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Beyond Post-Zionism
(February 2015)
Eran Kaplan - Author
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Comprehensive and critical analysis of the post-Zionist debates and their impact on various aspects of Israeli culture.
Post-Zionism emerged as an intellectual and cultural movement in the late 1980s when a growing number of people inside and outside academia felt that Zionism, as a political ideology, had outlived its usefulness. The post-Zionist critique attempted to expose the core tenets of Zionist ideology and...(Read More) |
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Bringing Zion Home
(February 2015)
Israel in American Jewish Culture, 1948-1967
Emily Alice Katz - Author
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Demonstrates how American Jews used culture—art, dance, music, fashion, literature—to win the hearts and minds of postwar Americans to the cause of Israel.
Bringing Zion Home examines the role of culture in the establishment of the “special relationship” between the United States and Israel in the immediate postwar decades. Many American Jews first encountered Israel through their role...(Read More) |
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Stop at the Red Apple
(December 2014)
The Restaurant on Route 17
Elaine Freed Lindenblatt - Author
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An entertaining inside story of how Reuben Freed’s roadside eatery became the famous Red Apple Rest.
The Red Apple Rest was a legendary restaurant open from the 1930s through the 1980s on New York’s Route 17. Located midway between New York City and the resorts of the Catskill Mountains, the restaurant served as a who’s who of entertainment luminaries. Elaine Freed Lindenblatt was born into resta...(Read More) |
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Inside Ocean Hill–Brownsville
(August 2014)
A Teacher's Education, 1968-69
Charles S. Isaacs - Author
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SILVER MEDALIST - 2014 ForeWord IndieFab Book of the Year Award in the Education Category
The story of an Ocean Hill–Brownsville teacher who crossed picket lines during the racially charged New York City teachers’ strike of 1968.
In 1968 the conflict that erupted over community control of the New York City public schools was centered in the black and P...(Read More) |
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Progressive Minds, Conservative Politics
(December 2013)
Leo Strauss's Later Writings on Maimonides
Aryeh Tepper - Author
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Compelling account of Strauss’s mature Maimonidean writings.
Leo Strauss (1899–1973), one of the preeminent political philosophers of the twentieth century, was an astute interpreter of Maimonides’s medieval masterpiece, The Guide of the Perplexed. In Progressive Minds, Conservative Politics, Aryeh Tepper overturns the conventional view of Strauss’s interpretation and of Strauss...(Read More) |
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The Study of Judaism
(October 2013)
Authenticity, Identity, Scholarship
Aaron W. Hughes - Author
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Considers Jewish studies as an academic discipline from its origins to the present.
The relationship between Jewish studies and religious studies is a long and complicated one, full of tensions and possibilities. Whereas the majority of scholars working within Jewish studies contend that the discipline is in a very healthy state, many who work in theory and method in religious studies disagree. For them, Jewish studies represents...(Read More) |
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From Kristallnacht to Watergate
(September 2013)
Memoirs of a Newspaperman
Harry Rosenfeld - Author
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BRONZE MEDALIST - 2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Autobiography / Memoir I (Celebrity / Political / Romance) category
BRONZE MEDALIST - 2013 ForeWord IndieFab Book of the Year Award in the Autobiography & Memoir Category
An insider’s account of how the Washington Post broke the Watergate story, depicting the tensions, challenges, and personal conflicts that were overcome as...(Read More) |
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A Vigilant Society
(March 2013)
Jewish Thought and the State in Medieval Spain
Javier Roiz - Author
Selma L. Margaretten - Translator
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Uncovers a fundamental change that took place in Western thinking, especially its departure from the Sephardic philosophy found in the Iberian Peninsula during the thirteenth century.
A Vigilant Society presents a provocative hypothesis that argues that Western society as we know it emerged from the soil of Jewish intellectual advances in the thirteenth century, especially those formulated on the Ibe...(Read More) |
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Black Harlem and the Jewish Lower East Side
(January 2013)
Narratives Out of Time
Catherine Rottenberg - Editor
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Comprehensive analysis of how Harlem and the Lower East Side have been depicted over the course of the twentieth century in African American and Jewish American literature.
Harlem and the Lower East Side are two neighborhoods that evoke not only a rich if contested history, but also a particular “racial” narrative. Indeed, these spaces—one downtown and one uptown on Manhattan Island—have ...(Read More) |
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Spiritual Masters of the World's Religions
(December 2012)
Victoria Kennick - Editor
Arvind Sharma - Editor
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Discusses the notion of a spiritual master and looks at examples in a variety of world religions.
What is a spiritual master? Spiritual Masters of the World’s Religions offers an important contribution to religious studies by addressing that question in the context of such themes as charismatic authority, role models, symbolism, and categories of religious perception. The book contains essays by sch...(Read More) |
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