New Jewish Books
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...
In this fascinating book, the planning and building of Yad Vashem, Israel’s central and most important institution for commemorating the Holocaust, merits an outstanding in-depth account. Following the development of Yad Vashem since 1942,...
In the past thirty years, the Sino-Jewish encounter in modern China has increasingly garnered scholarly and popular attention. This volume will be the first to focus on the transcultural exchange between Ashkenazic Jewry and...
In eleven contributions, Visual Antisemitism in Central Europe, Imagery of Hatred deals with visual manifestations of antisemitism in Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the present day. The publication, which presents heretofore largely unknown materials,...
Editors: Dina Porat, Olaf Glöckner, Haim Fireberg, Marcela Zoufalá The book deals with the representation of Jews, Judaism and Jewish communities in current Central European culture, literature and media; the subject of Jewish identities/identity;...
In recent years more and more scholars have become aware of the fact that the 19th century movement of the Wissenschaft des Judentums engaged in essential research of kabbalistic texts and thinkers. The legend...
