Jewish Studies
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Inside a Gestapo Prison
The Letters of Krystyna Wituska, 1942-1944
A compelling firsthand account of life behind bars in Nazi Germany, from the point of view of a young member of the Polish Underground.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814332948
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814338872
And Life Is Changed Forever
Holocaust Childhoods Remembered
Looking at the Holocaust through the eyes of children who lived through it, this collection offers an inspiring assortment of perspectives on survival.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814331736

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The Stains of Culture
An Ethno-Reading of Karaite Jewish Women
Portrays the experiences of Egyptian Karaites in the San Francisco Bay Area as it explores the relationship between text and everyday life, between literal reading and its translation into bodily practices—especially as related to the female body.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814332238
From the Ghetto to the Melting Pot
Israel Zangwill’s Jewish Plays
Three plays by Israel Zangwill, a noted Jewish playwright, published together for the first time in their original form and accompanied by extensive scholarly commentary.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814329559
Israeli Folk Narratives
Settlement, Immigration, Ethnicity
Provides a broad, engaging view of Israeli society through folk stories that have circulated among settlers in the kibbutz, immigrants, and ethnic groups.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814330470
Words from Abroad
Trauma and Displacement in Postwar German Jewish Writers
Examines the responses of German Jewish writers to the geographical and cultural displacement that is one of the lasting consequences of the Holocaust.
Printed Paper Cased
ISBN: 9780814332450
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814335772
"The Whole Wide World, Without Limits"
International Relief, Gender Politics, and American Jewish Women, 1893-1930
An analysis of gender politics in the American Jewish community during the interwar period that reveals the role of gender and class in organizational politics and the importance of Jewish women in American political and activist history.
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814337523
Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals
Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah
Examining the mystical practices associated with food in zoharic kabbalah and the ways they inform us about the kabbalistic experience of embodiment.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814331811
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814340035
Facing the Glass Booth
The Jerusalem Trial of Adolf Eichmann
A detailed historical account of Adolf Eichmann’s trial that changed attitudes toward Holocaust survivors in Israeli society.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814330876
Of No Interest to the Nation
A Jewish Family in France, 1925-1945
English translation of Gilbert Michlin’s Holocaust memoir detailing his family’s life as Jewish immigrants in France and their eventual deportation to Auschwitz in 1944.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814332276
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814338483
Dialogic Moments
From Soul Talks to Talk Radio in Israeli Culture
An original ethnographic study about communication and culture in Palestine and Israel during the Twentieth Century, examining three modes of communication—soul talks, straight talk, and talk radio.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814327753
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814327746
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814337509
And Rachel Stole the Idols
The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Women’s Writing
A feminist study of the beginnings of modern Hebrew women’s writing.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814331477
King Solomon and the Golden Fish
Tales from the Sephardic Tradition
A collection of fifty-four Judeo-Spanish folktales taken from the rich heritage of Sephardic oral storytelling and translated into English for the first time.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814331668
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814341872
Staging and Stagers in Modern Jewish Palestine
The Creation of Festive Lore in a New Culture, 1882-1948
By analyzing key aspects of Hebrew culture, this book adds new dimension to the anthropological, sociological, and historical studies dealing with folklore, rituals, and festivals.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814328453
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814341889
Defining the Yiddish Nation
The Jewish Folklorists of Poland
An examination of the history of Yiddish folklore from Poland between the two world wars.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814326695
Jews and the German State
The Political History of a Minority, 1848-1933
Now available in paperback, this book delivers a comprehensive one-volume account of the political history of Jews as a significant minority within Imperial Germany.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814331309
Experience and Expression
Women, the Nazis, and the Holocaust
An innovative contribution to the field of Holocaust studies, this set of interdisciplinary essays undertakes a gendered analysis of both Jewish and non-Jewish women as perpetrators, victims, rescuers, survivors, and postwar artists.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814330630
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814338865
The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself
A New and Updated Edition
A collection of modern Hebrew poetry that presents the poems in the original Hebrew, with an English phonetic transcription.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814324851
Spirit Possession in Judaism
Cases and Contexts from the Middle Ages to the Present
A rich, multidisciplinary exploration of spirit possession among Jews.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814330036
Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush
A Documentary History, 1849-1880
A history of the founding of California’s Jewish community during the Gold Rush.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814328590