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NEW Colonialism, Pluralism, and Belonging in America David S. Koffman “A fascinating account…Koffman masterfully reveals the complexities and contradictions in American Jewish inter-ethnic relations. The Jews’ Indian raises important questions about Jews’ relationships to the project of American colonialism and the politics of race.” —Eliyahu Stern, Yale University 252 pp • 24 b/w images • paper • 978-1-9788-0086-1 $34.95S $24.47
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THE POWER OF DIALOGUE BETWEEN ISRAELIS AND NEW PALESTINIANS
WOMEN OF VALOR
Stories of Change from the School for Peace Nava Sonnenschein Edited by Deb Reich “This anthology of Israeli Jewish and Palestinian narratives expressed through in-depth interviews reveal the meaningful process of dialogue that changed participants’ life-experiences, perspectives and even aspects of identity, and demonstrates how seeds of change begin in questioning long-lasting social convictions.” —Yona Teichman, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel 350 pp • paper • 978-0-8135-9921-2 • $38.95S $27.27
A JEWISH FEMININE MYSTIQUE?
Jewish Women in Postwar America Edited by Hasia Diner, Shira Kohn, and Rachel Kranson “A marvelously fresh look at Jewish women in the post war period. This volume of collected essays deeply enriches our understanding of the varied experiences of Jewish women in the 1950s.” —Shuly Schwartz, Jewish Theological Seminary
The Geography of Jewish American Literary History NEW Michael Hoberman “Hoberman brilliantly revises notions of how quintessentially American landscapes shaped American Jewish writing. Elegantly written and cogently argued, this study unsettles the stories we think we know about Jewish immigration and territorial belonging in America.” —Rachel Rubinstein, author of Members of the Tribe: Native America in the Jewish Imagination
A SH A JEWI JEWISH FEMININE FEMI NI NE MYSTIQUE? MYST I QUE?
JEWISH WOMEN IN POSTWAR AMERICA edited by Hasia Diner, Shira Kohn, and Rachel Kranson
Orthodox Jewish Troll Fighters, NEW Crime Writers, and Rock Stars in Contemporary Literature and Culture Karen E. H. Skinazi “This wonderfully wise, sensitive and beautifully written study is a book I’ve been waiting for. Skinazi’s nuanced rendering of Orthodox Jewish women sees them at long last dodge their popular and academic stereotypes to appear as the agents and storytellers of their own lives.” —Devorah Baum, author of Feeling Jewish: (A Book for Just About Anyone) 290 pp • 15 b/w figures • 978-0-8135-9601-3 • paper $37.95S $26.57
CHOSEN CAPITAL
The Jewish Encounter with American Capitalism Edited by Rebecca Kobrin “The essays in Chosen Capital break new ground in the study of Jews and their relationship to American capitalism. The ideas and information presented in this exciting volume greatly expand our knowledge of a highly important, yet understudied, subject.” —Tony Michels, University of Wisconsin
284 pp • 9 illus. • 978-0-8135-4792-3 paper • $26.95S $18.87
288 pp • 22 photos • 978-0-8135-5308-5 paper • $29.95S $20.97
EXHIBITING ATROCITY
THE INTERNATIONAL JEWISH LABOR BUND AFTER 1945
Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence Amy Sodaro Exhibiting Atrocity documents the emergence of the memorial museum as a new cultural form of commemoration. Amy Sodaro uses in-depth case studies of five exemplary memorial museums around the world to analyze their use in efforts to come to terms with past political violence and to promote democracy and human rights. 240 pp • 15 illus. • 978-0-8135-9213-8 paper • $29.95S $20.97
HOLOCAUST ICONS
