Wayne State University Press

Germany’s most important filmmaking movement in conversation with its peers across the globe.

New perspectives on Anglo-Jewish history via the poetry and song of Yiddish-speaking immigrants in London from 1884 to 1914.

Explores the bonds of family, neighbors, lovers, and friends as they are tested in new environments.

Poetry that uses American folk music as a lens to investigate themes of family, art, and masculinity.

Examines the social and historical significance of women’s contributions to American silent film comedy.

The first book devoted to the life and work of a contemporary Italian-born American artist Harry Bertoia.

In Fitting Memory, a critical survey of Holocaust memorials and monuments in Europe, Israel, and the United States, focuses on the archeological remains at the original sites of Nazi terror which constituted the first postwar memorials.

Analyses the development of Jewish women's writing in relation to Victorian literary history, women's cultural history, and Jewish cultural history.

Working Detroit documents the events in the city's ongoing struggle to build an industrial society that is both prosperous and humane.