Forthcoming

Prophet

Germany’s Prophet

Paul de Lagarde and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism

Ulrich Sieg

A provocative and disquieting portrait of Bible scholar and founder of modern German antisemitism Paul de Lagarde

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Tauber Institute Series

The Tauber Institute Series is dedicated to publishing compelling and innovative approaches to the study of modern European Jewish history, thought, culture and society. The series features scholarly works related to the Enlightenment, modern Judaism and the struggle for emancipation, the rise of nationalism and the spread of antisemitism, the Holocaust and its aftermath, as well as the contemporary Jewish experience. The series is published under the auspices of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry — established by a gift to Brandeis University from Dr. Laszlo N. Tauber — and is supported, in part, by the Tauber Foundation and the Valya and Robert Shapiro Endowment.

New on the Bookshelf

David Roskies

Holocaust Literature: a History and Guide

David G. Roskies, Naomi Diamant

A comprehensive assessment of Holocaust literature, from World War II to the present day.

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Altshuler

Religion and Jewish Identity in the Soviet Union, 1941–1964

Mordechai Altshuler

Unearths the roots of a national awakening among Soviet Jews during World War II and its aftermath.

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Jews Welcome Coffee

Jews Welcome Coffee

Tradition and Innovation in Early Modern Germany

Robert Liberles

A lively look at how coffee affected Jewish life in early modern Germany.

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Forsaken

Forsaken

The Menstruant in Medieval Jewish Mysticism

Sharon Faye Koren

A fascinating analysis of why there are no female mystics in medieval Judaism.

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roemer

German City, Jewish Memory

The Story of Worms

Nils Roemer

A remarkable, in-depth study of Jewish history, culture, and memory in a historic and contemporary German city.

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reinharz

Glorious, Accursed Europe

An Essay on Jewish Ambivalence

Jehuda Reinharz and Yaacov Shavit

An exhaustive study of how Jews imagined the idea of Europe and how it existed in their collective memory from the Enlightenment to the present.

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dimensions

Jewish Dimensions in Modern Visual Culture

Antisemitism, Assimilation, Affirmation

A Sarnat Library Book

Rose-Carol Washton Long, Matthew Baigell, Milly Heyd

A fascinating look at key aspects of visual culture in modern Jewish history.

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jewish nation

Photographing the Jewish Nation

Pictures from S. An-sky's Ethnographic Expeditions

Eugene M. Avrutin, Valerii Dymshits, Alexander Lvov, Harriet Murav, Alla Sokolova, editors

From 1912 to 1914, S. An-sky and the photographer Solomon Iudovin gathered materials and took photographs of Jewish daily life in pre-Revolutionary Russia’s Pale of Settlement. Photographing the Jewish Nation offers English-language readers their first look at over 170 extraordinary, recently rediscovered photographs from their expeditions.

A podcast about the discovery of the photographs is available here

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Browse the Brandeis University Press brochure for an overview of recent Tauber Institute and other titles.