German-born Gerhard (Gershom) Scholem (1897-1982), the preeminent scholar of Jewish mysticism, de...

Sanjay Subrahmanyam's Three Ways to Be Alien draws on the lives and writings of a trio of margina...

This book addresses a central question in the study of Jewish mysticism in the medieval and early...

Many arts organizations today find themselves in financial difficulties because of economic const...

In the 1960s, Jewish music in America began to evolve. Traditional liturgical tunes developed int...

Modern Jews tend to relate to the past through "e;history,"e; which relies on empirical d...

Allan Sherman was the Larry David, the Adam Sandler, the Sacha Baron Cohen of 1963. He led Jewish...

In this sharply argued volume, Orit Rozin reveals the flaws in the conventional account of Israel...

Born in rural Hesse, Germany, Leo Strauss (1899-1973) became an active Zionist and philosopher du...

In this wide-ranging consideration of intellectual diasporas, historian Peter Burke questions wha...

Following the Balfour Declaration and the British conquest of Palestine (1917-1918), the small Je...

This book offers a fresh interpretation of the connection between the West German Catholic Church...