In this study, Weisberg uses levirate marriage (an institution that involves the union of a man a...

"e;Many memories, many myths"e;-this is how Wendy Doniger begins the story of her parents...

At a time of heightened interest in Jewish supplementary schooling, this volume offers a path-bre...

This volume illuminates changes in Israeli society over the past generation. Goldscheider identif...

While most gender-based analyses of rabbinic Judaism concentrate on the status of women in the ha...

The eminent historian Patrick J. Geary has written a provocative book, based on lectures delivere...

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...