Bad Rabbi

Eddy Portnoy

• Paperback | Engels | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
• Stories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating int... Lees meer

The Marriage Plot

Naomi Seidman

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
• For nineteenth-century Eastern European Jews, modernization entailed the abandonment of arranged marriage in favor of the "love match." Romantic novel... Lees meer

Between 'Race' and Culture

Bryan Cheyette

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
• This collection of essays examines various representations of "the Jew" in British and American literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. ... Lees meer

From Rebel to Rabbi

Matthew Hoffman

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
• From Rebel to Rabbi establishes how the changes that occurred in Jewish culture during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries stimulated a widespread ... Lees meer

The Worlds of S. An-Sky

• Boek | Engels | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
• Shloyme-Zanvl Rappoport, known as An-sky (1863-1920), the author of the best known play in the Hebrew and Yiddish languages, "The Dybbuk," was a figur... Lees meer

Mixing Musics

Maureen Jackson

• Paperback | Engels | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
• This book traces the mixing of musical forms and practices in Istanbul to illuminate multiethnic music-making and its transformations across the twent... Lees meer

The Shape of Revelation

Zachary Braiterman

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
• The Shape of Revelation highlights the image of form-creation, sheer presence, lyric pathos, rhythmic repetition, open spatial dynamism, and erotic pu... Lees meer

The Invention of a Tradition

Immanuel Etkes

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
• The Gaon of Vilna was the foremost intellectual leader of non-Hasidic Jewry in eighteenth-century Europe; his legacy is claimed by religious Jews, bot... Lees meer

Yiddish Fiction and the Crisis of Modernity, 1905-1914

Mikhail Krutikov

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
• This book examines representations of modernity in Yiddish literature between the Russian revolution of 1905 and the beginning of the First World War.... Lees meer

Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
• Recent scholarship has brought to light the existence of a dynamic world of specifically Jewish forms of literature in the nineteenth century--fiction... Lees meer

Social Science and the Politics of Modern Jewish Identity

Mitchell B Hart

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
• Why did the social sciences become an integral part of Jewish scholarship beginning in the late nineteenth century? What part did this new scholarship... Lees meer

Mixing Musics

Maureen Jackson

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
• This book traces the mixing of musical forms and practices in Istanbul to illuminate multiethnic music-making and its transformations across the twent... Lees meer

A Place in History

Barbara E Mann

• Paperback | Engels | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
• A Place in History is a cultural study of Tel Aviv, Israel's population center and one of the original settlements, established in 1909. The book desc... Lees meer

The Fall of a Sparrow

Dina Porat

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
• The Fall of a Sparrow is the only full biography in English of the partisan, poet, and patriot Abba Kovner (1918-1987). An unsung and largely unknown ... Lees meer

It Could Lead to Dancing

Sonia Gollance

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
• Dances and balls appear throughout world literature as venues for young people to meet, flirt, and form relationships, as any reader of Pride and Prej... Lees meer

Ancestral Tales

Alan Mintz

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
• Written in pieces over the last fifteen years of his life and published posthumously, S. Y. Agnon's A City in Its Fullness is an ambitious, historical... Lees meer

No Justice in Germany

Willy

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
• With great immediacy, the diaries of Willy Cohn, a Jew and a Social Democrat, show how the process of marginalization under the Nazis unfolded within ... Lees meer

Clepsydra

Sylvie Anne Goldberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
• The clepsydra is an ancient water clock and serves as the primary metaphor for this examination of Jewish conceptions of time from antiquity to the pr... Lees meer

Jewish Rights, National Rites

Simon Rabinovitch

• Paperback | Engels | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
• In its full-color poster for elections to the All-Russian Jewish Congress in 1917, the Jewish People's Party depicted a variety of Jews in seeking to ... Lees meer

Jewish Salonica

Devin E Naar

• Paperback | Engels | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
• Touted as the "Jerusalem of the Balkans," the Mediterranean port city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once home to the largest Sephardic Jewish communi... Lees meer

No Longer Ladies and Gentlemen

Viola Alianov-Rautenberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
• For the sixty thousand German Jews who escaped Nazi Germany and found refuge in Mandatory Palestine between 1933 and 1940, migration meant radical cha... Lees meer

To Tell Their Children

Rachel L Greenblatt

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
• This book brings together a uniquely wide variety of sources, including historical chronicles, gravestones, ritual objects, liturgy, popular songs and... Lees meer

A Jewish Life on Three Continents

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
• An annotated edition of a memoir that relates a fascinating life story and contains a wealth of historical information about late nineteenth- and earl... Lees meer

The Radical Enlightenment of Solomon Maimon

Abraham P Socher

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
• With extraordinary chutzpa and deep philosophical seriousness, Solomon ben Joshua of Lithuania renamed himself after his medieval intellectual hero, M... Lees meer