Jewish medals, from the Renaissance to the fall of Napoleon (1503-1815)

(This book is filled with photos of medals from 1503 with ...)

This book is filled with photos of medals from 1503 with a Jewish medal to 1815 when Napoleon fell from power. This study reflects the tensions of pre-emancipation Jewish life. The Corn-Jew medals exemplify the prevalent early notion that Jewish merchants hoarded grain to produce famines in league with the devil. Besides portraying anti-Semitism, the early medals showed Jewish converts and Marranos, and later more typically commemorated individual Jews and Jewish activities. Chosen from the principal collections throughout the world, the medals are reproduced and cataloged for variants, metal types, sizes, relevant literature, and location.

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Sold to the Highest Bidder: The Presidency from Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush (Hardback) - Common

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"This is a glorious America for the alert and resourceful," notes Daniel Friedenberg in this critical review of the American presidency during the last half of the 20th century. But he cautions, "This is an unhappy America for the disadvantaged, the weak in body or mind, and those born without close family ties." The disparity between rich and poor in our immensely wealthy nation and the corruptin...

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Sasanian Jewry and Its Culture: A Lexicon of Jewish and Related Seals

( From 226 C.E. to 640 C.E., the Sasanian Empire occupied...)

From 226 C.E. to 640 C.E., the Sasanian Empire occupied the territories now divided between Iran and Iraq and for brief periods between Syria and Armenia. One of the most significant material remnants of the large communities of Jews living within the empire are seals, almost all of which are signets whose styles, inscriptions, and sites of discovery provide important clues about the size and status of Jewish populations throughout the empire. Seals show how Jews within the empire adopted or resisted certain Sasanian symbols and sustained traditional Jewish references such as the lulab and etrog. This volume presents fifty-seven Jewish seals from the Sasanian Empire, as well as comparative Zoroastrian and Christian seals. The text identifies their provenance (if known), translates their inscriptions, and organizes them by their depiction or reference.

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Medieval Jewish Seals from Europe 1St edition by Friedenberg, Daniel (1987) Hardcover

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Sold to the Highest Bidder : The Presidency from Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush

("This is a glorious America for the alert and resourceful...)

"This is a glorious America for the alert and resourceful," notes Daniel Friedenberg in this critical review of the American presidency during the last half of the 20th century. But he cautions, "This is an unhappy America for the disadvantaged, the weak in body or mind, and those born without close family ties." The disparity between rich and poor in our immensely wealthy nation and the corrupting influence of money on politics to the advantage of the few over the many form the heart of his critique. Friedenberg emphasizes that the New Deal concern for the underdog - the major social achievement of the first half of the 20th century - has been gradually abandoned by presidents in the latter half of the century, along with tax policies that shifted wealth from the well-to-do to the less privileged. Though paying lip service to democracy, in fact recent presidents have upheld a system designed to maximize the influence of a powerful elite, "a flexible plutocracy," as Friedenberg describes it. This has good and bad aspects. On the one hand, the innovations launched by powerful business leaders, such as Henry Ford, Thomas J. Watson (IBM), and Bill Gates (Microsoft), have resulted in millions of new jobs and advanced the overall prosperity of the nation. On the other hand, the system does little to help the poor rise to a higher level, and it has kept the middle class stagnating for the last thirty years. The effect of presidential policies is a divide between the haves and have-nots that today is every bit as stark as it was before the Great Depression. Friedenberg pleads for a new focus on improved education for all to narrow the widening gap between rich and poor, instead of the current folly of building gated communities for the wealthy and ever-more prisons for the law-breaking underprivileged. The vast technological resources unleashed by the computer revolution can and should be used to create a more equitable American future.

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(Sasanian Jewry and Its Culture: A Lexicon of Jewish and Related Seals ) Author: Daniel M. Friedenberg May-2009

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Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Land

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This book offers a vivid account of the bloody, corruption-laden, yet engrossing history of land speculation in America, from pre-colonial times to the election of President Thomas Jefferson. Whether they were competing to discover the "New World," escaping religious persecution, or whether they were "patriots" fighting for liberty, many men became fantastically wealthy and powerful, grabbing land while merely giving lip service to popular ideals. Friedenberg demonstrates how the relentless pursuit of land (helped enormously by killing off Native Americans and by the importing of slaves from Africa) was more than just the foundation upon which the first American sociopolitical structures rested. It molded a set of attitudes and beliefs that fit the aggressive expansionism of those who led the struggling colonies. Certain insidious traits remain to this day, witnesses to our bloody past: a view of land as a mere commodity, a belief that the control of land (and hence wealth) requires political power, and a widespread tendency toward greed and arrogance. Friedenberg conducts a fast-paced, eye-opening tour through the labyrinth of North American land deals, and in doing do exposes the real motives influencing some of the major events in our nation's history while placing the lives and careers of America's forefathers in a disturbing new light. Discover the powerful role that the desire for land played in carving out colonies in the New World and how greed sparked the French and Indian War and spawned an array of land companies created to make quick profits and displace Native Americans. Friedenberg explains how colonial merchants and traders were willing to risk revolution to achieve new western markets. He looks at the American Revolution through the eyes of those who speculated on land grants promised to soldiers and discusses how political intrigues among land company delegates at Congress influenced ratification of the Articles of Confederation and debate on the Constitution. He reveals the legacy of treason, fraud, treachery, and deceit as some of the most distinguished names in our early history sliced up the American pie.

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Medieval Jewish Seals from Europe

(Friedenberg's work provides the first comprehensive study...)

Friedenberg's work provides the first comprehensive study of the use of seals by Jews from the 12th to the 16th century and their role in transforming Europe from a barter economy to a money economy. Structuring his analysis by geographic regions, Friedenberg examines the physical nature of the seals and discusses the symbols and legends they employ. He examines their relation to similar Christian seals, their legal validity and use, and their prevalence in certain areas at certain times. In all, 177 seals are catalogued. Where the impressions are appended to documents, the document is also reviewed. Whenever possible, the seals are illustrated, as are the most significant documents, along with other seals, medals, coins, letters and paintings which serve to illuminate the discussion of a seal. The result is the definitive catalog of all known Jewish seals of the period.

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