Jewish Studies

Literature and Poetry

“To Write the Lips of Sleepers”: The Poetry of Amir Gilboa

Warren Bargad

In this comprehensive study, Warren Bargad describes and interprets Gilboa’s works at the various stages of his career and defines his place in the tradition of modern Hebrew poetry.

Gender, Patriarchy and Fascism in the Third Reich: The Response of Women Writers

Edited by Elaine Martin

A unique collection of essays that brings together a variety of literary treatments by women of Germany and Austria under National Socialism.

With Teeth in the Earth: Selected Poems of Malka Heifetz Tussman

Translated, edited and introduced by Marcia Falk

The first full-length collection in English of the poetry of Yiddish-American poet Malka Heifetz Tussman.

The Merit of Our Mothers: A Bilingual Anthology of Jewish Women’s Prayers

Tracy Guren Klirs

An anthology of tkhines—prayers and devotions for Jewish women—in Yiddish and in English translation.

The Fiddle Rose: Poems 1970–1972

Abraham Sutzkever  •  Selected and translated by Ruth Whitman

Sutzkever considers the relationship between man and nature, time and eternity, life and death through complex imagery and subtle metaphors. Bilingual Edition.

Touching Evil

Norma Rosen

A compelling novel portraying the reality of the Holocaust invading the lives of Americans.