Books by Laura Levitt

Many of us belong to communities that have been scarred by terrible calamities. And many of us come from families that have suffered grievous losses. This book addresses questions of how we reflect on these legacies of loss and the ways they inform each other.

Exploring the immigration of Jews from Eastern Europe into America, this text raises questions about the search for stability in specific Jewish religious and cultural traditions. It offers an account of an ambivalent Jewish feminist embrace of America as home.

"Impossible Images" brings together a distinguished group of contributors, including artists, photographers, cultural critics, and historians, to analyze the ways in which the Holocaust has been represented in and through paintings, architecture, photographs, museums, and monuments.