Jewish Studies
The Dybbuk
A comprehensive study of the history and evolution of the dybbuk, from kabbalistic tradition to popular folklore.
The Hebrew Falcon
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.
Jewcy
Illustrates the diversity of Jewish lesbian queer experience through a range of topics, voices, and genres, encouraging readers to rethink narrow conceptions of Jewishness.
Adorno, Heidegger, and the Politics of Truth
A critical and creative reconstruction of Adorno's conception of truth that shows its relevance for contemporary philosophy, art, and politics.
Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust
An intellectual-political biography of Otto Heller, the most prominent and prolific communist theoretician of the Jewish question.
Escape from the Pit
Originally published in Hebrew in 1944, this fascinating and moving account may well be the first memoir of the Holocaust.
The Radical Isaac
Examines the Yiddish-Hebrew writer I. L. Peretz's alignment with the Jewish working-class in Eastern Europe and his devotion to progressive politics.
Yiddish Cinema
Offers a bold new reading of Yiddish cinema by exploring the early diasporic cinema's fascination with media and communication.
Jewish Virtue Ethics
Explores the diversity of Jewish approaches to character and virtue, from the Bible to the present day.
Party Switching in Israel
Analyzes the history of legislative party switching and its regulation in the Israeli Knesset.
Amos Oz
Explores the writer's enduring literary and political legacy.
A Double Burden
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.
Philosophy as Stranger Wisdom
The first complete intellectual biography of one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of the twentieth century, Leo Strauss.
Jewish Women and the Defense of Palestine
Examines the struggle of Jewish women to join defense and military activities during the decades leading up to the Israeli War of Independence.
Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin America
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.
Ida Rubinstein
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 Jews of Long Island
The first comprehensive history of the development of early Jewish life on Long Island.
Hasidism, Suffering, and Renewal
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.
Portraits
Explores Elie Wiesel’s portraits of the sages of Judaism and elaborates on the Hasidic legacy from his life and his teaching.
Shadows in the City of Light
Examines the place of Paris in French Jewish literary memory, a memory that, of necessity, grapples with the aftermath of the Holocaust.
Leo Strauss and Contemporary Thought
Broadens the horizons of Strauss’s thought by initiating dialogues between him and figures with whom little or no dialogue has yet occurred.
The Other/Argentina
Argues that Jewishness is an essential element of Argentina’s self-fashioning as a modern nation.
Holidays of the Revolution
Shows how Israeli Communists developed a distinctive national identity outside the boundaries of Zionism.
The Hebrew Orient
Examines the role that images of Palestine played in the construction of prewar Jewish American identity.
Michael Gold
An authoritative biography of the dean of American proletarian writers during the interwar years.
Demons of Change
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.
Kabbalah in Print
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.
Yiddish Plays for Reading and Performance
Three stageworthy plays and nine individual scenes that offer an introduction to Yiddish theater at its liveliest.
Jews Out of the Question
A provocative study of opposition to anti-Semitism in contemporary political philosophy.
Since 1948
A portrait of Israeli literature in its full transnational and multilingual complexity.
Qorbanot
A dynamic dialogue of poetry and art that reimagines the ancient, biblical concept of sacrifice.
A Permanent Beginning
Situates a Hasidic master in the context of his time, demonstrating his formative influence on Jewish literary modernity.
Off the Derech
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.
Power and Progress
Study of a fascinating medieval Jewish philosopher, focusing on his twin conceptions of history.
The Struggle for Understanding
An in-depth look at Elie Wiesel’s writings, from his earliest works to his final novels.
Blows to the Head
A provocative tale of an unlikely contender and her midlife transformation through boxing.
Levinas and the Torah
A Levinasian commentary on the Torah.
Eternity Now
Demonstrates that Rabbi Shneur Zalman's teachings regarding time and history enabled Habad's growth into a mass Jewish movement.
Waste Not
Traces the development of bal tashḥit, the Jewish prohibition against wastefulness and destruction, from its biblical origins to the contemporary environmental movement.
What Remains
Combining photography and essay, presents a speculative portrait of a Jewish immigrant living out the end of his days in New York's midcentury mental health system.
Birth Chart
A collection of poems weaving together astrology, motherhood, music, and literary history.
The Holocaust and Masculinities
Critically assesses the experiences of men in the Holocaust.
A Survivor Named Trauma
Combines personal accounts with insights from psychology to understand the continuing impact of Holocaust trauma in Lithuania.
Possessed Voices
Analyzes audio recordings of interwar Hebrew plays, providing a new model for the use of sound in theater studies.
The First Zionist Congress
An indispensable primary source in the history of Zionism.
The Spiritual Transformation of Jews Who Become Orthodox
A psychological study, based on extensive interview data, of Jewish adults who take on a devout lifestyle.
Jewish Veganism and Vegetarianism
A multidisciplinary approach to the study of veganism, vegetarianism, and meat avoidance among Jews, both historical and contemporary.
Queer Expectations
Examines how Jewish women have used poetry to challenge their historical limitations while rewriting their potential futures.
Signatures of Struggle
A Marxist history of Israeli literature, tracing the relations between economic, social, and aesthetic transformations.
Congress and Diaspora Politics
Studies the impact of lobbying efforts by domestic ethnic groups and foreign governments on US policymaking.
The Infrahuman
Argues that Jewish writers used depictions of Jews as animals to question prevalent notions of Jewish identity.
New Directions in Jewish American and Holocaust Literatures
Surveys the current state of Jewish American and Holocaust literatures as well as approaches to teaching them.
An Archive of the Catastrophe
Comprehensive analysis of 220 hours of outtakes that impels us to reexamine our assumptions about a crucial Holocaust documentary.
