Category: Jewish History

A sweeping history of Judaism over more than three millennia Judaism has preserved its distinctive identity despite the extraordinarily diverse forms and beliefs it has embodied through the centuries. Martin Goodman provides a comprehensive look at how this great religion came to be, how it has evolved from one age to the next, and how its various strains, sects, and traditions have related to each other. He takes readers from Judaism's origins in the polytheistic world of antiquity to the many varieties of Judaism today. He explains the institutions and ideas on which all forms of Judaism are...
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From Rosh Pina & Degania: A History of Constructive Zionism

By: Gorny, Yosef

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Jewish Lights Pub : July 1997

Seller ID: 208876

ISBN-13: 9789650504472

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Very Good

Spine faded, a crisp unread copy.
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The Wars of the Maccabees

By: Grainger, John D.

Price: $26.95

Publisher: Pen and Sword Military : November 2020

Seller ID: 185884

ISBN-13: 9781526782267

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The Wars of the Maccabees covers a fascinating, but neglected conflict: the Jewish Maccabean revolt and the brief Jewish independence under the Hasmonean dynasty.By the early second century BC, Israel had long been under the rule of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire. But the policy of deliberate Hellenization and suppression of Jewish religious practices by Antiochus IV, sparked a revolt in 167 BC which was led initially by Judah Maccabee and later by his brothers and their descendants.Relying on guerrilla tactics the growing insurrection repeatedly took on the sophisticated might of the Seleuci...
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Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza (Jewish Encounters)

By: Hoffman, Adina, Cole, Peter

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Schocken : April 2011

Seller ID: 197398

ISBN-13: 9780805242584

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A new copy that unfortunately had coffee spilled on it. Cover is moisture warped, textblock foredge of book shows coffee stain. Text pristine.
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Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace

By: Hosler, John D.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Yale University Press : November 2022

Seller ID: 217416

ISBN-13: 9780300255140

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

World of Our Fathers

By: Hower,Irving , Libo,Kenneth

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Harcourt : December 1989

Seller ID: 20081009147996

ISBN-13: 9780151463534

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Good/Good. Tight binding, text is free of marks. DJ is rubbed slightly, has some rips and chips and the spine is darkened. 8vo.
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A History of the Jews

By: Johnson, Paul

Price: $18.99

Publisher: Harper Perennial : September 1988

Seller ID: 220762

ISBN-13: 9780060915339

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

A national bestseller, this brilliant 4000 year survey covers not only Jewish history but he impact of Jewish genius and imagination on the world. By the author of Modern Times: The World From the Twenties to the Eighties.
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Tradition and Crisis: Jewish Society at the End of the Middle Ages

By: Katz, Jacob

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Schocken Books Inc.,U.S. : September 1973

Seller ID: 120496

ISBN-13: 9780805203165

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

Moderate cover wear, firm binding, infrequent markings in the text.
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The Road to Zion: Travellers to Palestine and the Land of Israel

By: KERNOHAN, R. D.

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Handsel Pr : 1994-12-01

Seller ID: 20071003124781

ISBN-13: 9780802808899

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The History of Israel (Revised Edition)

By: NOTH, MARTIN

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Harper and Row : May 1960

Seller ID: 20080513140766

ISBN: B000O1YX7G

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

good/good. Text has many passages that are ever-so-lightly underlined in pencil, binding is tight. DJ has a couple of small rips, some minor chipping at top edge, is slightly rubbed from normal use. 8vo.
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Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood

By: Oppenheimer, Mark

Price: $28.95

Publisher: Knopf : October 2021

Seller ID: 197188

ISBN-13: 9780525657194

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A piercing portrait of the struggles and triumphs of a singular community in the wake of unspeakable tragedy that highlights the hopes, fears, and tensions all Americans must confront on the road to healing. Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, is one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in the country, known for its tight-knit community and the profusion of multigenerational families. On October 27, 2018, a gunman killed eleven Jews who were worshipping at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill--the most deadly anti-Semitic attack in American history. Many neighborhoods would be understandably subsu...
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