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      Inventing America’s Worst Family: Eugenics, Islam, and the Fall and Rise of the Tribe of Ishmael

      Nathaniel Deutsch

      Traces how the Ishmaels, whose patriarch fought in the Revolutionary War, were discovered in the slums of Indianapolis in the 1870s and became a symbol for all that was wrong…

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      The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement

      Nathaniel Deutsch

      The Jews of the Pale of Settlement created a distinctive way of life little known beyond its borders. Just before World War I, a socialist revolutionary named An-sky and his…

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      Guardians of the Gate: Angelic Vice Regency in Late Antiquity

      Nathaniel Deutsch

      An exploration of the phenomenon of angelic vice regency in Late Antiquity. It comparatively examines figures from Judaism, Mandaeism, and Gnosticism, shedding new light, in particular, on the Jewish angel…

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      Black Zion: African American Religious Encounters with Judaism

      Black Zion explores the myriad ways in which African American religions have encountered Jewish traditions, beliefs, and spaces. The collection’s unifying argument is that much of the recent turmoil in…

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      A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg

      Nathaniel Deutsch,Michael Casper

      The epic story of Hasidic Williamsburg, from the decline of New York to the gentrification of Brooklyn

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      Black Zion: African American Religious Encounters with Judaism

      Black Zion explores the myriad ways in which African American religions have encountered Jewish traditions, beliefs, and spaces. The collection’s unifying argument is that much of the recent turmoil in…

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      The Maiden of Ludmir: A Jewish Holy Woman and Her World

      Nathaniel Deutsch

      Hannah Rochel Verbermacher, a Hasidic holy woman known as the Maiden of Ludmir, was born in early-nineteenth-century Russia and became famous as the only woman in the three-hundred-year history of…

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      The Lost World of Russia’s Jews: Ethnography and Folklore in the Pale of Settlement

      Abraham Rechtman

      Originally published in Yiddish as Yidishe etnografye un folklor by Fundaciaon IWO in in Buenos Aires, Argentina. –Title page verso.

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      The Lost World of Russia’s Jews: Ethnography and Folklore in the Pale of Settlement

      Abraham Rechtman

      The Lost World of Russia’s Jews powerfully illuminates traditional Jewish life in Eastern Europe on the eve of its transformation and, ultimately, destruction.

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      Going to the People: Jews and the Ethnographic Impulse

      They reveal how the collection, analysis, and preservation of ethnography intersect with questions about the construction and delineation of community, the preservation of Jewishness, the meaning of belief, the significance…

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      Going to the People: Jews and the Ethnographic Impulse

      They reveal how the collection, analysis, and preservation of ethnography intersect with questions about the construction and delineation of community, the preservation of Jewishness, the meaning of belief, the significance…

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      Amerikanische Kurzgeschichten - Die Besten Erz hlungen Von Poe, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, O. Henry, Washington Irving Und Anderen (Vollst ndige Deutsche Ausgabe)

      Nathaniel Hawthorne,Washington Irving,Edgar Allan Poe,Bret Harte,Mark Twain

      Inhalt: - Washington Irving - Die Legende Von Sleepy Hollow - Rip Van Winkle - Herman Melville - Bartleby - Edgar Allan Poe - Der Doppelmord in der Rue Morgue…

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