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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Making and Unmaking Literature in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna Ghettos
This is the first study devoted to how little known but essential authors grappled with the destitution of ghetto existence by writing within, at the limits of, and against an […]
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 […]
Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In
Political theorist and cultural critic, novelist and cricket enthusiast, C. L. R. James (1901 – 1989) was a brilliant polymath who has been described by Edward Said as “a centrally […]
Homecoming: Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941–1946
This book documents the experiences of the Jews of Greece who returned home after having been in hiding, combatants, deportees and refugees during World War II. These are stories that […]
Birdwatching in New York City and on Long Island
Nine years after first publication, this fully updated new edition of this easy-to-use guide gives seasonal information for both popular birding sites and those off the beaten path. Precise directions […]
