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HIGHLIGHTS FEASTING AND FASTING

The History and Ethics of Jewish Food Edited by AARON S. GROSS, JODY MYERS and JORDAN D. ROSENBLUM Foreword by HASIA DINER Afterword by JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Offers an expansive look at how Judaism and food are intertwined $30.00 • 384 pages • paper • 978-1-4798-2779-4

DUST TO DUST

A History of Jewish Burial Practices in New York ALLAN M. AMANIK

“Will be of interest to historians of Americans' death-practices, and to students of American Jewish history.”—Lucy Bregman, Temple University $40.00 • 272 pages cloth • 978-1-4798-0080-3 In Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History

A MORTUARY OF BOOKS

The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust ELISABETH GALLAS

“An impressive book debut with a comprehensive history of efforts to recover, identify, and restore artifacts of Jewish culture... A fresh, significant contribution to Jewish history.”—STARRED Kirkus Reviews $35.00 • 416 pages • cloth • 978-1-4798-3395-5 In Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History

THE SOUL OF JUDAISM Jews of African Descent in America BRUCE D. HAYNES

“By exploring blackness in Judaism... opens up important questions about racism, antisemitism, and the immense variety of Jewish experience.”

—Howard Winant, University of California, Santa Barbara $39.00 • 272 pages • cloth • 978-1-4798-1123-6 In Religion, Race, and Ethnicity

new in paperback Finalist, 2018 National Jewish Book Award for Modern Jewish Thought and Experience, Jewish Book Council

2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, American Jewish Historical Society

A RICH BREW

A ROSENBERG BY ANY OTHER NAME

How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture

A History of Jewish Name Changing in America

SHACHAR M. PINSKER

“There are enough grounds and gossip in A Rich Brew to keep this customer engrossed from cup to cup.”

—The Wall Street Journal $22.00 • 384 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-2789-3

KIRSTEN FERMAGLICH

“A fine contribution to an important, previously underexplored area of American Jewish identity.”

—Publishers Weekly $28.00 • 256 pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-6720-2 In Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History

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THE JEWS OF HARLEM

PARKCHESTER

JEFFREY S. GUROCK

JEFFREY S. GUROCK

The Rise, Decline, and Revival of a Jewish Community “Makes clear that the Harlem Jewish community significantly influenced American Jewry as a whole... A must-read.”

—Publishers Weekly $24.00 • 320 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-9042-2

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A Bronx Tale of Race and Ethnicity An eight-decade story of a New York community where Irish and Italian Catholics, white Protestants, and Jews lived together in relative harmony $30.00 • 304 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-9670-7

HIGHLIGHTS new in paperback 2017 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies, Jewish Book Council | Finalist, Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature

JEWS ON THE FRONTIER

Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America SHARI RABIN

“An eye-opening and creative study of how mobility shaped distinctive patterns of religious life.”—Jonathan D. Sarna, author of American Judaism $25.00 • 208 pages paper • 978-1-4798-3583-6 In North American Religions

POSTCARDS FROM AUSCHWITZ

Holocaust Tourism and the Meaning of Remembrance DANIEL P. REYNOLDS

“Incisively scrutinizes the intersection of tourism and Holocaust remembrance . . . raises important questions about history, tourism, and genocide.”

—STARRED Publishers Weekly $35.00 • 336 pages • cloth • 978-1-4798-7438-5

2009 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies, Jewish Book Council | Recipient of the 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in Humanities-Intellectual & Cultural History

WE REMEMBER WITH REVERENCE AND LOVE

American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962 HASIA R. DINER

“A work of towering research and conviction that will surely enliven academic debates for years to come.”

