Author Q&A: Martin Jacobs, Reorienting the East
09/16/2014
Next in our series of Fall 2014 Author Q&As is Martin Jacobs, whose book, Reorienting the East: Jewish Travelers to the Medieval Muslim World, explores the Islamic world as it… READ MORE
Category: Jewish Studies
Hot Off Penn Press: May’s New Books
05/30/2014
April showers bring new May books! These are the titles that have appeared in our warehouse this month. Many are quite interdisciplinary and span multiple categories, so have a look… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: The Making and Unmaking of a Saint, Sex Work Politics, and Becoming the People of the Talmud
01/03/2014
This list of new Penn Press warehouse arrivals presents some interesting juxtapositions. Purchase these titles now at www.pennpress.org or look for them at your favorite bookseller. The Making and Unmaking… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire, Parrots and Nightingales, and Nonstate Actors in Intrastate Conflicts
10/25/2013
Here are the latest arrivals in the Penn Press warehouse. These books are available for purchase now at www.pennpress.org. Look for them at your favorite bookseller. Jews, Christians, and the… READ MORE
Mirjam Zadoff’s Next Year in Marienbad Wins Salo Baron Prize
10/08/2013
Congratulations to Mirjam Zadoff. Her book, Next Year in Marienbad: The Lost Worlds of Jewish Spa Culture won this year’s Salo Baron Prize the best first book in Jewish studies…. READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: The Medieval Culture of Disputation and The Iranian Talmud
10/04/2013
Here are the latest arrivals in the Penn Press warehouse. These books are available for purchase now at www.pennpress.org. Look for them at your favorite bookseller. The Medieval Culture of… READ MORE
This Week’s New Books–Slandering the Jew, Top Down, and two paperback releases
07/12/2013
Slandering the Jew: Sexuality and Difference in Early Christian Texts Susanna Drake 192 pages | 6 x 9 | 4 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4520-2 | $55.00 | £36.00… READ MORE
This Week’s New Book: Security and Suspicion: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel
06/21/2013
Now in Paperback Security and Suspicion: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel Juliana Ochs 216 pages | 6 x 9 | 13 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4291-1 |… READ MORE
Paul’s Pick: How the Golem Came to Prague, a Free Article from Jewish Quarterly Review
05/15/2013
Paul's pick for May is "How the Golem Came to Prague" by Edan Dekel and David Gantt Gurley. The article appears in Spring 2013 issue of Jewish Quarterly Review. This… READ MORE
Daniel Boyarin Mellon Lectures on the Babylonian Talmud
02/14/2013
Next week, Daniel Boyarin, professor at the University of California, Berkeley and author of Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity, will give a series of Mellon Lectures on the Babylonian… READ MORE
