New Jewish Books
In this innovative intellectual biography, Oded Yisraeli offers an unprecedented, comprehensive portrait of Rabbi Moses b. Nahman, or Nahmanides (1194ca. 1270), one of the greatest Jewish thinkers and writers of the Middle Ages. Nahmanides’...
Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture A first-of-its kind collection of short stories that provides an underappreciated perspective on the Holocaust, as it was...
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture A first-of-its kind collection of short stories that provides an underappreciated perspective on the Holocaust, as it was experienced and remembered in the former Soviet Union. A...
Stanford Studies in Jewish Mysticism A World of Piety examines the historical aspirations of kabbalah to prompt a revival of ancient rabbinic piety in medieval Castile. What were the aims of the celebrated works...
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Brazilian Belonging examines a century of Brazilian Jewish political activism, from the onset of Jewish mass migration to Brazil in the early 1920s to the present. The...
The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Edirne was a bustling center linking Istanbul to Ottoman Europe. It was also the...
An engaging 700-year history of meat at the intersection of German and Jewish culture, uniquely illuminating the rich, fraught, and tragic history of German Jewry. In Judaism, meat is of paramount importance as it...
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...
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...
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...
