-
A bright room called day
A powerful portrayal of individual dissolution in the face of political catastrophe, by the award-winning playwright of Angels in America.
Regular price $18.95Sale price $18.95 Regular price $18.95Unit price per -
A coat of many colors
A Coat of Many Colors investigates Israel's first seven years as a sovereign state through the unusual prism of dress. Clothes worn by Israelis in the 1950s reflected political ideologies, economic conditions, military priorities, social distinctions, and cultural preferences, and all played a pa...
Read MoreRegular price $109.00Sale price $109.00 Regular price $109.00Unit price per -
A history of judaism
A sweeping history of Judaism over more than three millenniaJudaism has preserved its distinctive identity despite the extraordinarily diverse forms and beliefs it has embodied through the centuries. Martin Goodman provides a comprehensive look at how this great religion came to be, how it has ev...
Read MoreRegular price $24.95Sale price $24.95 Regular price $24.95Unit price per -
A jew in the roman bathhouse
A provocative account of Jewish encounters with the public baths of ancient RomePublic bathhouses embodied the Roman way of life, from food and fashion to sculpture and sports. The most popular institution of the ancient Mediterranean world, the baths drew people of all backgrounds. They were pla...
Read MoreRegular price $48.00Sale price $48.00 Regular price $48.00Unit price per -
A kabbalist in montreal
This biography of Rabbi Yudel Rosenberg highlights Orthodoxy as an agent of Jewish modernity. Examining his literary output nuances the line between Jewish “secular” and “traditional” literature. His kabbalistic works shed light on the revival of kabbala in the twentieth century.
Regular price $44.95Sale price $44.95 Regular price $44.95Unit price per -
A reluctant welcome for jewish people
What place did Jews occupy in the editorials of Quebec’s daily Le Devoir in the first half of the 20th century? Historian Pierre Anctil takes a deep dive in the highly respected newspaper’s editorials published between 1910 and 1947.
Regular price $39.95Sale price $39.95 Regular price $39.95Unit price per -
A roadmap to the heavens
A Roadmap to the Heavens challenges readers to rethink prevailing ideas about the social map of Jewish society during the Tannaitic period (70 C.E. – 220 C.E.). New insights were made possible by applying anthropological theories and conceptual tools. In addition, social phenomena were better und...
Read MoreRegular price $109.00Sale price $109.00 Regular price $109.00Unit price per -
A semite
An account of what it was like to be Algerian, Jewish, and French at a time when those “identities” were fighting words.
Regular price $42.00Sale price $42.00 Regular price $42.00Unit price per -
A short history of the jews
A concise narrative history that brings the story of the Jewish people marvelously to lifeThis is a sweeping and powerful narrative history of the Jewish people from biblical times to today. Based on the latest scholarship and richly illustrated, it is the most authoritative and accessible chroni...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
A story of jewish experience in mississippi
In this memoir, Waldoff searches into his Russian–Jewish parents’ experience and that of the Jewish community in Hattiesburg from the 1920s through the 1960s, revealing times of acceptance and prosperity, but also of fears of anti-Semitism when a Jew is convicted of murder and fears of Klan viole...
Read MoreRegular price $26.95Sale price $26.95 Regular price $26.95Unit price per -
A volcano of our own making
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.A Volcano of Our Own Making explores the biography, writings, and activism of Yehoshua Radler-Feldman (1880–1957), a prominent fi...
Read MoreRegular price $34.95Sale price $34.95 Regular price $34.95Unit price per -
A well-worn tallis for a new ceremony
A Well-Worn Tallis for a New Ceremony is a study of contemporary ultra-Orthodox religiosity in Israel. This book analyzes the ongoing reconstruction of Haredi culture in Israel, a process which has been spurred on by the challenges of modernity, the worldwide resurgence of religion, and the stron...
Read MoreRegular price $109.00Sale price $109.00 Regular price $109.00Unit price per -
A woman is responsible for everything
A groundbreaking look at the integral role of women in early modern Jewish communal lifeIn small villages, bustling cities, and crowded ghettos across early modern Europe, Jewish women were increasingly active participants in the daily life of their communities, managing homes and professions, le...
Read MoreRegular price $39.95Sale price $39.95 Regular price $39.95Unit price per -
Acco festival
Explores the history of Acco Festival for Other Israeli Theatre from 1980-2012 as a site of celebration and confrontation. Acco Festival is a borderland bringing together established directors from the center of the field with alternative artists outside of it, as well as bringing together the ce...
Read MoreRegular price $109.00Sale price $109.00 Regular price $109.00Unit price per -
Advancing the learning agenda in jewish education
This volume is the first of its kind to bring together scholars from inside Jewish education and from the learning sciences to address core elements of Jewish education: its desired outcomes, the kinds of learning needed to achieve these, and how those kinds of learning actually occur.
