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Defines the distinctive field of Jewish cultural studies and its basis in folkloristic, psychological, and ethnological approaches.

Love stories wherein people ask themselves: what is love?

A behind-the-scenes look at the creation and evolution of a cultural institution in Detroit.

How American labor leaders came to the rescue of political and Jewish victims of Nazi persecution.

Innovative study of Taika Waititi, whose Maori and Jewish roots influence his distinctive New Zealand comedic style.

A collection of intensely personal lyrical essays about mortality, living well, art, and love.

Intergenerational story of three Black women and their struggle to stake their claim to the American dream.

A deep dive into the wildly successful 1990s animated series Batman.

Jewish and Christian messianic thought and activism in the Reformation era in the Ashkenazic world.

Surveys the boundary-pushing career of pioneering filmmaker and artist Barbara Hammer.

A luminous and heartfelt collection of mourning poetry.

Examines how popular fairy tales collapse narrative borders and reimagine the genre for the twenty-first century.

An important autobiography that reveals the story of William Sanders Scarborough who rose out of slavery to become a renowned classical philologist and African American icon.

Lively and engaging new view of London’s Jewish East End through translated stories of its Yiddish writers.

Explores romantic comedy’s revitalizing response to shifting sexual and social mores of the past decade.

A comprehensive study of Jewish magic in the late antiquity and the early Islamic period—the phenomenon, the sources, and method for its research, and the history of scholarly investigation into its nature and origin.

A collection of food-focused folktales from the Israel Folktale Archives.

Studies the variety, scope, and character of Yiddish culture in different geographical centers after the Holocaust.

Captivating analysis of the acclaimed TV series and its portrait of societal decline.

Critical anthology of fairy tales by nineteenth-century British, French, and German women writers.