UNDER QUARANTINEImmigrants and Disease
at Israel’s Gate
Rhona SeidelmanEvocative and bold, Under Quarantine shows
that we cannot fully understand Israel until
we understand Shaar Ha’aliya. The gate of
arrival for nearly half a million immigrants—a
space of homecoming, conflict, exclusion and
welcoming—here was the country’s crucible.
256 pp • 9 b/w images • 978-1-9788-0837-9 paper • $29.95T $20.96
THE GREAT WHITE WAYRace and the Broadway Musical
Warren Hoffman“Hoffman’s book is, in some sense, like a
Broadway musical itself—surprising in its
many and varied elements, opinions, defenses
and prosecutions. The role of race in the
history of Broadway has, I’m sure, never been
more thoroughly or more judiciously explored.”
—Jack Viertel, author of The Secret Life of the
American Musical
260 pp • 20 b/w images • 978-1-9788-0711-2 paper • $29.95AT $20.96
CHOSEN CAPITALThe Jewish Encounter with
American Capitalism
Edited by Rebecca Kobrin“The essays in Chosen Capital break
new ground in the study of Jews and
their relationship to American capitalism.
The ideas and information presented
in this exciting volume greatly expand
our knowledge of a highly important, yet
understudied, subject.”
—Tony Michels, University of Wisconsin
288 pp • 22 photos • 978-0-8135-5308-5 paper • $29.95S $20.97
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THE NEW JEW IN FILMExploring Jewishness and Judaism in
Contemporary Cinema
Nathan Abrams“Abrams adds fresh perspectives on
emerging global film depictions of Jews in
an investigation of how old, fixed catego-
ries of stereotypes have been subverted
since 1990. Abrams shows how cinema
has become the vehicle for normalizing
Jews, generally stereotyped and mocked,
but now framed in ordinary ways. Highly
recommended.”
—Choice
272 pp • 23 photos • 978-0-8135-5341-2 • paper • $29.95S $20.97
HOLOCAUST ICONSSymbolizing the Shoah in History and
Memory
Oren B. StierStier traces the lives and afterlives of certain
remnants of the Holocaust and their ongoing
impact. He shows how and why four icons—an
object, a phrase, a person, and a number—
have come to stand in for the Holocaust:
where they came from and how they have
been used and reproduced; how they are
presently at risk from a variety of threats such
as commodification; and what the future holds for the memory of
the Shoah.
224 pp • 41 photos • 978-0-8135-7402-8 • paper • $32.95S $23.07
JEWISH STUDIES BOOKS
THE JEWS’ INDIANColonialism, Pluralism, and
Belonging in America
David S. Koffman“A fascinating account…Koffman masterfully
reveals the complexities and contradictions in
American Jewish inter-ethnic relations. The
Jews’ Indian raises important questions about
Jews’ relationships to the project of American
colonialism and the politics of race.”
—Eliyahu Stern, Yale University
252 pp • 24 b/w images • paper • 978-1-9788-0086-1 $34.95S $24.47
THE POWER OF DIALOGUE BETWEEN ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANSStories of Change from the School for
Peace
Nava Sonnenschein Edited by Deb Reich“This anthology of Israeli Jewish and
Palestinian narratives expressed through
in-depth interviews reveal the meaningful
process of dialogue that changed participants’
life-experiences, perspectives and even
aspects of identity, and demonstrates how seeds of change begin
in questioning long-lasting social convictions.”
—Yona Teichman, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel
350 pp • paper • 978-0-8135-9921-2 • $38.95S $27.27
A HUNDRED ACRES OF AMERICAThe Geography of Jewish American
Literary History
Michael Hoberman“Hoberman brilliantly revises notions of how
quintessentially American landscapes shaped
American Jewish writing. Elegantly written
and cogently argued, this study unsettles
the stories we think we know about Jewish
immigration and territorial belonging in
America.”
