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Geoarchaeology of israel
This book includes a description of the Jehoash Inscription Tablet, the only written evidence that the First Temple existed; a new technique for authenticating ancient artifacts; a discussion of the James Ossuary, which might provide archaeological evidence for Jesus of Nazareth and indicate tha...
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May it please the campus
This book documents the exponential increase in the number of lawyers tapped to serve as college and university presidents and explores the reasons behind this trend. Many different pathways lawyers have taken to the presidency are discussed.
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A kabbalist in montreal
This biography of Rabbi Yudel Rosenberg highlights Orthodoxy as an agent of Jewish modernity. Examining his literary output nuances the line between Jewish “secular” and “traditional” literature. His kabbalistic works shed light on the revival of kabbala in the twentieth century.
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Beyond the courtroom
Beyond the Courtroom provides a compilation of articles and chapters by Hal Abramson, a dispute resolution scholar who has made remarkable contributions over his thirty-year career. Professor Abramson has focused his research and practice on parties trying to resolve their own disputes.
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The unique family law in the state of israel
In the State of Israel, the unique family law derives from ancient Jewish law, halakhic traditions, and an extensive legal tradition spanning many centuries and locations. This comparative study covers topics such as issues subject to modification, the right of a minor to independent status, extr...
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A century of jewish life in shanghai
For a century, Jews were an unmistakable and prominent feature of Shanghai life. Three waves of Jews, representing three religious and ethnic communities, landed in Shanghai, remained separate for decades, but faced the calamity of World War II and ultimate dissolution together.
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Dynamics of continuity and change in jewish religious life
Presents a group of distinguished scholars who examine key themes in Jewish religious life. Essays revolve around the dynamics of religious continuity and change. Contributors investigate the interplay of social and ideological forces, the impact of organizations, and the potential for individual...
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After the holocaust
The chapters in this volume examine a few facets in the drama of how the survivors of the Holocaust contended with life after the darkest night in Jewish history.
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Palestine to israel: mandate to state, 1945-1948 (volume ii)
Seventy years after the creation of the State of Israel, Palestine to Israel: Mandate to State, 1945-1948 offers the definitive narrative of the achievement of Jewish sovereignty in the beleaguered Promised Land. Extensive primary research and a lucid prose make Professor Monty Noam Penkower’s ac...
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The cantonists
Aiming to create a homogeneous population, between 1827 and 1856 the Russian government implemented their malicious plan of forcefully converting Jewish children by conscripting them into harsh military frameworks. About 75,000 children were abducted from their parents. However, the Russians fail...
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The russo-japanese war and its shaping of the twentieth century
Война России с Японией стала одним из самых громких событий fin de siècle, рубежом, с которого начался настоящий, а не календарный ХХ век. В книге исследователя Франка Якоба «Русско-японская война и ее влияние на ход истории в XX веке» небольшой, казалось бы, региональный конфликт на Дальнем Вост...
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Setting the table
One of the most basic questions for any legal system is that of methodology: how one interprets, analyzes, weighs, and applies a mass of often competing legal rules, precedents, practices, customs, and traditions to reach final determinations and practical guidance about the correct legal-prescri...
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Contemporary translation in transition
This volume brings together an international group of scholars, poets, translators, and publishers to explore new developments in both poetry and translation and the fluid boundary between them. The unique format combines a series of conversations between leading poets whose writing is informed b...
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Winston s. churchill and the shaping of the middle east, 1919-1922
A sweeping examination of how Winston S. Churchill, first as Secretary for War and Air, and then as Colonial Secretary, both formulated and enacted the British imperial mandate policy for Iraq and Palestine, thereby laying the groundwork for issues that are still relevant today including conflict...
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Nomadic cultures in the mega-structure of the eurasian world
Two major dividing lines have formed the megastructure of Eurasia, determining the historical epochs of the continent’s peoples. The first, vertical (longitudinal) line has separated East and West since the Paleolithic Age. The East was dominated by Mongol peoples speaking Sino -Tibetan, Manchu-T...
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Zohar harakia
Rabbi Shimon ben Zemach Duran (1361-1444) was a colorful rabbinic authority in Algiers. In his book, Zohar Harakia, on methods of enumerating the 613 commandments, he summarizes the work of previous authorities on this subject, especially Maimonides and Nachmanides. He also presents his own syste...
