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The Story's Not Over
Publication Date: May 2025
The diverse forms and structures of graphic narratives discussed in this volume by a range of international scholars demonstrate the ways in which Jewish women's graphic narratives reach into the past by way of stories and histories, both individual and collective, that provide a touchstone for the shape of identity.
East End Jews
Publication Date: April 2025
Detailed historical context, biographies of each writer, and evocative illustrations support this meaningful collection of urban sketches and enrich our understanding of the Jewish East End.
Broads, Sisters, Exes
Publication Date: March 2025
Through elegant prose deeply rooted in an intersectional feminist perspective, Stephens expands the aesthetic and narrative grammars of contemporary television.
Mixed Realities
Publication Date: February 2025
Atkinson and Callahan emphasize the necessity of including underrepresented voices, stories, models, and futures, and they underscore the importance of recognizing and valuing a spectrum of perspectives in both emergent media and established media contexts.
The Lives of Jewish Things
Publication Date: December 2024
Tracing the paths of Jewish things across time, place, and culture, this collection reveals complex stories of individual and collective struggles to survive.
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.
Isabelle Huppert, Modernist Performance
Publication Date: October 2024
Thus, Isabelle Huppert, Modernist Performance demonstrates its premise through close readings considering how performance must be read in tandem with the whole.
Bound Up
Publication Date: September 2024
Both timely and timeless, this work is an address to history and the contemporary moment, relevant to Jews, diasporic scholars, and all exploring ethical relationships with history and with other humans.
Kin
Publication Date: August 2024
Kin is a tribute to forebearers, a beacon to those calling homes into being, and a strata of stories for children not yet born.
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.
On Rhetoric and Black Music
Publication Date: June 2024
Examining the resounding artistry of iconic musicians such as Scott Joplin, Mary Lou Williams, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, and Mahalia Jackson, this work offers an alternative register in which these musicians and composers are heard as public intellectuals, consciously invested in crafting rhetorical projects they knew would influence the public...
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.
Rum Running and the Roaring Twenties
Publication Date: May 2024
Michigan was the first state to ratify the amendment on April 10, 1933, and soon the Detroit River was returned to pleasure boats and fishing and commercial vessels whose holds no longer carried illegal liquor.
Matrilineal Dissent
Publication Date: May 2024
Collectively, contributors reframe Jewish American literary history through feminist approaches that have revolutionized the field, from intersectionality and the #MeToo movement to queer theory and disability studies. Examining both canonical and lesser-known texts, this collection asks: what happens to conventional understandings of Jewish American literature when we center women's writing...
Ma Lineal
Publication Date: April 2024
This powerful and structurally innovative work lends new categories of meaning to those who would strive to find their place, hope, and sense of belonging in efforts to fight against systemic racism and lead lives characterized by openness and love.
Michigan's Venice
Publication Date: April 2024
Viewed over time, the region forms a microcosm of the interplay of environment, culture, and technology that characterized the gradual shift from nature to an industrial society and a built environment optimized for global waterborne transport.
When Detroit Played the Numbers
Publication Date: March 2024
In succinct and engrossing chapters, George explores issues of community, race, politics, and the scandals that sprang up along the way, discovering how "playing the numbersgrew from a state-proclaimed crime to an encouraged legal activity.
Queer Jews, Queer Muslims
Publication Date: March 2024
In conversation with Islamic studies, Jewish studies, and queer theory, this collection explores the interrelated experiences and representations of Jewish and Muslim minorities in Europe while triangulating the Jewish-Muslim dyad with a third variable: queerness.
The Rescue Turn and the Politics of Holocaust Memory
Publication Date: March 2024
While many of the essays focus on recent developments, they shed light on the evolution of this phenomenon since 1945.
For Times Such as These
Publication Date: March 2024
This work provides a guide for creative action and ritual making throughout the seasons, an exploration of anti-Zionist Judaism, and spiritual-cultural invitation to embody and expand decolonial, anti-racist, queer, and feminist Jewish practice.
Holy Ghost Key
Publication Date: February 2024
Though many of the poems pay tribute to the genius of contemporary musicians who have won popular acclaim, the entire collection reminds of a persistent African ancestral legacy.
Irregular Heartbeats at the Park West
Publication Date: January 2024
Drawing on a depth of emotion, wit, and reverence for nature, this striking new collection captures the beautiful and often poignant complexities of the human experience.
Eating at God's Table
Publication Date: November 2023
This rich exploration of kosher Orthodox foodways and their meanings demonstrates the inadequacy of limited or simple definitions of Orthodox Jewishness and offers insight into the religious diversity in American communities.
The Hebrew Folktale in Premodern Morality Literature
Publication Date: November 2023
This innovative reframing of early modern Musar texts reveals a new history of Jewish folklore and a new way to read those texts.
Yiddishlands
Publication Date: October 2023
Yiddishlands is essential reading for students of the recent Jewish past and the living Yiddish present.
