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The Lives of Jewish Things

Collecting and Curating Material Culture

Edited by Gabrielle Anna Berlinger and Ruth von Bernuth

Price: $36.99

ISBN: 9780814350454

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: December 2024

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

330 Pages

Tracing the paths of Jewish things across time, place, and culture, this collection reveals complex stories of individual and collective struggles to survive.

Race, Religion, and the Pulpit

Rev. Robert L. Bradby and the Making of Urban Detroit

by Julia Marie Robinson Moore

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9780814351437

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2024

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

226 Pages

Bradby's efforts as an activist and "race leaderby examining the role the minister played in high-profile events, such as the organizing of Detroit's NAACP chapter, the Ossian Sweet trial of the mid-1920s, the Scottsboro Boys trials in the 1930s, and the controversial rise of the United Auto Workers in Detroit in the 1940s.

Bound Up

On Kink, Power, and Belonging

by Leora Fridman

Price: $28.99

ISBN: 9780814351598

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: September 2024

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

240 Pages

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.

A Jew in the Street

New Perspectives on European Jewish History

Edited by Nancy Sinkoff, Jonathan Karp, James Loeffler and Howard Lupovitch

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9780814349670

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: June 2024

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

480 Pages

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

Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century

by Miriam Eve Mora

Price: $39.99

ISBN: 9780814349625

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: May 2024

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

404 Pages

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.

Queer Jews, Queer Muslims

Race, Religion, and Representation

Edited by Adi Saleem

Price: $29.99

ISBN: 9780814350874

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: March 2024

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

240 Pages

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.

For Times Such as These

A Radical's Guide to the Jewish Year

by Ariana Katz and Jessica Rosenberg

Price: $29.99

ISBN: 9780814350515

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: March 2024

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

400 Pages

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.

Eating at God's Table

How Foodways Create and Sustain Orthodox Jewish Communities

by Jody Myers

Foreword by Matt Goldish

With Jane Myers

Price: $36.99

ISBN: 9780814349540

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: November 2023

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

386 Pages

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.

Stories of Jewish Life

Casale Monferrato-Rome-Jerusalem, 1876–1985

by Augusto Segre

Edited by Steve Siporin

Foreword by Daniel Segre

Translated by Steve Siporin

Price: $64.99

ISBN: 9780814347652

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2023

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

304 Pages

Students, scholars, and readers of Jewish history, Italian history, and fiction with an autobiographical thread will find themselves captivated by Segre's stories.

Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals

Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah

by Joel Hecker

Price: $29.99

ISBN: 9780814350935

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: September 2023

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

296 Pages

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.

Bridging Worlds

Poetry and Philosophy in the Works of Immanuel of Rome

by Dana W. Fishkin

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9780814350355

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: June 2023

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

288 Pages

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.

Jewish Revival Inside Out

Remaking Jewishness in a Transnational Age

Edited by Daniel Monterescu and Rachel Werczberger

Price: $39.99

ISBN: 9780814349175

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: December 2022

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

256 Pages

This volume explores the global transformations of contemporary Jewishness, which give renewed meaning to identity, tradition, and politics in our post secular world.

Disputed Messiahs

Jewish and Christian Messianism in the Ashkenazic World During the Reformation

by Rebekka Voß

Translated by John R. Crutchfield

Price: $42.99

ISBN: 9780814348611

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: November 2021

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

192 Pages

Scholars and students of history, culture, and religion are the intended audience for this book.

Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present

Edited by Rebecca Lynn Winer and Federica Francesconi

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9780814346310

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: November 2021

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

156 Pages

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 academia to each time and place.

Jewish Magic Before the Rise of Kabbalah

by Yuval Harari

Translated by Batya Stein

Price: $42.99

ISBN: 9780814348819

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2021

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

604 Pages

Scholars interested in early Jewish history and comparative religions will find great value in this text.

Brothers from Afar

Rabbinic Approaches to Apostasy and Reversion in Medieval Europe

by Ephraim Kanarfogel

Price: $36.99

ISBN: 9780814348246

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: December 2020

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

260 Pages

Brothers from Afar belongs in the library of every scholar of Jewish and medieval studies.

Authentically Orthodox

A Tradition-Bound Faith in American Life

by Zev Eleff

Price: $36.99

ISBN: 9780814344811

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: November 2020

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

152 Pages

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.

