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September 2021

Imagine Being a Jew for One Hour

Stories against anti-Semitism

by Kurt Oesterle

Hatred of Jews is long-standing, widespread and powerful. After Auschwitz, the lesson used to be: “Never again!” However, anti-Semitic resentment, like an epidemic, still grips the bourgeois middle-class in our society. In his book “A Jew for One Hour”, Kurt Oesterle convincingly demonstrates how hatred of Jews functions in aesthetic and emotional terms with no empathy whatsoever. He also shows that for the past 200 years of German literature a line of tradition can be acknowledged “in defence of Jewishness”. Kurt Oesterle accounts for this in his book of stories with an impressive depth of knowledge, with a generous heart and mind and incredible commitment. A truly significant book.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

January 2013

The Jews in western Europe, 1400–1600

by John Edwards

As European politics, society, economy and religion underwent epoch-making changes between 1400 and 1600, the treatment of Europe's Jews by the non-Jewish majority was, then as in later periods, a symptom of social problems and tensions in the Continent as a whole. Through a broad-ranging collection of documents, John Edwards sets out to present a vivid picture of the Jewish presence in European life during this vital and turbulent period. Subjects covered include the Jews' own economic presence and culture, social relations between Jews and Christians, the policies and actions of Christian authorities in Church and State. He also draws upon original source material to convey ordinary people's prejudices about Jews, including myths about Jewish 'devilishness', money-grabbing, and 'ritual murder' of Christian children. Full introductory and explanatory material makes accessible the historical context of the subject and highlights the insights offered by the documents as well as the pitfalls to be avoided in this area of historical enquiry. This volume aims to provide a coherent working collection of texts for lecturers, teachers and students who wish to understand the experience of Jewish Europeans in this period.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

February 2025

An unorthodox history

British Jews since 1945

by Gavin Schaffer

A bold, new history of British Jewish life since the Second World War. Historian Gavin Schaffer wrestles Jewish history away from the question of what others have thought about Jews, focusing instead on the experiences of Jewish people themselves. Exploring the complexities of inclusion and exclusion, he shines a light on groups that have been marginalised within Jewish history and culture, such as queer Jews, Jews married to non-Jews, Israel-critical Jews and even Messianic Jews, while offering a fresh look at Jewish activism, Jewish religiosity and Zionism. Weaving these stories together, Schaffer argues that there are good reasons to consider Jewish Britons as a unitary whole, even as debates rage about who is entitled to call themselves a Jew. Challenging the idea that British Jewish life is in terminal decline. An unorthodox history demonstrates that Jewish Britain is thriving and that Jewishness is deeply embedded in the country's history and culture.

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May 2002

Vorläufige Festnahme und grenzüberschreitende Nacheile.

Zur Behandlung von Flagranzfällen in Frankreich und Deutschland.

by Goy, Barbara

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December 2023

Das Antiquariat an der Seine

Roman

by Gentile, Lorenza

Aus dem Italienischen von Annette Lardschneider-Pedicini

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Humanities & Social Sciences

April 2024

Tracking the Jews

Ecumenical Protestants, conversion, and the Holocaust

by Carolyn Sanzenbacher

This book sheds light on an unprecedented Protestant conversion initiative for the global evangelisation of Jews. Founded in 1929, the International Committee on the Christian Approach to the Jews (ICCAJ) aimed to bring Jewish people to their 'spiritual destiny', a task it saw as both benevolent and essential for a harmonious society. By the time of Hitler's rise to power it was active in thirty-two countries, educating Protestant churches on the right Christian attitude towards Jews and antisemitism. Reconstructing the activities of the ICCAJ in the years before, during and immediately after the Holocaust, Tracking the Jews reveals how ideas disseminated through the organisation's discourse - 'Jewish problem', 'Jewish influence', 'Judaising threat', 'eternal Jew' - were used to rationalise, justify, explain or advance a number of deeply troubling policies. They were, for vastly different reasons, consciously used elements of argumentation in both Protestant conversionary discourse and Nazi antisemitic ideology.

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Literature & Literary Studies

August 1997

The Jew of Malta

Christopher Marlowe

by David Bevington

This edition contains in distilled form the insight and learning found iun the fuller Revels critical edition, but with less of the learned apparatus that is appropriate to a critical edition. The introduction and commentary are compact and up to date. The price and format are designed to be competitive with any paperback teaching edition of this play. ;

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Literature & Literary Studies

February 1980

The Jew of Malta

Christopher Marlowe

by N. Bawcutt

Thorough annotation and commentary. Emphasis on the political, historical and religious allusions in the play. Presented in a clear and lucid form. ;

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1981

Familie zwischen Tradition und Moderne

Studien zur Geschichte der Familie in Deutschland und Frankreich vom 16. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert

by Herausgegeben von Bulst, Neithard; Herausgegeben von Goy, Joseph; Herausgegeben von Hoock, Jochen

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Literature & Literary Studies

October 2020

Play time

by Daisy Black, David Matthews, Anke Bernau, James Paz

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December 2023

Hatred of Jews

A never-ending story?

