Jewish Education by Ari Y Kelman
Key Words in Jewish Studies Most writing about Jewish education has been preoccupied with two questions: What ought to be taught? And what is the best way to teach it? Ari Y Kelman upends...
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Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age by Rachel Z. Feldman
Jews, Noahides, and the Third Temple Imaginary Judaism in the twenty-first century has seen the rise of the messianic Third Temple movement, as religious activists based in Israel have worked to realize biblical prophecies,...
New Israeli Horror by Olga Gershenson
Local Cinema, Global Genre Before 2010, there were no Israeli horror films. Then distinctly Israeli serial killers, zombies, vampires, and ghosts invaded local screens. The next decade saw a blossoming of the genre by...
Checkbook Zionism: Philanthropy and Power in the Israel-Diaspora Relationship Dr. Eric Fleisch Ph.D. MA
American Jews donate approximately $2.5 billion to Israel each year. Behind all that money and influence lies a power-sharing dynamic that has left an indelible mark on the relationship between Israeli and American Jews...
Strictly Observant: Amish and Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women Negotiating Media by Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar
The Amish and ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities have typically been associated with strict religious observance, a renunciation of worldly things, and an obedience of women to men. Women’s relationship to media in these communities, however,...
Speaking Yiddish to Chickens by Seth Stern
Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms Most of the roughly 140,000 Holocaust survivors who came to the United States in the first decade after World War II settled in big cities such as...
Americans and the Holocaust: A Reader by Daniel Greene, Edward Phillips (Editors)
Foreword: Sara J. Bloomfield What did the American people and the US government know about the threats posed by Nazi Germany? What could have been done to stop the rise of Nazism in Germany...
Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust by Joanna Sliwa
Jewish Childhood in Kraków is the first book to tell the history of Kraków in the second World War through the lens of Jewish children’s experiences. Here, children assume center stage as historical actors...
Movie-Made Jews: An American Tradition by Helene Meyers
Movie-Made Jews focuses on a rich, usable American Jewish cinematic tradition. This tradition includes fiction and documentary films that make Jews through antisemitism, Holocaust indirection, and discontent with assimilation. It prominently features the unapologetic...
Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen by Eran Kaplan
Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen is a wide-ranging history of over seven decades of Israeli cinema. The only book in English to offer this type of historical scope was Ella...
