Jewish Studies

Israel and the Middle East

Beyond 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.

Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream

Edited by Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock

A collection of memoirs, poetry, interviews, and essays on the Arab American experience in Detroit.

The Changing Land: Between the Jordan and the Sea—Aerial Photographs from 1917 to the Present

Benjamin Z. Kedar

The Changing Land presents a unique aerial view of the changes in Israel’s topography from the second decade of the twentieth century to the present.

Twenty Israeli Composers: Voices of a Culture

Robert Fleisher

This first published collection of interviews with Israeli composers offers a unique understanding of the nation’s culture at the mid-point of its first century.

The Israeli-American Connection: Its Roots in the Yishuv, 1914–1945

Michael Brown

An examination of the ways in which the American experience influenced some of the major leaders of the yishuv—the Jewish settlement in Palestine.

Without Forgetting the Imam: Lebanese Shi’ism in an American Community

Linda S. Walbridge

An ethnographic study of the religious life of the Lebanese Shi’ites of Dearborn, Michigan, the largest Muslim community outside of the Middle East.