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Susan L. Einbinder is Professor of Hebrew Literature at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati.
When Crusader armies on their way to the Holy Land attacked Jewish communities in the Rhine Valley, many Jews chose suicide over death at the hands of Christian mobs. With their defiant deaths, the medieval Jewish martyr was born. With the literary commemoration of the victims, Jewish martyrology followed. Beautiful Death examines the evolution of a long-neglected...
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"Mark R. Cohen, Winner of the 2010 Goldziher Prize, The Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations at Merrimack College"
Leon (Judah Aryeh) Modena was a major intellectual figure of the early modern Italian Jewish community--a complex and intriguing personality who was famous among contemporary European Christians as well as Jews. Modena (1571-1648) produced an autobiography that documents in poignant detail the turbulent life of...
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"Winner of the National Scholarly Jewish Book Award, Jewish Book Council" Seth Schwartz is the Gerson D. Cohen Professor of History at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. He is the author of Josephus and Judaean Politics and coauthor, with Roger Bagnall, Alan Cameron, and Klaas Worp, of Consuls of the Later Roman Empire.
This provocative new history of Palestinian Jewish society in antiquity marks the first comprehensive effort to gauge...
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Hasia R. Diner is the Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University. Her books include In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks, 1915-1935; A Time for Gathering: The Second Migration, 1820-1880; Erin's Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century; and Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration.
Manhattan's Lower East Side stands...
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Jacqueline Rose is Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of The Haunting of Sylvia Plath, States of Fantasy, the novel Albertine, and On Not Being Able to Sleep: Psychoanalysis in the Modern World (Princeton).
Zionism was inspired as a movement--one driven by the search for a homeland for the stateless and persecuted Jewish people. Yet it trampled the rights of the Arabs in Palestine. Today it has become so controversial...
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David Biale is the Emanuel Ringelblum Professor of Jewish History at the University of California, Davis. His books include Blood and Belief: The Circulation of a Symbol between Jews and Christians and Eros and the Jews: From Biblical Israel to Contemporary America.
The story of the origins and development of a Jewish form of secularism
Not in the Heavens traces the rise of Jewish secularism through the visionary writers and thinkers who led its...
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Paul Reitter is associate professor of Germanic languages and literatures at Ohio State University. He is the author of The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siècle Europe.
A new intellectual history that looks at "Jewish self-hatred"
Today, the term "Jewish self-hatred" often denotes a treasonous brand of Jewish self-loathing, and is frequently used as a smear, such as when it is applied to politically moderate...
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Michael Brenner is professor of Jewish history and culture at the University of Munich. His books include A Short History of the Jews and After the Holocaust: Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Postwar Germany (both Princeton).
Prophets of the Past is the first book to examine in depth how modern Jewish historians have interpreted Jewish history. Michael Brenner reveals that perhaps no other national or religious group has used their shared history for...
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S. Y. Agnon (1888–1970) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966. Among his works that have been translated into English are A Simple Story, In the Heart of the Seas, and Shira.
When Israeli Nobel Laureate S. Y. Agnon published the novel Only Yesterday in 1945, it quickly became recognized as a major work of world literature, not only for its vivid historical reconstruction of Israel's founding society. The book tells a seemingly simple...
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"Winner of the 2010 National Jewish Book Award in History, Jewish Book Council" David B. Ruderman is the Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History and the Ella Darivoff Director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His many books include Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key and Connecting the Covenants.
A compelling history of the early modern Jewish experience
Early Modern Jewry...
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"Runner-Up for the 2006 National Jewish Book Award in Modern Jewish Thought" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007" Hana Wirth-Nesher is the Samuel L. and Perry Haber Chair on the Study of the Jewish Experience in the United States, Professor of English, and head of the Goldreich Family Institute for Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at Tel Aviv University. She is the author of City Codes: Reading the Modern Urban Novel and...
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"Winner of the 2010 Prix Alberto Benveniste" "Winner of the 2009 Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League" "Winner of the 2008 National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Culture, Jewish Book Council" "Honorable Mention for the 2009 Edmund Keeley Book Prize, Modern Greek Studies Association" K. E. Fleming is professor of history and Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Culture and Civilization at New York University, where she also serves as associate...
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Matt Goldish is the Samuel M. and Esther Melton Professor of Jewish History and director of the Melton Center for Jewish Studies at Ohio State University.
In Jewish Questions, Matt Goldish introduces English readers to the history and culture of the Sephardic dispersion through an exploration of forty-three responsa--questions about Jewish law that Jews asked leading rabbis, and the rabbis' responses. The questions along with their rabbinical decisions...
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"One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018" David Biale is the Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor of Jewish History at the University of California, Davis. David Assaf is professor of Jewish history at Tel Aviv University. Benjamin Brown is professor of Jewish thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Uriel Gellman is lecturer in Jewish history at Bar-Ilan University. Samuel Heilman is Distinguished Professor of Sociology...
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Jonathan Elukin is Associate Professor of History at Trinity College.
This book challenges the standard conception of the Middle Ages as a time of persecution for Jews. Jonathan Elukin traces the experience of Jews in Europe from late antiquity through the Renaissance and Reformation, revealing how the pluralism of medieval society allowed Jews to feel part of their local communities despite recurrent expressions of hatred against them.
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"Winner of the 2008 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Gender Studies, Association for Jewish Studies" "Winner of the 2005 Koret Jewish Book Award in History, Koret Foundation" "Runner-Up for the 2005 National Jewish Book Award in Women's Studies category, Jewish Book Council" Elisheva Baumgarten is Lecturer in the Department of Jewish History and the Gender Studies Program at Bar Ilan University.
This book presents a synthetic history of the family--the...
17) The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew
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"One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books of 2017: History" "Winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in History (Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award)" "Finalist for the 2018 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, Jewish Book Council" Yair Mintzker is professor of history at Princeton University. He is the author of The Defortification of the German City, 1689–1866.
A groundbreaking historical reexamination of one of the most infamous...
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"Runner-Up for the 2005 National Jewish Book Award in History, Jewish Book Council" Mark D. Meyerson is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The Muslims of Valencia in the Age of Fernando and Isabel.
This book significantly revises the conventional view that the Jewish experience in medieval Spain--over the century before the expulsion of 1492--was one...
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Adam Sutcliffe is professor of European history at King's College London. He is the author of Judaism and Enlightenment and the coeditor, most recently, of Philosemitism in History, The Cambridge History of Judaism: The Early Modern World, and History, Memory and Public Life: The Past in the Present.
A wide-ranging look at the history of Western thinking since the seventeenth century on the purpose of the Jewish people in the past, present, and...
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Joseph Shatzmiller is the Smart Family Professor of Judaic Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Shylock Reconsidered and Jews, Medicine, and Medieval Society.
Demonstrating that similarities between Jewish and Christian art in the Middle Ages were more than coincidental, Cultural Exchange meticulously combines a wide range of sources to show how Jews and Christians exchanged artistic and material culture. Joseph Shatzmiller focuses on...
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