|
Jewish Studies
Books from the University of Washington Press including The Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
After Rabin
New Art from Israel
Susan Tumarkin Goodman
This handsome catalogue portrays the vitality and innovation that
characterize the work of 36 artists who currently live in Israel. It seeks
to capture the flavor of a turbulent, splintered time in Israeli society
since the death of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995.
Dist. for Jewish Museum
1999. 112 pp., 69 illus., 35 in color, bibliog.
0-87334-076-0 Paper, $19.95
Along the Edge
of Annihilation
The Collapse and Recovery
of Life in the Holocaust Diary
David Patterson
This extraordinary book is based on more than fifty diaries of Jewish
Holocaust victims of all ages, written while the events described were
actually taking place. It is organized around a series of themes that lead
to a deeper understanding of the meaning of these works for both their
writers and their readers, affirming the Holocaust diary as a form of
spiritual resistance.
A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book
1999. 328 pp., notes, bibliog., index
0-295-97782-5 Cloth, $35.00s
0-295-97783-3 Paper, $19.95
Change within Tradition
among Jewish Women
in Libya
Rachel Simon
"The first historical study devoted to Jewish women for any Middle Eastern
country in the modern period and one of only a few scholarly works on the
history of Middle Eastern women."
--American Historical
Review
A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book
1992. 230 pp., illus., map, bibliog., index
0-295-97167-3 Cloth, $30.00s
Doors to Madame Marie
Odette Meyers
This eloquent and spirited first-person narrative of a young Jewish girl's
coming of age in occupied France recounts her own family's difficult and
brave survival and portrays as well the love and quiet heroism of her
rescuers. Odette Meyer's gripping memoir provides a fascinating portrait
of wartime France from the unusual perspective of a Jew whose life was
permitted to go on.
A McLellan Book
1997. 400 pp., illus.
0-295-97576-8 Cloth, $24.95
Essential Outsiders
Chinese and Jews in the Modern Transformation
of Southeast Asia
and Central Europe
Edited by Daniel Chirot
and Anthony Reid
The essays in this book explore the reasons why the Jews in Central Europe
and the Chinese in Southeast Asia have been both successful and
stigmatized, essential but not fully accepted. They offer insights into
the very formation of ethnic and national identities in the modern world
and ideas about when the process is likely to lead to either violent
social separation and conflict or peaceful accommodation.
Jackson School Publications
in International Studies
1997. 368 pp.
0-295-97613-6 Paper, $25.00s
Facing West
Oriental Jews of Central Asia
and the Caucasus
Valery Dymshits and
Tatjana Emelyanenko
Includes materials from the Russian Museum of Ethnography representing the
Tajik-speaking Bukharan Jews of Central Asia, the Tat-speaking Mountain
Jews of Eastern Caucasia, and the Georgian-speaking Jews of Georgia. These
are probably the only Jewish communities of the former Soviet Union that
continue to live in the same areas.
Dist. for Waanders Publishers
1998. 128 pp., 113 illus., 41 in color, maps, notes, glossary,
index
90-400-9216-8 Paper, $30.00
Gender and Assimilation
in Modern Jewish History
The Roles and Representation of Women
Paula E. Hyman
"In this highly important, lucidly written study, Hyman, a pioneer of the
contemporary Jewish women's movement, reconsiders central themes of modern
Jewish history from a gendered perspective. . . . No student of modern
Jewry can ignore this work."--Choice
Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures
in Jewish Studies
1995. 208 pp., bibliog., index
0-295-97426-5 Paper, $14.95s
Global Diasporas
An Introduction
Robin Cohen
In a perceptive and arresting analysis, Robin Cohen introduces a new
approach to the study of world diasporas. The book investigates the
changing meanings of diaspora and the contemporary diasporic condition,
with case studies of Jews, Armenians, Africans, British, Indians,
Lebanese, and Caribbean peoples.
Global Diasporas
1997. 241 pp., tables, notes, bibliog., index
0-295-97620-9 Paper, $19.95s
Historical Atlas of East Central Europe
Paul Robert Magocsi
"A masterful job in covering a huge area through 1,600 years of history. .