—STARRED Kirkus Reviews $26.00 • 504 pages • paper • 978-0-8147-2122-3 In Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History

2015 National Jewish Book Award in Education and Jewish Identity, Jewish Book Council

PASTRAMI ON RYE

An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli TED MERWIN

“Merwin captures the essence of the New York deli experience...Merwin offers a thoughtful, ‘overstuffed’ look at all aspects of the Jewish deli.”—Chicago Tribune $16.95 • 256 pages paper • 978-1-4798-7255-8

THE LISTENER

In the Shadow of the Holocaust IRENE OORE

A memoir relating how a woman copes with her mother’s stories of how she survived World War II in Poland by concealing her Jewish identity $19.95 • 504 pages paper • 978-0-8897-7653-1 In The Regina Collection Published by University of Regina Press Distributed by NYU Press NYUPRESS.ORG/UNIVERSITY-OF-REGINA-PRESS 2014 National Jewish Book Award in Anthologies and Collections, Jewish Book Council

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Mapping the Jewish World Edited by HASIA R. DINER and GENNADY ESTRAIKH

“This wide-ranging and innovative collection... presents the distinct features of the interwar period in Jewish history.”—Derek Penslar, University of Oxford $26.00 • 255 pages paper • 978-0-8147-2021-9 In Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History

CELEBRATING THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE

GOLDSTEIN-GOREN SERIES IN AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY Emerging out of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History at New York University, this new series strives to publish the most outstanding and provocative works in the field of American Jewish history today. It brings to both the scholarly community and the broad reading public new research and analysis on the mutual impact of America and the Jews. American Jewish history is here broadly defined, encompassing projects that interrogate conventional geographic borders as well as those which look critically at assumed definitions of Jewish group membership. In addition to distinguished works of original scholarship, the series may also publish translations, re-issued classics, or works of reference.

General Editor—Hasia R. Diner, New York University

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GOLDSTEIN-GOREN SERIES IN AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY 2016 Best First Book Prize, Immigration and Ethnic History Society | Finalist, 2016 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature | 2015 Book Prize, Southern Jewish Historical Society | Finalist, 2015 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award, Association for Jewish Studies | 2014 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies, Jewish Book Council

Finalist, 2017 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies, Jewish Book Council

HOLLYWOOD’S SPIES

The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles

THE RAG RACE

How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire

LAURA B. ROSENZWEIG

“A too-long-neglected tale about the power of volunteers and activist citizens to make a difference in frightening times.”—Los Angeles Review of Books $29.95 • 320 pages cloth • 978-1-4798-2992-7

ADAM D. MENDELSOHN

“A remarkable achievement, a testament to the vitality of the historical imagination.”

—Jewish Review of Books $22.00 • 320 pages paper • 978-1-4798-1438-1 Finalist, 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, Jewish Book Council

Honorable Mention, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, American Jewish Historical Society

COTTON CAPITALISTS

JEWS AND BOOZE

American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the Reconstruction Era

Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition MARNI DAVIS

“Enough interesting anecdotes, facts and figures in the charming history to make the reader thirsty for another round.”—Evan Rail, Times Literary Supplement $25.00 • 272 pages paper • 978-1-4798-8244-1 Finalist, 2019 PROSE Award in Biography, Association of American Publishers

MICHAEL R. COHEN

“Presents a different perspective, examining the role of Jewish merchants in the antebellum South.”

—CHOICE Magazine $40.00 • 288 pages cloth • 978-1-4798-7970-0 2014 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award, Association for Jewish Studies

JEWISH RADICAL FEMINISM

UNCLEAN LIPS

Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture

Voices from the Women’s Liberation Movement

JOSH LAMBERT

“A lively account of a littleknown history that deserves a wide audience.”

—The Historian

JOYCE ANTLER

“This is the book we’ve been waiting for. Antler has given us the gift of knowledge, ending the silence about Jewish feminists and feminist Jews.”

—Ruth Rosen, author of The World Split Open $35.00 • 464 pages • cloth • 978-0-8147-0763-0

$40.00 • 276 pages cloth • 978-1-4798-7643-3

MAKING JUDAISM SAFE FOR AMERICA World War I and the Origins of Religious Pluralism

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JESSICA COOPERMAN

“Shows how ideas about pluralism shaped both Judaism and American religion generally during the tumultuous World War I era.“ —Jonathan D. Sarna, author of American Judaism $39.00 • 224 pages • cloth • 978-1-4798-8500-8

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HISTORY HOW THE WISE MEN GOT TO CHELM The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition

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2012 National Jewish Book Award, National Jewish Book Council

CITY OF PROMISES

RUTH VON BERNUTH

A History of the Jews of New York A 3-Volume Box Set

“Squarely sets this famous genre within a milieu that is at once thoroughly Germanic and distinctively Jewish.”