Symbolizing the Shoah in History and Memory Oren B. Stier Stier traces the lives and afterlives of certain remnants of the Holocaust and their ongoing impact. He shows how and why four icons—an object, a phrase, a person, and a number—have come to stand in for the Holocaust: where they came from and how they have been used and reproduced; how they are presently at risk from a variety of threats such as commodification; and what the future holds for the memory of the Shoah. 224 pp • 41 photos • 978-0-8135-7402-8 paper • $32.95S $23.07
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Toward a Global History David Slucki “The International Jewish Labor Bund after 1945 offers intriguing insights about how a movement so deeply rooted in the Yiddishspeaking working masses of Eastern Europe struggled to find a new role and fashion a new identity in the aftermath of the Holocaust.” —Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs
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THE NEW JEW IN FILM
Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema Nathan Abrams “Abrams adds fresh perspectives on emerging global film depictions of Jews in an investigation of how old, fixed categories of stereotypes have been subverted since 1990. Abrams shows how cinema has become the vehicle for normalizing Jews, generally stereotyped and mocked, but now framed in ordinary ways. Highly recommended.” —Choice 272 pp • 23 photos • 978-0-8135-5341-2 paper • $29.95S $20.97
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NEW A Polish Rabbi’s Witness of the Shoah and Survival By Leon Thorne Edited by Daniel Magilow & Emanuel Thorne “This remarkable and moving autobiography, here published for the first time in full in English, gives a vivid and unsparing account of the miraculous survival of a young rabbi, from the oil town of Schodnica, near Drohobych, in Galicia, during the Nazi occupation and his travails in Poland after liberation. It is essential reading for all those interested in the history of the holocaust and of Polish-Jewish relations.” —Antony Polonsky, emeritus professor, Brandeis University and chief historian, Museum of Polish Jews in Warsaw
Unreadability and the Holocaust Jessica Lang In Textual Silence, literary scholar Jessica Lang asserts that language itself forms barriers between the author and the reader in Holocaust texts—and that these barriers, or silences, are not a lack of substance, but an essential characteristic of the genre. 244 pp • 10 photos • 978-0-8135-8991-6 paper • $34.95S $24.47
MAKING HISTORY/MAKING BLINTZES
How Two Red Diaper Babies Found Each Other and Discovered America Mickey Flacks and Dick Flacks This book chronicles the political and personal lives of progressive activists Miriam and Dick Flacks. Their story, rooted in ‘old left’ childhoods, shaped by the sixties New Left, and culminating in intellectual and community leadership, is a valuable firsthand account of how progressive American activism has evolved over the last 100 years.
288 pp • 13 b/w photos, 1 map, 12 images • 978-1-9788-0165-3 cloth • $29.95T $20.97
THE REMEMBERED AND NEW FORGOTTEN JEWISH WORLD
320 pp • 20 illus. • 978-0-8135-8923-7 cloth • $37.95T $26.57
THE HOLOCAUST AVERTED
An Alternate History of American Jewry, 1938-1967 Jeffrey S. Gurock “With imagination and erudition, courage and wit...Jeffrey Gurock ponders how a fragile and skittish American Jewry might have evolved without Pearl Harbor and Auschwitz. His surprisingly dystopian vision, filled with familiar characters in unfamiliar and intriguing roles, is sure to challenge—and, quite possibly, to infuriate.” —David Margolick, author of Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink 320 pp • 978-0-8135-7238-3 • paper • $29.95T $20.97
GENTILE NEW YORK
The Images of Non-Jews among Jewish Immigrants Gil Ribak The very question of “what do Jews think about the goyim” has fascinated Jews and Gentiles, anti-Semites and philo-Semites alike. This critical look at the origins of Jewish liberalism in America provides a more complicated and nuanced picture of the Americanization process.
