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A rich autobiographical novel of the sentimental education of one of modern Israel's foremost literary talents

Sarah M. Ross brings together scholarship on Jewish liturgy, U.S. history, and musical ethnology to describe its roots and development, focusing on the work of songwriters such as Debbie Friedman and Linda Hirschhorn.

Written by the core faculty of the Hebrew Written by the core faculty of the Hebrew Program at Brandeis University, Brandeis Modern Hebrew is an accessible introduction to the Hebrew language for American undergraduates and high school students.

Over 170 amazing photographs of Jewish life in the Pale of Settlement, from S. An-sky's ethnographic expeditions

Orit Rozin focuses on the construction of citizenship in Israel during the state's first decade, revealing the historical circumstances and the pressures that limited the freedoms of Israeli citizens and, as well as showing the capacity of the bureaucracy for flexibility and of the populace for protest against unjust and humiliating measures.

Evocative readings of the Torah through the lens of transgender experience, exploring the ways trans perspectives can enrich our understanding of religious texts, traditions, and God

The story of the greatest prewar Jewish library in Europe

A study of place and creative inspiration

The first comprehensive biography of America's great mid-century impresario

An illuminating anthology that traces the trajectory of Jewish thought in twentieth-century France

Anthology of writings about Jewish law in the modern world

A passionate and provocative assessment of the decline of performing arts institutions in the United States and how to save them

A critical assessment of Jewishness in Woody Allen's films and plays

An astonishing analysis of Jewish mother-daughter relations before, during, and after the Shoah as described in daughters' memoirs

An enlightening look at a unique and remarkable Jewish community

Now available in English, a provocative new biography of the founder of Hasidism

The first full-length presentation of Jewish life, history, and culture in California from the Gold Rush to the twenty-first century

Rich ethnographies of Jewish supplementary schools drawn from every region in the U.S.

A much-anticipated sociological analysis of gender components in contemporary American Jewish life based on the most recent population data

A fascinating analysis of the story of Eve, using modern poetry in conversation with biblical texts and rabbinic rewritings to reveal new layers of meaning

Eleven essays on the life and thought of the Jewish philosopher and theologian Franz Rosenzweig.

Following the Balfour Declaration and the British conquest of Palestine (1917-1918), the small Jewish community that lived there wanted to establish an elected assembly as its representative body. The issue that hindered this aim was whether women would be part of it. A group of feminist Zionist women from all over the country created a political p

A fresh look at Jewish-Arab relations in Palestine under the British Mandate

In the first book to investigate the cultural contributions of the banker Eduard Todesco, the steel tycoon Karl Wittgenstein and many others, Shapira reconsiders theories identifying the crisis of Jewish assimilation as a primary creative stimulus for the Jewish contribution to Viennese modernism.

In her reading of Hebrew autobiography, Tamar Hess identifies the textual presence and function of the collective and its interplay with the Israeli self. A systematic review of contemporary Hebrew autobiography, this study raises fundamental questions essential to the debates about identity at the heart of Israeli culture today.