The 51 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in August 2024
Here is the 51 books I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in August 2024. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon; the “on this site”...
Tagged: jeffrey shandler
Homes of the Past: A Lost Jewish Museum by Jeffrey Shandler
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...
Shtetl: A Vernacular Intellectual History
In his new book Shtetl: A Vernacular Intellectual History, Rutgers University Jewish Studies Professor Jeffrey Shandler, who has a particular interest in Yiddish culture, examines how the original meaning of shtetl has morphed and...
