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Contested Utopia
Dear Palestine
March 2021 328pp 3 maps, 1 table 9780827614727 £23.99/ $30.00 PB
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Socie�es and Cultures April 2021 320pp 9781503627659 £21.99/ $28.00 PB 9781503614659 £74.00/ $90.00 HB
Jewish Dreams and Israeli Realities Marc J. Rosenstein
A Social History of the 1948 War Shay Hazkani
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
The first volume to examine the Jewish state through the lens of Jewish utopian thought from its biblical beginnings to modernity, Contested Utopia illuminates a kaleidoscope of conflic�ng utopian visions influencing Israel.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence and the erasure of Arab Pales�ne. Shay Hazkani offers a new history of the conflict through soldiers’ le�ers home.
Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited
How to Measure a World?
March 2021 318pp 25 photos, 2 illus. 9781496221209 £19.99/ $24.95 PB
New Jewish Philosophy and Thought April 2021 258pp 9780253054548 £19.99/ $25.00 PB 9780253054531 £66.00/ $80.00 HB
New Echoes of My Father's German Village Mimi Schwartz
A Philosophy of Judaism Martin Shuster
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ten years a�er the original publica�on of Good Neighbors, Bad Times, an unexpected le�er leads Mimi Schwartz to revisit the story of her father’s German village during the Third Reich. Weaving excerpts from Sayer’s memoir and from a yearlong correspondence with him into her book, Schwartz revisits village history from a new perspec�ve.
What does it mean to wonder in awe or terror about the world? How do you philosophically understand Judaism? In How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism, Mar�n Shuster provides answers to these ques�ons and more.
Iberian Moorings
Invisible Enlighteners
Al-Andalus, Sefarad, and the Tropes of Exceptionalism Ross Brann
The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation Federica Francesconi
The Middle Ages Series March 2021 240pp 9780812252880 £41.00/ $49.95 HB
Jewish Culture and Contexts June 2021 400pp 10 hal�ones, 5 line art 9780812253146 £66.00/ $79.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
PRESS
In Iberian Moorings Ross Brann traces how al-Andalus and Sefarad were invested with special poli�cal, cultural, and historical significance across the Middle Ages. This is the first work to analyze the tropes of Andalusi and Sefardi excep�onalism in compara�ve perspec�ve.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Federica Francesconi writes the history of the Jewish merchants who prospered in the northern Italian city of Modena during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Their sociocultural transforma�on and legal and poli�cal integra�on evolved through a dialogue between their Italian and Jewish iden��es. 2
It Could Lead to Dancing
Jewish Primitivism Samuel J. Spinner
Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity Sonia Gollance
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture July 2021 304pp 9781503628274 £54.00/ $65.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture May 2021 288pp 9781503613492 £54.00/ $65.00 HB
Early in the twen�eth century, Jewish writers and ar�sts in Europe began depic�ng fellow Jews as savages or “primi�ve” tribesmen. This book shows how Jewish primi�vism troubles the boundary between observer and observed, cultured and “primi�ve,” colonizer and colonized.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Combining cultural history with literary analysis, Sonia Beth Gollance illustrates how mixed-sex dancing func�ons as a flexible metaphor for the concerns of Jewish communi�es in the face of cultural transi�ons.
Prologue to Annihilation
Revolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx
Studies in An�semi�sm August 2021 348pp 10 b&w illus. 9780253053626 £33.00/ $40.00 PB 9780253053619 £74.00/ $90.00 HB
Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies June 2021 544pp 1 table 9780295748665 £32.00/ $39.95 HB
Ordinary American and British Jews Challenge the Third Reich Stephen H. Norwood
The Fight for a Secular World of Universal and Equal Rights Jonathan I. Israel
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Prologue to Annihila�on details how the events of 1930-1936 tested American and Bri�sh socie�es' willingness to accept Nazism and its an�-Jewish philosophy and illuminates the divisions that existed even within the Jewish community about how best to challenge Nazi an�semi�c policies and atroci�es.
Leading intellectual historian Jonathan Israel traces the rise of a Jewish revolu�onary tendency demanding social equality and universal human rights throughout the Western world.
