Jewish Studies 2021 McFarland NEW
HOLOCAUST CINEMA COMPLETE A History and Analysis of 300 Films, with a Teaching Guide Rich Brownstein Feb 2021 341pp 9781476684161 Paperback US$49.95
Places Holocaust films from Anne Frank to Schindler's List to Jojo Rabbit in historical and artistic perspective, and discusses them through many lenses: historically, chronologically, thematically, sociologically, geographically and individually. FORTHCOMING
IS SUPERMAN CIRCUMCISED?
The Complete Jewish History of the World's Greatest Hero Roy Schwartz Apr 2021 319pp, 100 photos 9781476662909 Paperback US$45.00
Superman is the original superhero, an American icon, and arguably the most famous character in the world, and he’s Jewish! A fascinating journey through comic book lore, American history, and Jewish tradition, this book examines the entirety of Superman’s career, from 1938 to date, and is sure to give readers a newfound appreciation for the Mensch of Steel. BESTSELLER
THE JEWISH STORY FINDER
A Guide to 668 Tales Listing Subjects and Sources, Second Edition Sharon Barcan Elswit 2012 416pp 9780786448234 Paperback US$45.00
Storytelling, as oral tradition and in writing, has long played a central role in Jewish society. This comprehensive bibliography identifies 668 Jewish folktales by title and subject, summarising plot lines for easy access to the right story for any occasion. Some centuries old and others freshly imagined, the tales include animal fables, supernatural yarns, and anecdotes for festivals and holidays.
LINCOLN'S JEWISH SPY
The Life and Times of Issachar Zacharie E. Lawrence Abel Sep 2020 264pp 9781476680460 Paperback US$35.00
Born into a Sephardic Jewish immigrant family, Dr Issachar Zacharie was the preeminent foot doctor for the American political elite before and during the Civil War, most notably, for Abraham Lincoln. Throughout Lincoln’s presidency, Zacharie travelled to southern US in efforts to ally with some of the Confederacy’s most influential Jewish citizens. This biography explores Zacharie's life, from his birth in England, through his medical practice, espionage career and campaigning for President Lincoln.
LOST TO THE SHOAH Eight Lives
Vera Schiff with Jeff McLaughlin Mar 2020 245pp 9781476680453 Paperback US$39.95
It is important to remember not just what the Holocaust was but to remember the individuals who were the subjects of Nazi brutalities. Written by a survivor about the people she cared for, these stories fight against the depiction of Jews as victims and victims only, and individualise a tragedy that is often abstracted into dates and statistics. BESTSELLER
LOVABLE CROOKS AND LOATHSOME JEWS
Antisemitism in German and Austrian Crime Writing Before the World Wars T.S. Kord 2018 253pp, 50 photos 9781476670126 Paperback US$55.00
In the years leading up to the World Wars, Germany and Austria saw an unprecedented increase in the study and depiction of the criminal. This book examines the figure of the crook and notions of ‘Jewish’ criminality in a range of anti-Semitic writing, from Nazi propaganda to court reporting to forgotten classics of crime fiction.
THE MANY WAYS JEWS LOVED
A History from Printed Words and Images Constance Harris Jul 2020 212pp, 77 photos 9781476678184 Paperback US$39.95
While acknowledging the ways in which persecution inevitably affects a community, this book deviates from most Jewish studies to survey the ways in which Jewish history has been shaped by the everyday experience of love. It examines erotic poetry, sensual art and literature, and biblical and rabbinic stories about lust. BESTSELLER
THE SEPHARDIC JEWS OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
Survival of an Imperiled Culture in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Dolores Sloan 2009 254pp, 37 photos 9780786438174 Paperback US$29.95
Traces the history of the Sephardic Jews from their golden age to their post-Columbian diaspora. This book profiles several significant Sephardic Jews and explores the increasing restrictions on Jews prior to expulsion, the divergent fates of two diaspora communities (in Brazil and the Ottoman Empire), and the legacy of Sephardic history.
THE SOUND OF HOPE
Music as Solace, Resistance and Salvation During the Holocaust and World War II Kellie D. Brown Aug 2020 318pp, 27 photos 9781476670560 Paperback US$45.00
Draws together the musical connections and individual stories from World War II through scholarly literature, diaries, letters, memoirs, compositions, and art pieces. Collectively, they bear witness to the power of music and offer a reminder to humanity of the imperative each faces to not only remember, but to prevent such a cataclysm. BESTSELLER
WHEN SCOTLAND WAS JEWISH
DNA Evidence, Archeology, Analysis of Migrations, and Public and Family Records Show Twelfth Century Semitic Roots Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman & Donald N. Yates 2013 264pp, 71 photos 9780786477098 Paperback US$39.95
Argues that much of Scotland's history and culture from 1100 onwards is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that much of the population, including several national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, merchants, bishops, guild members, and ministers, was of Jewish descent.
