Forthcoming Book
Memoirs: Hans Jonas
Christian Wiese, ed.; Krishna Winston, translator
Because Jonas’s life spanned the entire twentieth century, this memoir provides nuanced pictures of German Jewry during the Weimar Republic, of German Zionism, of the Jewish emigrants in Palestine during the 1930s and 1940s, and of German Jewish émigré intellectuals in New York. In addition, Jonas outlines the development of his work, beginning with his studies under Husserl and Heidegger and extending through his later metaphysical speculations about “God after Auschwitz.”
Women & Gender
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Princess or Prisoner? Jewish Women in Jerusalem, 1840-1914Margalit Shilo"A fascinating, extremely well written book. Margalit Shilo fills an important gap in the study of women in Israeli society, that of Orthodox women at the turn of the 19th to 20th century." |
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Pious and Rebellious: Jewish Women in Medieval EuropeAvraham Grossman"This pioneering synthesis addresses an issue standing at the cutting edge of contemporary historiography with sensitivity, respect for evidence and sovereign mastery of a diverse and daunting corpus of texts." |
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Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish SocietyIris Parush"Describing for the first time the opening of Jewish women’s society to the broad world of modern culture, Parush offers . . . an invaluable resource for scholars and students working in modern Jewish history, Jewish cultural studies and women's studies." |
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The Plough Woman: Records of the Pioneer Women of PalestineEdited and Annotated by Mark A. Raider & Miriam B. Raider-Roth"The editors have performed a most valuable service in this detailed exploration of the public and private writings of Zionist women pioneers." |