Books in the Michigan Studies in Comparative Jewish Cultures series

Argues that the social history of early-20th-century Germany has elided an important cultural and social phenomenon by not including the story of German Jewish women and suicide. Nothing Happened is a historiographic intervention that operates in conversation and in tension with contemporary theory about trauma and the reconstruction of emotion in history.

Collects work from the most prominent scholars in the Jewish Language Studies field to generate distinctively new historical, cultural, theoretical, and scientific approaches to this topic of ongoing interest. The chapters consider the cultural politics of the myths, fantasies, and anxieties of linguistic multiplicity in the history, cultures, folkways, and politics of global Jewry.