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  • Queer Theory and the Jewish Question

    Series series Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies
    The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. With important essays by such well-known figures in queer and gender studies as Judith Butler, Daniel Boyarin, Marjorie Garber, Michael Moon, and Eve Sedgwick, this book is not so much ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • From Sarah to Sydney

    The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family

    The untold life story of All-of-a-Kind Family author Sydney Taylor, highlighting her dramatic influence on American children’s literatureThis is the first and only biography of Sydney Taylor (1904–1978), author of the award-winning All-of-a-Kind Family series of books, the first juvenile novels published by a mainstream publisher to feature Jewish children characters. The family—based on Taylor’s ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • How the Wise Men Got to Chelm

    The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition

    Series series Families, Law, and Society
    How the Wise Men Got to Chelm is the first in-depth study of Chelm literature and its relationship to its literary precursors.When God created the world, so it is said, he sent out an angel with a bag of foolish souls with instructions to distribute them equally all over the world—one fool per town. But the angel’s bag broke and all the souls spilled out onto the same spot. They built a settlement ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Question of Tradition

    Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987

    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    In A Question of Tradition, Kathryn Hellerstein explores the roles that women poets played in forming a modern Yiddish literary tradition. Women who wrote in Yiddish go largely unrecognized outside a rapidly diminishing Yiddish readership. Even in the heyday of Yiddish literature, they were regarded as marginal. But for over four centuries, women wrote and published Yiddish poems that addressed ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Anne Frank

    The Book, the Life, the Afterlife

    “Prose’s book is a stunning achievement. . . . Now Anne Frank stands before us. . . a figure who will live not only in history but also in the literature she aspired to create.” — Minneapolis Star TribuneIn June, 1942, Anne Frank received a diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic. For two years, she described ... Read more

    $8.99 USD $6.99 USD

  • Short Stories by Jesus

    The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi

    The renowned biblical scholar, author of The Misunderstood Jew, and general editor for The Jewish Annotated New Testament interweaves history and spiritual analysis to explore Jesus’ most popular teaching parables, exposing their misinterpretations and making them lively and relevant for modern readers.Jesus was a skilled storyteller and perceptive teacher who used parables from everyday life to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Testimony from the Nazi Camps

    French Women's Voices

    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This interdisciplinary study intergrates historiographical, literary and cultural methodologies in its focus on a little known corpus of testimonial accounts published by French women deported to Nazi camps. Comprising epistemological and literary analyses of the accounts and an examination of the construction of deportee identities, it will interest those working in the fields of modern French ... Read more

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  • Jewish Humor

    What the Best Jewish Jokes Say About the Jews

    Here are more than 100 of the best Jewish jokes you'll ever hear, interspersed with perceptive and persuasive insight into what they can tell us about how Jews see themselves, their families, and their friends, and what they think about money, sex, and success. Rabbi Joseph Telushkin is as celebrated for his wit as for his scholarship, and in this immensely entertaining book, he displays both in ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Phenomenon of Anne Frank

    by David Barnouw ...
    Translated by Jeannette K. Ringold ...
    “Everything you want to know about the Anne Frank phenomenon, about the perception and the effect of the text, whose writer became an icon, is said within these pages.” —Wolfgang Benz, author of A Concise History of the Third ReichWhile Anne Frank was in hiding during the German Occupation of the Netherlands, she wrote what has become the world’s most famous diary. But how could an unknown Jewish ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The People and the Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature

    by Adam Kirsch ...
    An accessible introduction to the classics of Jewish literature, from the Bible to modern times, by "one of America’s finest literary critics" (Wall Street Journal).Jews have long embraced their identity as “the people of the book.” But outside of the Bible, much of the Jewish literary tradition remains little known to nonspecialist readers. The People and the Books shows how central questions and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Elie Wiesel

    Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives

    “Illuminating . . . 24 academic essays covering Wiesel’s interpretations of the Bible, retellings of Talmudic stories . . . his post-Holocaust theology, and more.” —Publishers WeeklyNobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, best known for his writings on the Holocaust, is also the accomplished author of novels, essays, tales, and plays as well as portraits of seminal figures in Jewish life and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anne Frank Unbound

    Media, Imagination, Memory

    Series series The Modern Jewish Experience
    “A brilliantly conceived and long overdue opening up [or deconstruction] of the Anne Frank story.” —James Clifford, Professor Emeritus, History of Consciousness Department, University of CaliforniaAs millions of people around the world who have read her diary attest, Anne Frank, the most familiar victim of the Holocaust, has a remarkable place in contemporary memory. Anne Frank Unbound looks ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • City of Rogues and Schnorrers

