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
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...
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...
Rabbinic Perspectives on Loopholes and Legal Integrity
Elana Stein Hain
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512824407
Pub Date: January 2024
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
Circumventing the Law probes the rabbinic logic behind the use of loopholes, the legal phenomenon of finding and using gaps within law to achieve otherwise illegal outcomes. The logic of ha’aramah,...
Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism reveals how political and literary dialogues and conflicts between the Hebrew literature of the Hasidism, the Jewish Enlightenment, and Zionism interacted with each other...
The Hebrew word zimzum originally means “contraction,” “withdrawal,” “retreat,” “limitation,” and “concentration.” In Kabbalah, zimzum is a term for God’s self-limitation, done...
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...
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 Bible shaped nearly every aspect of Jewish life in the ancient world, from activities as obvious as attending synagogue to those which have lost their scriptural resonance in modernity, such as...
If politics is about the state, can a stateless people be political? Until recently, scholars were fiercely divided regarding whether Jews engaged in politics, displayed political wisdom, or penned...
Jewish Life in Medieval Spain is a detailed exploration of the Jewish experience in medieval Spain from the dawn of Sephardic society in the ninth century to the expulsion of 1492. An important contribution...
