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In Her Hands
The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia
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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The Enchanted Boot
Italian Fairy Tales and Their Tellers
A representative selection of tales from the Italian fairy-tale tradition, translated into English.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814334751
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814349205
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814349212
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The Compromise of Return
Viennese Jews After the Holocaust
Explores the realities that Viennese Jews faced while reestablishing their lives upon returning home after the Holocaust.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814348383
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ISBN: 9780814348130
Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe
Explores Jewish criminals—alleged and actual—in Medieval Europe and how they’ve been shaped by society.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814348239
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814345597
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814345603
Shelter from the Holocaust
Rethinking Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union
The first book-length study of the survival of Polish Jews in Stalin’s Soviet Union.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814342671
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814344408
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814342688
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Hell on Earth
A historical account of World War I literature.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814343616
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814344361
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814343623
Witnessing Unbound
Holocaust Representation and the Origins of Memory
Voices of the Holocaust and the act of memory.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814343012
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814343029
Jewish Souls, Bureaucratic Minds
Jewish Bureaucracy and Policymaking in Late Imperial Russia, 1850-1917
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.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814340424
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814340431
Zionism without Zion
The Jewish Territorial Organization and Its Conflict with the Zionist Organization
Examines an alternative ideology to Zionism that attempted to build a Jewish State outside of Palestine.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814342060
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814342077
A Fire Burns in Kotsk
A Tale of Hasidism in the Kingdom of Poland
A vivid novelistic account that details a crucial period in the evolution of Polish Hasidism, translated from Yiddish.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814338131
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814338148
The New Life
Jewish Students of Postwar Germany
Investigates the Jewish Displaced Persons who studied in German universities in the U.S. Occupied Zone of Germany immediately following World War II.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814339619
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814339626
On the Margins of a Minority
Leprosy, Madness, and Disability among the Jews of Medieval Europe
Explores social additudes towards individuals on the margins of medieval European Jewish society.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814339312
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814339329
The Origins and Onset of the Romanian Holocaust
Explores the Romanian government's role in the initial killing operations of the Holocaust in 1941.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814338728
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814338568
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The Waning of Emancipation
Jewish History, Memory, and the Rise of Fascism in Germany, France, and Hungary
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.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814334706
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814337080
Holy Dissent
Jewish and Christian Mystics in Eastern Europe
Brings together highly regarded scholars of Jewish and Christian mysticism in Eastern Europe to analyze the overlap of mysticism in the two religions.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814335178
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814335970
Bread to Eat and Clothes to Wear
Letters from Jewish Migrants in the Early Twentieth Century
Collects and analyzes letters from Jewish men and women in the early stages of migrating from Eastern Europe.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814335192
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814335833
"We Are Here"
New Approaches to Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany
Collects groundbreaking research on displaced persons (DPs) in Europe in the period after World War II and before the establishment of Israel.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814333501
Finding Home and Homeland
Jewish Youth and Zionism in the Aftermath of the Holocaust
An inspiring examination of young survivors of the Holocaust and their role in the creation of the state of Israel.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814334263
Challenges of Equality
Judaism, State, and Education in Nineteenth-Century France
Explores the relationship between Judaism, state, and education in France from the establishment of the Jewish Consistory in 1808 until the separation of church and state in 1905.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814333808
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814335499
Mediating Modernity
Challenges and Trends in the Jewish Encounter with the Modern World
A landmark collection of essays by prominent academics in modern Jewish and German-Jewish history, honoring Michael A. Meyer, a pioneer in those fields.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814333952
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814339930