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Jewish Studies

New & Recommended Titles

2020

Jewish Film & New MediaAn International Journal

Edited by Nathan Abrams and Nir Cohen

Jewish Film & New Media provides an outlet for research into any aspect of Jewish fi lm, television, and new media and is unique in its interdisciplinary nature, exploring the rich and diverse cultural

heritage across the globe. The journal is distinctive in bringing together a range of cinemas, televisions, fi lms, programs, and

other digital material in one volume and in its positioning of the discussions within a range of contexts.

ISSN: 2169-0324 • E-ISSN: 2169-0332Published twice per year

Jewish Film & New MediaAn International Journal

provides an outlet for research into any aspect of Jewish fi lm, television, and new media and is unique in its interdisciplinary nature, exploring the rich and diverse cultural

heritage across the globe. The journal is distinctive in bringing together a range of cinemas, televisions, fi lms, programs, and

other digital material in one volume and in its positioning of the

ISSN: 2169-0324 • E-ISSN: 2169-0332Published twice per year

Kugel and FrijolesLatino Jews in the United States

Laura Limonic

“Full of rich and absorbing ethnographic material, it provides important insights into the experiences of a

fascinating immigrant group. Written in a highly read-able style, the book enriches our understanding of how immigrants construct ethnic and racial identities in the

U.S. today.” —Nancy Foner

2019 / 6x9 / 264 pages14 black-and-white images

ISBN 978-0-8143-4576-4 $34.99 PaperbackISBN 978-0-8143-4575-7 $82.99 Printed Paper Case

ISBN 978-0-8143-4577-1 eBook

The Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson

Edited with an Introduction by Lori Harrison-Kahan

“Michelson’s voice comes roaring back from the Progres-sive Era, full of rollicking stories about Amazons, girl

thieves, and feminist radicals. Whether she was covering news or writing fi ction, Michelson modeled the kind of

public engagement our own era desperately needs. Lori Harrison-Kahan has reintroduced a fi erce, funny writer

we should never have forgotten.” —Jean M. Lutes

2019 / 6x9 / 400 pages4 black-and-white photos

ISBN 978-0-8143-4357-9 $36.99 PaperbackISBN 978-0-8143-4608-2 $84.99 Printed Paper Case

ISBN 978-0-8143-4358-6 eBook

The Legend of SafedLife and Fantasy in the City of Kabbalah

Eli YassifTranslated by Haim Watzman

“In this fascinating book Yassif paints a broad canvas of the inner lives of the heroes of Safed in its

glorious days.” —Yuval Harari

2019 / 6x9 / 302 pages / 10 color imagesISBN 978-0-8143-4684-6 $32.99 Paperback

ISBN 978-0-8143-4110-0 $84.99 Printed Paper CaseISBN 978-0-8143-4111-7 eBook

Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology

The JDC at 100A Century of Humanitarianism

Edited by Avinoam Patt, Atina Grossmann, Linda G. Levi, and Maud S. Mandel

“This remarkable collection of scholarly essays, based on the recently opened archives of the JDC, trans-

forms our understanding of American Jewish rescue and humanitarian efforts, emphasizing the interwar

and Holocaust years.” —Jonathan D. Sarna

2019 / 6x9 / 512 pages / 26 imagesISBN 978-0-8143-4234-3 $54.99 Printed Paper Case

ISBN 978-0-8143-4235-0 eBook

The Construction of Testimony

Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and Its OuttakesEdited by Erin McGlothlin, Brad Prager, and

Markus Zisselsberger

Groundbreaking analyses of the vast archive of newly digitized and released outtakes from Lanzmann’s

masterwork.

April 2020 / 6x9 / 484 pages40 black-and-white illustrations

ISBN 978-0-8143-4734-8 $36.99 PaperbackISBN 978-0-8143-4733-1 $84.99 Printed Paper Case

ISBN 978-0-8143-4735-5 eBookContemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series

Holocaust Memory and Racism in the Postwar World

Edited by Shirli Gilbert and Avril Alba

“Not afraid of tackling big and complex issues, the authors show how different understandings of Nazi

genocide shaped responses to problems of ‘race’, not always in ways one might expect. Highly

recommended.” — Dan Stone

2019 / 6x9 / 470 pages / 10 imagesISBN 978-0-8143-4269-5 $39.99 Paperback

ISBN 978-0-8143-4596-2 $84.99 Printed Paper CaseISBN 978-0-8143-4270-1 eBook

Stories of Jewish Life Casale Monferrato-Rome-Jerusalem,

1876–1985Augusto Segre

Translated and with an Introduction by Steve Siporin

Segre’s stories of Jewish life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy.

