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Women and Judaism
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Unclean Lips Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture “Presents what is engaging material, demonstrating how taboo words and explicit representations of sex were meaningful to American Jews during the 20th-century...in contingent and historically specific ways.” —Publishers Weekly
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Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah
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We Remember with Reverence and Love American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962
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DIANNE ASHTON “Ashton offers readers a lively account of the holiday’s modern iterations....Celebrating Hanukkah in the home allowed the creation of an American Jewish tradition.” —New York Times 350 Pages • Cloth • 978-0-8147-0739-5 • $29.95
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Recent scholarship has created new understandings within the academy concerning the Bible’s reliability as a historical source, while scholarly approaches have affected how the Bible is read and understood. The volumes in this series seek to meet the need to communicate this research to a wider public of students and educated readers, presenting accessible insights and cutting edge knowledge from senior scholars about key topics within Jewish studies.
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Jewish New York Hollywood’s Spies The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles
LAURA B. ROSENZWEIG Tells the remarkable story of the Jewish moguls in Hollywood who established the first anti-Nazi Jewish resistance organization in the country in the 1930s. “The product of over a decade of research, this book documents the work of the Los Angeles Jewish Community Committee in infiltrating and combating Nazi groups in Los Angeles between 1934 and 1941. The LAJCC findings quoted here will surprise readers in showing how extensive and active pro-Nazi groups were in Southern California. Rosenzweig has produced a fine, very-well-documented study.” —Publishers Weekly
The Remarkable Story of a City and a People
DEBORAH DASH MOORE, JEFFREY S. GUROCK, ANNIE POLLAND, DANIEL SOYER, and HOWARD B. ROCK, with a visual essay by DIANA L. LINDEN The definitive history of Jews in New York and how they transformed the city. 512 pages • Cloth 978-1-4798-5038-9 • $30.00
The Jews of Harlem The Rise, Decline, and Revival of a Jewish Community
JEFFREY S. GUROCK “What stays with you long after you have finished the book is Gurock’s steadfast devotion to his subject. Not too many of us have either the opportunity or the inclination to turn things over and over again. We would do well to follow his example.” —Jewish Review of Books 320 pages • Cloth • 978-1-4798-0116-9 • $35.00
Winner of the 2012 National Jewish Book Award from the National Jewish Book Council
City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York 3 Volume box set
American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the Reconstruction Era
MICHAEL R. COHEN A vivid history of the American Jewish merchants who concentrated in the nation’s most important economic sector. “For a few decades after the Civil War, Jewish Americans played a key role in the southern cotton economy, infusing European and New York capital into the fields of a region still devastated by war, while organizing the trade in a crop central to the nation. Charting the rise and fall of this southern cotton complex, Cohen emphasizes the role of dense ethnic networks in fostering the all-important trust in which trade and credit were embedded. An important contribution to American economic history.” —Sven Beckert, Harvard University 288 pages • Cloth • 978-1-4798-7970-0 • $40.00
General Editor: DEBORAH DASH MOORE Foreword by DEBORAH DASH MOORE Visual Essays by DIANA L. LINDEN “A lively, much-needed overview of the role that Jews have played in the history and success of the Big Apple.” —Kirkus Reviews $99.00 • 1000 Pages • Cloth • 978-0-8147-1731-8
Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America
SHARI RABIN An engaging history of how Jews forged their own religious culture on the American frontier.
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Haven of Liberty
New York Jews in the New World, 1654-1865
HOWARD B. ROCK “A remarkable accomplishment... will stand for years to come as the definitive history of New York City’s early Jewish community.” —Jonathan D. Sarna, Brandeis University 368 Pages • Paper 978-1- 4798-0351- 4 • $24.00
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“A riveting account of the complex matrix of social organizations, economic activities, political movements, and cultural productions created by immigrant Jews.” —Beth S. Wenger, University of Pennsylvania
JEFFREY S. GUROCK “A vivid, richly detailed, and endlessly fascinating narrative.... Read and enjoy!” —Thomas Kessner, City university of New York Graduate Center
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Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace
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“An invaluable book...will educate, expand, and enlighten every reader’s knowledge about one of the most tragic events in human history.” —Stan Levy, Founding Director of the Bet Tzedek Holocaust Survivors Justice Network
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The New American Zionism “Well written, deeply researched and original…. An essential study of a highly contested and emotional issue and an important contribution to the field of Diasporahomeland studies.” —Ilan Troen, Brandeis University 229 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-0611-9 • $24.00
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Drawn to the Gods
“A deeply researched and beautifully written account of a neglected chapter of American Jewish history—and of national belonging.” —Ann Pellegrini, author of Performance Anxieties
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The Holocaust Across Generations
Trauma and its Inheritance Among Descendants of Survivors
JANET JACOBS “A valued addition to the sociology of collective memory and to genocide and Holocaust Studies.” —Rhys H. Williams, Loyola University Chicago
The Social Gospel in American Religion
Religion and Humor in The Simpsons, South Park, and Family Guy
The Roots of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South
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That Pride of Race and Character
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American Jewish Women’s Activism, 1890-1940
Common Lives, Uncommon Heritage
Jews and Popular Entertainment in America
—Jonathan D. Sarna, author of American Judaism: A History
Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust
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Theatrical Liberalism All volumes include A Foreword by DEBORAH DASH MOORE A Visual Essay by DIANA L. LINDEN
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An American Jewish Iconoclast
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“One of the most significant contributions in years to the study of nineteenth-century American Judaism, with vast implications for students of American religion generally. An eye-opening and creative study of how mobility shaped distinctive patterns of religious life.” 208 pages • Cloth • 978-1-4798-3047-3 • $37.00
ADAM L. ROVNER “[A] valuable contribution....In well-crafted chapters, Rovner tells the story of the efforts of the territorialists to find a Jewish home in such places as Angola, Madagascar, Tasmania, and Suriname” —Choice
THEODORE SASSON
Finalist for the JDC-Herbert Katzi Award for a Book Based on Archival Research from the National Jewish Book Council
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Jews on the Frontier
In the Shadow of Zion Promised Lands Before Israel
Winner of the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, Women’s Studies
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320 pages • Cloth • 978-1-4798-5517-9 • $29.95
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A History CHRISTOPHER H. EVANS Provides an overview of the social gospel and its legacy, showing how the social gospel also emerged within American Judaism and Catholicism.
DAVID FELTMATE Shows how each program uses humor to help shape and manipulate public knowledge about religious groups, ranging from Judaism to Islam to Buddhism, communicating ideas about religion’s proper place in American society.
304 pages • Paper 978-1-4798-8857-3 • $28.00
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Postcards from Auschwitz Holocaust Tourism and the Meaning of Remembrance
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A Rich Brew How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture
DANIEL P. REYNOLDS
SHACHAR M. PINSKER
Reveals how tourism is an important part of efforts to understand and remember the Holocaust.
A fascinating glimpse into the world of the fin-de-siècle coffeehouse and its role in shaping modern Judaism culture
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