New Jewish Books
In this book, Monika Amsler explores the historical contexts in which the Babylonian Talmud was formed in an effort to determine whether it was the result of oral transmission. Scholars have posited that the...
Cambridge Companions to Religion A History of Anti-Semitism examines the history, culture and literature of antisemitism from antiquity to the present. With contributions from an international team of scholars, whose essays were specially commissioned...
Historical Summaries and Memory Formation in Second Temple Judaism In this book, Aubrey Buster demonstrates how methods adapted from cultural and social memory studies and the new formalism can illuminate the communal function of...
International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949 Israel’s Moment is a major new account of how a Jewish state came to be forged in the shadow of World War Two...
Foreword: Richard EvansTranslator: Deborah LangtonEditors: Erich Kasberger, Marita Krauss This unique collection of diaries and letters offers a vivid personal account of the experiences of a Jewish couple living parallel lives during the Second...
New Identities Across Time and Space The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel is the first study to treat the history of claims to an Israelite identity as an ongoing historical phenomenon from...
From Embodied Experience to Moral Metaphor In this book, Yitzhaq Feder presents a novel and compelling account of pollution in ancient Israel, from its emergence as an embodied concept, rooted in physiological experience, to...
The Cambridge History of Judaism Volume 5 examines the history of Judaism in the Islamic World from the rise of Islam in the early sixth century to the expulsion of Jews from Spain at...
Human Rights in History In 1914, seven million Jews across Eastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean were caught in the crossfire of warring empires in a disaster of stupendous, unprecedented proportions. In response, American...
In this book, Jason Staples proposes a new paradigm regarding the biblical concept of Israel and how it was shaped by Jewish apocalyptic hopes for restoration after the Babylonian Exile. Challenging conventional assumptions about...
