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  • Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic

    Series Book 5 - Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures Series
    The Neo-Aramaic dialects are modern vernacular forms of Aramaic, which has a documented history in the Middle East of over 3,000 years. Due to upheavals in the Middle East over the last one hundred years, thousands of speakers of Neo-Aramaic dialects have been forced to migrate from their homes or have perished in massacres. As a result, the dialects are now highly endangered. The dialects exhibit ... Read more

    $8.99 USD $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Michael Gold

    The People's Writer

    by Patrick Chura ...
    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture
    Winner of the 2022 Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize presented by the Literary EncyclopediaWinner of the 2022 Paul Cowan Non-Fiction Award presented by the Peace Corps WorldwideJewish American Communist writer and cultural figure Michael Gold (1893–1967) was a key progressive author of his generation, yet today his work is too often forgotten. A novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, journalist, and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Matrilineal Dissent

    Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History

    Bridging literary studies and cultural history, this edited volume examines Jewish women writers’ wide-ranging contributions to American literary culture from the turn of the twentieth century to the present. Matrilineal Dissent features innovative considerations of contemporary autofiction, graphic narratives, and novels by Mizrahi writers as well as middlebrow, Progressive Era, and second-wave ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

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  • For Women and Girls Only

    Reshaping Jewish Orthodoxy Through the Arts in the Digital Age

    by Jessica Roda ...
    A compelling look at the lives of ultra-Orthodox and formerly ultra-Orthodox Jewish women and their use of media technologies to create a new market for music and filmMainstream portrayals of ultra-Orthodox religious women often frame their faith as oppressive: they are empowered only when they leave their community. This book flips this notion on its head. Drawing on six years of fieldwork ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The "German Illusion"

    Germany and Jewish-German Motifs in Hélène Cixous’s Late Work

    Series series New Directions in German Studies
    Examines Jewish-German “tropes” in Hélène Cixous's oeuvre and life and their impact on her work as a feminist, poet, and playwright.Hélène Cixous is a poet, philosopher, and activist known worldwide for her manifesto on Écriture feminine (feminine writing) and for her influential literary texts, plays, and essays. While the themes were rarely present in her earlier writings, Germany and Jewish ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Blooming Spaces

    The Collected Poetry, Prose, Critical Writing, and Letters of Debora Vogel

    Edited by Anastasiya Lyubas ...
    Series series Jews of Poland
    Debora Vogel (1900-1942) wrote in Yiddish unlike anyone else. Yiddish, her fourth language after Polish, Hebrew, and German, became the central vehicle for her modernist experiments in poetry and prose. This ground-breaking collection presents the work of a strikingly original yet overlooked author, art critic, and intellectual, and resituates Vogel as an important figure in the constellation of ... Read more

    $31.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism

    How the rabbis of late antiquity used time to define the boundaries of Jewish identityThe rabbinic corpus begins with a question–“when?”—and is brimming with discussions about time and the relationship between people, God, and the hour. Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism explores the rhythms of time that animated the rabbinic world of late antiquity, revealing how rabbis conceptualized time ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature

    by Laurel Plapp ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature examines twentieth-century Jewish writing that challenges imperialist ventures and calls for solidarity with the colonized, most notably the Arabs of Palestine and Africans in the Americas. Since Edward Said defined orientalism in 1978 as a Western image of the Islamic world that has justified domination, critics have considered the Jewish ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Makers of Worlds, Readers of Signs

    Israeli and Palestinian Literature of the Global Contemporary

    by Kfir Cohen ...
    A sweeping new theory of world literature through a study of Palestinian and Israeli literature from the 1940s to the presentMakers of Worlds, Readers of Signs charts the aesthetic and political formation of neoliberalism and globalization in Israeli and Palestinian literature from the 1940s to the present. By tracking literature’s move from making worlds to reading signs, Cohen Lustig proposes a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Revisiting Tolerance. Lessons drawn from Egypt's Cosmopolitanism

    by Victor Teboul ...
    About Revisiting Tolerance. Lessons drawn from Egypt's CosmopolitanismHow does a polyglot Jewish family from Alexandria, Egypt, get caught up in the power play of the Suez Crisis? In this fascinating ebook Egyptian-born writer Victor Teboul recounts his cosmopolitan experience and his family’s ordeal following the 1956 Suez Crisis and the expulsion of Egypt’s Jewish community."Strangely enough, in ... Read more

    $3.87 USD

  • The Conflagration of Community

    Fiction before and after Auschwitz

    “After Auschwitz to write even a single poem is barbaric.” The Conflagration of Community challenges Theodor Adorno’s famous statement about aesthetic production after the Holocaust, arguing for the possibility of literature to bear witness to extreme collective and personal experiences. J. Hillis Miller masterfully considers how novels about the Holocaust relate to fictions written before and ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Satire, Fantasy and Writings on the Supernatural by Daniel Defoe, Part II vol 7

    The publication of the 44-volume Works of Daniel Defoe continues with this collection of Defoe's satirical poetry and fantasy writings, and writings on the supernatural. ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Chaim Potok