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The filmmaker’s philosopher
Исследование посвящено роли М. К. Мамардашвили в развитии российского кинематографического мышления. Рассматривая российскую киноиндустрию в контексте ее интеллектуальной истории, А. ДеБласио предлагает сфокусировать наше внимание на тех случаях, когда обнаруживается сходство между философскими и...
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Dovlatov and surroundings
Dovlatov and Surroundings is a literary ode by one of the most consequential late 20th-century Russian writers, Alexander Genis, to another: Sergei Dovlatov. Characterized by Genis as an obituary, this book makes plain the significance of Dovlatov to Russian literature and the nuances of post-Sov...
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When the river ice flows, i will come home
Leaving her family in Seattle traveling back and forth to Russia pursuing a career, Miller discovers she’s writing her own chapter in a book of three generations—her grandparents’ drives to escape the Jewish worlds of Tsarist Russia, her immigrant parents’ hopes for their lives in America—and now...
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My journey home
This poignant story of survival, friendship, and love begins with the the author’s childhood during the Holocaust in Hungary. It captures life after the war’s end in Communist-ruled Hungary and continues with her and her husband’s flight to Germany and eventually the United States.
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An improbable life
An Improbable Life recounts Rashkovsky’s father’s childhood as a Jew in the post–World War II Soviet Union facing totalitarian oppression, deep poverty, petty harassment, discrimination, service in the Red Army during the Six-Day War in 1967, and his extraordinary escape to Israel in 1972. With t...
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This was not america
This is a narrative that erupts into critical moments in Jewish, Polish and American history. It is also a story of the hidden anguish that courses through that history. It is told through a dialogue between Michael Steinlauf, historian of Polish-Jewish culture and child of Holocaust survivors, a...
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Sin•a•gogue
This volume presents the concepts of sin and failure in Jewish thought, weaving together biblical and rabbinic studies to reveal a holistic portrait of the notion of sin and failure within Jewish thought.
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Without permission
A young Jewish veteran of the United States Merchant Marine gets caught up in efforts to assist the new state of Israel, undergoes a challenging and dangerous sea voyage and is imprisoned for that effort, and is released and returns to build a bazooka plant in Haifa during the Israeli War for In...
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Blood libel in late imperial russia
The book examines the trial of Mendel Beilis, a Jewish manager of a brick factory in Kyiv, who was arrested in 1911 for the ritual murder (popularly known as blood libel) of Andrei Iushchinskii, a Christian teenager. Beilis languished in jail for over two years as government officials conspired t...
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The nansen factor
Over one million refugees left Russia at the Bolshevik Revolution. The pain of losing one’s homeland may fade, but the psyche is slow to heal. The Nansen Factor shines a light on the lives of some of these refugees.
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The kahans from baku
The book is a family saga, presenting an insight into the history of Jews in Russia’s oil industry. It leads to forced migration in the turbulent 20th century endured and mastered by a cohesive family over four generations in Russia, Germany, Denmark, France, Palestine, and the United States of A...
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Wheat songs
Wheat Songs is memoir about war, survival and the love between a grandson and his grandfather. The piece is the result of WWII and the Nazi occupation of Greece, a trip across the Atlantic and a yearlong conversation between the author, Perry Rizopoulos and his grandfather or pappou, Pericles Riz...
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An urban odyssey
An evocative, candid reveal of the media and design worlds by an award-winning journalist and activist urban planner in search of the soul of cities and self, from the stoops of Brooklyn, the streets of East Harlem, the newsrooms of New York and beyond, off the freeways of Los Angeles and on the ...
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These hard times
In this vivid memoir originally published in German, Anne Groschler (1888-1982) recounts her 1944 escape from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to Mandatory Palestine via “Transport 222”, an exchange transport of 222 Jews for “Aryan" prisoners of war.
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Voyage into savage europe
In 1930, Avigdor Hameiri traveled through Eastern and Central Europe. Bolshevism and Fascism threatened and Europe was poised on a knife-edge. From the growing danger and confusion surrounding inter-war Europe, in prose at once compassionate and bitingly sarcastic, comes a sweeping account of Jew...
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18
This anthology contains 18 splendid Jewish stories, each translated into English from a different language. These compelling, humorous, and moving stories, written by eminent authors that include Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Isaac Babel, and Lili Berger, reflect both the diversities and the commonalities ...
