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.
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Susan Martha Kahn
An insightful look at the life and legacy of a pioneer cynologist between Europe and Israel.
Marat Grinberg
An original investigation into the reading strategies and uses of books by Jews in the Soviet era.
Arthur Green
The life and thought of Levi Yitshak of Berdychiv (1740–1809), one of the most fascinating and colorful Hasidic leaders of his time.
Gilad Sharvit
A new understanding of modern Jewish theories of messianism across the disciplines of history, theology, and philosophy.
Samuel Moyn and Robert S. Schine
A fresh collection of writings by Hermann Cohen that sheds light on an often overlooked scholar.
Charles Dellheim
Tells the story of the fortunes and misfortunes of a small number of eminent art dealers and collectors who, against the odds, played a pivotal role in the migration of works of art from Europe to the United States and in the triumph of modern art
Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and Sylvie Anne Goldberg, Foreword by Alexander Kaye and translation by Benjamin Ivry
Series of interviews that paint a revealing portrait of history and bring together exceptional material on Yerushalmi’s personal and intellectual journeys
Cedric Cohen-Skalli
One of the greatest leaders and thinkers of Iberian Jewry in the aftermath of the expulsion of 1492
Ariel Evan Mayse and Sam Berrin Shonkoff, editors
A vibrant and polyphonic set of Hasidic confrontations with the modern world
Michael Marmur and David Ellenson, editors
A look at how the diverse body of Jewish thought developed within the historical and intellectual context of America
ChaeRan Y. Freeze; translated by Gregory L. Freeze
Rare documents reveal how Jews successfully integrated into Russian aristocratic society
Annotated with an introduction by Chava Turniansky; English translation by Sara Friedman
An authoritative new translation, fully annotated to explicate Glikl’s life and times
Daniel B. Schwartz
Key works about Spinoza’s critical role in the formation of modern Jewish identity
Dan Rabinowitz
The story of the greatest prewar Jewish library in Europe
Sarah Hammerschlag, ed.
An illuminating anthology that traces the trajectory of Jewish thought in twentieth-century France
Jehuda Reinharz, Yaacov Shavit
How the Zionist movement and the Yishuv actively sought to help Polish and other European Jews in the 1930s
Leora Batnitzky, ed.; Yonatan Brafman, ed.
Anthology of writings about Jewish law in the modern world
Noam Zadoff
A new intellectual portrait of a prominent twentieth-century philosopher
Adi Gordon
The life and intellectual evolution of Hans Kohn, a pioneer of nationalism studies
Pawel Maciejko, editor
Key writings on Sabbatianism and its legacy and afterlife in Jewish culture, memory, and religion
Monika Schwarz-Friesel, Jehuda Reinharz
Exploring expressions of antisemitism in Germany today
Elana Shapira
Explores the central role of Jewish patrons as shapers of Viennese modernism
Edited by ChaeRan Y. Freeze, Sylvia Fuks Fried, and Eugene R. Sheppard
Essays to honor Jehuda Reinharz, his scholarly work and institutional leadership