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New & Recommended Titles
2020
Jewish Film & New MediaAn International Journal
Edited by Nathan Abrams and Nir Cohen
Jewish Film & New Media provides an outlet for research into any aspect of Jewish fi lm, television, and new media and is unique in its interdisciplinary nature, exploring the rich and diverse cultural
heritage across the globe. The journal is distinctive in bringing together a range of cinemas, televisions, fi lms, programs, and
other digital material in one volume and in its positioning of the discussions within a range of contexts.
ISSN: 2169-0324 • E-ISSN: 2169-0332Published twice per year
Jewish Film & New MediaAn International Journal
provides an outlet for research into any aspect of Jewish fi lm, television, and new media and is unique in its interdisciplinary nature, exploring the rich and diverse cultural
heritage across the globe. The journal is distinctive in bringing together a range of cinemas, televisions, fi lms, programs, and
other digital material in one volume and in its positioning of the
ISSN: 2169-0324 • E-ISSN: 2169-0332Published twice per year
Kugel and FrijolesLatino Jews in the United States
Laura Limonic
“Full of rich and absorbing ethnographic material, it provides important insights into the experiences of a
fascinating immigrant group. Written in a highly read-able style, the book enriches our understanding of how immigrants construct ethnic and racial identities in the
U.S. today.” —Nancy Foner
2019 / 6x9 / 264 pages14 black-and-white images
ISBN 978-0-8143-4576-4 $34.99 PaperbackISBN 978-0-8143-4575-7 $82.99 Printed Paper Case
ISBN 978-0-8143-4577-1 eBook
The Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson
Edited with an Introduction by Lori Harrison-Kahan
“Michelson’s voice comes roaring back from the Progres-sive Era, full of rollicking stories about Amazons, girl
thieves, and feminist radicals. Whether she was covering news or writing fi ction, Michelson modeled the kind of
public engagement our own era desperately needs. Lori Harrison-Kahan has reintroduced a fi erce, funny writer
we should never have forgotten.” —Jean M. Lutes
2019 / 6x9 / 400 pages4 black-and-white photos
ISBN 978-0-8143-4357-9 $36.99 PaperbackISBN 978-0-8143-4608-2 $84.99 Printed Paper Case
ISBN 978-0-8143-4358-6 eBook
The Legend of SafedLife and Fantasy in the City of Kabbalah
Eli YassifTranslated by Haim Watzman
“In this fascinating book Yassif paints a broad canvas of the inner lives of the heroes of Safed in its
glorious days.” —Yuval Harari
2019 / 6x9 / 302 pages / 10 color imagesISBN 978-0-8143-4684-6 $32.99 Paperback
ISBN 978-0-8143-4110-0 $84.99 Printed Paper CaseISBN 978-0-8143-4111-7 eBook
Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
The JDC at 100A Century of Humanitarianism
Edited by Avinoam Patt, Atina Grossmann, Linda G. Levi, and Maud S. Mandel
“This remarkable collection of scholarly essays, based on the recently opened archives of the JDC, trans-
forms our understanding of American Jewish rescue and humanitarian efforts, emphasizing the interwar
and Holocaust years.” —Jonathan D. Sarna
2019 / 6x9 / 512 pages / 26 imagesISBN 978-0-8143-4234-3 $54.99 Printed Paper Case
ISBN 978-0-8143-4235-0 eBook
The Construction of Testimony
Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and Its OuttakesEdited by Erin McGlothlin, Brad Prager, and
Markus Zisselsberger
Groundbreaking analyses of the vast archive of newly digitized and released outtakes from Lanzmann’s
masterwork.
April 2020 / 6x9 / 484 pages40 black-and-white illustrations
ISBN 978-0-8143-4734-8 $36.99 PaperbackISBN 978-0-8143-4733-1 $84.99 Printed Paper Case
ISBN 978-0-8143-4735-5 eBookContemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
Holocaust Memory and Racism in the Postwar World
Edited by Shirli Gilbert and Avril Alba
“Not afraid of tackling big and complex issues, the authors show how different understandings of Nazi
genocide shaped responses to problems of ‘race’, not always in ways one might expect. Highly
recommended.” — Dan Stone
2019 / 6x9 / 470 pages / 10 imagesISBN 978-0-8143-4269-5 $39.99 Paperback
ISBN 978-0-8143-4596-2 $84.99 Printed Paper CaseISBN 978-0-8143-4270-1 eBook
Stories of Jewish Life Casale Monferrato-Rome-Jerusalem,
1876–1985Augusto Segre
Translated and with an Introduction by Steve Siporin
Segre’s stories of Jewish life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy.
