Wayne State University Press

Lively and engaging new view of London’s Jewish East End through translated stories of its Yiddish writers.

Innovative study of Taika Waititi, whose Maori and Jewish roots influence his distinctive New Zealand comedic style.

Critical anthology of fairy tales by nineteenth-century British, French, and German women writers.

A collection of food-focused folktales from the Israel Folktale Archives.

A comprehensive study of Jewish magic in the late antiquity and the early Islamic period—the phenomenon, the sources, and method for its research, and the history of scholarly investigation into its nature and origin.

Analysis of race, racism, and the criminal justice system on Homicide: Life on the Street.

Examines a major Michigan timber baron and political figure who also founded a coal-mining empire in Kentucky.

Poems that seek stability in family and community while coping with a country full of conflict and change.

Showcases cutting-edge work by renowned researchers of classical Hollywood filmmaking.