June 2020 / 6x9 / 288 pagesISBN 978-0-8143-4765-2 $64.99 Printed Paper Case

ISBN 978-0-8143-4766-9 eBookRaphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology

Laughter After Humor and the Holocaust

Edited by David Slucki, Gabriel N. Finder, and Avinoam Patt

A global tour of Jewish humor about the Holocaust.

April 2020 / 6x9 / 352 pages8 black-and-white images

ISBN 978-0-8143-4478-1 $34.99 PaperbackISBN 978-0-8143-4738-6 $86.99 Printed Paper Case

ISBN 978-0-8143-4479-8 eBook

Invisible Ink A Memoir by Guy Stern

The incredible autobiography of an exiled child during WWII.

April 2020 / 6x9 / 200 pages40 black-and-white images

ISBN 978-0-8143-4759-1 $27.99 HardbackISBN 978-0-8143-4760-7 eBook

From Left to Right Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York

Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History Nancy Sinkoff

“With this book, Lucy Dawidowicz has found her biographer. . . Nancy Sinkoff offers profound insight

into the American Jewish psyche, chronicling its diverse cultural proclivities and political

sensibilities.”— David N. Myers

March 2020 / 6x9 / 538 pages 37 black-and-white images

ISBN 978-0-8143-4510-8 $ 34.99 Printed Paper Case ISBN 978-0-8143-4511-5 eBook

Salvage Poetics Post-Holocaust American

Jewish Folk Ethnographies Sheila E. Jelen

An interdisciplinary approach to American Jewish ethnic identity in post-Holocaust America.

April 2020 / 6x9 / 384 pages 57 color images

ISBN 978-0-8143-4318-0 $ 69.99 Printed Paper Case ISBN 978-0-8143-4319-7 eBook

Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology

Authentically Orthodox A Tradition-Bound Faith in American Life

Zev Eleff

Explores religious change in Orthodox Judaism, specifi cally the indigenous American

religious culture.

January 2020 / 6x9 / 326 pages 15 black-and-white images

ISBN 978-0-8143-4480-4 $ 64.99 Printed Paper Case ISBN 978-0-8143-4482-8 eBook

The Yiddish Historians and the Struggle for a Jewish History of the Holocaust

Mark L. Smith

“[This is] possibly the most important contribution to the historiography of the Holocaust published in a number of years. Smith’s book is an outstanding

achievement.” —Saul Friedländer

2019 / 6x9 / 480 pages 9 black-and-white photos

ISBN 978-0-8143-4612-9 $ 64.99 Printed Paper Case ISBN: 978-0-81434-613-6 eBook

The Power of a Tale Stories from the Israel Folktale Archives

Edited by Haya Bar-Itzhak and Idit Pintel-Ginsberg

“A rich collection indeed with narrative treasures derived from all over the world. . . These stories

and the narrators who share them stir the imagina-tion and open unprecedented cultural vistas on the

vitality of oral tradition.” —Simon J. Bronner

2019 / 7x10 / 464 pages 45 black-and-white images

ISBN 978-0-8143-4208-4 $ 64.99 Printed Paper Case ISBN 978-0-8143-4209-1 eBook

Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology

Sing This at My Funeral A Memoir of Fathers and Sons

David Slucki

“ This is a vital story of family, loss, grief, and post-war devastation, of connection across time and space, of Jewish worlds and communities made

and remade. It is a book unlike any other, a must-read. ” —Jordana Silverstein

2019 / 6x9 / 280 pages 44 black-and-white images

ISBN 978-0-8143-4486-6 $27.99 PaperbackISBN 978-0-8143-4721-8 $ 82.99 Printed Paper Case

ISBN 978-0-8143-4487-3 eBook