New Jewish Books
Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology Sepher Yosippon was written in Hebrew by a medieval historian noted by modern scholars for its eloquent style. This is the first known chronicle of Jewish...
Wartime Aid for Jews in Nazi-Era Camps and Ghettos More than Parcels: Wartime Aid for Jews in Nazi-Era Camps and Ghettos edited by Jan Lánícek and Jan Lambertz explores the horrors of the Holocaust...
Translator: Anita Norich Fear and Other Storiesis a translation from Yiddish to English of the collected stories of Chana Blankshteyn (~1860-1939), a woman who may be almost entirely forgotten now but was widely admired...
Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Archives The Angel and the Cholent: Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Archives by Idit Pintel-Ginsberg, translated into English for the first time from Hebrew, analyzes how food...
Editor, Translator: Vivi Lachs In London Yiddishtown: East End Jewish Life in Yiddish Sketch and Story, 1930–1950, Vivi Lachs presents a selection of previously un-translated short stories and sketches by Katie Brown, A. M....
Jewish Women’s History from Antiquity to the Present is broad in geographical scope exploring Jewish women’s lives in what is now Eastern and Western Europe, Britain, Israel, Turkey, North Africa, and North America. Editors...
Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe is a topic laced by prejudice on one hand and apologetics on the other. Beginning in the Middle Ages, Jews were often portrayed as criminals driven by greed....
Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology In The Power of a Tale: Stories from the Israel Folktale Archives, editors Haya Bar-Itzhak and Idit Pintel-Ginsberg bring together a collection of fifty-three folktales in honor...
From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History is the first comprehensive biography of Dawidowicz (1915-1990), a pioneer historian in the field that is now called...
Contributors: Tony Kushner, Dan J. Puckett, Milton Shain, Suzanne D. Rutland, David Slucki, James Jordan, Marjorie N. Feld, Michael E. Staub, Michael Rothberg, Sarah Phillips Casteel, Bashir Bashir, Amos Goldberg, Steven Cooke, Donna-Lee Frieze,...
