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A Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era
The Book of the Covenant of Pinhas Hurwitz and Its Remarkable Legacy
In 1797, in what is now the Czech Republic, Pinḥas Hurwitz published Book of the Covenant. Nominally an extended commentary on a sixteenth-century kabbalist text, Pinḥas’s publication was in fact a compendium of scientific knowledge...
ISBN: 9780295748061
more detailsSchool Photos in Liquid Time
Reframing Difference
From clandestine images of Jewish children isolated in Nazi ghettos and Japanese American children incarcerated in camps to images of Native children removed to North American boarding schools, classroom photographs of schoolchildren are pervasive even...
ISBN: 9780295746548
more detailsThe Jewish Bible
A Material History
In The Jewish Bible: A Material History, David Stern explores the Jewish Bible as a material object—the Bibles that Jews have actually held in their hands—from its beginnings in the Ancient Near Eastern world through...
ISBN: 9780295746173
more detailsRevolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx
The Fight for a Secular World of Universal and Equal Rights
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries a small but conspicuous fringe of the Jewish population became the world’s most resolute, intellectually driven, and philosophical revolutionaries, among them the pre-Marxist Karl Marx. Yet the roots...
ISBN: 9780295748665
more detailsWhat We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans)
Why Hebrew, here and now? What is its value for contemporary Americans? In What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans) scholars, writers, and translators tackle a series...
ISBN: 9780295743769
more detailsLosing Trust in the World
Holocaust Scholars Confront Torture
In July 1943, the Gestapo arrested an obscure member of the resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Belgium. When his torture-inflicting interrogators determined he was no use to them and that he was a Jew, he was...
ISBN: 9780295998466
more detailsFacing Death
Confronting Mortality in the Holocaust and Ourselves
What do we learn about death from the Holocaust and how does it impact our responses to mortality today?
Facing Death: Confronting Mortality in the Holocaust and Ourselves brings together the work of eleven Holocaust and...
ISBN: 9780295999272
more detailsI. L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture
I. L. Peretz (1852–1915), the father of modern Yiddish literature, was a master storyteller and social critic who advocated a radical shift from religious observance to secular Jewish culture. Wisse explores Peretz’s writings in relation...
ISBN: 9780295994796
more detailsJewish Philanthropy and Enlightenment in Late-Tsarist Russia
The Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia (OPE) was a philanthropic organization, the oldest Jewish organization in Russia. Founded by a few wealthy Jews in St. Petersburg who wanted to...
ISBN: 9780295988986
more detailsI'm No Hero
Journeys of a Holocaust Survivor
Henry Friedman was robbed of his adolescence by the monstrous evil that annihilated millions of European Jews and changed forever the lives of those who survived. When the Nazis overran their home town near the...
ISBN: 9780295981161
more detailsLifesaving Letters
A Child's Flight from the Holocaust
In 1939, in the shadow of Hitler’s occupation of Czechoslovakia, six-year-old Milena Roth was sent away from her home and her loving parents and taken to safety by what came to be know as the...
ISBN: 9780295999043
more detailsThe Jewish Life Cycle
Rites of Passage from Biblical to Modern Times
In this original and sweeping review of Jewish culture and history, Ivan Marcus examines how and why various rites and customs celebrating stages in the life cycle have evolved through the ages and persisted to...
ISBN: 9780295984414
more detailsStudying the Jewish Future
Studying the Jewish Future explores the power of Jewish culture and assesses the perceived threats to the coherence and size of Jewish communities in the United States, Europe, and Israel. In an unconventional and provocative...
ISBN: 9780295983899
more detailsTheater of Acculturation
The Roman Ghetto in the Sixteenth Century
Generations of tourists visiting Rome have ventured into the small section between the Tiber River and the Capitoline Hill whose narrow, dark streets lead to the charming Fountain of the Tortoises, the brooding mass of...
ISBN: 9780295980225
more detailsPopular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America
The Holocaust took place far from the United States and involved few Americans, yet rather than receding, this event has assumed a greater significance in the American consciousness with the passage of time. As a...
ISBN: 9780295981611
more detailsImagining Russian Jewry
Memory, History, Identity
This subtle, unusual book explores the many, often overlapping ways in which the Russian Jewish past has been remembered in history, in literature, and in popular culture. Drawing on a wide range of sources—including novels,...
ISBN: 9780295977904
more detailsJews and Muslims
Images of Sephardi and Eastern Jewries in Modern Times
Following the rise of Islam, many Jewish communities lived in predominantly Muslim lands. Muslim-Jewish co-existence was not seriously challenged until the modern period when European colonialism and the emergence of Zionism and Arab nationalism led...
ISBN: 9780295983141
more detailsMake Yourself a Teacher
Rabbinic Tales of Mentors and Disciples
Make Yourself a Teacher is a teaching book and a book about teaching. It discusses three dramatic, well-known stories about the student and teacher Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus from the Oral Torah. The stories of...
ISBN: 9780295991290
more detailsRewriting Russia
Jacob Gordin's Yiddish Drama
Jacob Gordin was the first major playwright of the "Golden Age" of New York's Yiddish theater, which was not just entertainment but also a public forum, a force for education and acculturation, and a battleground...
ISBN: 9780295991337
more detailsBoundaries of Jewish Identity
The subject of Jewish identity is one of the most vexed and contested issues of modern religious and ethnic group history. This interdisciplinary collection draws on work in law, anthropology, history, sociology, literature, and popular...
ISBN: 9780295990552
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