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In Her Hands
Publication Date: November 2024
Adler examines the schools' curriculum, teachers, financing, students, and educational innovation and demonstrates how each of these aspects evolved over time to provide new opportunities.
A Jew in the Street
Publication Date: June 2024
These investigations illuminate the entangled experiences of Jews who sought to balance the pull of communal, religious, and linguistic traditions with the demands and allure of full participation in European life.
Carrying a Big Schtick
Publication Date: May 2024
Tracing Jewish masculinity through major themes and events including both World Wars, the Holocaust, American Zionism, Israeli statehood, and the Six-Day War, this work establishes that the struggle of this process can shed light on the changing dynamics in religious, social, and economic American Jewish life.
Yiddishlands
Publication Date: October 2023
Yiddishlands is essential reading for students of the recent Jewish past and the living Yiddish present.
Stories of Jewish Life
Publication Date: October 2023
Students, scholars, and readers of Jewish history, Italian history, and fiction with an autobiographical thread will find themselves captivated by Segre's stories.
Sepher Yosippon
Publication Date: November 2022
Bowman’s translation of Flusser’s notes, as well as his own scholarship, offers a well-wrought story for scholars and students interested in Jewish legend and history in the medieval period, Jewish studies, medieval literature, and folklore studies.
More than Parcels
Publication Date: June 2022
The astonishing accounts offered in More than Parcels add texture and depth to the story of organized Jewish responses to wartime persecution that will be of interest to students and scholars of Holocaust studies and modern Jewish history, as well as members of professional associations with a focus on humanitarianism...
Disputed Messiahs
Publication Date: November 2021
Scholars and students of history, culture, and religion are the intended audience for this book.
Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present
Publication Date: November 2021
This publication is significant within the field of Jewish studies and beyond; the essays include comparative material and have the potential to reach scholarly audiences in many related fields but are written to be accessible to all, with the introductions in every chapter aimed at orienting the enthusiast from outside...
Jewish Magic Before the Rise of Kabbalah
Publication Date: October 2021
Scholars interested in early Jewish history and comparative religions will find great value in this text.
The Jewish Heroes of Warsaw
Publication Date: May 2021
Students and scholars of modern Jewish history, Holocaust studies, and European studies will find great value in this detail-oriented study.
The Compromise of Return
Publication Date: May 2021
This book will be of special interest to scholars, students, and readers of Holocaust and European studies.
Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe
Publication Date: November 2020
The intended readership goes beyond scholars and students of medieval Jewish studies, medieval European history, and crime in pre-modern society.
Authentically Orthodox
Publication Date: November 2020
The microhistories examined in Authentically Orthodox are some of the most exciting and understudied moments in American Jewish life and will hold the interest of scholars and students of American Jewish history and religion.
Embodying Hebrew Culture
Publication Date: August 2020
Students and teachers of Israel studies, performance studies, and Jewish cultural history will appreciate Embodying Hebrew Culture.
The Yiddish Historians and the Struggle for a Jewish History of the Holocaust
Publication Date: December 2019
The Yiddish Historians and the Struggle for a Jewish History of the Holocaust is an eye-opening monograph that will appeal to Holocaust and Jewish studies scholars, students, and general readers.
Sing This at My Funeral
Publication Date: July 2019
Students, scholars, and general readers of memoirs will enjoy this deeply personal reflection on family and grief.
The Legend of Safed
Publication Date: May 2019
The Legend of Safed is intended for students, scholars, and general readers of medieval and early modern Jewish studies, Hebrew literature, and folklore.
The Jdc at 100
Publication Date: May 2019
It will appeal to readers with a more general interest in Jewish studies and refugee studies, Holocaust museum professionals, and those engaged in Jewish and other relief and resettlement programs.
Eli's Story
Publication Date: August 2018
Both scholars and general readers interested in Holocaust narratives will be moved by this monograph.
United States Jewry, 1776-1985
Publication Date: February 2018
Marcus follows the movement of these "GermanJews into all regions west of the Hudson River.
The Forerunners
Publication Date: February 2018
He details the contributions and the leadership provided by the Dutch Jews and relates how they lost their "Dutchnessand their Orthodoxy within several generations of their arrival here and were absorbed into broader American Judaism.
Jewish Poland—Legends of Origin
Publication Date: February 2018
This book will be of interest to scholars in folklore studies as well as to scholars of Judaic history and culture.
Ambiguous Relations
Publication Date: February 2018
It is a comprehensive account of recent history that comes to groups with emotional and political reality.
Prayer & Community
Publication Date: February 2018
Combining history and ethnography, Prell uses current theories about ritual and prayer to understand men's and women's struggles with their religious tradition and their desire to create community.
From Sofia to Jaffa
Publication Date: February 2018
Beginning with a study of the community in Bulgaria and the factors that motivated them to leave their homeland, this book documents the journey of the Bulgarian Jews to Israel and their adaptation to life there.
Going Greek
Publication Date: February 2018
In Going Greek Marianne Sanua examines the founding of Jewish fraternities in light of such topics as antisemitism, the unique challenges faced by Jewish students on campuses across the United States, responses to World War II, and questions pertaining to assimilation and/or identity reinforcement.
