New Jewish Books
The Holocaust is the gravest crime in recorded history. In order to try and better understand the true significance of the Holocaust, as well as its scale and magnitude, millions of people each year...
Critical Theory and the Critique of Society This volume provides a systematic re-examination of the Frankfurt School’s theory of antisemitism and, employing this critical theory, investigates the presence of antisemitism in 20th- and 21st-century...
Series Editors: Esther Rashkin, Mari Ruti, Peter L. Rudnytsky Psychoanalytic Horizons Psychoanalysis has not had a comfortable history in relation to “race” and racism, despite its origins in the Jewish lives of Freud and...
Building a Soviet Jewish Homeland in Siberia Russian Shorts Gennady Estraikh’s book explores the birth, growth, demise and afterlife of the Birobidzhan Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR). The History of Birobidzhan looks at how the...
Holocaust Rescue and Resistance As we approach the end of the ‘era of the witness’, given the passing on of the generation of Holocaust survivors, Claude Lanzmann’s archive of 220 hours of footage excluded...
Editors: Phyllis Lassner, Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz Series Editor: Kitty Millet Each scholar working in the field of Holocaust literature and representation has a story to tell. Not only the scholarly story of the work...
Studies in Exercise and Exemplarity Series Editors: Catherine Hezser,Sean A. Adams Moving away from focusing on wisdom as a literary genre, this book delves into the lived, embodied and formative dimensions of wisdom as...
The Reich’s Retailer From the emergence of department stores in the late 19th century to the financial disasters of the years following the end of World War I, the history of large-scale retailing in...
Perspectives on Shame and on the Holocaust from Stutthof Within the vast network of Nazi camps, Stutthof may be the least known beyond Poland. This book is the first scholarly publication in English to...
Writing and Rewriting the Past after 1989 In the early years of the 21st century it appeared that the memory of the Holocaust was secure in Western Europe; that, in order to gain entry...
