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  • Imagining the Kibbutz

    Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film

    Series series Dimyonot
    In Imagining the Kibbutz, Ranen Omer-Sherman explores the literary and cinematic representations of the socialist experiment that became history’s most successfully sustained communal enterprise. Inspired in part by the kibbutz movement’s recent commemoration of its centennial, this study responds to a significant gap in scholarship. Numerous sociological and economic studies have appeared, but no ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Diasporas of the Mind

    Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the Nightmare of History

    In this fascinating and erudite book, Bryan Cheyette throws new light on a wide range of modern and contemporary writers—some at the heart of the canon, others more marginal—to explore the power and limitations of the diasporic imagination after the Second World War. Moving from early responses to the death camps and decolonization, through internationally prominent literature after the Second ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • "How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?"

    Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs

    Series series Gender and Culture Series
    American comics reflect the distinct sensibilities and experiences of the Jewish American men who played an outsized role in creating them, but what about the contributions of Jewish women? Focusing on the visionary work of seven contemporary female Jewish cartoonists, Tahneer Oksman draws a remarkable connection between innovations in modes of graphic storytelling and the unstable, contradictory, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Gertrude Stein and the Making of Jewish Modernism

    by Amy Feinstein ...
    Challenging the assumption that modernist writer Gertrude Stein seldom integrated her Jewish identity and heritage into her work, this book uncovers Stein’s constant and varied writing about Jewish topics throughout her career. Amy Feinstein argues that Judaism was central to Stein’s ideas about modernity, showing how Stein connects the modernist era to the Jewish experience.Combing through Stein ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Philosophical Pathos of Susan Taubes

    Between Nihilism and Hope

    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish Mysticism
    The Philosophical Pathos of Susan Taubes offers a detailed analysis of an extraordinary figure in the twentieth-century history of Jewish thought, Western philosophy, and the study of religion. Drawing on close readings of Susan Taubes's writings, including her correspondence with Jacob Taubes, scholarly essays, literary compositions, and poems, Elliot R. Wolfson plumbs the depths of the tragic ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Hebrew Folktale in Premodern Morality Literature

    by Vered Tohar ...
    Series series Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
    This pioneering exploration shows that in the early modern world, printed works on morality and ethics served as an important conveyor of classic Jewish folktales and as an important channel of leisure reading in premodern Jewish culture. Utilizing a corpus of over 400 Musar tales, author Vered Tohar carefully opens a path to understand the thematic and poetic features of those tales. This ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Modern Jewish Literatures

    Intersections and Boundaries

    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Is there such a thing as a distinctive Jewish literature? While definitions have been offered, none has been universally accepted. Modern Jewish literature lacks the basic markers of national literatures: it has neither a common geography nor a shared language—though works in Hebrew or Yiddish are almost certainly included—and the field is so diverse that it cannot be contained within the bounds ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Richard Polwhele and Romantic Culture

    The Politics of Reaction and the Poetics of Place

    by Dafydd Moore ...
    Series series Routledge New Textual Studies in Literature
    Richard Polwhele was a writer of rare energies. Today known only for The Unsex’d Females and its attack on radical women writers, Polwhele was a historian, translator, memoirist, and poet. As an indigent Cornish gentleman clergyman and JP, his extensive written output encompassed sermons, open letters, and even headstone verse. This book recovers the lost Polwhele, locating him within an ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Leaving Other People Alone

    Diaspora, Zionism, and Palestine in Contemporary Jewish Fiction

    by Aaron Kreuter ...
    Leaving Other People Alone reads contemporary North American Jewish fiction about Israel/Palestine through an anti-Zionist lens. Aaron Kreuter argues that since Jewish diasporic fiction played a major role in establishing the centroperipheral relationship between Israel and the diaspora, it therefore also has the potential to challenge, trouble, and ultimately rework this relationship. Kreuter ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Our Exodus

    Leon Uris and the Americanization of Israel’s Founding Story

    by M.M. Silver ...
    Examines the phenomenon of Exodus and its influence on post–World War II understandings of Israel’s beginnings. ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Mortuary of Books

    The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust

    Series series Goldstein-Goren American Jewish History
    Winner, 2020 JDC-Herbert Katzki Award for Writing Based on Archival Material, given by the Jewish Book CouncilThe astonishing story of the efforts of scholars and activists to rescue Jewish cultural treasures after the HolocaustIn March 1946 the American Military Government for Germany established the Offenbach Archival Depot near Frankfurt to store, identify, and restore the huge quantities of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eastern European Jewish American Narratives, 1890–1930

    Struggles for Recognition

    Series series Lexington Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory
    The compelling argument of Eastern European Jewish American Narratives, 1890–1930: Struggles for Recognition is that narratives of Eastern European Jewish Americans are important discourses offering a response to America’s norms of assimilation, rationalized progress, and control in the early twentieth century under the guise of commitment to the specificity of individual experiences. The book ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Stumbling Into Modernity

    Isaac Bashevis Singer's Cling to Tradition

    by Greg Masters ...
    Stumbling Into Modernity: 
Isaac Bashevis Singer's Cling to Tradition takes an admiring, yet critical look at a body of literature that reflects a crossover, not only geographic, with immigration from Poland, but from traditional, tribal values treasured in the Jewish provinces of Europe and then questioned in the new, modern world of America. While this study seeks a place in the modern canon for ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Viaggi di Beniamino Terzo

    Presentazione di Claudio Magris. Traduzione e postfazione di Daniela Leoni

    Spinto dalla lettura di favolosi libri di viaggio, Beniamino si avventura nel mondo accompagnato dal burlesco e assennato scudiero Senderl. Questa versione ebraica del Don Chisciotte è il capolavoro poetico di un’odissea comune alla letteratura yiddish, i cui eroi lasciano i piccoli e circoscritti borghi ebraici dell’Europa orientale per avventurarsi nel vasto e sconosciuto mondo. Non tanto per ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • I falsi protocolli

    by Sergio Romano ...
    Nei primi anni del Novecento cominciò a circolare - dapprima in Russia, poi nell'Europa occidentale e negli Stati Uniti - un libro dal titolo apparentemente neutro, I Protocolli dei Savi Anziani di Sion (il cui testo è qui riprodotto in appendice), che descrive in ogni particolare la strategia messa in atto dagli ebrei per conquistare il mondo. Riconoscendovi il plagio di un pamphlet contro ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Object of Jewish Literature

    A Material History

    A history of modern Jewish literature that explores our enduring attachment to the book as an objectWith the rise of digital media, the "death of the book” has been widely discussed. But the physical object of the book persists. Here, through the lens of materiality and objects, Barbara E. Mann tells a history of modern Jewish literature, from novels and poetry to graphic novels and artists’ books ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Warriors, Witches, Whores

    Women in Israeli Cinema

    Series series Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
    Warriors, Witches, Whores: Women in Israeli Cinema is a feminist study of Israel’s film industry and the changes that have occurred since the 1990s. Working in feminist film theory, the book adopts a cultural studies approach, considering the creation of a female-centered and thematically feminist film culture in light of structural and ideological shifts in Israeli society. Author Rachel S. ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A.M. Klein: Complete Poems

    Part I: Original poems 1926-1934; Part II: Original Poems 1937-1955 and Poetry Translations (Collected Works of A.M. Klein)

    by A.M. Klein ...
    Series Book 1 - Heritage
    It is for his poetry that A.M. Klein is best known and most warmly remembered. This collection includes all Klein's poetry, both original works and translations from Hebrew, Yiddish, Aramaic, and Latin. Many of them, coming from all periods of his careers, have never been published.The poems are arranged chronologically according to date of composition. This makes possible, for the first time, an ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Golem

    Modern Wars and Their Monsters

    by Maya Barzilai ...
    2017 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Jewish Literature and LinguisticsHonorable Mention, 2016 Baron Book Prize presented by AAJRA monster tour of the Golem narrative across various cultural and historical landscapesIn the 1910s and 1920s, a “golem cult” swept across Europe and the U.S., later surfacing in Israel. Why did this story of a powerful clay monster molded and animated by a rabbi to ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yiddish Transformed

    Reading Habits in the Russian Empire, 1860-1914

    by Nathan Cohen ...
    As significant economic, social, political, and cultural transformations swept the Jewish population of Tsarist Russia and Congress Poland between 1860 and 1914, the Yiddish language (Zhargon) began to gain recognition as a central part of the Jewish cultural stage. Yiddish Transformed examines the secular reading habits of East-European Jews as the Jewish community began shifting to a modern ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Festas da tradição judaica

    Olhar o passado para enxergar o futuro

    'Festas da tradição judaica: olhar o passado para enxergar o futuro' é um livro para iluminar alguns dos temas do calendário judaico, reunindo uma antologia de textos independentes que contribuam para que o leitor possa realizar conexões significativas entre a tradição judaica e a sua vida. As ilustrações da artista plástica Sandra Felzen, sensível e talentosa, expressam de forma muito especial as ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Jews of China: v. 2: A Sourcebook and Research Guide

    An impressive interdisciplinary effort by Chinese, Japanese, Middle Eastern, and Western Sinologists and Judaic Studies specialists, these books scrutinize patterns of migration, acculturation, assimilation, and economic activity of successive waves of Jewish arrivals in China from approximately A.D.1100 to 1949. ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Mediating Modernity

    Challenges and Trends in the Jewish Encounter with the Modern World

    In Mediating Modernity, contemporary Jewish scholars pay tribute to Michael A. Meyer, scholar of German-Jewish history and the history of Reform Judaism, with a collection of essays that highlight growing diversity within the discipline of Jewish studies. The occasion of Meyer’s seventieth birthday has served as motivation for his colleagues Lauren B. Strauss and Michael Brenner to compile this ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus