New Jewish Books
The lost world of East European Jews meets the lost world of life under the Soviet rule. From the Galician shtetl of Mos’ciska (Mostyska)–now in Ukraine near the Polish border–the memoir follows a Jewish...
Brill Reference Library of Judaism Credit is the oxygen of every society. In many cases we wonder why the rabbis prohibit certain business credit transactions considering them usury. The writer uses literary and epigraphic...
This volume comprehensively examines all texts dealing with social justice in the Prophecy of Amos. It also provides evidence of contemporary systemic social injustice. The volume then reflects on how biblical social justice is...
Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy This is the first book to explore the role of quotation in modern Jewish thought. Weaving back and forth from Benjamin to Rosenzweig, the book...
From Historical Method to Cases Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity Roman Judaea, Christian origins, and Roman-Judaean-Christian relations are flourishing fields of endless fascination. Amid the flurry of new research, however, which uses ever new...
Volume Editors: Claudia Bergmann, Tessa Rajak, Benedikt Kranemann, and Rebecca Ullrich Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity The powerful poetry of the Hebrew Psalms articulates a unique range of experience, even in translation. They explore...
Yiddish-Slavic Language Contact and Its Linguistic Outcome Yiddish, the language of Eastern-European Jews, has so far been mostly described as Germanic within the framework of the traditional, divergence-based Language Tree Model. Meanwhile, advances in...
Studia Judaeoslavica Can studying an artist’s migration enable the reconfiguration of art history in a new and “global” mode? Michail Grobman’s odyssey in search of a contemporary idiom of Jewish art led him to...
Scholarly Essay on the Case of Women in Religious Faith by Mózes Salamon Brill Reference Library of Judaism Writing in the late 19th century, Mózes Salamon hoped to convince his fellow rabbis to recognize...
Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion These scholarly essays explore representations and lived experiences of encounters between Jews and Muslims in contemporary urban Western Europe (France, Germany and UK). Building a new transdisciplinary...
