Victoria Jensen, Brill Publishing, 2025 This lavishly-illustrated book presents the unpublished excavations of the Hearst Expedition (1900–1901) at Deir el-Ballas, and thus makes a major contribution to the study of the material culture of the early New Kingdom. The site…
Louis Finkelstein, The Jewish theological seminary of America (New York), 1924 A comprehensive history of the constitutional activities of the European Jewish communities during the Middle Ages. Various texts, in Hebrew with English translations, describe the enactments of the different…
Brian Ogren, New York University Press, 2021 In 1688, a leading Quaker thinker and activist in what is now New Jersey penned a letter to one of his closest disciples concerning Kabbalah, or what he called the mystical theology of…
Edited by Tamar Morad, Dennis Shasha, and Robert Shasha, Palgrave Macmillian Publishing, 2008 Iraq's Last Jews is a collection of first-person accounts by Jews about their lives in Iraq's once-vibrant, 2500 year-old Jewish community and about the disappearance of that…
David Lowenthal, Cambridge University Press, 2015 The past remains essential – and inescapable. A quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man's attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how we celebrate, expunge, contest and domesticate the past…