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.
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.
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.
Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History
Edited by Annie Atura Bushnell, Lori Harrison-Kahan and Ashley Walters
Price: $39.99
ISBN: 9780814349854
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: May 2024
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
404 Pages
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 and acknowledge women as dominant players in Jewish cultural production?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials
by Jennifer Caplan
Price: $36.99
ISBN: 9780814347317
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: March 2023
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
296 Pages
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.
Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History
by Nancy Sinkoff
Price: $29.99
ISBN: 9780814350317
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: February 2023
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
538 Pages
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.
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.
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.
Academic Freedom, LGBTQ Intellectuals, and Israel/Palestine Campus Activism
by Corinne E. Blackmer
Price: $36.99
ISBN: 9780814349984
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: November 2022
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
222 Pages
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.
Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Archives
by Idit Pintel-Ginsberg
Translated by Idit Pintel-Ginsberg
Price: $36.99
ISBN: 9780814348840
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: October 2021
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
80 Pages
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.
Readers interested in Yiddish studies, Holocaust studies, and modern Jewish studies will find Survivors and Exiles a compelling contribution to these fields.
Students and scholars in Jewish studies, cultural studies, ethnic-religious studies, folklore, sociology, psychology, and ethnology are the intended audience for this book.
Edited by Haya Bar-Itzhak and Idit Pintel-Ginsberg
Price: $64.99
ISBN: 9780814342084
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: November 2019
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
464 Pages
Scholars and students interested in Jewish folklore and literature will appreciate this diverse collection as well as readers interested in Jewish and Israeli culture.
Edited by Linda G. Levi, Maud S. Mandel, Avinoam Patt and Atina Grossmann
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9780814342343
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: May 2019
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
200 Pages
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jewish College Fraternities in the United States, 1895-1945
by Marianne R. Sanua
Price: $22.99
ISBN: 9780814344194
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: February 2018
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
488 Pages
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.
American Jewish Immigration and Settlement in Palestine, 1917-1939
by Joseph B. Glass
Price: $21.99
ISBN: 9780814344231
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: February 2018
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
432 Pages
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.
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.
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.
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.
United States Policy Toward Jewish Refugees, 1938-1945
by Saul S. Friedman
Price: $22.99
ISBN: 9780814343739
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: December 2017
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
320 Pages
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.
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.
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1939-1945
by Yehuda Bauer
Price: $35.99
ISBN: 9780814343487
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: December 2017
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
523 Pages
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 Jews have done more if they had grasped the reality of the Holocaust?
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
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.
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