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First mentioned in the Book of Psalms in the Hebrew Bible, the golem is a character in an astonishing number of post-Holocaust Jewish-American novels and has served as inspiration …
This text challenges the conventional view of the Tosafists, showing that many individuals were influenced by ascetic and pietistic practices and were involved with mystical and …
A study of the Iraqi Jewish community of Zakho that investigates the community's attachment to the Land of Israel, the effects of Zionist activity, and immigration to Palestine and …
An excellent overview of the intellectual history of important figures in German Jewry.
This lively and irreverent memoir explores the settings where Yiddish—a language of song, rebellion, and eternal longing—has thrived: in the cabaret and café, the kitchen and …
Translation of Chana Blankshteyn's stories depicting the tumultuous interwar years in Europe.Fear and Other Stories is a translation from Yiddish to English of the collected …
Voices of the Holocaust and the act of memory.
The last century has seen the demise of age-old Jewish communal life in the Arab world, and there is now a struggle to overcome a mutual lack of understanding between the West and …
An imposing literary figure in America and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century, Ludwig Lewisohn (1882-1955) struggled with feelings of alienation in Christian …
Unwitting Zionists examines the Jewish community in the northern Kurdistan town of Zakho from the end of the Ottoman period until the disappearance of the community through aliyah …