Meat Matters by Hagar Salamon
Ethnographic Refractions of the Beta Israel Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies Meat Matters offers a portrait of the lives of Ethiopian Jews as it is reflected and refracted thought the symbolism of meat. Drawing upon...
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Departure Stories by Elisa Bernick
Betty Crocker Made Matzoh Balls (and other lies) “We weren’t religious per se. The most frequent mention of God in our house was my mother yelling ‘Goddammit!’” Elisa Bernick grew up “different” (i.e., Jewish)...
Israeli Bourekas Films: Their Origins and Legacy by Deborah Starr
Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies A genre of comic melodramas produced in the 1960s and ’70s, Bourekas films are among the most popular films ever made in Israel. In Israeli Bourekas Films, author and filmmaker...
Making German Jewish Literature Anew: Authorship, Memory, and Place by Katja Garloff
German Jewish Cultures In Making German Jewish Literature Anew, Katja Garloff traces the emergence of a new Jewish literature in Germany and Austria from 1990 to the present. The rise of new generations of...
From “Euthanasia” to Sobibor: An SS Officer’s Photo Collection
Editors: Martin Cüppers, Anne Lepper, Jürgen Matthäus The mass murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany went hand in hand with the destruction of evidence attesting to this genocide. As Holocaust survivor Jules...
Boy with a Violin: A Story of Survival by Yochanan Fein
Translator: Penina Reichenberg On June 22, 1941, the German invasion of the Soviet Union began. In a matter of days, the war reached the suburbs of Kaunas, Lithuania, where a young Jewish violinist, Yochanan...
Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment by Carol Siegel
Raced, Sexed, and Erased What are the consequences of how Jews are depicted in movies and television series? Drawing on a host of movies and television series from the 1970s to present day, Jews...
The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature by Marina Zilbergerts
Jews in Eastern Europe The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature argues that the institution of the yeshiva and its ideals of Jewish textual study played a seminal role in the resurgence...
Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy: New Perspectives by Lynette Bowring, Rebecca Cypess, Liza Malamut
Music and the Early Modern Imagination Musical culture in Jewish communities in early modern Italy was much more diverse than researchers originally thought. An interdisciplinary reassessment, Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy...
The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland by Anat Plocker
Memory Wars and Homeland Anxieties The Modern Jewish Experience In March 1968, against the background of the Six-Day War, a campaign of antisemitism and anti-Zionism swept through Poland. The Expulsion of Jews from Communist...
