Overlooking the Border: Narratives of a Divided Jerusalem by Dana Hercbergs continues the dialogu...

Unwitting Zionists examines the Jewish community in the northern Kurdistan town of Zakho from the...

Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals is the first book-length study of mystical eating practices and e...

Gush Emunim traces its roots to the 1967 Six Day War and the development of a Greater Israel ideo...

As a result of the introduction of the printing press in the mid-nineteenth century and the proxi...

The term 'wailing culture' includes an array of women's behaviors and beliefs following the death...

An examination of the history of Yiddish folklore from Poland between the two world wars.

The Jews from Aleppo, Syria, and their descendants compose a remarkable but little-known communit...

A rich, multidisciplinary exploration of spirit possession among Jews.

Following World War II, members of the sizable Jewish community in what had been Kurdistan, now p...

While first-generation immigrant women often begin their lives at the bottom of their new societi...

Since their expulsion from Spain in 1492, Sephardic Jews have managed to maintain their Jewish fa...