Zvi: 73 books
The Holocaust and the Nakba
A New Grammar of Trauma and History
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
In this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked without blurring fundamental differences between them. While these two foundational tragedies are often discussed separately and in abstraction from the constitutive historical...
Teaching Contested Narratives
Identity, Memory and Reconciliation in Peace Education and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
In troubled societies narratives about the past tend to be partial and explain a conflict from narrow perspectives that justify the national self and condemn, exclude and devalue the 'enemy' and their narrative. Through a detailed analysis, Teaching Contested Narratives reveals the works of identity,...
by Marc Zvi Brettler
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2005
The Book of Judges has typically been treated either as a historical account of the conquest of Israel and the rise of the monarch, or as an ancient Israelite work of literary fiction. In this new approach, Brettler contends that Judges is essentially a political tract, which argues for the legitimacy...
by Marc Zvi Brettler
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
The Creation of History in Ancient Israel demonstrates how the historian can start to piece together the history of ancient Israel using the Hebrew Bible as a source.
Participatory Journalism
Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Who makes the news in a digital age? Participatory Journalism offers fascinating insights into how journalists in Western democracies are thinking about, and dealing with, the inclusion of content produced and published by the public.
A timely look at digital news, the changes it is bringing...
by Rabbi Andrew Goldstein, PhD, Dr. Marc Zvi Brettler
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The most memorable prayer of the Jewish New Year—what it means, why we sing it, and the secret of its magical appeal.
Through a series of lively commentaries, over thirty contributors—men and women, scholars and rabbis, artists and poets, spanning three continents and all major Jewish denominations—examine...
My People's Prayer Book Vol 6
Tachanun and Concluding Prayers
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
"The prayer book is our Jewish diary of the centuries, a collection of prayers composed by generations of those who came before us, as they endeavored to express the meaning of their lives and their relationship to God. The prayer book is the essence of the Jewish soul."
This stunning...
by Zvi Harry Hurwitz
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Here, for the first time, is the complete correspondence between Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egypt's President Anwar el-Sadat as they wrestled with what would become their Nobel Peace Prize winning accomplishment. The letters, together with transcripts of speeches, press conferences,...
How to save politics in a post-truth era
Thinking through difficult times
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
The rise of populism, Donald Trump's election and the result of the EU referendum in the UK have been widely interpreted as a rejection of the post-war liberal order – the manifestation of a desire to undermine the political system that people feel has let them down. Yet mainstream politicians and...
My People's Prayer Book Vol 3
P'sukei D'zimrah (Morning Psalms)
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
"The prayer book is our Jewish diary of the centuries, a collection of prayers composed by generations of those who came before us, as they endeavored to express the meaning of their lives and their relationship to God. The prayer book is the essence of the Jewish soul."
This stunning...
The New Jewish Diaspora
Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel, and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
In 1900 over five million Jews lived in the Russian empire; today, there are four times as many Russian-speaking Jews residing outside the former Soviet Union than there are in that region. The New Jewish Diaspora is the first English-language study of the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora. This migration...
My People's Prayer Book Vol 8
Kabbalat Shabbat (Welcoming Shabbat in the Synagogue)
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
"The prayer book is our Jewish diary of the centuries, a collection of prayers composed by generations of those who came before us, as they endeavored to express the meaning of their lives and their relationship to God. The prayer book is the essence of the Jewish soul."
This stunning...
My People's Prayer Book Vol 7
Shabbat at Home
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Opens up the traditional Jewish prayer book as a spiritual resource....This groundbreaking new series involves us in a personal dialogue with God, history and tradition, through the heritage of prayer. "The prayer book is our Jewish diary of the centuries, a collection of prayers composed by...
by Zvi Kelman
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Isotope Labeling of Biomolecules: Applications, the latest in the Methods in Enzymology series, focuses on stable isotope labeling methods and applications for biomolecules. This practical guide to biomolecular labeling looks at new techniques that are becoming widely used.
Continues the legacy...