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Matilda Rabinowitz, “Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir from the Early Twentieth Century” (ILR Press, 2017)
Matilda Rabinowitz
Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman
A Memoir from the Early Twentieth Century
ILR Press, 2017

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in BiographyNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network June 13, 2019 Carrie Lane

It’s quite common these days to hear young people being urged to collect and record the stories of their grandparents or parents in order to learn and preserve their family’s history. For a few fortunate folks, like Robbin Légère Henderson, such a record already exists. Henderson’s maternal grandmother, Matilda Rabinowitz,... Read More
Francesca Trivellato, “The Promise and Peril of Credit” (Princeton UP, 2019)
Francesca Trivellato
Promise and Peril of Credit
What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society
Princeton University Press, 2019

New Books in EconomicsNew Books in FinanceNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network June 7, 2019 Mark Klobas

In 1647, the French author Étienne Cleirac asserted in his book Les us, et coustumes de la mer that the credit instruments known as bills of exchange had been invented by Jews. In The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about... Read More
Richard Averbeck, “Paradigm Change in Pentateuchal Research” (Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019)
Richard Averbeck
Paradigm Change in Pentateuchal Research

Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Biblical StudiesNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network June 4, 2019 Michael Morales

For some two hundred years now, Pentateuchal scholarship has been dominated by the Documentary Hypothesis, a paradigm made popular by Julius Wellhausen. Recent decades, however, have seen mounting critiques of the old paradigm, from a variety of specializations, not only in Biblical Studies, but also in the fields of Assyriology,... Read More
Julie Zuckerman, “The Book of Jeremiah” (Press 53, 2019)
Julie Zuckerman
The Book of Jeremiah

Press 53, 2019

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in LiteratureNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network May 27, 2019 GP Gottlieb

Julie Zuckerman’s moving and engrossing debut novel-in-stories, The Book of Jeremiah (Press 53, 2019), tells the story of awkward but endearing Jeremiah Gerstler—the son of immigrants, brilliant political science professor, husband, and father. Jeremiah has yearned for respect and acceptance his entire life, and no matter his success, he still... Read More
Jack Wertheimer, “The New American Judaism: How Jews Practice Their Religion Today” (Princeton UP, 2018)
Jack Wertheimer
The New American Judaism
How Jews Practice Their Religion Today
Princeton University Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network May 6, 2019 Lindsey Jackson

Countless sociological studies and surveys present a rather bleak picture of religion and religious engagement in the United States. Attendance at worship services remains very low and approximately one quarter of Americans indicate that they are not affiliated with any religion. This trend extends to the Jewish community, and American... Read More
Adriana X. Jacobs, “Strange Cocktail: Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry” (U Michigan Press, 2018)
Adriana X. Jacobs
Strange Cocktail
Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry
University of Michigan Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Israel StudiesNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PoetryNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network May 2, 2019 Yaron Peleg

In Strange Cocktail: Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 2018), Adriana X. Jacobs offers a translation-centered reading of twentieth-century modern Hebrew poetry. Through close readings of poems by Esther Raab, Leah Goldberg, Avot Yeshurun, and Harold Schimmel, Jacobs shows how an intertwined poetics and praxis of translation... Read More
Vivi Lachs, “Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London, 1884-1914” (Wayne State UP, 2018)
Vivi Lachs
Whitechapel Noise
Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London, 1884-1914
Wayne State University Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in MusicNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Popular CultureNew Books in Religion & Faith April 25, 2019 Max Kaiser

In Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London, 1884-1914 (Wayne State University Press, 2018), Vivi Lachs, social and cultural historian, Yiddishist, performer, and associate research fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, looks at London’s Yiddish popular culture. She positions it in historical perspective within Anglo-Jewish history,... Read More