Jewish Life and Tradition

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

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.

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

Exploration of ethnic identity and community building through stories of contemporary Latino Jews.

Analyzes the migration of American Jews to Palestine between the two world wars and explores the contribution of these settlers to the building of Palestine.

This second volume portrays Lewisohn's last decades as an outspoken opponent of Nazi Germany.

A folkloric research project on Sefer ha-ma’asim.

Provides a new understanding of the evolution and contemporary dynamics of American Orthodox Judaism during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

This is the first in-depth biography of Rebecca Gratz (1781-1869), the foremost American Jewish woman of the nineteenth century.