- Alienated Minority
- Kenneth Stow
- This narrative history surveying one thousand years of Jewish life integrates the Jewish experience into the context of the overall culture and society of medieval Europe. It presents a new picture of the interaction between Christians and Jews in this tumultuous era.
- Paperback 1998 / Hardcover
- American Jewish Ephemera
- Compiled by Charles Berlin
- Introduction by Oscar Handlin
- The ephemera reproduced in this volume consist mainly of broadsides, posters, and leaflets produced in the United States from the late nineteenth century on. They deal with Jewish immigration to America and attitudes toward lands of origin; early efforts to organize American Jewish life through a variety of social structures; anti-Semitism; American Jewish religious affairs; the response of American Jewry to World Wars I and II; the participation of American Jewry in the Zionist movement; the adjustment to American economic and political life; and the flourishing of Yiddish theater.
- Paperback 2005
- The Ascension of Authorship
- Jed Wyrick
- This book traces the history of the idea of the author in the ancient world, beginning with the attribution practices of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism. Wyrick argues that the fusion of Jewish and Hellenistic approaches toward attribution helped lead to St. Augustine's reinvention of the writer of scripture as an author whose texts were governed by both divine will and human intent.
- Paperback 2004 / Hardcover 2004
- Be’erot Yitzhak
- Edited by Jay M. Harris
- In this memorial volume, the students of Professor Isadore Twersky pay homage to their late teacher by producing a collection of essays that show his and their remarkable range of interests and talents. The result is an important collection of original scholarship on a wide range of topics in Jewish Studies.
- Hardcover 2005
- The Blue and the Yellow Stars of David
- Dina Porat
- Saul Friedlander
- Hardcover
- Brandeis of Boston
- Allon Gal
- Hardcover 1980
- A Bridge of Longing
- David Roskies
- This compelling history shows how Yiddish storytelling became the politics of rescue for successive generations of displaced Jewish artists, embodying their fervent hopes and greatest fears in the languages of tradition. Its protagonists are modern writers who returned to storytelling in the hope of harnessing the folk tradition, and who created copies that are better than the original.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover 1998
- Catalog of the Bernice and Henry Tumen Collection of Jewish Ceremonial Objects in the Harvard College Library and the Harvard Semitic Museum
- Compiled by Violet Gilboa
- This volume features photographic reproductions of 166 Jewish ceremonial objects including wine cups; beakers; Sabbath lamps; candlesticks; spice boxes; Hanukkah lamps; Torah pointers; crowns, shields, and finials; plates for the Passover Seder and other occasions; charity boxes; Esther scrolls; containers for the etrog fruit used on Sukkot; marriage rings; amulets; and others.
- Paperback 2005
- Danzig
- Edited and with an introduction by Isadore Twersky
- Hardcover 1985 / Paperback
- The Epic Histories
- Nina G. Garsoian
- Hardcover 1989
- A Fire in Their Hearts
- Tony Michels
- The Yiddish socialist movement shaped Jewish communities across the United States well into the twentieth century and left an important political legacy that extends to the rise of neoconservatism. A story of hopeful successes and bitter disappointments, A Fire in Their Hearts brings to vivid life this formative period for American Jews and the American left.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2009
- From Prejudice to Destruction
- Jacob Katz
- Katz here presents a major reinterpretation of modern anti-Semitism, revising the prevalent thesis that medieval and modern animosities against Jews were fundamentally different.
- Hardcover 1980 / Paperback
- From the Old Marketplace
- Joseph Buloff
- Translated by Joseph Singer
- Hardcover 1991 / Paperback
- The Future of the Jews
- David Vital
- Hardcover
- GI Jews
- Deborah Dash Moore
- Whether they came from Sioux Falls or the Bronx, over half a million Jews entered the U.S. armed forces during the Second World War. Deborah Dash Moore offers an unprecedented view of the struggles they faced, having to battle not only the enemy but also the prejudices of their fellow soldiers.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2006
- The Galilee in Late Antiquity
- Edited by Lee Levine
- Paperback / Hardcover
- Hasidism
- Edited by Bezalel Safran
- Hardcover 1988 / Paperback
- Hispano-Jewish Culture in Transition
- Bernard Septimus
- This study of the sometimes stormy career of a brilliant and colorful talmudist offers a broad picture of medieval Hispano-Jewish culture. Bernard Septimus portrays Ramah's career as a lawyer, exegete, poet, and theologian in an age of rapid cultural change.