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Jewish Heritage in Europe and the United States Daniel J. Walkowitz “A Jewish heritage tour guide like no other, Walkowitz journeys into places hidden by time and all-too-familiar narratives to open possibilities for thinking, writing and remembering a diverse, often paradoxical and always richly complex Jewish past.” —Alisse Waterston, author of My Father’s Wars: Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century 304 pp • 26 b/w images • 978-0-8135-9606-8 • paper • $34.95T $24.47
CHILD SURVIVORS OF THE HOLOCAUST
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The Youngest Remnant and the American Experience By Beth B. Cohen “Extremely well written and thoughtful, dealing respectfully and empathetically with the important and often neglected issue of child survivors…Cohen enables a range of voices to be heard.” —Fraenkel Prize Committee, Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide 230 pp • 978-0-8135-9652-5 • paper • $39.95S $27.97
DRAWING THE IRON CURTAIN Gil Ribak
308 pp • 978-0-8135-5164-7 • paper • $49.95S $34.97
THE NEW JEWISH DIASPORA
Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel, and Germany Edited by Zvi Gitelman “An important contribution to the growing body of literature on contemporary Russian Jews around the world.” —David Shneer, author of Through Soviet Jewish Eyes 338 pp • 3 figures, 22 tables 978-0-8135-7628-2 • paper • $32.95S $23.07
HOLOCAUST MEMORY REFRAMED
Museums and the Challenges of Representation Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich “Hansen-Glucklich successfully navigates the mechanics and aesthetics of Holocaust museums and their displays, from Berlin, to Jerusalem, to Washington, D.C., offering engaging and inviting analyses.” —Oren Stier, author of Holocaust Icons 280 pp • 20 photos • 978-0-8135-6323-7 paper • $30.95S $21.67
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Jews and the Golden Age of Soviet Animation Maya Balakirsky Katz “Katz has written a very important book exploring an area of popular significance but little scholarly attention.” —David Shneer, author of Through Soviet Jewish Eyes 304 pp • 109 photos 978-0-8135-7662-6 • paper • $34.95S $24.47
COMING OF AGE IN JEWISH AMERICA
Bar and Bat Mitzvah Reinterpreted Patricia Keer Munro “Patricia Keer Munro has made an invaluable contribution to Jewish studies by elucidating the bar/bat mitzvah system as a sociological negotiation between emerging adults, their parents, educators, rabbis, and congregations. The book should be required reading for scholars of Jewish life and communal professionals, as well people of other faiths seeking a better understanding of this pivotal experience.” —Keren McGinity, Brandeis University 230 pp • 5 tables • 978-0-8135-7593-3 • paper • $27.95F $19.57
THE RENEWAL OF THE KIBBUTZ
From Reform to Transformation Raymond Russell, Robert Hanneman, and Shlomo Getz “Providing an environment where early Zionists could live and work in a democratic and collective manner, the kibbutz is fundamental to Israeli society. This carefully researched and informative book will appeal to readers interested in democratic collectivism and Israeli society. Highly recommended.” —Choice 196 pp • 20 illus. • 978-0-8135-6553-8 paper • $31.95S $22.37
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How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism Sarah Bunin Benor “Benor’s engaging and innovative study of language and identity surprises, delights, and educates. Becoming Frum is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand Jewish language and culture today.” —Mary Bucholtz, University of California, Santa Barbara
BECOMING
FRUM how Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of orthodox Judaism
Sarah BUNIN BeNor
288 pp • 6 figures, 16 tables • 978-0-8135-5389-4 paper • $30.95S $21.67
THE PHANTOM HOLOCAUST
Soviet Cinema and Jewish Catastrophe Olga Gershenson “Gershenson’s work is a monumental achievement in giving a voice to the lost Soviet Holocaust films—to the filmmakers, and to also the millions whose fates they attempted to memorialize.” —Tablet 290 pp • 20 illus. • 978-0-8135-6180-6 paper • $35.50S $24.87
KABBALISTIC REVOLUTION
STANLEY KUBRICK
NEW New York Jewish Intellectual By Nathan Abrams “Brilliantly documents and analyzes Kubrick’s Jewish sensibility by locating him in the lifelong context of his Jewish cultural and intellectual milieu. Abrams breaks acres of new ground. Essential reading.” —Geoffrey Cocks, author of The Wolf at the Door: Stanley Kubrick, History, and the Holocaust 340 pp • 20 photos • 978-0-8135-8710-3 cloth • $34.95T $24.47