—Rachel Rubinstein, author of Members of
the Tribe: Native America in the Jewish
Imagination
178 pp • 978-0-8135-8969-5 • paper • $28.95S $20.29
WOMEN OF VALOROrthodox Jewish Troll Fighters, Crime
Writers, and Rock Stars in Contemporary
Literature and Culture
Karen E. H. Skinazi“This wonderfully wise, sensitive and
beautifully written study is a book I’ve been
waiting for. Skinazi’s nuanced rendering
of Orthodox Jewish women sees them at
long last dodge their popular and academic
stereotypes to appear as the agents and
storytellers of their own lives.”
—Devorah Baum, author of Feeling Jewish:
(A Book for Just About Anyone)
290 pp • 15 b/w figures • 978-0-8135-9601-3 • paper • $37.95S $26.57
NEWNEW
NEWNEWREBUILDING JEWISH LIFE IN GERMANYEdited by Jay Howard Geller and Michael MengThe growth of the Jewish community through
immigration from the former Soviet Union and
Israel have both brought heightened visibility
in society and challenged preexisting notions
of Jewish identity in the former “land of the
perpetrators.
278 pp • 6 b/w photos • 978-1-9788-0071-7 • paper $39.95S $27.96
CLEVELAND JEWS AND THE MAKING OF A MIDWESTERN COMMUNITYEdited by Sean Martin and John J. GrabowskiThe twentieth century saw the move of
Cleveland’s Jews out of the center of the city, a
move that only served to increase the density
of Jewish life. The essays collected here draw
heavily on local archival materials and present
the area’s Jewish past within the context of
American and American Jewish studies.
250 pp • 23 b/w photos • 978-1-9788-0994-9 cloth • $49.95S $34.96
IT WILL YET BE HEARDA Polish Rabbi’s Witness of
the Shoah and Survival
By Leon Thorne Edited by Daniel Magilow & Emanuel Thorne“This remarkable and moving autobiography,
here published for the first time in full in
English, gives a vivid and unsparing account of
the miraculous survival of a young rabbi, from
the oil town of Schodnica, near Drohobych,
in Galicia, during the Nazi occupation and his
travails in Poland after liberation.”
—Antony Polonsky, emeritus professor, Brandeis University and
chief historian, Museum of Polish Jews in Warsaw
288 pp • 13 b/w photos, 1 map, 12 images • 978-1-9788-0165-3 cloth • $29.95T $20.97
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STUDYING HASIDISMSources, Methods, Perspectives
Edited by Marcin Wodzinski “Focuses on a wide range of important issues
not generally emphasized in histories of this
pious movement whose membership even
now amounts to nearly a million people,
roughly seven percent of the world’s Jewish
population.”
—Abraham Ascher, Distinguished Professor
of History Emeritus, Graduate Center, City
University of New York
314 pp • 17 b/w, 1 table • 978-1-9788-0421-0 • paper • $44.95S $31.46/
CHILD SURVIVORS OF THE HOLOCAUSTThe Youngest Remnant and the American
Experience
Beth B. Cohen“Extremely well written and thoughtful, dealing
respectfully and empathetically with the
important and often neglected issue of child
survivors…Cohen enables a range of voices
to be heard.”
—Fraenkel Prize Committee, Wiener Library
for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
230 pp • 978-0-8135-9652-5 • paper • $39.95S $27.97
THE REMEMBERED AND FORGOTTEN JEWISH WORLDJewish Heritage in Europe and the United
States
Daniel J. Walkowitz“A Jewish heritage tour guide like no other,
Walkowitz journeys into places hidden
by time and all-too-familiar narratives to
open possibilities for thinking, writing and
remembering a diverse, often paradoxical and
always richly complex Jewish past.”
—Alisse Waterston, author of My Father’s
Wars: Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century
304 pp • 26 b/w images • 978-0-8135-9606-8 • paper • $34.95T $24.47
GENTILE NEW YORK The Images of Non-Jews among Jewish
Immigrants
Gil RibakThe very question of “what do Jews
think about the goyim” has fascinated
Jews and Gentiles, anti-Semites and
philo-Semites alike. This critical look at
the origins of Jewish liberalism in America
provides a more complicated and nu-
anced picture of the Americanization
process.