- Hardcover 1982
- A History of the Jewish People
- Edited by Hayim Ben-Sasson
- A History of the Jewish People presents a total vision of Jewish experiences and achievements--religious, political, social, and economic--in both the land of Israel and the diaspora throughout the ages. It has been acclaimed as the most comprehensive and penetrating work yet to have appeared in its field.
- Paperback 1985
- The Holocaust and the Historians
- Lucy S. Dawidowicz
- Paperback
- The Jewish Enemy
- Jeffrey Herf
- The Jewish Enemy is the first extensive study of how anti-Semitism pervaded and shaped Nazi propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust, and how it pulled together the diverse elements of a delusionary Nazi worldview. In an era when both anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories continue to influence world politics, Jeffrey Herf offers a timely reminder of their dangers along with a fresh interpretation of the paranoia underlying the ideology of the Third Reich.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008
- The Jewish Sermon in 14th-Century Spain
- Carmi Horowitz
- Hardcover 1990 / Paperback
- Jewish Thought in the Sixteenth Century
- Cooperman
- Hardcover 1984 / Paperback
- The Jews in Their Land in the Talmudic Age
- Gedaliah Alon
- Edited and translated by Gershon Levi
- This paperback reproduces in one volume the two-volume translation of Alon's classic work published in Jerusalem in 1980 and 1984.
- Paperback 1989
- Kabbalah, Magic and Science
- David Ruderman
- Hardcover 1988
- The Lord's Jews
- M. Rosman
- Hardcover 1990 / Paperback
- On Long Winter Nights
- Hinde Bergner
- Edited and translated by Justin Daniel Cammy
- In this intimate memoir of a young Jewish woman's adolescence and life in a nineteenth century Eastern European shtetl, Hinde Bergner recalls the gradual impact of modernization on a traditional world as she finds herself caught between her thirst for a European education, true love, and the expectations of her traditional family.
- Paperback 2005 / Hardcover 2005
- On Stage, Off Stage
- Luba Kadison
- Joseph Buloff
- Irving Genn
- Paperback
- Parables in Midrash
- David Stern
- David Stern shows how the parable or mashal--the most distinctive type of narrative in midrash--was composed, how its symbolism works, and how it serves to convey the ideological convictions of the rabbis. He describes its relation to similar tales in other literatures, including the parables of Jesus in the New Testament and kabbalistic parables. Through its innovative approach to midrash, this study reaches beyond its particular subject, and will appeal to all readers interested in narrative and religion.
- Hardcover 1991 / Paperback
- Pico della Mirandola's Encounter with Jewish Mysticism
- Chaim Wirszubski
- Paul Oskar Kristeller
- Hardcover 1989
- A Prayer for the Government
- Henry Abramson
- After the fall of the Russian Empire, Jewish and Ukrainian activists worked to overcome previous mutual antagonism by creating a Ministry of Jewish Affairs within the new Ukrainian state and taking other measures to satisfy the national aspirations of Jews and other non-Ukrainians. This bold experiment ended in terrible failure as anarchic violence swept the countryside amidst civil war and foreign intervention. Abramson sheds new light on the relationship between the various Ukrainian governments and the communal violence. A Prayer for the Government treats a crucial period of Ukrainian and Jewish history, and is also a case study of ethnic violence in emerging political entities.
- Paperback 1999 / Hardcover 1999
- A Price Below Rubies
- Naomi Shepherd
- Paperback 1998 / Hardcover
- The Pride of Jacob
- Edited by Jay M. Harris
- Katz transformed our understanding of many areas of Jewish history, among them: Jewish-Christian relations in the Middle Ages, the social-historical significance of Jewish law, the rise of Orthodoxy in Germany and Hungary, and the emergence of modern antisemitism. In this volume, ten leading scholars critically discuss Katz's work with an appreciation for Katz's importance in reshaping the way Jewish history is studied.
- Paperback 2002 / Hardcover 2002
- Prisoners of Hope
- H. Stuart Hughes
- The eminent cultural historian H. Stuart Hughes examines the works of Italo Svevo, Alberto Moravia, Carlo Levi, Primo Levi, Natalia Ginzburg, and Giorgio Bassani--six Italian prose writers of Jewish or part-Jewish origin--and gracefully shows how these writers combine in various measures their ancestral Jewish heritage with recent experiences of antisemitic persecution.
- Hardcover 1983 / Paperback 1996
- Probing the Limits of Representation
- Edited by Saul Friedlander
- Can the Holocaust be compellingly described or represented? Or is there some core aspect of the extermination of the Jews of Europe which resists our powers of depiction, of theory, of narrative? In this volume, twenty scholars probe the moral, epistemological, and aesthetic limits of an account or portrayal of the Nazi horror.
