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Jewish Studies Forthcoming
The following Jewish Studies titles are coming soon from Academic Studies Press:
Aham Ha-am: Selected Essays.
9781618111524
350 pp. cloth
$49.00
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Publication Date: October, 2011
Asher Ginsberg (1856-1927), also known as Ahad Ha’am, was a prominent pre-state Zionist thinker and considered the founder of Cultural Zionism, fighting for what he described as “a Jewish state and not merely a state of Jews.” This 1912 collection of essays, translated by Leon Simon, expresses his philosophy and beliefs on Zionism and other Jewish topics, helping the reader build an understanding of Ahad Ha’am and his era.
Series: Classics in Judaica
Canada’s Jews: In Time, Space and Spirit.
by Ira Robinson
ISBN 978-1-934843-86-4
250 pp. cloth
$95.00
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Publication Date: May, 2012
Canada is home to one of the world’s largest and most culturally creative Jewish communities, one of the few in the Diaspora that continues to grow demographically. With its ability to mirror trends found in Jewish communities elsewhere (particularly the United States) while simultaneously functioning as a distinct society, Canada’s Jewish community holds great interest for scholars, exercising a measurable influence on the culture and politics of World Jewry. Consisting of a series of essays written by experts in their respective fields, Canada’s Jews is a topical encyclopaedia, covering a wide variety of topics, from history and religion to the intellectual and cultural contributions of Canada’s Jews. An indispensable reference book for both laypeople and for scholars of Jewish and Canadian studies.
Series: Jews in Space and Time
German Jewry between Hope and Despair, 1871-1933.
edited by Nils Roemer
ISBN 978-1-934843-87-1
400 pp. cloth
$59.00
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Publication Date: April, 2012
German Jewry between Hope and Despair,1871-1933, provides important interpretations of this tumultuous and conflict-ridden period and invites readers to partake in the ongoing debate over modern Jewish identities and cultures. Marked at the outset by emancipation and the emergence of modern anti-Semitism, the period witnessed a profound transformation of Jewish social, political, and religious life culminating in the renaissance of Jewish cultures on the eve of the Holocaust. This textbook unites studies that inform our understanding of this historical epoch to this day as well as important historical revisions. Amongst the many contributions are texts by Michael Brenner, Willi Goetschel, Marion Kaplan, George L. Mosse, Peter Pulzer, and Till van Rahden.
Series: Jews in Space and Time
The Jew in Medieval Iberia: 1100-1500.
by Jonathan Ray
ISBN 978-1-936235-35-3
350 pp. cloth
$110.00
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Publication Date: February, 2012
The Jew in Medieval Iberia is an exploration of the richness and diversity of Jewish society in Christian Iberia from 1100-1500, providing a fresh look at the ways in which medieval Jews conceived of themselves and their communities, as well as their relationship to the surrounding society. The essays collected in this volume transcend older stereotypes of Christian persecution and Jewish piety to reveal a complex and vibrant community of merchants and scholars, townsmen and -women, cultural intermediaries and guardians of religious tradition. Taken together, they present a portrait that adds greater nuances to our understanding of both medieval Jewish and medieval Spanish history.
Series: Jews in Space and Time
State Ideology in Commercial TV: Lessons from the Israeli Case.
by Noam Yuran
ISBN 978-1-934843-83-3
250 pp. cloth
$85.00
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Publication Date: September, 2012
Within a relatively short span of time, the first commercial TV channel in Israel has rendered the well established state control of television obsolete. However, this triumph of commercial television does not represent a renouncement of the familiar Etatist ethos. It would appear that commercial television owes its success to its ability to reformulate this ethos in new terms, proper to a neo-liberal age. Rather than a liberating itself from state ideology, commercial television has become its central arena. Yuran analyzes this new form of ideological articulation and explores the conceptual relation between ideology and the medium of television.
