People on the Beach Journeys to Freedom After the Holocaust
ISBN: PB: 9781805261629, ISBN: HB: 9781787383777, Hurst Publishers, December 2024
384 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 31 illus.
A vivid history tracing Holocaust survivors who risked everything again for a new life in Palestine. One summer's night in 1946, over 1,000 European Jews waited silently on an Italian beach to board a secret ship. They had survived Auschwitz, hidd...
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Japanese Talmud Antisemitism in East Asia
ISBN: HB: 9781787389540, Hurst Publishers, July 2023
144 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Investigates the roots of antisemitism in East Asia, revealing it not as a borrowing from Europe, but as a distinctly local cultural tradition. The image of Jews in East Asia is a strange mixture of opposites, a paradoxical blend of admiration and...
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Bad Jews A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities
ISBN: HB: 9781787388529, Hurst Publishers, November 2022
320 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
Selected as one of the New Statesman's "Best Books of 2022" A lively, thoughtful history of America's Jews, exploring their complex relationships with national culture, identity, and politics – and each other. You can be called a Bad Jew – by th...
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Jerusalem on the Amstel The Quest for Zion in the Dutch Republic
ISBN: HB: 9781787380080, Hurst Publishers, December 2018
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Seventeenth-century Amsterdam was a cosmopolitan "carnival of nations": French Huguenots, North African merchants, Spanish Moriscos – and Iberian New Christians, formerly Jewish families forcibly converted to Catholicism, now fleeing the Inquisitio...
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Survival of the Jews in France 1940-44
ISBN: HB: 9781787380141, Hurst Publishers, December 2018
360 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Between the French defeat in 1940 and liberation in 1944, the Nazis killed almost 80,000 of France's Jews, both French and foreign. Since that time, this tragedy has been well-documented. But there are other stories hidden within it – ones neglecte...
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Lives in Common Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Hebron
ISBN: HB: 9781849044196, Hurst Publishers, August 2014
240 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Most books dealing with the Israeli – Palestinian conflict see events through the eyes of policy-makers, generals or diplomats. Menachem Klein offers an illuminating alternative by telling the intertwined histories, from street level upwards, of th...
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Invention of a Nation Zionist Thought and the Making of Modern Israel
ISBN: PB: 9781850655954, Hurst Publishers, March 2003
308 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
The vulnerability which is the lot of any nation without a state was experienced in a particularly extreme way by the Jews. With the destitution and persecution of many Jewish communities in the 19th century, especially in Eastern Europe, Jews dema...
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Jerusalem The Contested City
ISBN: PB: 9781850655763, Hurst Publishers, March 2001
369 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Although Israelis and Palestinians are adamant that they will not negotiate or indeed compromise over the status of Jerusalem, agreements have been made and understandings reached between the two protagonists, as well as between other Arab states....
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