Vegetal, Animal, Marginal explores the oft-forgotten yet provocative German genre of die Groteske, or the literary grote......more

Vegetal, Animal, Marginal explores the oft-forgotten yet provocative German genre of die Groteske, or the literary grote......more

Die Reihe Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies (DCLS) widmet sich vornehmlich der Erforschung der Bücher der ......more

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State of Shock decodes one of the most iconic images of Zionism and Israel: the kibbutz. Lior Libman offers original the......more

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On Revival is a critique of one of the most important tenets of Zionist thinking: "Hebrew revival," or the idea that Heb......more

New Perspectives on Jewish Law combines the detailed work characteristic of scholarship on Jewish law with an orientatio......more

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The book provides new perspectives on the historical context surrounding Kraus’ writing during the Third Reich as well a......more

Israel’s cultural space is frequently studied as if it were synonymous with the Hebrew-Israeli one. But within the borde......more

Israel’s cultural space is frequently studied as if it were synonymous with the Hebrew-Israeli one. But within the borde......more

A Taytsh Manifesto calls for a translational paradigm for Yiddish studies and for the study of modern Jewish culture. Sa......more

In sixteen chapters devoted to avant-garde contemporary American poets, including Kenneth Goldsmith, Adeena Karasick, Ty......more

This volume examines the cultural legacy of Jewish emigration from the Maghreb and the Middle East in the years followin......more

Each scholar working in the field of Holocaust literature and representation has a story to tell. Not only the scholarly......more

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Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis examines the centrality of "birth" in Jewish literature, gender theory, and psychoa......more

Seit ihren Anfängen im 13. Jahrhundert ist Übersetzen eine tragende Säule der jiddischen Literatur. Der Wunsch nach Zuge......more

In 2010, when The New Yorker published a list of twenty writers under the age of forty who were "key to their generation......more

In 2010, when The New Yorker published a list of twenty writers under the age of forty who were "key to their generation......more

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Once referred to by the New York Times as the "Israeli Faulkner," A. B. Yehoshua’s fiction invites an assessment of Isra......more

There is an academic cottage industry on the "Jewish Freud," aiming to detect Jewish influences on Freud, his own feelin......more

"In the 1930s, through the prose of Bruno Schulz (1892-1942), the Polish language became the linguistic raw material for......more

The contributions to this volume not only indicate the intellectual vibrancy and diversity of cutting-edge research in H......more

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Redefining Jewish American literature through expansive feminist frameworks. Bridging literary studies and cultural hist......more

Redefining Jewish American literature through expansive feminist frameworks. Bridging literary studies and cultural hist......more

Stéphane Mosès explores in Displacements the poetry of Paul Celan and the work of major German-Jewish thinkers in the co......more

Saul Bellow: "I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer" offers a fresh and original perspective on the life and works of......more

Saul Bellow: "I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer" offers a fresh and original perspective on the life and works of......more

Jewish Imaginaries of the Spanish Civil War inaugurates a new field of research in literary and Jewish studies at the in......more

An estimated forty thousand Jews were murdered during the Russian Civil War between 1918 and 1922. As the Dust of the Ea......more

An estimated forty thousand Jews were murdered during the Russian Civil War between 1918 and 1922. As the Dust of the Ea......more

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"Chapters on Jewish Literature" is a book written by Israel Abrahams, a distinguished Jewish scholar and historian who l......more

This volume brings together studies about books as artefacts within transitional zones. The history of the book from the......more

A bold recovery of Yiddish anarchist history and literature Spanning the last two centuries, this fascinating work combi......more

The Secular Rabbi is an intellectual biography of Philip Rahv, co-founder of Partisan Review, which T.S. Eliot called th......more

Introducing Judeo-Persian writings, this original collection gives parallel samples in Judeo-Persian and Perso-Arabic sc......more

"The subject of this study is every Yiddish work from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that is directly or indire......more

The author’s starting point is the interweaving of forgiveness and resentment in the works of Jewish writers after the H......more

Louis Ginzberg’s "The Legends of the Jews - Vol. 4" is a thorough and influential study. Some stories are brutal and wei......more

World War II produced a fundamental shift in modern racial discourse. In the postwar period, racism was situated for the......more

Recontextualizing early modern Musar folktales to reveal a new reading of premodern Jewish texts. This pioneering explor......more

Recontextualizing early modern Musar folktales to reveal a new reading of premodern Jewish texts. This pioneering explor......more

In the first three decades of the 20th century, the importance of Jewish artists from Central and Eastern Europe grew in......more

Jerusalem 1967: Everyone is reeling from the aftermath of the 6-Day War. The Palestinians are stunned and cannot compreh......more

The study of the Books of Chronicles has focused in the past mainly on its literary relationship to Historical Books suc......more

Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism reveals how political and literary dialogues and conflicts between the Hebrew literature of ......more

A little over 100 years ago, the first production of An-sky’s The Dybbuk, a play about the possession of a young woman b......more

A little over 100 years ago, the first production of An-sky’s The Dybbuk, a play about the possession of a young woman b......more

An interdisciplinary approach to American Jewish ethnic identity in post-Holocaust America. This volume explores how Ame......more

Israeli literary representations of eastern European Jewry strive, sometimes successfully, to recuperate eastern Europea......more

This book re-thinks the relationship between the world of the traditional Jewish study hall (the Beit Midrash) and the a......more

Offering a radical critique of contemporary Israeli and diaspora fiction by major writers of the generation after Amos O......more

The Hebrew word zimzum originally means "contraction," "withdrawal," "retreat," "limitation," and "concentration." In Ka......more

Spanning the fields of literature, history, philosophy, and theology, Unsettling Jewish Knowledge adopts a fresh approac......more

Bohemian Jewish culture and literature during the underexamined 1820s to 1880s. This book on Jewish culture and literatu......more

The fiction of Nobel Laureate Shmuel Yosef Agnon is the foundation of the array of scholarly essays as seen through the ......more

The integration of women into public Jewish performance (Yiddish-language theater by 1877 and Hebrew-language theater by......more

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Walt Whitman has served as a crucial figure within the tradition of Jewish American poetry. But how did Whitman, a non-J......more

The book represents an in-depth investigation of acquisition, cultivation, and transmission of divine mysteries in Jewis......more

The Book of Delight and Other Papers is a collection of essays and criticisms written by Israel Abrahams, a prominent sc......more

It’s time to raise the unheard voice of soldiers who’ve survived combat, but didn’t return from war. Out There will take......more

In Ars-Prophetica: Theology in the Poetry of Twentieth-Century Israeli Poets Avraham Halfi, Shin Shalom, Amir Gilboa, an......more

In the wake of the #MeToo movement, gender scholars and activists have asked whether a reconcilliation between Zionism a......more

As significant economic, social, political, and cultural transformations swept the Jewish population of Tsarist Russia a......more

Originally published in English in 1991 and now reissued with a new Preface by Jack Zipes, this book presents and examin......more

Leaving Other People Alone reads contemporary North American Jewish fiction about Israel/Palestine through an anti-Zioni......more

Shows how Adler, Wander, Hilsenrath, and Klüger intertwine transgressive political criticism with the shadow of trauma, ......more

Jewish identity, memory, and place deftly revealed through the lens of Jewish women’s graphic narratives. An exploration......more