Series: Israel: Society, Culture, and History
State Religious Education in Israel: Between Integration and Segregation.
by Zehavit Gross
ISBN 978-1-936235-33-9
200 pp. cloth
$75.00
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Publication Date: December, 2012
In State Religious Education in Israel, Zehavit Gross analyzes the ideology of state religious education (SRE) in Israel as it is reflected in research, official circulars of the Ministry of Education and the public discourse published in the religious Zionist press. In particular, Gross examines the ways in which SRE schools socialize their students, creating a population that will become active is particular spheres of Israeli politics.
Series: Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah
Development, Learning and Community: Educating for Identity in Pluralistic Jewish High Schools.
by Jeffrey Kress
ISBN 978-1-936235-30-8
250 pp. cloth
$95.00
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Publication Date: May, 2012
Development, Learning and Community uses data drawn from a study of pluralistic Jewish high schools to illustrate the complex and often challenging interplay between the cognitive and socio-affective elements of education. Throughout, Kress grapples with questions, such as: How can the balance between community cohesion and group differences be achieved in diverse settings? What are the educational implications of an approach to identity development rooted in contemporary developmental theories that posit the interaction among cognition, affect, and behavior? How can the “formal” and “informal” offerings of a school coalesce to address these broadly conceived identity outcomes, and what are the challenges in doing so?
Series: Judaism and Jewish Life
Mo(ve)ments of Resistance: Israel's Political Economy.
by Lev Luis Grinberg
ISBN 978-1-936235-41-4
250 pp. cloth
$85.00
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Publication Date: September, 2012
In Israel’s Political Economy, Lev Grinberg summarizes his own work and that of other political economists, providing a coherent historical narrative since the beginning of Socialist Zionism (1904) until the Oslo Accords and the neo-liberalization of the economy (1994-1996). Combining eventful sociology, path dependency and institutional political economy, the book argues that historical political events have been shaped not only by political and economic forces but also by resistance struggles of marginal and weaker social groups: organized workers, Palestinians and Mizrachi Jews. Major historical turning points in history, such as the Separation War in 1948, the military occupation in 1967, and the Oslo peace process in 1993, are explained in the context of previous social and economic resistance struggles that affected the political outcomes.
Series: Israel: Society, Culture, and History
Authority and Participation in a New Democracy: Political Struggles in Mapai, Israel's Ruling Party, 1948-1953.
by Avi Bareli
ISBN 978-1-936235-27-8
300 pp. cloth
$92.00
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Publication Date: July, 2012
Authority and Participation in a New Democracy focuses on the changes undergone by Mapai, Israel’s first ruling party, during Israel's first years of Independence, and then analyzes the effects of these changes in relation to Israeli political culture. Bareli's main claim is that it was only during this period that a hierarchically organized group of leaders succeeded in imposing its dominance, fostering obedience within the party and creating oligarchic characteristics in Israel’s democracy. The influence of the kibbutz movement, the moshavim movement and of urban intelligentsia – who represented the opposite political view of participatory democracy – was reduced to a minimum. This process would have a profound impact on issues of equality, on the relations between veteran Israelis and immigrants from both European and Islamic countries, and on social and civic norms.
Series: Israel: Society, Culture, and History
Wisdom’s Little Sister: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Jewish Political Thought.
by Abraham Melamed
ISBN 978-1-936235-32-2
350 pp. cloth
$109.00
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Publication Date: September, 2011
As a recently established field of Jewish thought, Jewish political philosophy has made increasingly frequent appearances in recently edited histories of Jewish philosophy. Following the pioneering efforts of Leo Strauss, Ralph Lerner and Daniel Elazar, among others, Jewish political philosophy gained its proper place alongside ethics and metaphysics in the study of the history of Jewish philosophy. This volume is another manifestation of this welcomed development. Consisting of selected papers published in English over the last thirty years, Wisdom’s Little Sister concentrates on the Medieval and Renaissance periods, from Sa'adiah Gaon in the tenth century to Spinoza in the seventeenth century. These were the formative periods in the development of Jewish political philosophy, when Jewish scholars, versed in the canonical Jewish sources (biblical and rabbinic), encountered Greek political philosophy as transmitted by Muslim philosophers such as Alfarabi, Ibn Bajja and Averroes. In combining Greek, Jewish and Muslim thought, these scholars are the originators of what we now know as Jewish political philosophy.
