You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
In a memorable scene in Schindler's List, viewers the world over witnessed the miracle of two Jews being wed clandestinely in the Plaszow concentration camp.Those two were Joseph and Rebecca Bau.In this memoir, filled with his stories and drawings, Joseph Bau tells of their love, finding beauty and wonder in a time of horror. Whether recounting the bombing of Krakow, is brother's daring exploits in the ghetto, the brutality of the camp, or the harsh last days at Schindler's factory, Bau balances the grimness of events with the humor, resiliency, and love that helped him transcend the unspeakable.
In the years leading to the birth of Israel, Zerubavel shows, Zionist settlers in Palestine consciously sought to rewrite Jewish history by reshaping Jewish memory. Zerubavel focuses on the nationalist reinterpretation of the defense of Masada against the Romans in 73 C.E. and the Bar Kokhba revolt of 133-135; and on the transformation of the 1920 defense of a new Jewish settlement in Tel Hai into a national myth.
This volume explores perceptions of the "Jewish body" in variety of early modern Jewish sources. It discusses, among other topics, ideas of the ideal body in normative sources, the influence of Kabbalistic ideas on Jewish-Christian discourse and the link between melancholy and exile.
None
Announcements for the following year included in some vols.
Yiddish in Israel: A History challenges the commonly held view that Yiddish was suppressed or even banned by Israeli authorities for ideological reasons, offering instead a radical new interpretation of the interaction between Yiddish and Israeli Hebrew cultures. Author Rachel Rojanski tells the compelling and yet unknown story of how Yiddish, the most widely used Jewish language in the pre-Holocaust world, fared in Zionist Israel, the land of Hebrew. Following Yiddish in Israel from the proclamation of the State until today, Rojanski reveals that although Israeli leadership made promoting Hebrew a high priority, it did not have a definite policy on Yiddish. The language's varying fortune th...