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Judaism
Salo Baron
The Past and Future of Jewish Studies in America Edited by Rebecca Kobrin
In 1930, Columbia University appointed Salo Baron to be the Nathan L. Miller Professor of Jewish History, Literature, and Institutions. This book brings together leading scholars to consider how Baron transformed the course of Jewish studies in the United States.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20485-9 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20484-2 March 2022 288 pages 13 illus. The Arab and Jewish Questions
Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond Edited by Bashir Bashir and Leila Farsakh
This book brings together leading scholars to consider how the “Jewish Question” and the “Arab Question” are entangled historically and in the present day. It offers critical analyses of Arab engagements with the question of Jewish rights alongside Zionist and non-Zionist Jewish considerations of Palestinian identity and political rights.
$105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-19920-9 2020 320 pages
RELIGION, CULTURE, AND PUBLIC LIFE
Biographies and Geographies, 1870–1960 Edited by Andreas Kraß, Moshe Sluhovsky, and Yuval Yonay This volume offers the first collection of studies on queer Jewish lives between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine (1870–1960). The first section of the book presents queer geographies including Germany, Austria, and Palestine, and the second introduces queer biographies between Europe and Palestine.
$50.00 paper 978-3-8376-5332-8 2021 300 pages 15 illus.
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Islands of Memory
The Landscape of the (Non)Memory of the Holocaust in Polish Education between 1989–2015 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs
This book examines memory of the Holocaust among young Poles, including the attitudes toward Jews and the Holocaust in comparative context. It focuses on grassroots action, often initiated by local civil society organizations or individual teachers or students.
$55.00 cloth 978-83-2334-930-3 2021 482 pages