Sanctified Sex
Seekers of the Face
August 2021 584pp 9780827614666 £28.99/ $36.00 PB
August 2021 440pp 9781503628427 £62.00/ $75.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Two-Thousand-Year Jewish Debate on Marital Intimacy Noam Sachs Zion
Secrets of the Idra Rabba (The Great Assembly) of the Zohar Melila Hellner-Eshed
Sanc�fied Sex draws on two thousand years of rabbinic debates to address compe�ng aspira�ons for loving in�macy, passionate sexual union, and sanc�ty in marriage.
Melila Hellner-Eshed opens the treasure-house at the heart of Judaism’s most important mys�cal work, expertly unpacking its rich grounding in tradi�on, its probing of consciousness and the psyche, and its striking images of the divine face.
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Taking the Fight South
The Jews Should Keep Quiet
Chronicle of a Jew's Battle for Civil Rights in Mississippi Howard Ball
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust Rafael Medoff
February 2021 280pp 35 b&w illus. 9780268109165 £24.99/ $32.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
April 2021 408pp 9780827615199 £19.99/ $24.95 NIP
Dis�nguished historian and civil rights ac�vist Howard Ball narrates the experience of his family as Jewish outsiders in Mississippi, an unfamiliar and dangerous landscape contending with the a�ermath of the civil rights struggle.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Based on recently discovered documents, Rafael Medoff reassesses the hows and whys behind the Franklin D. Roosevelt administra�on’s fateful policies concerning European Jewry during the Holocaust.
The JPS Jewish Heritage Torah Commentary
The Lost World of Russia's Jews
Ethnography and Folklore in the Pale of Settlement Abraham Rechtman Translated by Nathaniel Deutsch & Noah Barrera
Eli L. Garfinkel
JPS Study Bible June 2021 408pp 9780827612679 £27.99/ $34.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Jews in Eastern Europe August 2021 320pp 54 b&w illus. 9780253056931 £74.00/ $90.00 PB 9780253056948 £33.00/ $40.00 HB
A unique four-part commentary on the Jewish heritage, The JPS Jewish Heritage Torah Commentary orbits each Torah por�on through four central pillars of Jewish life—the Torah, land, people, and thought—illumina�ng how they enrich one another.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
In 1913, Abraham Rechtman journeyed through the Russian Pale of Se�lement on a mission to record its Jewish folk tradi�ons before they disappeared forever. This is the first English transla�on of his extraordinary experiences.
The Merchants of Oran
The Oldest Guard
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture May 2021 216pp 9781503628953 £21.99/ $28.00 NIP
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture August 2021 312pp 9781503628700 £21.99/ $28.00 PB 9781503628496 £74.00/ $90.00 HB
A Jewish Port at the Dawn of Empire Joshua Schreier
Forging the Zionist Settler Past Liora R. Halperin
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Merchants of Oran weaves together the history of a Mediterranean port city with the lives of Oran's Jewish mercan�le elite during the transi�on to French colonial rule.
The story of Zionist se�ler memory in and around the private Jewish agricultural colonies (moshavot) established in late nineteenth-century O�oman Pales�ne. Liora Halperin offers a richly textured portrait of commemora�ve prac�ces between the 1920s and the 1960s.
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Thinking about Good and Evil
Warsaw Ghetto Police
The Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation Katarzyna Person, Translated by Zygmunt Nowak-Soliński
Jewish Views from Antiquity to Modernity Wayne Allen JPS Essen�al Judaism May 2021 456pp 9780827614710 £27.99/ $34.95 PB
April 2021 248pp 31 b&w hal�ones, 1 map 9781501754074 £25.99/ $32.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The most comprehensive book on the topic, Thinking about Good and Evil traces salient Jewish ideas about why innocent people seem to suffer, why evil individuals seem to prosper, and God’s role in ma�ers of (in)jus�ce, from an�quity to modernity.
In Warsaw Ghe�o Police, Katarzyna Person shines a spotlight on the lawyers, engineers, young yeshiva graduates, and sons of connected businessmen who, in the autumn of 1940, joined the newly formed Jewish Order Service.
