New Jewish Books
This book is a historical and cultural study of the work of the Jewish women architects who flourished in Palestine under the British Mandate (1920-1948). This comprehensive study adds a new chapter to the...
This book discusses the the beginning of writing and the Beginning of Biblical Literature. Making the claim that the poetic descriptions of God’s appearance from Sinai and the giving of commandments are older than...
New Pathways of Research Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies This volume provides a historical narrative, historiographical reviews, and scholarly analyses by leading scholars throughout the world on the hitherto understudied topic of Shanghai...
Worlds of Consumption This book investigates the place and meaning of consumption in Jewish lives and the roles Jews played in different consumer cultures in modern Europe and North America. Drawing on innovative, original...
Jewish Thought and Philosophy Translator: Laura Radosh Margarete Susman was among the great Jewish women philosophers of the twentieth century, and largely unknown to many today. This book presents, for the first time in...
Mia Truskier, Survival, and Activism from Occupied Poland to California, 1920-2014 Palgrave Studies in Oral History This book traces the life of Maria Mia Truskier, who fled the Nazis as a young Polish Jew...
This book is aimed at improving contemporary educational practice by rooting it in clear analytical thinking. The book utilizes the analytic approach to philosophy of education to elucidate the meaning of the terms “education,”...
Jewish Thought and Philosophy Covenant and the Jewish Conversion Question reevaluates conversion and Jewish identity through the lens of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s dual conception of the Covenants of Fate and Destiny. By studying...
Jewish Thought and Philosophy The relationship between morality and religion has long been controversial, familiar in its formulation as Euthyphro’s dilemma: Is an act right because God commanded it or did God command it...
Renewing the American Narrative From generation to generation, three outstanding American Jewish directors―William Wyler, Sidney Lumet, and Steven Spielberg–advance a tradition of Jewish writers, artists, and leaders who propagate the ethical basis of the...