- Hardcover 1992 / Paperback 1992
- The Range of Yiddish
- Marion Aptroot
- Jeremy Dauber
- The facsimiles of Yiddish documents and title pages reproduced in this volume, their captions, and the accompanying introductory essays are a succinct introduction to Yiddish culture. They cover religion, education and daily life, politics, Yiddish literature, history, and scholarship, Yiddish theater, and the Yiddish press, as reflected in materials printed over the last 400 years.
- Paperback 2005
- The Sabbatean Prophets
- Matt Goldish
- The story of Shabbatai and his prophets has mainly been explored by specialists in Jewish mysticism. Goldish shifts the focus of Sabbatean studies from the theology of Lurianic Kabbalah to the widespread seventeenth-century belief in latter-day prophecy. By placing Sabbateanism in a broad cultural context, Goldish integrates this Jewish messianic movement into the early modern world, making its story accessible to scholars and students alike.
- Hardcover 2004
- A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness
- Frederic Jaher
- In a country founded on the principle of religious freedom, with no medieval past, no legal nobility, and no national church, how did anti-Semitism become a presence here? Frederic Cople Jaher considers this question in A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness, the first history of American anti-Semitism from its origins in the ancient world to its first widespread outbreak during the Civil War.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover
- Studies in Medieval Jewish History and Literature, Volume I,
- Isadore Twersky
- Hardcover 1979
- Studies in Medieval Jewish History and Literature, Volume II,
- Edited by Isadore Twersky
- Hardcover 1985
- Studies in Medieval Jewish History and Literature, Volume III,
- Edited by Isadore Twersky
- Edited by Jay M. Harris
- This volume contains eleven original studies, ten in English and one in Hebrew, by some of the most established scholars of Judaica and young newcomers as well. Like the studies in the previous two volumes in the series, those in this new volume shed important light on the Jewish cultural experience across a vast geographic expanse, and over many centuries.
- Paperback 2001 / Hardcover 2001
- Studies in the History of Philosophy and Religion, Volume 1,
- Harry Austryn Wolfson
- Edited by Isadore Twersky
- Edited by George H. Williams
- Hardcover 1973
- Studies in the History of Philosophy and Religion, Volume 2,
- Harry Austryn Wolfson
- Edited by Isadore Twersky
- Edited by George H. Williams
- Hardcover 1977
- Studying the Jew
- Alan E. Steinweis
- Studying the Jew investigates those German scholars who forged an interdisciplinary field to create a comprehensive portrait of the Jew, fabricating an empirical basis for Nazi antisemitic policies. In a chilling story of academics who perverted their talents and distorted their research in support of persecution and genocide, Studying the Jew explores the intersection of ideology and scholarship, the state and the university, the intellectual and his motivations, to provide a new appreciation of the use and abuse of learning and the horrors perpetrated in the name of reason.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008
- Surviving Sacrilege
- Steven Weitzman
- In a world of relentless and often violent change, what does it take for a culture to survive? Weitzman addresses this question by exploring the "arts of cultural persistence"--the tactics that cultures employ to sustain themselves in the face of intractable realities. This book focuses on a famously resilient culture caught between two disruptive acts of sacrilege: ancient Judaism between the destruction of the First Temple (by the Babylonians) and the destruction of the Second Temple (by the Romans).
- Hardcover 2005
- Surviving the Holocaust
- Avraham Tory
- Edited by Martin Gilbert
- Dina Porat, Textual and Historical Notes
- Translated by Jerzy Michalowicz
- This remarkable chronicle of life and death in the Jewish Ghetto of Kovno, Lithuania, incorporates Avraham Tory's collections of official documents, Jewish Council reports, and original photographs and drawings made in the Ghetto. Martin Gilbert's masterly introduction establishes the authenticity of the diary, presents its events against the backdrop of the war in Europe, and considers the crucial questions of collaboration and resistance.
- Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1991
- To the Golden Cities
- Deborah Dash Moore
- In this book, the vibrant Jewish culture of Los Angeles and Miami comes to life through Moore's skillful weaving of individual voices, dreams, and accomplishments.
- Paperback 1996
- Vanishing Diaspora
- Bernard Wasserstein
- In this first comprehensive social and political history of the experience and fate of European Jews during the last fifty years, Bernard Wasserstein warns of their disappearance as a population group, cultural identity, and significant force in European society.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1997