Denying History by Michæl Shermer, Alex Grobman
Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? Foreword: Arthur Hertzberg Denying History takes a bold and in-depth look at those who say the Holocaust never happened and explores the...
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A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean by Lia Brozgal
A Collection of Stories Curated by Leïla Sebbar University of California Series in Jewish History and Cultures A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean brings together the fascinating personal stories of Jewish writers, scholars,...
Fractured Tablets by Mira Balberg
Forgetfulness and Fallibility in Late Ancient Rabbinic Culture This book examines the significant role that memory failures play in early rabbinic literature. The rabbis who shaped Judaism in late antiquity envisioned the commitment to...
Trans Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature by Max K. Strassfeld
Trans Talmud places eunuchs and androgynes at the center of rabbinic literature and asks what we can learn from them about Judaism and the project of transgender history. Rather than treating these figures as...
Wealth, Poverty, and Charity in Jewish Antiquity by Gregg E. Gardner
Charity is central to the Jewish tradition. In this formative study, Gregg E. Gardner takes on this concept to examine the beginnings of Jewish thought on care for the poor. Focusing on writings of...
On My Right Michael, On My Left Gabriel: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture by Mika Ahuvia
Angelic beings can be found throughout the Hebrew Bible, and by late antiquity the archangels Michael and Gabriel were as familiar as the patriarchs and matriarchs, guardian angels were as present as one’s shadow,...
A Prophet Has Appeared: The Rise of Islam through Christian and Jewish Eyes by Stephen J. Shoemaker
Early Islam has emerged as a lively site of historical investigation, and scholars have challenged the traditional accounts of Islamic origins by drawing attention to the wealth of non-Islamic sources that describe the rise...
Identity and Territory: Jewish Perceptions of Space in Antiquity by Eyal Ben-Eliyahu
Throughout history, the relationship between Jews and their land has been a vibrant, much-debated topic within the Jewish world and in international political discourse. Identity and Territory explores how ancient conceptions of Israel—of both...
Alef, Mem, Tau: Kabbalistic Musings on Time, Truth, and Death by Elliot Wolfson
This highly original, provocative, and poetic work explores the nexus of time, truth, and death in the symbolic world of medieval kabbalah. Demonstrating that the historical and theoretical relationship between kabbalah and western philosophy...
Blood for Thought: The Reinvention of Sacrifice in Early Rabbinic Literature by DR. S Mira Balberg
Mira BalbergBlood for Thought delves into a relatively unexplored area of rabbinic literature: the vast corpus of laws, regulations, and instructions pertaining to sacrificial rituals. Mira Balberg traces and analyzes the ways in which...