Regular price $119.00Sale price $119.00 Regular price $119.00Unit price per -
After one-hundred-and-twenty
A deeply personal look at death, mourning, and the afterlife in Jewish traditionAfter One-Hundred-and-Twenty provides a richly nuanced and deeply personal look at Jewish attitudes and practices regarding death, mourning, and the afterlife as they have existed and evolved from biblical times to to...
Read MoreRegular price $18.95Sale price $18.95 Regular price $18.95Unit price per -
American jewbu
A revealing look at the Jewish American encounter with BuddhismToday, many Jewish Americans are embracing a dual religious identity, practicing Buddhism while also staying connected to their Jewish roots. This book tells the story of Judaism's encounter with Buddhism in the United States, showing...
Read MoreRegular price $24.95Sale price $24.95 Regular price $24.95Unit price per -
American maccabee
A major biography of a mesmerizing statesman whose complex bond with the Jewish people forever shaped their lives—and his legacyA scion of the Protestant elite, Theodore Roosevelt was an unlikely ally of the waves of impoverished Jewish newcomers who crowded the docks at Ellis Island. Yet from hi...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
American shtetl
A compelling account of how a group of Hasidic Jews established its own local government on American soilSettled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American town with few parallels in Jewish history—but many precedents among religious communities in the ...
Read MoreRegular price $26.95Sale price $26.95 Regular price $26.95Unit price per -
American sociology and holocaust studies
The first résumé in English of up-to-date research on post-Holocaust Sociology. A single volume full of relevant tips to help a wide audience rethink the genocide in sociological tools and investigate the history of the same Sociology.
Regular price $129.00Sale price $129.00 Regular price $129.00Unit price per -
Andalus and sefarad
An integrative approach to Jewish and Muslim philosophy in al-AndalusAl-Andalus, the Iberian territory ruled by Islam from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, was home to a flourishing philosophical culture among Muslims and the Jews who lived in their midst. Andalusians spoke proudly of the r...
Read MoreRegular price $44.00Sale price $44.00 Regular price $44.00Unit price per -
Another way, another time
British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks – now Baron Sacks of Aldgate in the City of London – launched his tenure of office in 1991 with the aim of an inclusivist Decade of Jewish Renewal. Within a few years, fulfilling his installation prediction that ‘I will have failures, but I will try again, anoth...
Read MoreRegular price $109.00Sale price $109.00 Regular price $109.00Unit price per -
Anti-semitism on the campus
Antisemitism on the Campus: Past & Present, edited by Eunice G. Pollack, is the first book of a multidisciplinary series on Antisemitism in America to be published by Academic Studies Press. In this volume, twenty-one leading scholars explore the roots and manifestations of antisemitism and a...
Read MoreRegular price $34.00Sale price $34.00 Regular price $34.00Unit price per -
Anti-shechita prosecutions in the anglo-american world, 1855–1913
The book examines historical attempts by animal welfare groups, in Australia, Canada, England, Scotland, and the United States, to ban the Jewish method of slaughter (shechita). For the first time, the book studies these prosecutions, brought in the name of “humanity”, that reveal, an underlying,...
Read MoreRegular price $139.00Sale price $139.00 Regular price $139.00Unit price per -
Antisemitism today and tomorrow
This book analyzes the two major trends in antisemitism today. Old antisemitism, based in religious and racist prejudices, has resurfaced in the wake of weakening nation states in a globalized world. "New" antisemitism, or the antisemitic narrativization of Israel, has grown in the shadow of the ...
Read MoreRegular price $129.00Sale price $129.00 Regular price $129.00Unit price per -
Anxious histories
This book explores Holocaust pedagogy in Jewish schools in Melbourne and New York. Demonstrates that an anxious thread runs throughout these narratives, as the pedagogy negotiates feelings of simultaneous belonging and not-belonging in the West and in Zionism. Opens up once again for...
Read MoreRegular price $34.95Sale price $34.95 Regular price $34.95Unit price per -
Ashkenazi
From a prize-winning historian, the first comprehensive narrative history of Ashkenazi Jews: their culture, their religion, their daily lives, and their many migrationsCovering two millennia of history, from late antiquity to the twentieth century, this landmark volume by an eminent historian tra...
Read MoreRegular price $39.95Sale price $39.95 Regular price $39.95Unit price per -
At wit's end
This book explores the fascinating discourse on Jewish wit in the twentieth century when the Jewish joke became the subject of serious humanistic inquiry and inserted itself into the cultural and political debates among Germans and Jews against the ideologically-charged backdrop of anti-Semitism,...
Read MoreRegular price $36.00Sale price $36.00 Regular price $36.00Unit price per -
Babel' in context
Isaak Babel' (1894-1940) is arguably one of the greatest modern short story writers of the early twentieth century. Yet his life and work are shrouded in the mystery of who Babel' was—an Odessa Jew who wrote in Russian, who came from one of the most vibrant centers of east European Jewish culture...
