Jewish Life and Tradition
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Carrying a Big Schtick
Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century
Jewish masculinity as a diverse set of adaptive reactions to masculine hegemony and the political, religious, and social realities of American Jews throughout the twentieth century.
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Ma Lineal
A Memoir of Race, Activism, and Queer Family
An inspiring memoir about love, race, identity, and contested narratives told with unflinching mettle.
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For Times Such as These
A Radical’s Guide to the Jewish Year
A revolutionary guide to Jewish practice rooted in social justice, feminism, and queer liberation.
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Eating at God's Table
How Foodways Create and Sustain Orthodox Jewish Communities
The practice and meaning of kosher Orthodox foodways in sustaining a vibrant and diverse community.
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The Hebrew Folktale in Premodern Morality Literature
Recontextualizing early modern Musar folktales to reveal a new reading of premodern Jewish texts.
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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
Lively and engaging new view of London’s Jewish East End through translated stories of its Yiddish writers.
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ISBN: 9780814348482
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ISBN: 9780814348475
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ISBN: 9780814348499
The Angel and the Cholent
Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Archives
A collection of food-focused folktales from the Israel Folktale Archives.
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ISBN: 9780814348857
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ISBN: 9780814348840
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ISBN: 9780814348864
Jewish Magic before the Rise of Kabbalah
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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ISBN: 9780814336304
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ISBN: 9780814348819
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ISBN: 9780814336311
Authentically Orthodox
A Tradition-Bound Faith in American Life
Explores religious change in Orthodox Judaism, specifically the indigenous American religious culture.
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ISBN: 9780814344804
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ISBN: 9780814344811
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ISBN: 9780814344828
Stories of Jewish Life
Casale Monferrato-Rome-Jerusalem, 1876–1985
Segre’s stories of Jewish life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy.
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ISBN: 9780814347652
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ISBN: 9780814347669
The Power of a Tale
Stories from the Israel Folktale Archives
English translations of over fifty stories from the Israel Folktale Archives.
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ISBN: 9780814342084
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ISBN: 9780814342091

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Kugel and Frijoles
Latino Jews in the United States
Exploration of ethnic identity and community building through stories of contemporary Latino Jews.
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ISBN: 9780814345757
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ISBN: 9780814345764
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ISBN: 9780814345771
Going Greek
Jewish College Fraternities in the United States, 1895-1945
A history of Jewish fraternities and sororities in the early twentieth-century United States.
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ISBN: 9780814344194
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ISBN: 9780814344187
From New Zion to Old Zion
American Jewish Immigration and Settlement in Palestine, 1917-1939
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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ISBN: 9780814344231
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ISBN: 9780814344224
Jewish Poland—Legends of Origin
Ethnopoetics and Legendary Chronicles
Examination the legends of origin of the Jews of Poland and discloses how the community is created.
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ISBN: 9780814343913
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ISBN: 9780814343920
Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn, Volume II
"This Dark and Desperate Age"
This second volume portrays Lewisohn's last decades as an outspoken opponent of Nazi Germany.
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ISBN: 9780814345047
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ISBN: 9780814345030
United States Jewry, 1776-1985
Volume 4, The East European Period, The Emergence of the American Jew Epilogue
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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ISBN: 9780814345061
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ISBN: 9780814345054
Tales in Context
Sefer ha-ma'asim in Medieval Northern France
A folkloric research project on Sefer ha-ma’asim.
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ISBN: 9780814342718
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ISBN: 9780814342725

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Ben Shahn's New Deal Murals
Jewish Identity in the American Scene
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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ISBN: 9780814339831
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ISBN: 9780814339848

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Beyond Sectarianism
The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism
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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ISBN: 9780814339534
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ISBN: 9780814339541