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This volume examines the unique historical and religious forces that led to the Balfour Declaration and argues that Britain, for more than two centuries, already possessed the ingredients for a theopolitical vision of a Jewish home state.

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This book offers a comparative study of the Jewish response to identity structures in Eastern Europe and the United States from 1890 to 1930 in narratives by immigrant writers from the Pale of Settlement and Romania.

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This collection of mostly unpublished first-person accounts documents the flight and exile of German Jews from Nazi Germany to the USA. The thematic and biographical introductions by the editors, clear geographic framework, and well-defined time frame make this volume helpful to those new to the subject.

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This book discusses the multiple intersections between Jewish studies and Israel studies in the twenty-first century. With contributions from an international array of scholars, the volume offers a stimulating and thought-provoking discussion of the current state of scholarship with an outlook toward future areas of research and cross-pollination.

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This book discusses the multiple intersections between Jewish studies and Israel studies in the twenty-first century. With contributions from an international array of scholars, the volume offers a stimulating and thought-provoking discussion of the current state of scholarship with an outlook toward future areas of research and cross-pollination.

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This book examines the problem of cultural translation and mistranslation on the part of Menasseh ben Israels readers who were not ready to share his vision of a Jewish-Christian republic of letters whose members enjoyed mutual respect and collaborated to improve the situation of the Jews in Europe.

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This book scrutinizes the hitherto-unchallenged idea of the Sephardic identity as a mix of Spaniard and Jew. Ojeda-Mata examines the processes by which this conceptualization of the Sephardim developed from the nineteenth century onward and the consequences of this conceptualization for Sephardic Jews during World War II and in the present day.

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Though widely discussed by scholars, critics, and educators alike, empirically, we know little about the individual reception of Holocaust films by actual cinemagoers. Taking Britain as a case study, this book foregrounds the analysis of audience responses to select films and explores the relationship between history, film, and memory.

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The Life and Thought of Zeev Jawitz combines three interesting disciplines and ideologies: Orthodoxy, Nationalism, and Jewish Studies. This biography by Asaf Yedidya reflects the tension between these ideologies as a central arena for Judaism's encounter with modernity.