Jewish Studies from Cambridge

Representations of Arabs in Israeli Jewish Society

Daniel Bar-Tal, Yona Teichman

The book, focusing on the case of Arab representation in the Israel-Jewish society, describes the negative intergroup psychological repertoire about ...

One Land, Two Peoples

Ilan Pappe

Ilan Pappe's history of modern Palestine has been updated to include the dramatic events of the 1990s and the early ...

One Hundred Years of War

James L. Gelvin

The conflict between Israelis and Palestinians has lasted over a century. James L. Gelvin's account of that conflict, from the ...

Guy Ben-Porat, Yagil Levy, Shlomo Mizrahi, Arye Naor, Erez Tzfadia

Five Israeli academics probe the changing nature of Israeli society over the last twenty-five years and the challenges it faces ...

Colin Shindler

The state of Israel came into existence in 1948. Colin Shindler’s book traces Israel’s history across sixty years, from its ...

A Strategy for Negotiating a Sacred Peace

David E. Guinn

This book seeks to advance the Middle East peace process by promoting the development of an international legal regime to ...

The Integrative Enclave

Tamir Sorek

Following the growing success of Arab soccer teams and players in Israel, this book analyzes the political significance of sport ...

The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper

Laurel Leff

An in-depth look at how The New York Times failed in its coverage of the fate of European Jews from ...

Richard Breitman, Norman J. W. Goda, Timothy Naftali, Robert Wolfe

This book is a direct result of the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. Drawing upon many documents declassified under ...

Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism

Gavriel D. Rosenfeld

What if the Nazis had won World War Two? What if Adolf Hitler had escaped from Nazi Germany in 1945 ...

Francis R. Nicosia

This is a study of the ideological and political relationship between Zionism and anti-Semitism in modern Germany. Its goal ...

Economic Needs and Racial Aims, 1938–1944

Wolf Gruner

Forced labor was a key feature of Nazi anti-Jewish policy and shaped the daily life of almost every Jewish family ...

A Jewish Family's Correspondence from Poland

Edited by Christopher R. Browning, Richard S. Hollander, Nechama Tec

Richard Hollander was devastated when his parents were killed in an automobile accident in 1986. While rummaging through their attic, ...

The Chain of Memory

Christopher Bigsby

An exploration of the work of dramatists and writers connected by the idea of memory and its relationship to the ...

Idith Zertal

The ghost of the Holocaust is ever present in Israel, in the lives and nightmares of the survivors and in ...

Genocide, History and the Limits of the Law

Devin O. Pendas

The Frankfurt Auschwitz trial was the largest, most public, and most important trial of Holocaust perpetrators conducted in West German ...

Shlomo Aronson

Based on known and new records now available, this book explains when and why Hitler decided to destroy the Jews ...

Michael L. Morgan

Morgan shows how Levinas faces central philosophical problems that figure in twentieth-century philosophy and religious thought. He tackles this task ...

Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation

Leora Batnitzky

Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas, two twentieth-century Jewish philosophers and two extremely provocative thinkers whose reputations have grown considerably, are ...

Edited by Jonathan Israel, Michael Silverthorne

Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise (1670) is one of the most important philosophical works of the early modern period. It has profoundly ...

An Introduction

Steven Nadler

Spinoza's Ethics is one of the most remarkable, important, and difficult books in the history of philosophy. In this wide-ranging ...

Edited by Charles Manekin

Medieval Jewish intellectuals living in Muslim and Christian lands were strongly concerned to recover what they regarded as a 'lost' ...

Edited by Michael L. Morgan, Peter Eli Gordon

Modern Jewish philosophy emerged in the seventeenth century, with the impact of the new science and modern philosophy on thinkers ...

Kenneth Seeskin

The origin of the world was the central question of philosophy for nearly 1,500 years. Is the world the outcome ...

Kenneth Seeskin

This companion volume contains twelve essays by leading scholars on the life, thought, and influence of one of Judaism’s greatest ...

Edited by Robert P. Gordon

In the ancient Near East the God of Israel stands unique; he is the central character of the Old Testament. ...

Adriane Leveen

The book examines the ways in which the editors of Numbers created a narrative of the forty-year journey through the ...

From Sacrifice to Scripture

James W. Watts

Ritual and Rhetoric in Leviticus uses rhetorical analysis to expose the motives behind the writing of the central book of ...

From Canaan to the Rise of Islam

Robert Goldenberg

This book provides a clear, straightforward account of the development of ancient Judaism in both the Judean homeland and the ...

