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HIGHLIGHTS MY SECOND-FAVORITE COUNTRY How American Jewish Children Think About Israel

KABBALAH AND THE FOUNDING OF AMERICA The Early Influence of Jewish Thought in the New World

SIVAN ZAKAI

BRIAN OGREN

Reveals how young American Jewish children come to develop their views about Israel

Explores the influence of Kabbalah in shaping America’s religious identity

$25.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0898-4 June 2022

$35.00 • 328 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0798-7

Honorable Mention, 2021 Saul Viener Book Prize, presented by the American Jewish Historical Society

BEYOND THE SYNAGOGUE

Winner, 2021 Reference & Bibliography Award, presented by the Association of Jewish Libraries

HONEY ON THE PAGE

Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice

A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature

RACHEL B. GROSS

Edited and translated by MIRIAM

Reveals nostalgia as a new way of maintaining Jewish continuity $39.00 • 272 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0338-5 In North American Religions

UDEL An unprecedented treasury of Yiddish children’s stories and poems enhanced with original illustrations

$29.95 • 352 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-7413-2

Winner, 2020 JDC-Herbert Katzki Award for Writing Based on Archival Material, presented by the Jewish Book Council

THE SOUL OF JUDAISM

A MORTUARY OF BOOKS

Jews of African Descent in America

The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust

BRUCE D. HAYNES A glimpse into the diverse stories of Black Jews in the United States

$40.00 • 272 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-1123-6 In Religion, Race, and Ethnicity

ELISABETH GALLAS The astonishing story of the efforts of scholars and activists to rescue Jewish cultural treasures after the Holocaust

$35.00 • 416 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-3395-5 In Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History

OLD CANAAN IN A NEW WORLD

STUDYING LIVED RELIGION

Native Americans and the Lost Tribes of Israel

Contexts and Practices

ELIZABETH FENTON

Offers an overarching definition and framework for the study of religion as it manifests itself in everyday life

Were indigenous Americans descendants of the lost tribes of Israel? $35.00 • 272 Pages Cloth • 9781479891962 In North American Religions GET 30% OFF AND FREE SHIPPING* WITH COUPON JWST21-FM

NANCY TATOM AMMERMAN

$30.00 • 288 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0434-4

GENDER STUDIES, FOLKLORE, & ISRAEL STUDIES Finalist, 2019 PROSE Award in Biography, presented by the Association of American Publishers

JEWISH RADICAL FEMINISM Voices from the Women’s Liberation Movement JOYCE ANTLER A book that at last illuminates the profound impact Jewishness and second-wave feminism had on each other

HEAVENLY SEX Sexuality and the Jewish Tradition DR. RUTH K. WESTHEIMER and JONATHAN MARK Celebrated sex expert and bestselling author Dr. Ruth Westheimer bridges the gap between sex and religion in this provocative exploration of intimacy in the Jewish faith

$19.95 • 464 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0254-8 In Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History

$20.00 • 200 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0552-5

WOMEN AND JUDAISM

THEORY OF WOMEN IN RELIGIONS

New Insights and Scholarship

CATHERINE WESSINGER

Edited by FREDERICK E.

An introduction to the study of women in diverse religious cultures

GREENSPAHN Jewish women’s domestic, economic, intellectual, spiritual, and creative roles in Jewish life from biblical times to the present

$27.00 • 304 Pages Paper • 978-0-8147-3219-9 In Jewish Studies in the TwentyFirst Century

HOW THE WISE MEN GOT TO CHELM The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition RUTH VON BERNUTH The first in-depth study of Chelm literature and its relationship to its literary precursors

$22.00 • 232 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-9196-2 In Women in Religions

Winner, 2017 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Jewish Literature and Linguistics

GOLEM Modern Wars and Their Monsters MAYA BARZILAI

A monster tour of the Golem narrative across various cultural and historical landscapes $25.00 • 288 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-4845-4

$35.00 • 336 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-2844-9

CONTEMPORARY ISRAEL

A LAND WITH A PEOPLE

New Insights and Scholarship Edited by FREDERICK E.

Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism

GREENSPAHN

Edited by ESTHER FARMER,

The contradictions and competing views of modern Israel

ROSALIND POLLACK PETCHESKY and SARAH SILLS

$30.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-2894-4 In Jewish Studies in the TwentyFirst Century

A collection of personal stories, history, poetry, and art

$19.00 • 184 Pages Paper • 978-1-5836-7929-6 Published by Monthly Review Press

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DUST TO DUST A History of Jewish Death and Burial in New York

ALLAN AMANIK A revealing look at how death and burial practices influence the living

$40.00 • 272 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0080-3

Winner, 2017 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies presented by the Jewish Book Council

JEWS ON THE FRONTIER

Religion and Mobility in NineteenthCentury America

SHARI RABIN An engaging history of how Jews forged their own religious culture on the American frontier

$25.00 • 208 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3583-6 In North American Religions Winner, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, presented by the American Jewish Historical Society

MAKING JUDAISM SAFE FOR AMERICA

A ROSENBERG BY ANY OTHER NAME

World War I and the Origins of Religious Pluralism

A History of Jewish Name Changing in America

JESSICA COOPERMAN

KIRSTEN FERMAGLICH

A compelling story of how Judaism became integrated into mainstream American religion

A groundbreaking history of the practice of Jewish name changing in the 20th century, showcasing just how much is in a name

$39.00 • 224 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-8500-8

$28.00 • 256 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-6720-2

Winner, 2016 Best First Book Prize presented by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society

THE RAG RACE

COTTON CAPITALISTS

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

American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the Reconstruction Era

ADAM D. MENDELSOHN

MICHAEL R. COHEN

From humble beginnings, Jews rode the coattails of the clothing trade from the margins of economic life to a position of unusual promise and prominence

A vivid history of the American Jewish merchants who concentrated in the nation’s most important economic sector

$22.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1438-1

$40.00 • 288 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-7970-0

Winner of the 2013 New York Book Show Award in Scholarly/ Professional Cover Design

JEWISH RADICALS

HOLLYWOOD’S SPIES

A Documentary Reader

The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles

Edited by TONY MICHELS Explores the intertwined histories of Jews and the American Left through a rich variety of primary documents

$28.00 • 360 Pages Paper • 978-0-8147-5744-4

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

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G O L D S T E I N - G O R E N S E R I E S ( C O N T. )

GOLDSTEIN-GOREN SERIES IN AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY E m e r g i n g o u t o f t h e G o l d s t e i n - G o r e n C e n t e r f o r A m e r i c a n J e w i s h H i s t o r y a t N e w Yo r k U n i v e r s i t y, t h i s s e r i e s s t r i v e s t o p u b l i s h t h e m o s t o u t s t a n d i n g a n d p r o v o c a t i v e w o r k s i n t h e f i e l d o f A m e r i c a n J e w i s h h i s t o r y t o d a y. I t b r i n g s t o b o t h t h e s c h o l a r l y c o m m u n i t y and the broad reading public new research and analysis on the mutual impact of America and the Jews. American Jewish histor y is here broadly defined, encompassing projects that interrogate conventional geographic borders as well as those which look critically at assumed def initions of Je wish group memb ership. In addition to distinguished works of original s cholarship, the s eries may als o publish translations, re-issued classics, or works of reference.

G E N E R A L E D I T O R - H a s i a R . D i n e r, N e w Yo r k U n i v e r s i t y Winner of the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, Anthologies and Collections

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JEWS AND BOOZE

Mapping the Jewish World

Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition

Edited by HASIA R. DINER and

GENNADY ESTRAIKH

MARNI DAVIS

Surveys the Jewish world in one year, offering clear examples of the transnational connections which linked Jews to each other

Traces American Jews’ complicated relationship to alcohol through the years leading up to and after prohibition

$27.00 • 255 Pages Paper • 978-0-8147-2021-9

$26.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-8244-1

Winner of the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award presented by the Association for Jewish Studies

UNCLEAN LIPS Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture

JOSH LAMBERT Explores the variable historical and cultural factors that account for the central role Jews have played in the struggles over obscenity and censorship in the modern United States

WE REMEMBER WITH REVERENCE AND LOVE American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962

HASIA R. DINER This compelling work shows the assumption of silence to be categorically false