308 pp • 978-0-8135-5164-7 • paper • $49.95S $34.97
JEWISH STUDIES BOOKS from RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
THE RENEWAL OF THE KIBBUTZFrom Reform to Transformation
Raymond Russell, Robert Hanneman, and Shlomo Getz“Providing an environment where early
Zionists could live and work in a democratic
and collective manner, the kibbutz is
fundamental to Israeli society. This carefully
researched and informative book will appeal to
readers interested in democratic collectivism
and Israeli society. Highly recommended.”
—Choice
196 pp • 20 illus. • 978-0-8135-6553-8 • paper • $31.95S $22.37
Gil Ribak
New YorkGeNtile
The Images of Non-Jews among Jewish Immigrants
THE HOLOCAUST AVERTEDAn Alternate History of American Jewry,
1938-1967
Jeffrey S. Gurock“With imagination and erudition, courage and
wit...Jeffrey Gurock ponders how a fragile and
skittish American Jewry might have evolved
without Pearl Harbor and Auschwitz. His
surprisingly dystopian vision, filled with familiar
characters in unfamiliar and intriguing roles,
is sure to challenge—and, quite possibly, to
infuriate.”
—David Margolick, author of Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max
Schmeling, and a World on the Brink
320 pp • 978-0-8135-7238-3 • paper • $29.95T $20.97
THE NEW JEWISH DIASPORARussian-Speaking Immigrants in the
United States, Israel, and Germany
Edited by Zvi Gitelman“An important contribution to the growing body
of literature on contemporary Russian Jews
around the world.”
—David Shneer, author of Through Soviet
Jewish Eyes
338 pp • 3 figures, 22 tables 978-0-8135-7628-2 • paper • $32.95S $23.07
COMING OF AGE IN JEWISH AMERICABar and Bat Mitzvah Reinterpreted
Patricia Keer Munro“Patricia Keer Munro has made an
invaluable contribution to Jewish studies by
elucidating the bar/bat mitzvah system as a
sociological negotiation between emerging
adults, their parents, educators, rabbis, and
congregations. The book should be required
reading for scholars of Jewish life and
communal professionals, as well people of
other faiths seeking a better understanding of
this pivotal experience.”
—Keren McGinity, Brandeis University
230 pp • 5 tables • 978-0-8135-7593-3 • paper • $27.95F $19.57
DRAWING THE IRON CURTAINJews and the Golden Age of Soviet
Animation
Maya Balakirsky Katz“Katz has written a very important book
exploring an area of popular significance but
little scholarly attention.”
—David Shneer, author of Through Soviet
Jewish Eyes
304 pp • 109 photos 978-0-8135-7662-6 • paper • $34.95S $24.47
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MAKING HISTORY/MAKING BLINTZESHow Two Red Diaper Babies Found Each
Other and Discovered America
Mickey Flacks and Dick FlacksThis book chronicles the political and
personal lives of progressive activists
Miriam and Dick Flacks. Their story, rooted
in ‘old left’ childhoods, shaped by the sixties
New Left, and culminating in intellectual and
community leadership, is a valuable first-
hand account of how progressive American
activism has evolved over the last 100 years.
320 pp • 20 illus. • 978-0-8135-8923-7 cloth • $37.95T $26.57
REFUGEES IN AMERICAStories of Courage, Resilience, and Hope in
Their Own Words
Lee T. Bycel Foreword by Ishmael Beah“This compilation of deeply moving first-person
stories [is] an excellent primer for everyone—
individuals, book groups, religious study
groups, academic classes—who wishes to go
beyond the myths and headlines into the real
world of the refugee experience.”
—Rabbi David Saperstein, former U.S.
Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, director
of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
212 pp • 11 color photos • 978-1-9788-0621-4 • cloth • $26.95T $18.86
A KOSHER CHRISTMAS‘Tis the Season to be Jewish
Joshua Eli Plaut“Hanukkah, a once-obscure Jewish festival
that—conveniently falling in December—has
been built up to become a response to the
‘December dilemma,’ the puzzle posed for
non-Christians by Christmas. The dilemma
is no more, suggests Rabbi Plaut. December
now features traditions that are both
distinctively American and inventively Jewish.”
—The Economist
232 pp • 17 illus. • 978-0-8135-5380-1 • paper • $22.95T $16.07
OPEN YOUR HANDTeaching as a Jew, Teaching
as an American
By Ilana Blumberg“This extraordinary book is part memoir,
part discussion of the ethics and praxis of
education, and part detailed accounts of
Blumberg’s teaching experiences—poignant,
dramatic, profound in their implications.
Ranging from pre-school to college, these
narratives show how redemptive the act of
writing can sometimes be. Blumberg herself
thinks and writes her way through crises that
interrogate her own assumptions. Here lies the generative drama
of her book. A large-hearted and clear-minded document. Highly
recommended.”
—Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, author of Moses: A Human Life
228 pp • 978-1-9788-0081-6 • paper • $19.95T $13.97
STANLEY KUBRICKNew York Jewish Intellectual
By Nathan Abrams“Brilliantly documents and analyzes Kubrick’s
Jewish sensibility by locating him in the
lifelong context of his Jewish cultural and
intellectual milieu. Abrams breaks acres of
new ground. Essential reading.”
—Geoffrey Cocks, author of The Wolf at the
Door: Stanley Kubrick, History, and the
Holocaust
340 pp • 20 photos • 978-0-8135-8710-3 cloth $34.95T $24.47
ONE PEOPLE, ONE BLOODEthiopian-Israelis and the Return to
Judaism
Don SeemanSeeman depicts the rich culture of the
group, as well as their social and cultural
vulnerability, and addresses the problems
that arise when immigration officials,
religious leaders, or academic scholars
try to determine the legitimacy of Jewish
identity or Jewish religious experience.
260 pp • 9 illus. • 978-0-8135-4936-1 • paper $26.95S $18.87
TEXTUAL SILENCEUnreadability and the Holocaust
Jessica LangIn Textual Silence, literary scholar Jessica
Lang asserts that language itself forms
barriers between the author and the reader in
Holocaust texts—and that these barriers, or
silences, are not a lack of substance, but an
essential characteristic of the genre.
244 pp • 10 photos • 978-0-8135-8991-6 paper $34.95S $24.47
KABBALISTIC REVOLUTIONReimagining Judaism
in Medieval Spain
Hartley Lachter“Lachter’s work is a compelling and
important study of the manner in which
Kabbalah responded to political and
cultural pressures in Castile at a time
of striking proliferation of kabbalistic
literature.”
—Jonathan Dauber, professor of Jewish
mysticism, Yeshiva University
272 pp • 1 figure • 978-0-8135-6875-1 • cloth • $69.95S $48.97
BECOMING FRUMHow Newcomers Learn the Language
and Culture of Orthodox Judaism
Sarah Bunin Benor“Benor’s engaging and innovative study of
language and identity surprises, delights,
and educates. Becoming Frum is a must-
read for anyone who wants to understand
Jewish language and culture today.”
—Mary Bucholtz, University of California,
Santa Barbara
288 pp • 6 figures, 16 tables • 978-0-8135-5389-4 paper • $30.95S $21.67
THE PHANTOM HOLOCAUSTSoviet Cinema and
Jewish Catastrophe
Olga Gershenson“Gershenson’s work is a monumental
achievement in giving a voice to the lost
Soviet Holocaust films—to the filmmakers,
and to also the millions whose fates they
attempted to memorialize.”
