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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

The God Log: Torah Signal by Steve Hutchison What if the Torah was not distant scripture ー but the original survival code preserved through law and memory? This is not theology. This is not folklor……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