Between Jaffa and Tel Aviv, 1870-1930: A Memoir
Born in Jaffa in 1870, Yosef Eliyahu Chelouche grew up within a notable Sephardi family in the local Jewish community. He went on to become a prominent entrepreneur; a founder […]
Beyond Brutality: Reclaiming Female Presence in Bavli Sotah
Beyond Brutality draws on feminist analysis and gender studies to examine tractate Sotah of the Babylonian Talmud as a literary unit. By interrogating how, why, and where women are invisible within […]
ENACTing Change: A Handbook for Teaching Advocacy and Civic Engagement
ENACT: The Educational Network for Active Civic Transformation aims to teach college students about democracy through engagement with the state legislative process. Built on the values of knowledge, cooperation, justice, […]
Lessons in Drag: A Queer Manual for Academics, Artists, and Aunties
Lessons in Drag brings to life a vibrant and thought-provoking dialogue between scholar Kareem Khubchandani and his drag persona LaWhore Vagistan. Beginning with an intimate interview, the book unfolds in […]
Weimar Under the Palms: Pacific Palisades, German Exiles, and the Invention of Hollywood
In the early twentieth century, Pacific Palisades was home to America’s most modern film studio of the time as well as the proposed site of the world’s largest Christian center. […]
The Jazz Barn: Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the Place of Jazz in American Life
This is a book about what happened in the 1950s in a barn, an icehouse, and a greenhouse in the verdant Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts. Against the backdrop of […]
Village of the Dammed: The Fight for Open Space and the Flooding of a Connecticut Town
In the early 1940s, the Bridgeport Hydraulic Company flooded Connecticut’s Saugatuck River Valley to create a reservoir that would meet the region’s growing population. Under twelve billion gallons of water […]
Milk Money: Cash, Cows, and the Death of the American Dairy Farm
The dairy business is at the heart of the culture and economy of Vermont, just as it is in many other states. That fact meant little to Kirk Kardashian until […]
Modern Jewish Ethics Since 1970: Writings on Methods, Sources, & Issues
The field of Jewish ethics is never far from foundational questions about how to do Jewish ethics – and these questions are inseparable from other kinds of scholarly conclusions or […]
Teaching and Learning in Jewish Day Schools
This volume is focused on teaching and learning, and seeks to better understand how day schools are educating diverse Jewish youth in a variety of content areas. In light of […]
Making and Unmaking Literature in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna Ghettos
Published in Association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum This is the first study devoted to how little known but essential authors grappled with the destitution of ghetto existence […]
CASE 5.1 Boston MedFlight: Leveraging Data to Design a New Helicopter Algorithm: In The Heller Social Impact Case Collection
This case describes the potential introduction of a new helicopter operation named “Smart Launch” at the leading non-profit air ambulance of Boston MedFlight, with the goal of decreasing the estimated […]
