Nighttime Butterfly A Catholic Woman and Her Jewish Family in Warsaw at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300270839, Yale University Press, September 2025
272 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 10 black&white illus.
A dynamic history of life in turn-of-the-century Warsaw through the eyes of a young woman and her Jewish family who converted to Catholicism. When Alicja Lewental's parents came of age in the middle of the nineteenth century, they believed they did...
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Franz Boas In Praise of Open Minds
ISBN: HB: 9780300241235, Yale University Press, July 2025
280 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
A thought-provoking account of the life and work of Franz Boas and his influential role in shaping modern anthropology. Franz Boas (1858-1942) is widely acknowledged for his pioneering work in the field of cultural anthropology. His rigorous studie...
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Israelite Religion From Tribal Beginnings to Scribal Legacy
ISBN: HB: 9780300248111, Yale University Press, June 2025
432 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 40 black&white illus.
A panoramic, thousand-year history of Israelite religion, from the Iron Age to the birth of Judaism, by a renowned biblical scholar. From its Iron Age beginnings to its aftermath in the Roman period, Israelite religion went through significant chan...
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Alfred Dreyfus The Man at the Center of the Affair
ISBN: PB: 9780300281804, ISBN: HB: 9780300254006, Yale University Press, May 2025
224 pp., 21,6x14,6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
An insightful new biography of the central figure in the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself and based on newly accessible documents. On January 5, 1895, Captain Alfred Dreyfus's cries of innocence were drowned out by a mob shouting "Death t...
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Elie Wiesel Confronting the Silence
ISBN: PB: 9780300281835, ISBN: HB: 9780300228984, Yale University Press, May 2025
360 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
An intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, Biography category. As an orphaned survivor and witness to Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel (1...
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Abraham The First Jew
ISBN: HB: 9780300266801, Yale University Press, March 2025
392 pp., 21,0x14,6 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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Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg The Whole Equation
ISBN: HB: 9780300254495, Yale University Press, March 2025
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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Many Lives of Anne Frank
ISBN: HB: 9780300248128, Yale University Press, March 2025
440 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
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Who Will Rescue Us? The Story of the Jewish Children Who Fled to France and America During the Holocaust
ISBN: HB: 9780300269963, Yale University Press, February 2025
432 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 16 colour illus.
The first account of Jewish children's flight from Nazi Germany to France – and their subsequent escape to America from the Vichy regime. At the eve of the Second World War, an estimated 1.6 million Jewish children lived in Nazi-occupied Europe. Wh...
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Draw Them In, Paint Them Out Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston
ISBN: HB: 9780300278200, Yale University Press, January 2025
160 pp., 27,9x21,0 cm, 129 colour and black&white illus.
Contemporary Black artist Trenton Doyle Hancock responds to the provocative images of twentieth-century Jewish painter Philip Guston. A defining figure of the New York School, Philip Guston (1913-1980) frequently alluded to racism, antisemitism, an...
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