New Jewish Books
Religious Awakening and National Identities Formation, 1815–1861 This book focuses on the national conceptualization of Judaism and Jews by German neo-Pietists from the early Restoration (1815) until the New Era (neue Ära, 1858-1861), at...
In Judges: The Perils of Possession, Rabbi Michael Hattin offers a highly readable introduction to the biblical book of Judges that combines imaginative sweep with analytic depth. Utilizing literary techniques, ancient and modern commentaries,...
The Torah offers us various paradigms of the earliest leaders of the Jewish people so that we can reflect upon their lives and leadership and thereby they and we can provide incentive and directIon...
Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History At the end of 1941, six weeks after the mass deportations of Jews from Nazi Germany had begun, Gestapo offices across the Reich received an urgent telex from...
Jewish Poetry Project “These remarkable poems blend spiritual unease with religious confidence, an investigator’s fascinated spirit with a sense that the poet has almost—but not quite—come home. Caplan writes to portray this Orthodox Jewish...
Edited by Oded Nir, Joel Wainwright The Middle East seems to be in perpetual crisis. One might expect a plethora of Marxist analyses of Israel and Palestine. Yet in the literature on Israel and...
The Southeast Europe and Black Sea Series Edited by Kateřina Králová, Marija Vulesica, Giorgos Antoniou This anthology brings together eight chapters which examine the life of Jews in Southeast Europe through political, social and...
Edited and translated by Miriam Udel Foreword: Jack Zipes An unprecedented treasury of Yiddish children’s stories and poems enhanced with original illustrations While there has been a recent boom in Jewish literacy and learning...
Foreword by Jonathan D. SarnaDeveloped by Peri Devaney Strangers and Natives: A Newspaper Narrative of Early Jewish America, 1734 – 1869 focuses on the daily life and customs of the Jewish community and the Jewish...
Editors: Bashir Bashir, Leila Farsakh Religion, Culture, and Public Life Nineteenth-century Europe turned the political status of its Jewish communities into the “Jewish Question,” as both Christianity and rising forms of nationalism viewed Jews...
