Jewish category: 3083 books
by Jerry Z. Muller
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
The unique historical relationship between capitalism and the Jews is crucial to understanding modern European and Jewish history. But the subject has been addressed less often by mainstream historians than by anti-Semites or apologists. In this book Jerry Muller, a leading historian of capitalism,...
The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem
The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Part of the Jewish Encounters series
The first comprehensive biography of one of the most beloved authors of all time: the creator of Tevye the Dairyman, the collection of stories that inspired Fiddler on the Roof.
Novelist, playwright, journalist, essayist, and editor, Sholem Aleichem was...
How the Wise Men Got to Chelm
The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
How the Wise Men Got to Chelm is the first in-depth study of Chelm literature and its relationship to its literary precursors.
When God created the world, so it is said, he sent out an angel with a bag of foolish souls with instructions to distribute them equally all over the world—one fool...
When Sonia Met Boris
An Oral History of Jewish Life under Stalin
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Soviet Jews lived through a record number of traumatic events: the Great Terror, World War II, the Holocaust, the Famine of 1947, the Doctors' Plot, the antisemitic policies of the postwar period, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. But like millions of other Soviet citizens, they married, raised...
Erased
Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
In Erased, Omer Bartov uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine, who were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with help from the local populace. What begins as a deeply personal chronicle of the Holocaust in his mother's hometown of Buchach--in...
The Holocaust
History & Memory
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2016
“A compact and cogent academic account of the Holocaust.” —Kirkus Reviews
Brilliant and wrenching, The Holocaust: History and Memory tells the story of the brutal mass slaughter of Jews during World War II and how that genocide has been remembered and misremembered ever since. Taking issue...
Not in My Family
German Memory and Responsibility After the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Winner of the 2018 Western Canada Jewish Book Award Winner of the 2017 Canadian Jewish Literary Award Even as the Holocaust grows more distant with the passing of time, its traumas call out to be known and understood. What is remembered, what has been imparted through German heritage, and what has...
Gershom Scholem
Master of the Kabbalah
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
A new biography of the seminal twentieth-century historian and thinker who pioneered the study of Jewish mysticism and profoundly influenced the Zionist movement
Gershom Scholem (1897–1982) was perhaps the foremost Jewish intellectual of the twentieth century. Pioneering the study of Jewish...
by John M. Efron
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as German Jews struggled for legal emancipation and social acceptance, they also embarked on a program of cultural renewal, two key dimensions of which were distancing themselves from their fellow Ashkenazim in Poland and giving a special place to the Sephardim...
"What! Still Alive?!"
Jewish Survivors in Poland and Israel Remember Homecoming
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
"What! Still Alive?!" offers a powerful and deeply affecting examination of the complex memories of Jewish survivors returning to their homes in Poland after the Holocaust. These survivors left unparalleled testimonies of their first impressions with the Jewish historical commissions from...
Role Model and Countermodel
The Golden Age of Iberian Jewry and German Jewish Culture during the Era of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
This book explores the “Golden Age” of Sephardic Jewry on the Iberian Peninsula and its perception in German Jewish culture during the era of emancipation. For Jews living in Germany, the history of Sephardic Jewry developed into a historical example with its distinctive valence and signature...
by Guy Miron
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Explores the role of public memory and images of the past in the Jewish communities of Germany, France, and Hungary as they faced changing political and social conditions.
A Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era
The Book of the Covenant of Pinhas Hurwitz and Its Remarkable Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
In 1797, in what is now the Czech Republic, Pin as Hurwitz published one of the best-selling Hebrew books of the modern era. Nominally an extended commentary on a sixteenth-century kabbalist text, The Book of the Covenant was in fact a compendium of scientific knowledge and a manual of moral behavior....
Becoming Austrians
Jews and Culture between the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
The collapse of Austria-Hungary in 1918 left all Austrians in a state of political, social, and economic turmoil, but Jews in particular found their lives shaken to the core. Although Jews' former comfort zone suddenly disappeared, the dissolution of the Dual Monarchy also created plenty of room for...