Series: Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah
Contemporary Covenantal Thought: Interpretations of Covenant in the Thought of David Hartman and Eugene Borowitz.
by Simon Cooper
ISBN 978-1-936235-69-8
250 pp. cloth
$99.00
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Publication Date: September, 2011
Refusing to accept anything but ever-increasing levels of human responsibility within a religious framework, covenantal thinkers audaciously suggest that the covenant empowers humanity, as it binds and inhibits divinity. This is a reformulation of recurrent issues within the Jewish tradition, and one which pays homage to the modern context from which it emerges. Hartman and Borowitz grew up in the same mid-century American academic and social environment, and the product of that upbringing has a significant impact on the subsequent theories which they promote. Both thinkers have attracted a considerable following, but very few scholars have discussed them together. Cooper here for the first time works toward understanding their work in comparison with each other, and with covenant as the central focus and framework.
Series: Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah
Between Heschel and Buber: A Comparative Study.
by Alexander Even-Chen, Ephraim Meir
ISBN 978-1-936235-72-8
270 pp. cloth
$85.00
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Publication Date: February, 2012
Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Buber were giant thinkers of the twentieth century who made significant contributions to the understanding of religious consciousness and of Judaism. They wrote on various subjects, such as the Bible, the commandments, Hasidism, Zionism and Christianity, and had much in common, though they also differed on substantial points. Of special note is the intense and fruitful interaction that took place between them. Until now, scholars have not undertaken a comparative analysis of Buber and Heschel as eminent contemporary interpreters of the Jewish tradition. In this volume, Meir and Even Chen have taken upon themselves the challenge of monitoring their agreements and disputes.
Series: Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah
Hating the Jews: The Rise of Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century.
by Gregg Rickman
ISBN 978-1-936235-25-4
250 pp. cloth
$49.00
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Publication Date: March, 2012
With attacks by Muslims against Jews in Western Europe reaching all-time highs, Jews are now facing levels of genocidal anti-Semitism not seen since WWII. Muslims committing attacks on Jews seek to substitute their own claims of victimhood for the Jews’ plight, defining themselves as the “new Jews.” Their demands for recognition are accompanied by acts of public disobedience, violent street protests, and petty crime. The Arab-Israeli struggle has been brought to Europe and extended to cover a hatred of Europe’s Jews as well as those residents in Israel. Gregg Rickman, the United States’ first Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, provides this first-person account and in-depth examination of the rise of anti-Semitism in the 21st century.
Series: Anti-Semitism in America
The Pillar of Volozhin: Rabbi Naftali Zvi yehuda Berlin and the World of 19th Century Lithuanian Torah Scholarship.
by Gil Perl
ISBN 978-1-936235-70-4
325 pp. cloth
$80.00
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Publication Date: October, 2011
The work of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, the Neziv, ranks amongst the most often read rabbinic literature of the nineteenth century. His breadth of learning, unabashed creativity, and penchant for walking against the stream of the rabbinic commentarial establishment has made his commentaries a favorite amongst rabbinic scholars and scholars of rabbinics alike. Yet, to date, there has been no comprehensive and systematic attempt to place his intellectual oeuvre into its historical context - until now. In the Pillar of Volozhin, Gil Perl traces the influences which helped mold and shape the Neziv’s thinking while also opening new doors into the world of early nineteenth century Lithuanian Torah scholarship, an area heretofore almost completely untouched by academic research.
Series: Studies in Orthodox Judaism
Alfred Dreyfus: Man, Milieu, Mentality and Midrash.
by Norman Simms
ISBN 978-1-936235-39-1
300 pp. cloth
$55.00
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Publication Date: February, 2012
When people say the Dreyfus Affair split a nation or inaugurated a new era, they are exaggerating and using figurative language. The Affair grew out of attitudes and opinions that were already in the process of changing by the final decade of the nineteenth century, and these attitudes and opinions were engrained in people’s minds, their ordinary, everyday ways of seeing the world, and were reflected as well in the more refined perceptions and feelings of the arts, the sciences, and the philosophies of the period. In this book, Simms explores many of these changes in the social and intellectual milieu, as they push and pull, influence and reshape one another. This book finds that midrash is at once a stratagem used by Jews, both consciously and not, to survive in a non-Jewish and often anti-Jewish world and and as such, can be used to discuss the Dreyfus Affair and the people involved in it.
