Jewish Studies

Was Israel founded by Czechoslovakia? A History of Czechs and Jews examines this question and the resulting findings are complex. Czechoslovakia did provide critical, secret military sponsorship to Israel around 1948, but this alliance was short-lived and terminated with the Prague Trial of 1952. Is..

_x005F_x000D_ Abu’l-Barakat is a philosopher who wrote the Kitab al-Mu‘tabar, a comprehensive metaphysics which challenged the accepted notions of the traditional metaphysical philosophy. This book examines the philosophical conceptions of the first book of the Metaphysics of the Kitab al-Mu‘tabar. ..

Abu’l-Barakat is often considered one of the most comprehensive medieval philosophers of the Arabic-Jewish milieu. His extensive and unique philosophical theories were seen as a major challenge for the traditional conceptions of the Aristotelian school of thought during and after this period._x005F_..

For the last decade scholars have been questioning the idea that the Holocaust was not talked about in any way until well into the 1970s. After the Holocaust: Challenging the Myth of Silence is the first collection of authoritative, original scholarship to expose a serious misreading of the past on ..

For the last decade scholars have been questioning the idea that the Holocaust was not talked about in any way until well into the 1970s. After the Holocaust: Challenging the Myth of Silence is the first collection of authoritative, original scholarship to expose a serious misreading of the past on ..

This work considers Jewish life in America and the contribution Jewish culture has made in areas such as humour, journalism, liberalism, radicalism and films. It shows how American Jews have adapted to a liberated environmnent without abandoning their distinct religious and ethnic identity...

English has become the major language of contemporary Jewish literature. This book shows the transnational character of that literature and how traditional viewpoints need to be reassessed...

Previously published as a special issue of The Journal of Israeli History, this book presents the reflections of historians from Israel, Europe, Canada and the United States concerning the similarities and differences between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism primarily in Europe and the Middle East...

 An important new study on a complex and highly controversial topic...

 An important new study on a complex and highly controversial topic...

Maccoby traces the topical discussion of the origins of anti-Semitism, especially its development in the modern world...

Basic Yiddish: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an accessible reference grammar with related exercises in a single volume...