature of economics is rooted in nationalism." This book seeks to examine the relationship between economics and nationalism in the Israeli political economy in its formati…
$62.00
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The United Nations and peacekeeping operations 1988-1995
Chen Kertcher
This study examines the concept of United Nations peacekeeping operations and their execution in Cambodia, Former Yugoslavia and Somalia from 1988 to 1995. The research is anchored primarily in United Nations documents, which were produced following…
$55.00
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Perspectives
Claude Vigee - La Traversee Du Siecle
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Volume 22
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Professeur Fernande Bartfeld
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