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BESTSELLER FROM THINGS LOST Forgotten Letters and the Legacy of the Holocaust Shirli Gilbert Feb 2017 192pp 9780814342657 Paperback £25.95 / €29.00 In May 1933 Rudolf Schwab fled Nazi-occupied Germany. His departure allegedly came at the insistence of a close friend who later joined the Party. Schwab eventually arrived in South Africa, and years later resumed a relationship in letters with the Nazi who in many ways saved his life. From Things Lost is a story of displacement, survival, and an unlikely friendship in the wake of the Holocaust. THE ORIGIN OF THE MODERN JEWISH WOMAN WRITER Romance and Reform in Victorian England Michael Galchinsky Dec 2017 280pp, 4 b&w Images 9780814344446 Paperback £22.95 / €26.00 Between 1830 and 1880, the Jewish community flourished in England. During this time, known as the Anglo-Jewish Enlightenment, Jewish women in England became the first Jewish women anywhere to publish novels, histories, periodicals, theological tracts, and conduct manuals. This book analyses this critical but forgotten period in the development of Jewish women’s writing. WHITECHAPEL NOISE Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London 1884-1914 Vivi Lachs May 2018 312pp, 40 b&w Images 9780814343555 Paperback £33.95 / €38.00 9780814344880 Hardback £88.50 / €99.00 Archive material from the London Yiddish press, songbooks, and satirical writing offers a window into an untold cultural life of the Yiddish East End. This work positions London’s Yiddish popular culture in historical perspective within Anglo-Jewish history, English socialist aesthetics, and music-hall culture, and shows its relationship to the transnational Yiddish-speaking world. Jewish Studies 2018 HIGHLIGHTS AMBIGUOUS RELATIONS The American Jewish Community and Germany Since 1945 Shlomo Shafir Dec 2017 528pp, 33 b&w Images 9780814345085 Paperback £23.95 / €27.00 Addresses for the first time the complex relationships between American Jews and Germany over the fifty years following the end of World War II. ANTI-SEMITIC STEREOTYPES WITHOUT JEWS Images of the Jews in England 1290–1700 Bernard Glassman Aug 2017 200pp 9780814343548 Paperback £30.95 / €35.00 A study of the persistence of anti-Semitic stereotypes for 400 years in a society almost completely devoid of a Jewish population. BETWEEN EXILE AND EXODUS Argentinian Jewish Immigration to Israel, 1948–1967 Sebastian Klor Jun 2017 304pp, 6 charts, 11 tables 9780814343678 Hardback £56.95 / €63.00 Examines the case of the 16,500 Argentine Jewish immigrants who arrived in Israel during the first two decades of its existence. CONCRETE BOXES Mizrahi Women on Israel’s Periphery Pnina Motzafi-Haller Jan 2018 360pp 9780814340592 Paperback £38.50 / €43.00 9780814344422 Hardback £66.95 / €75.00 Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology Offers a rich depiction of contemporary life in one marginalized development town in the Israeli Negev. Placing the stories of five women at the centre, author Pnina Motzafi-Haller depicts a range of creative strategies used by each woman to make a meaningful life within a reality of multiple exclusions. CONSTRUCTING MODERN IDENTITIES Jewish University Students in Germany, 1815-1914 Kieth H. Pickus Aug 2017 242pp 9780814343524 Paperback £30.95 / €35.00 By examining the lives and social dynamics of Jewish university students, Pickus shows how German Jews rearranged their self-images and redefined what it meant to be Jewish. ELI’S STORY A Twentieth-Century Jewish Life Meri-Jane Rochelson Jun 2018 288pp, 68 b&w Photos 9780814340219 Paperback £28.95 / €32.00 9780814344941 Hardback £77.50 / €86.00 Presents the biography of a Jewish doctor who survived and triumphed over the horrors of the Holocaust. The book tells the story of a man whose life spanned two world wars, several migrations, an educational odyssey, the massive upheaval of the Holocaust, and finally, a frustrating yet ultimately successful effort to restore his professional credentials and identity, as well as re-establish family life. THE FORERUNNERS Dutch Jewry in the North American Diaspora Robert P. Swierenga Feb 2018 472pp, 12 b&w Images 9780814344170 Paperback £22.95 / €26.00 American Jewish Civilization Series Between 1800 and 1880 approximately 6,500 Dutch Jews emigrated to the United States to join the hundreds who had come during the colonial era. This work offers a detailed history of the emigration of Dutch Jews to the United States and to the whole American diaspora. FOR OUR SOUL Ethiopian Jews in Israel Teshome G. Wagaw Dec 2017 320pp, 19 b&w photos 9780814344101 Paperback £23.95 / €27.00 Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology Based on fieldwork conducted over several years, this work describes the ongoing process of adjustment and absorption that the Ethiopian Jewish immigrants experienced in Israel. FROM EAST TO WEST The Westward Migration of Jews from Eastern Europe During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Moses A. Shuvlass Aug 2017 164pp 9780814343463 Paperback £30.95 / €35.00 Migration has been a major factor in the life of the Jewish people throughout the two and a half millennia of their dispersion. This work covers the period of the Chmielnicki Massacre and the Thirty Years War, and the movement of impoverished Jewish refugees into Western Europe. FROM SOFIA TO JAFFA The Jews of Bulgaria and Israel Guy H. Haskell Feb 2018 240pp, 20 b&w Images 9780814344064 Paperback £22.95 / €26.00 Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology Within two years of the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, an astounding 45,000 of Bulgaria’s 50,000 Jews left voluntarily for Israel. This work chronicles the fascinating saga. BESTSELLER THE HEBREW GODDESS Third Enlarged Edition Raphael Patai Jun 1990 369pp, 36 b&w photos 9780814322710 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00 Demonstrates that the Jewish religion, far from being pure monotheism, contained from earliest times strong polytheistic elements, chief of which was the cult of the mother goddess. Lucidly written and richly illustrated, this third edition contains new chapters of the Shekhina. Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
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BESTSELLER FROM THINGS LOSTForgotten Letters and the Legacy of the HolocaustShirli GilbertFeb 2017 192pp9780814342657 Paperback £25.95 / €29.00In May 1933 Rudolf Schwab fled Nazi-occupied Germany. His departure allegedly came
at the insistence of a close friend who later joined the Party. Schwab eventually arrived in South Africa, and years later resumed a relationship in letters with the Nazi who in many ways saved his life. From Things Lost is a story of displacement, survival, and an unlikely friendship in the wake of the Holocaust.
THE ORIGIN OF THE MODERN JEWISH WOMAN WRITERRomance and Reform in Victorian EnglandMichael GalchinskyDec 2017 280pp, 4 b&w Images9780814344446 Paperback £22.95 / €26.00
Between 1830 and 1880, the Jewish community flourished in England. During this time, known as the Anglo-Jewish Enlightenment, Jewish women in England became the first Jewish women anywhere to publish novels, histories, periodicals, theological tracts, and conduct manuals. This book analyses this critical but forgotten period in the development of Jewish women’s writing.
WHITECHAPEL NOISEJewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London 1884-1914Vivi LachsMay 2018 312pp, 40 b&w Images9780814343555 Paperback £33.95 / €38.009780814344880 Hardback £88.50 / €99.00
Archive material from the London Yiddish press, songbooks, and satirical writing offers a window into an untold cultural life of the Yiddish East End. This work positions London’s Yiddish popular culture in historical perspective within Anglo-Jewish history, English socialist aesthetics, and music-hall culture, and shows its relationship to the transnational Yiddish-speaking world.
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AMBIGUOUS RELATIONSThe American Jewish Community and Germany Since 1945Shlomo ShafirDec 2017 528pp, 33 b&w Images9780814345085 Paperback £23.95 / €27.00Addresses for the first time the complex relationships between
American Jews and Germany over the fifty years following the end of World War II.
ANTI-SEMITIC STEREOTYPES WITHOUT JEWSImages of the Jews in England 1290–1700Bernard GlassmanAug 2017 200pp9780814343548 Paperback £30.95 / €35.00A study of the persistence of anti-Semitic stereotypes for 400 years in a society almost completely devoid of a Jewish population.
BETWEEN EXILE AND EXODUSArgentinian Jewish Immigration to Israel, 1948–1967Sebastian KlorJun 2017 304pp, 6 charts, 11 tables9780814343678 Hardback £56.95 / €63.00Examines the case of the 16,500 Argentine Jewish immigrants who arrived in Israel during the first two decades of its existence.
