Consists of a series of related essays that deal with a new approach to historical-mindedness and a new way of understanding the distinguishing characteristics of Western civilization.

Sub Specie Historiae: Essays in the Manifestation of Historical and Moral Consciousness

Politics & Social Sciences

John T. Marcus

Philosophy

Associated University Presses

A hero of Czech and Jewish legend, Rabbi Loew is known to posterity as the creator of the Golem, an artificial man endowed with superhuman powers. This book not only analyzes the legends and their influence on modern literature and ethics, but also provides a biography and bibliography of the mystical Rabbi whose life and works have in the past been eclipsed by the legends.

Mystical theology and social dissent: The life and works of Judah Loew of Prague (The Littman library of Jewish civilization)

Byron L. Sherwin

Religion & Spirituality

The author considers the trades and professions in which the Jews participated and shows how, from the seventeenth century to the present day, a process of economic adaptation and pioneering enterprise contributed both to the growth and changing class-structure of the Anglo-Jewish community, and to the development of the British economy.

Economic history of the Jews in England (The Littman library of Jewish civilization)

Business & Money

Pollins, Harold

Economics

In this analysis of racialism in late-nineteenth-century France, antisemitism is studied not in isolation but in its social context, as an indicator and symptom of profound social change. As anticapitalism, for example, antisemitism expressed hostility to modern economic forms and 'the rule of money'; as a kind of socialism, it expressed opposition to the establishment without calling the social hierarchy into question; as a kind of nationalism and as racialism, it created a sense of belonging, in opposition to the Jews and to other supposedly alien groups within French society. Other aspects studied in the book are the religious, the sexual, and the cultural and intellectual, in which antisemitism again acted as the vehicle for the expression of the fears inspired by and in reaction to the experience of rapid change, which was seen as a fundamental decadence.Always the supposed action of the Jews supplied an explanation of otherwise inexplicable phenomena. Analysis of involvement in the Dreyfus Affair, which dramatized antisemitism and gave it new appeal and legitimacy, and of the antisemitic movement and its activities, indicates which social groups were particularly attracted to antisemitism: students, the clergy and Catholics generally, shopkeepers, army officers, members of the liberal professions, and the aristocracy. In each case, particular anxieties and grievances were articulated through a common ideology. There is little evidence that antisemitism was prompted by any experience of actual co-existence with any Jewish communities, except in the east of France; the choice of Jews as scapegoats has, rather, historical and religious explanations. Antisemitism at this time was propagated by 'intellectuals' through newspapers, pamphlets, and books; the new cultural media were used to fashion an abstract ideology from much older folk beliefs. The antisemitic movement of the time had no coherent programme. It did advocate various measures, culminating in extermination, against the Jews, but this was rhetoric, not practical policy.

Ideology and experience: Antisemitism in France at the time of the Dreyfus affair (The Littman library of Jewish civilization)

Stephen Wilson

<p>Original 1st edition by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.</p>

Judaism on trial: Jewish-Christian disputations in the Middle Ages (The Littman library of Jewish civilization)

Principles of Faith (Rosh Amanah) (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)

Isaac Abravanel

The test of character: From the Victorian novel to the modern

Hochman, Baruch

Jews in Black Perspectives: A Dialogue

Jews in black perspectives: A dialogue

Washington, Joseph R. Jr. (editor)

Social Sciences

<p>A remarkable collection of Romanian political humor when that nation was under Soviet influence. A must for historians of the Communist Party.</p>

First Prize: Fifteen Years

Politics & Government

The utopian moment in contemporary American poetry

Norman Finkelstein

Literature & Fiction

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