Jewish Studies

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) 367gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm

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)...

Jewish Cultural Studies charts the contours and boundaries of Jewish cultural studies and the issues of Jewish culture that make it so intriguing-and necessary-not only for Jews but also for students of identity, ethnicity, and diversity generally. In...

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...

Jewish Cultural Studies charts the contours and boundaries of Jewish cultural studies and the issues of Jewish culture that make it so intriguing-and necessary-not only for Jews but also for students of identity, ethnicity, and diversity generally. In...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814335178Author Glenn DynnerFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Wayne State University PressPublisher Wayne State University PressWeight(grams) 810g

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...

Historically leftist ideas and theories have had a profound impact on modern Jewish life. But, the left's impact on the Jewish community has greatly diminished today. Nonetheless, it can still be detected in the tendency of American Jews to vote for the...

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...

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...

"Jewish Neighborhoods in California: History and Development amplifies the essence of Judaism as experienced in California's historic Jewish neighborhoods."--Book InformationISBN 9781680532067Author Keith WarwickFormat HardbackPage Count...

One of three volumes responding to the 7 October attack, Universities focuses on the heartland of contemporary antisemitic thinking, which is scholarship; and its reflection in student discourse on campus.Contributions go back to Sartre and to debates of...

One of three volumes responding to the 7 October attack, Antisemitic Discourse focuses on the ideology that motivated it and the antisemitism that shaped many responses to it.It examines the provenance of the Jew-hatred, from English history to...

Return of the Jew traces the appearance of a new generation of Jews in Poland that followed the fall of the communist regime. Today more and more Poles are discovering their Jewish heritage and beginning to seek a means of associating with Judaism and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725274785Author Andrew RamerFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 408g

In the past thirty years, the Sino-Jewish encounter in modern China has increasingly garnered scholarly and popular attention. This volume will be the first to focus on the transcultural exchange between Ashkenazic Jewry and China. The essays here...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666748888Author Dvora Lederman-DanielyFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 299g

Analyzing the history of the Jews of Spain from the time of the Visigoths to the present, this study investigates periods of discrimination against converted Jews that went beyond the merely religious, finding similarities to the racial and secular...

The Story of Dinah examines the intersection of rape culture and Jewish tradition by tracing over two thousand years of Jewish commentary on Genesis 34. Using a definition of rape derived from the Hebrew Bible, Ruit scrutinizes the commentaries on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953829214Author T S MendolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Ben Yehuda PressPublisher Ben Yehuda PressWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

In the past decades the "German-Jewish phenomenon" (Derrida) has increasingly attracted the attention of scholars from various fields: Jewish studies, intellectual history, philosophy, literary and cultural studies, critical theory. In all its complex...

Reveals the mass mobilization tactics that helped free Soviet Jews and reshaped the Jewish American experience from the Johnson era through the Reagan–Bush years What do these things have in common? Ingrid Bergman, Passover matzoh, Banana Republic®, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606082393Author Louis JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 295g

The second collection of plays by Gail Louw, including the plays Duwayne, The Mitfords, The Half Life of Love and Joe Ho Ho.The second collection of plays from Gail Louw, including the plays Duwayne, The Mitfords, The Half Life of Love and Joe Ho Ho...

Since ancient times, music has demonstrated the incomparable ability to touch and resonate with the human spirit as a tool for communication, emotional expression, and as a medium of cultural identity. During World War II, Nazi leadership recognized...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602064058Author Leon SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 263g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666748871Author Dvora Lederman-DanielyFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781777079802Author Bruria Lindenberg CoopermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint BlcPublisher BlcWeight(grams) 376g

Contemporary Jewish identity, integration and acculturation in Europe has become an urgent topic in view of the current wave of antisemitism and reliable research on the present state of Jewish identity is scarce. Lilach Lev Ari has chosen three...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630730376Author Mark a AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Faithful Life PublishersPublisher Faithful Life PublishersWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580234924Author Karyn D. KedarFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingDimensions(mm) 229mm *...