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HIGHLIGHTS FEASTING AND FASTING

BEYOND THE SYNAGOGUE

The History and Ethics of Jewish Food

Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice

Edited by AARON S. GROSS, JODY MYERS and JORDAN D. ROSENBLUM Foreword by HASIA DINER Afterword by JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

RACHEL B. GROSS

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

A look at how Judaism and food are intertwined $30.00 • 384 pages • paper • 978-1-4798-2779-4 new in paperback

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

POSTCARDS FROM AUSCHWITZ

JEWS ON THE FRONTIER

DANIEL P. REYNOLDS

SHARI RABIN

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

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

Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America

Holocaust Tourism and the Meaning of Remembrance

$25.00 • 336 pages paper • 978-1-4798-0603-4

$25.00 • 208 pages paper • 978-1-4798-3583-6 In North American Religions new in paperback Finalist, 2018 National Jewish Book Award for Modern Jewish Thought and Experience, Jewish Book Council

THE SOUL OF JUDAISM

A RICH BREW

BRUCE D. HAYNES

SHACHAR M. PINSKER

A glimpse into the diverse stories of Black Jews in the United States

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

Jews of African Descent in America

How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture

$39.00 • 272 pages cloth • 978-1-4798-1123-6 In Religion, Race, and Ethnicity new in paperback 2017 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Jewish Literature and Linguistics, Association for Jewish Studies

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$22.00 • 384 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-2789-3 nyu press classic

GOLEM

The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made

Modern Wars and Their Monsters MAYA BARZILAI

The first in-depth study of the immensely popular and pervasive golem narrative in the context of modern wars and their destructive technologies $35.00 • 288 pages cloth • 978-1-4798-8965-5

WORLD OF OUR FATHERS

IRVING HOWE Foreword by MORRIS DICKSTEIN

A classic exploration of the American Jewish experience by one of our greatest twentieth-century intellectuals $32.00 • 768 pages • paper • 978-0-8147-3685-2

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IN THE GOLDSTEIN GOREN SERIES 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 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.

General Editor—Hasia R. Diner, New York University Finalist, Celebrate 350 Award in American Jewish Studies

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 $29.95 • 320 pages cloth • 978-1-4798-2992-7 Honorable Mention, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, American Jewish Historical Society

COTTON CAPITALISTS 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 $40.00 • 288 pages cloth • 978-1-4798-7970-0 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

THE RAG RACE

How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire ADAM D. MENDELSOHN

Have Jews been successful because of cultural factors distinct to them as a group, or because of the particular circumstances that they encountered in America? $22.00 • 320 pages paper • 978-1-4798-1438-1

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

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

A compelling story of how Judaism became integrated into mainstream American religion $39.00 • 224 pages cloth • 978-1-4798-8500-8

Finalist, 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, Jewish Book Council

JEWS AND BOOZE

Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition MARNI DAVIS

Traces American Jews’ complicated relationship to alcohol through the years leading up to and after prohibition $25.00 • 272 pages paper • 978-1-4798-8244-1

2014 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award, Association for Jewish Studies

UNCLEAN LIPS

Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture JOSH LAMBERT

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

—The Historian

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

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IN THE GOLDSTEIN GOREN SERIES (CONT.) 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, American Jewish Historical Society

DUST TO DUST

A ROSENBERG BY ANY OTHER NAME

A History of Jewish Burial Practices in New York

A History of Jewish Name Changing in America

ALLAN M. AMANIK

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

KIRSTEN FERMAGLICH

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

$40.00 • 272 pages cloth • 978-1-4798-0080-3

$28.00 • 256 pages cloth • 978-1-4798-6720-2 2014 National Jewish Book Award in Anthologies and Collections, Jewish Book Council

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

A MORTUARY OF BOOKS

1929

Mapping the Jewish World

The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust

Edited by HASIA R. DINER and GENNADY ESTRAIKH

ELISABETH GALLAS

“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

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

JEWISH NEW YORK THE JEWS OF HARLEM

JEWISH NEW YORK

JEFFREY S. GUROCK

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

The Rise, Decline, and Revival of a Jewish Community

The Remarkable Story of a City and a People

The complete story of Jewish Harlem and its significance in American Jewish history $24.00 • 320 pages paper • 978-1-4798-9042-2

The definitive history of Jews in New York and how they transformed the city $30.00 • 512 pages • cloth • 978-1-4798-5038-9 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Education and Jewish Identity, Jewish Book Council

PARKCHESTER

PASTRAMI ON RYE

JEFFREY S. GUROCK

TED MERWIN

The eight-decade story of a New York neighborhood

The history of an iconic food in Jewish American culture

$30.00 • 304 pages paper • 978-1-4798-9670-7

$16.95 • 256 pages paper • 978-1-4798-7255-8

A Bronx Tale of Race and Ethnicity

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An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli

HISTORY FEATURED COLLECTION CITY OF PROMISES

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

“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 2012 National Jewish Book Award, National Jewish Book Council