Communings of the Spirit

Exploring the Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan, 1942-1951

Edited by Mel Scult

Price: $39.99

ISBN: 9780814348253

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2020

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

456 Pages

Scholars of Judaica and rabbinical studies will value this honest look at the preeminent American Jewish thinker and rabbi of our times.

The Legend of Safed

Life and Fantasy in the City of Kabbalah

by Eli Yassif

Translated by Haim Watzman

Price: $32.99

ISBN: 9780814346846

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: May 2019

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

264 Pages

The Legend of Safed is intended for students, scholars, and general readers of medieval and early modern Jewish studies, Hebrew literature, and folklore.

Welcome to Replica Dodge

by Natalie Ruth Joynton

Illustrated by Emily Joynton

Price: $20.99

ISBN: 9780814345573

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: March 2019

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

390 Pages

Anybody who has ever felt like they didn’t belong will take comfort in this enchanting memoir.

John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age

by Brian C. Wilson

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9780814345306

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: August 2018

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

96 Pages

It will be read with interest by those wishing to learn more about this enigmatic Michigan figure, as well as those looking for an engaging introduction into America's rapidly shifting spiritual landscape.

Seasons of Grace

A History of the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit

by Leslie Woodcock Tentler

Foreword by Edmund Cardinal Szoka

Price: $27.99

ISBN: 9780814344002

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: February 2018

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

616 Pages

Tentler discusses the issue of Catholics in state and local politics and Catholic practice with regard to abortion, contraception, and intermarriage.

Prayer & Community

The Havurah in American Judaism

by Riv-Ellen Prell

Price: $21.99

ISBN: 9780814344460

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: February 2018

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

336 Pages

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.

The Israeli-American Connection

Its Roots in the Yishuv, 1914-1945

by Michael Brown

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9780814344590

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: February 2018

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

400 Pages

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

The Religious Parties of Israel

by Gary S. Schiff

Price: $22.99

ISBN: 9780814343890

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: February 2018

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

272 Pages

He concludes with an analysis of the special significance of the religious parties in the Israeli political system.

Rabbinic Judaism in the Making

The Halakhah from Ezra to Judah I

by Alexander Guttmann

Price: $22.99

ISBN: 9780814344026

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: February 2018

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

344 Pages

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

by Raphael Patai

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9780814344217

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: February 2018

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

512 Pages

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 remarkable parallels between the rituals connected with enthroning a new king as described in the Bible and as practiced among certain African tribes.

The Troubled Origins of the Italian Catholic Labor Movement, 1878–1914

by Sándor Agócs

Price: $22.99

ISBN: 9780814343302

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: December 2017

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

256 Pages

Sándor Agócs reveals precisely in what way Catholic social thought was inadequate to deal with the realities of unionization and why Catholics were unable to present a reasonable alternative.

Yudisher Theriak

An Early Modern Yiddish Defense of Judaism

Edited by Morris M. Faierstein

Translated by Morris M. Faierstein

Price: $51.99

ISBN: 9780814342480

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: November 2016

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

200 Pages

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

Women and Judaism in Antebellum America

by Dianne Ashton

Price: $27.99

ISBN: 9780814341001

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: December 2015

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

340 Pages

Rebecca Gratz is the first book to examine Gratz's life, her legend, and our memory.

Beyond Sectarianism

The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism

by Adam S. Ferziger

Price: $36.99

ISBN: 9780814339534

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: July 2015

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

352 Pages

Jewish studies scholars and readers interested in history, sociology, and religion will appreciate Ferziger's reappraisal of this important group.

A Fire Burns in Kotsk

A Tale of Hasidism in the Kingdom of Poland

by Menashe Unger

Edited by Jonathan Boyarin

Introduction by Glenn Dynner

Translated by Jonathan Boyarin

Price: $31.99

ISBN: 9780814338131

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: February 2015

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

256 Pages

Historians of literature, Polish culture, and Jewish studies will welcome this lively translation.

Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity

Rethinking an Old Opposition, Essays in Honor of David Ellenson

Edited by Michael A. Meyer and David Myers

Introduction by David Myers

Price: $39.99

ISBN: 9780814338599

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2014

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

384 Pages

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

by Yosef Tobi and Tsivia Tobi

Price: $62.99

ISBN: 9780814328712

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2014

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

376 Pages

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

The Jewish "New Muslims" of Meshhed

by Raphael Patai

Price: $29.99

ISBN: 9780814340752

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: May 2014

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

344 Pages

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

Leprosy, Madness, and Disability Among the Jews of Medieval Europe

by Ephraim Shoham-Steiner

Translated by Haim Watzman

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9780814339312

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: January 2014

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

288 Pages

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.

