Daughter of History by Susan Suleiman
Traces of an Immigrant Girlhood Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture A photograph with faint writing on the back. A traveling chess set. A silver pin. In her new memoir, noted scholar and...
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No Longer Ladies and Gentlemen by Viola Alianov-Rautenberg
Gender and the German-Jewish Migration to Mandatory Palestine For the sixty thousand German Jews who escaped Nazi Germany and found refuge in Mandatory Palestine between 1933 and 1940, migration meant radical changes: it transformed...
The Invention of a Tradition by Immanuel Etkes
The Messianic Zionism of the Gaon of Vilna Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture The Gaon of Vilna was the foremost intellectual leader of non-Hasidic Jewry in eighteenth-century Europe; his legacy is claimed...
It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity by Sonia Gollance
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Dances and balls appear throughout world literature as venues for young people to meet, flirt, and form relationships, as any reader of Pride and Prejudice, War and Peace, or Romeo...
The Jews of Summer by Sandra Fox
Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture In the decades directly following the Holocaust, American Jewish leaders anxiously debated how to preserve and produce what they...
Jewish Culture between Canon and Heresy by David Biale
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture This career-spanning anthology from prominent Jewish historian David Biale brings over a dozen of his key essays together for the first time. These pieces, written between 1974...
Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah by Alan Verskin
The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni through Africa, the Middle East, and Europe Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture In 1524, a man named David Reubeni appeared in Venice, claiming to be the...
Nakam: The Holocaust Survivors Who Sought Full-Scale Revenge by Dina Porat
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture The true story of a vigilante group of Holocaust survivors who conspired to kill six million Germans Nakam (Hebrew for “vengeance”) tells the story of “the Avengers”...
The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past by Liora R. Halperin
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture The Oldest Guard tells the story of Zionist settler memory in and around the private Jewish agricultural colonies (moshavot) established in late nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine. Though they...
