Jewish Studies
A panoramic history of the Jewish American South, from European colonization to today
How the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center informed the PLO’s relationship to Zionism and Israel
A major biography of a mesmerizing statesman whose complex bond with the Jewish people forever shaped their lives—and his legacy
A groundbreaking reinterpretation of early Judaism, during the millennium before the study of the Bible took center stage
How virility and Jewishness became hallmarks of postwar New York’s combative intellectual scene
How computational methods can expand how we see, read, and listen to Holocaust testimony
How rabbinic expertise was socially constructed, performed, and defended in Roman Palestine
A groundbreaking new account of the writing of the Hebrew Bible
A provocative account of Jewish encounters with the public baths of ancient Rome
A critical look at the difficulties women face in the field of Jewish studies, drawing on quantitative data, personal stories, and the gendered history of the field
Albert Einstein’s travel diary to the Far East and Middle East
From the Nobel Prize–winning writer, a new collection of literary and personal essays
An examination of how the Jews—real and imagined—so challenged the Christian majority in medieval Europe that it became a society that was religiously and culturally antisemitic in new ways
How, over the course of five centuries, one particular god and one particular Christianity came to dominate late Roman imperial politics and piety
Marx for the twenty-first century
The first new English translation in fifty years—and the only one based on the last German edition revised by Marx himself
Featuring extensive original commentary, including a foreword by acclaimed political theorist Wendy Brown
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A collection of colorful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five leading writers
With original contributions by André Aciman • Sarah Boxer • Jennifer Finney Boylan • Susie Boyt • Gerald Early • Esther Freud •...
A comprehensive study of the New Christian elite of Jewish origin—prominent traders, merchants, bankers and men of letters—between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries
A gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR—and still provides a model of opposition in Putin’s Russia
A richly illustrated new exploration of the painting, photography, and illustration of the politically progressive American artist
A richly detailed history of the Bacris and the Busnachs, two renowned Jewish families whose influence and reputation shook the capitals of Europe and America
The hidden history of a nation sleepwalking its way into evil
The dark history of eugenic thought in Germany from the nineteenth century to today—and the courageous countervoices
New perspectives from leading scholars on a defining age in American Jewish history
An authoritative economic history of Israel from its founding to the present
A staggering new account of the civilian death toll of the world wars—and what it reveals about the true nature and cost of modern war
A major new history of the genocide of Roma and Jews during World War II and their entangled quest for historical justice
Revelatory talks about art and life with internationally acclaimed Israeli novelist Amos Oz
From acclaimed historian Michael Brenner, a mesmerizing portrait of Munich in the early years of Hitler's quest for power
How a nineteenth-century lawsuit over the estate of a wealthy Tunisian Jew shines new light on the history of belonging