CONCRETE BOXESMizrahi Women on Israel’s PeripheryPnina Motzafi-HallerJan 2018 360pp9780814340592 Paperback £38.50 / €43.009780814344422 Hardback £66.95 / €75.00Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and AnthropologyOffers a rich depiction of contemporary life in one marginalized development town in the Israeli Negev. Placing the stories of five women at the centre, author Pnina Motzafi-Haller depicts a range of creative strategies used by each woman to make a meaningful life within a reality of multiple exclusions.
CONSTRUCTING MODERN IDENTITIESJewish University Students in Germany, 1815-1914Kieth H. PickusAug 2017 242pp9780814343524 Paperback £30.95 / €35.00By examining the lives and social dynamics of Jewish university students, Pickus shows how German Jews rearranged their self-images and redefined what it meant to be Jewish.
ELI’S STORYA Twentieth-Century Jewish LifeMeri-Jane RochelsonJun 2018 288pp, 68 b&w Photos9780814340219 Paperback £28.95 / €32.009780814344941 Hardback £77.50 / €86.00Presents the biography of a Jewish doctor who survived and triumphed over the horrors of the Holocaust. The book tells the story of a man whose life spanned two world wars, several migrations, an educational odyssey, the massive upheaval of the Holocaust, and finally, a frustrating yet ultimately successful effort to restore his professional credentials and identity, as well as re-establish family life.
THE FORERUNNERSDutch Jewry in the North American DiasporaRobert P. SwierengaFeb 2018 472pp, 12 b&w Images9780814344170 Paperback £22.95 / €26.00American Jewish Civilization SeriesBetween 1800 and 1880 approximately 6,500 Dutch Jews emigrated to the United States to join the hundreds who had come during the colonial era. This work offers a detailed history of the emigration of Dutch Jews to the United States and to the whole American diaspora.
FOR OUR SOULEthiopian Jews in IsraelTeshome G. WagawDec 2017 320pp, 19 b&w photos9780814344101 Paperback £23.95 / €27.00Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and AnthropologyBased on fieldwork conducted over several years, this work describes the ongoing process of adjustment and absorption that the Ethiopian Jewish immigrants experienced in Israel.
FROM EAST TO WESTThe Westward Migration of Jews from Eastern Europe During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesMoses A. ShuvlassAug 2017 164pp9780814343463 Paperback £30.95 / €35.00Migration has been a major factor in the life of the Jewish
people throughout the two and a half millennia of their dispersion. This work covers the period of the Chmielnicki Massacre and the Thirty Years War, and the movement of impoverished Jewish refugees into Western Europe.
FROM SOFIA TO JAFFAThe Jews of Bulgaria and IsraelGuy H. HaskellFeb 2018 240pp, 20 b&w Images9780814344064 Paperback £22.95 / €26.00Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and AnthropologyWithin two years of the
establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, an astounding 45,000 of Bulgaria’s 50,000 Jews left voluntarily for Israel. This work chronicles the fascinating saga.
BESTSELLER THE HEBREW GODDESSThird Enlarged EditionRaphael PataiJun 1990 369pp, 36 b&w photos9780814322710 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00Demonstrates that the Jewish religion, far from being pure monotheism, contained from earliest times strong polytheistic
elements, chief of which was the cult of the mother goddess. Lucidly written and richly illustrated, this third edition contains new chapters of the Shekhina.Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
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THE LIFE AND WORK OF LUDWIG LEWISOHNVolume 1: A Touch of WildnessRalph MelnickDec 2017 758pp9780814344675 Paperback £25.95 / €29.00An imposing literary figure
in America and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century, Ludwig Lewisohn struggled with feelings of alienation in Christian America that were gradually resolved by his developing Jewish identity.
THE LIFE AND WORK OF LUDWIG LEWISOHNVolume 2: This Dark and Desperate AgeRalph MelnickDec 2017 620pp, 37 b&w Images9780814345047 Paperback £25.95 / €29.00This second volume portrays Lewisohn’s last decades.
JEWISH MOROCCAN FOLK NARRATIVES FROM ISRAELAliza Shenhar & Haya Bar-ItzhakDec 2017 208pp, 37 b&w Images9780814344521 Paperback £23.95 / €27.00Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and AnthropologyFocuses on two central elements:
textual research to examine the aesthetic qualities of the narrative, their division into genres, the various versions and their parallels, and acculturation in Israel, as well as contextual research to examine the performance art of the narrator and the role of the narrative as a communicative process in the narrating society.
