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  • Yankel's Tavern

    Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland

    by Glenn Dynner ...
    Awarded Honorable Mention for the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award In nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, the Jewish-run tavern was often the center of leisure, hospitality, business, and even religious festivities. This unusual situation came about because the nobles who owned taverns throughout the formerly Polish lands believed that only Jews were sober enough to run taverns profitably, a belief so ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • The Light of Learning

    Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust

    by Glenn Dynner ...
    The Light of Learning tells the story of an unexpected Hasidic revival in Poland on the eve of the Holocaust. In the aftermath of World War I, the Jewish mystical movement appeared to be in shambles. Hasidic leaders had dispersed, Hasidic courts lay in ruins, and the youth seemed swept up in secularist trends as a result of mandatory public schooling and new Jewish movements like Zionism and ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Men of Silk

    The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society

    by Glenn Dynner ...
    Hasidism, a kabbalah-inspired movement founded by Israel Ba'al Shem Tov (c1700-1760), transformed Jewish communities across Eastern and East Central Europe. In Men of Silk, Glenn Dynner draws upon newly discovered Polish archival material and neglected Hebrew testimonies to illuminate Hasidism's dramatic ascendancy in the region of Central Poland during the early nineteenth century. Dynner ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Jewish Inn in Polish Culture

    Between Practice and Phantasm

    by Judith Kalik, Benjamin Vogel, Beth Holmgren, Glenn Dynner, Eliza Rose, Alexander Lindskog, Iwona Kurz, Magdalena Zatorska, Sławomir Sikora ...
    Series series Jews in Eastern Europe
    The Jewish inn (żydowska karczma) was a central pillar of economic and social life in Polish lands before the Second World War. While its primary role was to provide hospitality, it also functioned as a multifaceted hub for business, leisure, and religious festivities, reflecting its vital role in the community.In The Jewish Inn: Between Practice and Phantasm, editors Halina Goldberg and Bożena ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • A Fire Burns in Kotsk

    A Tale of Hasidism in the Kingdom of Poland

    by Menashe Unger ...
    Translated by Jonathan Boyarin ...
    A vivid novelistic account that details a crucial period in the evolution of Polish Hasidism, translated from Yiddish.Half a century after Hasidism blossomed in Eastern Europe, its members were making deep inroads into the institutional structure of Polish Jewish communities, but some devotees believed that the movement had drifted away from its revolutionary ideals. Menashe Unger's A Fire Burns ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On the Margins of Orthodoxy

    Edited by Schneur Zalman Newfield, Jessica Lang, Glenn Dynner, Joshua Shanes ...
    Among scholars of Jewish Studies, the process, history, and literature of exiting one’s native religious community is increasingly recognized as a new area within the field which, ironically, has a history stretching back to antiquity. By presenting scholarship from a diverse range of disciplines—including history, sociology, psychology, and gender studies—this volume deepens and broadens readers’ ... Read more

    $80.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Paths in Jewish and Religious Studies

    Essays in Honor of Professor Elliot R. Wolfson

    Edited by Glenn Dynner, Susannah Heschel, Shaul Magid ...
    The work of Elliot R. Wolfson has profoundly influenced the fields of Jewish studies as well as philosophy and religion more broadly. His radically new approaches have created pioneering ways of analyzing texts and thinking about religion through the lens of gender, sexuality, and feminist theory. The contributors to New Paths in Jewish and Religious Studies: Essays in Honor of Professor Elliot R. ... Read more

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    This first-ever biography on Yiddish is “a charming and highly readable history of the language” that “recreates the sound of a world . . . gone forever” (The Washington Post)For a thousand years Yiddish, was the glue that held a people together. Through the intimacies of daily use, it linked European Jews with their heroic past, their spiritual universe, their increasingly far-flung relations. In ... Read more

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  • The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881

    by Israel Bartal ...
    Translated by Chaya Naor ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    In the nineteenth century, the largest Jewish community the modern world had known lived in hundreds of towns and shtetls in the territory between the Prussian border of Poland and the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea. The period had started with the partition of Poland and the absorption of its territories into the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires; it would end with the first large-scale ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Why?

    Explaining the Holocaust

    by Peter Hayes ...
    **Featured in the PBS documentary, "The US and the Holocaust" by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein"Superbly written and researched, synthesizing the classics while digging deep into a vast repository of primary sources." —Josef Joffe, Wall Street Journal**Why? explores one of the most tragic events in human history by addressing eight of the most commonly asked questions about the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Jewish Literacy Revised Ed

    The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History

    by Joseph Telushkin ...

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  • The Future of Nostalgia

    by Svetlana Boym ...
    **From an award-winning cultural theorist, the classic work on the intricate relationship between longing and belonging“A remarkable book… brilliant.”―New York Times**Can one be nostalgic for the home one never had? Why is it that the age of globalization is accompanied by a no less global epidemic of nostalgia? Can we know what we are nostalgic for? In the seventeenth century, Swiss doctors ... Read more

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