Series: Jews in Space and Time
Turn it and Turn it Again: Studies in the Teaching and Learning of Classical Jewish Texts.
by Jon Levisohn
ISBN 978-1-936235-63-6
300 pp. cloth
$69.00
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Publication Date: March, 2012
The study of classical Jewish texts is flourishing in day schools and adult education, synagogues and summer camp, universities and yeshivot. But serious inquiry into the practices and purposes of such study is far more rare. In this book, a diverse collection of empirical and conceptual studies illuminates particular aspects of the teaching of Bible and rabbinic literature to, and the learning of, children and adults. In addition to providing specific insights into the pedagogy of Jewish texts, these studies serve as models of what the disciplined study of pedagogy can look like. The book will be of interest to teachers of Jewish texts in all contexts, and will be particularly valuable for the professional development of Jewish educators.
Series: Jewish Identity in Post Modern Society
The Liberal-Republican Quandry in Israel, Europe and the United States: Early Modern Thought Meets Current Affairs.
by Thomas Maissen
ISBN 978-1-936235-55-1
300 pp. cloth
$85.00
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Publication Date: March, 2012
Compiled by a group of distinguished international scholars, including John Pocock, Diana Pinto, Thomas Maissen and Fania Oz-Salzberger, this volume offers a threefold intellectual juncture. Its contributors analyze the liberal-republican tension-field in a novel way, juxtaposing early modern political thought with twenty-first century political concerns. The volume conjoins Israeli political scholarship with its European and American counterparts, mapping differentials and commonalities. Topics include Israeli-Palestinian relations, law and justice, commerce and citizenship, and post-holocaust historical memory – all within the pioneering context of early modern political concepts and their contemporary significance. Of interest to researchers and advanced students of intellectual history, political philosophy, political science, international relations, European Studies, Jewish and Israel studies.
Series: Israel: Society, Culture, and History
Canadian Jews in the 21st Century: Identity and Demography.
by Jack Jedwab
ISBN 978-1-934843-75-8
200 pp. cloth
$69.00
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Publication Date: May, 2012
How many Jews are there in Canada? The answer depends on how being Jewish is defined, and by whom. Canada’s national statistical agency collects data on religion and ethnic origin and thus offers the possibility of establishing an official number. While most Canadian Jews declare both their religion and ethnicity as Jewish, an important number define themselves as either one or the other. Underlying such declarations is an ongoing debate about what it means to be ethnically Jewish. What does the use of ethnicity as a basis for determining community membership imply in defining Canadian Jewish identity? Using census and survey data Canadian Jews in the 21st century: Identity and Demography explores the meaning of ethnicity for Canadian Jewry.
Series: Jewish Identity in Post Modern Society
Do Not Provoke Providence: Orthodoxy in the Grip of Nationalism.
by Yosef Salmon
ISBN 978-1-936235-62-9
450 pp. cloth
$92.00
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Publication Date: July, 2012
Do Not Provoke Providence: Orthodoxy in the Grip of Nationalism deals with the whole complex of relations between the Land of Israel, the Jewish Torah and the People of Israel from the Pre-Zionist Period until the Establishment of the State of Israel. The book examines the dynamics of those relations through the modernization of Jewish society, and the problem of Jewish Identity vis-a-vis modernity. The discussion follows historical events in both philosophy and everyday life. It explores the anti-Zionist sphere and also discusses the attitudes towards the conflict of Religion and Nationalism in the world of Religious Zionism. The dispute between advocates of a religious concept of the community and proponents of a secular notion revolved primarily around perceptions of the ideal relationship between the religious and national entities. One group sought to make religion a tool of the nation; the other sought to make the nation a tool of religion.
