Books in the Jewish Life, History, and Culture series

By analysing select mainstream films from the beginning of the sound era until today, this ground-breaking study uses the medium of cinema to provide an understanding of the American Jewish experience over the last century

A collection of stories by an award-winning historian that preserves fragments of memory-true or false, remembered or imagined-from three generations of a Jewish family

Newly reissued-an acclaimed volume of commentaries on the Torah by one of the twentieth century's leading teachers of Judaism.

A colourful, groundbreaking study of Jewish populations in Texas from late-sixteenth-century Spanish colonialism through the achievements of twentieth-century innovators

The first broad examination of the role of Jewish women in Viennese society at the turn of the twentieth century, incorporating perspectives from within the Austrian Jewish community of that era.

The first English book-length study of its kind: A fascinating examination of American Jewish immigrants whose literary legacy included messages of freedom for all marginalized populations, particularly Native Americans and those with African ancestry.

A stirring portrait of daily life and political dilemmas in 1920s Palestine, during the first decade of British rule in the region.

A unique ethnography of the Eastern European Jews who settled northeast of Buenos Aires in the nineteenth century and left a diverse immigrant legacy in their wake.

An examination of the effects of violence on an urban center and how it shapes both the physical and cultural landscape of a city.