The first comprehensive examination of the debate between Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojève on the subject of philosophy and tyranny.

First comprehensive examination of the rise and decline of the Jewish communist movement in the English-speaking world.

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.

The poems of Anna Margolin (1887–1952), appearing here both in the original Yiddish and in English translation.

Addresses the absence of Jewish subjects in intersectionality studies and demonstrates how to do intersectionality work inclusive of Jewish perspectives.

European scholars discuss Leo Strauss as a major figure in the history of philosophy.

Explores the fundamental confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas in ethics, politics, science, and religion.

Explores how the USHMM and other museums and memorials both displace and disturb the memories that they are trying to commemorate.

Examines a fascinating and important figure in the history of modern Jewish ethics.

Explores Borges’ infatuation with Jewish history and culture.

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.

Explores the paradoxical symmetry between the divine and demonic in early Jewish mystical texts.

Comprehensive and critical analysis of the post-Zionist debates and their impact on various aspects of Israeli culture.

Examines the lives of recent Russian-Jewish immigrants in Germany.

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.

An eloquent personal reflection on the fascination of family history and the desire to both discover and escape origins.

First book-length collection of the work of the celebrated Israeli poet.

An entertaining inside story of how Reuben Freed's roadside eatery became the famous Red Apple Rest.

The story of an Ocean Hill–Brownsville teacher who crossed picket lines during the racially charged New York City teachers’ strike of 1968.

Compelling account of Strauss's mature Maimonidean writings.

Considers Jewish studies as an academic discipline from its origins to the present.

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.

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.

A fascinating look at the lives, culture, and religious and ritual observance of three generations of Iranian Jewish women in the United States.

A hermeneutics of language after Auschwitz.