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The Rescue Turn and the Politics of Holocaust Memory

Edited by Natalia Aleksiun, Raphael Utz, and Zofia Wóycicka

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Eating at God's Table

How Foodways Create and Sustain Orthodox Jewish Communities

Jody Myers

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

Vered Tohar

Recontextualizing early modern Musar folktales to reveal a new reading of pre-modern Jewish texts.

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Yiddishlands

A Memoir, Second Edition

David G. Roskies

A remarkable family story, and a whirlwind tour of Yiddish culture from 1906 to the present—updated in a second edition.

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Israeli Salvage Poetics

Sheila E. Jelen

A compelling examination of the recuperation of eastern European culture in Israeli Hebrew-language literature.

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Salvage Poetics

Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies

Sheila E. Jelen

An interdisciplinary approach to American Jewish ethnic identity in post-Holocaust America.

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Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals

Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah

Joel Hecker

The first book-length study of mystical eating practices and experiences in Kabbalah.

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Hidden Light

Judaism and Mystical Experience in Israeli Cinema

Dan Chyutin

An examination of contemporary Israeli cinema's engagement with Judaism as cultural identity and mystical tradition.

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Beyond the Land

Diaspora Israeli Culture in the Twenty-First Century

Melissa Weininger

A re-evaluation of the meaning and function of diaspora in contemporary Israeli culture.

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Bridging Worlds

Poetry and Philosophy in the Works of Immanuel of Rome

Dana W. Fishkin

A radical revisitation of Immanuel of Rome’s celestial tour, Mahberet Ha-Tofet Ve-ha-‘Eden.

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Memory Spaces

Visualizing Identity in Jewish Women's Graphic Narratives

Victoria Aarons

Jewish identity, memory, and place deftly revealed through the lens of Jewish women's graphic narratives.

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Funny, You Don't Look Funny

Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials

Jennifer Caplan

Across generations, humor has been a place for American Jews to explore the relationship between Jewish identity, practices, and history.

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From Left to Right

Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History

Nancy Sinkoff

Intellectual biography of Holocaust historian Lucy S. Dawidowicz.

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Jewish Revival Inside Out

Remaking Jewishness in a Transnational Age

Edited by Daniel Monterescu and Rachel Werczberger

Unravels the cultural tension inherent in projects of Jewish revival, renewal, and survival in the face of an uncertain future.

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Sepher Yosippon

A Tenth-Century History of Ancient Israel

Translated and Introduced by Steven B. Bowman

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

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Queering Anti-Zionism

Academic Freedom, LGBTQ Intellectuals, and Israel/Palestine Campus Activism

A queer critique of anti-Zionism, exploring how the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement has undermined scholarly inquiry.

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More than Parcels

Wartime Aid for Jews in Nazi-Era Camps and Ghettos

Edited by Jan Lánícek and Jan Lambertz

Essays mapping the history of relief parcels sent to Jewish prisoners during World War II.

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Fear and Other Stories

Chana Blankshteyn
Translated by Anita Norich

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

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Disputed Messiahs

Jewish and Christian Messianism in the Ashkenazic World during the Reformation

Rebekka Voß
Translated by John Crutchfield

Jewish and Christian messianic thought and activism in the Reformation era in the Ashkenazic world.

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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

Translated with Introductions and Commentary by Vivi Lachs

Lively and engaging new view of London’s Jewish East End through translated stories of its Yiddish writers.

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