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
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
