Parkes-Wiener Library

  • Gender, Place and Memory in the Modern Jewish Experience

    Gender, Place and Memory in the Modern Jewish Experience

    from £17.95

    Replacing Ourselves

    Edited by: Baumel, Judith Tydor; Cohen, Tova

    This book is an expression of how the different memories of different gendered experiences affected the Jewish attitudes towards modernity. Focusing on three geographical centers - pre-war and wartime Europe, the United States and Israel, the fifteen articles provide a backdrop to understanding...

  • Holocaust Historiography

    Holocaust Historiography

    £19.95

    A Jewish Perspective: Conceptualizations, Terminology, Approaches and Fundamental Issues

    Michman, Dan

    While historical research on the Holocaust has been growing constantly, and has in the last few decades almost exploded, the perspective of the targeted group - the Jews - as an active player in the historical arena of the Holocaust, a...

  • Holocaust Literature

    Holocaust Literature

    from £17.95

    Schulz, Levi, Spiegelman and the Memory of the Offence

    Banner, Gillian


    200 pages

    Copyright: 2/25/2000

  • Jews and Port Cities, 1590-1990

    Jews and Port Cities, 1590-1990

    £19.50

    Commerce, Community and Cosmopolitanism

    Edited by: Cesarani, David; Romain, Gemma

    With studies of Jewish communities in port cities ranging from sixteenth century Livorno to modern Singapore, this book develops and extends the concept of the port Jew using a blend of conceptual innovation and original research. The first section explores the world...

  • Myths in Israeli Culture

    Myths in Israeli Culture

    from £18.95

    Captives of a Dream

    Copyright: 10/5/2000

  • Remembering Cable Street

    Remembering Cable Street

    £25.00

    Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

    Kushner, Tony


    Paper 290 pages

    Copyright: 10/15/1999

  • Sir Sidney Hamburger and Manchester Jewry

    Sir Sidney Hamburger and Manchester Jewry

    £25.00

    Religion, City and Community

    Williams, Bill

    A fluent and important study in a neglected area of British Jewish history - the issue of leadership. Concentrating on the life of one extraordinary figure, Sir Sidney Hamburger, it provides one of the few contextualised studies of British Jewish social and political history in the...

  • State and Society in Roman Galilee Ad 132-212

    State and Society in Roman Galilee Ad 132-212

    £18.95

    Goodman, Martin


    332 pages

    Copyright: 2/12/2001

  • Studies and Profiles in Anglo-Jewish History

    Studies and Profiles in Anglo-Jewish History

    £40.00

    From Picciotto to Bermant

    Finestein, Israel

    Why did the leaders of former times show indifference to the levels of Jewish scholarship in England and make do with minimal educational standards for the young of the community? How did the mutual tensions between East End and West End affect communal policy and aspiration?...

  • The Jewish Immigrant in England 1870-1914

    The Jewish Immigrant in England 1870-1914

    £18.95

    This is an analysis and description of that section of the great Jewish migration from eastern Europe which settled in Britain - around 120,000 Jews. The routes to England and the immigrants' travel experiences are discussed and the dockside reception is presented, which leads to a consideration of the...