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Reframing Holocaust Testimony
Institutions that have collected video testimonies from the few remaining Holocaust survivors are grappling with how to continue their mission to educate and commemorate. Noah …
The Emergence of Jewish Theology in America
"Goldy's book is different from any other book on Jewish theology. He has presented a popular, pithy and extremely informative volume for the scholar as well as for the average …
Colonialism and the Jews
The lively essays collected here explore colonial history, culture, and thought as it intersects with Jewish studies. Connecting the Jewish experience with colonialism to mobility …
French Jews, Turkish Jews
The Alliance Israélite Universelle, a French-Jewish organization founded in 1860, occupies a crucial place in the history of Sephardi communities in the modern period. In the fifty …
A Jewish Refugee in New York
Rivke Zilberg, a 20-year-old Jewish woman, arrives in New York shortly after the Nazi invasion of Poland, her home country. Struggling to learn a new language and cope with a …
Taking Stock
Taking Stock is a collection of lively, original essays that explore the cultures of enumeration that permeate contemporary and modern Jewish life. Speaking to the profound …
Mapping Jewish Loyalties in Interwar Slovakia
In the aftermath of World War I, the largely Hungarian-speaking Jews in Slovakia faced the challenge of reorienting their political loyalties from defeated Hungary to newly …
My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman
". . . vital to understanding this period of East European Jewish history. As Hyman promises, the memoir . . . read[s] like a novel." —Russian ReviewIn this striking autobiography …
Howard Fast
Howard Fast's life, from a rough-and-tumble Jewish New York street kid to the rich and famous author of close to 100 books, rivals the Horatio Alger myth. Author of bestsellers …
Orientalizing the Jew
Orientalizing the Jew shows how French travelers depicted Jews in the Orient and then brought these ideas home to orientalize Jews living in their homeland during the 19th century. …
Remembering the Lower East Side
For more than a century, the Lower East Side of New York City has been recognized and scrutinized as the largest and most vibrant immigrant Jewish neighborhood in America. In …
Dying in the Law of Moses
Miriam Bodian's study of crypto-Jewish martyrdom in Iberian lands depicts a new type of martyr that emerged in the late 16th century—a defiant, educated judaizing martyr who …