An exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of "The Guide of the Perplexed", from one of the world's foremost bibliophiles. Moses ben Maimon, or Maimonides (1138-1204), was born in Cordoba, Spain...

The fifth volume of the Posen Library demonstrates through a rich array of texts and images the extraordinary diversity of Jewish life during the early modern period. The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 5, covering the early...

Kraus's iconic WWI drama, a satirical indictment of the glory of war, now in English in its entirety for the first time. One hundred years after Austrian satirist Karl Kraus began writing his dramatic masterpiece, "The Last Days of Mankind" remains...

A spirited dive into the life and career of a performer, writer, and director who dominated twentieth-century American comedy. Mel Brooks, born Melvin Kaminsky in Brooklyn in 1926, is one of the great comic voices of the twentieth century. Having w...

A provocative manifesto, arguing for a new understanding of the Jews' peoplehood. Today there are two seemingly mutually exclusive notions of what "the Jews" are: either a religion or a nation/ethnicity. The widespread conception is that the Jews we...

An innovative study of Yiddish literature that reveals the impact of anarchist movements and refugee organizing on Jewish literary history. Spanning the last two centuries, this fascinating work combines archival research on the radical press and c...

A moving, deeply researched account of survivors' experiences of liberation from Nazi death camps and the long, difficult years that followed. When tortured inmates of Hitler's concentration and extermination camps were liberated in 1944 and 1945,...

A wide-ranging exploration of the story of Ruth, a foreigner who became the founding mother of the Davidic dynasty. The biblical Ruth has inspired numerous readers from diverse cultural backgrounds across many centuries. In this insightful volume,...

Nazi Germany killed approximately 13 million civilians and other non-combatants in deliberate policies of mass murder, mostly during the war years. Almost half the victims were Jewish, systematically destroyed in the Holocaust, the core of the Nazis'...

An investigation into the transformation of publishing in the United States from a field in which Jews were systematically excluded to one in which they became ubiquitous. In the 1960s and 1970s, complaints about a "Jewish literary mafia" were ever...