Portrait of American Jews

Samuel C Heilman

• Paperback | Engels | Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
• Has America been a place that has preserved and protected Jewish life? Is it a place in which a Jewish future is ensured? Samuel Heilman, long-time ob... Lees meer

Make Yourself a Teacher

Susan Handelman

• Paperback | Engels | Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
• Make Yourself a Teacher is a teaching book and a book about teaching. It discusses three dramatic, well-known stories about the student and teacher Ra... Lees meer

Autobiographical Jews

Michael Stanislawski

• Paperback | Engels | Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
• Autobiographical Jews examines the nature of autobiographical writing by Jews from antiquity to the present, and the ways in which such writings can l... Lees meer

The Jewish Bible

David Stern

• Hardcover | Engels | Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
• In The Jewish Bible: A Material History , David Stern explores the Jewish Bible as a material object--the Bibles that Jews have actually held in their... Lees meer

Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America

Alan Mintz

• Hardcover | Engels | Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
• The Holocaust took place far from the United States and involved few Americans, yet rather than receding, this event has assumed a greater significanc... Lees meer

Make Yourself a Teacher

Susan Handelman

• Hardcover | Engels | Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
• Make Yourself a Teacher is a teaching book and a book about teaching. It discusses three dramatic, well-known stories about the student and teacher Ra... Lees meer

What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans)

• Hardcover | Engels | Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
• Why Hebrew, here and now? What is its value for contemporary Americans? In What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to American... Lees meer

School Photos in Liquid Time

Marianne Hirsch, Leo Spitzer

• Hardcover | Engels | Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
• From clandestine images of Jewish children isolated in Nazi ghettos and Japanese American children incarcerated in camps to images of Native children ... Lees meer

Imagining Russian Jewry

Steven J Zipperstein

• Paperback | Engels | Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
• This subtle, unusual book explores the many, often overlapping ways in which the Russian Jewish past has been remembered in history, in literature, an... Lees meer

Writing in Tongues

Anita Norich

• Hardcover | Engels | Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
• Writing in Tongues examines the complexities of translating Yiddish literature at a time when the Yiddish language is in decline. After the Holocaust,... Lees meer

Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America

Alan Mintz

• Paperback | Engels | Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
• The Holocaust took place far from the United States and involved few Americans, yet rather than receding, this event has assumed a greater significanc... Lees meer

Zakhor

Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

• Paperback | Engels | Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
• "Mr. Yerushalmi's previous writings . . . established him as one of the Jewish community's most important historians. His latest book should establish... Lees meer

Imagining Russian Jewry

Steven J Zipperstein

• Hardcover | Engels | Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
• This subtle, unusual book explores the many, often overlapping ways in which the Russian Jewish past has been remembered in history, in literature, an... Lees meer

Studying the Jewish Future

Calvin Goldscheider

• Paperback | Engels | Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
• Studying the Jewish Future explores the power of Jewish culture and assesses the perceived threats to the coherence and size of Jewish communities in ... Lees meer

Agnon's Moonstruck Lovers

Ilana Pardes

• Paperback | Engels | Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
• Agnon's Moonstruck Lovers explores the response of Israel's Nobel laureate S. Y. Agnon to the privileged position of the Song of Songs in Israeli cult... Lees meer

The Jewish Life Cycle

Ivan G Marcus

• Paperback | Engels | Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
• In this original and sweeping review of Jewish culture and history, Ivan Marcus examines how and why various rites and customs celebrating stages in t... Lees meer

I. L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture

Ruth R Wisse

• Paperback | Engels | Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
• I. L. Peretz (1852-1915), the father of modern Yiddish literature, was a master storyteller and social critic who advocated a radical shift from relig... Lees meer

The Jewish Life Cycle

Ivan G Marcus

• Hardcover | Engels | Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
• In this original and sweeping review of Jewish culture and history, Ivan Marcus examines how and why various rites and customs celebrating stages in t... Lees meer

A Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era

David B Ruderman

• Hardcover | Engels | Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
• The history of a single book sheds light on the beginnings of modern Jewish thought In 1797, in what is now the Czech Republic, Pinḥas Hurwitz publish... Lees meer

Autobiographical Jews

Michael Stanislawski

• Hardcover | Engels | Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
• Autobiographical Jews examines the nature of autobiographical writing by Jews from antiquity to the present, and the ways in which such writings can l... Lees meer

Recent Archaeological Discoveries and Biblical Research

William G Dever

• Paperback | Engels | Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
• Archaeology and Bible--two simple terms, often used together, understood by everybody. But are they understood properly? If so, why are both subject t... Lees meer

Judaism and Hellenism in Antiquity

Lee I Levine

• Paperback | Engels | Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
• Generations of scholars have debated the influence of Greco-Roman culture on Jewish society and the degree of its impact on Jewish material culture an... Lees meer

The Jewish Bible

David Stern

• Paperback | Engels | Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
• In The Jewish Bible: A Material History , David Stern explores the Jewish Bible as a material object--the Bibles that Jews have actually held in their... Lees meer

The Kiss of God

Michael Fishbane

• Paperback | Engels | Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
• The lines of Michael Fishbane's book trace the spiritual face of Judaism in one of its many appearances. Fishbane explores the quest for spiritual per... Lees meer