Series: Judaism and Jewish Life
Vygotsky & Bernstein in the Light of Jewish Tradition.
by Antonella Castelnuovo, Bella Kotik-Friedgut
ISBN 978-1-936235-58-2
250 pp. cloth
$89.00
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Publication Date: September, 2012
Vygotsky & Bernstein in the Light of Jewish Tradition examines the role that Jewish cultural tradition played in the work of the Russian psychologist Lev.S.Vygotsky and the British sociologist Basil Bernstein by highlighting aspects of their respective lives and theories revealing significant influences of Jewish thoughts and beliefs. The authors demonstrate that theories and human life are dialectically interconnected: what research can reveal about a man can also provide a better understanding of the very nature of his theory. This book is a valuable resource for psychologists, sociologists and students interested in the sociocultural formation of mind.
Series: Judaism and Jewish Life
Zohar Harakia.
by Philip Caplan
9781936235575
530 pp. cloth
$75.00
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Publication Date: January, 2012
Rabbi Shimon ben Zemach Duran (1361-1444) was a colorful rabbinic authority in Algiers. In his book, Zohar Harakia, on methods of enumerating the 613 commandments, he summarizes the work of previous authorities on this subject, especially Maimonides and Nachmanides. He also presents his own system of enumeration. Thus, his work is a compact introduction to this fundamental subject. The text, first printed in 1515, is written clearly and arranged as a commentary on ibn Gabirol's poetic version of the 613 commandments, which is chanted on Shavuot. This English translation and notes make it accessible to lay readers as well as students of Jewish law, liturgy, and medieval Jewish history.
Series: Judaism and Jewish Life
Eros and Tragedy: Jewish Male Fantasies 1913-1924.
by Ofer Nur
9781936235858
300 pp. cloth
$75.00
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Publication Date: February, 2012
This book offers psychodynamic studies of Holocaust survivors and their families in Israel and the Diaspora. It is a most moving account of the desperate struggles of these survivors to overcome the horrendous experiences in the ghettos and concentration camps and their subsequent attempts at the revival of their lives after the Second World War. Hillel Klein, the author, was himself one of these Holocaust survivors. Later, as a psychoanalyst, Klein interviewed survivors in Israel and the United States of America and evaluated the consequences of the Holocaust and its aftermath from a psychoanalytic point of view which, together with his own memories contained in the book, gives it a special depth and contributes to making it a most moving account.
Series: Israel: Society, Culture, and History
Lives Lived and Lost: East European History Before, During, and After World War II as Experienced by an Anthropologist and Her Mother.
by Kaja Finkler, Golda Finkler
9781936235902
350 pp. cloth
$55.00
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Publication Date: March, 2012
Lives Lived and Lost stands at the intersection of biography, autobiography, memory and history. It narrates a mother’s and daughter’s separate perspectives of their experiences before, during and after World War II. The book is also an ethnography of lives of women and children during a transformative period in Eastern Europe and opens a window to the crucial events of that epoch. The challenge of the narratives provides the urgency of the story and the richness of the historical record. It is also an unforgettable story of love, loss and longing for family engulfed by war. The book will resonate with those interested in the lives of individual women and children,; scholars, and students of history, gender, and religion, especially Hasidism, and with mainstream readers in this and future generations unfamiliar with life during the first half of the twentieth century in Europe.
Series: Out of the Series
Faith, Reason, and Politics: Essays on the History of Jewish Thought.
by Michah Gottlieb, Alex Holder
9781936235872
260 pp. cloth
$85.00
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Publication Date: June, 2012
The past decade has witnessed renewed interest in the faith-reason debate. But all too often the debate is treated in generic terms, without paying attention either to differences between religious traditions or to the historical development of these traditions. Judaism, with its emphasis on religious law, yields insights into the political ramifications of the problem that differ greatly from Christian approaches. In Faith, Reason, and Politics, Michah Gottlieb explores Jewish approaches to the faith-reason debate through detailed analyses of Jewish thinkers from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries including Judah Halevi, Maimonides, Spinoza, Moses Mendelssohn, Samson Raphael Hirsch, and Leo Strauss, This book will appeal to scholars and students interested in the problem of faith versus reason and in the relationship between religion and politics.
