Jewish Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. The Fragility of Law

   Constitutional Patriotism and the Jews of Belgium, 1940–1945

   By David Fraser

   The Fragility of Law examines the ways in which, during the Second World War, the Belgian government and judicial structure became implicated in the identification, exclusion and killing of its Jewish residents, and in the theft - through Aryanization - of Jewish property. David Fraser...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish
2. Jewish Eating and Identity Through the Ages

   By David C. Kraemer

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This book explores the history of Jewish eating and Jewish identity, from the Bible to the present. The lessons of this book rest squarely on the much-quoted insight: 'you are what you eat.' But this book goes beyond that simple truism to recognise that you are not only what you eat, but also how,...

   Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
3. Windows onto Jewish Legal Culture

   Fourteen Exploratory Essays

   Edited by Hanina Ben-Menahem, Arye Edrei, Neil S. Hecht

   This book opens windows onto various aspects of Jewish legal culture. Rather than taking a structural approach, and attempting to circumscribe and define ‘every’ element of Jewish law, Windows onto Jewish Legal Culture takes a dynamic and holistic approach, describing diverse manifestations of...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
4. Windows onto Jewish Legal Culture Volume 1

   Fourteen Exploratory Essays

   Edited by Hanina Ben-Menahem, Arye Edrei, Neil S. Hecht

   This book opens windows onto Jewish legal culture, by offering fourteen exploratory essays, each of which focuses on an aspect of Jewish law, broadly understood. Each chapter is a self-contained journey, as it were, into a feature of the Jewish legal landscape. In other words, rather than taking a...

   Published March 18th 2012 by Routledge
5. Windows onto Jewish Legal Culture Volume 2

   Fourteen Exploratory Essays

   Edited by Hanina Ben-Menahem, Arye Edrei, Neil S. Hecht

   This book opens windows onto Jewish legal culture, by offering fourteen exploratory essays, each of which focuses on an aspect of Jewish law, broadly understood. Each chapter is a self-contained journey, as it were, into a feature of the Jewish legal landscape. In other words, rather than taking a...

   Published March 18th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Quest for Jewish Assimilation in Modern Social Science

   By Amos Morris-Reich

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   The transformation of the human sciences into the social sciences in the third part of the 19th century was closely related to attempts to develop and implement methods for dealing with social tensions and the rationalization of society. This book studies the connections between academic...

   Published March 12th 2012 by Routledge
7. Jesus among the Jews

   Representation and Thought

   Edited by Neta Stahl

   Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

   For almost two thousand years, various images of Jesus accompanied Jewish thought and imagination: a flesh-and-blood Jew, a demon, a spoiled student, an idol, a brother, a (failed) Messiah, a nationalist rebel, a Greek god in Jewish garb, and more. This volume charts for the first time the...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
8. War and Peace in Jewish Tradition

   From the Biblical World to the Present

   Edited by Yigal Levin, Amnon Shapira

   Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

   The transition between the reality of war and a hope for peace has accompanied the Jewish people since biblical times. However, the ways in which both concepts are understood have changed many times over the ages, and both have different implications for an independent nation in its own land than...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
9. The Jewish Law Annual Volume 19

   Edited by Berachyahu Lifshitz

   Series: Jewish Law Annual

   Volume 19 of The Jewish Law Annual is a festschrift in honor of Professor Neil S. Hecht. It contains thirteen articles, ten in English and three in Hebrew. Several articles are jurisprudential in nature, focusing on analysis of halakhic institutions and concepts. Elisha Ancselovits discusses the...

   Published November 29th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
10. Transcending Trauma

    Survival, Resilience, and Clinical Implications in Survivor Families

    By Bea Hollander-Goldfein, Nancy Isserman, Jennifer Goldenberg

    Series: Routledge Psychosocial Stress Series

    Based on twenty years of intense qualitative research, Transcending Trauma presents an integrated model of coping and adaptation after trauma that incorporates the best of recent work in the field with the expanded insights offered by Holocaust survivors. In the book’s vignettes and interview...

    Published November 1st 2011 by Routledge