$40.00 • 276 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-7643-3

$28.00 • 540 Pages Paper • 978-0-8147-2122-3

ALL TOGETHER DIFFERENT

HANUKKAH IN AMERICA

Yiddish Socialists, Garment Workers, and the Labor Roots of Multiculturalism

A History

DANIEL KATZ A fresh perspective on the nature of ethnic identity and working-class consciousness

DIANNE ASHTON Explores the ways American Jews have reshaped Hanukkah traditions across the country

$29.95 • 350 Pages Cloth • 978-0-8147-0739-5

$28.00 • 312 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-7325-8

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JEWISH NEW YORK/CULTURE & CUISINE JEWISH NEW YORK

THE JEWS OF HARLEM

The Remarkable Story of a City and a People

The Rise, Decline, and Revival of a Jewish Community

DEBORAH DASH MOORE, JEFFREY S. GUROCK, ANNIE POLLAND, HOWARD B. ROCK and DANIEL SOYER

The complete story of Jewish Harlem and its significance in American Jewish history

The definitive history of Jews in New York and how they transformed the city

JEFFREY S. GUROCK

$24.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-9042-2

$18.95 • 512 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0264-7 Winner, 2019 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award, Jewish Literature and Linguistics Category

ACTIVIST NEW YORK

A RICH BREW

A History of People, Protest, and Politics

How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture

STEVEN H. JAFFE

SHACHAR M. PINSKER

Follows centuries of New York activism to reveal the city as a globally influential machine for social change

A fascinating glimpse into the world of the coffeehouse and its role in shaping modern Jewish culture

$40.00 • 304 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0460-3 In Washington Mews Books

$22.00 • 384 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-7438-5

Winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Education and Jewish Identity presented by the Jewish Book Council

FEASTING AND FASTING The History and Ethics of Jewish Food

Edited by AARON S. GROSS, JODY MYERS and JORDAN D. ROSENBLUM

How Judaism and food are intertwined

PASTRAMI ON RYE An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli

TED MERWIN The history of an iconic food in Jewish American culture

$16.95 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-7255-8

$35.00 • 384 Pages Paper • 9781479891962

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THE HOLOCAUST AND ITS LEGACY/JEWISH STUDIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY

POSTCARDS FROM AUSCHWITZ Holocaust Tourism and the Meaning of Remembrance DANIEL P. REYNOLDS

The uneasy link between tourism and collective memory at Holocaust museums and memorials

THE LISTENER In the Shadow of the Holocaust IRENE OORE A reflection on how trauma is passed from generation to generation

$19.95 • 160 Pages Cloth • 978-0-8897-7653-1 In The Regina Collection

$25.00 • 336 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0603-4

WHITE CHRISTIAN PRIVILEGE The Illusion of Religious Equality in America KHYATI Y. JOSHI

Exposes the invisible ways in which white Christian privilege disadvantages racial and religious minorities in America $16.95 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1200-4 Now available in paperback

JEWISH STUDIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY General Editor: Frederick E. Greenspahn E m e r it u s , F l or i d a At l a nt i c Un i v e r s it y

IT CAN HAPPEN HERE White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US ALEXANDER LABAN HINTON A renowned expert on genocide argues that there is a real risk of violent atrocities happening in the United States

$29.00 • 304 pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0801-4

JEWISH MYSTICISM AND KABBALAH New Insights and Scholarship Edited by FREDERICK E. GREENSPAHN Illuminates various of Jewish mysticism from antiquity to the present day

$30.00 • 272 Pages Cloth • 978-0-8147-3286-1 In Jewish Studies in the TwentyFirst Century

EARLY JUDAISM

THE HEBREW BIBLE

New Insights and Scholarship Edited by FREDERICK E.

New Insights and Scholarship Edited by FREDERICK E.

GREENSPAHN

GREENSPAHN

An exploration of the emergence of Rabbinic Judaism drawing on primary sources and new methods

How archeology, theology, ancient studies, literary studies, feminist studies, and other disciplines now understand the Bible

$28.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0990-5 In Jewish Studies in the TwentyFirst Century

$27.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-0-8147-3188-8 In Jewish Studies in the TwentyFirst Century

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