Split Lives
Jerusalem and Berlin Divided, 1948-1967
ISBN: PB: 9781805266815,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2026
280 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
280 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Drawing parallels with Cold War Berlin, "Split Lives" examines the divided city of Jerusalem to show the global context of the Israeli-Arab conflict.
This is the first comprehensive social history of Jerusalem between the 1948 and Six-Day wars - fro...
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22.00 GBP
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Robert Oppenheimer
The Sphinx Without a Secret
ISBN: HB: 9780300180466,
Yale University Press,
November 2026
288 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
288 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
An original perspective on the father of the atomic bomb, shedding new light on Oppenheimer's personality and psychology.
Both to his contemporaries and to posterity J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) has gone down in history as the "father" of the a...
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16.99 GBP
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Emancipationists
Nineteenth-Century Jews' Campaign for Citizenship
ISBN: HB: 9780300285109,
Yale University Press,
October 2026
384 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm
384 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm
A thought-provoking exploration of the roots of modern Jewish politics.
This is the first book to explore the nineteenth-century political movement led by Jewish leaders seeking equality - a movement that historian David Sorkin calls emancipation po...
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35.00 GBP
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Ayn Rand
Writing a Gospel of Success
ISBN: PB: 9780300292251,
ISBN: HB: 9780300253214,
Yale University Press,
September 2026
264 pp., 20,9x13,9 cm, 1 black&white illus.
264 pp., 20,9x13,9 cm, 1 black&white illus.
A deeply researched biography of the prominent and divisive writer Ayn Rand, whose pro-capitalist novels and nonfiction have influenced three generations of Americans.
Biographer Alexandra Popoff traces the life and creative achievement of Ayn Rand...
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Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg
The Whole Equation
ISBN: PB: 9780300292367,
ISBN: HB: 9780300254495,
Yale University Press,
August 2026
392 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
392 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
Kenneth Turan brings to life the extraordinary partnership of Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg and their role in creating the film industry as we know it.
One was a tough junkman's son, the other a cosseted mama's boy, but they dreamed the same m...
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12.99 GBP
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16.99 GBP
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Abraham
The First Jew
ISBN: PB: 9780300292237,
ISBN: HB: 9780300266801,
Yale University Press,
July 2026
392 pp., 20,9x13,9 cm, 1 black&white illus.
392 pp., 20,9x13,9 cm, 1 black&white illus.
The story of Abraham, the first Jew, portrayed as two lives lived by one person, paralleling the contradictions in Judaism throughout its history.
In this new biography of Abraham, Judaism's foundational figure, Anthony Julius offers an account of...
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12.99 GBP
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Edmond de Rothschild
Finding Zion
ISBN: HB: 9780300255201,
Yale University Press,
July 2026
320 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
320 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
An absorbing portrait of Edmond de Rothschild, who defied his class to help build a nation - and found his identity in the process.
Edmond de Rothschild (1845-1934) was born into one of the wealthiest families in history, but his legacy lies beyond...
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16.99 GBP
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Sanctioned Bigotry
A Documentary History of Antisemitism in the United States
ISBN: HB: 9780300282542,
Yale University Press,
July 2026
624 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 21 black&white illus.
624 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 21 black&white illus.
A first-ever documentary history of antisemitism in the United States, spanning five centuries.
In a 1790 letter to Rhode Island Jewish leader Moses Seixas, President George Washington responded to Seixas's concerns about Jewish persecution, assuri...
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35.00 GBP
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Mordecai M. Kaplan
Restless Soul
ISBN: HB: 9780300264340,
Yale University Press,
June 2026
320 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
320 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
An engaging biography that goes behind the myths to reveal the complex life of a transformative figure in modern American Judaism.
Rabbi, writer, teacher, and thinker, Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881-1983) was one of the leading Jewish personalities of twe...
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18.99 GBP
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Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 3
Encountering Christianity and Islam, 600-1200
ISBN: HB: 9780300186277,
Yale University Press,
June 2026
1464 pp., 25,4x20,3 cm, 93 colour illus., 117 black&white illus.
1464 pp., 25,4x20,3 cm, 93 colour illus., 117 black&white illus.
This volume of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization covers the religious, political, economic, and geographic transformations of Jewish life through the early Middle Ages.
Volume 3 of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civiliza...
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125.00 GBP
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