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Jewish Studies

Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition

Mirvis Stanley

ISBN: HB: 9780300238815, Yale University Press, August 2020
312 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Based on last wills and testaments composed by Jamaican Jews between 1673 and 1815, this book explores the social and familial experiences of one of the most critical yet understudied nodes of the Atlantic Portuguese Jewish Diaspora. Stanley Mirvis e...

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Film Studies

Jewish Studies

Bridge of Light Yiddish Film between Two Worlds

Hoberman J.

ISBN: PB: 9781584658702, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2020
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Published to great acclaim in 1991, J. Hoberman's "Bridge of Light" is now back in print with a new foreword and final chapter discussing recent research, rediscoveries, and restorations.

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Biography & Memoires

Cartoon Art

Stan Lee A Life in Comics

Leibovitz Liel

ISBN: HB: 9780300230345, Yale University Press, June 2020
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 36 black&white illus.

Few artists have had as much of an impact on American popular culture as Stan Lee. The characters he created – Spider-Man and Iron Man, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four – occupy Hollywood's imagination and production schedules, generate billions at t...

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Jewish Studies

Christianity

Christians Who Became Jews Acts of the Apostles and Ethnicity in the Roman City

Stroup Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300247893, Yale University Press, June 2020
240 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm

When considering Jewish identity in Acts of the Apostles, scholars have often emphasized Jewish and Christian religious difference, an emphasis that masks the intersections of civic, ethnic, and religious identifications in antiquity. Christopher Str...

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Jewish Studies

Jews and the Reformation

Austin Kenneth

ISBN: HB: 9780300186291, Yale University Press, June 2020
288 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.

In this rich, wide-ranging, and meticulously researched account, Kenneth Austin examines the attitudes of various Christian groups in the Protestant and Catholic Reformations towards Jews, the Hebrew language, and Jewish learning. Martin Luther's wri...

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Jewish Studies

American Jewish Thought Since 1934 Writings on Identity, Engagement, and Belief

Marmur Michael, Ellenson David

ISBN: PB: 9781684580149, ISBN: HB: 9781684580132, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2020
275 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What is the role of Judaism and Jewish existence in America? And what role does America play in matters Jewish? This anthology considers these questions and offers a look at how the diverse body of Jewish thought developed within the historical and i...

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Biography & Memoires

Performing Arts

Houdini The Elusive American

Begley Adam

ISBN: HB: 9780300230796, Yale University Press, May 2020
232 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.

In 1916, the war in Europe having prevented a tour abroad, Harry Houdini wrote a film treatment for a rollicking motion picture. Though the movie was never made, its title, "The Marvelous Adventures of Houdini: The Justly Celebrated Elusive American"...

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Jewish Studies

Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization Volume 8: Crisis and Creativity between World Wars, 1918-1939

Endelman Todd M., Gitelman Zvi

ISBN: HB: 9780300135527, Yale University Press, May 2020
1392 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 67 colour illus., 37 black&white illus.

An anthology of Jewish culture between the world wars, the editors' selections convey the variety, breadth, and depth of Jewish creativity in those tempestuous decades. Despite – or perhaps because of – external threats, Jews vigorously fought over r...

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Jewish Studies

Jewish Treasures

Abrams Rebecca, Merchan-Hamann Cesar

ISBN: HB: 9781851245024, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2020
288 pp., 25.9x23.7 cm, 136 colour illus.

Representing four centuries of collecting and 1000 years of Jewish history, this book brings together extraordinary Hebrew manuscripts and rare books from the Bodleian Library and Oxford colleges. Highlights of the collections include a fragment of M...

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Biography & Memoires

Jewish Studies

Theodor Herzl The Charismatic Leader

Penslar Derek

ISBN: HB: 9780300180404, Yale University Press, April 2020
256 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

The life of Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) was as puzzling as it was brief. How did this cosmopolitan and assimilated European Jew become the leader of the Zionist movement? How could he be both an artist and a statesman, a rationalist and an aesthete, a...

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