From New Zion to Old Zion
Publication Date: February 2018
From New Zion to Old Zion draws upon international archival correspondence, newspapers, maps, photographs, interviews, and fieldwork to provide students and scholars of immigration and settlement processes, the Yishuv (Jewish community in Palestine), and America-Holy Land studies a well-researched portrait of Aliyah.
Marketing Identities
Publication Date: February 2018
An interdisciplinary study, Marketing Identities illuminates present-day discussions in Europe and the Americas regarding the experience and self-understanding of minority groups and combines media and cultural studies with German and Jewish history.
Rabbinic Judaism in the Making
Publication Date: February 2018
Guttmann's book concentrates on the crucial inter-testamental period, and should be valuable to students of ancient history, and both Christian and Jewish theologians, ministers, and rabbis.
On Jewish Folklore
Publication Date: February 2018
Patai investigated and recorded are the history and oral traditions of the now-vanished Marrano community of Meshhed, Iran; cultural change among the so-called Jewish Indians of Mexico; beliefs and customs in connection with birth, the rainbow, and the color blue; Jewish variants of the widespread custom of earth-eating; and the...
The Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn
Publication Date: February 2018
Poised to face the unfinished marital battle at home, but anxious to engage in the coming struggle for Jewish survival and the future of Western civilization, he set sail, unsure of what lay ahead.
The Israeli-American Connection
Publication Date: February 2018
In six biographical chapters, Michael Brown studies Vladimir Jabotinsky, Chaim Nahman Bialik, Berl Katznelson, Henrietta Szold, Golda Meir, and David Ben-Gurian, focusing on each leader's involvement with and image of America, as well as the impact of America on their lives and careers.
Jewish Agricultural Utopias in America, 1880-1910
Publication Date: February 2018
Only in New Jersey, close to markets and supporters in New York and Philadelphia, were colonization efforts combined with agro-industrial enterprises; consequently, these colonies were able to survive for as long as one generation.
Without Bounds
Publication Date: December 2017
Human- and demon-bound, holy and impure, Jew and Muslim, old and young, Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana dissolved the boundaries of the major social categories in Morocco and integrated them into his identity.
No Haven for the Oppressed
Publication Date: December 2017
He suggests that a disinclination to sully themselves in negotiations with the Nazis and a fear that any ransom would prolong the global conflict, caused the Allies to offer only token overtures to the Nazis on behalf of the Jews.
From East to West
Publication Date: December 2017
In the present book I propose to discuss such a movement of an earlier period, that from Eastern Europe to the countries of the West, from its inception at the beginning of the seventeenth century to the dissolution of the old Polish commonwealth. Since this book deals with the history...
Anti-Semitic Stereotypes Without Jews
Publication Date: December 2017
Anti-Semitic sentiments are seen here as reflecting deep-seated, irrational responses to the Jewish people, rooted in the teachings of the church and exploited by men who needed an outlet for religious, social, and economic frustrations.
Reconstructing the Old Country
Publication Date: November 2017
Scholars and students of American Jewish history and literature in particular will appreciate this internationally focused scholarship on the continuing reverberations of the Second World War and the Holocaust.
Tales in Context
Publication Date: November 2017
The tales in Sefer ha-ma'asim will be of special value to scholars of folklore and medieval European history and literature, as well as those looking to enrich their studies and shelves.
Between Exile and Exodus
Publication Date: November 2017
Scholars in various fields and disciplines, including history, Latin American studies, and migration studies, will find the methodology utilized in this monograph original and illuminating.
From Things Lost
Publication Date: May 2017
Readers of personal accounts of the Holocaust will be swept away by this intimate story.
Jewish Souls, Bureaucratic Minds
Publication Date: November 2016
Scholars and advanced students of Russian and Jewish history will find Jewish Souls, Bureaucratic Minds to be an important tool in their research.
Zionism Without Zion
Publication Date: May 2016
The thorough discussion of this under-studied ideology will be of considerable interested to scholars of Eastern European history, Jewish history, and Israel studies.
Beyond Sectarianism
Publication Date: July 2015
Jewish studies scholars and readers interested in history, sociology, and religion will appreciate Ferziger's reappraisal of this important group.
Jewish Honor Courts
Publication Date: June 2015
Scholars of Jewish, European, and Israeli history as well as readers interested in issues of legal and social justice will be grateful for this detailed volume.
Vladimir Jabotinsky's Story of My Life
Publication Date: May 2015
As Jabotinsky is gaining a reputation for the quality of his fictional and semi-fictional writing in the field of Israel studies, this autobiography will help reading groups and students of Zionism, Jewish history, and political studies to gain a more complete picture of this famous leader.
A Fire Burns in Kotsk
Publication Date: February 2015
Historians of literature, Polish culture, and Jewish studies will welcome this lively translation.
Louis Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews
Publication Date: December 2014
Scholars of Jewish folklore as well as of Talmudic-Midrashic literature will find this volume to be invaluable reading.
