The voice of the poor in the middle ages

They are voices that have been silent for centuries: those of captives and refugees, widows and orphans, the blind and infirm, and the underclass of the "working poor." Now, for the first time, the voices of the poor in the Middle Ages come to life in this moving book by historian Mark Cohen. A c...

Thinking about the longstanding problems of virtue

Essays, a play, two poems and a prayer from award-winning playwright Tony Kushner.

This great escape

Great escapes meet greater escapism: how the life of a displaced Jewish actor illuminates the 1963 Hollywood blockbuster.

Through a speculum that shines

A comprehensive treatment of visionary experience in some of the main texts of Jewish mysticism, this book reveals the overwhelmingly visual nature of religious experience in Jewish spirituality from antiquity through the late Middle Ages. Using phenomenological and critical historical tools, Wol...

Under crescent and cross

Did Muslims and Jews in the Middle Ages cohabit in a peaceful "interfaith utopia"? Or were Jews under Muslim rule persecuted, much as they were in Christian lands? Rejecting both polemically charged ideas as myths, Mark Cohen offers a systematic comparison of Jewish life in medieval Islam and Chr...

Unlocking the exits

Eliot Katz’s poems are exuberant democratic earth-watch, spiced with surreal imaginings, utopian cravings, and activist humor.In his new collection of poems, Eliot Katz dances with tenacity on the fine line between poetry and politics—engaging in a democratic earthwatch that is spiced with surrea...

Who by fire

“An expedition into the troubled soul of one of the world’s greatest songwriters.”—Haaretz “A fascinating and intense account of Leonard Cohen’s time in Israel during the 19-day Yom Kippur War of 1973. A must for any Leonard Cohen completist.”—Suzanne VegaA Vanity Fair Best Book of 2022 * Mosaic ...

Who is american?

A groundbreaking history of how modern American citizenship has worked—and not worked—for Jews in the United StatesThe history of Jews in the United States is often told as if they immigrated, gained citizenship, and almost immediately achieved full legal rights. Yet this story fundamentally miss...

Without jews?

Write like a man

How virility and Jewishness became hallmarks of postwar New York’s combative intellectual sceneIn the years following World War II, the New York intellectuals became some of the most renowned critics and writers in the country. Although mostly male and Jewish, this prominent group also included w...