—Jonathan Boyarin, Cornell University $35.00 • 336 pages cloth • 978-1-4798-2844-9

“A bold, well-researched and beautifully-illustrated history of New York’s Jews.”

—Jonathan D. Sarna, author of American Judaism $99.00 • 1000 pages • cloth • 978-0-8147-1731-8

General Editor: DEBORAH DASH MOORE Written by HOWARD B. ROCK, ANNIE POLLAND, DANIEL SOYER, and JEFFREY S. GUROCK With VISUAL ESSAYS BY DIANA L. LINDEN

JACOB NEUSNER

HAVEN OF LIBERTY

AARON W. HUGHES

HOWARD B. ROCK

“A much needed, long awaited biography of perhaps the most important American Jewish thinker of the mid to late twentieth century.”

—Laura S. Levitt, Temple University $35.00 • 336 pages cloth • 978-1-4798-8585-5

“Covers its chronological sweep so smoothly that readers may not immediately realize how many cultures, times, and decades they have crossed.”—Joe Butler, The American Jewish Archives Journal

An American Jewish Iconoclast

2017 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Jewish Literature and Linguistics, Association for Jewish Studies

GOLEM

Modern Wars and Their Monsters MAYA BARZILAI

“Fascinating and well argued, Golem examines the modern incarnations of the old Jewish myth.”—Helene Wecker, author of The Golem & the Jinni $35.00 • 288 pages cloth • 978-1-4798-8965-5

New York Jews in the New World, 1654-1865

$24.00 • 368 pages • paper • 978-1-4798-0351-4

EMERGING METROPOLIS

New York Jews in the Age of Immigration, 1840-1920 ANNIE POLLAND and DANIEL SOYER

“Brings the city’s spaces to life as it describes the invention of a multifaceted Jewish community.”—Beth S. Wenger, University of Pennsylvania $24.00 • 368 pages • paper • 978-1-4798-1105-2

2013 National Jewish Book Award In Women’s Studies, Jewish Book Council

BALLOTS, BABIES, AND BANNERS OF PEACE American Jewish Women’s Activism, 1890-1940 MELISSA R. KLAPPER

“An outstanding contribution to a history that we thought we knew well, of some of the great women’s struggles of the early twentieth century—suffrage, peace, and birth control.”

—Riv-Ellen Prell, University of Minnesota INSTRUCTOR’S GUIDE AVAILABLE $24.00 • 301 pages • paper • 978-1-4798-5059-4

JEWS IN GOTHAM

New York Jews in a Changing City, 1920-2010 JEFFREY S. GUROCK

“A vivid, richly detailed, and endlessly fascinating narrative about variegated Jewish life in the iconic diaspora metropolis.”

—Thomas Kessner, City University of New York $24.00 • 236 pages paper • 978-1-4798-7846-8

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HISTORY CONT. JEWISH NEW YORK

THE IMPOSSIBLE JEW

The Remarkable Story of a City and a People DEBORAH DASH MOORE, JEFFREY S. GUROCK, ANNIE POLLAND, HOWARD B. ROCK and DANIEL SOYER with a visual essay by DIANA L. LINDEN

“A definitive look at how Jewish New Yorkers and New York City shaped each other.”

—STARRED Publishers Weekly $30.00 • 512 pages • cloth • 978-1-4798-5038-9

Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History BENJAMIN SCHREIER

“Brilliant, original, and funny, this is the book many of us in Jewish and literary studies have been waiting for all these years.”—Daniel Itzkovitz, co-editor of Queer Theory and the Jewish Question $25.00 • 256 pages • paper • 978-1-4798-9584-7

OLD CANAAN IN A NEW WORLD

THAT PRIDE OF RACE AND CHARACTER

Native Americans and the Lost Tribes of Israel

The Roots of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South

ELIZABETH FENTON

Shows how American politicians and thinkers used the idea that Native Americans are the lost tribes of Israel over two centuries $35.00 • 272 pages cloth • 978-1-4798-6636-6

CAROLINE E. LIGHT

“An important examination of the exceptional ways in which two southern Jewish communities ‘took care of their own.’”

