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.
Mindful Nationalism and Value Conflict Among Religious Israelis
Ori Mautner
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512830651
Pub Date: February 2027
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
Based on extensive fieldwork, this intimate ethnography explores how orthodox Jewish Israelis devoted to settling the occupied West Bank adopt Buddhist-derived meditation to encounter God within and promote redemption. Settling the Mind, Settling the Land reveals how self-reflection can reinforce rather than challenge nationalist commitments.
Proclaim Liberty chronicles the Jubilee’s interpretation in the ancient texts of early Judaism and Christianity. By analyzing the practice and the idea in conversation with Utopian Studies, Jonathan Kaplan demonstrates how the Jubilee was employed to shape visions for renewing Jewish economic practices and to frame new ways of thinking about time.
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.
The first comprehensive investigation of premodern Jewish travel writing about the Islamic world, Reorienting the East examines Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic travel accounts from the mid-twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries that subvert, or reorient a decidedly Christian vision of the region and reflect changing Jewish self-perceptions.