—Tablet
290 pp • 20 illus. • 978-0-8135-6180-6 • paper • $35.50S $24.87
JEWISH STUDIES BOOKS from RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESSJEWISH CULTURES OF THE WORLD
BECOMING
FRUM
Sarah BUNIN BeNor
how Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of orthodox Judaism
JEWISH MAD MENAdvertising and the Design of the
American Jewish Experience
Kerri P. Steinberg“You don’t have to be Jewish to appreciate
this richly detailed account of the
marketing and advertising of Jewish life.
Steinberg documents how religious, cultural,
and communal concerns all take shape
in conversation with the commercial
marketplace.”
—Ari Y. Kelman, author of Station
Identification: A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio
232 pp • 12 color and 46 b/w illus. 978-0-8135-6375-6 • paper • $29.95T $20.97
--Jennifer Glaser
Writing & racial Ventriloquism in
the Jewish american imagination.
BorrowedVoices
BORROWED VOICESWriting & Racial Ventriloquism in the
Jewish American Imagination
Jennifer Glaser“Glaser offers a nuanced, impressively
researched, and innovatively crafted setoff
reading that requires us to rethink the
messy-but-critical connection between race
and Jewishness. It is an excellent book.”
—Maeera Y. Shreiber, University of Utah
224 pp • 978-0-8135-7739-5 paper • $27.95S $19.57
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REICHSROCKThe International Web of
White-Power and Neo-Nazi Hate Music
Kirsten Dyck“Fascinating and by far the most
comprehensive treatment of the topic. No
other book provides this level of detail
regarding white power music.”
—Pete Simi, University of Nebraska, Omaha
216 pp • 978-0-8135-7470-7 paper • $25.95S $18.17
THE INTERNATIONAL WEB
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IMPURE MIGRATIONJews and Sex Work in
Golden Age Argentina
Mir Yarfitz“Transcends conventional accounts of
victimized prostitutes and malevolent
pimps with an intellectually bold
exploration of sexual and racialized public
anxieties. An important contribution to the
history of international mobility, immigrant
sociability, gendered labor, and multi-ethnic
cities.”
—José Moya, professor of history, Barnard
College
224 pp • 14 images • 978-0-8135-9815-4 • cloth • $59.95S $41.96
HOLOCAUST GRAPHIC NARRATIVESGeneration, Trauma, and Memory
Victoria Aarons“The author is a master of her subject,
discussing the many contributions made by
graphic Holocaust novels with great erudition.
In Aarons’ intelligent and insightful readings,
the caesura induced by the Shoah continues
to send intergenerational psychological shock
waves.”
—Alan Berger, author of Children of Job:
American Second-Generation Witnesses to the Holocaust
256 pp • 39 images • 978-1-9788-0255-1 • paper • $24.95S $17.46
SHTETLA Vernacular Intellectual History
Volume 5
Jeffrey ShandlerBy examining the meaning of shtetl,
Shandler asks how Jewish life in
provincial towns in Eastern Europe has
become the subject of extensive schol-
arship. He traces the trajectory of writing
about these towns, by Jews and non-
Jews, residents and visitors, research-
ers, novelists, memoirists, journalists,
and others, to demonstrate how the Yiddish word for “town”
emerged as a key word in Jewish culture.
192 pp • 23 illus. • 978-0-8135-6272-8 • paper • $30.95S $21.67
JEWISH PEOPLEHOODAn American Innovation
Volume 6
Noam PiankoJewish peoplehood has eclipsed religion—as
well as ethnicity and nationality—as the
prevailing definition of what it means to be a
Jew. Pianko examines the history, the current
significance, and the future relevance of a
term that assumes an increasingly important
position in American Jewish and Israeli life.
186 pp • 978-0-8135-6364-0 • paper $27.95S $19.57
JEWISH FAMILIESVolume 4
Jonathan BoyarinBoyarin explores a wide range of
scholarship in Jewish studies to argue that
Jewish family forms and ideologies have
varied greatly. He considers a range of
family configurations from biblical times to
the twenty-first century, including strictly
Orthodox communities and new forms of
family, including same-sex parents, and
suggests productive ways to think about
possible futures for Jewish family forms.
