New Jewish Books
De Gruyter Series in Holocaust Studies and Antisemitism Holocaust monuments in Central Europe, especially in today’s Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, and Germany, have received surprisingly little academic attention. Yet these sites of memory offer...
Time and Periodization in History Messianic Stage argues that this ongoing concern with the messianic enables a cohesive interrogation of time’s political, theological, and theatrical significance. The book situates Hebrew theatre alongside profound shifts in...
Jacob Mann (1888-1940), a major figure in the fields of medieval Jewish history and rabbinic literature, was an early user of the Cairo Genizah materials to improve our understanding of these fields. This volume,...
In honor of the writings of Giulio Busi, scholar of Jewish culture, the book investigates from a multidisciplinary perspective the extraordinary richness of Jewish culture in the Diaspora from antiquity to the latter part...
Interpretation, Heresy, and History (Religiöse Positionierungen in Judentum, Christentum Und Islam) This volume brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the intersections between crisis, scholarship, and action. The aim of this...
A Critical Edition and Translation of Christian Petter Löwe’s “Speculum Religionis Judaicæ” (1732) (Religious Minorities in the North) In 1732, Christian Petter Löwe, a Jewish convert to Lutheranism, published his Speculum Religionis Judaicæ (Mirror...
Potentialities and Challenges of Digitally Researching and Presenting the History of the Third Reich, World War II and the Holocaust How do scholarship and practices of remembrance regarding Nazi Germany benefit from digital tools...
3rd century BCE – 8th century CE Travel and pilgrimage have become central research topics in recent years. Some archaeologists and historians have applied globalization theories to ancient intercultural connections. Classicists have rediscovered travel...
Selected Essays on German-Jewish Literature and Modernity Stéphane Mosès explores in Displacements the poetry of Paul Celan and the work of major German-Jewish thinkers in the context of his distinction between normative and critical...
This volume examines new developments in the fields of premodern Jewish studies over the last thirty years. The essays in this volume, written by leading experts, are grouped into four overarching temporal areas: the...
