Jewish Studies

Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague, 1941-1968
Heda Margolius Kovály, translated by Franci Epstein and Helen Epstein with the author

Heda Margolius Kovály (1919–2010) endured both the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz and the brutality of Czechoslovakia's postwar Stalinist government. Her husband, after    More >

Building the Future: Jewish Immigrant Intellectuals and the Making of Tsukunft
Steven Cassedy, editor and translator

First published in 1892, Di Tsukunft [The Future]—the world's oldest and longest-running Yiddish publication—was touted as a sophisticated monthly that would enlighten Jewish    More >

The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion: Jews and Nationalism in Hungary
Vera Ranki, with a foreword by Randolph L. Braham

Choice Outstanding Academic Book! Tracing the social history of Jews in Hungary from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Vera Ranki reveals how state policies shifted from    More >

Escape via Siberia: A Jewish Child's Odyssey of Survival
Dorit Bader Whiteman, with a foreword by Yaffa Eliach

Through the dramatic true story of one boy—Eliott "Lonek" Jaroslawicz—Dorit Bader Whiteman coveys the stories of the dramatic escape of thousands of Polish Jews from    More >

From Herzl to Rabin: The Changing Image of Zionism
Amnon Rubinstein

Amnon Rubinstein traces the history of the Israeli state, and of Zionism, moving deftly between the roles of objective historian and persuasive politician.    More >

Goodbye, Evil Eye: Stories
Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer

National Jewish Book Awards Finalist! Humorous and endearing, while dealing with complex issues, the stories in Goodbye, Evil Eye reflect the tensions between Sephardic Jews and    More >

Edge of the Diaspora: Two Centuries of Jewish Settlement in Australia, Second Revised Edition
Suzanne D. Rutland

Suzanne Rutland charts the vibrant history of the Australian Jewish community from its convict origins through the turmoil of the twentieth century.    More >

Remembering Jewish Amsterdam
Philo Bregstein and Salvador Bloemgarten, editors translated from the Dutch by Wanda Boeke

National Jewish Book Awards Finalist When the Germans overpowered the Netherlands in 1940, there were some 140,000 Dutch citizens who were considered Jews by Nationalist Socialist    More >

Old Demons, New Debates: Anti-Semitism in the West
David I. Kertzer, editor

National Jewish Book Awards Finalist! Old Demons, New Debates offers a provocative new view of the recent upsurge of anti-Semitism in the West. The authors show how today's    More >

Daughters of Sarah: Anthology of Jewish Women Writing in French
Eva Martin Sartori and Madeleine Cottenet-Hage, editors

National Jewish Book Awards Finalist! The editors have gathered a treasure trove of excerpts (some translated into English for the first time) from a variety of genres—novels, short    More >

Afterimages: A Family Memoir
Carol Ascher

In her moving reflection on growing up as the daughter of refugees from Hitler's Europe, Carol Ascher explores the conflicts of an émigré childhood and chronicles her    More >

Passionate Pioneers: The Story of Yiddish Secular Education in North America, 1910-1960
Fradle Pomerantz Freidenreich, with a foreword by Jonathan D. Sarna

A little-known chapter in American Jewish history involves a wide network of Yiddish schools and camps—a vibrant, multifaceted educational movement—that sought to transmit a    More >

Visions, Images, and Dreams: Yiddish Film—Past and Present, revised edition
Eric A. Goldman

From the early Yiddish silent movies, to the innovative Soviet-supported productions of the 1920s, to the Golden Age of the 1930s, to the present revival of the genre, Eric Goldman traces    More >

A History of Egyptian Communism: Jews and Their Compatriots in Quest of Revolution
Rami Ginat

Rami Ginat offers an entirely new reading of the evolution of communism in Egypt, including the central role of Egyptian Jews in both its development and its impact on Egypt and the wider    More >

A Jewish Mother From Berlin [a novel] and Susanna [a novella]
Gertrud Kolmar, translated from the German by Brigitte M. Goldstein

In these two extraordinary works, published posthumously, Gertrude Kolmar's elegiac prose transports us into her characters' rich inner worlds even as it depicts the cold material    More >

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