Jewish Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Jews and Jewishness in British Children’s Literature

   By Madelyn Travis

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   In a period of ongoing debate about faith, identity, migration and culture, this timely study explores the often politicised nature of constructions of one of Britain’s longest standing minority communities. Representations in children’s literature influenced by the impact of the Enlightenment, the...

   Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
2. Holy Places in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

   Confrontation and Co-existence

   Edited by Marshall J. Breger, Yitzhak Reiter, Leonard Hammer

   Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics

   This book addresses the major generators of conflict and toleration at shared holy places in Palestine and Israel. Examining the religious, political and legal issues, the authors show how the holy sites have been a focus of both conflict and cooperation between different communities. Bringing...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
3. Jewish Blood

   Reality and metaphor in history, religion and culture

   Edited by Mitchell Hart

   Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

   This book deals with the Jewish engagement with blood: animal and human, real and metaphorical. Concentrating on the meaning or significance of blood in Judaism, the book moves this highly controversial subject away from its traditional focus, exploring how Jews themselves engage with blood and its...

   Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
4. Engaging with a Legacy: Nehemia Levtzion (1935-2003)

   Edited by E. Ann McDougall

   Engaging with a Legacy shows how Nehemia Levtzion shaped our understanding of Islam in Africa and influenced successive scholarly generations in their approach to Islamization, conversion and fundamentalism. The book illuminates his work, career and family life – including his own ‘life vision’ on...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Rise of Modern Jewish Politics

   Extraordinary Movement

   By C.S. Monaco

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

   The path toward modern Jewish politics, a process that required a dramatic reconstruction of Jewish life, may have emerged during a far earlier time frame and in a different geographic and cultural context than has previously been thought. Drawing upon current sociological understanding of social...

   Published November 26th 2012 by Routledge
6. Modern Gnosis and Zionism

   The Crisis of Culture, Life Philosophy and Jewish National Thought

   By Yotam Hotam

   Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

   In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the German intellectual world was challenged by a growing distrust in the rational ideals of the enlightenment, and consequently by a belief in the existence of a radical ‘cultural crisis’. One response to this crisis was the emergence of ‘Life...

   Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
7. Risky Genes

   Genetics, Breast Cancer and Jewish Identity

   By Jessica Mozersky

   Series: Genetics and Society

   Ashkenazi Jews have the highest known population risk of carrying specific mutations in the high-risk breast cancer genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2. So what does it mean to be told you have an increased risk of genetic breast cancer because you are of Ashkenazi Jewish origin? In a time of ever-increasing...

   Published August 6th 2012 by Routledge
8. 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 June 13th 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish
9. 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
10. 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