Books by Daniel J. Walkowitz

In recent decades, Jewish heritage tourism has grown to occupy a major space within the world of museums and memorials. But there is a critical omission - Jewish socialist history is absent from heritage tourist sites. Daniel Walkowitz analyses this gap in public history, presenting the absence of Jewish socialism as a case study in the politics of history and memory.

Walking, seeing, and being seen in the city - as voyeur or as the subject of surveillance - have a long and contested history. This book examines the physical experience of city walking - determined by architecture, street signs, traffic lights, and each walker's differently abled body - alongside the subtler class, racial, and more.

A look at how the history of country and folk dancing in America is deeply intermeshed with that of political liberalism and the "old left"