Brandeis imprint: 83 books
Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court
From Brandeis to Kagan
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court examines the lives, legal careers, and legacies of the eight Jews who have served or who currently serve as justices of the U.S. Supreme Court: Louis D. Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, Felix Frankfurter, Arthur Goldberg, Abe Fortas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G....
Louis Bamberger
Department Store Innovator and Philanthropist
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Louis Bamberger (1855–1944) was the epitome of the merchant prince as public benefactor. Born in Baltimore, this son of German immigrants built his business—the great, glamorous L. Bamberger & Co. department store in Newark, N.J.—into the sixth-largest department store in the country. A...
Gershom Scholem
From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
German-born Gerhard (Gershom) Scholem (1897–1982), the preeminent scholar of Jewish mysticism, delved into the historical analysis of kabbalistic literature from late antiquity to the twentieth century. His writings traverse Jewish historiography, Zionism, the phenomenology of mystical religion,...
Israel
A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Written by one of Israel’s most notable scholars, this volume provides a breathtaking history of Israel from the origins of the Zionist movement in the late nineteenth century to the present day. Organized chronologically, the volume explores the emergence of Zionism in Europe against the backdrop...
A Jewish Kapo in Auschwitz
History, Memory, and the Politics of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Eliezer Gruenbaum (1908–1948) was a Polish Jew denounced for serving as a Kapo while interned at Auschwitz. He was the communist son of Itzhak Gruenbaum, the most prominent secular leader of interwar Polish Jewry who later became the chairman of the Jewish Agency’s Rescue Committee during the...
The Zionist Paradox
Hebrew Literature and Israeli Identity
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Many contemporary Israelis suffer from a strange condition. Despite the obvious successes of the Zionist enterprise and the State of Israel, tension persists, with a collective sense that something is wrong and should be better. This cognitive dissonance arises from the disjunction between “place”...
Altered Pasts
Counterfactuals in History
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
A bullet misses its target in Sarajevo, a would-be Austrian painter gets into the Viennese academy, Lord Halifax becomes British prime minister in 1940 instead of Churchill: seemingly minor twists of fate on which world-shaking events might have hinged. Alternative history has long been the stuff...
Style and Seduction
Jewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siècle Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2016
A recent surge of interest in Jewish patronage during the golden years of Vienna has led to the question, Would modernism in Vienna have developed in the same fashion had Jewish patrons not been involved? This book uniquely treats Jewish identification within Viennese modernism as a matter of Jews...
In Pursuit of Civility
Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Keith Thomas’s earlier studies in the ethnography of early modern England, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Ends of Life, were all attempts to explore beliefs, values, and social practices in the centuries from 1500 to 1800. In Pursuit of Civility continues this...
Suddenly Jewish
Jews Raised as Gentiles Discover Their Jewish Roots
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
One woman learned on the eve of her Roman Catholic wedding. One man as he was studying for the priesthood. Madeleine Albright famously learned from the Washington Post when she was named Secretary of State. "What is it like to find out you are not who you thought you were?" asks Barbara...
Best of Times, Worst of Times
Memoirs of a Political Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Walter Laqueur has been writing and teaching for over six decades, primarily in the fields of twentieth century history and politics, always as a shrewd and thoughtful generalist in an age of specialization. In this engaging memoir, Laqueur focuses on the political and historical events that shaped...
Modern French Jewish Thought
Writings on Religion and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
“Modern Jewish thought” is often defined as a German affair, with interventions from Eastern European, American, and Israeli philosophers. The story of France’s development of its own schools of thought has not been substantially treated outside the French milieu. This anthology of modern French...
by Boaz Neumann
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
This innovative study examines the responses of early-twentieth-century pioneers to “the Land” of Palestine. Early Zionist historiography portrayed these young settlers as heroic; later, more critical studies by the “new” historians and sociologists focused on their failures and shortcomings....
Holocaust Literature
A History and Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
What is Holocaust literature? When does it begin and how is it changing? Is there an essential core that consists of diaries, eyewitness accounts of the concentration camps, and tales of individual survival? Is it the same everywhere: West and East, in Australia as in the Americas, in poetry as in...