New Jewish Books
Queer Jewish Strangers in American Popular Culture: Life Between Assimilation and Otherness explores LGBTQIA+ Jewish American identity in the United States and the queer Jewish stranger figures who live in between incorporation and estrangement....
Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature Sacred Body: Readings in Jewish Literary Illumination provides fresh and insightful interpretations of Jewish texts, narratives, and cultural practices that show how these artifacts unhinge the “sacred” from the...
New Directions in Applied Jewish Ethics Applying Jewish Ethics: Beyond the Rabbinic Tradition introduces the reader to applied ethics and examines various social issues from contemporary and largely underrepresented Jewish ethical perspectives. The chapters...
Edited by Valerie Estelle Frankel Contributors: Erin Giannini, Fraser Sherman, Mara W. Cohen Ioannides, Matthew Diamond, Jonathan Sexton, Valerie Estelle Frankel, Miriam Eve Mora, Ari Elias-Bachrach, Sarah Katz, Caleb Horowitz, Rabbi Matthew Nover, Heather...
Translator, Introduction: Rebecca Marquis Jewish Women in the AmericasEnglish and Spanish Edition In this English translation of the 1993 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize winner Dulcinea encantada (1992) by Mexican author Angelina...
Visual Discourses During the 2018–2021 Electoral Crisis Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature Reenvisioning Israel through Political Cartoons: Visual Discourses During the 2018–2021 Electoral Crisis examines the ways in which the work of Israeli political...
Lexington Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory German Jews and Migration to the United States, 1933–1945 is a collection of first-person accounts, many previously unpublished, that document the flight and exile of...
A Historical Defense of Rabbinic Knowledge This book concerns the history of the Bible, Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism, and theological-political thought in the West. Its operation is threefold. First, it shows that the biblical text...
Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature This volume of eight essays written by French scholars analyzes Daniel Mendelsohn’s first three volumes of nonfiction (The Elusive Embrace, 1999; The Lost, 2006; and An Odyssey, 2017) and...
In Spinoza and the Philosophy of Love, Michael Strawser provides a new reading of Spinoza as a philosopher of love, and one who centers his thought on an ethically qualified conception of noble love. Strawser...
