Jewish Studies

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Singing the Land

Hebrew Music and Early Zionism in America

By Eli Sperling
Subjects: Foreign Language, Modern Hebrew, Jewish Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Music, Ethnomusicology, Diaspora Studies

How song shaped American Zionism

Instrument of Memory

Encounters with the Wandering Jew

By Lisa Lampert-Weissig
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Jewish Studies, Cultural Studies

Reimagining the Wandering Jew legend and the curse of immortality in centuries of Jewish and Christian art

Biblical Judgments

New Legal Readings in the Hebrew Bible

By Daphne Barak-Erez
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, Jewish Studies
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Analyzes the classical stories of the Hebrew Bible through the lens of modern law

The Dybbuk Century

The Jewish Play That Possessed the World

Edited by Debra Caplan & Rachel Merrill Moss
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Jewish Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature

How a 100-year-old play about spiritual possession beyond the grave continues to engage and fascinate

Visual Syntax of Race

Arab-Jews in Zionist Visual Culture

By Noa Hazan
Subjects: Race and Ethnicity, Jewish Studies, Cultural Studies

The visual representation of racial thought

The Medieval Postcolonial Jew, In and Out of Time

By Miriamne Ara Krummel
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Jewish Studies, Literary Studies

Confronts the fraught temporal dissonances that are written into the structure of sacred Jewish and Christian time

Open Wounds

Holocaust Theater and the Legacy of George Tabori

By Martin Kagel & David Z. Saltz
Subjects: Theater and Performance, German Studies, Jewish Studies

Explores the irreverent theater of George Tabori and its enduring legacy within Holocaust theater

Anti-Heimat Cinema

The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape

By Ofer Ashkenazi
Subjects: German Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Jewish Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Jewish filmmakers inspire New German Cinema within the discursive landscape of the German “Heimat”

Dispossession

Plundering German Jewry, 1933-1953

By Christoph Kreutzmüller & Jonathan R. Zatlin
Subjects: German Studies, Jewish Studies, History, European History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Comparative context for understanding the experience of the German Jewry in the wake of Nazi plundering, racism, and genocide

The Politics of American Jews

By Herbert F. Weisberg
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Race and Politics, Jewish Studies

Uses extensive data to show that everything we think we know about the voting behavior of American Jews is wrong.

Everywoman Her Own Theology

On the Poetry of Alicia Suskin Ostriker

By Martha Nell Smith & Julie R. Enszer
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Jewish Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: Under Discussion

Much admired by readers for decades, Alicia Ostriker is celebrated by her peers in fresh and insightful essays

Strange Cocktail

Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry

By Adriana X. Jacobs
Subjects: Foreign Language, Modern Hebrew, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Jewish Studies
Series: Michigan Studies in Comparative Jewish Cultures

A compelling exploration of the relation between translation and writing in the development of modern Hebrew poetry

Yiddish Empire

The Vilna Troupe, Jewish Theater, and the Art of Itinerancy

By Debra Caplan
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Jewish Studies, History, European History

Relates the untold story of a traveling Yiddish theater company and traces their far- reaching influence

Passing Illusions

Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany

By Kerry Wallach
Subjects: German Studies, Jewish Studies, Gender Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Challenges the notion that Weimar Jews sought to be invisible or indistinguishable from other Germans by “passing” as non-Jews

 

Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews

By Cathy Gelbin & Sander Gilman
Subjects: History, Jewish Studies, German Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

The first conceptual history of the development and evolution of the image of Jews and Jewish participation in modern German-speaking cosmopolitanist thought

 

Medieval Jerusalem

Forging an Islamic City in Spaces Sacred to Christians and Jews

By Jacob Lassner
Subjects: Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies

A compelling consideration of Jerusalem during the formative period of Islamic civilization

The Critics and the Prioress

Antisemitism, Criticism, and Chaucer's Prioress's Tale

By Hannah Johnson & Heather Blurton
Subjects: Literary Studies, Jewish Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Reinvigorating the scholarly debate surrounding approaches to one of Chaucer’s most notorious tales

Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans

Performing Jewish Identity on the Antebellum American Stage

By Heather Nathans
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Jewish Studies, American Studies

Shows how the earliest representations of Jewish characters on American stages mirrored treatment of Jewish Americans outside the playhouse

Three-Way Street

Jews, Germans, and the Transnational

By Jay Howard Geller & Leslie Morris
Subjects: History, German Studies, Jewish Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Tracing Germany’s significance as an essential crossroads and incubator for modern Jewish culture

Strangers in Berlin

Modern Jewish Literature between East and West, 1919–1933

By Rachel Elana Seelig
Subjects: Jewish Studies, German Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature
Series: Michigan Studies in Comparative Jewish Cultures

Insightful look at the interactions between German and migrant Jewish writers and the creative spectrum of Jewish identity

Queer Roots for the Diaspora

Ghosts in the Family Tree

By Jarrod Hayes
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Literary Studies, African American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Jewish Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Diaspora Studies

Uses comparative narratives to explore the dualism between marginalization and the desire for roots within a rooted identity

Franz Kafka

Subversive Dreamer

By Michael Lowy
Translated by Inez Hedges
Subjects: Biography, Literary Studies, Jewish Studies
Series: Michigan Studies in Comparative Jewish Cultures

An erudite analysis of the critical and subversive dimensions of Kafka’s writings

Never Better!

The Modern Jewish Picaresque

By Miriam Udel
Subjects: Jewish Studies, Literary Studies
Series: Michigan Studies in Comparative Jewish Cultures

A fascinating study of the picaresque protagonists of Yiddish literature and their minority authors

Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures

Comparative Perspectives

By Anita Norich & Joshua L Miller
Subjects: Jewish Studies, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Michigan Studies in Comparative Jewish Cultures

A fascinating discussion of Jewish multiculturalism through the range of Jewish lingualisms, cultures, and history
 

Beyond Berlin

Twelve German Cities Confront the Nazi Past

Edited by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld & Paul B. Jaskot
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, European History, Jewish Studies, Art, Architecture
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A compelling exploration of the myriad ways in which German cities have confronted their Nazi pasts

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