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Fictional representations of horrific events run the risk of undercutting efforts to verify historical knowledge and may heighten our ability to respond intellectually and ethically to human experie……続きを見る

Identity, family, and community unite three autobiographical texts by New World crypto-Jews, or descendants of Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity in 17th-century Iberia and Spanish Amer……続きを見る

Combining history, detective story, and memoir, a surprising and revealing account of the antisemitic myth of “the Wandering Jew” The story behind the mythical figure of “the Wandering Jew” is one o……続きを見る

HINENI is not a performance. It is a rite. Rooted in Jewish tradition and feminist ritual practice, HINENI: In Sarah's Tent invites participants into a shared act of arrivalー presence without spect……続きを見る

This book explores a unique and under-researched chapter in German-Jewish cultural history: the engagement of German-speaking Jewish authors, scholars, and intellectuals with their Yiddish literary ……続きを見る

Este estudio literario tiende un puente fascinante entre la rudeza del jinete americano y la herencia cultural que viajó desde la península ibérica. Se analiza cómo el espíritu del hidalgo español s……続きを見る

Una mirada fascinante que conecta la pampa argentina con el espíritu peninsular a través del análisis de la figura de Martín Fierro. El autor disecciona cómo el criollismo español se transformó en e……続きを見る

Fascinating conversations with a leading twentieth century literary critic, author, and cultural gadfly. Author and gadfly Leslie Fiedler was one of the best-known names in twentieth-century literar……続きを見る

Ruth Morris’s new book focuses on Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s novels from 1880 to her death in 1915 and how the portrayal of Jewish characters and Jewish culture shifts throughout this timeframe. By tr……続きを見る

The voices of Jewish women have always been here. Now they are heard. Kol Isha: The Women Speak is a ritual book of Jewish women's voicesーforemothers and prophets, rebels and seekers, leaders and f……続きを見る

Taking an innovative approach to the study of religious literature and literary modernity, this book examines an overlooked body of texts – collections of Hasidic hagiographic stories about pious le……続きを見る

In the decades following the dissolution of Austria-Hungary, the former province of Galicia inspired the literary imagination of two German-language natives of this region, Joseph Roth and Soma Morg……続きを見る

Examines how Jewish writers who translated their own works between Hebrew and Yiddish challenged fundamental assumptions about originality and national identity. What happens when the same author wr……続きを見る

Jews, women, and animals have been notoriously considered in Western thought as antithetical to the “civilized,” and therefore parallel. The trope of the womanized Jewish man has been widely recogni……続きを見る

Recent decades have seen a surge in antisemitism across the world, with huge increases in violent attacks, online abuse and the desecration of communal property. What gives rocket fuel to these crim……続きを見る

Pubblicato a New York nel 1921, il dramma poetico in otto quadri Der goylem è fra le opere memorabili della letteratura yiddish. Fu messo in scena la prima volta in ebraico, a Mosca nel 1925, dal te……続きを見る

How did the Pentateuch come into being, and what kinds of evidence can responsibly guide new answers to this enduring question? Exploring the Composition of the Pentateuch, Volume 3/1 captures an ac……続きを見る

How did the Pentateuch come into being, and what kinds of evidence can responsibly guide new answers to this enduring question? Exploring the Composition of the Pentateuch, Volume 3/1 captures an ac……続きを見る

If you're looking for literary theory, jargon, or safe distance, put this book back on the shelf now. The Heart of Amos Oz: Love, War & Grief brings you close to Amos Oz not as a legend, but as a ma……続きを見る

Erkundungen in den Gedankenwelten einer außergewöhnlichen Intellektuellen, die in der Umbruchszeit um 1800 alles neu bedenken musste. So vieles hat sich Rahel Levin Varnhagen »zusammengelesen … Wenn……続きを見る

Au début des années 2000, des écrivains juifs américains, petits-enfants de rescapés européens dont une partie de la famille a péri durant la Shoah, écrivent sur le traumatisme trans-générationnel d……続きを見る