Intriguing unpublished manuscripts by Leo Strauss, which explore the intricate relationship between religion, philosophy, and politics, accompanied by fourteen interpretative essays.

Shows how the method of close reading traveled from the United States to Brazil and Israel, revealing its profound impact on global modernisms and reframing the lasting significance of New Criticism.

An intellectual-political biography of Otto Heller, the most prominent and prolific communist theoretician of the Jewish question.

Examines how Leo Strauss sought to recover the question of "nature," which he saw as inseparable from genuine philosophy since its inception in ancient Greece.

A personal voyage of discovery drawing on musicology, literary theory, Jewish studies, and philosophical phenomenology.

A comprehensive study of the history and evolution of the dybbuk, from kabbalistic tradition to popular folklore.

A pioneering study of a formative chapter in Middle East intellectual history, examining the historical myth that underlies the "Canaanite" brand of Israeli nationalist anti-Zionism.

A critical and creative reconstruction of Adorno's conception of truth that shows its relevance for contemporary philosophy, art, and politics.

Illustrates the diversity of Jewish lesbian queer experience through a range of topics, voices, and genres, encouraging readers to rethink narrow conceptions of Jewishness.

Originally published in Hebrew in 1944, this fascinating and moving account may well be the first memoir of the Holocaust.

Examines the Yiddish-Hebrew writer I. L. Peretz's alignment with the Jewish working-class in Eastern Europe and his devotion to progressive politics.

Offers a bold new reading of Yiddish cinema by exploring the early diasporic cinema's fascination with media and communication.

Argues that the modern practice of critique emerged out of religious traditions and can in many ways be traced back to them.

Explores the diversity of Jewish approaches to character and virtue, from the Bible to the present day.

Analyzes the history of legislative party switching and its regulation in the Israeli Knesset.

Explores the writer's enduring literary and political legacy.

Explores the delicate interplay between emigration of Jews from Israel to Germany and the construction of a new identity in the shadow of antisemitism both past and present in their new home.

The first complete intellectual biography of one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of the twentieth century, Leo Strauss.

Examines the struggle of Jewish women to join defense and military activities during the decades leading up to the Israeli War of Independence.

Offers an immanent critique of Levinas’s core philosophical proposals by reference to his allegedly eurocentric statements.

Examines how community leaders, writers, and political activists facing state repression in Latin America have drawn on and debated the validity of Holocaust terms to describe human rights atrocities in their own countries.

The first comprehensive history of the development of early Jewish life on Long Island.

The critical biography of a dynamic and under-represented figure who produced and starred in some of the most innovative works of her day.

Reconsiders the legacy of an important Hasidic mystic, leader, and educator who confronted the dilemmas of modernity after World War I and whose writing constitutes a unique testimony to religious experience and its rupture in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Explores Elie Wiesel’s portraits of the sages of Judaism and elaborates on the Hasidic legacy from his life and his teaching.