- A Bridge of Longing
- David Roskies
- This compelling history shows how Yiddish storytelling became the politics of rescue for successive generations of displaced Jewish artists, embodying their fervent hopes and greatest fears in the languages of tradition. Its protagonists are modern writers who returned to storytelling in the hope of harnessing the folk tradition, and who created copies that are better than the original.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover 1998
- City Scriptures
- Murray Baumgarten
- Hardcover
- The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem, 1932-1940
- Gershom Scholem
- Gary Smith, Translator
- Andre LeFevere, Translator
- Anson Rabinbach
- Paperback 1992
- Necessary Angels
- Robert Alter
- In four elegant chapters, Alter explains the prismlike radiance created by the association of three modern masters, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, and Gershom Scholem. The volume pinpoints the intersections of these divergent witnesses to the modern condition of doubt, the no-man's-land between traditional religion and modern secular culture.
- Hardcover 1991
- Parables in Midrash
- David Stern
- David Stern shows how the parable or mashal--the most distinctive type of narrative in midrash--was composed, how its symbolism works, and how it serves to convey the ideological convictions of the rabbis. He describes its relation to similar tales in other literatures, including the parables of Jesus in the New Testament and kabbalistic parables. Through its innovative approach to midrash, this study reaches beyond its particular subject, and will appeal to all readers interested in narrative and religion.
- Hardcover 1991 / Paperback
- Strangers in the Land
- Eric J. Sundquist
- The importance of blacks for Jews and Jews for blacks in conceiving of themselves as Americans, when both remained outsiders to the privileges of full citizenship, is a matter of voluminous but perplexing record. A monumental work of literary criticism and cultural history, Strangers in the Land draws upon politics, sociology, law, religion, and popular culture to illuminate a vital, highly conflicted interethnic partnership over the course of a century.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2008