by Sebastian Voigt

— An overall presentation of the history of anti-Semitism based on the latest research — A necessary book that helps to recognise (and combat) anti-Jewish attitudes and patterns of behaviour even in the present day The Hamas attack on Israel is further aggravating the situation in the Middle East, and will continue to intensify anti-Semitism. And this plague, combined with Israel’s denied right to exist; the attacks in Brussels and Paris; the aggressive violence against everything Jewish in the Islamic world – is as dangerous as ever. Hatred of the Jews is old, vast and strong. The anamnesis began 2500 years ago in the Middle Ages, and came to head in the 18th and 19th centuries. It culminated ideologically in the Wannsee Conference, and became murderous in Auschwitz. Historian Sebastian Voigt provides a dense history of the hatred of the Jews – and combines it with a passionate call for courageous resistance.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

February 2020

Jews on trial

The Papal Inquisition in Modena, 1598–1638

by Joseph Bergin, Katherine Aron-Beller, Penny Roberts, William G. Naphy

Jews on trial concentrates on Inquisitorial activity during the period which historians have argued was the most active in the Inquisition's history: the first forty years of the tribunal in Modena, from 1598 to 1638, the year of the Jews' enclosure in the ghetto. Scholars have in the past tended to group trials of Jews and conversos in Italy together. This book emphasises the fundamental disparity in Inquisitorial procedure, as well as the evidence examined, and argues that this was especially true in Modena where the secular authority did not have the power during the period in question to reject, or even significantly monitor, Inquisitorial trial procedure. It draws upon the detailed testimony to be found in trial transcripts to analyse Jewish interaction with Christian society in an early modern community. This book will appeal to scholars of inquisitorial studies, social and cultural interaction in early modern Europe, Jewish Italian social history and anti-Semitism.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

February 2013

The Jews in western Europe, 1400–1600

by Translated and Edited by John Edwards

As European politics, society, economy and religion underwent epoch-making changes between 1400 and 1600, the treatment of Europe's Jews by the non-Jewish majority was, then as in later periods, a symptom of social problems and tensions in the Continent as a whole. Through a broad-ranging collection of documents, John Edwards sets out to present a vivid picture of the Jewish presence in European life during this vital and turbulent period. Subjects covered include the Jews' own economic presence and culture, social relations between Jews and Christians, the policies and actions of Christian authorities in Church and State. He also draws upon original source material to convey ordinary people's prejudices about Jews, including myths about Jewish 'devilishness', money-grabbing, and 'ritual murder' of Christian children. Full introductory and explanatory material makes accessible the historical context of the subject and highlights the insights offered by the documents as well as the pitfalls to be avoided in this area of historical enquiry. This volume aims to provide a coherent working collection of texts for lecturers, teachers and students who wish to understand the experience of Jewish Europeans in this period. ;

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June 2010

Retrograde Hebrew and Aramaic Dictionary

by Mayerhofer, Kerstin; Sander, Ruth

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December 2014

Hebrew Bible/Old Testament - komplett

Vol. I-III

by Herausgegeben von Sæbø, Magne

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December 2014

The Text of the Hebrew Bible

From the Rabbis to the Masoretes

by Herausgegeben von Martín-Contreras, Elvira; Herausgegeben von Miralles-Maciá, Lorena

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October 2015

Iconographic Exegesis of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament

An Introduction to Its Method and Practice

by Herausgegeben von Bonfiglio, Ryan; Herausgegeben von de Hulster, Izaak; Herausgegeben von Strawn, Brent A.

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November 2011

The Hebrew Bible in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls

by Herausgegeben von David, Nora; Herausgegeben von Lange, Armin; Herausgegeben von Troyer, Kristin De; Herausgegeben von Tzoref, Shani

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January 2008

Hebrew Bible / Old Testament: The History of Its Interpretation

II: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

by Herausgegeben von Sæbø, Magne

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December 2012

Hebrew Bible / Old Testament. III: From Modernism to Post-Modernism

by Herausgegeben von Sæbø, Magne

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Zur Behandlung von Flagranzfällen in Frankreich und Deutschland.

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Roman

by Gentile, Lorenza

Ecumenical Protestants, conversion, and the Holocaust

by Carolyn Sanzenbacher

Christopher Marlowe

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by N. Bawcutt

Studien zur Geschichte der Familie in Deutschland und Frankreich vom 16. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert

by Herausgegeben von Bulst, Neithard; Herausgegeben von Goy, Joseph; Herausgegeben von Hoock, Jochen

by Daisy Black, David Matthews, Anke Bernau, James Paz

A never-ending story?

by Sebastian Voigt

The Papal Inquisition in Modena, 1598–1638

by Joseph Bergin, Katherine Aron-Beller, Penny Roberts, William G. Naphy

by Translated and Edited by John Edwards

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Vol. I-III

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From the Rabbis to the Masoretes

by Herausgegeben von Martín-Contreras, Elvira; Herausgegeben von Miralles-Maciá, Lorena

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