Jewish Studies

Although fewer American Jews today describe themselves as religious, they overwhelmingly report a strong sense of belonging to the Jewish people. Indeed, Jewish peoplehood has eclipsed religion - as well as ethnicity and nationality - as the essence of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982516843Author Steven L PeaseFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint DeucalionPublisher DeucalionWeight(grams) 440g

An evocative feminist ethnography focused on the rarely documented lives of women at the Israeli periphery. Concrete Boxes: Mizrahi Women on Israel's Periphery offers a rich depiction of contemporary life in one marginalized development town in the...

In 1900 over five million Jews lived in the Russian empire; today, there are four times as many Russian-speaking Jews residing outside the former Soviet Union than there are in that region. The New Jewish Diaspora is the first English-language study of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307456250Author Norman PodhoretzFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289g

Germany today boasts the fastest growing population of Jews in Europe. The streets of Berlin abound with signs of a revival of Jewish culture, ranging from bagel shops to the sight of worshipers leaving synagogue on Saturday. With the new energy infused...

This title describes and examines the attempts of Gush Emunim, a religious nationalistic social movement, to construct Israeli identity, collective memory, and sense of place. Gush Emunim traces its roots to the 1967 Six Day War and the development of a...

By examining the lives and social dynamics of Jewish university students, Pickus shows how German Jews rearranged their self-images and redefined what it meant to be Jewish.Book InformationISBN 9780814343524Author Keith H. PickusFormat PaperbackPage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989443234Author Andrzej TrzcińskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Wielkie Oczy Foundation PublishingPublisher Wielkie Oczy Foundation...

Between 1977 and 1992, practically all Ethiopian Jews migrated to Israel. This mass move followed the 1974 revolution in Ethiopia and its ensuing economic and political upheavals, compounded by the brutality of the military regime and the...

Although fewer American Jews today describe themselves as religious, they overwhelmingly report a strong sense of belonging to the Jewish people. Indeed, Jewish peoplehood has eclipsed religion - as well as ethnicity and nationality - as the essence of...

In 1839, Muslims attacked the Jews of Meshhed, murdering 36 of them, and forcing the conversion of the rest. While some managed to escape across the Afghan border, and some turned into true believing Muslims, the majority adopted Islam only outwardly,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982516850Author Steven L PeaseFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint DeucalionPublisher DeucalionWeight(grams) 594g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977356782Author Jack KitaeffFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 475g

Leonard N. Simons (1904-1995) was one of Detroit's most prominent benefactors. Here, republished on the occasion of his eighty-fifth birthday, is presented a selection of his talks and addresses that illustrate a rare combination of wit, sensitivity, and...

Aaron Berman takes a moderate and measured approach to one of the most emotional issues in American Jewish historiography, namely, the response of American Jews to Nazism and the extermination of European Jewry.In remarkably large numbers, American Jews...

From the last decades of the nineteenth century through the late 1930s, the West Bohemian spa towns of Carlsbad, Franzensbad, and Marienbad were fashionable destinations for visitors wishing to "take a cure"—to drink the waters, bathe in the mud, be...

In August of 1991, the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights was engulfed in violence following the deaths of Gavin Cato and Yankel Rosenbaum—a West Indian boy struck by a car in the motorcade of a Hasidic spiritual leader and an orthodox Jew stabbed by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648797784Author Helen WolfersFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint IntertypePublisher IntertypeWeight(grams) 367g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814349984Author Corinne E BlackmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Wayne State University PressPublisher Wayne State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814348284Author Simon J BronnerFormat HardbackPage Count 516Imprint Wayne State University PressPublisher Wayne State University PressWeight(grams) 152g

Kugel and Frijoles: Latino Jews in the United States analyzes the changing construction of race and ethnicity in the United States through the lens of contemporary Jewish immigrants from Latin America. Since Latino Jews are not easily classified within...

Kugel and Frijoles: Latino Jews in the United States analyzes the changing construction of race and ethnicity in the United States through the lens of contemporary Jewish immigrants from Latin America. Since Latino Jews are not easily classified within...

In The Power of a Tale: Stories from the Israel Folktale Archives, editors Haya Bar-Itzhak and Idit Pintel-Gensberg bring together a collection of fifty-three folktales celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Israel Folktale Archives (IFA) at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814338759Author Simon J BronnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 516Imprint Wayne State University PressPublisher Wayne State University PressWeight(grams) 152g

Unwitting Zionists examines the Jewish community in the northern Kurdistan town of Zakho from the end of the Ottoman period until the disappearance of the community through aliyah by 1951. Because of its remote location, Zakho was far removed from the...

The religious communities of early modern Eastern Europe-particularly those with a mystical bent-are typically studied in isolation. Yet the heavy Slavic imprint on Jewish popular mysticism and pervasive Judaizing tendencies among Christian dissenters...

In 1900 over five million Jews lived in the Russian empire; today, there are four times as many Russian-speaking Jews residing outside the former Soviet Union than there are in that region. The New Jewish Diaspora is the first English-language study of...

Most scholars since World War Two have assumed that composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) maintained a strong attachment to Judaism throughout his lifetime. As these commentators have rightly noted, Mendelssohn was born Jewish and not...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 by the Daily Telegraph, Mail on Sunday and Observer 'A glittering gemstone of a book' The Times The Jewish story is a history that is about, and for, all of us. And in our own...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780701138912Author Michael BurnsFormat HardbackPage Count 572Imprint Chatto & WindusPublisher Vintage PublishingWeight(grams) 153g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604881745Author Dave PrinceFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Pathfinder PressPublisher Pathfinder Press

Lament, mourning, and the transmissibility of a tradition in the aftermath of destruction are prominent themes in Jewish thought. The corpus of lament literature, building upon and transforming the biblical Book of Lamentations, provides a unique lens...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783111520575Author Ruth Kara-Ivanov KanielFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint De GruyterPublisher De Gruyter

Reconsidering how early modern and modern Jews navigated schisms between Jewish community and European society.This collection brings together original scholarship by seventeen historians drawing on the pioneering research of their teacher and colleague,...

András Koerner is the author of a number of critically acclaimed, award-winning CEU Press titles on the cultural history of Hungarian Jews and Jewish cuisine. This volume continues that tradition by discussing the phenomenon of exhibits on Jewish...

Reflections on A New Mexican Crypto-Jewish Song Book offers close examinations of a manuscript written over a 20-year period by Loggie Carrasco, a well-known crypto-Jew from Albuquerque, New Mexico. The manuscript includes a wide range of genres:...

The aftermath of World War II was a period of massive Jewish migration. More than a million Jews came to settle in the new state of Israel; hundreds of thousands moved to North America, Australia, and France, while tens of thousands resettled themselves...

One of three volumes responding to the 7 October attack, Law and Society begins with a legal and a genocide studies critique of the claim that Israel is genocidal; another reflects on the absence of an understanding of antisemitism in international legal...