Edited by Edward Kessler, Neil Wenborn

This pioneering work, with contributions from over 100 internationally renowned scholars, explores and defines the many factors which characterise the ...

Edited by Bruce Chilton, Howard Clark Kee, Eric M. Meyers, John Rogerson, Amy-Jill Levine, Anthony J. Saldarini

The Cambridge Companion to the Bible, Second Edition focuses on the ever-changing social and cultural contexts in which the biblical ...

Edited by Charlotte E. Fonrobert, Martin S. Jaffee

This volume introduces students of rabbinic literature to the range of historical and interpretative questions surrounding the rabbinic texts of ...

The Shaping Influence of Oral Tradition

Elizabeth Shanks Alexander

The Textualization of Ancient Israel

William M. Schniedewind

Combines recent archaeological discoveries in the Middle East with insights culled from the history of writing to address how the ...

Mark Leuchter

Scholars typically view Jeremiah 26-45 as a collection of episodes constructed during the Babylonian exile that attempts to prove the ...

The Reception of Enochic Literature

Annette Yoshiko Reed

This book considers the early history of Jewish-Christian relations through a focus on the fallen angels. The book of Genesis ...

Shmuel Shepkaru

This book is about the evolution of Jewish martyrdom in the Pagan and Christian worlds until the high middle ages, ...

A History

Gideon Bohak

This is a pioneering history of ancient Jewish magic, from the Second Temple to the rabbinic period. It is based ...

Introductory Level

Nava Bergman

This workbook can be used together with any elementary Biblical Hebrew grammar. It applies many of the tools of modern ...

Edited by Steven T. Katz

The fourth volume of The Cambridge History of Judaism covers the period from 70 CE to 640 CE (the rise ...

Edited by W. D. Davies, Louis Finkelstein

The first three volumes of The Cambridge History of Judaism cover the history of the Jews from the Exile in ...

Edited by W. D. Davies, Louis Finkelstein

This is the second of four volumes covering the history of Judaism from the Persian period, roughly 539–322 BCE, to ...

Edited by William Horbury, W. D. Davies, John Sturdy

This is the third volume of a widely valued history of Judaism in the ancient world. The focus is on ...

David Goodblatt

A Beleaguered Church in the Post-Reformation Era

Magda Teter

Taylor-Schechter New Series

Edited by Avihai Shivtiel, Friedrich Niessen

This volume is a continuation of the catalogue compiled by Colin F. Baker and Meira Polliack, Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic Manuscripts ...

Adam Sutcliffe

This major contribution to the history of European ideas investigates the philosophical and political significance of Judaism in the intellectual ...

A Corpus

Denys Pringle

This is the third in a series of four volumes that are intended to present a complete Corpus of all ...

Denys Pringle

1000–1500

Robert Chazan

In the first new synthesis of medieval Jewish history to be published in ten years, Robert Chazan discusses the Jewish ...

Economic Thought and Emancipation in Europe, 1638–1848

Jonathan Karp

This study demonstrates the centrality of economic rationales to debates on Jews’ status in Italy, Britain, France, and Germany during ...

Edited by Dana Evan Kaplan

This volume provides readers with a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the most important and interesting historical and contemporary facets ...

The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878–1938

Carole Fink

International minority protection, which began in the late nineteenth century, was aimed at bringing stability to Eastern Europe. This historical ...

Lars Fischer

In Imperial Germany (1871–1918), most Socialists felt that the antisemites had a point but took matters too far. In fact, ...

Marline Otte

At the turn of the century, German popular entertainment was a realm of unprecedented opportunity for Jewish performers. This study ...

Trials in Emancipation

Shulamit Volkov

History of the Jews in modern Germany is usually told as the tale of outstanding individuals, completely immersed in German ...

The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine

Mitchell B. Hart

The Healthy Jew traces the culturally revealing story of how Moses, the rabbis, and other Jewish thinkers came to be ...

Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy

Murray Friedman

This book is the first history of the development of American Jewish political conservatism and the rise of a group ...

Maren Tova Linett

Maren Linett explores the aesthetic and political roles performed by Jewish characters in women’s fiction and analyzes the meanings and ...

Edited by Robert S. C. Gordon

Primo Levi (1919–1987) was the author of a rich body of work, including memoirs and reflections on Auschwitz, poetry, science ...

Toward a New Jewish Archaeology

Steven Fine

Art and Judaism explores the Jewish experience with art during the Greco-Roman period - from the Hellenistic period through the ...

Nadia Valman

Stories about Jewesses proliferated in nineteenth-century Britain as debates about the place of the Jews in the modern nation raged. ...