Brandeis University Press: 83 books
Jews and Diaspora Nationalism
Writings on Jewish Peoplehood in Europe and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
The question of how to preserve, construct or transform Jewish peoplehood consumed Jewish intellectuals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Despite a rich array of writing from Jewish nationalists, liberals, and socialists about the vitality of Jewish existence in the diaspora, the...
Raising Secular Jews
Yiddish Schools and Their Periodicals for American Children, 1917–1950
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
This unique literary study of Yiddish children’s periodicals casts new light on secular Yiddish schools in America in the first half of the twentieth century. Rejecting the traditional religious education of the Talmud Torahs and congregational schools, these Yiddish schools chose Yiddish itself...
Toward Nationalism's End
An Intellectual Biography of Hans Kohn
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
This intellectual biography of Hans Kohn (1891–1971) looks at theories of nationalism in the twentieth century as articulated through the life and work of its leading scholar and activist. Hans Kohn was born in late nineteenth-century Prague, but his peripatetic life took him from the Revolutionary-era...
by Patrick J. Geary
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The eminent historian Patrick J. Geary has written a provocative book, based on lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel about the role of language and ideology in the study and history of the early Middle Ages. He includes a fascinating discussion of the rush by nationalist philologists...
by Hillel Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
In late summer 1929, a countrywide outbreak of Arab-Jewish-British violence transformed the political landscape of Palestine forever. In contrast with those who point to the wars of 1948 and 1967, historian Hillel Cohen marks these bloody events as year zero of the Arab-Israeli conflict that persists...
by Motti Golani
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
British General Sir Allan Cunningham was appointed in 1945 as high commissioner of Palestine, and served in this capacity until the end of the British mandate on May 15, 1948. The three years of Cunningham’s tenure were tremendously complex politically: players included the British government in...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Using testimonies, Nazi documents, memoirs, and artistic representations, this volume broadens and deepens comprehension of Jewish women’s experiences of rape and other forms of sexual violence during the Holocaust. The book goes beyond previous studies, and challenges claims that Jewish women were...
Pious and Rebellious
Jewish Women in Medieval Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
This volume, an amazing act of historical recovery and reconstruction, offers a comprehensive examination of Jewish women in Europe during the High Middle Ages (1000–1300). Avraham Grossman covers multiple aspects of women’s lives in medieval Jewish society, including the image of woman, the structure...
Sabbatian Heresy
Writings on Mysticism, Messianism, and the Origins of Jewish Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
The pronouncements of Sabbatai Tsevi (1626–76) gave rise to Sabbatianism, a key messianic movement in Judaism that spread across Jewish communities in Europe, Asia, and North Africa. The movement, which featured a set of theological doctrines in which Jewish Kabbalistic tradition merged with Muslim...
Black Power, Jewish Politics
Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Marc Dollinger charts the transformation of American Jewish political culture from the Cold War liberal consensus of the early postwar years to the rise and influence of Black Power–inspired ethnic nationalism. He shows how, in a period best known for the rise of black antisemitism and the breakdown...
by Jonathan B. Krasner
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Samson Benderly inaugurated the first Bureau of Jewish Education in 1910 amid a hodgepodge of congregational schools, khayders, community Talmud Torahs, and private tutors. Drawing on the theories of Johann Pestalozzi, Herbert Spencer, and John Dewey, and deriving inspiration from cultural Zionism,...
The Cycle
A Practical Approach to Managing Arts Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
In the third book of his popular trilogy on creating and sustaining arts organizations, Michael Kaiser reveals the hidden engine that powers consistent success. According to Kaiser, successful arts organizations pursue strong programmatic marketing campaigns that compel people to buy tickets, enroll...
Jewhooing the Sixties
American Celebrity and Jewish Identity—Sandy Koufax, Lenny Bruce, Bob Dylan, and Barbra Streisand
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Sandy Koufax, Lenny Bruce, Bob Dylan, and Barbra Streisand first came to public attention in the early 1960s, a period Kaufman identifies as historically ripe for American Jews to reexamine their (Jewish) identities. All four achieved extraordinary success in their respective fields and became celebrities...
by Haim Be’er
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
When first published in 1979, Haim Be’er’s Feathers was a critical and commercial success, ushering in a period of great productivity and expansiveness in modern Hebrew literature. Now considered a classic in Israeli fiction the book is finally available to English readers worldwide. In this,...