New Jewish Books
Professor Roberts examines the relationship between antisemitism and the practices of citizenship in a colonial context. She focuses on the experience of Algerian Jews and their evolving identity as citizens as they competed with the...
Stories portraying heretics (‘minim’) in rabbinic literature are a central site of rabbinic engagement with the ‘other’. These stories typically involve a conflict over the interpretation of a biblical verse in which the rabbinic...
The opening decades of the twenty-first century are distinguished by a newly framed and regenerated outlook of Jewish American literary studies. This volume introduces readers to the new perspectives, new approaches, and widening of...
How did Italy treat Jews during World War II? Historians have shown beyond doubt that many Italians were complicit in the Holocaust, yet Italy is still known as the Axis state that helped Jews....
Antisemitic stereotypes of Jews as capitalists have hindered research into the economic dimension of the Jewish past. The figure of the Jew as trader and financier dominated the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But the...
Editors: Ra’anan S. Boustan, Annette Yoshiko Reed The idea of heaven held a special place in the late antique imagination, which was marked by a poignant sense of the relevance of otherworldly realities for...
Amy Loewenhaar-Blauweiss (Editor), Belinda Cooper (Translator), Jeremy Adler (Afterword) First published in 1955, with a revised edition appearing five years later, H. G. Adler’s Theresienstadt, 1941-1945 is a foundational work in the field of...
Dana E. Katz examines the Jewish ghetto of Venice as a paradox of urban space. In 1516, the Senate established the ghetto on the periphery of the city and legislated nocturnal curfews to reduce...
Novel: Nora Gold, for Fields of Exile (Dundurn Press). Scholarship: James A. Diamond, for Maimonides and the Shaping of the Jewish Canon (Cambridge University Press). Biography/Memoir: Alison Pick, for Between Gods: A Memoir (Doubleday...
The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945 examines one of the central problems in the history of Polish-Jewish relations: the attitude and the behavior of the Polish Underground – the resistance organization loyal to...
