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Jewish Studies

Days of Awe Reimagining Jewishness in Solidarity with Palestinians

Omer Atalia

ISBN: PB: 9780226616070, ISBN: HB: 9780226615912, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 2 line drawings

For many Jewish people in the mid-twentieth century, Zionism was an unquestionable tenet of what it meant to be Jewish. Seventy years later, a growing number of American Jews are instead expressing solidarity with Palestinians, questioning old allegi...

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Jewish Studies

Yehuda Amichai The Making of Israel's National Poet

Scharf Gold Nili

ISBN: PB: 9781684580002, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2019
468 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Yehuda Amichai is one of the twentieth century's (and Israel's) leading poets. In this remarkable book, Nili Scharf Gold offers a profound reinterpretation of Amichai's early works and reconstructs his poetic biography. Her close reading of his oeuvr...

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Jewish Studies

Donigers of Great Neck A Mythologized Memoir

Doniger Wendy

ISBN: PB: 9781512603521, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2019
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Many memories, many myths" – this is how Wendy Doniger begins the story of her parents' origins in Europe and sharply bifurcated life in America. Recalling their contrasting attitudes toward Judaism and religion in general – and acknowledging the my...

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Jewish Studies

Philosophy

Spinoza's Challenge to Jewish Thought Writings on His Life, Philosophy, and Legacy

Schwartz Daniel B.

ISBN: PB: 9781584657125, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2019
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Arguably, no historical thinker has had as varied and fractious a reception within modern Judaism as Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza (1632-1677), the seventeenth-century philosopher, pioneering biblical critic, and Jewish heretic from Amsterdam. Revered in...

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Jewish Studies

Lost Library The Legacy of Vilna's Strashun Library in the Aftermath of the Holocaust

Rabinowitz Dan

ISBN: PB: 9781512603095, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2018
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Strashun Library was among the most important Jewish public institutions in Vilna, and indeed in Eastern Europe, prior to its destruction during World War II. Mattityahu Strashun, descended from a long and distinguished line of rabbis, bequeathed...

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Jewish Studies

Not Bad for Delancey Street The Rise of Billy Rose

Cohen Mark

ISBN: HB: 9781611688900, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

He was amazing. "A little man with a Napoleonic penchant for the colossal and magnificent, Billy Rose is the country's No. 1 purveyor of mass entertainment", Life magazine announced in 1936. The Times reported that with 1,400 people on his payroll, R...

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Fiction

Jewish Studies

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals A Humorous – Insofar as That Is Possible – Novella from the Ghetto

Pick J. R.

ISBN: HB: 9788024636993, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2018
212 pp., 19x14 cm, 30 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Compassion, levity, and laughter can be found in the darkest of places – and even in the smallest of creatures. Set in 1943 Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, J. R. Pick's novella "Society for...

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Jewish Studies

Pennies for Heaven The History of American Synagogues and Money

Judson Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9781512602753, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the annals of American Jewish history, synagogue financial records have been largely overlooked. But as Daniel Judson shows in his examination of synagogue ledgers from 1728 to the present, these records provide an array of new insights into the d...

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Jewish Studies

Black Power, Jewish Politics Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s

Dollinger Marc

ISBN: PB: 9781512602579, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Marc Dollinger charts the transformation of American Jewish political culture from the Cold War liberal consensus of the early postwar years to the rise and influence of Black Power–inspired ethnic nationalism. He shows how, in a period best known fo...

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Judaism

Jewish Studies

History of German Jewish Bible Translation

Gillman Abigail

ISBN: PB: 9780226477725, ISBN: HB: 9780226477695, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Between 1780 and 1937, Jews in Germany produced numerous new translations of the Hebrew Bible into German. Intended for Jews who were trilingual, reading Yiddish, Hebrew, and German, they were meant less for religious use than to promote educational...

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