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Hebrew Union College Press

Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is the intellectual, academic, spiritual, and professional leadership development center of Reform Judaism.

The Hebrew Union College Press, now in its 85th year, has from its inception devoted its resources and efforts to the publication of works of the highest caliber for a discerning international academic readership. The following titles are distributed by Wayne State University Press.

Other Titles (2000-1997)

Abramson: Modern Jewish MythologiesModern Jewish Mythologies

Edited by Glenda Abramson

A series of essays that explore the complex relationship between myth and ritual in modern Jewish culture.

Marcus: The Jew in the Medieval WorldThe Jew in the Medieval World: A Source Book, 315–1791

Revised Edition
Jacob Rader Marcus  •  With a new introduction and bibliography by Marc Saperstein

First published in 1938, this classic source book presents 137 documents that deal with individual Jews and the Jewish community during the Jewish Middle Ages.

Gal: Beyond Survival and PhilanthropyBeyond Survival and Philanthropy: American Jewry and Israel

Edited by Allon Gal and Alfred Gottschalk

Thirty well-known Jewish scholars and communal leaders address the important issues that confront Israeli and American Jewry in the twenty-first century.

Petuchowski: Theology and PoetryTheology and Poetry: Studies in the Medieval Piyyut

Jakob J. Petuchowski

Petuchowski provides the texts, English translations, and commentaries on a number of theological poems, introducing each with a survey of Jewish thought on the poem’s particular theme.

Blum: Profane ScripturesProfane Scriptures: Reflections on the Dialogue with the Bible in Modern Hebrew Poetry

Ruth Kartun-Blum

Explores aspects of the complex relationship between modern Hebrew poetry and the Bible, incorporating the perspectives of intertextuality, deconstruction, and feminist criticism.

Fishbane: The Memoirs of Nahum N. GlatzerThe Memoirs of Nahum N. Glatzer

Edited and Presented by Michael Fishbane and Judith Glatzer Wechsler

This collection of seventy-eight memoir entries offers personal glimpses of Glatzer—prolific scholar, Brandeis University professor, and editor of the Schocken publishing house.

Wachs: American Jewish LiturgiesAmerican 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.

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