New Jewish Books
Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century For twentieth-century Jewish immigrants and their children attempting to gain full access to American society, performative masculinity was a tool of acculturation. However, as scholar Miriam...
This volume considers the uses and misuses of the memory of assistance given to Jews during the Holocaust, deliberated in local, national, and transnational contexts. History of this aid has drawn the attention of...
Foreword: Matt Goldish Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology How do contemporary American Orthodox Jews use food to create boundaries, distinguishing and dividing groups from each other and from non-Orthodox communities? How...
Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology This pioneering exploration shows that in the early modern world, printed works on morality and ethics served as an important conveyor of classic Jewish folktales and...
Through thoughtful analysis of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Israeli literature, Israeli Salvage Poetics interrogates the concept of the “negation of the diaspora” as addressed in Hebrew-language literature authored by well-known and lesser-known Israeli authors from...
Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series Over the past several decades, the prevailing attitude toward Judaism in Israeli society has undergone a meaningful shift; where the national ethos had once deemed Judaic traditions...
Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials In this comprehensive approach to Jewish humor focused on the relationship between humor and American Jewish practice, Jennifer Caplan calls us to adopt a more...
Diaspora Israeli Culture in the Twenty-First Century This thought-provoking exploration of literature and art examines contemporary Israeli works created in and about diaspora that exemplify new ways of envisioning a Jewish national identity. Diaspora...
Visualizing Identity in Jewish Women’s Graphic Narratives An exploration of the work of Jewish women graphic novelists and the intricate Jewish identity is complicated by gender, memory, generation, and place-that is, the emotional, geographical,...
Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology Against the gloomy forecast of “The Vanishing Diaspora”, the end of the second millennium saw the global emergence of a dazzling array of Jewish cultural initiatives,...
