New Jewish Books
From the Temple to the Mishnah Translator: Sara Tova Brody Olamot Series in Humanities and Social Sciences The concern for purity was the cornerstone of the religious culture of ancient Judaism. Purity and Identity...
For Nazi Germany, the ghetto was a conceptual tool used to facilitate social and political exclusion and further their anti-Jewish campaign. For the Jews who lived in them, the ghettos became the center of...
Perspectives on Israel Studies Jacqueline Kahanoff: A Levantine Woman is the first intellectual biography of this remarkable Egyptian-Jewish intellectual, whose work has secured her place in literary pantheon as a herald of Levantine, Mediterranean,...
The Modern Jewish Experience Home after Fascism draws on a rich array of memoirs, interviews, correspondence, and archival research to tell the stories of Italian and German Jews who returned to their home countries...
Jews of Eastern Europe For centuries Jewish shtetls were an active part of Belarusian life; today, they are gone. The Belarusian Shtetl is a landmark volume which offers, for the first time in English,...
Writings on Agnon’s Buczacz in Memory of Alan Mintz The fiction of Nobel Laureate Shmuel Yosef Agnon is the foundation of the array of scholarly essays as seen through the career of Alan Mintz,...
The Case of Vladimir Jabotinsky against the Russian Empire Jews of Eastern Europe Jews, Race, and the Politics of Difference explores how Russian Jewish writers and political activists such as Vladimir Jabotinsky turned to...
Ethnographic Refractions of the Beta Israel Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies Meat Matters offers a portrait of the lives of Ethiopian Jews as it is reflected and refracted thought the symbolism of meat. Drawing upon...
Betty Crocker Made Matzoh Balls (and other lies) “We weren’t religious per se. The most frequent mention of God in our house was my mother yelling ‘Goddammit!’” Elisa Bernick grew up “different” (i.e., Jewish)...
Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies A genre of comic melodramas produced in the 1960s and ’70s, Bourekas films are among the most popular films ever made in Israel. In Israeli Bourekas Films, author and filmmaker...