Series: Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History
Survival and Trials of Revival: Psychodynamic Studies of Holocaust Survivors and Their Families in Israel and the Diaspora.
by Hillel Klein
9781936235896
375 pp. cloth
$85.00
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Publication Date: June, 2012
This book offers psychodynamic studies of Holocaust survivors and their families in Israel and the Diaspora. It is a most moving account of the desperate struggles of these survivors to overcome the horrendous experiences in the ghettos and concentration camps and their subsequent attempts at the revival of their lives after the Second World War. Hillel Klein, the author, was himself one of these Holocaust survivors. Later, as a psychoanalyst, Klein interviewed survivors in Israel and the United States of America and evaluated the consequences of the Holocaust and its aftermath from a psychoanalytic point of view which, together with his own memories contained in the book, gives it a special depth and contributes to making it a most moving account.
Series: The Psychoanalysis and Jewish Life Book Series
The Transmission of Passion: Practicing Psychoanalysis Within and Beyond the Borders of the Land of Israel.
by Moshe Halevi Spero
9781936235841
456 pp. cloth
$112.00
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Publication Date: August, 2012
The authors in this collection reflect deeply and self-consciously about practicing psychoanalysis within or alongside the borders of the Land of Israel. Unique passions characterize the lives of those who live here, on the individual and group level, and this will be true for the psychoanalyst who has been born and raised here or who has immigrated to this land and has had to struggle with transformations in language, values, and identity. In Israel, one passionately believes or disbelieves, or strives to be dispassionate, with varying degrees of success. The boundaries of the land can “contain” these dynamics, but this depends on how the boundaries are defined, internalized, and symbolized. The dimension of passion will grip the patient and analyst at some point during the evolution of the transference and countertransference matrix, and may bind the two together or drive them apart. Using rich clinical presentation and theoretical innovation, the authors in this compendium discuss these conflicts, and consider how terror, war, political ideology, primitive personality structure, the Holocaust, and idiosyncratic religious beliefs arouse these hidden passions and challenge analytic neutrality. Throughout, the authors carefully reexamine the development of their own personal identity, ideology, and professional perspectives in order to ascertain whether or not, or under what conditions, passion can be creatively transmitted.
Series: The Psychoanalysis and Jewish Life Book Series
Mo(ve)ments of Resistance: Israel's Political Economy.
by Lev Luis Grinberg
9781936235414
250 pp. cloth
$85.00
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Publication Date: September, 2012
In Israel’s Political Economy, Lev Grinberg summarizes his own work and that of other political economists, providing a coherent historical narrative since the beginning of Socialist Zionism (1904) until the Oslo Accords and the neo-liberalization of the economy (1994-1996). Combining eventful sociology, path dependency and institutional political economy, the book argues that historical political events have been shaped not only by political and economic forces but also by resistance struggles of marginal and weaker social groups: organized workers, Palestinians and Mizrachi Jews. Major historical turning points in history, such as the Separation War in 1948, the military occupation in 1967, and the Oslo peace process in 1993, are explained in the context of previous social and economic resistance struggles that affected the political outcomes.
Series: Israel: Society, Culture, and History
Granddaughters of the Holocaust: Never Forgetting What They Didn’t Experience.
9781936235889
200 pp. cloth
$79.00
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Publication Date: September, 2012
Granddaughters of the Holocaust: Never Forgetting What They Didn’t Experience delves into the intergenerational transmission of trauma to the granddaughters of Holocaust survivors. Although members of this generation did not endure the horrors of the Holocaust directly, they did absorb the experiences of both their parents and grandparents. Ten women participated in psychodynamic interviews about their inheritance of Holocaust knowledge and memory, and their responses to this legacy. These women provided startling evidence for the embodiment of Holocaust residue in the ways they approached daily tasks of living and being. The resulting narratives revealed that unfathomable events are inevitably transmitted to, and imprinted upon, succeeding generations. The implications for healing processes through the emotional work of resilience are explored.
