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Claiming Her Place in Congress: Women from American Political Families as Legislators (Paperback)

The fall of 2018 saw an unprecedented number of women elected to Congress changing estimates of how long it might take to achieve equal representation. For the first time women candidates used techniques honed by America s political families which... more

A JPS Scholar of Distinction Book: Coming to Terms with America : Essays on Jewish History Religion and Culture (Hardcover)

Culling the finest thinking of renowned historian Jonathan D. Sarna Coming to Terms with America examines how Jews have long “straddled two civilizations � endeavoring to be both Jewish and American at once from the American Revolution to today. more

How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America (Paperback)

The history of Jews in the United States is one of racial change that provides useful insights on race in America. Prevailing classifications have sometimes assigned Jews to the white race and at other times have created an off-white racial... more

Jewish Heroes & Heroines of America (Paperback)

Documents with 150 stories and illustrations how Jews have made heroic contributions in every facet of American industry and culture. Celebrates the contributions of Jewish heroes and heroines throughout the nation s history. Spanning the... more

The Asian and Abrahamic Religions: A Divine Encounter in America (DVD)

This award winning two hour television documentary examines how contemporary Jews and Christians perceive each other confront prejudice and stereotypes and how they can understand and respect one another. The program is based on the book Our Father... more

The Wonderful and Most Deplorable History of the Later Times of the Jews (Hardcover)

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Considerations on Reform With a Specific Plan for a New Representation : Addressed to Charles Grey Esq. Member of Parliamant for Northumberland (Paperback)

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Prominent Jews of America a collection of biographical sketches of Jews who have distinguished themselves in commercial professional and religious endeavor 1918 [Hardcover]

{Size: 14.34 x 22.59 cms} Lang: - English Pages 575 Print on Demand. Reprinted in 2015 with the help of original edition published long back [1918]. This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated... more

Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review: Doing Business in America: A Jewish History (Hardcover)

American and Jewish historians have long shied away from the topic of Jews and business. Avoidance patterns grew in part from old often negative stereotypes that linked Jews with money and the perceived ease and regularity with which they found... more

The Immigrant Jew in America 1907 [Leather Bound]

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Jews in the Los Angeles Mosaic (Edition 1) (Hardcover)

Influenced by popular notions that the West is a place of vanishing Jews and disappearing Judaism most people draw a blank at the words Los Angeles Jew. Yet the region is home to the second largest number of Jews in North America and boasts the... more

Pre-Owned The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig: Riddles of Food and Culture (Paperback - Used) 0671633082 9780671633080

One of America s leading anthropolgists offers solutions to the perplexing question of why people behave the way they do. Why do Hindus worship cows? Why do Jews and Moslems refuse to eat pork? Why did so many people in post-medieval Europe believe... more

American Jews and the war; the human side of America s outpouring of relief for the suffering Jews of other countries 1917 [Leather Bound]

Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather Golden Screen printing in Front Color Leather Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2019 with the help of original edition... more

Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack (Paperback)

In Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack Judah M. Cohen demonstrates that Jews constructed a robust religious musical conversation in the United States during the mid- to late-19th century. While... more

Unsettling : Jews Whiteness and Incest in American Popular Culture (Paperback)

Unsettling illustrates how Jewish community protective politics impacted representations of white male Jewish masculinity in the 1990s. By analyzing how artists and media told stories about Jewish celebrities and incest Unsettling demonstrates how... more

How Odd of God; an Introduction to the Jews .. (Paperback)

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Pre-Owned Cows Pigs Wars and Witches: The Riddles of Culture (Paperback) 0394713729

One of America s leading anthropolgists offers solutions to the perplexing question of why people behave the way they do. Why do Hindus worship cows? Why do Jews and Moslems refuse to eat pork? Why did so many people in post-medieval Europe believe... more

The Not-So-Special Interests : Interest Groups Public Representation and American Governance (Paperback)

The book explains why certain public groups such as Jews lawyers and gun-owners develop substantially more representation than others and why certain organizations like the National Rifle Association become the presumed spokespersons for these... more

Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment Romanticism and Cultu: Bloody Romanticism: Spectacular Violence and the Politics of Representation 1776-1832 (Hardcover)

This book studies the impact of violence on the writing of the Romantic period. The focus is on the response of writers to a series of violent events including the revolutions in America and France and the Irish rebellion of 1798. Authors covered... more

Public and Republic: Political Representation in America

Public and Republic: Political Representation in America more

History of the mediaeval Jews from the Moslem conquest of Spain to the discovery of America. 1924 [Leather Bound]

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A Jew in America : My Life and a People s Struggle for Identity 9780062517104 Used / Pre-owned

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History of the mediaeval Jews : from the Moslem conquest of Spain to the discovery of America. 1907 [Leather Bound]

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History of the Jews in America 9780394573533 Used / Pre-owned

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Presbyterian Church in Canada Missions to the Jews : Historical Sketch: the Story of Our Church s Interest in Israel (Paperback)

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Are Missions to the Jew a Failure? [microform] : a Study of Official Judaism and Christian Missions (Paperback)

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History of the Jews in America from the period of the discovery of the New World to the present time. 1912 [Leather Bound]

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Joseph and Benjamin: a Series of Letters on the Controversy Between Jews and Christians: Comprising the Most Important Doctrines of the Christian Religion; v. 2 (Hardcover)

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History of the Jews in America from the period of the discovery of the New World to the present time. 1912 [Leather Bound]

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Christmas Gifts from the Chanukah Crowd : The Extraordinary Contributions of American Jews to Christmas (Paperback)

Christmas is one of the most dearly cherished holidays for the vast majority of Christians and a holiday appreciated and even celebrated by many non-Christians as well. It is celebrated the world over but nowhere more cherished than in America.... more

Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jew Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America (Paperback)

The Holocaust took place far from the United States and involved few Americans yet rather than receding this event has assumed a greater significance in the American consciousness with the passage of time. As a window into the process whereby the... more

Report of the Commission on Legislative Representation; November 1956 (Paperback)

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Early Modern Americas: Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society: Suriname in the Atlantic World 1651-1825 (Hardcover)

A fascinating portrait of Jewish life in Suriname from the 17th to 19th centuries Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society explores the political and social history of the Jews of Suriname a Dutch colony on the South American mainland just north of... more

Mediaeval Jews : from the Moslem conquest of Spain to the discovery of America 1929 [LEATHER BOUND]

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Shifting Grounds: Landscape in Contemporary Native American Art (Paperback)

Foregrounds the importance of landscape within twenty-first-century Indigenous art A distinctly Indigenous form of landscape representation is emerging among contemporary Indigenous artists from North America. For centuries landscape painting in... more

Images of America: Jewish Milwaukee (Paperback)

The Jewish community has a distinguished heritage in Milwaukee and Jewish (c)migr(c)s were an integral part of the pioneer fabric of the area. The 1840s saw the first large influx of Jews to Wisconsin primarily to urban Milwaukee. They quickly... more

The Theory of Group Characters and Matrix Representations of Groups (Hardcover)

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Did Jesus Change? : The Answer of the Jew to the Question of the Ages (Paperback)

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