New Jewish Books
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa A new history of twentieth-century North Africa, that gives voice to the musicians who defined an era and the vibrant recording industry that carried their popular...
