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What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9781512825909
Pub Date: September 2024
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
Sacred Places Tell Tales
Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512825886
Pub Date: August 2024
Format: Hardcover
384 Pages
Vanishing Vienna
Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512825343
Pub Date: June 2024
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
In Vanishing Vienna historian Frances Tanzer traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German annexation through the early 1960s. The book reveals continuity in Vienna’s cultural...
Between the Bridge and the Barricade
Jewish Translation in Early Modern Europe
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512824940
Pub Date: March 2024
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
Between the Bridge and the Barricade explores how translations of non-Jewish texts into Jewish languages impacted Jewish culture, literature, and history from the sixteenth century into modern times....
Circumventing the Law
Rabbinic Perspectives on Loopholes and Legal Integrity
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512824407
Pub Date: January 2024
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
Circumventing the Law probes the rabbinic logic behind the use of loopholes, the legal phenomenon of finding and using gaps within law to achieve otherwise illegal outcomes. The logic of ha’aramah,...
Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism
Chapters in Literary Politics
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512825077
Pub Date: October 2023
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism reveals how political and literary dialogues and conflicts between the Hebrew literature of the Hasidism, the Jewish Enlightenment, and Zionism interacted with each other...
Zimzum
God and the Origin of the World
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512824353
Pub Date: September 2023
Format: Hardcover
424 Pages
The Hebrew word zimzum originally means “contraction,” “withdrawal,” “retreat,” “limitation,” and “concentration.” In Kabbalah, zimzum is a term for God’s self-limitation, done...
Unsettling Jewish Knowledge
Text, Contingency, Desire
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512824308
Pub Date: September 2023
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
Spanning the fields of literature, history, philosophy, and theology, Unsettling Jewish Knowledge adopts a fresh approach to the study of Jewish thought and culture. By creatively foregrounding the...
Sons of Saviors
The Red Jews in Yiddish Culture
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512824322
Pub Date: July 2023
Format: Hardcover
326 Pages
Envisioned as a tribe of ruddy-faced, redheaded, red-bearded Jewish warriors, bedecked in red attire who purportedly resided in isolation at the fringes of the known world, the Red Jews are a legendary...
A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512824186
Pub Date: June 2023
Format: Hardcover
274 Pages
The Bible shaped nearly every aspect of Jewish life in the ancient world, from activities as obvious as attending synagogue to those which have lost their scriptural resonance in modernity, such as...

Occupied Words
What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9781512825909
Pub Date: September 2024
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
Sacred Places Tell Tales
Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512825886
Pub Date: August 2024
Format: Hardcover
384 Pages
Vanishing Vienna
Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512825343
Pub Date: June 2024
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
Between the Bridge and the Barricade
Jewish Translation in Early Modern Europe
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512824940
Pub Date: March 2024
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
Circumventing the Law
Rabbinic Perspectives on Loopholes and Legal Integrity
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512824407
Pub Date: January 2024
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism
Chapters in Literary Politics
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512825077
Pub Date: October 2023
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
Zimzum
God and the Origin of the World
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512824353
Pub Date: September 2023
Format: Hardcover
424 Pages
Unsettling Jewish Knowledge
Text, Contingency, Desire
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512824308
Pub Date: September 2023
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
Sons of Saviors
The Red Jews in Yiddish Culture
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512824322
Pub Date: July 2023
Format: Hardcover
326 Pages
A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512824186
Pub Date: June 2023
Format: Hardcover
274 Pages