Jewish Studies

History

The Jews in the Legal Sources of the Early Middle Ages

Edited with Introductions, Translations, and Annotations by Amnon Linder

Documentation of the ideological stances, policies, and applications of medieval law concerning Jews.

Ideals Face Reality: Jewish Law and Life in Poland, 1550–1655

Edward Fram

An analysis of how sixteenth and seventeenth century century Polish rabbis adapted the law to the community’s social and economic needs.

Rebecca Gratz: Women and Judaism in Antebellum America

Dianne Ashton

The first in-depth biography of Rebecca Gratz, perhaps the best-known member of the prominent Gratz family of Philadelphia and the foremost American Jewish woman of the nineteenth century.

No Way Out: The Politics of Polish Jewry 1935–1939

Emanuel Melzer

An examination of the efforts of Polish Jewry to secure its existence in the late 1930s.

American Jewish Liturgies: A Bibliography of American Jewish Liturgy from the Establishment of the Press in the Colonies through 1925

Compiled by Sharona Wachs

A bibliography detailing nearly 1,300 American Jewish prayerbooks, devotionals, memorials, children’s prayers, hymnals, and scores from the eighteenth century to 1925.

“Were Our Mouths Filled with Song”: Studies in Liberal Jewish Liturgy

Eric L. Friedland

Essays analyzing non-Orthodox Jewish liturgy from the mid-1800s through to the late 1900s.