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Jewish Culture and Contexts
A broadly interdisciplinary series published in association with the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies of the University of Pennsylvania.
Series Editors:
Francesca Trivellato
Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study
Shaul Magid
Distinguished Fellow in Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College
Steven Weitzman
Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures
Ella Darivoff Director of the Katz Center of Advanced Judaic Studies
Beth Berkowitz
Professor, Ingeborg Rennert Chair of Jewish Studies
Barnard College
Staff Editorial Contact:
Elisabeth Maselli, Senior Editor emaselli@upenn.edu
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...
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...
In Christian Images and Their Jewish Desecrators, historian Katherine Aron-Beller analyzes the common Christian charge that Jews habitually and compulsively violated Christian images, identifying this...
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...
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....
Cairo’s synagogues shed new light on the transformation Egyptian society and its Jewish community underwent from 1875 to the presentSacred Places Tell Tales is the previously untold history of Egyptian...
Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City
Frances Tanzer
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...
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...
One of the most persistent, powerful, and dangerous notions in the history of the Jews in the diaspora is the prodigious talent attributed to them in all things economic. From the medieval Jewish usurer...
Edited by Anne C. Dailey, Martin Kavka and Lital Levy
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...