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NEW Teaching as a Jew, Teaching as an American By Ilana Blumberg “This extraordinary book is part memoir, part discussion of the ethics and praxis of education, and part detailed accounts HAND of Blumberg’s teaching experiences— poignant, dramatic, profound in their implications. Ranging from pre-school to college, these narratives show how redemptive the act of writing can sometimes be. Blumberg herself thinks and writes her way through crises that interrogate her own assumptions. Here lies the generative drama of her book. A large-hearted and clear-minded document. Highly recommended.” —Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, author of Moses: A Human Life
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Reimagining Judaism in Medieval Spain Hartley Lachter “Lachter’s work is a compelling and important study of the manner in which Kabbalah responded to political and cultural pressures in Castile at a time of striking proliferation of kabbalistic literature.” —Jonathan Dauber, professor of Jewish mysticism, Yeshiva University 272 pp • 1 figure • 978-0-8135-6875-1 cloth • $69.95S $48.97
272 pp • 978-0-8135-9465-1 • paper • $34.95S $24.47 Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
ONE PEOPLE, ONE BLOOD
REICHSROCK
260 pp • 9 illus. • 978-0-8135-4936-1 • paper $26.95S $18.87
THROUGH SOVIET JEWISH EYES
Photography, War, and the Holocaust David Shneer “This meticulously illustrated volume provides a wealth of information about individual Soviet Jewish photographers who documented both the construction and devastation of Soviet society, Axis atrocities against Jews and other Soviet civilians, and the Soviet defeat of the invaders” —Holocaust and Genocide Studies 304 pp • 978-0-8135-5393-1 • paper • $32.50S $22.75
ARABS OF THE JEWISH FAITH
The Civilizing Mission in Colonial Algeria Joshua Schreier “Schreier concisely studies France’s colonozing mission of Algerian Jewry from 1830 to the Crémieux Decree of 1870. His very well written and researched narrative describes the complex, differentiated economic, social, and demographic significance of the widespread Jewish community.” —Choice 256 pp • 5 illus. • 978-0-8135-4794-7 • cloth $63.95 $44.76
B L U M B E R G
228 pp • 978-1-9788-0081-6 • paper • $19.95T $13.97
Genocide in the Geopolitical Discourse of the Cold War By Anton Weiss-Wendt Foreword by Douglas Irvin-Erickson “No one to date has documented the history of the concept of genocide with the same level of sophistication as WeissWendt. A Rhetorical Crime stands as the definitive study of this period in the evolution of international criminal law.” —David Crowe, author of War Crimes, Genocide, and Justice: A Global History
Ethiopian-Israelis and the Return to Judaism Don Seeman Seeman depicts the rich culture of the group, as well as their social and cultural vulnerability, and addresses the problems that arise when immigration officials, religious leaders, or academic scholars try to determine the legitimacy of Jewish identity or Jewish religious experience.
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The International Web of White-Power and Neo-Nazi Hate Music Kirsten Dyck “Fascinating and by far the most comprehensive treatment of the topic. No other book provides this level of detail regarding white power music.” —Pete Simi, University of Nebraska, Omaha 216 pp • 978-0-8135-7470-7 paper • $25.95S $18.17
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Advertising and the Design of the American Jewish Experience Kerri P. Steinberg “You don’t have to be Jewish to appreciate this richly detailed account of the marketing and advertising of Jewish life. Steinberg documents how religious, cultural, and communal concerns all take shape in conversation with the commercial marketplace.” —Ari Y. Kelman, author of Station Identification: A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio 232 pp • 12 color and 46 b/w illus. 978-0-8135-6375-6 • paper • $29.95T $20.97
BORROWED VOICES
Writing & Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination Jennifer Glaser “Glaser offers a nuanced, impressively researched, and innovatively crafted setoff reading that requires us to rethink the messy-but-critical connection between race and Jewishness. It is an excellent book.” —Maeera Y. Shreiber, University of Utah
Borrowed Voices
Writing & racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish american imagination. --Jennifer Glaser
224 pp • 978-0-8135-7739-5 paper • $27.95S $19.57
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JUDAISM
By Daniel Boyarin “This book offers a reflective, and evenmeta reflective discussion of the term ‘Judaism.’ Boyarin, as always, offers provocative, trail blazing insights to reckon with.” —Dina Stein, author of Textual Mirrors: Reflexivity, Midrash, and the Rabbinic Self 216 pp • 978-0-8135-7161-4 • paper • $29.95S $20.97
Barbara E. Mann Space and Place in Jewish Studies embraces how notions of “Jewish space,” diaspora, and home continue to resonate within contemporary discourse, bringing space to the foreground as a practical and analytical category. Mann takes us on a journey from medieval Levantine trade routes to the Eastern European shtetl to the streets of contemporary New York.
