New Jewish Books
Jewish Conversions in Hungary 1825–1914 Translator: Jason Vincz Studies in Hungarian History Throughout the nineteenth century, Hungary’s government steadily dismantled obstacles that kept its rapidly expanding Jewish communities from enjoying the full benefits of...
Negotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine The Modern Jewish Experience Jewish Odesa: Negotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine explores the rich Jewish history and contemporary Jewish life in Ukraine’s port city of...
Jews in Eastern Europe In the 1930s, through the prose of Bruno Schulz (1892–1942), the Polish language became the linguistic raw material for a profound exploration of the modern Jewish experience. Rather than turning...
Hispanic Moroccan Jews and Their Globalizing Community Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas explores how the 30,000 Jews in northern Morocco developed a sense of kinship with modern Spain, medieval Sepharad, and...
The Modern Jewish Experience Homes of the Past tells the powerful story of how immigrant Jewish scholars in 1940s New York sought to build a museum to commemorate their lost worlds and people. Among...
The Modern Jewish Experience Saul Bellow: “I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer” offers a fresh and original perspective on the life and works of Saul Bellow, the Nobel Prize winner...
The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine Jews of Eastern Europe An estimated forty thousand Jews were murdered during the Russian Civil War between 1918 and 1922. As the Dust of the...
Economic Trust and Antisemitic Violence Jewish Cattle Traders in the German Countryside, 1919–1939, explores the social and economic networks in which this group operated and the informal but durable bonds between Jewish cattle traders...
100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World features stories of Jewish brides from six continents, highlighting diverse customs and rituals related to weddings now and in the past. The stories, written by brides,...
Studies in Antisemitism True to My God and Country explores the role of the more than half a million Jewish American men and women who served in the military in the Second World War....
