Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City
Frances Tanzer
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 9781512831368
Pub Date: May 2027
Format: Paperback
264 Pages
Vanishing Vienna reveals the foundational role philosemitism played in the effort to reimagine urban cultures after the Holocaust. Frances Tanzer uncovers a seldom discussed aspect of the postwar era—a society that continues to consume, redefine, and bestow symbolic meaning on the victims in their relative absence.
Edited by Leora Auslander, Federica Francesconi and Joshua Teplitsky
Price: $84.95
ISBN: 9781512830750
Pub Date: April 2027
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
Domestic Diaspora tells the story of how Jews, across centuries and continents, have built homes that were both deeply rooted and constantly at risk. The volume offers fresh insight into Jewish life by focusing not on politics or elites, but on the intimate, everyday spaces where identity and community were forged.
Photography, Mobility, and Jewish Nation-Building in Mandate Palestine
Rebekka Grossmann
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512830071
Pub Date: January 2027
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
Unsettled Cameras explores how photography shaped Jewish debates about nationalism and the Jewish presence in Mandate Palestine. It reveals photography’s role in political communication, visual diplomacy, and identity formation and offers a visual history of Zionism, empire, and media in a contested colonial landscape.
Historian Yoram Meital interprets Cairo’s synagogues as exquisite storytellers. Meital contends that studying the congregations and the social services provided in synagogues sheds new light on the transformation Egyptian society and its Jewish community underwent from 1875 to the present.
Naftali S. Cohn argues that the earliest rabbinic text, the Mishnah, manifests an implicit theory of what doing rituals accomplishes. Correctly performed rituals, according to the Mishnah, orchestrate bodily interaction with the environment, activate cultural values, and instill feelings, thereby shaping individual and collective Jewish bodies.
Rabbinic Perspectives on Loopholes and Legal Integrity
Elana Stein Hain
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512829648
Pub Date: January 2026
Format: Paperback
240 Pages
This book traces rabbinic thought on the phenomenon of legal circumventions—finding licit ways to achieve otherwise illegal outcomes. Elana Stein Hain shows how rabbinic literature does not fully reject or accept loopholes, but instead determines their acceptability based on whether their outcomes and processes maintain the integrity of the law.
Edited by Lila Corwin Berman, Deborah Dash Moore and Beth S. Wenger
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512828245
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
What happens when scholars from diverse disciplines connect to explore the American Jewish experience? The Future of American Jewish Pasts shines a penetrating light on some of the most provocative questions of historical interpretation. These essays reconceive traditional approaches to American Jewish life to reimagine American Jewish studies.
Early Modern Jewish Historians on the Spanish and Ottoman Expansion
Martin Jacobs
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512827699
Pub Date: July 2025
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
Martin Jacobs considers unexplored perspectives on the Spanish and Ottoman empires by reading three early modern Jewish historians who wrote about great power rivalries while they simultaneously grappled with their own self-conceptions, highlighting the divided allegiances of a Jewish diaspora living in and between competing empires.
Longing and Belonging investigates the histories of Jews living among Muslims from 1900 until 1950. The volume depicts modern Jewish protagonists as active participants in an expansive Islamic civilization, reflecting a mutuality and cross-fertilization in the region that raises new lines of inquiry and which offers enduring lessons for the world today.
Ofer Ashkenazi, Sarah Wobick-Segev, Rebekka Grossmann and Shira Miron
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 9781512826357
Pub Date: January 2025
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
Still Lives reveals how Jews used photographs to document their experiences in the face of National Socialism. Based on analysis of more than fifteen thousand images, it explores the efforts of Jews to make sense of the changing landscapes of Germany, justify their decisions under Nazism, and communicate their hopes, anxieties, and self-perceptions.
