Jewish Studies

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

How American labor leaders came to the rescue of political and Jewish victims of Nazi persecution.

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

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

Mordecai Kaplan’s personal reactions to the events of the 1940s.

Details the creation of a Hebrew cultural aesthetic that was intentionally and distinctly physical.

Groundbreaking analyses of the vast archive of newly digitized and released outtakes from Lanzmann’s masterwork.

A global tour of Jewish humor about the Holocaust.

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