Legacy of Empire

Britain, Zionism and the creation of Israel

It is now more than seventy years since the creation of the state of Israel, yet its origins and the British Empire's historic responsibility for Palestine remain little known. Confusion persists too as to the distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. In Legacy of Empire ...

Jews and samaritans

the origins and history of their early relations

Winner of the R.B.Y. Scott Award from the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies Even in antiquity, writers were intrigued by the origins of the people called Samaritans, living in the region of ancient Samaria (near modern Nablus). The Samaritans practiced a religion almost ...

Masada

from jewish revolt to modern myth

A new account of the famous site and story of the last stand of a group of Jewish rebels who held out against the Roman Empire Two thousand years ago, 967 Jewish men, women, and children-the last holdouts of the revolt against Rome following the ...

La Internacional Socialista y el laborismo israelí ante el conflicto de Oriente Medio

1947-1983

Setenta años después de la declaración de independencia del Estado de Israel, el conflicto árabe-israelí sigue siendo una realidad. Es mucha la literatura que se ha generado en torno al él a lo largo de los años y, sin embargo, aún es posible desarrollar nuevos ...

World War I and the jews

conflict and transformation in Europe, the Middle East, and America

World War I utterly transformed the lives of Jews around the world: it allowed them to display their patriotism, to dispel antisemitic myths about Jewish cowardice, and to fight for Jewish rights. Yet Jews also suffered as refugees and deportees, at times catastrophically. And in ...

The origin of the Jews

the quest for roots in a Rootless Age

The scholarly quest to answer the question of Jewish origins The Jews have one of the longest continuously recorded histories of any people in the world, but what do we actually know about their origins? While many think the answer to this question can be ...

A history of Judaism

A panoramic history of Judaism from its origins to the present Judaism is by some distance the oldest of the three Abrahamic religions. Despite the extraordinarily diverse forms it has taken, the Jewish people have believed themselves bound to God by the same covenant for ...

Los diez mitos de Israel

El relato histórico del sionismo sobre Israel está construido sobre numerosas falacias y mentiras. Relatos ficticios que nos impiden entender los orígenes y la realidad actual del conflicto y que sutilmente arrojan dudas sobre el derecho moral de los palestinos a la tierra que ocupan ...

Prince of the press

how one collector built history's most enduring and remarkable jewish library

The story of one of the largest collections of Jewish books, and the man who used his collection to cultivate power, prestige, and political influence David Oppenheim (1664-1736), chief rabbi of Prague in the early eighteenth century, built an unparalleled collection of Jewish books and ...

Breve historia de los Judíos

Descubra la apasionante historia de los judíos. Un pueblo hostigado durante siglos y en eterno éxodo, que aún conserva su identidad religiosa. Conozca la sorprendente historia del pueblo que se considera especialmente elegido por Dios. Acompáñele desde su nacimiento y posterior estancia en Egipto, hasta ...

After the Black Death

plague and commemoration among iberian jews

The Black Death of 1348-50 devastated Europe. With mortality estimates ranging from thirty to sixty percent of the population, it was arguably the most significant event of the fourteenth century. Nonetheless, its force varied across the continent, and so did the ways people responded to ...

God's country

christian zionism in America

The United States is Israel's closest ally in the world. The fact is undeniable, and undeniably controversial, not least because it so often inspires conspiracy theorizing among those who refuse to believe that the special relationship serves America's strategic interests or places the ...

The history of Bronze and Iron Age Israel

Designed as a supplementary resource for students who have an interest in the ancient Near East and biblical history, this volume provides a basic introduction to the historical, archaeological, and socio-contextual aspects of ancient Israel during its early foundation period through the end of the ...

Jewish volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War

Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War discusses the participation of volunteers of Jewish descent in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, focusing particularly on the establishment of the Naftali Botwin Company, a Jewish military unit that was created in ...

The Cambridge History of Judaism

Volume 6: The Middle Ages: the Christian World

Volume 6 examines the history of Judaism during the second half of the Middle Ages. Through the first half of the Middle Ages, the Jewish communities of western Christendom lagged well behind those of eastern Christendom and the even more impressive Jewries of the Islamic ...

Judíos y romanos en la historia de la pasión

el problema histórico del arresto de Jesús

Un aspecto crucial de los relatos evangélicos es la atribución a las autoridades judías de la responsabilidad en el arresto de Jesús de Nazaret, así como en su muerte. Sin embargo, la investigación histórica más rigurosa permite cuestionar la fiabilidad de esa idea, como lo ...

La Historia de los Judíos

Volumen II: Pertenencia, 1492-1900

El gran proyecto de Simon Schama continúa y la historia judía está entretejida en la trama de la humanidad. Su búsqueda de un hogar donde una religión y cultura distintivas puedan nutrirse sin ser marginadas repentinamente adquiere una resonancia sorprendente en nuestra propia época de ...

Los 7 preceptos de Noé

Los siete preceptos de Noé son los mandamientos entregados por Dios a toda la humanidad. A través del cumplimiento de estas pocas y aparentemente sencillas normas, se puede alcanzar un grado supremo y heredar el Mundo Venidero. Sin embargo, para cumplirlos apropiadamente es necesario conocer ...

Los orígenes del pueblo hebreo

Los orígenes del pueblo hebreo presenta una lograda síntesis del judaísmo bíblico, aportando, con la mayor claridad y concisión posible, numerosos datos curiosos y de interés para todo aquel que quiera descubrir más sobre uno de los pilares fundamentales de nuestra cultura y pensamiento. La ...

Rise and kill first

the secret history of Israel's targeted assassinations

The Talmud says: "If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first." This instinct to take every measure, even the most aggressive, to defend the Jewish people is hardwired into Israel's DNA. From the very beginning of its statehood in 1948 ...