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Routledge Jewish Studies Series


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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.

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The Poetry and Essays of Uri Zvi Grinberg Politics and Zionism

The Poetry and Essays of Uri Zvi Grinberg: Politics and Zionism

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Tamar Wolf-Monzon
April 30, 2024

This book focuses on the complex network of relationships between the poet Uri Zvi Grinberg and the Labor Movement in Mandate Palestine from 1923 to 1937. Making use of letters found in the Uri Zvi Grinberg Archive at the National Library of Israel (NLI), the author reconstructs the characteristics...

Jewish Women Between Conformity and Agency

Jewish Women: Between Conformity and Agency

1st Edition

By Katharina Galor
December 15, 2023

Jewish Women: Between Conformity and Agency examines the concepts of gender and sexuality through the primary lens of visual and material culture from antiquity through to the present day. The backbone of this transhistorical and transcontextual study is the question of Jewish women’s agency in ...

Jewish Hungarian Orthodoxy Piety and Zealotry

Jewish Hungarian Orthodoxy: Piety and Zealotry

1st Edition

By Menachem Keren-Kratz
November 30, 2023

Beginning with the informal establishment of Jewish Orthodoxy by a Hungarian rabbi in the early nineteenth century, this book traces the history and legacy of Jewish Hungarian Orthodoxy over the course of the last 200 years. To date, no single book has provided a comprehensive overview of the ...

Contemporary Israeli Haredi Society Profiles, Trends, and Challenges

Contemporary Israeli Haredi Society: Profiles, Trends, and Challenges

1st Edition

Edited By Kimmy Caplan, Nissim Leon
September 29, 2023

This edited volume offers profiles of contemporary Israeli Haredi (i.e., Jewish Ultra-Orthodox) society from several disciplinary points of view, resisting a generalized approach and examining the different, sometimes competing currents, that define it. It is argued that Haredi society has ...

Postmodern Love in the Contemporary Jewish Imagination Negotiating Spaces and Identities

Postmodern Love in the Contemporary Jewish Imagination: Negotiating Spaces and Identities

1st Edition

By Efraim Sicher
September 25, 2023

Offering a radical critique of contemporary Israeli and diaspora fiction by major writers of the generation after Amos Oz and Philip Roth, this book asks searching questions about identity formation in Jewish spaces in the twenty-first century and posits global, transnational identities instead of ...

The Environment and Literature of Moral Dilemmas From Adam to Michael K

The Environment and Literature of Moral Dilemmas: From Adam to Michael K

1st Edition

By David Aberbach
May 31, 2023

Exploring the literature of environmental moral dilemmas from the Hebrew Bible to modern times, this book argues the necessity of cross-disciplinary approaches to environmental studies, as a subject affecting everyone, in every aspect of life. Moral dilemmas are central in the literary genre of ...

Bialik, the Hebrew Bible and the Literature of Nationalism

Bialik, the Hebrew Bible and the Literature of Nationalism

1st Edition

By David Aberbach
May 25, 2023

This book explores the life and poetry of Chaim Nachman Bialik (1873–1934) in the context of European national literature between the French Revolution and World War I, showing how he helped create a modern Hebrew national culture, spurring the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language. The author ...

Israeli Theatre Mizrahi Jews and Self-Representation

Israeli Theatre: Mizrahi Jews and Self-Representation

1st Edition

By Naphtaly Shem-Tov
January 09, 2023

This book conceptualizes Mizrahi (Middle Eastern Jewish) theatre, unfolding its performances in the field of Israeli theatre with a critical gaze. It covers the conceptualization and typology, not along a chronological axis, but rather through seven theatrical forms. The author suggests a defi ...

The Philosophy of Joseph B. Soloveitchik

The Philosophy of Joseph B. Soloveitchik

1st Edition

By Heshey Zelcer, Mark Zelcer
January 09, 2023

Providing a concise but comprehensive overview of Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s larger philosophical program, this book studies one of the most important modern Orthodox Jewish thinkers. It incorporates much relevant biographical, philosophical, religious, legal, and historical background so that the ...

Birth-Throes of the Israeli Homeland The Concept of Moledet

Birth-Throes of the Israeli Homeland: The Concept of Moledet

1st Edition

By David Ohana
December 19, 2022

The book brings forth various perspectives on the Israeli "homeland" (moledet) from various known Israeli intellectuals such as Boaz Evron, Menachem Brinker, Jacqueline Kahanoff and more. Binding together various academic fields to deal with the question of the essence of the Israeli homeland: from...

Early Israel Cultic Praxis, God, and the Sôd Hypothesis

Early Israel: Cultic Praxis, God, and the Sôd Hypothesis

1st Edition

By Alex Shalom Kohav
November 29, 2022

Early Israel offers the most sweeping reinterpretation of the Pentateuch since the nineteenth-century Documentary Hypothesis. Engaging a dozen-plus modern academic disciplines—from anthropology, biblical studies, Egyptology and semiotics, to linguistics, cognitive poetics and consciousness studies;...

The Hebrew Bible, Nationalism and the Origins of Anti-Judaism A New Interpretation and Poetic Anthology

The Hebrew Bible, Nationalism and the Origins of Anti-Judaism: A New Interpretation and Poetic Anthology

1st Edition

By David Aberbach
October 31, 2022

In the attempts to unify divided peoples on the basis of a shared past, both historical and mythical, this book illumines aspects of cultural nationalism common since the Middle Ages.   As an edited work, the Bible includes texts mostly depicting long-gone historical eras extending over several ...

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