Tears of History by Pierre Birnbaum
The Rise of Political Antisemitism in the United States Translator: Karen Santos Da Silva For many Jews, for more than a century, the United States has seemed to be a safe haven. There has...
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Queer Jewish Lives Between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine
Edited by Andreas Kraß, Moshe Sluhovsky, and Yuval Yonay Biographies and Geographies When queer Jewish people migrated from Central Europe to the Middle East in the first half of the 20th century, they contributed...
Living in Refuge by Leonardo Schiocchet
Ritualization and Religiosity in a Christian and a Muslim Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon This comparative ethnography of a Muslim and a Christian Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon focuses on contrasting social belonging processes...
The Femininity Puzzle by Ulrike Brunotte
Gender, Orientalism and the »Jewish Other« Historical Gender Studies In the Hobsbawmian long 19th century, gender and processes of sexualization and feminization have been crucial in the construction of the Jewish Other. Ulrike Brunotte...
Salo Baron by Rebecca Kobrin (Editor)
The Past and Future of Jewish Studies in America In 1930, Columbia University appointed Salo Baron to be the Nathan L. Miller Professor of Jewish History, Literature, and Institutions―marking a turning point in the...
German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus by Marc David Baer
Hugo Marcus (1880–1966) was a man of many names and many identities. Born a German Jew, he converted to Islam and took the name Hamid, becoming one of the most prominent Muslims in Germany...
The “Spectral Turn” Jewish Ghosts in the Polish Post-Holocaust Imaginaire by Zuzanna Dziuban
Over the last decades, studies on cultural memory have taken a `spectral turn’. They have explored the potential of haunting metaphors for addressing past instances of violence that affect present cultural realities. Zuzanna Dziuban...
Klotsvog by Margarita Khemlin
Translator: Lisa C. Hayden Foreword: Lara Vapnyar Klotsvog is a novel about being Jewish in the Soviet Union and the historical trauma of World War II―and it’s a novel about the petty dramas and...
Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menaḥem Mendel Schneerson by Elliot R. Wolfson
Menaḥem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994) was the seventh and seemingly last Rebbe of the Habad-Lubavitch dynasty. Marked by conflicting tendencies, Schneerson was a radical messianic visionary who promoted a conservative political agenda, a reclusive contemplative...
When the State Winks: The Performance of Jewish Conversion in Israel by Michal Kravel-Tovi
Religious conversion is often associated with ideals of religious sincerity. But in a society in which religious belonging is entangled with ethnonational citizenship and confers political privilege, a convert might well have multilayered motives....
