The Moscow State Yiddish Theater

Jeffrey Veidlinger

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Literature and Culture
• "Jeffrey Veidlinger relates a fascinating and little-known piece of history. . . . [He] distills a remarkable amount of research into a pithy, well-tu... Lees meer

Irving Howe--Socialist, Critic, Jew

Edward Alexander

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Literature and Culture
• " . . . scrupulous, fair-minded and richly-detailed study . . . the book charts one of the most remarkable intellectual careers of the 20th century's ... Lees meer

Notes from the Valley of Slaughter

Aharon Pick

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Literature and Culture
• Notes from the Valley of Slaughter is an eyewitness journal and diary of the Holocaust, written in the ghetto of Siauliai, Lithuania, by Dr. Aharon Pi... Lees meer

The Holocaust's Jewish Calendars

Alan Rosen

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Literature and Culture
• Calendars map time, shaping and delineating our experience of it. While the challenges to tracking Jewish conceptions of time during the Holocaust wer... Lees meer

Elie Wiesel

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Literature and Culture
• Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, best known for his writings on the Holocaust, is also the accomplished author of novels, essays, tales, and p... Lees meer

Rational Rabbis

Menachem Fisch

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• " . . . a fascinating and thought-provoking book . . . " --The Jewish Quarterly "The best introduction to the talmudic literature that is available. .... Lees meer

Aharon Appelfeld's Fiction

Emily Miller Budick

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Literature and Culture
• How can a fictional text adequately or meaningfully represent the events of the Holocaust? Drawing on philosopher Stanley Cavell's ideas about "acknow... Lees meer

Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps

Leona Toker

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Literature and Culture
• Devoted to the ways in which Holocaust literature and Gulag literature provide contexts for each other, Leona Toker's book shows how the prominent fea... Lees meer

The Subject of Holocaust Fiction

Emily Miller Budick

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Literature and Culture
• Fictional representations of horrific events run the risk of undercutting efforts to verify historical knowledge and may heighten our ability to respo... Lees meer

Contemporary Jewish Writing in Europe

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Literature and Culture
• With contributions from a dozen American and European scholars, this volume presents an overview of Jewish writing in post-World War II Europe. Striki... Lees meer

Haunted in the New World

Donald Weber

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Literature and Culture
• "Haunted in the New World is a superb, insightful, and acutely intelligent piece of work. It makes a real contribution to the understanding of ethnici... Lees meer

The Holocaust's Jewish Calendars

Alan Rosen

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Literature and Culture
• Calendars map time, shaping and delineating our experience of it. While the challenges to tracking Jewish conceptions of time during the Holocaust wer... Lees meer

In the Footsteps of Orpheus

Zsuzsanna Ozsváth

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Literature and Culture
• In the Footsteps of Orpheus The Life and Times of Miklós Radnóti Zsuzsanna Ozsváth A powerful account of the life, art, and tragic death of a 20th-cen... Lees meer

Creator, Are You Listening?

David C Jacobson

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Literature and Culture
• In an anthology that is both scholarly and accessible to readers of contemporary poetry, David C. Jacobson examines the search for God in the work of ... Lees meer

Women and Gender in Jewish Philosophy

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Literature and Culture
• Women and Gender in Jewish Philosophy is the first systematic attempt to interpret the Jewish philosophical tradition in light of feminist philosophy ... Lees meer

Exiles on Main Street

Julian Levinson

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Literature and Culture
• How have Jews reshaped their identities as Jews in the face of the radical newness called America? Julian Levinson explores the ways in which exposure... Lees meer

Theodor Herzl

Jacques Kornberg

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• "An original and brilliant thesis, exposing a long misunderstood figure. A great book." --Bernard Avishai "Excellent . . . a highly revealing portrait... Lees meer

Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps

Leona Toker

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Literature and Culture
• Devoted to the ways in which Holocaust literature and Gulag literature provide contexts for each other, Leona Toker's book shows how the prominent fea... Lees meer

German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife

Vivian Liska

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Literature and Culture
• In German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife , Vivian Liska innovatively focuses on the changing form, fate and function of messianism, law, exile, elec... Lees meer

Hebrew Gothic

Karen Grumberg

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Literature and Culture
• Sinister tales written since the early 20th century by the foremost Hebrew authors, including S. Y. Agnon, Leah Goldberg, and Amos Oz, reveal a darkne... Lees meer

Notes from the Valley of Slaughter

Aharon Pick

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Literature and Culture
• Notes from the Valley of Slaughter is an eyewitness journal and diary of the Holocaust, written in the ghetto of Siauliai, Lithuania, by Dr. Aharon Pi... Lees meer

German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife

Vivian Liska

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Literature and Culture
• In German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife , Vivian Liska innovatively focuses on the changing form, fate and function of messianism, law, exile, elec... Lees meer

Writer Uprooted

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Literature and Culture
• The Writer Uprooted is the first book to examine the emergence of a new generation of Jewish immigrant authors in America, most of whom grew up in for... Lees meer

Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture

Sarah Diane Sasson

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Literature and Culture
• In Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture Judith Ruderman takes on the fraught question of who passes for Jewish in American litera... Lees meer