Religious Diversity and Early Modern English Texts

Catholic, Judaic, Feminist, and Secular Dimensions

Edited by Arthur F. Marotti and Chanita Goodblatt

Price: $56.99

ISBN: 9780814339558

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2013

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

376 Pages

Scholars of religious, literary, and cultural history will enjoy this illuminating collection.

Choosing Yiddish

New Frontiers of Language and Culture

Edited by Hannah S. Pressman, Lara Rabinovitch and Shiri Goren

Price: $36.99

ISBN: 9780814334447

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: December 2012

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

360 Pages

Students and teachers of Yiddish studies will enjoy this innovative collection.

Anthonius Margaritha and the Jewish Faith

Jewish Life and Conversion in Sixteenth-Century Germany

by Michael Walton

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9780814338001

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2012

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

264 Pages

Scholars of Jewish and Christian history as well as those interested in German history, Hebrew pedagogy, and religious conversion will appreciate this thorough study.

Max Lilienthal

The Making of the American Rabbinate

by Bruce L. Ruben

Price: $52.99

ISBN: 9780814335161

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: December 2011

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

336 Pages

Students of German Haskalah and historians of American Judaism and the Reform movement will appreciate this biography that fills an important gap in the history of American Jewry.

The En Yaaqov

Jacob Ibn Habib's Search for Faith in the Talmudic Corpus

by Marjorie Lehman

Price: $52.99

ISBN: 9780814334805

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2011

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

336 Pages

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.

Holy Dissent

Jewish and Christian Mystics in Eastern Europe

Edited by Glenn Dynner

Foreword by Moshe Rosman

Price: $46.99

ISBN: 9780814335178

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2011

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

416 Pages

Jewish and Christian studies scholars as well as historians of Eastern Europe will benefit from the analysis of Holy Dissent.

Bay View

An American Idea

by Mary Jane Doerr

Photographs by Robert Cleveland

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9781886167315

Publisher: Mary Jane Doerr

Publication Date: March 2011

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Mary Jane Doerr

208 Pages

This long overdue book uses local newspapers, primary documents, and interviews to provide substantial background about the community and its deep roots in many aspects of our national culture.

Jonestown

A Vexation

by Carmen Gillespie

Price: $18.00

ISBN: 9780979750939

Publisher: Lotus Press

Publication Date: January 2011

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Lotus Press

96 Pages

Readers of poetry will appreciate the questions of religion, race, nationality, power, civil rights, sexuality, and identity that Gillespie engages through the enigma of Jonestown.

Comparative Perspectives on Judaisms and Jewish Identities

by Stephen Sharot

Price: $38.99

ISBN: 9780814334010

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: December 2010

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

336 Pages

Scholars of religion and sociology will appreciate this informative and fascinating volume.

Eden Springs

by Laura Kasischke

Price: $19.99

ISBN: 9780814334645

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: March 2010

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

160 Pages

This novella will appeal to all readers of fiction, as well as those with an interest in Michigan history.

Stories of Joseph

Narrative Migrations Between Judaism and Islam

by Marc S. Bernstein

Price: $26.99

ISBN: 9780814325667

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: February 2009

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

336 Pages

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, sexual mores, and the struggles for a continued communal existence outside the homeland.

Maqam and Liturgy

Ritual, Music, and Aesthetics of Syrian Jews in Brooklyn

by Mark L. Kligman

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9780814332160

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: January 2009

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

288 Pages

Maqam and Liturgy brings the fascinating culture fusion of the Syrian Jews to the attention of a wider audience, including scholars and teachers of Jewish studies, Middle Eastern studies, anthropology, and ethnomusicology.

Rabbinic Culture and Its Critics

Jewish Authority, Dissent, and Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Times

Edited by Daniel Frank and Matt Goldish

Price: $52.99

ISBN: 9780814332375

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: May 2008

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

496 Pages

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

The Memoirs of Yekhezkel Kotik

by Yekhezkel Kotik

Edited by David Assaf

Price: $32.99

ISBN: 9780814334218

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: April 2008

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

544 Pages

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.

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