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Zev's los angeles
This is the story of Zev Yaroslavsky, a young social activist, who became one of Los Angeles’ most powerful and consequential elected officials, taking on established power brokers and sparking major reforms in policing, transit, land use and fiscal policies. “I may be a part of the establishment...
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Küchlya
Küchlya (1925), the first novel of the great Russian formalist Yury Tynyanov gives us a vividly written and moving recreation of the childhood, youth, beliefs and adventures of an eccentric and idealistic young poet and friend of Pushkin, tragically caught up in the Decembrist insurrection of 182...
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Under a bloodred sky
This book represents an anthology of Avigdor Hameiri’s ten most compelling war stories and poetry. They are unique in mixing the supernatural and macabre with war, pogroms, and antisemitism, and reflect the unique complexity of the Jewish soldier’s experience of the most vicious war the world had...
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Goodbye, tahrir square
"Goodbye, Tahrir Square" is a first-person memoir written from the standpoint of a Jewish boy growing up in Egypt during the watershed years that shaped the Middle East into the powder keg it is today. Described as the “Holden Caulfield of the Nile” for his rebellious attitude, the boy witnessed—...
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Trapped by evil and deceit
Trapped by Evil and Deceit is a historical account of true events that reads like a political thriller.Amazingly, a few Jews successfully saved thousands of lives during the holocaust. After barely surviving, they were ostracized and even murdered in Israel to conceal the inaction of the politica...
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Onto center stage
The Biblical narrative is usually very terse and cryptic. Over the millennia, Jewish scholars often painted a patriarchal picture with women ‘in their place’. This book puts these women—some are role models—into the context of an ancient society, bringing them imaginatively from the sidelines o...
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When rabbis bless congress
An exhaustive investigation that examines the tradition of prayers in government written in approachable prose, When Rabbis Bless Congress uniquely tells the story of over 400 rabbis giving over 600 prayers since the Civil War days—who they are and what they say.
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Barcelona prose
Barcelona Prose is a collection of autobiographical essays by the gifted translator, literary scholar, and dissident, Efim Etkind. These engaging, deeply psychological vignettes capture the reality of daily life and work in the Soviet Union.
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Running in good faith?
Considers the seemingly irreconcilable values and political commitments of Judaism and Libertarianism, stimulating a broad discussion and calling into question what people think they know about both Judaism and Libertarianism.
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Survival
Ita Dimant’s diary is a gripping account of how she survived the Holocaust. After escaping the Warsaw ghetto, she became a courier carrying information between Polish cities. Ita must rely on her wits and a few trusted friends, as she tries to evade the noose closing in around her.
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A voice from the lost town of trochenbrod
This English translation from Hebrew and Yiddish is the first compilation of Yisrael Beider’s surviving life work. The collection includes extraordinary poems, essays and letters by a son of Trochenbrod - an exclusively Jewish town that was completely destroyed in the Holocaust and its population...
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I lived on the battlefield of poltava
Longlisted for the 2024 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, this prize-winning historical-lyrical poem of 1985, on the unequal power-relations between Russia and Ukraine, darkly resonates in 2023.Alexei Parshchikov's long historical poem, which dates 1985, is one of the major literary documents ...
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The radical writings of jack nusan porter
Porter draws from the past to explain the present, walking the precarious bridge between allegiance to Israel and the Jewish people and the universal rights of all people. This collection combines theory, sociology, film studies, literary criticism, post-modern thought, and politics to understand...
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Epic journey
This account follows one man’s journey through the 20th Century’s Communist experiment in Soviet Ukraine, the Second World War, and the struggles and successes of immigrants in the United States in the second half of the century. It is a tale of war, murder, famine, suffering, danger, and, ultim...
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Cheerful memories/troubled years
This book is the story of the Taratuta family and their struggle to flee the USSR to repatriate to Israel at the end of the last century. It includes the lives of Aba, wife Ida and son Misha Taratuta and details of their struggle during their quest for freedom.
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If only you could bottle it
The unique story of a radical Jew and a Jewish radical from his time in a DP Camp in Austria to his coming to America in 1946 and growing up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to his activism in the radical 1960s to making his mark in Boston's literary, academic, political, and business circles.
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Elusive reality
A hundred years is the period long enough to talk about Russian-Israeli literature as a historically consistent, though quite an indeterminate community. Not being a historical study, Roman Katsman's new book subtly outlines one of the magnetic lines of this community—the search for an answer to ...
