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Movies and Midrash
(September 2017)
Popular Film and Jewish Religious Conversation
Wendy I. Zierler - Author
Eugene B. Borowitz - Foreword by
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Finalist – 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Modern Jewish Thought and Experience, presented by the Jewish Book Council
Brings popular cinema and Jewish religious texts into a meaningful dialogue.
Movies and Midrash uses cinema as a springboard to discuss central Jewish texts and matters of belief. A number of books have drawn on films to explicate Christian theology and beli...(Read More) |
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The Politics of Unreason
(September 2017)
The Frankfurt School and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism
Lars Rensmann - Author
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The first systematic analysis of the Frankfurt School’s research and theorizing on modern antisemitism.
Although the Frankfurt School represents one of the most influential intellectual traditions of the twentieth century, its multifaceted work on modern antisemitism has so far largely been neglected. The Politics of Unreason fills this gap, providing the first systematic study of the Frankfurt School’s philosophical,...(Read More) |
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Educational Oases in the Desert
(August 2017)
The Alliance Israelite Universelle's Girls' Schools in Ottoman Iraq, 1895-1915
Jonathan Sciarcon - Author
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A history of the French schools that pioneered female education in Ottoman Iraq’s Jewish communities.
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU), a Paris-based Jewish organization, founded dozens of primary schools throughout the Middle East. Many were the first formal educational institutions for local Jewish children. In addition to providing secular educat...(Read More) |
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Sabina Spielrein
(August 2017)
The Woman and the Myth
Angela M. Sells - Author
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Gold Medalist – 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Psychology category
Explores the life and work of psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein through a feminist and mytho-poetic lens.
Long stigmatized as Carl Jung’s hysterical mistress, Sabina Spielrein (1885–1942) was in fact a key figure in the history of psychoanalytic thought. Born i...(Read More) |
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Sovereign Jews
(April 2017)
Israel, Zionism, and Judaism
Yaacov Yadgar - Author
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Offers a novel exploration of the relationship between religion and the state in Israel.
The question of Jewish sovereignty shapes Jewish identity in Israel, the status of non-Jews, and relations between Israeli and Diaspora Jews, yet its consequences remain enigmatic. In Sovereign Jews, Yaacov Yadgar highlights the shortcomings of mainstream discourse and offers a novel explanation of Zionist ideology and the Israeli...(Read More) |
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Judicial Power and National Politics, Second Edition
(March 2017)
Courts and Gender in the Religious-Secular Conflict in Israel
Patricia J. Woods - Author
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Chronicles the conflict between religious and secular forces in Israel.
In Judicial Power and National Politics, Second Edition, Patricia J. Woods returns to an issue that has only grown in relevance since the first edition’s publication in 2008: the religious-secular conflict in Israel. The first edition focused on the role that courts and justices play in deeply charged political battles. In the l...(Read More) |
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Herbert H. Lehman
(December 2016)
A Political Biography
Duane Tananbaum - Author
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The definitive biography of New York State’s four-term Governor, US Senator, humanitarian, and Jewish liberal political reformer.
This new biography of Herbert Lehman—the first in a half century—fills the void left by historians and political scientists who have neglected one of the truly great liberal icons of the mid-twentieth century. Based on extensive research in archival sources, Herbert H. Lehman ...(Read More) |
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Philosophy, History, and Tyranny
(December 2016)
Reexamining the Debate between Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojeve
Timothy W. Burns - Editor
Bryan-Paul Frost - Editor
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The first comprehensive examination of the debate between Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojève on the subject of philosophy and tyranny.
On Tyranny remains a perennial favorite, possessing a timelessness that few philosophical or scholarly debates have ever achieved. On one hand, On Tyranny is the first book-length work in Leo Strauss’s extended study of Xenophon, and his “Re...(Read More) |
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A Vanished Ideology
(August 2016)
Essays on the Jewish Communist Movement in the English-Speaking World in the Twentieth Century
Matthew B. Hoffman - Editor
Henry F. Srebrnik - Editor
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First comprehensive examination of the rise and decline of the Jewish communist movement in the English-speaking world.
While a number of books and articles have been written about Jewish Communist organizations and their supporters in particular countries, an academic treatment of the overall movement per se has yet to be published. A Vanished Ideology examines the politics of the Jewish Communist movement in Australia, ...(Read More) |
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Borges, the Jew
(July 2016)
Ilan Stavans - Author
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FINALIST - 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Religion category
Explores Borges’s infatuation with Jewish history and culture.
In this volume, award-winning cultural critic and controversial public intellectual Ilan Stavans focuses his attention on Jorge Luis Borges’s fascination with Jewish culture. Despite not being Jewish himself, Borges wrote essays, poems, and sto...(Read More) |
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