Jewish Studies

The seminal medieval history of the Second Commonwealth period of ancient Jewish history.

Translation of Chana Blankshteyn’s stories depicting the tumultuous interwar years in Europe.

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.

An exploration of the temporal function that "the Jew" plays in literature.

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

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.

Holocaust history written and researched by the Yiddish scholars who lived it.