New Jewish Books
Diasporic, Zionist, and Israeli Discourses on Identity How did Israeli and Western Jews react to Ethiopian immigrants in Israel who are referred to as “Black Jews”? The book addresses the question of what occurs...
In the Footsteps of Rabbi A. I. Jacobson Through Turbulent Times Abraham Israel Jacobson’s biography (1888–1955) spans a transformative period in Jewish history, from Ottoman Palestine to post-Holocaust Europe. Following his Yeshiva studies in Eretz...
The first decades of the 21st century have presented numerous challenges for European Jewry: far-right movements and a rise of antisemitism, a global pandemic, and a war on European soil. At the same time,...
Veiled in silence and oblivion, certain chapters of Israeli history conceal a submerged reality waiting to be uncovered. This work argues that just below the surface of national history, entire episodes remain hidden-so much...
This book explores in a comparative approach the astounding medial variety and intermedial interleaving of cultural engagements with the subject of the destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple by the Romans in nineteenth-century...
Edited by Gerben Zaagsma, Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra, Miriam Rürup, Michelle Margolis, Amalia S. Levi Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics As in all fields and disciplines of the humanities, Jewish Studies scholars find...
Identities, Otherness, and Belonging Presentations of offerings to the emperor-king on anniversaries of his accession became an important imperial ritual in the court of Franz Joseph I. This book explores for the first time...
Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine Europäisch-Jüdische Studien Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943) was a prominent German sociologist, economist and Zionist activist. As a co-founder of academic sociology in...
Utopia, Judaism, and Heresy under the French Revolution This book proposes, for the first time, an in-depth analysis of the Philosophie sociale, published in Paris in 1793 by Moses Dobruska (1753-1794). Dobruska was a...
Jews and Armenians are often perceived as peoples with similar tragic historical experiences. Not only were both groups forced into statelessness and a life outside their homelands for centuries, in the 20th century, in...
