History
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Religion and Jewish Identity in the Soviet Union, 1941–1964Mordechai AltshulerUnearths the roots of a national awakening among Soviet Jews during World War II and its aftermath. |
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Jews Welcome CoffeeTradition and Innovation in Early Modern Germany Robert LiberlesA lively look at how coffee affected Jewish life in early modern Germany. |
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Untold Tales of the HasidimCrisis and Discontent in the History of HasidimNew in PaperbackDavid AssafReveals the untold tale of shocking events and anomalous figures in the history of Hasidism. |
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Best of Times, Worst of TimesMemoirs of a Political EducationWalter LaqueurA memoir by a highly respected historian and political commentator Walter Laqueur has been writing and teaching for over six decades, primarily in the fields of twentieth- century history and politics. In this engaging memoir, Laqueur focuses on the political and historical events that have shaped his thinking and inspired his intellectual work. |
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Glorious, Accursed EuropeAn Essay on Jewish Ambivalence Jehuda Reinharz and Yaacov ShavitAn 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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Photographing the Jewish NationPictures from S. An-sky's Ethnographic Expeditions Eugene M. Avrutin, Valerii Dymshits, Alexander Lvov, Harriet Murav, Alla Sokolova, editorsFrom 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. |
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The Jews of Białystok during World War II and the HolocaustSara Bender, Yaffa Murciano, translator“Sara Bender’s book is an outstanding example of what a historian can do to illuminate the real, not the imagined, history of the Shoah. This thorough investigation of both German policies and, mainly, the Jewish reactions to the unexpected onslaught on Jewish lives, does away with preconceptions and historical errors. A most important addition to our knowledge.”—Prof. Yehuda Bauer, Academic Adviser of Yad Vashem |
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Ivan Davidson Kalmar and Derek Penslar, eds."The essays in this highly original work take the relationship of the Jews to Orientalism in unexpected directions, thus demanding a thoroughgoing revision of Orientalism itself." |
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Resplendent Synagogue: Architecture and Worship in an Eighteenth-Century Polish CommunityThomas C. Hubka"Through the meticulous analysis of a single wooden synagogue, he opens before us the nearly undocumented pre-Hasidic popular culture of Eastern European Jews." |
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Community and Conscience: The Jews in Apartheid South AfricaGideon ShimoniThe first thorough account of South African Jewish religious, political and educational institutions in relation to the apartheid regime. |
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Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial RussiaChaeRan Y. Freeze"Fascinating and very well written, this outstanding book advances our understanding of the history of the Jewish family by a quantum leap." |
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Generation Exodus: The Fate of Young Jewish Refugees from Nazi GermanyWalter Laqueur"Laqueur has undertaken the daunting task of writing the collective biography of a generation unique in history: the children of the German-Jewish families who fled Germany in the 1930s . . . As someone who shared this experience, I can testify that Laqueur has succeeded admirably." |
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Jewish History and Jewish Memory: Essays in Honor of Yosef Hayim YerushalmiElisheva Carlebach, John M. Efron and David M. Myers, eds."This refreshing panorama of the diverse vistas of Jewish history and thought offers students and scholars of Jewish studies valuable new material and fresh insights across a time span from medieval to modern times." |
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A House Divided: Orthodoxy and Schism in Nineteenth-Century Central European JewryJacob KatzAn eminent social historian examines the rise and transformation of Jewish communal leadership in Central Europe. His story of fragmentation and polarization sheds light on the tensions within the Jewish community as it struggled to respond to modernization. |
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Encounter with the “Holy Land:” Place, Past and Future in American Jewish CultureJeffery Shandler and Beth S. Wegner, eds.Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Arthur A. Goren and the editors examine American tourism and travel to pre-state Israel, representations of the holy land in exhibitions and world fairs, and the symbols and public culture of American Zionism. |
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From Text to Context: The Turn to History in Modern JudaismIsmar SchorschEssays examining the emergence of Jewish scholarship during the period 1818-1919, concentrating on the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement. |
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Confronting the Nation: Jewish and Western NationalismGeorge L. Mosse"This collection showcases Mosse’s extraordinary talents as a European intellectual and cultural historian." |
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Poles and Jews: A Failed BrotherhoodMagdalena Opalski and Israel BartalExamines Polish and Jewish perceptions of the rapprochement culminating in Polish national insurrection against Czarist Russia in 1863. |
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The Jews of Poland Between Two World WarsYisrael Gutman, Ezra Mendelsohn, Jehuda Reinharz and Chone Shmeruk, eds.Original essays by distinguished scholars on all aspects of Jewish life in Poland from 1918 to 1939. |
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Jews in British India: Identity in a Colonial EraJoan G. RolandFocusing primarily on the Bene Israel and Baghdadis in the late 19th and 20th centuries, Joan Roland describes how identities begun under the Indian caste system changed with British colonial rule, and then how the struggle for Indian independence and the establishment of a Jewish homeland raised even further questions. |
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Living with Antisemitism: Modern Jewish ResponsesJehuda Reinharz"Essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the contemporary Jewish condition in a world still ridden with anti-Semitism." |
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The Darker Side of Genius: Richard Wagner’s Anti-SemitismJacob KatzRichard Wagner’s antisemitism considered in the context of his time, place and aspirations rather than in relation to his later appropriation by the Nazis. |
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The Jewish Response to German Culture: From Enlightenment to the Second World WarJehuda Reinharz and Walter Schatzberg, eds."A valuable contribution to the continuing flow of studies of German Jews and their relations with the rest of German society in the last two centuries." |
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The Jews in Modern FranceFrances Malino and Bernard Wasserstein, eds."Specialists in both French and Jewish history will welcome this important collection . . . Most valuable is the essays’ integration of Jewish history within the larger sweep of French history." |
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French and Germans, Germans and French: A Personal Interpretation of France under Two Occupations, 1914-1918/1940-1944Richard Cobb"A splendid book for comprehending human kind." |
