Jewish Studies

History

Rabbinic Culture and Its Critics: Jewish Authority, Dissent, and Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Times

Edited by Daniel Frank and Matt Goldish

Examines dissent from rabbinic Judaism in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period to consider it as a category within the history and culture of the Jewish people.

“The Whole Wide World, Without Limits”: International Relief, Gender Politics, and American Jewish Women, 1893–1930

Mary McCune

An analysis of gender politics in the American Jewish community during the interwar period that reveals the role of gender and class in organizational politics and the importance of Jewish women in American political and activist history.

Exile in Amsterdam: Saul Levi Morteira’s Sermons to a Congregation of “New Jews”

Marc Saperstein

The first historical analysis of Rabbi Saul Levi Morteira’s recently uncovered sermons.

Going Greek: Jewish College Fraternities in the United States, 1895–1945

Marianne Rachel Sanua

A history of Jewish fraternities and sororities in the early-twentieth-century United States.

Jews and the German State: The Political History of a Minority, 1848–1933

Peter Pulzer

Now available in paperback, this book delivers a comprehensive one-volume account of the political history of Jews as a significant minority within Imperial Germany.

From Ideology to Liturgy: Reconstructionist Worship and American Liberal Judaism

Eric Caplan

The first systematic and comprehensive analysis of official Reconstructionist prayer materials.