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Longing and Belonging
Jews in the Modern Islamic World
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512827118
Pub Date: February 2025
Format: Hardcover
304 Pages
Still Lives
Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 9781512826357
Pub Date: January 2025
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
State of Shock
The Kibbutz in Israel from Avant-Garde to Fetish, 1948-1955
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512826661
Pub Date: December 2024
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
State of Shock decodes one of the most iconic images of Zionism and Israel: the kibbutz. Lior Libman offers original theoretical and historiographical insights into the imagery and the history of the...
Occupied Words
What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9781512825909
Pub Date: September 2024
Format: Hardcover
312 Pages
The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death, and dehumanization of the Shoah, prisoners added...
Sacred Places Tell Tales
Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512825886
Pub Date: July 2024
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
Sacred Places Tell Tales is the previously untold history of Egyptian Jewry and the ways in which Cairo’s synagogues historically functioned as active institutions in the social lives of these Jews....
Vanishing Vienna
Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512825343
Pub Date: May 2024
Format: Hardcover
264 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...
Longing and Belonging
Jews in the Modern Islamic World
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512827118
Pub Date: February 2025
Format: Hardcover
304 Pages
Still Lives
Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 9781512826357
Pub Date: January 2025
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
State of Shock
The Kibbutz in Israel from Avant-Garde to Fetish, 1948-1955
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512826661
Pub Date: December 2024
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
Occupied Words
What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9781512825909
Pub Date: September 2024
Format: Hardcover
312 Pages
Sacred Places Tell Tales
Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512825886
Pub Date: July 2024
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
Vanishing Vienna
Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512825343
Pub Date: May 2024
Format: Hardcover
264 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