Jewish Studies
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Children of the Ghetto
A Study of a Peculiar People
This volume brings back to print the 1895 edition of Children of the Ghetto, the latest American version known to have been corrected by the author.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814325933
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814340028
Does David Still Play Before You?
Israeli Poetry and the Bible
Does David Still Play Before You? explores the ways that contemporary Israeli poets have made use of images from the Bible in their poetry.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814326237
Envisioning Israel
The Changing Ideals and Images of North American Jews
Envisioning Israel examines the deeply entwined yet often problematic historical relationship between American Jewry and the Jewish community in Israel and its predecessor, the yishuv, the Jewish settlement in Palestine from the 1880s until 1948
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ISBN: 9780814326305
Odyssey of Exile
Jewish Women Flee the Nazis for Brazil
Odyssey of Exile paints a sensitive a compelling portrait of German-Jewish women who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814325636
The Jew in the American World
A Source Book
This important volume provides the first complete single-volume reference source for American Jewish history.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814325483
The Jews of Hungary
History, Culture, Psychology
The Jews of Hungary is the first comprehensive history in any language of the unique Jewish community that has lived in the Carpathian Basin for eighteen centuries, from Roman times to the present.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814325612
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814341926
Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism
This illuminating biography of Isaac Leeser reconstructs his personal struggles, pioneer efforts on behalf of American Judaism, and visions of a viable American-Jewish synthesis.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814319963
Jewish Musical Traditions
This is the first English-language volume to consider oral music of Jewish communities in a sociocultural context.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814322352
An Anthology of Modern Yiddish Poetry
Bilingual Edition
Originally published in 1966, An Anthology of Modern Yiddish Poetry was the first bilingual anthology to feature the rich, spirited, and passionate Yiddish poetry of the twentieth century
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814325339
Response to Modernity
A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism
Comprehensive and balanced history of the Reform Movement.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814325551
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814337554
The Meaning of God in Modern Jewish Religion
Kaplan takes the major formulation of his theological approach, "God as the power that makes for salvation," and demonstrates how it can be used to invigorate the Jewish religion in a changing world.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814325520
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814339923
Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century
A Biography of Mordecai M. Kaplan
Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century is the first critical examination of the early life of Mordecai M. Kaplan—the sources of his inspiration, the evolution of his thought as a religious ideologue, and his inner struggles.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814322802
Women of the Word
Jewish Women and Jewish Writing
Women of the Word is part of an emerging effort to listen to the voices of Jewish women both past and present.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814324233
I Want to Fall Like This
Selected Poems of Rukhl Fishman, A Bilingual Edition
Selected poems from Rukhl Fishman.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814325414
American Consuls in the Holy Land, 1832-1914
This volume provides new insights into the role of U.S. consuls in the Ottoman Middle East in the special context of the Holy Land.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814325230
On the Edge of Destruction
Jews of Poland between the Two World Wars
On the Edge of Destruction, focusing on the Jews of Poland between the two World Wars, illuminates a critical time in the recent Jewish past that has received surprisingly little attention.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814324943
The Jews of Kurdistan
The Jews of Kurdistan is a unique historical document in that it presents a picture of Kurdish Jewish life and culture prior to World War II.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814323922
Hatshepsut, Speak to Me
An innovative and adventurous book, this collection of poems is in the form of a conversation with Queen Hatshepsut, the only woman pharaoh in ancient Egypt.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814323809
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814323793
Jewish Wry
Essays on Jewish Humor
Jewish Wry examines the development of Jewish humor in a series of essays on topics that range from Sholom Aleichem's humor to Jewish comediennes through to the humor of Philip Roth.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814323663
Frankfurt on the Hudson
The German Jewish Community of Washington Heights, 1933-1983, Its Structure and Culture
Using organizational bulletins, surveys, interviews, and personal observations and anecdotes, Lowenstein paints a picture of a unique lifestyle now in the process of merging into American Jewry and disappearing.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814323854
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814337516