The Holocaust and the Nonrepresentable
Argues that Holocaust representation has ethical implications fundamentally linked to questions of good and evil.
Religious Zionism and the Settlement Project
An in-depth account of the ideology driving Israel's religious Zionist settler movements since the 1970s.
A Queer Way Out
Argues that queer Israeli emigrants engage in a deliberately unheroic form of resistance to Zionism.
Cities of Refuge
Contrasts the experiences of German Jewish refugees from the Holocaust who fled to London and New York City.
Storytelling
An innovative philosophical meditation on the muteness of Holocaust survivors and the human faculty of storytelling.
The Tragedy of Optimism
Complete collection of Schwarzschild’s essays on the neo-Kantian Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen.
Hearts and Minds
Uses Israel’s public diplomacy efforts during the second intifada (2000–2005) as a prime example of interactions between state security, diplomacy, and the media.
The Full Pomegranate
Translations of selected poems by the Yiddish writer, covering the entire breadth of his career.
Years I Walked at Your Side
The first book-length collection in English of this major Israeli poet.
We Are Going to Be Lucky
Tells the story of a young couple in love during World War II, and the difficulties they faced both at war and on the home front.
The Greatest Mirror
A wide-ranging analysis of heavenly twin imagery in early Jewish extrabiblical texts.
College Bound
Argues that first- and second-generation Jewish American writers had an ambivalent relationship with educational success.
The Politics of Unreason
The first systematic analysis of the Frankfurt School’s research and theorizing on modern antisemitism.
Educational Oases in the Desert
A history of the French schools that pioneered female education in Ottoman Iraq's Jewish communities.
Sabina Spielrein
Explores the life and work of psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein through a feminist and mytho-poetic lens.
Writing in Witness
A comprehensive survey of the most important writing to come out of the Holocaust.
Sovereign Jews
Offers a novel exploration of the relationship between religion and the state in Israel.
Movies and Midrash
Brings popular cinema and Jewish religious texts into a meaningful dialogue.
Herbert H. Lehman
The definitive biography of New York State's four-term Governor, US Senator, humanitarian, and Jewish liberal political reformer.
Philosophy, History, and Tyranny
The first comprehensive examination of the debate between Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojève on the subject of philosophy and tyranny.
A Vanished Ideology
First comprehensive examination of the rise and decline of the Jewish communist movement in the English-speaking world.
Tongue of Fire
Examines the influence of the notorious American anarchist “Red Emma” on the shifting social geography of sex and gender at the turn of the twentieth century.
Drunk from the Bitter Truth
The poems of Anna Margolin (1887–1952), appearing here both in the original Yiddish and in English translation.
Jewish Feminism and Intersectionality
Addresses the absence of Jewish subjects in intersectionality studies and demonstrates how to do intersectionality work inclusive of Jewish perspectives.
Leo Strauss, Philosopher
European scholars discuss Leo Strauss as a major figure in the history of philosophy.
Out of Control
Explores the fundamental confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas in ethics, politics, science, and religion.
Figures of Memory
Explores how the USHMM and other museums and memorials both displace and disturb the memories that they are trying to commemorate.
Sharing the Burden
Examines a fascinating and important figure in the history of modern Jewish ethics.
Borges, the Jew
Explores Borges’ infatuation with Jewish history and culture.
The Death of Fred Astaire
When, in the late eighties, the author chooses to raise a child with her lesbian partner, she embraces a life outside the lines—one full of curious adventures as well as the usual catastrophes and everyday pleasures.
Divine Scapegoats
Explores the paradoxical symmetry between the divine and demonic in early Jewish mystical texts.
Beyond Post-Zionism
Comprehensive and critical analysis of the post-Zionist debates and their impact on various aspects of Israeli culture.
Sweet Burdens
Examines the lives of recent Russian-Jewish immigrants in Germany.
Bringing Zion Home
Demonstrates how American Jews used culture—art, dance, music, fashion, literature—to win the hearts and minds of postwar Americans to the cause of Israel.
Forgetting Fathers
An eloquent personal reflection on the fascination of family history and the desire to both discover and escape origins.
Reality Crumbs
First book-length collection of the work of the celebrated Israeli poet.
Stop at the Red Apple
An entertaining inside story of how Reuben Freed's roadside eatery became the famous Red Apple Rest.
Inside Ocean Hill–Brownsville
The story of an Ocean Hill–Brownsville teacher who crossed picket lines during the racially charged New York City teachers’ strike of 1968.
Progressive Minds, Conservative Politics
Compelling account of Strauss's mature Maimonidean writings.
The Study of Judaism
Considers Jewish studies as an academic discipline from its origins to the present.
Black Harlem and the Jewish Lower East Side
Comprehensive analysis of how Harlem and the Lower East Side have been depicted over the course of the twentieth century in African American and Jewish American literature.
A Vigilant Society
Uncovers a fundamental change that took place in Western thinking, especially its departure from the Sephardic philosophy found in the Iberian Peninsula during the 13th century.
From the Shahs to Los Angeles
A fascinating look at the lives, culture, and religious and ritual observance of three generations of Iranian Jewish women in the United States.
Utopia of Understanding
A hermeneutics of language after Auschwitz.
The Gambler's Daughter
In exploring her father's own gambling addiction, the author uncovers a hidden history of gambling in the Jewish community.
The Masorah to Targum Onqelos
A critical edition, with notes and commentary, of the ancient Aramaic translation of the Torah.
Dark Mirrors
Discusses the two most important figures in early Jewish mythologies of evil, the fallen angels Azazel and Satanael.