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June 25, 2021
Polacos in Argentina
Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture
Mariusz Kalczewiak
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In Polacos in Argentina: Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture (University of Alabama Press, 2020), Dr. Mariusz Kałczewiak, senior research associate and lecturer in the …
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June 22, 2020
Laughter After
Humor and the Holocaust
David Slucki et al.
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Max Kaiser
In Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust (Wayne State University Press, 2020), Co-editors David Slucki, Loti Smorgon Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life and Culture at the Australian Centre for …
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May 15, 2020
Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution
Brendan McGeever
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Max Kaiser
In Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Dr Brendan McGeever, Lecturer in Sociology at Birkbeck, University of London, traces the complex history of the Antisemitism in the …
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March 16, 2020
A Specter Haunting Europe
The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism
Paul Hanebrink
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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 …
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October 25, 2019
Black Power, Jewish Politics
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Marc Dollinger
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Max Kaiser
In Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s (Brandeis University Press, 2018), Professor Marc Dollinger who holds the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair in Jewish Studies and …
Jewish Studies
July 23, 2019
Sing This at My Funeral
A Memoir of Fathers and Sons
David Slucki
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Max Kaiser
In Sing This at My Funeral: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons (Wayne State University Press, 2019), David Slucki, Assistant Professor in the Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program at the College …
Jewish Studies
April 25, 2019
Whitechapel Noise
Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London, 1884-1914
Vivi Lachs
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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 …
Jewish Studies
January 28, 2019
On the Mediterranean and the Nile
The Jews of Egypt
Aimée Israel-Pelletier
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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 …
Jewish Studies
November 12, 2018
A History of Jews in Germany Since 1945
Politics, Culture, and Society
Michael Brenner
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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 …
Jewish Studies
October 29, 2018
The Marriage Plot
Or, How Jews Fell In Love With Love, And With Literature
Naomi Seidman
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Max Kaiser
In The Marriage Plot, Or, How Jews Fell In Love With Love, And With Literature (Stanford University Press, 2016), Naomi Seidman, Chancellor Jackman Professor in the Arts at the University …
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October 23, 2018
The Book Smugglers
Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis
David E. Fishman
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Max Kaiser
In The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis (ForeEdge, 2017), David E. Fishman, Professor of Jewish history at the Jewish Theological Seminary …
Jewish Studies
July 24, 2018
Bestiarium Judaicum
Unnatural Histories of the Jews
Jay Geller
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Max Kaiser
In Bestiarium Judaicum: Unnatural Histories of the Jews (Fordham University Press, 2017), Jay Geller, Associate Professor of Modern Jewish Culture at Vanderbilt Divinity School and the Vanderbilt University Jewish Studies …
Jewish Studies
July 23, 2018
Werner Scholem
A German Life
Mirjam Zadoff
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Max Kaiser
In Werner Scholem: A German Life (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), Mirjam Zadoff, Director of the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism, presents a biography of an …
Jewish Studies
April 2, 2018
How the Wise Men Got to Chelm
The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition
Ruth von Bernuth
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Max Kaiser
In How the Wise Men Got to Chelm: The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition (New York University Press, 2017), Ruth von Bernuth, Associate Professor in the Department …
Jewish Studies
March 9, 2018
German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife
A Tenuous Legacy
Vivian Liska
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Max Kaiser
In German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife: A Tenuous Legacy (Indiana University Press, 2016), Vivian Liska, Professor of German Literature and Director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University …
Jewish Studies
December 18, 2017
Jews and Leftist Politics
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Jack Jacobs, ed.
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In Jews and Leftist Politics: Judaism, Israel, Antisemitism and Gender (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Jack Jacobs, Professor of Political Science at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University …
Jewish Studies
October 18, 2017
Narratives from the Sephardic Atlantic
Blood and Faith
Ronnie Perelis
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Max Kaiser
In Narratives from the Sephardic Atlantic: Blood and Faith (Indiana University Press, 2016), Ronnie Perelis, Chief Rabbi Dr. Isaac Abraham and Jelena (Rachel) Alcalay Chair and Associate Professor of Sephardic …
Jewish Studies
September 25, 2017
Strangers in Berlin
Modern Jewish Literature between East and West, 1919-1933
Rachel Seelig
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Max Kaiser
In Strangers in Berlin: Modern Jewish Literature between East and West, 1919-1933 (University of Michigan Press, 2016), Rachel Seelig, Visiting Scholar in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at …
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August 14, 2017
The Right to Difference
French Universalism and the Jews
Maurice Samuels
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Max Kaiser
In The Right To Difference: French Universalism and the Jews (University of Chicago Press, 2016), Maurice Samuels, Betty Jane Anylan Professor of French and director of the Yale Program for …
Jewish Studies
July 24, 2017
Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War
Gerben Zaagsma
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Max Kaiser
In Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), Gerben Zaagsma, Senior researcher at the centre for contemporary and digital history at the University of …
Jewish Studies
June 19, 2017
The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia
Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power
Andrew Sloin
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Max Kaiser
In The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia: Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power (Indian University Press, 2017), Andrew Sloin, Assistant Professor of History at Baruch College of the City University of New …
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May 30, 2017
A Land Without Borders
My Journey Around East Jerusalem and the West Bank
Nir Baram
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Max Kaiser
In A Land Without Borders: My Journey Around East Jerusalem and the West Bank (Text Publishing Company, 2017), Nir Baram, award winning author and journalist, gives a fascinating account of …
Jewish Studies
May 15, 2017
Gershom Scholem
An Intellectual Biography
Amir Engel
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Max Kaiser
In Gershom Scholem: An Intellectual Biography (University of Chicago Press, 2017) , Amir Engel, a lecturer in the German Department at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, positions Gershom Scholem's work …
Jewish Studies
May 8, 2017
Berlin for Jews
A Twenty-First Century Companion
Leonard Barkan
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Max Kaiser
In Berlin for Jews: A Twenty-First Century Companion (University of Chicago Press, 2016), Leonard Barkan, the class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton, examines the complex histories of Jewish life …
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