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Andrei siniavskii
This groundbreaking critical biography of Andrei Siniavskii (1925-1997) as a writer in and of his time shows how this subtle and complex author found his way in a society polarized into heroes and villains, patriots and traitors, how he progressed from identification with the value system and ide...
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My kaddish
“Elegant yet shattering… Rendered in plainspoken yet devastating prose, Masson’s historical narrative is intercut with startling present-day moments… This is haunting.” — Publishers Weekly“This heart-wrenching recollection views the traumatic events and close calls that punctuate the author’s mem...
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A russian immigrant
A literary manifesto of Russian Jews in America, Shrayer’s A Russian Immigrant features the travails of Simon Reznikov, a restless Jewish-Russian protagonist.
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The raskin family
Meyer Raskin is a Jewish entrepreneur running an agricultural estate in Belarus in the early 20th century. Some of his children help him on the estate, while others pursue education or revolutionary politics. World War I turns them into refugees. This autobiographical novel is based on the author...
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How we outwitted and survived the nazis
“Extraordinary storytelling about unfathomable horror.” — Library Journal (starred review)"[A] worthy tribute to the extraordinary bravery of a remarkable woman.” — Publishers WeeklyIn World War II's Poland, thirty year old Zofia Sterner and her husband Wacek refuse to be classified as Jews desti...
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Habsburg sons
Habsburg Sons describes Jewish participation in the Habsburg Army. 1788-1918, concentrating on World War I. Approximately 300,000-350,000 Jews fought in the Austro-Hungarian Armies. The book uses personal diaries and newspaper articles (most available in English for the first time) to describe t...
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Memoirs of a jewish prisoner of the gulag
One of the first ever eyewitness accounts of the harsh reality of Soviet Gulag
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Essays in russian literary and musical culture
The volume contains essays and reviews written over thirty years, linked loosely by three themes. First is the global resonance of Mikhail Bakhtin as moral philosopher, theorist of dialogue, and cultural totem. How does his worldview complement that of his friendly rivals the formalists (and late...
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Like a drop of ink in a downpour
Told in the dual points of view, Like A Drop of Ink in a Downpour is a clear-eyed look at the reality of life in the Soviet Union during the Cold War, giving us an insider’s perspective on the roots of contemporary Russia. It is also a coming-of-age story, heartfelt and funny, a testament to the ...
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When the menorah fades
This book describes the life of the Jewish people in Hadiach, Ukraine, and their suffering under the Nazis, with a Kabbalistic spiritual touch: the Perpetual Flame of the Menorah at the grave of Chabad founder Rabbi Shneur Zalman Schneerson symbolizes the very spirit of Jewish life, which it is s...
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Marta’s notebooks
Decades after that war, when she was hospitalized in a psychiatric ward suffering from deep depression, Marta Wollner, a Holocaust survivor, wrote her memoir. Comprising a an intimate and historical testimony, a literary/fictive biography, and an auto-fiction novella, Marta's Notebooks reflects o...
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Courting gender justice
ENGWomen and the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community in Russia and Turkey face pervasive discrimination. Only a small percentage dare to challenge their mistreatment in court. Facing domestic police and judges who often refuse to recognize discrimination, a tiny minority of a...
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Collected essays on sociology of literature
The diversity of topics under consideration—such as the culture of dance in Eugene Onegin, the seriality of Dostoevsky’s novels, the reader’s perception of Anna Karenina—are united by an approach defined by a detailed analysis of the texts combined with a study of the sociocultural context in whi...
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Matzah and flour
Matzah and Flour: Recipes from the History of the Sephardic Jews unveils the rich tradition of Sephardic cuisine, emphasizing the significance of matzah and flour. With over 125 meticulously crafted recipes, it showcases the enduring flavors that define Sephardic culinary heritage.
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Anatomy of a friendship
Diane Tuckman and Cecile Spiegel fled religious persecution with WWII conflicts at their heels. Hiding in plain sight, Cecile eluded the Nazis in France. Diane came of age in France, far from her childhood home in Egypt. Their odysseys intersect in America in this dual memoir of immigration, fait...
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In the world of chaos
As a young man in Warsaw, Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903-1991) wrote naturalist stories, sketches, and his first memoir, and translated eleven books of contemporary European literature into Yiddish. Published originally in the Yiddish press under the pseudonym Yitskhok Bashevis, the edition introduc...
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