New & Forthcoming

Former senator Carl Levin’s memoir demonstrates the value of pragmatism, empathy, and compromise.

Mordecai Kaplan’s personal reactions to the events of the 1940s.

Unveils the metaphoric and theoretical possibilities of fabric in the films of Luchino Visconti.

Revisionist approach to a status of apostates in medieval European rabbinic thought.

Brings to light Scola’s cinematic style and contextualizes his commentary on Italian society and politics.

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

Explores religious change in Orthodox Judaism, specifically the indigenous American religious culture.

Brings to light Scola’s cinematic style and contextualizes his commentary on Italian society and politics.

Revisionist approach to a status of apostates in medieval European rabbinic thought.

Explores the global dimension and local identity of Chile’s vibrant contemporary cinema.

The collected shorter film criticism of one of the most brilliant English-language film critics.

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

A collection of lyrical love poems showing Detroit’s poet laureate at the peak of her career.

Detailed textual readings evoking the archaic sensibility and modernist style of Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Details the creation of a Hebrew cultural aesthetic that was intentionally and distinctly physical.

Explores religious change in Orthodox Judaism, specifically the indigenous American religious culture.

A comprehensive exploration of the Middle Eastern roots of Western narrative tradition.

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

Exploration of fairy-tale movies that blur the line between reality and magic.

Segre’s stories of Jewish life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy.