New Jewish Books
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...
Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa The compelling true story of Nelly Benatar―a hero of the anti-Fascist North African resistance and humanitarian who changed the course of history for...
Translator: Arthur Green Stanford Studies in Jewish Mysticism Hasidism is an influential spiritual revival movement within Judaism that began in the eighteenth century and continues to thrive today. One of the great classics of...
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Wild Visionary reconsiders Maurice Sendak’s life and work in the context of his experience as a Jewish gay man. Maurice (Moishe) Bernard Sendak (1928–2012) was a fierce, romantic,...
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Another Modernity is a rich study of the life and thought of Elia Benamozegh, a nineteenth-century rabbi and philosopher whose work profoundly influenced Christian-Jewish dialogue in twentieth-century Europe....
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Forging Ties, Forging Passports is a history of migration and nation-building from the vantage point of those who lived between states. Devi Mays traces the histories of Ottoman...
The Arab-Israeli conflict constituted a serious problem for the American Left in the 1960s: pro-Palestinian activists hailed the Palestinian struggle against Israel as part of a fundamental restructuring of the global imperialist order, while...
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson was the charismatic leader of the Chabad Hasidic movement and its designated Messiah. Yet when he died in 1994, the messianic fervor he inspired did not subside. Through traditional means...