Read MoreRegular price $129.00Sale price $129.00 Regular price $129.00Unit price per -
Becoming jewish in berlin
Vanessa Rau provides a captivating portrait and analysis of a new Jewish-Hebrew urban scene.
Regular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Being a nation state in the twenty-first century
Since the founding of the Zionist movement until today, the question of the relationship between “Church” and the state remains unresolved. This book is the historical and contemporary story of this conflict. It is impossible to understand the State of Israel properly without reading it.
Regular price $129.00Sale price $129.00 Regular price $129.00Unit price per -
Beyond the wall
Beyond the Wall sheds light on some of the enigmas of Jerusalem’s more recent past, telling the tale of its growth from a provincial town somewhere in the Turkish Empire into a modern city. The book also includes two chapters on Arab Jerusalem and a preface by Teddy Kollek, who served as the city...
Read MoreRegular price $30.00Sale price $30.00 Regular price $30.00Unit price per -
Bieganski
In this study, Goska exposes one stereotype of Poles and other Eastern Europeans. In the “Bieganski” stereotype, Poles exhibit the qualities of animals. They are strong, stupid, violent, fertile, anarchic, dirty, and especially hateful in a way that more evolved humans are not. Their special hate...
Read MoreRegular price $109.00Sale price $109.00 Regular price $109.00Unit price per -
Canada's jews
Canada is home to one of the world’s largest and most culturally creative Jewish communities, one of the few in the Diaspora that continues to grow demographically. With its ability to mirror trends found in Jewish communities elsewhere (particularly the United States) while simultaneously functi...
Read MoreRegular price $49.00Sale price $49.00 Regular price $49.00Unit price per -
Carnival in tel aviv
The Tel Aviv annual Purim celebrations were the largest public events in British Palestine, and they played a key role in the development of the urban Jewish experience in the Promised Land. Carnival in Tel-Aviv presents a historical-anthropological analysis of this mass public event and explores...
Read MoreRegular price $119.00Sale price $119.00 Regular price $119.00Unit price per -
Closed doors, open minds
For some twenty years from the late 1960s, and thereafter following a brief pause, representatives of British Jewry’s religious orientations held closed-door meetings at the Chief Rabbi’s residence in attempts to bridge their communal and halachic differences. This volume explores their often fie...
Read MoreRegular price $109.00Sale price $109.00 Regular price $109.00Unit price per -
Coherent judaism
An ambitious work that searches for a usable past to generate a contemporary theology of creation and philosophy of Jewish law. How we behave (law) must, meaningfully and coherently, map on to our understanding of God and the world (a theology of creation).
Regular price $29.00Sale price $29.00 Regular price $29.00Unit price per -
Coming of age in medieval egypt
Much of what we know about life in the medieval Islamic Middle East comes from texts written to impart religious ideals or to chronicle the movements of great men. How did women participate in the societies these texts describe? What about non-Muslims, whose own religious traditions descended par...
Read MoreRegular price $37.00Sale price $37.00 Regular price $37.00Unit price per -
Communities of violence
In the wake of modern genocide, we tend to think of violence against minorities as a sign of intolerance, or, even worse, a prelude to extermination. Violence in the Middle Ages, however, functioned differently, according to David Nirenberg. In this provocative book, he focuses on specific attack...
Read MoreRegular price $33.00Sale price $33.00 Regular price $33.00Unit price per -
Controversy and crisis
Professor Geoffrey Alderman is the acknowledged authority on the history of the Jews in modern Britain. During an academic career spanning forty years he has produced some of the most authoritative and controversial studies in this field, lighting up the dark corners of the Jewish existence in Gr...
Read MoreRegular price $75.00Sale price $75.00 Regular price $75.00Unit price per -
Conversations with colleagues
Sixteen senior scholars of American Jewish history—among the men and women whose work and advocacy have moved their discipline into the mainstream of academia—converse on the intellectual and personal roads they have traveled in becoming leaders in their areas of expertise. Through their thoughtf...
Read MoreRegular price $109.00Sale price $109.00 Regular price $109.00Unit price per -
Creating communities
How does historical reality interrelate with fiction? And how much are readers themselves involved in the workings of fictional literature? With innovative interpretations of various well-known texts, Nourit Melcer-Padon introduces the use of literary masks and illustrates literature's engagement...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
De-integrate!
A controversial, best-selling polemic in Germany, De-Integrate! is a battle cry against Jewish assimilation into a dominant culture that seeks to paint over the past—and a handbook for minorities on how to embrace their difference and resist rising nationalism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and raci...
Read MoreRegular price $22.00Sale price $22.00 Regular price $22.00Unit price per
Something went wrong
Please try again
