UNDER QUARANTINEImmigrants and Disease

at Israel’s Gate

Rhona SeidelmanEvocative and bold, Under Quarantine shows

that we cannot fully understand Israel until

we understand Shaar Ha’aliya. The gate of

arrival for nearly half a million immigrants—a

space of homecoming, conflict, exclusion and

welcoming—here was the country’s crucible.

256 pp • 9 b/w images • 978-1-9788-0837-9 paper • $29.95T $20.96

THE GREAT WHITE WAYRace and the Broadway Musical

Warren Hoffman“Hoffman’s book is, in some sense, like a

Broadway musical itself—surprising in its

many and varied elements, opinions, defenses

and prosecutions. The role of race in the

history of Broadway has, I’m sure, never been

more thoroughly or more judiciously explored.”

—Jack Viertel, author of The Secret Life of the

American Musical

260 pp • 20 b/w images • 978-1-9788-0711-2 paper • $29.95AT $20.96

CHOSEN CAPITALThe Jewish Encounter with

American Capitalism

Edited by Rebecca Kobrin“The essays in Chosen Capital break

new ground in the study of Jews and

their relationship to American capitalism.

The ideas and information presented

in this exciting volume greatly expand

our knowledge of a highly important, yet

understudied, subject.”

—Tony Michels, University of Wisconsin

288 pp • 22 photos • 978-0-8135-5308-5 paper • $29.95S $20.97

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THE NEW JEW IN FILMExploring Jewishness and Judaism in

Contemporary Cinema

Nathan Abrams“Abrams adds fresh perspectives on

emerging global film depictions of Jews in

an investigation of how old, fixed catego-

ries of stereotypes have been subverted

since 1990. Abrams shows how cinema

has become the vehicle for normalizing

Jews, generally stereotyped and mocked,

but now framed in ordinary ways. Highly

recommended.”

—Choice

272 pp • 23 photos • 978-0-8135-5341-2 • paper • $29.95S $20.97

HOLOCAUST ICONSSymbolizing the Shoah in History and

Memory

Oren B. StierStier traces the lives and afterlives of certain

remnants of the Holocaust and their ongoing

impact. He shows how and why four icons—an

object, a phrase, a person, and a number—

have come to stand in for the Holocaust:

where they came from and how they have

been used and reproduced; how they are

presently at risk from a variety of threats such

as commodification; and what the future holds for the memory of

the Shoah.

224 pp • 41 photos • 978-0-8135-7402-8 • paper • $32.95S $23.07

JEWISH STUDIES BOOKS

THE JEWS’ INDIANColonialism, Pluralism, and

Belonging in America

David S. Koffman“A fascinating account…Koffman masterfully

reveals the complexities and contradictions in

American Jewish inter-ethnic relations. The

Jews’ Indian raises important questions about

Jews’ relationships to the project of American

colonialism and the politics of race.”

—Eliyahu Stern, Yale University

252 pp • 24 b/w images • paper • 978-1-9788-0086-1 $34.95S $24.47

THE POWER OF DIALOGUE BETWEEN ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANSStories of Change from the School for

Peace

Nava Sonnenschein Edited by Deb Reich“This anthology of Israeli Jewish and

Palestinian narratives expressed through

in-depth interviews reveal the meaningful

process of dialogue that changed participants’

life-experiences, perspectives and even

aspects of identity, and demonstrates how seeds of change begin

in questioning long-lasting social convictions.”

—Yona Teichman, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel

350 pp • paper • 978-0-8135-9921-2 • $38.95S $27.27

A HUNDRED ACRES OF AMERICAThe Geography of Jewish American

Literary History

Michael Hoberman“Hoberman brilliantly revises notions of how

quintessentially American landscapes shaped

American Jewish writing. Elegantly written

and cogently argued, this study unsettles

the stories we think we know about Jewish

immigration and territorial belonging in

America.”

—Rachel Rubinstein, author of Members of

the Tribe: Native America in the Jewish

Imagination

178 pp • 978-0-8135-8969-5 • paper • $28.95S $20.29

WOMEN OF VALOROrthodox Jewish Troll Fighters, Crime

Writers, and Rock Stars in Contemporary

Literature and Culture

Karen E. H. Skinazi“This wonderfully wise, sensitive and

beautifully written study is a book I’ve been

waiting for. Skinazi’s nuanced rendering

of Orthodox Jewish women sees them at

long last dodge their popular and academic

stereotypes to appear as the agents and

storytellers of their own lives.”

—Devorah Baum, author of Feeling Jewish:

(A Book for Just About Anyone)

290 pp • 15 b/w figures • 978-0-8135-9601-3 • paper • $37.95S $26.57

NEWNEW

NEWNEWREBUILDING JEWISH LIFE IN GERMANYEdited by Jay Howard Geller and Michael MengThe growth of the Jewish community through

immigration from the former Soviet Union and

Israel have both brought heightened visibility

in society and challenged preexisting notions

of Jewish identity in the former “land of the

perpetrators.

278 pp • 6 b/w photos • 978-1-9788-0071-7 • paper $39.95S $27.96

CLEVELAND JEWS AND THE MAKING OF A MIDWESTERN COMMUNITYEdited by Sean Martin and John J. GrabowskiThe twentieth century saw the move of

Cleveland’s Jews out of the center of the city, a

move that only served to increase the density

of Jewish life. The essays collected here draw

heavily on local archival materials and present

the area’s Jewish past within the context of

American and American Jewish studies.

250 pp • 23 b/w photos • 978-1-9788-0994-9 cloth • $49.95S $34.96

IT WILL YET BE HEARDA Polish Rabbi’s Witness of

the Shoah and Survival

By Leon Thorne Edited by Daniel Magilow & Emanuel Thorne“This remarkable and moving autobiography,

here published for the first time in full in

English, gives a vivid and unsparing account of

the miraculous survival of a young rabbi, from

the oil town of Schodnica, near Drohobych,

in Galicia, during the Nazi occupation and his

travails in Poland after liberation.”

—Antony Polonsky, emeritus professor, Brandeis University and

chief historian, Museum of Polish Jews in Warsaw

288 pp • 13 b/w photos, 1 map, 12 images • 978-1-9788-0165-3 cloth • $29.95T $20.97

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STUDYING HASIDISMSources, Methods, Perspectives

Edited by Marcin Wodzinski “Focuses on a wide range of important issues

not generally emphasized in histories of this

pious movement whose membership even

now amounts to nearly a million people,

roughly seven percent of the world’s Jewish

population.”

—Abraham Ascher, Distinguished Professor

of History Emeritus, Graduate Center, City

University of New York

314 pp • 17 b/w, 1 table • 978-1-9788-0421-0 • paper • $44.95S $31.46/

CHILD SURVIVORS OF THE HOLOCAUSTThe Youngest Remnant and the American

Experience

Beth B. Cohen“Extremely well written and thoughtful, dealing

respectfully and empathetically with the

important and often neglected issue of child

survivors…Cohen enables a range of voices

to be heard.”

—Fraenkel Prize Committee, Wiener Library

for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide

230 pp • 978-0-8135-9652-5 • paper • $39.95S $27.97

THE REMEMBERED AND FORGOTTEN JEWISH WORLDJewish Heritage in Europe and the United

States

Daniel J. Walkowitz“A Jewish heritage tour guide like no other,

Walkowitz journeys into places hidden

by time and all-too-familiar narratives to

open possibilities for thinking, writing and

remembering a diverse, often paradoxical and

always richly complex Jewish past.”

—Alisse Waterston, author of My Father’s

Wars: Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century

304 pp • 26 b/w images • 978-0-8135-9606-8 • paper • $34.95T $24.47

GENTILE NEW YORK The Images of Non-Jews among Jewish

Immigrants

Gil RibakThe very question of “what do Jews

think about the goyim” has fascinated

Jews and Gentiles, anti-Semites and

philo-Semites alike. This critical look at

the origins of Jewish liberalism in America

provides a more complicated and nu-

anced picture of the Americanization

process.

308 pp • 978-0-8135-5164-7 • paper • $49.95S $34.97

JEWISH STUDIES BOOKS from RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS

THE RENEWAL OF THE KIBBUTZFrom Reform to Transformation

Raymond Russell, Robert Hanneman, and Shlomo Getz“Providing an environment where early

Zionists could live and work in a democratic

and collective manner, the kibbutz is

fundamental to Israeli society. This carefully

researched and informative book will appeal to

readers interested in democratic collectivism

and Israeli society. Highly recommended.”

—Choice

196 pp • 20 illus. • 978-0-8135-6553-8 • paper • $31.95S $22.37

Gil Ribak

New YorkGeNtile

The Images of Non-Jews among Jewish Immigrants

THE HOLOCAUST AVERTEDAn Alternate History of American Jewry,

1938-1967

Jeffrey S. Gurock“With imagination and erudition, courage and

wit...Jeffrey Gurock ponders how a fragile and

skittish American Jewry might have evolved

without Pearl Harbor and Auschwitz. His

surprisingly dystopian vision, filled with familiar

characters in unfamiliar and intriguing roles,

is sure to challenge—and, quite possibly, to

infuriate.”

—David Margolick, author of Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max

Schmeling, and a World on the Brink

320 pp • 978-0-8135-7238-3 • paper • $29.95T $20.97

THE NEW JEWISH DIASPORARussian-Speaking Immigrants in the

United States, Israel, and Germany

Edited by Zvi Gitelman“An important contribution to the growing body

of literature on contemporary Russian Jews

around the world.”

—David Shneer, author of Through Soviet

Jewish Eyes

338 pp • 3 figures, 22 tables 978-0-8135-7628-2 • paper • $32.95S $23.07

COMING OF AGE IN JEWISH AMERICABar and Bat Mitzvah Reinterpreted

Patricia Keer Munro“Patricia Keer Munro has made an

invaluable contribution to Jewish studies by

elucidating the bar/bat mitzvah system as a

sociological negotiation between emerging

adults, their parents, educators, rabbis, and

congregations. The book should be required

reading for scholars of Jewish life and

communal professionals, as well people of

other faiths seeking a better understanding of

this pivotal experience.”

—Keren McGinity, Brandeis University

230 pp • 5 tables • 978-0-8135-7593-3 • paper • $27.95F $19.57

DRAWING THE IRON CURTAINJews and the Golden Age of Soviet

Animation

Maya Balakirsky Katz“Katz has written a very important book

exploring an area of popular significance but

little scholarly attention.”

—David Shneer, author of Through Soviet

Jewish Eyes

304 pp • 109 photos 978-0-8135-7662-6 • paper • $34.95S $24.47

NEW

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MAKING HISTORY/MAKING BLINTZESHow Two Red Diaper Babies Found Each

Other and Discovered America

Mickey Flacks and Dick FlacksThis book chronicles the political and

personal lives of progressive activists

Miriam and Dick Flacks. Their story, rooted

in ‘old left’ childhoods, shaped by the sixties

New Left, and culminating in intellectual and

community leadership, is a valuable first-

hand account of how progressive American

activism has evolved over the last 100 years.

320 pp • 20 illus. • 978-0-8135-8923-7 cloth • $37.95T $26.57

REFUGEES IN AMERICAStories of Courage, Resilience, and Hope in

Their Own Words

Lee T. Bycel Foreword by Ishmael Beah“This compilation of deeply moving first-person

stories [is] an excellent primer for everyone—

individuals, book groups, religious study

groups, academic classes—who wishes to go

beyond the myths and headlines into the real

world of the refugee experience.”

—Rabbi David Saperstein, former U.S.

Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, director

of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism

212 pp • 11 color photos • 978-1-9788-0621-4 • cloth • $26.95T $18.86

A KOSHER CHRISTMAS‘Tis the Season to be Jewish

Joshua Eli Plaut“Hanukkah, a once-obscure Jewish festival

that—conveniently falling in December—has

been built up to become a response to the

‘December dilemma,’ the puzzle posed for

non-Christians by Christmas. The dilemma

is no more, suggests Rabbi Plaut. December

now features traditions that are both

distinctively American and inventively Jewish.”

—The Economist

232 pp • 17 illus. • 978-0-8135-5380-1 • paper • $22.95T $16.07

OPEN YOUR HANDTeaching as a Jew, Teaching

as an American

By Ilana Blumberg“This extraordinary book is part memoir,

part discussion of the ethics and praxis of

education, and part detailed accounts of

Blumberg’s teaching experiences—poignant,

dramatic, profound in their implications.

Ranging from pre-school to college, these

narratives show how redemptive the act of

writing can sometimes be. Blumberg herself

thinks and writes her way through crises that

interrogate her own assumptions. Here lies the generative drama

of her book. A large-hearted and clear-minded document. Highly

recommended.”

—Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, author of Moses: A Human Life

228 pp • 978-1-9788-0081-6 • paper • $19.95T $13.97

STANLEY KUBRICKNew York Jewish Intellectual

By Nathan Abrams“Brilliantly documents and analyzes Kubrick’s

Jewish sensibility by locating him in the

lifelong context of his Jewish cultural and

intellectual milieu. Abrams breaks acres of

new ground. Essential reading.”

—Geoffrey Cocks, author of The Wolf at the

Door: Stanley Kubrick, History, and the

Holocaust

340 pp • 20 photos • 978-0-8135-8710-3 cloth $34.95T $24.47

ONE PEOPLE, ONE BLOODEthiopian-Israelis and the Return to

Judaism

Don SeemanSeeman depicts the rich culture of the

group, as well as their social and cultural

vulnerability, and addresses the problems

that arise when immigration officials,

religious leaders, or academic scholars

try to determine the legitimacy of Jewish

identity or Jewish religious experience.

260 pp • 9 illus. • 978-0-8135-4936-1 • paper $26.95S $18.87

TEXTUAL SILENCEUnreadability and the Holocaust

Jessica LangIn Textual Silence, literary scholar Jessica

Lang asserts that language itself forms

barriers between the author and the reader in

Holocaust texts—and that these barriers, or

silences, are not a lack of substance, but an

essential characteristic of the genre.

244 pp • 10 photos • 978-0-8135-8991-6 paper $34.95S $24.47

KABBALISTIC REVOLUTIONReimagining Judaism

in Medieval Spain

Hartley Lachter“Lachter’s work is a compelling and

important study of the manner in which

Kabbalah responded to political and

cultural pressures in Castile at a time

of striking proliferation of kabbalistic

literature.”

—Jonathan Dauber, professor of Jewish

mysticism, Yeshiva University

272 pp • 1 figure • 978-0-8135-6875-1 • cloth • $69.95S $48.97

BECOMING FRUMHow Newcomers Learn the Language

and Culture of Orthodox Judaism

Sarah Bunin Benor“Benor’s engaging and innovative study of

language and identity surprises, delights,

and educates. Becoming Frum is a must-

read for anyone who wants to understand

Jewish language and culture today.”

—Mary Bucholtz, University of California,

Santa Barbara

288 pp • 6 figures, 16 tables • 978-0-8135-5389-4 paper • $30.95S $21.67

THE PHANTOM HOLOCAUSTSoviet Cinema and

Jewish Catastrophe

Olga Gershenson“Gershenson’s work is a monumental

achievement in giving a voice to the lost

Soviet Holocaust films—to the filmmakers,

and to also the millions whose fates they

attempted to memorialize.”

—Tablet

290 pp • 20 illus. • 978-0-8135-6180-6 • paper • $35.50S $24.87

JEWISH STUDIES BOOKS from RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESSJEWISH CULTURES OF THE WORLD

BECOMING

FRUM

Sarah BUNIN BeNor

how Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of orthodox Judaism

JEWISH MAD MENAdvertising and the Design of the

American Jewish Experience

Kerri P. Steinberg“You don’t have to be Jewish to appreciate

this richly detailed account of the

marketing and advertising of Jewish life.

Steinberg documents how religious, cultural,

and communal concerns all take shape

in conversation with the commercial

marketplace.”

—Ari Y. Kelman, author of Station

Identification: A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio

232 pp • 12 color and 46 b/w illus. 978-0-8135-6375-6 • paper • $29.95T $20.97

--Jennifer Glaser

Writing & racial Ventriloquism in

the Jewish american imagination.

BorrowedVoices

BORROWED VOICESWriting & Racial Ventriloquism in the

Jewish American Imagination

Jennifer Glaser“Glaser offers a nuanced, impressively

researched, and innovatively crafted setoff

reading that requires us to rethink the

messy-but-critical connection between race

and Jewishness. It is an excellent book.”

—Maeera Y. Shreiber, University of Utah

224 pp • 978-0-8135-7739-5 paper • $27.95S $19.57

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REICHSROCKThe International Web of

White-Power and Neo-Nazi Hate Music

Kirsten Dyck“Fascinating and by far the most

comprehensive treatment of the topic. No

other book provides this level of detail

regarding white power music.”

—Pete Simi, University of Nebraska, Omaha

216 pp • 978-0-8135-7470-7 paper • $25.95S $18.17

THE INTERNATIONAL WEB

OF WHITE-POWER

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IMPURE MIGRATIONJews and Sex Work in

Golden Age Argentina

Mir Yarfitz“Transcends conventional accounts of

victimized prostitutes and malevolent

pimps with an intellectually bold

exploration of sexual and racialized public

anxieties. An important contribution to the

history of international mobility, immigrant

sociability, gendered labor, and multi-ethnic

cities.”

—José Moya, professor of history, Barnard

College

224 pp • 14 images • 978-0-8135-9815-4 • cloth • $59.95S $41.96

HOLOCAUST GRAPHIC NARRATIVESGeneration, Trauma, and Memory

Victoria Aarons“The author is a master of her subject,

discussing the many contributions made by

graphic Holocaust novels with great erudition.

In Aarons’ intelligent and insightful readings,

the caesura induced by the Shoah continues

to send intergenerational psychological shock

waves.”

—Alan Berger, author of Children of Job:

American Second-Generation Witnesses to the Holocaust

256 pp • 39 images • 978-1-9788-0255-1 • paper • $24.95S $17.46

SHTETLA Vernacular Intellectual History

Volume 5

Jeffrey ShandlerBy examining the meaning of shtetl,

Shandler asks how Jewish life in

provincial towns in Eastern Europe has

become the subject of extensive schol-

arship. He traces the trajectory of writing

about these towns, by Jews and non-

Jews, residents and visitors, research-

ers, novelists, memoirists, journalists,

and others, to demonstrate how the Yiddish word for “town”

emerged as a key word in Jewish culture.

192 pp • 23 illus. • 978-0-8135-6272-8 • paper • $30.95S $21.67

JEWISH PEOPLEHOODAn American Innovation

Volume 6

Noam PiankoJewish peoplehood has eclipsed religion—as

well as ethnicity and nationality—as the

prevailing definition of what it means to be a

Jew. Pianko examines the history, the current

significance, and the future relevance of a

term that assumes an increasingly important

position in American Jewish and Israeli life.

186 pp • 978-0-8135-6364-0 • paper $27.95S $19.57

JEWISH FAMILIESVolume 4

Jonathan BoyarinBoyarin explores a wide range of

scholarship in Jewish studies to argue that

Jewish family forms and ideologies have

varied greatly. He considers a range of

family configurations from biblical times to

the twenty-first century, including strictly

Orthodox communities and new forms of

family, including same-sex parents, and

suggests productive ways to think about

possible futures for Jewish family forms.

206 pp • 978-0-8135-6291-9 • paper • $28.95S $20.27

SPACE AND PLACE IN JEWISH STUDIESVolume 2

Barbara E. MannSpace and Place in Jewish Studies

embraces how notions of “Jewish space,”

diaspora, and home continue to resonate

within contemporary discourse, bringing

space to the foreground as a practical and

analytical category. Mann takes us on a

journey from medieval Levantine trade routes

to the Eastern European shtetl to the streets

of contemporary New York.

212 pp • 6 photos • 978-0-8135-5182-1 • paper • $28.95S $20.27

JEWISH STUDIES BOOKS from RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESSKEY WORDS IN JEWISH STUDIES

JEWISH STUDIESA Theoretical Introduction

Volume 1

Andrew Bush“A highly theoretical exploration of how

to engage in original and erudite Jewish

studies, [this book] encourages the reader

to seek new avenues for source material

and develop innovative analytical models to

better understand the Jewish experience.”

—Jewish Book World

166 pp • 978-0-8135-5420-4 • paper $28.95S $20.27

HOLOCAUST MEMORY REFRAMEDMuseums and the Challenges of

Representation

Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich“Hansen-Glucklich successfully navigates

the mechanics and aesthetics of Holocaust

museums and their displays, from Berlin,

to Jerusalem, to Washington, D.C., offering

engaging and inviting analyses.”

—Oren Stier, author of Holocaust Icons

280 pp • 20 photos • 978-0-8135-6323-7 paper • $30.95S $21.67

JEWISH ON THEIR OWN TERMSHow Intermarried Couples are Changing

American Judaism

Jennifer A. Thompson“Thompson’s book is an original and

powerfully suggestive intervention in the

scholarship on intermarriage. Her

argument is fresh and sound. She is

particularly persuasive presenting her

compelling ethnographic material.”

—Deborah Dash Moore, University of

Michigan

214 pp • 978-0-8135-6281-0 • paper • $29.95S $20.97

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Changing American Judaism

Jennifer A. Thompson

HASKALAHThe Romantic Movement in Judaism

Volume 3

Olga LitvakLitvak presents a compelling case for

rethinking the relationship between the

Haskalah and the experience of political

and social emancipation. Litvak

challenges the prevailing view that the

Haskalah provided the philosophical

mainspring for Jewish liberalism.

246 pp • 978-0-8135-5435-8 paper • $30.95S $21.67

HOLOCAUSTAn American Understanding

Volume 7

Deborah E. Lipstadt“Deborah Lipstadt always writes smoothly

and reasons vigorously. This book is lucid,

accessible, and courageous—I couldn’t put

it down.”

—Peter Hayes, professor of history and

German, Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust

Educational Foundation Professor

212 pp • 978-0-8135-6476-0 • paper $27.95S $19.57

JEWVolume 8

Cynthia M. BakerThis book offers a wide-ranging exploration

of the key word Jew—charting the past

meanings, present usages, and possible

futures of a term that lies not only at the

heart of Jewish experience, but at the core

of how Western civilization has imagined

the Other. Tracing the word’s evolution,

Cynthia M. Baker also interrogates the

contested categories of ‘ethnicity,’ ‘race’ and

‘religion,’ while providing a glimpse of what

Jew is coming to mean in an era of Internet cultures, genetic

sequencing, and uncertain identities.

208 pp • 978-0-8135-6302-2 • paper • $29.95S $20.97

JUDAISMThe Genealogy of a Modern Notion

Volume 9

By Daniel Boyarin“This book offers a reflective, and even-meta

reflective discussion of the term ‘Judaism.’

Boyarin, as always, offers provocative, trail

blazing insights to reckon with.”

—Dina Stein, author of Textual Mirrors:

Reflexivity, Midrash, and the Rabbinic Self

216 pp • 978-0-8135-7161-4 • paper $29.95S $20.97