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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.

Under the Same Sky explores the everyday lives of religious minorities near Turkey’s border with Syria, showing how their shared social spaces sustain and transform religious differences. Seçil Daǧtaș offers a nuanced perspective on secularism, religious plurality, and interfaith relations in the Middle East, moving beyond identity-based politics.

Through the stories of trauma experts, Israel Defense Forces officers, local therapists, and residents, Keren Friedman-Peleg reveals how Israel’s psychological aid system in communities bordering Gaza became a battleground of competing interests and contested ideas about how communities should endure, recover, and rebuild.

As the first edited collection devoted exclusively to examining how Indigenous peoples in North America engage with the book as a material object, Gatherings attests to the importance of Indigenous books as powerful sites of preservation, contestation, and experimentation for Indigenous writers.

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.

How did well-meaning Victorians try to make sense of the teeming diversity of people in London and across the globe? This thorough, clearly written work of cultural history ranges from literature to art to law to statistics, examining the different habits of mind employed in characterizing humanity in the nineteenth century.

Schooling Citizens presents a collection of essays by distinguished historian of education Jonathan Zimmerman. The book argues that education can help save our democracy by embracing and not avoiding the differences in our classrooms, and above all by resisting every effort—by citizens, politicians, or educators—to restrict what we say or think.