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Memories of Two Generations
A Yiddish Life in Russia and Texas
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780817360740
Pub Date: August 2022
Format: Paperback
The 1935 autobiography of Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz, an Orthodox Jew whose lively recounting of his life in Tsarist Russia and his immigration to San Antonio, Texas, in 1910 captures turbulent changes in early twentieth-century Jewish history
We Shall Build Anew
Stephen S. Wise, the Jewish Institute of Religion, and the Reinvention of American Liberal Judaism
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780817321314
Pub Date: August 2022
Format: Hardcover
How Rabbi Stephen S. Wise changed the trajectory of American Reform Judaism over the course of the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first
Maurice Samuel
Life and Letters of a Secular Jewish Contrarian
Price: $54.95
ISBN: 9780817321307
Pub Date: August 2022
Format: Hardcover
An intellectual biography that reassesses one of the premier Jewish humanists of the mid-twentieth century
The Sephardim in the Holocaust
A Forgotten People
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780817359843
Pub Date: October 2020
Format: Paperback
Documents the first-hand experiences in the Holocaust of the Sephardim from Greece, the Balkans, North Africa, Libya, Cos, and Rhodes
Zionism and the Melting Pot
Preachers, Pioneers, and Modern Jewish Politics
Price: $54.95
ISBN: 9780817320621
Pub Date: July 2020
Format: Hardcover
Traces the roots of ideologies and outlooks that shape Jewish life in Israel and the United States today
Cosella Wayne
Or, Will and Destiny
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780817359560
Pub Date: October 2019
Format: Paperback
The first novel written and published in English by an American Jewish woman
Polacos in Argentina
Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780817320393
Pub Date: December 2019
Format: Hardcover
An examination of the social and cultural repercussions of Jewish emigration from Poland to Argentina in the 1920s and 1930s
A New Vision of Southern Jewish History
Studies in Institution Building, Leadership, Interaction, and Mobility
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780817320188
Pub Date: May 2019
Format: Hardcover
Essays from a prolific career that challenge and overturn traditional narratives of southern Jewish history
To Stand Aside or Stand Alone
Southern Reform Rabbis and the Civil Rights Movement
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780817359096
Pub Date: December 2017
Format: Paperback
To Stand Aside or Stand Alone is a landmark collection of previously unpublished interviews with Reform rabbis concerning their roles in the civil rights movement. Candid and revealing, the interviews make evident a remarkable range of attitudes and actions—from fervent engagement and personal sacrifice to apathy and indifference—that have been hitherto undocumented.
Soloveitchik's Children
Irving Greenberg, David Hartman, Jonathan Sacks, and the Future of Jewish Theology in America
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780817360924
Pub Date: July 2023
Format: Paperback
A close study of three of Soloveitchik’s most influential disciples in Jewish thought and philosophy
Memories of Two Generations
A Yiddish Life in Russia and Texas
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780817360740
Pub Date: August 2022
Format: Paperback
The 1935 autobiography of Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz, an Orthodox Jew whose lively recounting of his life in Tsarist Russia and his immigration to San Antonio, Texas, in 1910 captures turbulent changes in early twentieth-century Jewish history
We Shall Build Anew
Stephen S. Wise, the Jewish Institute of Religion, and the Reinvention of American Liberal Judaism
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780817321314
Pub Date: August 2022
Format: Hardcover
How Rabbi Stephen S. Wise changed the trajectory of American Reform Judaism over the course of the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first
Maurice Samuel
Life and Letters of a Secular Jewish Contrarian
Price: $54.95
ISBN: 9780817321307
Pub Date: August 2022
Format: Hardcover
An intellectual biography that reassesses one of the premier Jewish humanists of the mid-twentieth century
The Sephardim in the Holocaust
A Forgotten People
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780817359843
Pub Date: October 2020
Format: Paperback
Documents the first-hand experiences in the Holocaust of the Sephardim from Greece, the Balkans, North Africa, Libya, Cos, and Rhodes
Zionism and the Melting Pot
Preachers, Pioneers, and Modern Jewish Politics
Price: $54.95
ISBN: 9780817320621
Pub Date: July 2020
Format: Hardcover
Traces the roots of ideologies and outlooks that shape Jewish life in Israel and the United States today
Cosella Wayne
Or, Will and Destiny
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780817359560
Pub Date: October 2019
Format: Paperback
The first novel written and published in English by an American Jewish woman
Polacos in Argentina
Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780817320393
Pub Date: December 2019
Format: Hardcover
An examination of the social and cultural repercussions of Jewish emigration from Poland to Argentina in the 1920s and 1930s
A New Vision of Southern Jewish History
Studies in Institution Building, Leadership, Interaction, and Mobility
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780817320188
Pub Date: May 2019
Format: Hardcover
Essays from a prolific career that challenge and overturn traditional narratives of southern Jewish history
To Stand Aside or Stand Alone
Southern Reform Rabbis and the Civil Rights Movement
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780817359096
Pub Date: December 2017
Format: Paperback
To Stand Aside or Stand Alone is a landmark collection of previously unpublished interviews with Reform rabbis concerning their roles in the civil rights movement. Candid and revealing, the interviews make evident a remarkable range of attitudes and actions—from fervent engagement and personal sacrifice to apathy and indifference—that have been hitherto undocumented.
Soloveitchik's Children
Irving Greenberg, David Hartman, Jonathan Sacks, and the Future of Jewish Theology in America
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780817360924
Pub Date: July 2023
Format: Paperback
A close study of three of Soloveitchik’s most influential disciples in Jewish thought and philosophy