New Jewish Books
Before and After Babel In this book, Steven Fraade explores the practice and conception of multilingualism and translation in ancient Judaism. Interrogating the deep and dialectical relationship between them, he situates representative scriptural and...
In this book, Daniel Herskowitz examines the rich, intense, and persistent Jewish engagement with one of the most important and controversial modern philosophers, Martin Heidegger. Contextualizing this encounter within wider intellectual, cultural, and political...
The History and Political Theory of the Nation’s Founding Moment Israel’s Declaration of Independence brings to life the debates and decisions at the founding of the state of Israel. Through a presentation of the...
Is commitment to God compatible with modern citizenship? In this book, Daniel H. Weiss provides new readings of four modern Jewish philosophers – Moses Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, and Walter Benjamin – in...
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...
