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Hidden Light

Judaism and Mystical Experience in Israeli Cinema

Dan Chyutin

An examination of contemporary Israeli cinema's engagement with Judaism as cultural identity and mystical tradition.

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Available September 2023
ISBN: 9780814350683
$94.99
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Available September 2023
ISBN: 9780814350676
$39.99
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Available September 2023
ISBN: 9780814350690

Beyond the Land

Diaspora Israeli Culture in the Twenty-First Century

Melissa Weininger

A re-evaluation of the meaning and function of diaspora in contemporary Israeli culture.

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Available August 2023
ISBN: 9780814350607
$94.99
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Available August 2023
ISBN: 9780814350591
$27.99
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Available August 2023
ISBN: 9780814350614
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Queering Anti-Zionism

Academic Freedom, LGBTQ Intellectuals, and Israel/Palestine Campus Activism

A queer critique of anti-Zionism, exploring how the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement has undermined scholarly inquiry.

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Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814349991
$89.99
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Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814349984
$36.99
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Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814350003

Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Edited by Rachel S. Harris

Pedagogical resource to help faculty prepare courses on the Arab-Israeli conflict in any discipline.

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Published: April 2019
ISBN: 9780814346761
$84.99
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Published: April 2019
ISBN: 9780814346778
$39.99
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Published: April 2019
ISBN: 9780814346785

Overlooking the Border

Narratives of Divided Jerusalem

Dana Hercbergs

An ethnographic tapestry of personal and institutional narratives about Jerusalem’s social history.

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Published: October 2018
ISBN: 9780814341087
$79.99
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Published: October 2018
ISBN: 9780814344927
$31.99
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Published: October 2018
ISBN: 9780814341094

Concrete Boxes

Mizrahi Women on Israel's Periphery

Pnina Motzafi-Haller
With a Foreword by Virginia R. Dominguez

Evocative feminist ethnography focused on the rarely documented lives of Mizrahi women in a marginalized Israeli community.

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Published: August 2018
ISBN: 9780814344422
$64.99
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Published: August 2018
ISBN: 9780814340592
$36.99
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Published: August 2018
ISBN: 9780814340608

Nazism, The Jews and American Zionism, 1933-1948

Aaron Berman

A sophisticated analysis of how the Zionist understanding of the Holocaust shaped the development of American Jewish policies and political activism.

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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344040
$22.99
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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344033

Twenty Israeli Composers

Voices of a Culture

Robert Fleisher

Twenty of Israel's leading art-music composers discuss the interaction of inspiration, method and cultural context in their work, revealing both international and national influence and scope.

Paperback
Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344255
$21.99
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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344248

Jewish Moroccan Folk Narratives from Israel

Haya Bar-Itzhak and Aliza Shenhar

A unique selection of folk narratives of Moroccan Jews in Israel.

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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344521
$22.99
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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344538

Tradition and Politics

The Religious Parties of Israel

Gary S. Schiff

A comprehensive study of religious parties of Israel.

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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814343890
$22.99
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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814343906

For Our Soul

Ethiopian Jews in Israel

Teshome G. Wagaw

For Our Soul describes the ongoing process of adjustment and absorption that the Ethiopian Jewish immigrants experienced in Israel.

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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344101
$22.99
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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344095

Warriors, Witches, Whores

Women in Israeli Cinema

Rachel S. Harris

Feminist reading of women’s representation and activism in Israeli cinema.

Paperback
Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814339671
$35.99
eBOOK
Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814339688

Between Exile and Exodus

Argentinian Jewish Immigration to Israel, 1948–1967

Sebastian Klor
Translated by Lenn Schramm

A primary source analysis of the migration of Jews from Argentina to Israel.

Printed Paper Cased
Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814343678
$54.99
eBOOK
Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814343685

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.

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

Vladimir Jabotinsky's Story of My Life

Edited by Brian Horowitz and Leonid Katsis

Vladimir Jabotinsky’s famous autobiography, published in English for the first time.

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Published: December 2015
ISBN: 9780814341384
$31.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2015
ISBN: 9780814341391

In the Company of Others

The Development of Anthropology in Israel

Orit Abuhav

An ethnographic account of the history and development of anthropology in Israel.

Hardback
Published: June 2015
ISBN: 9780814338735
$54.99
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Published: June 2015
ISBN: 9780814338742

Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema

Edited by Gayatri Devi and Najat Rahman

Explores the proliferation of humor in recent cinema of the Middle East and its possible ramifications for cinematic representation, art, and politics.

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Published: December 2014
ISBN: 9780814339374
$31.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2014
ISBN: 9780814339381

The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel

Edited by Cary Nelson and Gabriel Noah Brahm

The first collection to take critical look at the international movement to boycott Israel.

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Published: November 2014
ISBN: 9780990331605
$34.99
eBOOK
Published: November 2014
ISBN: 9780990331612

Judeo-Arabic Literature in Tunisia, 1850-1950

Yosef Tobi and Tsivia Tobi

Traces the development of an ethnic literature in the vernacular language of Judeo-Arabic in Tunisia between 1850 and 1950.

Hardback
Published: October 2014
ISBN: 9780814328712
$62.99
eBOOK
Published: October 2014
ISBN: 9780814340462

Jadid al-Islam

The Jewish "New Muslims" of Meshhed

by Raphael Patai

This study documents the history, traditions, tales, customs, and institutions of the Jadid al-Islam—"New Muslims."

Paperback
Published: May 2014
ISBN: 9780814340752
$29.99
Hardback
Published: May 2014
ISBN: 9780814326527
$44.95
eBOOK
Published: May 2014
ISBN: 9780814341858

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