books by Hillel Levine

books by Hillel Levine

books:

Hillel Levine

In Search of Sugihara: The Elusive Japanese Dipolomat Who Risked his Life to Rescue 10,000 Jews From the ...

Hillel Levine

Free Press, 1996

Excellent Book
This book was fascinating, and should be required reading in all History classes.

The Death of an American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions

Hillel Levine, Lawrence Harmon

Touchstone, 1993

showing the status quo isn't forever
Its easy to believe that the status quo is inevitable, that Jews have always lived in faceless suburbs. But this book shows that this is not so--once upon a time there were Jewish neighborhoods just like there are Chinatowns and black neighborhoods today. And it also ...

Economic Origins of Antisemitism: Poland and Its Jews in the Early Modern Period
Hillel Levine

Yale University Press, 1993

In this exploration of the economic roots of anti-semitism, the author traces the position of Jews in Poland from the end of the 16th century to the demise of the Polish State in 1795. The book explains why Poland was not able to modernize its backward social, economic and political system at a time when Western European countries were rapidly ...

Maimonides and the Sciences (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science Volume 211)
Hillel Levine

Springer, 2000

In this book, 11 leading scholars contribute to the understanding of the scientific and philosophical works of Moses Maimonides (1135--1204), the most luminous Jewish intellectual since Talmudic times. Deeply learned in mathematics, astronomy, astrology (which he strongly rejected), logic, philosophy, psychology, linguistics, and ...