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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.
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...
Communings of the Spirit
Publication Date: October 2020
Scholars of Judaica and rabbinical studies will value this honest look at the preeminent American Jewish thinker and rabbi of our times.
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.
Tradition and Politics
Publication Date: February 2018
He concludes with an analysis of the special significance of the religious parties in the Israeli political system.
Yudisher Theriak
Publication Date: November 2016
Scholars and students of Jewish-Christian relations and early modern Jewish historical and cultural studies will appreciate the availability of this previously inaccessible text.
Rebecca Gratz
Publication Date: December 2015
Rebecca Gratz is the first book to examine Gratz's life, her legend, and our memory.
Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity
Publication Date: October 2014
Bringing together leading Jewish historians, anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers and liturgists, Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity offers a collective view of a historically and culturally significant issue that will be of interest to Jewish scholars of many disciplines.
Judeo-Arabic Literature in Tunisia, 1850-1950
Publication Date: October 2014
Originally published in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic Literature in Tunisia, 1850–1950 will be welcomed by English-speaking scholars interested in the literature and culture of this period.
Jadid Al-Islam
Publication Date: May 2014
Based on unpublished original Persian sources and interviews with members of the existing Meshhed community in Jerusalem and New York, this study documents the history, traditions, tales, customs, and institutions of the Jadid al-Islam—"New Muslims."
On the Margins of a Minority
Publication Date: January 2014
On the Margins of a Minority will appeal to scholars of Jewish medieval history as well as readers interested in the growing field of disability studies.
The En Yaaqov
Publication Date: October 2011
This insightfully researched book will be informative to scholars of Talmud and Rabbinic Literature, late-medieval intellectual history and culture, Sephardic history, and the history of the Jewish book as well as to readers interested in the still-popular En Yaaqov.
Stories of Joseph
Publication Date: February 2009
Bernstein's rich analysis focuses on the nineteenth-century Judeo-Arabic manuscript The Story of Our Master Joseph—a Jewish text taking its form from an Islamic prototype (itself largely based on midrashic, Hellenistic, and Near Eastern material) extending back to the earliest human stories of parental favoritism, sibling rivalry, separtism from loved ones,...
Rabbinic Culture and Its Critics
Publication Date: May 2008
The volume will provide informative reading for scholars of Jewish studies and anyone with an interest in religious history.
Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl
Publication Date: April 2008
The book not only acquaints new readers with the talent of a unique storyteller but presents an important document of Jewish life during a fascinating era.
Spirit Possession in Judaism
Publication Date: January 2003
This juxtaposition of approaches among the essays in this volume, some of which analyze the same texts in different ways, creates a broad foundation on which to contemplate the meaning of spirit possession.
Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush
Publication Date: September 2002
Scholars and students of Jewish history and immigration studies, and readers interested in Gold Rush history, will enjoy this look at the development of California’s Jewish community.
Judaism Within Modernity
Publication Date: August 2001
In particular, they show how reform Judaism and Zionism were able to reconcile their initial differences.
Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe
Publication Date: August 2001
The main purpose of this book is the description of the modalities of reception of the new sciences, complicated by the traditional reticence toward "alien sciencesfound in many medieval Jewish writers still influential in the early modern period.
"Peering Through the Lattices"
Publication Date: May 2000
"Peering through the Latticesprovides a greater appreciation for these texts and opens up new opportunities for scholarhship in Jewish history and thought.
Response to Modernity
Publication Date: April 1995
Bringing to life the ideas, issues, and personalities that have helped to shape modern Jewry, Response to Modernity offers a comprehensive and balanced history of the Reform Movement, tracing its changing configuration and self-understanding from the beginnings of modernization in late 18th century Jewish thought and practice through Reform's American...
Reflections of a Post-Auschwitz Christian
Publication Date: December 1991
Reflections of a Post-Auschwitz Christian challenges Christians to make the Holocaust a turning point in their thinking and in their relations with Jews.
The Hebrew Goddess
Publication Date: September 1990
Lucidly written and richly illustrated, this third edition contains new chapters of the Shekhina.
The Messiah Texts
Publication Date: December 1988
patai investigates the false messiahs who have appeared throughout Jewish history, the modern Messiah-influenced movements such as reform Judaism and Zionism, and the numerous reasons put forth by the various branches of Judaism as to why the Messiah has not yet appeared.
