Hot Off Penn Press: July’s New Books
08/05/2015
Don't look now, but fall is just a few short weeks away. Distract yourself with the latest books from Penn Press. To receive subject-specific email announcements about new books, sign… READ MORE
Category: Jewish Studies
Announcing our Fall 2015 catalog
07/24/2015
Penn Press is pleased to announce the release of our Fall 2015 catalog. This season's offerings include Margaret O'Mara's Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century; the fourth… READ MORE
Memoir of a Stateless Person: Helmut Hassmann
07/09/2015
The following is a repost of a blog post by Rhoda Howard-Hassmann, coeditor with Margaret Walton-Roberts of The Human Right to Citizenship: A Slippery Concept. The post first appeared on… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: June’s New Books
07/08/2015
It may not be harvest time yet, but June yielded a bumper crop of new books. Check them out below, and to receive subject-specific email announcements about new books, sign… READ MORE
Viejo, puto y judío: Gender and conversion in late-medieval Castile
05/19/2015
Today we have a guest post from Thomas Devaney, author of Enemies in the Plaza: Urban Spectacle and the End of Spanish Frontier Culture, 1460–1492. Toward the end of the… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: February’s New Books
03/04/2015
While hibernating animals sleep snug in their burrows, the rest of us wait with bated breath for winter to end. We here at Penn Press occupy our minds by publishing… READ MORE
Download the Spring 2015 catalog now
01/09/2015
Penn Press is pleased to announce the release of our Spring 2015 catalog. This season, read about the rise and fall of the American department store in Vicki Howard's From… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: December’s New Books
01/07/2015
We here at Penn Press hope the festive period was both joyful and restful for all of you. Ours certainly was. With the hectic nature of the holidays, though, we… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: October’s New Books
11/04/2014
Yes, it's technically November, but that's just because there were so many new releases last month we couldn't fit in time to post about it! If you'd like to receive… READ MORE
Author Q&A: Elisheva Baumgarten, Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz
10/23/2014
Elisheva Baumgarten is the author of Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance, which provides a social history of religious practice in context, particularly with regard… READ MORE
