Book Series
Routledge Jewish Studies Series
New & Published Titles:
The Jewish-Chinese Nexus
A Meeting of Civilizations
The Jewish Chinese Nexus explores through a collection of articles the nexus between two of the oldest, intact, starkly contrasting and most interesting civilizations on…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-45715-6 (Routledge)
Voltaire's Jews and Modern Jewish Identity
Rethinking the Enlightenment
Harvey Mitchell’s book argues that a reassessment of Voltaire’s treatment of traditional Judaism will sharpen discussion of the origins of, and responses to, the Enlightenment.…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77617-2 (Routledge)
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Jewish Cultural Nationalism
Origins and Influences
Jewish Cultural Nationalism explores the development of Jewish nationalism from the Bible to modern times, focusing on particular movements and places as well as texts…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77348-5 (Routledge)
Jewish Mysticism and Magic
An Anthropological Perspective
Providing a unique anthropological perspective on Jewish mysticism and magic, this book is a study of Jewish rites and rituals and how the analysis of…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42112-6 (Routledge)
Jews, Muslims and Mass Media
Mediating the 'Other'
This text looks at the ways in which Jews, Muslims and the conflict between them has been covered in the modern media. Both Jews and… read more2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44447-7 (Routledge)
Muscular Judaism
The Jewish Body and the Politics of Regeneration
Providing valuable insights into an element of European nationalism and modernist culture, this book explores the development of the 'Zionist body' as opposed to the…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77178-8 (Routledge)
Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed: Silence and Salvation
Providing an excellent overview of the latest thinking in Maimonides studies, this book uses a novel philosophical approach to examine whether Maimonides' Guide for the…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42111-9 (Routledge)
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Contemporary Jewish Philosophy
An Introduction
This text introduces the most important Jewish philosophers of contemporary times from the point of view of their original approach to both Judaism and philosophy…
read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34163-9 (Routledge)
The Jews of Ethiopia
The Birth of an Elite
This book offers the results of the most recent research carried out in European and Israeli universities on Ethiopian Jews. With a special focus on… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-31838-9 (Routledge)
Art in Zion
The Genesis of Modern National Art in Jewish Palestine
Art in Zion deals with the link between art and national ideology and specifically between the artistic activity that emerged in Jewish Palestine in the… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-31836-5 (Routledge)
Series Details:
Studies, which are interpreted to cover the disciplines of history, sociology, anthropology, culture, politics, philosophy, theology, religion, as they relate to Jewish affairs. The remit includes texts which have as their primary focus issues, ideas, personalities and events of relevance to Jews, Jewish life and the concepts which have characterised Jewish culture both in the past and today. The series is interested in receiving appropriate scripts or proposals
Forthcoming Titles:
Collaboration with the Nazis: The Holocaust and After
Edited by Roni Stauber
To be published April 1st 2010
God, Jews and the Media: Religion's Impact on Israel's Media
By Yoel Cohen
To be published September 1st 2010