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

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

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.

Broadens the horizons of Strauss’s thought by initiating dialogues between him and figures with whom little or no dialogue has yet occurred.

Argues that Jewishness is an essential element of Argentina’s self-fashioning as a modern nation.

Examines the place of Paris in French Jewish literary memory, a memory that, of necessity, grapples with the aftermath of the Holocaust.

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

An authoritative biography of the dean of American proletarian writers during the interwar years.

Three stageworthy plays and nine individual scenes that offer an introduction to Yiddish theater at its liveliest.

A provocative study of opposition to anti-Semitism in contemporary political philosophy.

A portrait of Israeli literature in its full transnational and multilingual complexity.

Shows how Israeli Communists developed a distinctive national identity outside the boundaries of Zionism.

Demonstrates the impact of print culture on the spread of Jewish mysticism, focusing on Kabbalistic study guides by R. Yissakhar Baer of seventeenth-century Prague.

Examines the role that images of Palestine played in the construction of prewar Jewish American identity.

Demonstrates how conflict between a human adept as the divine warrior and an otherworldly antagonist plays a key role in early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic accounts.

A dynamic dialogue of poetry and art that reimagines the ancient, biblical concept of sacrifice.

This archive-based study of the philosophy of Leo Strauss provides in-depth interpretations of key texts and their larger theoretical contexts.

Situates a Hasidic master in the context of his time, demonstrating his formative influence on Jewish literary modernity.

Combines powerful first-person accounts with incisive scholarly analysis to understand the phenomenon of ultra-Orthodox Jews who leave their insular communities and venture into the wider world.

A provocative tale of an unlikely contender and her midlife transformation through boxing.

A Levinasian commentary on the Torah.

Demonstrates that Rabbi Shneur Zalman's teachings regarding time and history enabled Habad's growth into a mass Jewish movement.

Study of a fascinating medieval Jewish philosopher, focusing on his twin conceptions of history.