JEWISH STUDIES
212 pp • 6 photos • 978-0-8135-5182-1 paper • $28.95S $20.27
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JEWISH FAMILIES
A Theoretical Introduction Andrew Bush “A highly theoretical exploration of how to engage in original and erudite Jewish studies, [this book] encourages the reader to seek new avenues for source material and develop innovative analytical models to better understand the Jewish experience.” —Jewish Book World
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HASKALAH
Jonathan Boyarin Boyarin explores a wide range of scholarship in Jewish studies to argue that Jewish family forms and ideologies have Jewish Families varied greatly. He considers a range of family configurations from biblical times to the twenty-first century, including strictly Orthodox communities and new f forms of family, including same-sex parents, and suggests productive ways to think about possible futures for Jewish family forms.
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206 pp • 978-0-8135-6291-9 • paper • $28.95S $20.27
JONA THA N BOY A R I N
166 pp • 978-0-8135-5420-4 • paper • $28.95S $20.27
The Romantic Movement in Judaism Olga Litvak Litvak presents a compelling case for rethinking the relationship between the Haskalah and the experience of political and social emancipation. Litvak challenges the prevailing view that the Haskalah provided the philosophical mainspring for Jewish liberalism.
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JEWISH PEOPLEHOOD An American Innovation Volume 6
Noam Pianko Jewish peoplehood has eclipsed religion—as well as ethnicity and nationality—as the prevailing definition of what it means to be a Jew. Pianko examines the history, the current significance, and the future relevance of a term that assumes an increasingly important position in American Jewish and Israeli life.
246 pp • 978-0-8135-5435-8 paper • $30.95S $21.67
SHTETL
A Vernacular Intellectual History Volume 5
Jeffrey Shandler By examining the meaning of shtetl, Shandler asks how Jewish life in provincial towns in Eastern Europe has become the subject of extensive scholarship. He traces the trajectory of writing about these towns, by Jews and nonJews, residents and visitors, researchers, novelists, memoirists, journalists, and others, to demonstrate how the Yiddish word for “town” emerged as a key word in Jewish culture. 192 pp • 23 illus. • 978-0-8135-6272-8 paper • $30.95S $21.67
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An American Understanding Volume 7
186 pp • 978-0-8135-6364-0 • paper • $27.95S $19.57
JEW Volume 8
Cynthia M. Baker This book offers a wide-ranging exploration of the key word Jew—charting the past meanings, present usages, and possible futures of a term that lies not only at the heart of Jewish experience, but at the core of how Western civilization has imagined the Other. Tracing the word’s evolution, Cynthia M. Baker also interrogates the contested categories of ‘ethnicity,’ ‘race’ and ‘religion,’ while providing a glimpse of what Jew is coming to mean in an era of Internet cultures, genetic sequencing, and uncertain identities. 208 pp • 978-0-8135-6302-2 • paper • $29.95S $20.97
Deborah E. Lipstadt “Deborah Lipstadt always writes smoothly and reasons vigorously. This book is lucid, accessible, and courageous—I couldn’t put it down.” —Peter Hayes, professor of history and German, Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor 212 pp • 978-0-8135-6476-0 • paper • $27.95S $19.57
JEWISH ON THEIR OWN TERMS
How Intermarried Couples are Changing American Judaism Jennifer A. Thompson “Thompson’s book is an original and powerfully suggestive intervention in the scholarship on intermarriage. Her argument is fresh and sound. She is particularly persuasive presenting her compelling ethnographic material.” —Deborah Dash Moore, University of Michigan
J ew i s h on Their Own Terms
How Intermarried Couples are Changing American Judaism
Jennifer A. Thompson
214 pp • 978-0-8135-6281-0 • paper • $29.95S $20.97
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‘Tis the Season to be Jewish Joshua Eli Plaut “Hanukkah, a once-obscure Jewish festival that—conveniently falling in December—has been built up to become a response to the ‘December dilemma,’ the puzzle posed for non-Christians by Christmas. The dilemma is no more, suggests Rabbi Plaut. December now features traditions that are both distinctively American and inventively Jewish.” —The Economist 232 pp • 17 illus. • 978-0-8135-5380-1 paper • $22.95T $16.07
