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Eating at God's Table

How Foodways Create and Sustain Orthodox Jewish Communities

Jody Myers

The practice and meaning of kosher Orthodox foodways in sustaining a vibrant and diverse community.

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ISBN: 9780814349557
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ISBN: 9780814349540
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ISBN: 9780814349564

The Hebrew Folktale in Premodern Morality Literature

Vered Tohar

Recontextualizing early modern Musar folktales to reveal a new reading of pre-modern Jewish texts.

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ISBN: 9780814347041
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ISBN: 9780814350829
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London Yiddishtown

East End Jewish Life in Yiddish Sketch and Story, 1930–1950: Selected Works of Katie Brown, A. M. Kaizer, and I. A. Lisky

Translated with Introductions and Commentary by Vivi Lachs

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

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Published: November 2021
ISBN: 9780814348482
$92.99
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Published: November 2021
ISBN: 9780814348475
$29.99
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Published: November 2021
ISBN: 9780814348499

The Angel and the Cholent

Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Archives

Idit Pintel-Ginsberg

A collection of food-focused folktales from the Israel Folktale Archives.

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Published: October 2021
ISBN: 9780814348857
$92.99
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Published: October 2021
ISBN: 9780814348840
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Published: October 2021
ISBN: 9780814348864

Jewish Magic before the Rise of Kabbalah

Yuval Harari

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.

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Published: October 2021
ISBN: 9780814336304
$99.99
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Published: October 2021
ISBN: 9780814348819
$42.99
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Published: October 2021
ISBN: 9780814336311

Authentically Orthodox

A Tradition-Bound Faith in American Life

Zev Eleff

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

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Published: November 2020
ISBN: 9780814344804
$89.99
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Published: November 2020
ISBN: 9780814344811
$36.99
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Published: November 2020
ISBN: 9780814344828

Stories of Jewish Life

Casale Monferrato-Rome-Jerusalem, 1876–1985

Augusto Segre
Translated and with an Introduction by Steve Siporin

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

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Published: September 2020
ISBN: 9780814347652
$64.99
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Published: September 2020
ISBN: 9780814347669

The Power of a Tale

Stories from the Israel Folktale Archives

Edited by Haya Bar-Itzhak and Idit Pintel-Ginsberg

English translations of over fifty stories from the Israel Folktale Archives.

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Published: November 2019
ISBN: 9780814342084
$64.99
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Published: November 2019
ISBN: 9780814342091
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Kugel and Frijoles

Latino Jews in the United States

Laura Limonic

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

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Published: April 2019
ISBN: 9780814345757
$82.99
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Published: April 2019
ISBN: 9780814345764
$34.99
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Published: April 2019
ISBN: 9780814345771

Going Greek

Jewish College Fraternities in the United States, 1895-1945

Marianne R. Sanua

A history of Jewish fraternities and sororities in the early twentieth-century United States.

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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344194
$22.99
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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344187

From New Zion to Old Zion

American Jewish Immigration and Settlement in Palestine, 1917-1939

Joseph B. Glass

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.

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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344231
$21.99
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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344224

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

Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn, Volume II

"This Dark and Desperate Age"

Ralph Melnick

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

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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814345047
$24.99
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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814345030

United States Jewry, 1776-1985

Volume 4, The East European Period, The Emergence of the American Jew Epilogue

Jacob Rader Marcus

In the final volume of this set, Marcus deals with the coming and challenge of the East European Jews from 1852 to 1920.

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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814345061
$34.99
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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814345054

Tales in Context

Sefer ha-ma'asim in Medieval Northern France

Rella Kushelevsky
With a historical epilogue by Elisheva Baumgarten

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

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Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814342718
$84.99
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Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814342725
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Ben Shahn's New Deal Murals

Jewish Identity in the American Scene

Diana L. Linden

A study of Ben Shahn’s New Deal murals (1933–43) in the context of American Jewish history, labor history, and public discourse.

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Published: October 2015
ISBN: 9780814339831
$44.99
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Published: October 2015
ISBN: 9780814339848
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Beyond Sectarianism

The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism

Adam S. Ferziger

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

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Published: July 2015
ISBN: 9780814339534
$36.99
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Published: July 2015
ISBN: 9780814339541

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

Rebecca Gratz

Women and Judaism in Antebellum America

Dianne Ashton

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

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Published: January 2015
ISBN: 9780814341001
$27.99
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Published: January 2015
ISBN: 9780814341018

Louis Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews

Ancient Jewish Folk Literature Reconsidered

Edited by Galit Hasan-Rokem and Ithamar Gruenwald

A state-of-the-art contribution to the scholarly discussion of historical, and especially ancient, Jewish folklore.

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Published: December 2014
ISBN: 9780814340479
$46.99
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Published: December 2014
ISBN: 9780814340486

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