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The Enchanted Boot

Italian Fairy Tales and Their Tellers

Edited, Translated, and Introduced by Nancy L. Canepa

A representative selection of tales from the Italian fairy-tale tradition, translated into English.

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Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814349205
$84.99
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Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814334751
$39.99
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Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814349212
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The Compromise of Return

Viennese Jews after the Holocaust

Elizabeth Anthony

Explores the realities that Viennese Jews faced while reestablishing their lives upon returning home after the Holocaust.

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Published: May 2021
ISBN: 9780814348383
$36.99
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Published: May 2021
ISBN: 9780814348130

Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe

Ephraim Shoham-Steiner

Explores Jewish criminals—alleged and actual—in Medieval Europe and how they’ve been shaped by society.

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Published: November 2020
ISBN: 9780814345597
$89.99
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Published: November 2020
ISBN: 9780814348239
$46.99
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Published: November 2020
ISBN: 9780814345603

The Shaping of Jewish Identity in Nineteenth–Century France

Jay R. Berkovitz

Focusing on the ideology of regeneration, Jay Berkovitz traces the social, economic, and religious struggles of nineteenth-century French Jews.

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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344088
$24.99
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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344071

The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer

Romance and Reform in Victorian England

Michael Galchinsky

Analyses the development of Jewish women's writing in relation to Victorian literary history, women's cultural history, and Jewish cultural history.

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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344446
$21.99
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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344453

Jewish Poland—Legends of Origin

Ethnopoetics and Legendary Chronicles

Haya Bar-Itzhak

Examination the legends of origin of the Jews of Poland and discloses how the community is created.

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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814343913
$21.99
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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814343920

Shelter from the Holocaust

Rethinking Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union

Edited by Mark Edele, Sheila Fitzpatrick, and Atina Grossmann

The first book-length study of the survival of Polish Jews in Stalin’s Soviet Union.

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Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814344408
$59.99
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Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814342671
$34.99
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Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814342688
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Hell on Earth

Avigdor Hameiri
Translated by Peter C. Appelbaum
With an Introduction by Avner Holtzman

A historical account of World War I literature.

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Published: October 2017
ISBN: 9780814344361
$84.99
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Published: October 2017
ISBN: 9780814343616
$39.99
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Published: October 2017
ISBN: 9780814343623

Witnessing Unbound

Holocaust Representation and the Origins of Memory

Edited by Henri Lustiger Thaler and Habbo Knoch

Voices of the Holocaust and the act of memory.

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Published: September 2017
ISBN: 9780814343012
$36.99
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Published: September 2017
ISBN: 9780814343029

Jewish Souls, Bureaucratic Minds

Jewish Bureaucracy and Policymaking in Late Imperial Russia, 1850-1917

Vassili Schedrin

A focus on Jewish officials of the Russian state who assumed a central role in the bureaucratic procedures of Jewish policymaking and were a driving force behind the transformation of Russian Jewry.

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Published: November 2016
ISBN: 9780814340424
$49.99
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Published: November 2016
ISBN: 9780814340431

Zionism without Zion

The Jewish Territorial Organization and Its Conflict with the Zionist Organization

Gur Alroey

Examines an alternative ideology to Zionism that attempted to build a Jewish State outside of Palestine.

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Published: May 2016
ISBN: 9780814342060
$54.99
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Published: May 2016
ISBN: 9780814342077

A Fire Burns in Kotsk

A Tale of Hasidism in the Kingdom of Poland

Menashe Unger
Translated by Jonathan Boyarin
Introduction by Glenn Dynner

A vivid novelistic account that details a crucial period in the evolution of Polish Hasidism, translated from Yiddish.

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Published: February 2015
ISBN: 9780814338131
$31.99
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Published: February 2015
ISBN: 9780814338148

The New Life

Jewish Students of Postwar Germany

Jeremy Varon

Investigates the Jewish Displaced Persons who studied in German universities in the U.S. Occupied Zone of Germany immediately following World War II.

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Published: June 2014
ISBN: 9780814339619
$35.99
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Published: June 2014
ISBN: 9780814339626

On the Margins of a Minority

Leprosy, Madness, and Disability among the Jews of Medieval Europe

Ephraim Shoham-Steiner
Translated by Haim Watzman

Explores social additudes towards individuals on the margins of medieval European Jewish society.

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Published: June 2014
ISBN: 9780814339312
$49.99
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Published: June 2014
ISBN: 9780814339329

The Origins and Onset of the Romanian Holocaust

Henry Eaton

Explores the Romanian government's role in the initial killing operations of the Holocaust in 1941.

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Published: May 2013
ISBN: 9780814338728
$31.99
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Published: May 2013
ISBN: 9780814338568
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The Waning of Emancipation

Jewish History, Memory, and the Rise of Fascism in Germany, France, and Hungary

Guy Miron

Explores the role of public memory and images of the past in the Jewish communities of Germany, France, and Hungary as they faced changing political and social conditions.

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Published: November 2011
ISBN: 9780814334706
$52.99
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Published: November 2011
ISBN: 9780814337080

Holy Dissent

Jewish and Christian Mystics in Eastern Europe

Edited by Glenn Dynner
Foreword by Moshe Rosman

Brings together highly regarded scholars of Jewish and Christian mysticism in Eastern Europe to analyze the overlap of mysticism in the two religions.

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Published: October 2011
ISBN: 9780814335178
$46.99
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Published: October 2011
ISBN: 9780814335970

Bread to Eat and Clothes to Wear

Letters from Jewish Migrants in the Early Twentieth Century

Gur Alroey

Collects and analyzes letters from Jewish men and women in the early stages of migrating from Eastern Europe.

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Published: June 2011
ISBN: 9780814335192
$32.99
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Published: June 2011
ISBN: 9780814335833

In Her Hands

The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia

Eliyana R. Adler

Illuminates the role that private schools for Jewish girls played in Russian Jewish society and documents their influence on contemporary political discourse and educational innovation.

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Published: December 2010
ISBN: 9780814334928
$46.99
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Published: December 2010
ISBN: 9780814336854

"We Are Here"

New Approaches to Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany

Edited by Avinoam J. Patt and Michael Berkowitz

Collects groundbreaking research on displaced persons (DPs) in Europe in the period after World War II and before the establishment of Israel.

Paperback
Published: March 2010
ISBN: 9780814333501
$33.99

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