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  • A Woman Is Responsible for Everything

    Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe

    by Debra Kaplan, Elisheva Carlebach ...
    A groundbreaking look at the integral role of women in early modern Jewish communal lifeIn small villages, bustling cities, and crowded ghettos across early modern Europe, Jewish women were increasingly active participants in the daily life of their communities, managing homes and professions, leading institutions and sororities, and crafting objects and texts of exquisite beauty. A Woman Is ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Patrons and Their Poor

    Jewish Community and Public Charity in Early Modern Germany

    by Debra Kaplan ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    A pregnant mother, a teacher who had fallen ill, a thirty-year-old homeless thief, refugees from war-torn communities, orphans, widows, the mentally disabled and domestic servants. What this diverse group of individuals—mentioned in a wide range of manuscript and print sources in German, Hebrew, and Yiddish—had in common was their appeal to early modern Jewish communities for aid. Poor relief ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Patrons and Their Poor

    Jewish Community and Public Charity in Early Modern Germany

    by Debra Kaplan ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    A pregnant mother, a teacher who had fallen ill, a thirty-year-old homeless thief, refugees from war-torn communities, orphans, widows, the mentally disabled and domestic servants. What this diverse group of individuals—mentioned in a wide range of manuscript and print sources in German, Hebrew, and Yiddish—had in common was their appeal to early modern Jewish communities for aid. Poor relief ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Touch Touch

    Snowman

    by Debra Kaplan-Kira ...
    Have you ever built a snowman? It can be a wonderful sharing experience with your family and friends. If you live in a place where it snows, you may be able to wait for just the right kind of weather. But if you dont live someplace cold, building a snowman may not be something you can look forward to.Touch Touch: Snowman brings the fun-filled joy of building a snowman to every family, any where ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Beyond Expulsion

    Jews, Christians, and Reformation Strasbourg

    by Debra Kaplan ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    Beyond Expulsion is a history of Jewish-Christian interactions in early modern Strasbourg, a city from which the Jews had been expelled and banned from residence in the late fourteenth century. This study shows that the Jews who remained in the Alsatian countryside continued to maintain relationships with the city and its residents in the ensuing period. During most of the sixteenth century, Jews ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • How Jews Became Germans

    The History of Conversion and Assimilation in Berlin

    by Deborah Hertz ...
    A "very readable" history of Jewish conversions to Christianity over two centuries that "tracks the many fascinating twists and turns to this story" ( Library Journal).When the Nazis came to power and created a racial state in the 1930s, they considered it an urgent priority to identify Jews who had converted to Christianity over the preceding centuries. With the help of church officials, a vast ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Demonizing the Jews

    Luther and the Protestant Church in Nazi Germany

    by Christopher J. Probst ...
    "An insightful analysis of the ways in which Protestant reformer Martin Luther's anti-Jewish writings were used by German Protestants during the Third Reich." — Contemporary Church History QuarterlyThe acquiescence of the German Protestant churches in Nazi oppression and murder of Jews is well documented. In this book, Christopher J. Probst demonstrates that a significant number of German ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unimaginable

    What Our World Would Be Like Without Christianity

    by Jeremiah Johnston ...
    A Stirring Account of Christianity's Power for GoodIn a day when Christians are often attacked for their beliefs, professor and speaker Jeremiah Johnston offers an inspiring look at the positive influence of Christianity, both historically and today. In Unimaginable, you'll discover the far-reaching ways that Christianity is good for the world--and has been since the first century AD--including:· ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Jewish Enlightenment

    by Shmuel Feiner ...
    Translated by Chaya Naor ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    At the beginning of the eighteenth century most European Jews lived in restricted settlements and urban ghettos, isolated from the surrounding dominant Christian cultures not only by law but also by language, custom, and dress. By the end of the century urban, upwardly mobile Jews had shaved their beards and abandoned Yiddish in favor of the languages of the countries in which they lived. They ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • How the West Became Antisemitic

    Jews and the Formation of Europe, 800–1500

    by Ivan G. Marcus ...
    An examination of how the Jews—real and imagined—so challenged the Christian majority in medieval Europe that it became a society that was religiously and culturally antisemitic in new waysIn medieval Europe, Jews were not passive victims of the Christian community, as is often assumed, but rather were startlingly assertive, forming a Jewish civilization within Latin Christian society. Both Jews ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Early Modern Jewry

    A New Cultural History

    by David B. Ruderman ...
    A compelling history of the early modern Jewish experienceEarly Modern Jewry boldly offers a new history of the early modern Jewish experience. From Krakow and Venice to Amsterdam and Smyrna, David Ruderman examines the historical and cultural factors unique to Jewish communities throughout Europe, and how these distinctions played out amidst the rest of society. Looking at how Jewish settlements ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Rebellion of the Daughters

    Jewish Women Runaways in Habsburg Galicia

    by Rachel Manekin ...
    Series series Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
    An in-depth exploration of the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox homes during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesThe Rebellion of the Daughters investigates the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox, mostly Hasidic, homes in Western Galicia (now Poland) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In extreme cases, hundreds of these women sought ... Read more

    $34.59 USD