Jewish Studies

Afterimages: A Family Memoir
Carol Ascher

In her moving reflection on growing up as the daughter of refugees from Hitler's Europe, Carol Ascher explores the conflicts of an émigré childhood and chronicles her    More >

Branching Out: German-Jewish Immigration to the United States, 1820–1914
Avraham Barkai

Choice Outstanding Academic Book! Branching Out vividly tells the story of the migration of many thousands of German Jews—mostly poor, enterprising young people—to the US    More >

Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire: The Abridged Edition, with a New Introduction
Benjamin Braude, editor

How did the vast Ottoman Empire, stretching from the Balkans to the Sahara, endure for more than four centuries despite its great ethnic and religious diversity? The classic work on this    More >

Remembering Jewish Amsterdam
Philo Bregstein and Salvador Bloemgarten, editors translated from the Dutch by Wanda Boeke

National Jewish Book Awards Finalist When the Germans overpowered the Netherlands in 1940, there were some 140,000 Dutch citizens who were considered Jews by Nationalist Socialist    More >

Building the Future: Jewish Immigrant Intellectuals and the Making of Tsukunft
Steven Cassedy, editor and translator

First published in 1892, Di Tsukunft [The Future]—the world's oldest and longest-running Yiddish publication—was touted as a sophisticated monthly that would enlighten Jewish    More >

Making a Life Building a Community: A History of the Jews of Hartford
David G. Dalin and Jonathan Rosenbaum

In the first analytical history of this important Jewish community, David G. Dalin and Jonathan Rosenbaum draw extensively on primary sources to place Hartford within the larger contexts of    More >

The Jews of Latin America, 3rd Edition
Judith Laikin Elkin

When it was first published in 1980, Judith Laikin Elkin's foundational book on the Jewish communities of Latin America quickly became the standard resource on the topic. This new    More >

Hitler’s Death Camps: The Sanity of Madness
Konnilyn G. Feig

"Why does a Gentile with a strong Lutheran background put her mind and heart into the Holocaust for twenty long years?... Unless I confront, I betray those who suffered so    More >

Passionate Pioneers: The Story of Yiddish Secular Education in North America, 1910-1960
Fradle Pomerantz Freidenreich, with a foreword by Jonathan D. Sarna

A little-known chapter in American Jewish history involves a wide network of Yiddish schools and camps—a vibrant, multifaceted educational movement—that sought to transmit a    More >

A History of Egyptian Communism: Jews and Their Compatriots in Quest of Revolution
Rami Ginat

Rami Ginat offers an entirely new reading of the evolution of communism in Egypt, including the central role of Egyptian Jews in both its development and its impact on Egypt and the wider    More >

Visions, Images, and Dreams: Yiddish Film—Past and Present, revised edition
Eric A. Goldman

From the early Yiddish silent movies, to the innovative Soviet-supported productions of the 1920s, to the Golden Age of the 1930s, to the present revival of the genre, Eric Goldman traces    More >

The Pletzl of Paris: Jewish Immigrant Workers in the Belle Epoque
Nancy L. Green

In a challenging new interpretation of Jewish immigrant history, Nancy L. Green traces the westward movement of East European Jews to France during the late nineteenth and early twentieth    More >

The Destruction of the European Jews, student edition
Raul Hilberg

This student edition of The Destruction of the European Jews makes accessible for classroom use Raul Hilberg's landmark account of Germany's annihilation of Europe's Jewish    More >

Old Demons, New Debates: Anti-Semitism in the West
David I. Kertzer, editor

National Jewish Book Awards Finalist! Old Demons, New Debates offers a provocative new view of the recent upsurge of anti-Semitism in the West. The authors show how today's    More >

Goodbye, Evil Eye: Stories
Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer

National Jewish Book Awards Finalist! Humorous and endearing, while dealing with complex issues, the stories in Goodbye, Evil Eye reflect the tensions between Sephardic Jews and    More >

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