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.

Studies the variety, scope, and character of Yiddish culture in different geographical centers after the Holocaust.

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

Examines textual representations of the consciousness of men responsible for committing Holocaust crimes.

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

Explores Jewish criminals—alleged and actual—in Medieval Europe and how they’ve been shaped by society.

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.