JEWISH POLAND-LEGENDS OF ORIGINEthnopoetics and Legendary ChroniclesHaya Bar-ItzhakFeb 2018 200pp, 26 b&w Images9780814343913 Paperback £22.95 / €26.00Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and AnthropologyExamines the legends of origin of the Jews of Poland and discloses how the community creates its own chronicle, how it structures and consolidates its identity through stories about its founding, and how identity varies from age to age.
ON JEWISH FOLKLORERaphael PataiDec 2017 512pp, 6 b&w Images9780814344217 Paperback £25.95 / €29.00The essays collected in this volume, some of which are presented for the first time in English translation, provide a rich harvest of Jewish customs and traditional beliefs, gathered from
all over the world and from ancient to modern times.
PRAYER & COMMUNITYThe Havurah in American JudaismRiv-Ellen PrellDec 2017 336pp, 12 b&w Images9780814344460 Paperback £22.95 / €26.00Combining history and ethnography, Prell uses current theories about ritual and prayer to understand men’s and women’s struggles with their religious tradition and their desire to create community.
RABBINIC JUDAISM IN THE MAKINGThe Halakhah from Ezra to Judah IAlexander GuttmanFeb 2018 344pp9780814344026 Paperback £23.95 / €27.00The first study in English to trace the evolution of Rabbinic Law and Rabbinic Judaism.
RECONSTRUCTING THE OLD COUNTRYAmerican Jewry in the Post-Holocaust DecadesEdited by Eliyana R. Adler & Sheila E. JelenAug 2017 384pp, 12 b&w photos9780814341667 Paperback £36.50 / €40.009780814344378 Hardback £61.95 / €69.00
Brings together scholars to examine how the American Jewish community in the post-Holocaust era was shaped by its encounter with literary relics, living refugees, and other cultural productions which grew out of an encounter with Eastern European Jewish life from the pre-Holocaust era.
THE SEVENA Family Holocaust StoryEllen G. FriedmanOct 2017 312pp, 1 Map9780814344132 Paperback £30.95 / €35.009780814344392 Hardback £56.95 / €63.00A literary memoir of exile and survival in Soviet prison camps during the Holocaust. Most
Polish Jews who survived the Second World War did not go to concentration camps, but were banished by Stalin to the remote prison settlements and Gulags of the Soviet Union. Ellen G. Friedman’s work is an account of this displacement.
THE SHAPING OF JEWISH IDENTITY IN NINETEENTH CENTURY FRANCEJay R. BerkovitzFeb 2018 312pp9780814344088 Paperback £25.95 / €29.00Reveals the complexities inherent in the processes of emancipation and
modernization, focusing on the efforts of French Jewish leaders to come to terms with the social and religious implications of modernity.
SHELTER FROM THE HOLOCAUSTRethinking Jewish Survival in the Soviet UnionEdited by Mark Edele, Sheila Fitzpatrick & Anita GrossmanOct 2017 256pp, 6 tables and 7 maps9780814342671 Paperback £36.50 / €40.00
9780814344408 Hardback £61.95 / €69.00A collection of essays that are at the forefront of developing an entirely new field of transnational study, which seeks to integrate scholarship from the areas of the history of the Second World War and the Holocaust, the history of Poland and the Soviet Union, and the study of refugees and displaced persons.
TRADITION AND POLITICSThe Religious Parties of IsraelGary S. SchiffDec 2017 272pp9780814343890 Paperback £23.95 / €27.00Traces the religious parties of the modern state of Israel from their origins in Europe early in
the twentieth century to their transplantation to Palestine, their adaptation to the new realities, their participation in the quazi-government of the Jewish community under the British mandate, and their unfolding roles after independence.
WITHOUT BOUNDSThe Life and Death of Rabbi Ya’aqov WazanaYoram BiluAug 2017 188pp9780814343241 Paperback £24.95 / €28.00Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and AnthropologyIlluminates the life of the mysterious Rabbi Ya’aqov
Wazana, a Jewish healer who worked in the Western High Atlas region in southern Morocco and died there in the early 1950s.
MARKETING IDENTITIESThe Invention of Jewish Ethnicity in Ost und WestDavid A. BrennerFeb 2018 248pp, 21 b&w Images9780814345191 Paperback £23.95 / €27.00Analyses how Ost und West, the first Jewish magazine published in Berlin by westernized Jews originally from Eastern Europe, promoted ethnic identity to Jewish audiences in Germany and throughout the world.