    Russia's Jews and the Myth of Old Odessa

    by Jarrod Tanny ...
    “Outstanding . . . A delightfully written work of serious scholarship.” —Jewish Book WorldOld Odessa, on the Black Sea, gained notoriety as a legendary city of Jewish gangsters and swindlers, a frontier boomtown mythologized for the adventurers, criminals, and merrymakers who flocked there to seek easy wealth and lead lives of debauchery and excess. Odessa is also famed for the brand of Jewish ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Impossible Exile

    Stefan Zweig at the End of the World

    An original study of exile, told through the biography of Austrian writer Stefan ZweigBy the 1930s, Stefan Zweig had become the most widely translated living author in the world. His novels, short stories, and biographies were so compelling that they became instant best sellers. Zweig was also an intellectual and a lover of all the arts, high and low. Yet after Hitler’s rise to power, this ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century

    by Adam Kirsch ...
    An erudite and accessible survey of Jewish life and culture in the twentieth century, as reflected in seminal texts.Following The People and the Books, which "covers more than 2,500 years of highly variegated Jewish cultural expression" (Robert Alter, New York Times Book Review), poet and literary critic Adam Kirsch now turns to the story of modern Jewish literature. From the vast emigration of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • On Self-Translation

    Meditations on Language

    by Ilan Stavans ...
    Series series SUNY Press Open Access
    Finalist for the 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in the Essay categoryFrom award-winning, internationally known scholar and translator Ilan Stavans comes On Self-Translation, a collection of essays and conversations on language in its multifaceted forms. Stavans discusses the way syntax is being restructured by texting and other technologies. He examines how the alphabet itself is ... Read more

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  • Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl

    Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America

    “Explore[s] the Jewish past via letters that reflect connections and collisions between old and new worlds.” —Jewish Book CouncilAt the turn of the 20th century, Jewish families scattered by migration could stay in touch only through letters. Jews in the Russian Empire and America wrote business letters, romantic letters, and emotionally intense family letters. But for many Jews who were ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beautiful as the Moon, Radiant as the Stars

    Jewish Women in Yiddish Stories - An Anthology

    by Sandra Bark ...
    This book is certain to appeal to the millions of Jewish women interested in Jewish literature and the writings of Cynthia Ozick, Francine Prose, and Grace Paley. Beautifully packaged, it is an ideal Mother's Day or Bat-Mitzvah gift.This volume contains translations of Yiddish stories from eminent scholars--including an Isaac Bashevis Singer story that has never before been published in English- ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • To Pray as a Jew

    A Guide to the Prayer Book and the Synagogue Service

    A distinguished guide to Jewish prayerWhy do Jews pray? What is the role of prayer in their lives as moral and ethical beings? From the simplest details of how to comport oneself on entering a synagogue to the most profound and moving comments on the prayers themselves, Rabbi Hayim Halevy Donin guides readers of To Pray as a Jew through the entire prescribed course of Jewish liturgy, passage by ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Yosl Rakover Talks to God

    by Zvi Kolitz ...
    Series series Vintage International
    A dying Jew's last words to God -- a text that is regarded as the greatest piece of writing to have emerged from the Holocaust -- the story of how it came to be written, and the afterlife of both the author and his creation.As the German tanks destroy the Warsaw Ghetto, one of the few remaining fighters, Yosl Rakover, writes out his last words to God, seals the text in a glass bottle, and thrusts ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps

    An Intercontexual Reading

    by Leona Toker ...
    A literary scholar examines survival narratives from Russian and German concentration camps, shedding new light on testimony in the face of evil.In this illuminating study, Leona Toker demonstrates how Holocaust literature and Gulag literature provide contexts for each other, especially how the prominent features of one shed light on the veiled features and methods of the other. Toker’s analysis ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Writing Jewish Culture

    Paradoxes in Ethnography

    “Looks at the ethnographic issues while defining Jewishness in a very fresh, sophisticated way . . . very timely and important.” —Washington Book ReviewFocusing on Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, this collection explores various genres of “ethnoliterature” across temporal, geographical, and ideological borders as sites of Jewish identity formation and dissemination.Challenging the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Six Memos from the Last Millennium

    A Novelist Reads the Talmud

    Series series Exploring Jewish Arts and Culture
    A storyteller’s take on the Talmud and the timeless wisdom contained within its tales provides “a fresh look at an ancient source” (Kirkus Reviews).A thief-turned-saint, killed by an insult. A rabbi burning down his world in order to save it. A man who lost his sanity while trying to fathom the origin of the universe. A beautiful woman battling her brother’s and her husband’s egos to preserve ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Proustian Uncertainties

    On Reading and Rereading In Search of Lost Time

    **Named a Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the YearA Pulitzer Prize–winning historian revisits Marcel Proust’s masterpiece in this essay on literature and memory, exploring the question of identity—that of the novel’s narrator and Proust’s own.**This engaging reexamination of In Search of Lost Time considers how the narrator defines himself, how this compares to what we know of Proust ... Read more

    $13.99 USD