Jewish Studies
On Austrian Soil
An award-winning teacher takes a journey into alien territory: Austria, Hitler's birthplace, and the territory of her own hatred. A teaching memoir that offers a pedagogy of hope.
Jewish American and Holocaust Literature
Deepens and enriches our understanding of the Jewish literary tradition and the implications of the Shoah.
Funny, It Doesn't Sound Jewish
Documents the influence of Jewish music on American popular song.
Joining the Sisterhood
Essays and poems that offer insight into what it means to be a young Jewish woman today.
Beyond Theodicy
Explores the work of post-Holocaust Jewish and Christian thinkers who reject theodicy—arguments explaining why a loving God can permit evil and suffering in the world.
On Meanings of Life
Explores the factors that make for a meaningful life.
Leo Strauss
Presents the early published writings of the distinguished political philosopher Leo Strauss, available here for the first time in English. “Zank places at the reader’s disposal the young Strauss’s passionate advocacy of political Zionism and his early confrontations with Spinoza, consideration of whom helped lead Strauss to formulate his teaching on ‘the quarrel between the ancients and the moderns.’” — National Review
Jewish Themes in Spinoza's Philosophy
Explores Jewish aspects of Spinoza's philosophy from a wide variety of perspectives.
Maimonides and the Hermeneutics of Concealment
Examines how Maimonides integrates scriptural and rabbinic literature into his magnum opus, The Guide of the Perplexed.
Rabbinic Judaism's Generative Logic, Volume One
First volume documenting Rabbinic Judaism in its formative age.
Immagini E Rappresentazione
Essays on images and representation in the writings of Philo of Alexandria.
Rabbinic Judaism's Generative Logic, Volume Two
Second volume documenting Rabbinic Judaism in its formative age.
God's Voice from the Void
New and classic explorations of the work of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav, a major Hasidic thinker, using a wide range of approaches.
The Magic Worlds of Bernard Malamud
Offers personal recollections of and critical perspectives on this major American author.
Living Root
In this literary memoir, poet and essayist Michael Heller interweaves family and personal history with reflections on language, poetry, religion, and memory itself.
Memory and Mastery
Interdisciplinary explorations into the work of one of the premier writer-survivors of the Holocaust.
Marvin Fox: Collected Essays on Philosophy and on Judaism, Vol. 3
A selection of his more important writings.
The 2001 Mathers Lecture 2001 Rosen Lecture, and Other Queen's University Essays in the Study of Judaism
A collection of lectures given at Queen’s University by academics in Judaic Studies.
Marvin Fox: Collected Essays on Philosophy and on Judaism, Vol. 2
A selection of his more important writings.
A Conceptual Commentary on Midrash Leviticus Rabbah
Examines each rabbinic text or sequence of homilies in order to uncover specific value concepts which are reflected in them either explicitly or implicitly.
Understanding Jewish Theology
Explores the religious experience of Judaism through the perceptions and teachings of ordinary Jews and the creative elite.
A Conceptual Approach to the Mekilta
Describes the actual mode of thought of the Rabbis of the Midrash and the Talmud, and indicates how they derived their own moral teachings from the Bible.
Thinking Ahead Toward the Next Generation of Judaism
Essays in honor of Oskar Brecher.
His Brother's Keeper
Tells the story of young people’s volunteer efforts as part of the American Jewish Society for Service.
Contemporary Views of Ancient Judaism
Compiles some longer review essays and somewhat briefer reviews of single titles from his collected work of the 1990s.