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Jewish Studies

Hermann Cohen Writings on Neo-Kantianism and Jewish Philosophy

Moyn Samuel, Schine Robert S.

ISBN: PB: 9781684580439, ISBN: HB: 9781684580422, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2021
275 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) was among the most accomplished Jewish philosophers of modern times – if not the single most significant. But his work has not yet received the attention it deserves. This newly translated collection of his writings – most o...

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Biography & Memoires

Jewish Studies

Hadassah An American Story

Lieberman Hadassah

ISBN: HB: 9781684580378, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2021
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones

Born in Prague to Holocaust survivors, Hadassah Lieberman and her family immigrated in 1949 to the United States. She went on to earn a BA from Boston University in government and dramatics and an MA in international relations and American government...

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Judaism

Hasidism Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World

Mayse Ariel, Berrin Shonkoff Sam, Mayse Ariel Evan

ISBN: PB: 9781684580170, ISBN: HB: 9781684580163, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2020
275 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Hasidism has attracted, repelled, and bewildered philosophers, historians, and theologians since its inception in the eighteenth century. In "Hasidism: Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World", Ariel Evan Mayse and Sam Berrin Sh...

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Jewish Studies

Biography & Memoires

Haifa City of Steps

Scharf Gold Nili

ISBN: HB: 9781512601183, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2017
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Nili Gold, who was born in Haifa to German-speaking parents in 1948, the first year of Israeli statehood, here offers a remarkable homage to her native city during its heyday as an international port and cultural center. Spanning the 1920s and '30s,...

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Jewish Studies

Political Science

Home for All Jews Citizenship, Rights, and National Identity in the New Israeli State

Rozin Orit

ISBN: PB: 9781611689501, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Orit Rozin's inspired scholarship focuses on the construction and negotiation of citizenship in Israel during the state's first decade. Positioning itself both within and against much of the critical sociological literature on the period, this work r...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Holocaust Mothers and Daughters Family, History, and Trauma

Clementi Federica K.

ISBN: PB: 9781611684766, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2013
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this brave and original work, Federica Clementi focuses on the mother-daughter bond as depicted in six works by women who experienced the Holocaust, sometimes with their mothers, sometimes not. The daughters' memoirs, which record the "all-too-hum...

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Jewish Studies

Literary Criticism

Holocaust Literature A History and Guide

Roskies David G., Diamant Naomi

ISBN: PB: 9781611683585, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2013
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What is Holocaust literature? When does it begin and how is it changing? Is there an essential core that consists of diaries, eyewitness accounts of the concentration camps, and tales of individual survival? Is it the same everywhere: West and East,...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Holocaust Controversy The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France

Moyn Samuel

ISBN: PB: 9781584655091, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2005
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How has the world come to focus on the Holocaust and why has it invariably done so in the heat of controversy, scandal, and polemics about the past? These questions are at the heart of this unique investigation of the Treblinka affair that occurred i...

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Judaism

House Divided Orthodoxy and Schism in Nineteenth-Century Central European Jewry

Katz Jacob

ISBN: PB: 9781584652953, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2005
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Eminent social historian Jacob Katz examines the rise and transformation of Jewish communal leadership in Central Europe. It is a story of fragmentation and polarization that sheds light on the tensions within the 19th-century Jewish community in Cen...

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