Edited by Lila Corwin Berman, Deborah Dash Moore and Beth Wenger
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512828245
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
Leading scholars of American Jewish experience offer bold historical interpretations that reimagine American Jewish studiesThe Future of American Jewish Pasts boldly imagines the next chapters in the...
The first comprehensive investigation of premodern Jewish travel writing about the Islamic worldReorienting the East explores the Islamic world as it was encountered, envisioned, and elaborated by Jewish...
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
The writings of three early modern Jewish historians highlight the divided allegiances of a Jewish diaspora living in and between the Spanish and Ottoman empiresIn 1492, the year that marked the start...
The foundations of modern political thought, presumed secular, were laid in conversation with theologically motivated politics and in negotiation with Jewish ideasMid-seventeenth-century England was...
This volume explores the history of Jewish life and experience in the modern Islamic worldLonging and Belonging investigates the lives of Jews among Muslims in the modern age, both inside and outside...
An investigation of the connections between the parallel rise of modern Hebrew and modern mediaAfter lying dormant for two millennia as a mainly written language, Hebrew awoke from its literary slumber...
Ofer Ashkenazi, Sarah Wobick-Segev, Rebekka Grossmann and Shira Miron
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 9781512826357
Pub Date: January 2025
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
How German Jews used photographs to document their experiences in the face of National SocialismStill Lives is a systematic study of the ways Jews used photographs to document their experiences in the...
The Kibbutz in Israel from Avant-Garde to Fetish, 1948-1955
Lior Libman
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512826661
Pub Date: November 2024
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
Argues that the foundation of Israel was a trauma that destabilized the kibbutz’s conceptual groundingState of Shock decodes one of the most iconic images of Zionism and Israel: the kibbutz. Lior...
A critique of the discourse of language revival in modern Hebrew literatureOn Revival is a critique of one of the most important tenets of Zionist thinking: “Hebrew revival,” or the idea that Hebrew—a...
How Yiddish changed to express and memorialize the trauma of the HolocaustThe Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing...
