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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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