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  • How the West Became Antisemitic

    Jews and the Formation of Europe, 800–1500

    by Ivan G. Marcus ...
    An examination of how the Jews—real and imagined—so challenged the Christian majority in medieval Europe that it became a society that was religiously and culturally antisemitic in new waysIn medieval Europe, Jews were not passive victims of the Christian community, as is often assumed, but rather were startlingly assertive, forming a Jewish civilization within Latin Christian society. Both Jews ... Read more

    $46.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Jewish Culture and Society in Medieval France and Germany

    by Ivan G. Marcus ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    These studies explore the history of the Jewish minority of Ashkenaz (northern France and the German Empire) during the High Middle Ages. Although the Jews in medieval Europe are usually thought to have been isolated from the Christian majority, they actually were part of a 'Jewish-Christian symbiosis.' A number of studies in the collection focus on Jewish-Christian cultural and social ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • "Sefer Hasidim" and the Ashkenazic Book in Medieval Europe

    by Ivan G. Marcus ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Composed in Germany in the early thirteenth century by Judah ben Samuel he-hasid, Sefer Hasidim, or "Book of the Pietists," is a compendium of religious instruction that portrays the everyday life of Jews as they lived together with and apart from Christians in towns such as Speyer, Worms, Mainz, and Regensburg. A charismatic religious teacher who recorded hundreds of original stories that ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • "Sefer Hasidim" and the Ashkenazic Book in Medieval Europe

    by Ivan G. Marcus ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Composed in Germany in the early thirteenth century by Judah ben Samuel he-hasid, Sefer Hasidim, or "Book of the Pietists," is a compendium of religious instruction that portrays the everyday life of Jews as they lived together with and apart from Christians in towns such as Speyer, Worms, Mainz, and Regensburg. A charismatic religious teacher who recorded hundreds of original stories that ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    How the West Became Antisemitic

    Jews and the Formation of Europe, 800-1500

    by Ivan G. Marcus ...
    Narrated by David de Vries ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 42 min

    In medieval Europe, Jews were not passive victims of the Christian community, as is often assumed, but rather were startlingly assertive, forming a Jewish civilization within Latin Christian society. Both Jews and Christians considered themselves to be God's chosen people. These dueling claims fueled the rise of both cultures as they became rivals for supremacy. In How the West Became Antisemitic, ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Jewish Life Cycle

    Rites of Passage from Biblical to Modern Times

    by Ivan G. Marcus ...
    Series series Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
    In this original and sweeping review of Jewish culture and history, Ivan Marcus examines how and why various rites and customs celebrating stages in the life cycle have evolved through the ages and persisted to this day. For each phase of life--from childhood and adolescence to adulthood and the advanced years—the book traces the origin and development of specific rites associated with the events ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Rituals of Childhood

    Jewish Acculturation in Medieval Europe

    by Professor Ivan G. Marcus ...
    In medieval times, when a Jewish boy of five began religious schooling, he was carried from home to a teacher and placed on the teacher's lap. He was then asked to recite the Hebrew alphabet and lick honey from the slate on which it was written, to eat magically inscribed cooked peeled eggs and cakes, to recite an incantation against a demon of forgetfulness, and then to go down to the riverbank ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Jewish Mystical Leaders and Leadership in the 13th Century

    Edited by Moshe Idel, Mortimer Ostow, Ivan G. Marcus, Israel M. Ta-Shma, Paul B. Fenton ...
    To find more information about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com. ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • After Capitalism

    Horizons of Finance, Culture, and Citizenship

    by Kennan Ferguson, Patrice Petro, Geoff Mann, Andrew Ross, Ivan Ascher, Jeffrey Sommers, Sherryl Vint, Marcus Bullock, Esther Leslie0, Cristina Venegas1, Niki Akhavan2, A. Aneesh3, Bernard C. Perley4 ...
    Series series New Directions in International Studies
    From Thomas Piketty to David Harvey, scholars are increasingly questioning whether we are entering into a post-capitalist era. If so, does this new epoch signal the failure of capitalism and emergence of alternative systems? Or does it mark the ultimate triumph of capitalism as it evolves into an unstoppable entity that takes new forms as it engulfs its opposition?After Capitalism brings together ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Fathers And Children (Unabridged)

    by Ivan Turgenev ...
    Narrated by AI Marcus ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 8 min

    Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Arkady, a university graduate, returns from St. Petersburg to his father’s estate with his mentor Bazarov—a nihilist. Fathers and Children (also known as Fathers and Sons) is a novel written in 1862 by Russian writer Ivan Turgenev and published in Moscow by The Russian Messenger. The main theme of the novel is the conflict between two ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Short Fiction (Unabridged)

    by Ivan Bunin ...
    Narrated by AI Marcus ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 26 min

    Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Ivan Bunin was a Russian author, poet and diarist, who in 1933 (at the age of 63) won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing.” Viewed by many at the time as the heir to his friend and contemporary Chekhov, Bunin wrote his poems and stories with ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Other Classical Musics

    Fifteen Great Traditions

    by Michael Church, Scott DeVeaux, Ivan Hewett, Dwight Reynolds, Scott Marcus, Robert Labaree, Ameneh Youssefzadeh, Will Sumits, Terry E. Miller, Neil Sorrell0, David Hughes1, Frank Kouwenhoven2, Richard Widdess3, Jonathan Katz4, Roderic Knight5 ...
    Winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for Creative Communication 2015There is a treasure trove of underappreciated music out there; this book will convince many to explore it. The EconomistWhatis classical music? This book answers the question in a manner never before attempted, by presenting the history of fifteen parallel traditions, of which Western classical music is just one. ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD