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Michael A. Daise, “Quotations in John: Studies on Jewish Scripture in the Fourth Gospel” (T and T Clark, 2020)

Michael A. Daise
Quotations in John
Studies on Jewish Scripture in the Fourth Gospel
T&T Clark, 2020

New Books in Biblical Studies New Books in Christian Studies New Books in Jewish Studies New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith March 24, 2020 Michael Morales

Without question the Gospel of John makes rich use of both the Jewish scriptures and the feasts of the Jewish liturgical year. In this double-feature program, with speak with Michael A. Daise about his two monographs on the Gospel of John. In his book Quotations in John: Studies on Jewish... Read More

Nancy Sinkoff, “From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History” (Wayne State UP, 2020)

Nancy Sinkoff
From Left to Right
Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History
Wayne State University Press, 2020

New Books in American Studies New Books in Biography New Books in History New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Jewish Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network March 17, 2020 Steven Seegel

From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History (Wayne State University Press, 2020) is the first comprehensive biography of Dawidowicz (1915-1990), a pioneer historian in the field that is now called “Holocaust Studies.” Dawidowicz was a household name in the postwar... Read More

Paul Hanebrink, “A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism” (Harvard UP, 2018)

Paul Hanebrink
A Specter Haunting Europe
The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism
Harvard University Press, 2018

New Books in Eastern European Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in History New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Jewish Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network March 16, 2020 Max Kaiser

In A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism (Harvard University Press, 2018), Paul Hanebrink, Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Rutgers University, traces the complex history of the myth of Judeo-Bolshevism. Hanebrink shows how Fascists, Conservatives and Nazis imagined Jewish Bolsheviks as enemies who crossed borders to subvert order from within... Read More

Hillary Chute
Great Books
Hillary Chute on Art Spiegelman's 'Maus'
Think About It, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Genocide Studies New Books in Jewish Studies New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Popular Culture New Books in Religion & Faith March 10, 2020 Uli Baer

Art Spiegelman’s Maus is the story of an American cartoonist’s efforts to uncover and record his father’s story of survival of the Holocaust. It is also a cartoon, where the Jews are mice, the Nazis cats, the Poles dogs, and the French, well, you’ll have to read it. It’s a... Read More

Steven Ross and Wolf Gruner, “New Perspectives on Kristallnacht” (Purdue UP, 2019)

Steven Ross and Wolf Gruner
New Perspectives on Kristallnacht
After 80 years, the Nazi Pogrom in Global Comparison
Purdue University Press, 2019

New Books in European Studies New Books in Genocide Studies New Books in German Studies New Books in History New Books in Jewish Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith March 5, 2020 Kelly McFall

It’s possible to organize a 20th-century German history course around the date 9 November. In 1918, Phillipp Schedemann proclaimed the creation of a new German Republic. In 1989, 9 November saw the opening of the Berlin Wall. In between, in 1938, Kristallnacht began on the night of 9 November. Krystallnacht,... Read More

Sarah Abrevaya Stein, “A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century” (FSG, 2019)

Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Family Papers
A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2019

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Biography New Books in History New Books in Jewish Studies New Books in Literature New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith February 28, 2020 David Gottlieb

In Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019), Sarah Abrevaya Stein weaves a narrative tapestry whose threads are drawn from the archives of one Sephardic family, with roots in the city of Salonica, then in the Ottoman Empire, now Thessaloniki in Greece. The... Read More

Randal Schnoor, “Jewish Family: Identity and Self-Formation at Home” (Indiana UP, 2018)

Alex Pomson and Randal Schnoor
Jewish Family
Identity and Self-Formation at Home
Indiana University Press, 2018

New Books in American Studies New Books in Anthropology New Books in Jewish Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith New Books in Sociology New Books Network February 25, 2020 Lindsey Jackson

In Jewish Family: Identity and Self-Formation at Home (Indiana University Press, 2018), Alex Pomson and Randal Schnoor examine the impact of the family on Jewish identity. Through interviewing a sample of families over a 10-year period, Pomson and Schnoor analyze a complex web of factors that guides the level of... Read More