Category: Jewish Studies

No Place of Rest–Now Available

No Place of Rest: Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France Susan L. Einbinder 256 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4115-0… READ MORE

Israel Independence Day Reading

Yigal Allon, Native Son: A Biography Anita ShapiraTranslated by Evelyn Abel 392 pages | 6 x 9 | 29 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4028-3 | $49.95 | £32.50 A… READ MORE

Culture Front–Now Available

Culture Front: Representing Jews in Eastern Europe Edited by Benjamin Nathans and Gabriella Safran 344 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4055-9 | $65.00 | £42.50 A… READ MORE

Shapira’s Allon Biography Raises Questions

In a Daily Jewish Forward review of Yigal Allon, Native Son: A Biography, Miriam Shaviv asks why the former "golden boy" of Israel has faded into relative obscurity.