New Jewish Books
Translator: Corey Twitchell Jewish Culture and Contexts The Hebrew word zimzum originally means “contraction,” “withdrawal,” “retreat,” “limitation,” and “concentration.” In Kabbalah, zimzum is a term for God’s self-limitation, done before creating the world to...
Text, Contingency, Desire Jewish Culture and Contexts Spanning the fields of literature, history, philosophy, and theology, Unsettling Jewish Knowledge adopts a fresh approach to the study of Jewish thought and culture. By creatively foregrounding...
Jewish Culture and Contexts Envisioned as a tribe of ruddy-faced, redheaded, red-bearded Jewish warriors, bedecked in red attire who purportedly resided in isolation at the fringes of the known world, the Red Jews are...
Essays in Modern Jewish Political Thought Jewish Culture and Contexts If politics is about the state, can a stateless people be political? Until recently, scholars were fiercely divided regarding whether Jews engaged in politics,...
Jewish Culture and Contexts Jewish Life in Medieval Spain is a detailed exploration of the Jewish experience in medieval Spain from the dawn of Sephardic society in the ninth century to the expulsion of...
Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century The Middle Ages Series In 1290, Jews were expelled from England and subsequently largely expunged from English historical memory. Yet for two centuries they occupied...
Thomas of Monmouth, Antisemitism, and Literary Culture, 1150 – 1200 William of Norwich is the name of a young boy purported to have been killed by Jews in or about 1144, thus becoming the victim of...
Jewish Culture and Contexts It is a sign of the accepted evidentiary status of photographs that historians regularly append them to their accounts, Amos Morris-Reich observes. Very often, however, these photographs are treated as...
A New Reading of a Chain of Stories from the Babylonian Talmud Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Translator: Batya Stein The Return of the Absent Father offers a new reading of a chain of...
Jewish Culture and Contexts Journeys of dislocation and return, of discovery and conquest hold a prominent place in the imagination of many cultures. Wherever an individual or community may be located, it would seem,...
