Jewish Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Jewish Blood

   Reality and metaphor in history, religion and culture

   Edited by Mitchell Hart

   Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

   This book deals with the Jewish engagement with blood: animal and human, real and metaphorical. Concentrating on the meaning or significance of blood in Judaism, the book moves this highly controversial subject away from its traditional focus, exploring how Jews themselves engage with blood and its...

   Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
2. Revisiting Jewish Spain in the Modern Era

   Edited by Daniela Flesler, Tabea Linhard, Adrián Pérez Melgosa

   This innovative volume offers fresh perspectives and directions on the intersection of Hispanic and Jewish studies. It shows how 'Jewishness' has played a crucial role in Spanish political, social, and cultural developments in the modern era, exploring the effects of the multiple material and...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Quest for Jewish Assimilation in Modern Social Science

   By Amos Morris-Reich

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   The transformation of the human sciences into the social sciences in the third part of the 19th century was closely related to attempts to develop and implement methods for dealing with social tensions and the rationalization of society. This book studies the connections between academic...

   Published March 12th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Politics of Loss and Trauma in Contemporary Israeli Cinema

   By Raz Yosef

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   The last decade has marked the growing visibility and worldwide interest in Israeli cinema. Films such as Walk on Water, Or, My Treasure, Beaufort and Waltz with Bashir have been commercially and critically successful both in Europe and the United States and have won a number of prestigious...

   Published May 5th 2011 by Routledge
5. The Jews of Ethiopia

   The Birth of an Elite

   Edited by Tudor Parfitt, Emanuela Trevisan Semi

   Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

   This book offers the results of the most recent research carried out in European and Israeli universities on Ethiopian Jews. With a special focus on Europe and the role played by German, English and Italian Jewish communities in creating a new Jewish Ethiopian identity, it investigates such...

   Published July 28th 2010 by Routledge
6. The Image of the Black in Jewish Culture

   A History of the Other

   By Abraham Melamed

   Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

   The evolving image of the Black in the history of Jewish culture is being traced here in the conceptual framework of recent post-modern theories of the 'other'. The study focuses on the mechanisms by which an ethno-religious minority group considered by the dominant majority to be the inferior '...

   Published July 19th 2010 by Routledge
7. Art in Zion

   The Genesis of Modern National Art in Jewish Palestine

   By Dalia Manor

   Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

   Art in Zion deals with the link between art and national ideology and specifically between the artistic activity that emerged in Jewish Palestine in the first decades of the twentieth century and the Zionist movement. In order to examine the development of national art in Jewish Palestine, the...

   Published June 24th 2010 by Routledge
8. Jewishness and Masculinity from the Modern to the Postmodern

   By Neil R. Davison

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   This study examines the impact of racial, gender, and religious constructs of Jewish masculinity on a select group of male writers including George Du Maurier, Theodor Herzl, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, and Philip Roth during the Modernist and Postmodern eras. In reading the work of these...

   Published June 23rd 2010 by Routledge
9. Hebrew Language and Jewish Thought

   By David Patterson

   Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

   Drawing on more than three hundred Hebrew roots, the author shows that Jewish thought employs Hebrew concepts and categories that are altogether distinct from those that characterize the Western speculative tradition. Among the key categories that shape Jewish thought are holiness,...

   Published September 6th 2009 by Routledge
10. Jews and India

    Perceptions and Image

    By Yulia Egorova

    Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

    Exploring the image of Jews in India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book looks at both the Indian attitudes towards the Jewish communities of the subcontinent and at the way Jews and Judaism in general have been represented in Indian discourse. Despite the fact that the...

    Published July 23rd 2009 by Routledge