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The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction
Examines textual representations of the consciousness of men responsible for committing Holocaust crimes.
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Jewish Cultural Studies
Defines the distinctive field of Jewish cultural studies and its basis in folkloristic, psychological, and ethnological approaches.
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The Compromise of Return
Viennese Jews after the Holocaust
Explores the realities that Viennese Jews faced while reestablishing their lives upon returning home after the Holocaust.
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The Jewish Heroes of Warsaw
The Afterlife of the Revolt
Analyzes how the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was interpreted and commemorated following the revolt.
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Rescue, Relief, and Resistance
The Jewish Labor Committee's Anti-Nazi Operations, 1934–1945
How American labor leaders came to the rescue of political and Jewish victims of Nazi persecution.
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Brothers from Afar
Rabbinic Approaches to Apostasy and Reversion in Medieval Europe
Revisionist approach to a status of apostates in medieval European rabbinic thought.
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The Yiddish Historians and the Struggle for a Jewish History of the Holocaust
Holocaust history written and researched by the Yiddish scholars who lived it.
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ISBN: 9780814346129
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ISBN: 9780814348413
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ISBN: 9780814346136
Authentically Orthodox
A Tradition-Bound Faith in American Life
Explores religious change in Orthodox Judaism, specifically the indigenous American religious culture.
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ISBN: 9780814344804
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ISBN: 9780814344811
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ISBN: 9780814344828
Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe
Explores Jewish criminals—alleged and actual—in Medieval Europe and how they’ve been shaped by society.
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ISBN: 9780814345597
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ISBN: 9780814348239
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ISBN: 9780814345603
Heirs of Yesterday
A reissue of the controversial novel about middle-class Jewish life in Old San Francisco.
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ISBN: 9780814346679
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ISBN: 9780814346686
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ISBN: 9780814346693
Communings of the Spirit, Volume III
The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan, 1942-1951
Mordecai Kaplan’s personal reactions to the events of the 1940s.
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ISBN: 9780814347676
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ISBN: 9780814348253
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ISBN: 9780814347683
Stories of Jewish Life
Casale Monferrato-Rome-Jerusalem, 1876–1985
Segre’s stories of Jewish life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy.
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ISBN: 9780814347652
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ISBN: 9780814347669
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Embodying Hebrew Culture
Aesthetics, Athletics, and Dance in the Jewish Community of Mandate Palestine
Details the creation of a Hebrew cultural aesthetic that was intentionally and distinctly physical.
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ISBN: 9780814348031
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ISBN: 9780814336366
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ISBN: 9780814336373
Invisible Ink
The incredible autobiography of an exiled child during WWII.
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ISBN: 9780814347591
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ISBN: 9780814347607
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The Construction of Testimony
Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and Its Outtakes
Groundbreaking analyses of the vast archive of newly digitized and released outtakes from Lanzmann’s masterwork.
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ISBN: 9780814347331
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ISBN: 9780814347348
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ISBN: 9780814347355
Salvage Poetics
Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies
An interdisciplinary approach to American Jewish ethnic identity in post-Holocaust America.
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ISBN: 9780814343180
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ISBN: 9780814343197
Laughter After
Humor and the Holocaust
A global tour of Jewish humor about the Holocaust.
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ISBN: 9780814347386
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ISBN: 9780814344781
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ISBN: 9780814344798
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From Left to Right
Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History
Intellectual biography of Holocaust historian Lucy S. Dawidowicz.
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ISBN: 9780814345108
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ISBN: 9780814345115
The Power of a Tale
Stories from the Israel Folktale Archives
English translations of over fifty stories from the Israel Folktale Archives.
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ISBN: 9780814342084
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ISBN: 9780814342091
Sing This at My Funeral
A Memoir of Fathers and Sons
A global journey of four generations of fathers and sons as they cope with grief and loss.
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ISBN: 9780814347218
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ISBN: 9780814344866
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ISBN: 9780814344873