HAVEN OF LIBERTY

New York Jews in the New World, 1654-1865 HOWARD B. ROCK

“A remarkable accomplishment, Haven of Liberty will stand for years to come as the definitive history of New York City's early Jewish community.”—Jonathan D. Sarna, Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University $24.00 • 368 pages • paper • 978-1-4798-0351-4

JACOB NEUSNER An American Jewish Iconoclast AARON W. HUGHES

“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

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 $35.00 • 336 pages cloth • 978-1-4798-2844-9

EMERGING METROPOLIS New York Jews in the Age of Immigration, 1840-1920

ANNIE POLLAND and DANIEL SOYER

"Demonstrates, with prodigious research and lucid prose, that New York played a crucial role in shaping the Jews, and that the Jews left an indelible stamp on America's great metropolis, New York."—Hasia R. Diner, Director, Goldstein-Goren Center of American Jewish History, New York University $24.00 • 368 pages • paper • 978-1-4798-1105-2

OLD CANAAN IN A NEW WORLD

Native Americans and the Lost Tribes of Israel ELIZABETH FENTON

Were indigenous Americans descendants of the lost tribes of Israel? $35.00 • 272 pages cloth • 978-1-4798-6636-6 In north american religions

JEWS IN GOTHAM

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

"In his exhaustive history of Jews in New York from 1920 to the present, Gurock covers the wax and wane of immigration, segregation, suburban flight, antiSemitism, socialist conviction and Zionism. ... Anecdotes embroider and occasionally deepen his broad sweep..."—Anna Altman, New York Times

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$24.00 • 236 pages • paper • 978-1-4798-7846-8

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WOMEN AND JUDAISM Finalist, 2019 PROSE Award in Biography, Association of American Publishers

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

JEWISH RADICAL FEMINISM

BALLOTS, BABIES, AND BANNERS OF PEACE

JOYCE ANTLER

MELISSA R. KLAPPER

American Jewish Women’s Activism, 1890-1940

Voices from the Women’s Liberation Movement

Uncovers the powerful effects of 20th-century Jewish women's social and political activism on contemporary American life

Fifty years after the start of the women’s liberation movement, a book that at last illuminates the profound impact Jewishness and second-wave feminism had on each other INSTRUCTOR’S GUIDE AVAILABLE

$35.00 • 464 pages • cloth • 978-0-8147-0763-0

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HEAVENLY SEX

Sexuality and the Jewish Tradition DR. RUTH K. WESTHEIMER and JONATHAN MARK

INSTRUCTOR’S GUIDE AVAILABLE

$24.00 • 301 pages • paper • 978-1-4798-5059-4

JEWISH STUDIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY General Editor: FREDERICK E. GREENSPAHN Florida Atlantic University Edited by Frederick E. Greenspahn

Women and Judaism

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 $20.00 • 200 pages • paper • 978-1-4798-0552-5

Edited by Frederick E. Greenspahn

Contemporary Israel New Insights and Scholarship

Jewish Studies in the Twenty-First Century

New Insights and Scholarship

Jewish Studies in the Twenty-First Century

WOMEN AND JUDAISM

New Insights and Scholarship 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

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

EARLY JUDAISM

THE HEBREW BIBLE

Edited by FREDERICK E. GREENSPAHN

Edited by FREDERICK E. GREENSPAHN

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

“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

New Insights and Scholarship

$28.00 • 272 pages paper • 978-1-4798-0990-5

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New Insights and Scholarship

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AFTER THE HOLOCAUST

In the Shadow of the Holocaust

Human Rights and Genocide Education in the Approaching Post-Witness Era

IRENE OORE

Edited by CHARLOTTE SCHALLIÉ, HELGA THORSON and ANDREA VAN NOORD

A reflection on how trauma is passed from generation to generation

Collected voices make clear why Holocaust, genocide, and human rights education are more crucial than ever

$19.95 • 160 pages cloth • 978-0-8897-7653-1 In The Regina Collection

$34.95 • 320 pages • paper • 978-0-8897-7764-4 Published by University of Regina Press

Published by University of Regina Press

GREAT FOR COURSES GENDER IN JUDAISM AND ISLAM

Common Lives, Uncommon Heritage

RELIGION, LAW, USA

Edited by JOSHUA DUBLER and ISAAC WEINER

Edited by FIROOZEH KASHANI-SABET and BETH S. WENGER

Offers insight into the complex relationship between religion and law in contemporary America

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

—Reading Religion

$35.00 • 336 pages paper • 978-1-4798-9139-9 In north american religions

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

FAITHFUL MEASURES New Methods in the Measurement of Religion

Edited by ROGER FINKE and CHRISTOPHER D. BADER

A venture into the art and science of measuring religion in everyday life $35.00 • 400 pages paper • 978-1-4798-7710-2

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 $28.00 • 256 pages cloth • 978-1-4798-4023-6

THE SOCIAL GOSPEL IN AMERICAN RELIGION A History

CHRISTOPHER H. EVANS

A history of the social gospel movement and how its themes also emerged within American Catholicism and Judaism INSTRUCTOR’S GUIDE AVAILABLE

$29.00 • 304 pages paper • 978-1-4798-8857-3

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