June 2020 / 6x9 / 288 pagesISBN 978-0-8143-4765-2 $64.99 Printed Paper Case
ISBN 978-0-8143-4766-9 eBookRaphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
Laughter After Humor and the Holocaust
Edited by David Slucki, Gabriel N. Finder, and Avinoam Patt
A global tour of Jewish humor about the Holocaust.
April 2020 / 6x9 / 352 pages8 black-and-white images
ISBN 978-0-8143-4478-1 $34.99 PaperbackISBN 978-0-8143-4738-6 $86.99 Printed Paper Case
ISBN 978-0-8143-4479-8 eBook
Invisible Ink A Memoir by Guy Stern
The incredible autobiography of an exiled child during WWII.
April 2020 / 6x9 / 200 pages40 black-and-white images
ISBN 978-0-8143-4759-1 $27.99 HardbackISBN 978-0-8143-4760-7 eBook
From Left to Right Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York
Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History Nancy Sinkoff
“With this book, Lucy Dawidowicz has found her biographer. . . Nancy Sinkoff offers profound insight
into the American Jewish psyche, chronicling its diverse cultural proclivities and political
sensibilities.”— David N. Myers
March 2020 / 6x9 / 538 pages 37 black-and-white images
ISBN 978-0-8143-4510-8 $ 34.99 Printed Paper Case ISBN 978-0-8143-4511-5 eBook
Salvage Poetics Post-Holocaust American
Jewish Folk Ethnographies Sheila E. Jelen
An interdisciplinary approach to American Jewish ethnic identity in post-Holocaust America.
April 2020 / 6x9 / 384 pages 57 color images
ISBN 978-0-8143-4318-0 $ 69.99 Printed Paper Case ISBN 978-0-8143-4319-7 eBook
Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
Authentically Orthodox A Tradition-Bound Faith in American Life
Zev Eleff
Explores religious change in Orthodox Judaism, specifi cally the indigenous American
religious culture.
January 2020 / 6x9 / 326 pages 15 black-and-white images
ISBN 978-0-8143-4480-4 $ 64.99 Printed Paper Case ISBN 978-0-8143-4482-8 eBook
The Yiddish Historians and the Struggle for a Jewish History of the Holocaust
Mark L. Smith
“[This is] possibly the most important contribution to the historiography of the Holocaust published in a number of years. Smith’s book is an outstanding
achievement.” —Saul Friedländer
2019 / 6x9 / 480 pages 9 black-and-white photos
ISBN 978-0-8143-4612-9 $ 64.99 Printed Paper Case ISBN: 978-0-81434-613-6 eBook
The Power of a Tale Stories from the Israel Folktale Archives
Edited by Haya Bar-Itzhak and Idit Pintel-Ginsberg
“A rich collection indeed with narrative treasures derived from all over the world. . . These stories
and the narrators who share them stir the imagina-tion and open unprecedented cultural vistas on the
vitality of oral tradition.” —Simon J. Bronner
2019 / 7x10 / 464 pages 45 black-and-white images
ISBN 978-0-8143-4208-4 $ 64.99 Printed Paper Case ISBN 978-0-8143-4209-1 eBook
Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
Sing This at My Funeral A Memoir of Fathers and Sons
David Slucki
“ This is a vital story of family, loss, grief, and post-war devastation, of connection across time and space, of Jewish worlds and communities made
and remade. It is a book unlike any other, a must-read. ” —Jordana Silverstein
2019 / 6x9 / 280 pages 44 black-and-white images
ISBN 978-0-8143-4486-6 $27.99 PaperbackISBN 978-0-8143-4721-8 $ 82.99 Printed Paper Case
ISBN 978-0-8143-4487-3 eBook