Jewish Studies

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.

Defines the distinctive field of Jewish cultural studies and its basis in folkloristic, psychological, and ethnological approaches.

Analyzes how the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was interpreted and commemorated following the revolt.

Revisionist approach to a status of apostates in medieval European rabbinic thought.

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

A reissue of the controversial novel about middle-class Jewish life in Old San Francisco.

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

The incredible autobiography of an exiled child during WWII.