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Daniel Unowsky, “The Plunder: The 1898 Anti-Jewish Riots in Habsburg Galicia” (Stanford UP, 2018)

Daniel Unowsky
The Plunder
The 1898 Anti-Jewish Riots in Habsburg Galicia
Stanford University Press, 2018

New Books in Eastern European Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in Genocide 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 New Books Network February 19, 2019 Kelly McFall

Daniel Unowsky‘s book isn’t about a genocide or other incident of mass violence. Instead, The Plunder: The 1898 Anti-Jewish Riots in Habsburg Galicia (Stanford UP, 2018) examines a series of riots against Jews in Habsburg Galicia in the year 1898. Unowsky tries to understand how, in an Empire built around... Read More

Samuel Hayim Brody, “Martin Buber’s Theopolitics” (Indiana UP, 2018)

Samuel Hayim Brody
Martin Buber's Theopolitics

Indiana University Press, 2018

New Books in German 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 New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network February 18, 2019 David Gottlieb

Martin Buber is known as one of the 20th century’s greatest Jewish scholars and thinkers, but he is less well known for his political theory and activism. In Martin Buber’s Theopolitics (Indiana University Press, 2018), Samuel Hayim Brody demonstrates how Buber sees the bible as providing a blueprint for a... Read More

Kevin Ingram
Converso Non-Conformism in Early Modern Spain
Bad Blood and Faith from Alonso de Cartagena to Diego Velázquez
Palgrave, 2018

New Books in Christian Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in History 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 Network February 7, 2019 Crawford Gribben

It was a delight to catch up with Kevin Ingram, professor of history at Saint Louis University, Madrid, to discuss his very impressive new book. Converso Non-Conformism in Early Modern Spain: Bad Blood and Faith from Alonso de Cartagena to Diego Velázquez (Palgrave, 2018) sets out to account for the... Read More

Aimée Israel-Pelletier, “On the Mediterranean and the Nile: The Jews of Egypt” (Indiana UP, 2017)

Aimée Israel-Pelletier
On the Mediterranean and the Nile
The Jews of Egypt
Indiana University Press, 2018

New Books in Anthropology New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Jewish Studies New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Middle Eastern Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network January 28, 2019 Max Kaiser

In On the Mediterranean and the Nile: The Jews of Egypt (Indiana University Press, 2017), Aimée Israel-Pelletier, Professor and Head of French at the University of Texas at Arlington, looks at the work of five Egyptian Jewish writers. She confronts issues of identity, exile, language, immigration, Arab nationalism, European colonialism, and... Read More

Michael Brenner, “A History of Jews in Germany Since 1945: Politics, Culture, and Society” (Indiana UP, 2018)

Michael Brenner
A History of Jews in Germany Since 1945
Politics, Culture, and Society
Indiana University Press, 2018

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 New Books Network November 12, 2018 Max Kaiser

In A History of Jews in Germany Since 1945: Politics, Culture, and Society (Indiana University Press, 2018), edited by Michael Brenner, Professor of Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich and Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies at the American University in Washington DC, has assembled a number... Read More