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Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon: Edited by Justin Daniel Cammy; Edited by Dara Horn; Edited by Alyssa Quint; Edited by Rachel Rubinstein; Ruth Wisse is a leading scholar of Yiddish and Jewish literary studies and one of our most fearless public intellectuals on issues relating to Jewish society and culture. In this celebratory volume, Wisse's colleagues pay tribute to her with a collection of critical essays whose subjects break new ground in Yiddish, Hebrew, Israeli, American, European, and Holocaust literature.; Hardcover 2009

Creativity and Tradition: Israel Ta-Shma; This volume brings together sixteen of Ta-Shma's outstanding studies originally written in English, four of which are published here for the first time. Set in Germany, northern France, Italy, Poland, and Spain, these essays focus on leading rabbinic scholars and their writings, as well as important issues of Jewish intellectual history, such as the nature of halakhah and aggadah, kabbalah and spirituality, childhood, and popular religion.; Hardcover 2007

From Prejudice to Destruction: Jacob Katz; Katz here presents a major reinterpretation of modern anti-Semitism, revising the prevalent thesis that medieval and modern animosities against Jews were fundamentally different.; Hardcover 1980 / Paperback 1982

From the Old Marketplace: Joseph Buloff; Translated by Joseph Singer; Hardcover 1991 / Paperback

A History of the Jewish People: Edited by Hayim Ben-Sasson; A History of the Jewish People presents a total vision of Jewish experiences and achievements--religious, political, social, and economic--in both the land of Israel and the diaspora throughout the ages. It has been acclaimed as the most comprehensive and penetrating work yet to have appeared in its field.; Paperback 1985

Jewish Thought in the Sixteenth Century: Cooperman; Hardcover 1984 / Paperback

Maimonides after 800 Years: Edited by Jay M. Harris; Moses Maimonides was the most significant Jewish thinker, jurist, and doctor of the Middle Ages, and author of a monumental code of Jewish law, and the most influential and controversial work of Jewish philosophy. The essays in this volume were written to mark the 800th anniversary of Maimonides' death in 1204. Written by the leading scholars in the field, they cover all aspects of Maimonides' work and influence.; Hardcover 2008

Probing the Limits of Representation: Edited by Saul Friedlander; Can the Holocaust be compellingly described or represented? Or is there some core aspect of the extermination of the Jews of Europe which resists our powers of depiction, of theory, of narrative? In this volume, twenty scholars probe the moral, epistemological, and aesthetic limits of an account or portrayal of the Nazi horror.; Hardcover 1992 / Paperback 1992

Public Opinion, Propaganda, and Politics in 18th-Century England: Thomas W. Perry; This book is the first thorough account of the Jewish Naturalization Act of 1753, a notorious but little–understood episode in English history. Using a largely narrative form the author first discusses the position of the Jews in the mid-eighteenth century and explains why they sought and obtained passage of the bill. He then recounts the beginnings of opposition to it and discusses the religious, economic, political, and psychological reasons for the opposition. He describes in detail the propaganda campaign against the bill and the resultant effect on the election.; Hardcover 1962

A Right to Sing the Blues: Jeffrey Melnick; "Black-Jewish relations," Jeffrey Melnick argues, has mostly been a way for American Jews to talk about their ambivalent racial status, a narrative collectively constructed at critical moments, when particular conflicts demand an explanation. Remarkably flexible, this narrative can organize diffuse materials into a coherent story that has a powerful hold on our imagination. Melnick elaborates this idea through an in-depth look at Jewish songwriters, composers, and perfomers who made "Black" music in the first few decades of this century.; Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001

The Rise of Political Anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria, Revised Edition: Peter Pulzer; Paperback 1988

Special Sorrows: Matthew Frye Jacobson; Conventional wisdom would have us believe that every immigrant to the United States "became American," by choice and with deliberate speed. Yet, as Special Sorrows shows us, this is simply untrue. In this compelling revisionist study, Matthew Frye Jacobsen reveals tenacious attachments to the Old World and explores the significance of homeland politics for Irish, Polish, and Jewish immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century.; Hardcover