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Constructing Modern Identities

Jewish University Students in Germany, 1815-1914

Keith H. Pickus

By examining the lives and social dynamics of Jewish university students, Pickus shows how German Jews rearranged their self-images and redefined what it meant to be Jewish.

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Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343524
$29.99
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Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343517

The Genocidal Gaze

From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich

Elizabeth R. Baer

Examines literature and art to reveal the German genocidal gaze in Africa and the Holocaust.

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Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814343852
$32.99
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Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814344385
$54.99
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Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814343869

Reconstructing the Old Country

American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades

Edited by Eliyana R. Adler and Sheila E. Jelen

Interdisciplinary overview of American Jewish life post-Holocaust.

Paperback
Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814341667
$34.99
Hardback
Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814344378
$59.99
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Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814341674
Published: November 2017
ISBN: 0814341667

Warriors, Witches, Whores

Women in Israeli Cinema

Rachel S. Harris

Feminist reading of women’s representation and activism in Israeli cinema.

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Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814339671
$35.99
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Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814339688

Tales in Context

Sefer ha-ma'asim in Medieval Northern France

Rella Kushelevsky
With a historical epilogue by Elisheva Baumgarten

A folkloric research project on Sefer ha-ma’asim.

Printed Paper Cased
Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814342718
$84.99
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Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814342725

The Seven, A Family Holocaust Story

Ellen G. Friedman

A literary memoir of exile and survival in Soviet prison camps during the Holocaust.

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Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814344392
$54.99
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Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814344132
$29.99
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Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814344149

Between Exile and Exodus

Argentinian Jewish Immigration to Israel, 1948–1967

Sebastian Klor
Translated by Lenn Schramm

A primary source analysis of the migration of Jews from Argentina to Israel.

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Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814343678
$54.99
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Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814343685
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Hell on Earth

Avigdor Hameiri
Translated by Peter C. Appelbaum
With an Introduction by Avner Holtzman

A historical account of World War I literature.

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Published: October 2017
ISBN: 9780814344361
$84.99
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Published: October 2017
ISBN: 9780814343616
$39.99
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Published: October 2017
ISBN: 9780814343623

Witnessing Unbound

Holocaust Representation and the Origins of Memory

Edited by Henri Lustiger Thaler and Habbo Knoch

Voices of the Holocaust and the act of memory.

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Published: September 2017
ISBN: 9780814343012
$36.99
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Published: September 2017
ISBN: 9780814343029
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From Things Lost

Forgotten Letters and the Legacy of the Holocaust

Shirli Gilbert

An intimate history of the Holocaust that casts new light on our understanding of victimhood and survival.

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Published: May 2017
ISBN: 9780814343982
$46.99
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Published: May 2017
ISBN: 9780814342657
$26.99
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Published: May 2017
ISBN: 9780814342664

Jewish Souls, Bureaucratic Minds

Jewish Bureaucracy and Policymaking in Late Imperial Russia, 1850-1917

Vassili Schedrin

A focus on Jewish officials of the Russian state who assumed a central role in the bureaucratic procedures of Jewish policymaking and were a driving force behind the transformation of Russian Jewry.

Hardback
Published: November 2016
ISBN: 9780814340424
$49.99
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Published: November 2016
ISBN: 9780814340431

Yudisher Theriak

An Early Modern Yiddish Defense of Judaism

Edited and translated by Morris M. Faierstein

An annotated translation of the Yudisher Theriak, along with a comprehensive introduction that places the original work in its historical context.

Hardback
Published: November 2016
ISBN: 9780814342480
$51.99
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Published: November 2016
ISBN: 9780814342497

Communings of the Spirit, Volume II

The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan, 1934–1941

Edited by Mel Scult

Selections from the diary of Mordecai Kaplan, founder of Reconstructionism in America, detailing a provocative firsthand account of Jewish life in America and of the mind of a very challenging thinker.

Hardback
Published: October 2016
ISBN: 9780814341612
$47.99
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Published: October 2016
ISBN: 9780814341629
Published: October 2016
ISBN: 0814341616

Bernard Malamud

A Centennial Tribute

Edited by Victoria Aarons and Gustavo Sánchez Canales

A fresh and engaging international tribute to Bernard Malamud, a major American Jewish novelist in the postwar era of the twentieth century.

Paperback
Published: September 2016
ISBN: 9780814341148
$35.99
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Published: September 2016
ISBN: 9780814341155

Zionism without Zion

The Jewish Territorial Organization and Its Conflict with the Zionist Organization

Gur Alroey

Examines an alternative ideology to Zionism that attempted to build a Jewish State outside of Palestine.

Hardback
Published: May 2016
ISBN: 9780814342060
$54.99
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Published: May 2016
ISBN: 9780814342077

Women's Hebrew Poetry on American Shores

Poems by Anne Kleiman and Annabelle Farmelant

Translated by Adriana X. Jacobs and Yosefa Raz
Edited by Shachar Pinsker

Presents the work of two American­-born women who wrote and published a substantial body of Hebrew poetry between the 1930s and 1960s.

Paperback
Published: January 2016
ISBN: 9780814341360
$34.99
eBOOK
Published: January 2016
ISBN: 9780814341377

Vladimir Jabotinsky's Story of My Life

Edited by Brian Horowitz and Leonid Katsis

Vladimir Jabotinsky’s famous autobiography, published in English for the first time.

Paperback
Published: December 2015
ISBN: 9780814341384
$31.99
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Published: December 2015
ISBN: 9780814341391
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Ben Shahn's New Deal Murals

Jewish Identity in the American Scene

Diana L. Linden

A study of Ben Shahn’s New Deal murals (1933–43) in the context of American Jewish history, labor history, and public discourse.

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Published: October 2015
ISBN: 9780814339831
$44.99
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Published: October 2015
ISBN: 9780814339848
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Beyond Sectarianism

The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism

Adam S. Ferziger

Provides a new understanding of the evolution and contemporary dynamics of American Orthodox Judaism during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Paperback
Published: July 2015
ISBN: 9780814339534
$36.99
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Published: July 2015
ISBN: 9780814339541
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Jewish Honor Courts

Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust

Edited by Laura Jockusch and Gabriel N. Finder

A transnational and interdisciplinary look at Jewish trials of fellow Jews accused of collaborating with the Nazis.

Paperback
Published: June 2015
ISBN: 9780814338773
$36.99
eBOOK
Published: June 2015
ISBN: 9780814338780

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