Salvage Poetics
Publication Date: October 2023
This book makes a fresh contribution to the fields of American Jewish cultural and literary studies and art history.
Israeli Salvage Poetics
Publication Date: October 2023
Israeli literary representations of eastern European Jewry strive, sometimes successfully, to recuperate eastern European Jewish pre-Holocaust culture for the edification of an audience that might feel responsible for the silencing and extinction of that culture.
Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals
Publication Date: September 2023
Bringing this entire spectrum into focus, Hecker ultimately considers how Kabbalists use the oral cavity and stomach, and even the emotions associated with festive meals, to produce the soul of the mystical saint.
Hidden Light
Publication Date: September 2023
By virtue of this exploration, Judaic-themed Israeli cinema emerges as a crucial example of how film's particular form of "magicmay be exploited for the purpose of affecting mystical states in the audience.
Enough to Lose
Publication Date: September 2023
Deeren artfully illustrates the brutal realities of working-class rural life that are punctuated by moments of beauty, humor, and resilience.
Dear Department Chair
Publication Date: September 2023
The collective's works, including this volume, serve as tools for faculty interested in administration, current chairs seeking mentorship, and upper-level administrators working to diversify their ranks.
Will & Grace
Publication Date: September 2023
In negotiating protocols of network television and the desires of audiences both gay and straight, this trailblazing series remains simultaneously haunted by and liberated from longstanding queer stereotypes.
Beyond the Land
Publication Date: August 2023
This dynamic understanding of both an Israeli and a Jewish diaspora works to envision a non-hegemonic Jewish nationalism that can negotiate both political imagination and reality.
Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters
Publication Date: August 2023
Beyond the content of these individual stories, Wang ties these narratives together across time using cognitive literary criticism, especially affective narratology, to shed new light on the adaptation of literary and cultural texts and their sociopolitical contexts.
"No Equal Justice"
Publication Date: July 2023
This book introduces him to a new generation of readers, historians, and social justice activists.
Bridging Worlds
Publication Date: June 2023
Fishkin puts forth a valuable and refreshing perspective alongside previously unknown sources to breathe new life into this extremely rich and culturally valuable medieval work.
Memory Spaces
Publication Date: May 2023
Aarons’s insight, close readings, and integration of contemporary scholarship are conveyed clearly and concisely, creating a work that both captivates readers and contributes to scholarly discourse in Jewish studies, women’s literature, memory studies, and identity.
Recollecting Collecting
Publication Date: April 2023
Recollecting Collecting interrogates and illustrates the meaning and practical nature of film and media collections while considering the vast array of personal and professional motivations behind their assemblage.
Mad Men
Publication Date: April 2023
Throughout its seven seasons, the series struck a delicate balance of being both complex and cerebral while entertaining and accessible, a balance that Edgerton skillfully carries over to this book.
Parks and Recreation
Publication Date: March 2023
Throughout its run, Parks and Recreation engaged with political debates simmering in American culture, offering a humorous ripped-from-the-headlines take on issues such as same-sex marriage, distrust of politicians, government shutdowns, and corporate bailouts Through compelling analysis, Holladay untangles representations of women and BIPOC in the series as they engage with...
Queer Imaginings
Publication Date: March 2023
Ultimately, Queer Imaginings is a journey in shared pleasures in which writing for and about cinema makes way for unanticipated cinematic friendships.
The Lyric Essay as Resistance
Publication Date: March 2023
Their work demonstrates the power of the lyric essay to bring about change, both on the page and in our communities.
Funny, You Don't Look Funny
Publication Date: March 2023
Offering ample evidence and examples along the way, Caplan guides readers through a series of phenomenological and ideological changes across generations, concluding with commentary regarding the potential influences on Jewish humor of later Millennials, Gen Z, and beyond.
From Left to Right
Publication Date: February 2023
Based on over forty-five archival collections, From Left to Right chronicles Dawidowicz’s life as a window into the major events and issues of twentieth-century Jewish life.
Jewish Revival Inside Out
Publication Date: December 2022
This volume explores the global transformations of contemporary Jewishness, which give renewed meaning to identity, tradition, and politics in our post secular world.
Fearless Vulgarity
Publication Date: November 2022
Susann's promotional appearances led to another comedy of bad manners, this one populated with critics alternately horrified and delighted by an upstart woman vulgarian barging into the male literary firmament, and which continues to inspire fascination for the author, her novels, and their legendarily bad film adaptations.
Streisand
Publication Date: November 2022
Down through her filmed return to the concert stage, Stewart elicits the sinuous phonetic text of Streisand's on-screen musical delivery in a keenly attentive mode of audition that puts into fresh perspective the indelible aura of her stardom.
Queering Anti-Zionism
Publication Date: November 2022
Blackmer shows how these LGBTQ intellectuals mobilize queer theory and intersectionality to support the BDS movement at the expense of academic freedom and open discourse.
