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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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Angel and the Cholent
Publication Date: October 2021
Readers, scholars, and students interested in folkloristic and anthropological foodway studies or Jewish cultural studies will delight in these tales and find the editorial commentary illuminating.
Survivors and Exiles
Publication Date: September 2021
Readers interested in Yiddish studies, Holocaust studies, and modern Jewish studies will find Survivors and Exiles a compelling contribution to these fields.
Jewish Cultural Studies
Publication Date: May 2021
Students and scholars in Jewish studies, cultural studies, ethnic-religious studies, folklore, sociology, psychology, and ethnology are the intended audience for this book.
Rescue, Relief, and Resistance
Publication Date: April 2021
Students and scholars of Holocaust and American studies will find this text vital to their continued 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.
The Power of a Tale
Publication Date: November 2019
Scholars and students interested in Jewish folklore and literature will appreciate this diverse collection as well as readers interested in Jewish and Israeli culture.
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.
Overlooking the Border
Publication Date: October 2018
It is certain to be of value to scholars and advanced undergraduate and graduate students of Middle Eastern studies, history, urban ethnography, and Israeli and Jewish studies.
Concrete Boxes
Publication Date: August 2018
Concrete Boxes offers sustained reflection about Israeli reality rarely documented in scholarly work and a thought-provoking theoretical exploration of the ways in which individual agency encounters social restrictions and how social marginality is reproduced and challenged at the same time.
United States Jewry, 1776-1985
Publication Date: February 2018
The third volume covers the period from 1860 to 1920, beginning with the Jews, slavery, and the Civil War, and concluding with the rise of Reform Judaism as well as the increasing spirit of secularization that characterized emancipated, prosperous, liberal Jewry before it was confronted by a rising tide of...
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 Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939
Publication Date: February 2018
Soyer explores this process of construction by raising more specific questions about what immigrants themselves have meant by Americanization and how their hometown associations played an important part in the process.
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.
Jewish Buenos Aires, 1890-1939
Publication Date: February 2018
to education; and to social action Issues that created conflict and friction are analyzed in detail.
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.
The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer
Publication Date: February 2018
Their romances, some of which sold as well as novels by Dickens, argued for Jew's emancipation in the Victorian world and women's emancipation in the Jewish world.
Jewish Moroccan Folk Narratives from Israel
Publication Date: February 2018
In contrast to most anthologies of Jewish folktales, the texts in this book were recorded in the natural context of narration and in the language of origin (Judaeo-Arabic), meeting the most vigorous standards of current folklore scholarship.
Nazism, the Jews and American Zionism, 1933-1948
Publication Date: February 2018
In surveying the latest scholarship and responding o charges against American Jewry, Berman’s arguments are reasoned and reasonable.
The Shaping of Jewish Identity in Nineteenth–Century France
Publication Date: February 2018
All in all, his emphasis on the intellectual history of French Jewry provides a new perspective on a significant chapter of Jewish history.
For Our Soul
Publication Date: February 2018
Based on fieldwork conducted over several years, For Our Soul describes the ongoing process of adjustment and absorption that the Ethiopian Jewish immigrants, known as Falasha or Beta Israel, experienced in Israel.
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.
Twenty Israeli Composers
Publication Date: February 2018
The book includes a bibliography, discography, and information for further study.
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.
Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn
Publication Date: February 2018
Lewisohn's efforts would later bear fruit in the Jewish renewal movement of the next generation.
Ambiguous Relations
Publication Date: February 2018
It is a comprehensive account of recent history that comes to groups with emotional and political reality.
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.
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.
American Aliya
Publication Date: December 2017
Working within the context of the sociology of migration, Waxman provides primary research into a variety of dimensions of this movement and demonstrates the inadequacy of current migration theories to characterize aliya.
American Jewry and the Holocaust
Publication Date: December 2017
Bauer confronts the tremendous moral and historical questions arising from JDC's activities. How great was the danger? Who should be saved first? Was it justified to use illegal or extralegal means? What country would accept Jewish refugees? His analysis raises an issue which perhaps can never be answered: could American...
A Bibliography of Jewish Education in the United States
Publication Date: December 2017
This book contains entries from thousands of publications whether in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and German—books, research reports, educational and general periodicals, synagogue histories, conference proceedings, bibliographies, and encyclopedias—on all aspects of Jewish education from pre-school through secondary education
Constructing Modern Identities
Publication Date: December 2017
By illuminating how identities fluctuated throughout life, he demonstrates that adjusting one's social relationships to accommodate the Gentile and Jewish worlds became the norm rather than the exception for 19th-century German Jews.
