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...
Interiority and Law: Bahya ibn Paquda and the Concept of Inner Commandments by Omer Michaelis
Stanford Studies in Jewish Mysticism Interiority and Law presents a groundbreaking reassessment of a medieval Jewish classic, Baḥya ibn Paquda’s Guide to the Duties of the Hearts. Michaelis reads this work anew as a...
The Reeducation of Race by Sonali Thakkar
Jewishness and the Politics of Antiracism in Postcolonial Thought Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity World War II produced a fundamental shift in modern racial discourse. In the postwar period, racism was situated...
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...
The Philosophical Pathos of Susan Taubes by Elliot R. Wolfson
Between Nihilism and Hope Stanford Studies in Jewish Mysticism The Philosophical Pathos of Susan Taubes offers a detailed analysis of an extraordinary figure in the twentieth-century history of Jewish thought, Western philosophy, and the...
In the Shadow of the Wall by Vincent Lemire
The Life and Death of Jerusalem’s Maghrebi Quarter, 1187–1967 The Maghrebi Quarter of Jerusalem long sat in the shadow of the Western Wall, the last vestige of the Second Temple. Three days after the...
Subcontractors of Guilt by Esra Özyürek
Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany At the turn of the millennium, Middle Eastern and Muslim Germans had rather unexpectedly become central to the country’s Holocaust memory culture—not as welcome participants, but...
