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Jewish Studies

New Perspectives in American Jewish History A Documentary Tribute to Jonathan D. Sarna

Raider Mark A., Zola Gary Phillip

ISBN: HB: 9781684580521, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2021
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Widely regarded as today's foremost American Jewish historian, Jonathan D. Sarna had a huge impact on the academy. Sarna's influence is perhaps nowhere more apparent than among his former doctoral students – a veritable "Sarna diaspora" of over three...

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Jewish Studies

Cultural Disjunctions Post-Traditional Jewish Identities

Mendes-Flohr Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780226784861, University of Chicago Press, July 2021
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

The identity of contemporary Jews is multifaceted, no longer necessarily defined by an observance of the Torah and God's commandments. Indeed, the Jews of modernity are no longer exclusively Jewish. They are affiliated with a host of complementary an...

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Jewish Studies

Hermann Cohen Writings on Neo-Kantianism and Jewish Philosophy

Moyn Samuel, Schine Robert S.

ISBN: PB: 9781684580439, ISBN: HB: 9781684580422, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2021
275 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) was among the most accomplished Jewish philosophers of modern times – if not the single most significant. But his work has not yet received the attention it deserves. This newly translated collection of his writings – most o...

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Jewish Studies

Fragile Finitude A Jewish Hermeneutical Theology

Fishbane Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226764153, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The world we engage with is a vibrant collage brought to consciousness by language and our creative imagination. It is in the symbolic forms of language that the human world of value is revealed, and it is there that religious scholar Michael Fishban...

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Biography & Memoires

Jewish Studies

Hadassah An American Story

Lieberman Hadassah

ISBN: HB: 9781684580378, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2021
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones

Born in Prague to Holocaust survivors, Hadassah Lieberman and her family immigrated in 1949 to the United States. She went on to earn a BA from Boston University in government and dramatics and an MA in international relations and American government...

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Jewish Studies

Sephardic Trajectories Archives, Objects, and the Ottoman Jewish Past in the United States

Tinaz Kerem, Aguire-Mandujano Oscar

ISBN: PB: 9786057685360, University of Chicago Press, Koc University Press, April 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones

Sephardic Trajectories brings together scholars of Ottoman history and Jewish studies to discuss how family heirlooms, papers, and memorabilia help us conceptualize the complex process of migration from the Ottoman Empire to the United States. To con...

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Jewish Studies

Jewish Decadence Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity

Freedman Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226581088, ISBN: HB: 9780226580920, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 halftones

As Jewish writers, artists, and intellectuals made their way into Western European and Anglo-American cultural centers, they encountered a society obsessed with decadence. An avant-garde movement characterized by self-consciously artificial art and l...

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Jewish Studies

Vendulka Flight to Freedom

Kundra Ondrej

ISBN: PB: 9788024646534, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2021
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! So many lives were cut short by the Holocaust, many with no trace to leave behind for future generations to remember. Vendulka tells the story of a single scrap of remembrance – a candid p...

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Jewish Studies

Don Isaac Abravanel An Intellectual Biography

Cohen-Skalli Cedric

ISBN: HB: 9781684580231, University of Chicago Press, Gingko Library, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) was one of the great inventors of Jewish modernity. A merchant, banker, and court financier, a scholar versed in both Jewish and Christian writings, a preacher and exegete, a prominent political actor in royal entourag...

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Jewish Studies

Media Studies

Anti-Journalist Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siecle Europe

Reitter Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226754574, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Karl Kraus created a bold new style of media criticism, penning incisive satires that elicited both admiration and outrage. Kraus's spectacularly hostile critiques often focused on his fellow Jewish journalists, which b...

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