—The North Carolina Historical Review $45.00 • 304 pages • cloth • 978-1-4798-5453-0

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GREAT FOR COURSES GENDER IN JUDAISM AND ISLAM

Common Lives, Uncommon Heritage Edited by FIROOZEH KASHANI-SABET and BETH S. WENGER

“Addresses similarities and differences in women’s issues and experiences.”

—Reading Religion $30.00 • 384 pages • paper • 978-1-4798-0127-5

RELIGION, LAW, USA

Edited by JOSHUA DUBLER and ISAAC WEINER

“A wonderful and originally conceived entry into conversations in a number of disciplines.... Importantly, includes attention to the racialized intersections of religion and law in the United States, as well as to how religion and law touch on and shape gender and sexuality.”—Ann Pellegrini, coauthor of Love the Sin $35.00 • 336 pages • paper • 978-1-4798-9139-9 In north american religions

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GREAT FOR COURSES JEWISH STUDIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY General Editor: FREDERICK E. GREENSPAHN Florida Atlantic University Recent scholarship has created new understandings about the Bible’s reliability as a historical source, and has changed how the Bible is read and understood. This interdisciplinary series addresses this changing scholarly landscape, presenting new insights about the field of Jewish studies.

Edited by Frederick E. Greenspahn

Contemporary Israel New Insights and Scholarship

Jewish Studies in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Frederick E. Greenspahn

Women and Judaism New Insights and Scholarship

Jewish Studies in the Twenty-First Century

EARLY JUDAISM

New Insights and Scholarship Edited by FREDERICK E. GREENSPAHN

“A spectacular round-up of superb authors, all of them expert in fields relating to the transition centuries between the Hebrew Bible and the emergence of Judaism.”

—Lawrence A Hoffman, Hebrew Union College $28.00 • 272 pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-0990-5

CONTEMPORARY ISRAEL

JEWISH MYSTICISM AND KABBALAH

Edited by FREDERICK E. GREENSPAHN

Edited by FREDERICK E. GREENSPAHN

New Insights and Scholarship

New Insights and Scholarship

“One of the best new anthologies in the burgeoning field of Israel Studies.”

—Miriam Elman, Syracuse University $30.00 • 320 Pages paper • 978-1-4798-2894-4

“An excellent summary of the history of Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah.... An excellent book for general readers.”

—Jewish Book Council $30.00 • 272 Pages cloth • 978-0-8147-3286-1

WOMEN AND JUDAISM

THE HEBREW BIBLE

Edited by FREDERICK E. GREENSPAHN

Edited by FREDERICK E. GREENSPAHN

“Each informed essay provides tantalizing glimpses of the newly discovered lives of Jewish women, past and present.”—Ellen Frankel, The Jewish Publication Society $25.00 • 304 pages • paper • 978-0-8147-3219-9

“Should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand the most important issues in the contemporary study of the Bible.”—S. David Sperling, author of The Original Torah $26.00 • 256 pages paper • 978-0-8147-3188-8

JEWISH CONCEPTS OF SCRIPTURE

SACRIFICE IN JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM

New Insights and Scholarship

A Comparative Introduction Edited by BENJAMIN D. SOMMER

“The predominance of the historical-critical method has made Biblical studies a field in which religious affiliation is rarely engaged. This volume is a much needed corrective....

There really is no book like it —highly recommended!”—Gary Anderson, University of Notre Dame $28.00 • 347 pages • paper • 978-0-8147-6002-4

New Insights and Scholarship

DAVID L. WEDDLE

“Framing his inquiry as a quest for understanding sacrificial motivation across traditions, this ambitious book combines theoretical explanations with historical surveys, finally concluding with moral judgments about the proper role of sacrifice in the contemporary world.”—Journal of the American Academy of Religion $30.00 • 272 pages • paper • 978-0-8147-8931-5

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