    Confronting Modernity Through the Lens of Tradition

    Edited by Daniel Walden ...
    Chaim Potok was a world-class writer and scholar, a Conservative Jew who wrote from and about his tradition and the conflicts between observance and acculturation. With a plain, straightforward style, his novels were set against the moral, spiritual, and intellectual currents of the twentieth century. This collection aims to widen the lens through which we read Chaim Potok and to establish him as ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Iterations of Loss

    Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, al-Shidyaq to Darwish

    by Jeffrey Sacks ...
    In a series of exquisite close readings of Arabic and Arab Jewish writing, Jeffrey Sacks considers the relation of poetic statement to individual and collective loss, the dispossession of peoples and languages, and singular events of destruction in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Addressing the work of Mahmoud Darwish, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Elias Khoury, Edmond Amran El ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The New Spice Box

    Contemporary Jewish Writing

    Edited by Ruth Panofsky ...
    The New Spice Box includes short fiction, personal essays, and poetry by Jewish writers from a broad range of cultural backgrounds. Fresh and relevant, profound and lasting, this anthology features works by acclaimed short story writers David Bezmozgis, Mireille Silcoff, and Ayelet Tsabari; groundbreaking memoirists Bernice Eisenstein and Alison Pick; and award-winning poets Isa Milman, Jacob ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Converso's Return

    Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture

    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    Five centuries after the forced conversion of Spanish and Portuguese Jews to Catholicism, stories of these conversos' descendants uncovering long-hidden Jewish roots have come to light and taken hold of the literary and popular imagination. This seemingly remote history has inspired a wave of contemporary writing involving hidden artifacts, familial whispers and secrets, and clandestine Jewish ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Writing Occupation

    Jewish Émigré Voices in Wartime France

    by Julia Elsky ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    Among the Jewish writers who emigrated from Eastern Europe to France in the 1910s and 1920s, a number chose to switch from writing in their languages of origin to writing primarily in French, a language that represented both a literary center and the promises of French universalism. But under the Nazi occupation of France from 1940 to 1944, these Jewish émigré writers—among them Irène Némirovsky, ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Unsettling Jewish Knowledge

    Text, Contingency, Desire

    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Spanning the fields of literature, history, philosophy, and theology, Unsettling Jewish Knowledge adopts a fresh approach to the study of Jewish thought and culture. By creatively foregrounding the role of emotions, senses, and the imagination in Jewish experience, the book invites readers to consider what it means for Jewish identity and experience to be constituted outside the frameworks of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Magical American Jew

    The Enigma of Difference in Contemporary Jewish American Short Fiction and Film

    by Aaron Tillman ...
    Efforts to describe contemporary Jewish American identities often reveal more questions than concrete articulations, more statements about what Jewish Americans are not than what they are. Highlighting the paradoxical phrasings that surface in contemporary writings about Jewish American literature and culture—language that speaks to the elusive difference felt by many Jewish Americans—Aaron ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Jewish Women Writers in Britain

    by Nadia Valman ...
    Against a background of enormous cultural change during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, writing by British Jewish women grappled with shifting meanings of Jewish identity, the pressure of social norms, and questions of assimilation. Until recently, however, the distinctive experiences and perspectives of Jewish women have been absent from accounts of both British Jewish literature and ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Modeling Citizenship

    Jewish and Asian American Writing

    Navigating deftly among historical and literary readings, Cathy Schlund-Vials examines the analogous yet divergent experiences of Asian Americans and Jewish Americans in Modeling Citizenship. She investigates how these model minority groups are shaped by the shifting terrain of naturalization law and immigration policy, using the lens of naturalization, not assimilation, to underscore questions of ... Read more

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  • The Full Severity of Compassion

    The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai

    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    Yehuda Amichai (1924–2000) was the foremost Israeli poet of the twentieth century and an internationally influential literary figure whose poetry has been translated into some 40 languages. Hitherto, no comprehensive literary study of Amichai's poetry has appeared in English. This long-awaited book seeks to fill the gap.Widely considered one of the greatest poets of our time and the most important ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Return of the Absent Father

    A New Reading of a Chain of Stories from the Babylonian Talmud

    Translated by Batya Stein ...
    Series series Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
    The Return of the Absent Father offers a new reading of a chain of seven stories from tractate Ketubot in the Babylonian Talmud, in which sages abandon their homes, wives, and families and go away to the study house for long periods. Earlier interpretations have emphasized the tension between conjugal and scholarly desire as the key driving force in these stories. Haim Weiss and Shira Stav here ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Zur Judenfrage

    by Karl Marx ...
    Marx widmet sich in der Schrift der Frage nach politischer und menschlicher Emanzipation, wobei wie schon in der zuvor verfassten Schrift Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Rechtsphilosophie das widersprüchliche Verhältnis von politischem Staat und bürgerlicher Gesellschaft, wie dessen Lösung, zentral für die Argumentation ist. Einleitend stellt Marx Bruno Bauers Lösung der Judenfrage dar. Nach Marx fasse ... Read more

    $2.99 USD