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Just as Kristen and Steel think the past is behind them, their wedding reception is attended by an unwelcome guest who puts them face to face with the demons they have tried so hard to forget. Julie, Kristen's long time best friend, must fight for her life as she's kidnapped and held for ransom. Her only hope to be saved is James Kawoski, Steel's ex-boss and Best Man. To find out more about their budding romance, you'll have to read the book. This...
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Using the life and writings of Cyril III Ibn Laqlaq, 75th patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, along with a variety of Christian and Muslim chroniclers, this study explores the identity and context of the Christian community of Egypt and its relations with the leadership of the Ayyubid dynasty in the early thirteenth century. Kurt Werthmuller introduces new scholarship that illuminates the varied relationships between medieval Christians of Egypt...
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Shows how Israeli Communists developed a distinctive national identity outside the boundaries of Zionism.
Holidays of the Revolution explores a little-known chapter in the history of Mandatory Palestine and the State of Israel: the Israeli Communist Party and its youth movement, which posed a radical challenge to Zionism. Amir Locker-Biletzki examines the development of this movement from 1919 to 1965, concentrating on how Communists built a distinctive...
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At the end of World War II, French Jews faced a devastating demographic reality: thousands of orphaned children, large numbers of single-parent households, and families in emotional and financial distress. Daniella Doron suggests that after years of occupation and collaboration, French Jews and non-Jews held contrary opinions about the future of the nation and the institution of the family. At the center of the disagreement was what was to become...
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