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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Pseudo-Hecataeus, On the Jews: legitimizing the Jewish diaspora Author: Bar-Kochva, Bezalel Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| History \| Ancient History \| Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: Debate over the authenticity of "On the Jews" has persisted for nearly 1,900 years. Bezalel Bar-Kochva attempts to overcome this stalemate in his finely detailed and convincingly argued study that proves the forgery of the book and suggests not only a source for the text, but also a social, politica . . . [more] Matches in book (1420): ...Pseudo-Hecataeus on the Jews... ...Legitimizing the Jewish Diaspora... ...2. The Jewish Excursus... Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Insider/outsider: American Jews and multiculturalism Author: Biale, David 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| American Studies \| Popular Culture \| Judaism \| Gender Studies \| United States History \| Literature Publisher's Description: Twelve distinguished historians, political theorists, and literary critics present new perspectives on multiculturalism in this important collection. Central to the essays (all but one is appearing in print for the first time) is the question of how the Jewish experience can challenge the convention . . . [more] Matches in book (2040): ...American Jews and Multiculturalism... ...Jews Become White... ...American Jews' Exceptional Diaspora... Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Welcoming the undesirables: Brazil and the Jewish question Author: Lesser, Jeff Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Latin American Studies \| Jewish Studies \| Latin American History Publisher's Description: Jeffrey Lesser's invaluable book tells the poignant and puzzling story of how earlier this century, in spite of the power of anti-Semitic politicians and intellectuals, Jews made their exodus to Brazil, "the land of the future." What motivated the Brazilian government, he asks, to create a secret ba . . . [more] Matches in book (2083): ...Brazil and the Jewish Question... ...Jews Not Allowed... ...The Jewish Community Strikes Back... Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Daggers of faith: thirteenth-century Christian missionizing and Jewish response Author: Chazan, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Religion Publisher's Description: Our understanding of both Jewish history and the history of Western civilization is deepened by this finely balanced account of Christian missionizing among the Jews. Arguing that until the thirteenth century Western Christendom showed little serious commitment to converting the Jews, Robert Chazan . . . [more] Matches in book (1425): ...Thirteenth-Century Christian Missionizing and Jewish Response... ...6— Jewish Responses to the New Argumentation... ...6— Jewish Responses to the New Argumentation... Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: The dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: culture, politics, and the formation of a modern diaspora Author: Beinin, Joel 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| Religion \| Judaism \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: In this provocative and wide-ranging history, Joel Beinin examines fundamental questions of ethnic identity by focusing on the Egyptian Jewish community since 1948. A complex and heterogeneous people, Egyptian Jews have become even more diverse as their diaspora continues to the present day. Central . . . [more] Matches in book (1914): ...The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry... ...The Jewish Presence... ...The Jews of Egypt... Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: A radical Jew: Paul and the politics of identity Author: Boyarin, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Religion \| Judaism \| Christianity \| Gender Studies \| Literature \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: Daniel Boyarin turns to the Epistles of Paul as the spiritual autobiography of a first-century Jewish cultural critic. What led Paul - in his dramatic conversion to Christianity - to such a radical critique of Jewish culture?Paul's famous formulation, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, no male and fem . . . [more] Matches in book (1359): ...A Radical Jew... ...Deterritorializing Jewishness... ...Jews... Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Jewish state: a century later Author: Dowty, Alan 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Politics Publisher's Description: As the fiftieth anniversary of Israeli statehood approaches, along with the commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the World Zionist Organization, the question of what is meant by a "Jewish" state is particularly timely. Alan Dowty takes on that question in a book that is admirable for its cl . . . [more] Matches in book (1735): ...The Jewish State : A Century Later... ...Jewish Politics... ...preserves democracy, but it may also be the strongest bulwark of Jewishness. 97... Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Comrades and enemies: Arab and Jewish workers in Palestine, 1906-1948 Author: Lockman, Zachary Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: In Comrades and Enemies Zachary Lockman explores the mutually formative interactions between the Arab and Jewish working classes, labor movements, and worker-oriented political parties in Palestine just before and during the period of British colonial rule. Unlike most of the historical and sociolog . . . [more] Matches in book (2335): ...Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906–1948... ...Worker Militancy and Arab-Jewish Relations... ...The Arab and Jewish Railway Workers: First Contacts... Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Jewish memories Author: Valensi, Lucette Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Collective memory: a living, breathing gift from the past, less fragmentary than the recollections of any one individual, more personal by far than "history." The authors of Jewish Memories saw in the large numbers of Jews who migrated to France during the twentieth century the chance to retrieve a . . . [more] Matches in book (714): ...Jewish Memories... ...Other Jews... ...Jewish Ingenuity... Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Jews in the notarial culture: Latinate wills in Mediterranean Spain, 1250-1350 Author: Burns, Robert Ignatius Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Medieval Studies \| Judaism \| Jewish Studies \| European History \| Law \| Medieval History Publisher's Description: In the rapidly transforming world of thirteenth-century Mediterranean Spain, the all-purpose scribe and contract lawyer known as the notary became a familiar figure. Most legal transactions of the Roman Law Renaissance were framed in this functionary's notoriously hasty shorthand. Notarial archives, . . . [more] Matches in book (1137): ...Jews in the Notarial Culture... ...Jewish Scribes... ...Crossover: Jews in Christian Wills... Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Jewel of the desert: Japanese American internment at Topaz Author: Taylor, Sandra C Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Californian and Western History \| Asian American Studies \| American Studies Publisher's Description: In the spring of 1942, under the guise of "military necessity," the U.S. government evacuated 110,000 Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast. About 7,000 people from the San Francisco Bay Area - the vast majority of whom were American citizens - were moved to an assembly center at Tan . . . [more] Matches in book (15): ...Jewel of the Desert... ...Chapter Five The Jewel of the Desert... ...Chapter Five The Jewel of the Desert... Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Preachers of the Italian ghetto Author: Ruderman, David B Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Medieval History \| European History \| History Publisher's Description: By the mid-sixteenth century, Jews in the cities of Italy were being crowded into compulsory ghettos as a result of the oppressive policies of Pope Paul IV and his successors.The sermons of Jewish preachers during this period provide a remarkable vantage point from which to view the early modern Jew . . . [more] Matches in book (701): ...Italian Jewish Preaching: An Overview... ...Dead: The Emergence of the Eulogy among Italian Jewry of the Sixteenth Century... ...Judah Moscato: A Late Renaissance Jewish Preacher... Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Judgement in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist century Author: Lahav, Pnina 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Law \| History Publisher's Description: Simon Agranat (1906-1992) was the third chief justice of the Israeli Supreme Court and a founding father of Israeli law. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, and educated at the University of Chicago, Agranat brought U.S. progressivism and constitutionalism to Israeli legal soil. Agranat laid the foundatio . . . [more] Matches in book (1079): ...The Non-Jewish Woman... ...Chapter 12— Who Is a Jew? : The Split Revisited... ...Chapter 12— Who Is a Jew? : The Split Revisited... Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: An obsession with Anne Frank: Meyer Levin and The diary Author: Graver, Lawrence 1931- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature \| American Literature \| American Studies \| History \| European History Publisher's Description: Anne Frank's Diary has been acclaimed throughout the world as an indelible portrait of a gifted girl and as a remarkable document of the Holocaust. For Meyer Levin, the respected writer who helped bring the Diary to an American audience, the Jewish girl's moving story became a thirty-year obsession . . . [more] Matches in book (430): ...2 The Old Jewish Question... ...Italian kids yelling "kike," "Jewsonofabitch," or "I'll cut your nuts off, you... ...75 Jewish Week-American Examiner, 216 Jews Without Money, 3 Johnson, Pyke, 26... Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Perceptions of Palestine: their influence on U.S. Middle East policy Author: Christison, Kathleen 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics \| Middle Eastern History \| Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: For most of the twentieth century, considered opinion in the United States regarding Palestine has favored the inherent right of Jews to exist in the Holy Land. That Palestinians, as a native population, could claim the same right has been largely ignored. Kathleen Christison's controversial new boo . . . [more] Matches in book (648): ...for understanding of the European Jews'suffering and their need for a haven in... ...by Harrison's descriptions of the Jews'misery. Harrison told Truman that most... ...a discussion of resettlement schemes for Jewsin North Africa during his summit... Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Speaking the unspeakable: religion, misogyny, and the uncanny mother in Freud's cultural texts Author: Jonte-Pace, Diane E. (Diane Elizabeth) 1951- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion \| Literature \| Gender Studies \| Jewish Studies \| Psychology Publisher's Description: In this bold rereading of Freud's cultural texts, Diane Jonte-Pace uncovers an undeveloped "counterthesis," one that repeatedly interrupts or subverts his well-known Oedipal masterplot. The counterthesis is evident in three clusters of themes within Freud's work: maternity, mortality, and immortalit . . . [more] Matches in book (471): ...Jewishness and the (Un)Canny... ...FREUD'S JEWISH IDENTITY... ...Death and Us Jews”... Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: A marriage made in heaven: the sexual politics of Hebrew and Yiddish Author: Seidman, Naomi Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Gender Studies \| Religion \| Language and Linguistics Publisher's Description: With remarkably original formulations, Naomi Seidman examines the ways that Hebrew, the Holy Tongue, and Yiddish, the vernacular language of Ashkenazic Jews, came to represent the masculine and feminine faces, respectively, of Ashkenazic Jewish culture. Her sophisticated history is the first book-le . . . [more] Matches in book (309): ...Jabotinsky, Zev, 102 , 112 , 113 Jewish Self-Hatred (Gilman), 8... ...centeredness." Eastern European Jewish multilingualism and extraterritoriality... ...Aman has to stifle his Yiddish. But a Jewess from the yidish-taytsh Still has ... Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Cultural encounters: the impact of the Inquisition in Spain and the New World Author: Perry, Mary Elizabeth 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| Anthropology \| European History \| Religion \| Renaissance History Publisher's Description: More than just an expression of religious authority or an instrument of social control, the Inquisition was an arena where cultures met and clashed on both shores of the Atlantic. This pioneering volume examines how cultural identities were maintained despite oppression.Persecuted groups were able t . . . [more] Matches in book (378): ...Crypto-Jews... ...Parchments and Tortured Memories: The "Jewishness" of the Anussim (Crypto-Jews)... ...Parchments and Tortured Memories: The "Jewishness" of the Anussim (Crypto-Jews)... Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Their sisters' keepers: prostitution in New York City, 1830-1870 Author: Hill, Marilynn Wood Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Women's Studies \| American Studies Publisher's Description: This intimate study of prostitutes in New York City during the mid-nineteenth century reveals these women in an entirely new light. Unlike traditional studies, Marilynn Wood Hill's account of prostitution's positive attractions, as well as its negative aspects, gives a fresh perspective to this much . . . [more] Matches in book (469): ...APPENDIX 2: JEWETT CORRESPONDENCE... ...APPENDIX 2: JEWETT CORRESPONDENCE... ...67; Patricia Cline Cohen, "The Helen Jewerr Murder: Violence, Gender, and Sexual... Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Take my word: autobiographical innovations of ethnic American working women Author: Goldman, Anne E 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Ethnic Studies \| Women's Studies \| United States History \| American Studies Publisher's Description: In an innovative critique of traditional approaches to autobiography, Anne E. Goldman convincingly demonstrates that ethnic women can and do speak for themselves, even in the most unlikely contexts. Citing a wide variety of nontraditional texts - including the cookbooks of Nuevo Mexicanas, African A . . . [more] Matches in book (310): ...Not "Sturdy Pioneers": The Anti-Semitic Context of Jewish American Autobiography... ...Lady": Class-Consciousness and Cultural Practice in Jewish Women's Autobiography... ...Lady": Class-Consciousness and Cultural Practice in Jewish Women's Autobiography... Similar Items

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