Double-Edged Sword
Recent Highlights
The Many Lives of Hemingway's Friend, the American Matador Sidney Franklin Bart Paul
Conceiving Agency
Reproductive Authority among Haredi Women Michal S. Raucher
September 2020 336pp 14 photos, 2 illus. 9781496222329 £18.99/ $23.95 PB
November 2020 226pp 9 b&w illus. 9780253050021 £18.99/ $24.00 PB 9780253050014 £70.00/ $85.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
The story of Sidney Franklin, a gay Jewish American bullfighter who triumphed over prejudice and adversity as he achieved what no American had ever accomplished, teaching Ernest Hemingway lessons in grace, machismo, and respect.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Conceiving Agency explores the ways Haredi Jewish women make decisions about their reproduc�ve lives, pu�ng forward a new view of Haredi women ac�ng in ways that challenge male authority and the structural hierarchies of their conserva�ve religious tradi�on.
Honey on the Page
Israeli Community Action
A Treasury of Yiddish Children's Literature Edited & translated by Miriam Udel Foreword by Jack Zipes
Civic Associations and Community Resilience Paula Kabalo
Perspec�ves on Israel Studies December 2020 344pp 16 b&w photos 9780253050793 £28.99/ $36.00 PB 9780253050755 £75.00/ $90.00 HB
October 2020 352pp 81 b/w illus. 9781479874132 £23.99/ $29.95 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
An unprecedented treasury of Yiddish children’s stories and poems complemented by whimsical, humorous, original illustra�ons by Paula Cohen, an acclaimed children’s book illustrator. Udel’s evoca�ve transla�ons will delight young and older readers alike.
In Israeli Community Ac�on, Paula Kabalo presents a vivid portrait of civilians le� behind in the ci�es during the 1948 Israeli War of Independence who strove to help each other cope with the reali�es of war.
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The Christian Jew and the Unmarked Jewess
The Jewish Eighteenth Century
The Polemics of Sameness in Medieval English Anti-Judaism Adrienne Williams Boyarin
A European Biography, 1700– 1750 Shmuel Feiner, Translated by Jeffrey M. Green
The Middle Ages Series November 2020 352pp 12 illus. 9780812252590 £64.00/ $79.95 HB
Olamot Series in Humani�es and Social Sciences December 2020 548pp 9780253049469 £33.00/ $40.00 PB 9780253049452 £79.00/ $95.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
The Chris�an Jew and the Unmarked Jewess considers reali�es and fantasies of indis�nguishability. It focuses on how medieval Chris�ans could iden�fy with Jews and even think of themselves as Jewish—posi�vely or nega�vely, historically or figurally.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this first volume of his magisterial work, Shmuel Feiner charts the twis�ng and fascina�ng world of the first half of the 18th century from the viewpoint of the Jews of Europe.
The Memory Work of Jewish Spain
The Rise and Fall of Jewish American Literature
Daniela Flesler & Adrián Pérez Melgosa
Ethnic Studies and the Challenge of Identity Benjamin Schreier
Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies December 2020 390pp 49 b&w illus. 9780253050120 £41.00/ $49.00 PB 9780253050106 £83.00/ $100.00 HB
Jewish Culture and Contexts October 2020 224pp 9780812252576 £40.00/ $49.95 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
The 2015 law gran�ng Spanish na�onality to the descendants of Jews expelled in 1492 is the latest example of a widespread phenomenon in contemporary Spain, the "re-discovery" of its Jewish heritage. The authors examine the implica�ons of reclaiming this memory through analysis of a comprehensive range of emerging cultural prac�ces, poli�cal ini�a�ves and ins�tu�ons.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
In a polemic against the unexamined founda�ons and stagnant state of the field, Schreier cri�cally analyzes a series of professionally powerful clichés about Jewish American literary history and how they came into being on the way to contes�ng the founda�onal ethnological presupposi�ons of Jewish Studies.
The Sultan's Communists
Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin
Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging Alma Heckman
A Fugitive Modernism Marc Caplan
German Jewish Cultures January 2021 344pp 9780253052001 £33.00/ $40.00 PB 9780253051981 £82.00/ $95.00 HB
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture November 2020 328pp 9781503613805 £54.00/ $65.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Marc Caplan explores the reciprocal encounter between Eastern European Jews and German culture in the days following World War I. By concentra�ng primarily on a small group of avant-garde Yiddish writers working in Berlin during the Weimar Republic, Caplan examines how these writers became central to modernist aesthe�cs.
The Sultan's Communists uncovers the history of Jewish radical involvement in Morocco's na�onal libera�on project and examines how Moroccan Jews envisioned themselves par�cipa�ng as ci�zens in a newly-independent Morocco. 6
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