Brandeis imprint: 83 books

Israeli Society in the Twenty-First Century

Immigration, Inequality, and Religious Conflict

by Calvin Goldscheider
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015

This volume illuminates changes in Israeli society over the past generation. Goldscheider identifies three key social changes that have led to the transformation of Israeli society in the twenty-first century: the massive immigration of Jews from the former Soviet Union, the economic shift to a high-tech...

The German-Jewish Cookbook

Recipes and History of a Cuisine

by Gabrielle Rossmer Gropman, Sonya Gropman
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017

This cookbook features recipes for German-Jewish cuisine as it existed in Germany prior to World War II, and as refugees later adapted it in the United States and elsewhere. Because these dishes differ from more familiar Jewish food, they will be a discovery for many people. With a focus on fresh,...

Woody on Rye

Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen

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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013

Although Woody Allen’s films have received extensive attention from scholars and critics, no book has focused exclusively on Jewishness in his work, particularly that of the late 1990s and beyond. In this anthology, a distinguished group of contributors—whose work is richly contextualized in the...

A Poetics of Trauma

The Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch

by Ilana Szobel
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012

The work of the renowned Israeli poet, translator, peace activist, and 1998 Israel Prize laureate Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936–2005) portrays the emotional structure of a traumatized and victimized female character. Ilana Szobel’s book, the first full-length study of Ravikovitch in English, offers...
by Tirsah Levie Bernfeld, Hannah Davidson, Cristina Galasso
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010

This collection of essays examines an important and under-studied topic in early modern Jewish social history”—the family life of Sephardi Jewish families in the Ottoman Empire as well as in communities in Western Europe. At the height of its power in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the...

Jewish Legal Theories

Writings on State, Religion, and Morality

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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018

Contemporary arguments about Jewish law uniquely reflect both the story of Jewish modernity and a crucial premise of modern conceptions of law generally: the claim of autonomy for the intellectual subject and practical sphere of the law. Jewish Legal Theories collects representative modern Jewish...

Inside the Antisemitic Mind

The Language of Jew-Hatred in Contemporary Germany

by Monika Schwarz-Friesel, Jehuda Reinharz
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017

Antisemitism never disappeared in Europe. In fact, there is substantial evidence that it is again on the rise, manifest in violent acts against Jews in some quarters, but more commonly noticeable in everyday discourse in mainstream European society. This innovative empirical study examines written...

The Besht

Magician, Mystic, and Leader

by Immanuel Etkes
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012

Founded in Eastern Europe in the eighteenth century, the Hasidic movement and its religious thinking have dramatically transformed modern Judaism. The figure of the Ba’al Shem Tov (known in acronym form as the BeSHT)—the purported founder of the Hasidic movement—has fascinated scholars, Jewish...

Self as Nation

Contemporary Hebrew Autobiography

by Tamar S. Hess
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016

Theorists of autobiography tend to emphasize the centrality of the individual against the community. By contrast, in her reading of Hebrew autobiography, Tamar Hess identifies the textual presence and function of the collective and its interplay with the Israeli self. What characterizes the ten writers...

The Days Between

Blessings, Poems, and Directions of the Heart for the Jewish High Holiday Season

by Marcia Falk
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014

The Jewish High Holidays—the ten days beginning with the New Year Festival of Rosh Hashanah and culminating with Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement—constitute the most sacred period of the Jewish year. During this season, religious as well as nonaffiliated Jews attend synagogue services in unparalleled...

Our Musicals, Ourselves

A Social History of the American Musical Theatre

by John Bush Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2011

Our Musicals, Ourselves is the first full-scale social history of the American musical theater from the imported Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas of the late nineteenth century to such recent musicals as The Producers and Urinetown. While many aficionados of the Broadway musical associate it with...

Aesthetic Theology and Its Enemies

Judaism in Christian Painting, Poetry, and Politics

by David Nirenberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015

Through most of Western European history, Jews have been a numerically tiny or entirely absent minority, but across that history Europeans have nonetheless worried a great deal about Judaism. Why should that be so? This short but powerfully argued book suggests that Christian anxieties about their...
by Ingrid D. Rowland
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018

Focusing on the figures of Plato, Archimedes, and Caravaggio, The Divine Spark of Syracuse discloses the role that Syracuse, a Greek cultural outpost in Sicily, played in fueling creative energies. Among the topics this book explores are Plato and the allegory of the cave, and the divine spark mentioned...
by G. W. Bowersock
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012

In this book, based on lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel, the famed historian G. W. Bowersock presents a searching examination of political developments in the Arabian Peninsula on the eve of the rise of Islam. Recounting the growth of Christian Ethiopia and the conflict with...
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