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THE JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN NEW ENGLAND Keith Warwick
Oct 2020 194pp 9781680531138 Hardback US$99.95
Examines the Jewish community in each of the six New England States: Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Factual, inspirational, and poetic, the book serves as a scholarly guide to institutions of Jewish life in this dynamic American region.
JEWISH NEIGHBORHOODS IN CALIFORNIA History and Development Keith Warwick Feb 2020 194pp 9781680532067 Hardback US$99.95
The Torah. The family. The kiddush. The joy. Warwick amplifies the essence of Judaism as experienced in California’s historic Jewish neighbourhoods. Both memory and history, this book contains facts, images, inspiration and a little of what the author calls poetry.
NAZI IDEOLOGIST
The Political and Social Thought of Alfred Rosenberg James Biser Whisker & John R. Coe May 2020 280pp 9781680531176 Hardback US$139.95
Examines the short life of the Nazi ideologist Alfred Rosenberg, one of the most overlooked individuals in the pantheon of leaders in the Third Reich. Rosenberg figured in a long antiJewish tradition in Germany, a tortured legacy that began with Martin Luther and continued through many of the prominent German figures of the nineteenth century. If you are a teaching academic or course leader you may request up to three titles as FREE inspection copies to consider as textbooks for students on your course. For further details please visit: eurospan.co.uk/inspection
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FIVE CHIMNEYS
A Woman Survivor’s True Story of Auschwitz Olga Lengyel 1995 232pp 9780897333764 Paperback US$14.95
Having lost her husband, her parents, and her two young sons to the Nazi exterminators, Olga Lengyel had little to live for during her seven-month internment in Auschwitz. Only Lengyel's work in the prisoners' underground resistance and the need to tell this story kept her fighting for survival. She survived by her wit and incredible strength. Five Chimneys is a stark reminder that the unspeakable can happen wherever and whenever ethnic hatreds, religious bigotries, and racial discriminations are permitted to exist.
Fons Vitae
FROM TIBERIAS, WITH LOVE
A Collection of Tiberian Hasidism, Volume 1 R. Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk Edited & translated by Aubrey L. Glazer & Nehemiah Polen Jun 2020 496pp 9781941610817 Paperback US$34.95
Volumes on Tiberian Hasidism
Offers a journey to rediscovering the magic and mystery, the intimacy and depth of a lost moment in the history of a remarkably relevant conscious community in the Galilee that still has much to teach us. Not available for sale in the UK Modern Language Association
TEACHING JEWISH AMERICAN LITERATURE
Central Recovery Press
Edited by Roberta Rosenberg & Rachel Rubinstein
NEW
THE POWER OF FORGIVENESS
Nov 2020 347pp 9781603294454 Paperback US$34.00 9781603294720 Hardback US$75.00
Eva Mozes Kor
Feb 2021 200pp 9781949481440 Hardback US$26.95
Eva Mozes Kor (1934-2019) was born in 1934 in Portz in the Transylvania region of Romania. After surviving Auschwitz, she moved to the US and ran the CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center. Told through anecdotes and in response to letters and questions at her public appearances, Eva Mozes Kor imparts a powerful lesson for all survivors that guilt, anger, resentment, and shame are a waste of energy. Forgiveness of our tormentors and ourselves is the end of victimisation, a release from pain, and fosters resilience.
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Takes an expansive view of Jewish American literature, beginning with writing from the earliest colonies in the Americas and continuing to contemporary Soviet-born authors in the United States, including works that engage deeply with religious concepts and others that embrace assimilation. Pendragon Press BESTSELLER
Cognella Academic Publishing
MUSIC IN TEREZÍN
1941-1945
THE SCRIPTURES OF ANCIENT JUDAISM
Joža Karas
A Secular Introduction
2009 223pp, 52 illustrations 9781576470305 Paperback US$49.95
Vadim Jigoulov, Jaco Gericke & Steven Leonard Jacobs Feb 2020 420pp 9781516508433 Paperback US$123.95
Provides a scholarly exploration of the literature and themes of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible and cognate Near Eastern materials. This text features interdisciplinary and methodological points of view from secular biblical scholars, offering a comprehensive point of entry to the study of the ancient world and the religious heritage of Judaism.
When Adolf Hitler created the model camp at Theresienstadt (Terezín in Czech) for the better-known of Europe's Jewish transportees, he gathered together many of the continent's finest musicians. This title examines the associations, the compositions, the performances, and the people in Terezín.
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