Series: The Psychoanalysis and Jewish Life Book Series
With Both Feet on the Clouds: Fantasy and Israeli Culture.
by Elana Gomel, Danielle Gurevitch
9781936235834
250 pp. cloth
$75.00
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Publication Date: September, 2012
Why do Israelis dislike fantasy? Put so bluntly, the question appears frivolous. But in fact, it goes to the deepest sources of Israeli historical identity and literary tradition. Uniquely among developed nations, Israel’s origin is in a utopian novel, Theodor Herzl’s Altneuland (1902), which predicted the future Jewish state. The Jewish writing in the Diaspora has always tended toward the fantastic, the mystical, and the magical. And yet, from its very inception, Israeli literature has been stubbornly realistic. The present volume challenges this stance. Originally published in Hebrew in 2009, it is the first serious, wide-ranging and theoretically sophisticated exploration of fantasy in Israeli literature and culture. Its contributors jointly attempt to contest the question posed at the beginning: why do Israelis, living in a country whose very existence is predicated on the fulfillment of a utopian dream, distrust fantasy?
Series: Israel: Society, Culture, and History
A Well-Worn Tallis in a New Ceremony: Trends in Israeli Haredi Culture.
by Nurit Stadler
9781936235827
190 pp. cloth
$70.00
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Publication Date: October, 2012
A Well-Worn Tallis for a New Ceremony: Trends in Israeli Haredi Culture is a study of contemporary ultra-Orthodox religiosity in Israel. This book analyzes the on-going reconstruction of Haredi culture in Israel, a process which has been spurred on by the challenges of modernity, the worldwide resurgence of religion, and the strong sway of Israeliness. Despite its founders’ and the present leadership’s long-standing efforts to establish and buttress an community enclave, various modern trends and state institutions, such as secularization, consumerism, feminism, and the military, are having a profound impact on the yeshiva world. In other words, modernity is making inroads into the Jewish state’s Haredi ‘ghetto’ and transforming many aspects of everyday life. Over the course of her extended research on this community, Stadler has discerned changes in several key areas: religious life; the family structure; and the community’s interface with government authorities and the rest of the populace. Her book sheds light on all these developments.
Series: Out of the Series
Identity and Pedagogy in Holocaust Education: The Case of Israeli State Schools.
9781936235810
230 pp. cloth
$85.00
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Publication Date: November, 2012
This pedagogical and sociological analysis of Shoah (Holocaust) education in Israeli state schools is based on an empirical survey conducted in 2007-2009 among junior high school and high school students, teachers, principals in general and religious schools, and experts in the field. It explores issues such as materials and methods, beliefs and attitudes, messages imparted, pedagogical challenges, and implications for national and religious identity and universal values. Comparative and multi-dimensional analyses of sub-populations, such as by age and type of school, were conducted. The practical and theoretical implications of the findings are considered in the context of Shoah education in Israel and other educational settings over the past half century.
Series: Jewish Identity in Post Modern Society
Questions Jews Ask: Reconstructionist Answers.
9781618111548
532 pp. cloth
$59.00
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Publication Date: November, 2011
Mordecai Kaplan, the co-founder of the Reconstructionist movement, defines that movement for the reader in this classic volume, which can serve as a contemporary account of the beginning of the Reconstructionist movement.
Series: Classics in Judaica
Essays on the Writings of Abraham Ibn Ezra.
by Abraham Ibn Ezra, translated by Michael Friedlaender
9781618111500
pp. cloth
$49.00
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Publication Date: November, 2011
This is the best known of the Essays on the Ibn Ezra Literature. It explores the question of whether the circumstances of Abraham ibn Ezra’s peripatetic life had an affect on his scholarly work. Previous studies of Ibn Ezra suggested that they had; here for the first time it was argued that his wanderings, though they exposed him to numerous other scholars and ideas, did not effect a change in his beliefs. This book investigates Ibn Ezra’s Commentaries in order to study the basic structure of his principles.
Series: Classics in Judaica
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