206 pp • 978-0-8135-6291-9 • paper • $28.95S $20.27
SPACE AND PLACE IN JEWISH STUDIESVolume 2
Barbara E. MannSpace and Place in Jewish Studies
embraces how notions of “Jewish space,”
diaspora, and home continue to resonate
within contemporary discourse, bringing
space to the foreground as a practical and
analytical category. Mann takes us on a
journey from medieval Levantine trade routes
to the Eastern European shtetl to the streets
of contemporary New York.
212 pp • 6 photos • 978-0-8135-5182-1 • paper • $28.95S $20.27
JEWISH STUDIES BOOKS from RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESSKEY WORDS IN JEWISH STUDIES
JEWISH STUDIESA Theoretical Introduction
Volume 1
Andrew Bush“A highly theoretical exploration of how
to engage in original and erudite Jewish
studies, [this book] encourages the reader
to seek new avenues for source material
and develop innovative analytical models to
better understand the Jewish experience.”
—Jewish Book World
166 pp • 978-0-8135-5420-4 • paper $28.95S $20.27
HOLOCAUST MEMORY REFRAMEDMuseums and the Challenges of
Representation
Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich“Hansen-Glucklich successfully navigates
the mechanics and aesthetics of Holocaust
museums and their displays, from Berlin,
to Jerusalem, to Washington, D.C., offering
engaging and inviting analyses.”
—Oren Stier, author of Holocaust Icons
280 pp • 20 photos • 978-0-8135-6323-7 paper • $30.95S $21.67
JEWISH ON THEIR OWN TERMSHow Intermarried Couples are Changing
American Judaism
Jennifer A. Thompson“Thompson’s book is an original and
powerfully suggestive intervention in the
scholarship on intermarriage. Her
argument is fresh and sound. She is
particularly persuasive presenting her
compelling ethnographic material.”
—Deborah Dash Moore, University of
Michigan
214 pp • 978-0-8135-6281-0 • paper • $29.95S $20.97
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HASKALAHThe Romantic Movement in Judaism
Volume 3
Olga LitvakLitvak presents a compelling case for
rethinking the relationship between the
Haskalah and the experience of political
and social emancipation. Litvak
challenges the prevailing view that the
Haskalah provided the philosophical
mainspring for Jewish liberalism.
246 pp • 978-0-8135-5435-8 paper • $30.95S $21.67
HOLOCAUSTAn American Understanding
Volume 7
Deborah E. Lipstadt“Deborah Lipstadt always writes smoothly
and reasons vigorously. This book is lucid,
accessible, and courageous—I couldn’t put
it down.”
—Peter Hayes, professor of history and
German, Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust
Educational Foundation Professor
212 pp • 978-0-8135-6476-0 • paper $27.95S $19.57
JEWVolume 8
Cynthia M. BakerThis book offers a wide-ranging exploration
of the key word Jew—charting the past
meanings, present usages, and possible
futures of a term that lies not only at the
heart of Jewish experience, but at the core
of how Western civilization has imagined
the Other. Tracing the word’s evolution,
Cynthia M. Baker also interrogates the
contested categories of ‘ethnicity,’ ‘race’ and
‘religion,’ while providing a glimpse of what
Jew is coming to mean in an era of Internet cultures, genetic
sequencing, and uncertain identities.
208 pp • 978-0-8135-6302-2 • paper • $29.95S $20.97
JUDAISMThe Genealogy of a Modern Notion
Volume 9
By Daniel Boyarin“This book offers a reflective, and even-meta
reflective discussion of the term ‘Judaism.’
Boyarin, as always, offers provocative, trail
blazing insights to reckon with.”
—Dina Stein, author of Textual Mirrors:
Reflexivity, Midrash, and the Rabbinic Self
216 pp • 978-0-8135-7161-4 • paper $29.95S $20.97