Nyu Press: 1737 books
Beyond Tolerance
Child Pornography on the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Perhaps nothing evokes more universal disgust as child pornography. The world of its makers and users is so abhorrent that it is rarely discussed much less studied. Child pornographers have taken advantage of this and are successfully using the new electronic media to exchange their wares without...
The Beta Israel
Falasha in Ethiopia: From Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1992
...balanced and well informed...a striking piece of scholarship aimed at demythologizing the origins of the Ethiopian Falasha.
-Foreign AffairsKaplan's definitive treatment will be of interest to students and scholars of Jewish history, African history, and comparative religion, as well as anyone...
After Expulsion
1492 and the Making of Sephardic Jewry
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Honorable Mention for the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer book award in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History presented by the Association for Jewish Studies
On August 3, 1492, the same day that Columbus set sail
from Spain, the long and glorious history of that nation’s
Jewish community officially...
Jews on the Frontier
Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Winner, 2017 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies from the Jewish Book Council
Finalist, Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
An engaging history of how Jews forged their own religious culture on the American frontier
Jews on the Frontier offers a religious history...
by Carole S Kessner
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1994
Irving Howe. Saul Bellow. Lionel Trilling. These are names that immediately come to mind when one thinks of the New York Jewish intellectuals of the late thirties and forties.
And yet the New York Jewish intellectual community was far larger and more diverse than is commonly thought. In The Other...
Contemporary Israel
New Insights and Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
For a country smaller than Vermont, with roughly the same population as Honduras, modern Israel receives a remarkable amount of attention. For supporters, it is a unique bastion of democracy in the Middle East, while detractors view it as a racist outpost of Western colonialism. The romanticization...
God Mocks
A History of Religious Satire from the Hebrew Prophets to Stephen Colbert
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Winner of the 2016 Religious Communication Association Book of the Year Award
In God Mocks, Terry Lindvall ventures into the muddy and dangerous realm of religious satire, chronicling its evolution from the biblical wit and humor of the Hebrew prophets through the Roman Era and the Middle Ages...
What the Rabbis Said
The Public Discourse of 19th Century American Rabbis
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2008
What the Rabbis Said examines a relatively unexplored facet of the rich social history of nineteenth-century American Jews. Based on sources that have heretofore been largely neglected, it traces the sermons and other public statements of rabbis, both Traditionalists and Reformers, on a host of matters...
Women and Judaism
New Insights and Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Although women constitute half of the Jewish population and have always played essential roles in ensuring Jewish continuity and the preservation of Jewish beliefs and values, only recently have their contributions and achievements received sustained scholarly attention. Scholars have begun to investigate...
by Mark A. Raider
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
The images of Zionist pioneers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries--hard working, brawny, and living off the land--sprang from the ascendent socialist Zionist movement in Palestine known as "Labor Zionism." The building of the Yishuv, a new Jewish society in Palestine, was...
New Perspectives on Israeli History
The Early Years of the State
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1991
In this volume a distinguished group of international scholars draws from history, folklore, political anthropology, historiography, and cultural criticism to reexamine critical issues surrounding the birth of Israel. The authors explore such issues as the transition form yishuv to state, early state...
Absolutely Not New York
Finding a Home for the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
From 1944 to 1946, as the world pivoted from the Second World War to an unsteady peace, the newly-created United Nations needed a meeting place, a central place for global diplomacy. But what would it look like, and where would it be? At times it seemed the world’s diplomats could agree on only one...
America in the Twenties and Thirties
The Olympian Age of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1989
In this, the third volume of an interdisciplinary history of the United States since the Civil War, Sean Dennis Cashman provides a comprehensive review of politics and economics from the tawdry affluence of the 1920s throught the searing tragedy of the Great Depression to the achievements of the New...
Sites Unseen
Architecture, Race, and American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Sites Unseen examines the complex intertwining of race and architecture in nineteenth and early-twentieth century American culture, the period not only in which American architecture came of age professionally in the U.S. but also in which ideas about architecture became a prominent part of broader...