. . [this atlas] will become the standard work in the area, a magnificent
introduction to the subject."--Slavic Review
A History of East Central Europe I
1993. 232 pp., 89 color maps, tables, appendix, bibliog., index
0-295-97445-1 Paper, $39.95
I. L. Peretz and the Making of
Modern Jewish Culture
Ruth R. Wisse
"Focuses on I.L. Peretz (1851-1915), who stood at the intellectual center
of Yiddish culture and literature. . . . Anyone interested in Jewish
literature, history, or politics will find Wisse's scholarly study of
Peretz's life and ideas and her analysis of his stories fascinating
reading."--Booklist
Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures
in Jewish Studies
1991. 146 pp., notes, index
0-295-97089-8 Cloth, $20.00s
I'm No Hero
The Journeys
of a Holocaust Survivor
Henry Friedman
In this moving memoir of a Holocaust survivor, Friedman confronts with
unblinking honesty the pain, the shame, and occasionally the bizarre
comedy of his passage to adulthood.
A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book
1999. 208 pp., illus.
0-295-97801-5 Cloth, $24.95
Images of Sephardi
and Eastern Jewries
in Transition
The Teachers of the Alliance Israélite Universelle,
1860-1939
Aron Rodrigue
"The Alliance Israélite Universelle used local Jews to spread the
ideas and the language of the French Revolution. . . . Judiciously
selected from a huge archive of raw material . . . it shows a
less-than-naive understanding of Arab and Muslim society that is
still valuable and challenges ignorance about the Middle
East."--Choice
1993. 336 pp., 30 illus., map, tables, notes, bibliog., index
0-295-97281-5 Cloth, $40.00s
Imagining Russian Jewry
Memory, History, Identity
Steven J. Zipperstein
This book explores the imprint left by the Russian Jewish past on
American Jews starting from the turn of the 20th century,
considering literature ranging from immigrant novels to Fiddler on
the Roof.
"This remarkably insightful work . . . takes us, with stylistic
clarity and scholarly self-control, into a startlingly new and
challenging landscape of Jewish history and history writing."--Chaim
Potok
Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures
in Jewish Studies
1999. 152 pp., notes, bibliog., index
0-295-97789-2 Cloth, $30.00s
0-295-97790-6 Paper, $14.95s
Jewish Identity
in the Modern World
Michael A. Meyer
"Professor Meyer attempts to convey the primary experiences that
have shaped Jewish history and identity since the beginning of the
modern era. . . . Meyer's book is provocative. . . . [It] reframes
old arguments into new ways of looking at Israeli-diaspora
relations."
--Jewish Post and Opinion
Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures
in Jewish Studies
1990. 120 pp., bibliog., index
0-295-97000-6 Cloth, $20.00s
Judaism and Hellenism
in Antiquity
Conflict or Confluence?
Lee I. Levine
This book examines the influence of Greco-Roman culture on Jewish
society from the aftermath of Alexander's conquest to the Byzantine
era. It offers a balanced view of the literary, epigraphical, and
archeological evidence attesting to the process of Hellenization in
Jewish life and its impact on several aspects of Judaism as we know
it today.
Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures
in Jewish Studies
1998. 248 pp., 28 illus., map, notes, bibliog., index
0-295-97682-9 Paper, $20.00s
The Kiss of God
Spiritual and Mystical Death in Judaism
Michael Fishbane
"This study, focusing upon the themes of love and death, and love
unto death, as reflected in spiritual growth and martyrological
ideals, reveals, in a remarkable manner, a transcendent aspect of
Jewish spirituality."
--Religious Studies Review
Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures
in Jewish Studies
1994. 168 pp., notes, index
0-295-97555-5 Paper, $10.95s
The Last Exodus
Leonard Schroeter
"The Last Exodus ranks among the important books of Jewish interest
in recent years. . . . An invaluable source of information to anyone
concerned with recent Jewish or, for that matter, Soviet
history."--Commentary
1974. 1979. 444 pp., notes
0-295-95685-2 Paper, $10.95s
Life? or Theatre?
Charlotte Salomon
Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943) was a painter from Berlin who fled
Nazi Germany in 1939 and spent the last years of her life at her
grandparents' home in southern France. Her grandmother's suicide led
her to paint a dramatized autobiography in an extensive series of
gouaches.
Dist. for Waanders Publishers
1999. 832 pp., 895 illus., 784 in color
90-400-9286-9 Paper, $50.00
Orphan Objects
Facets of the Textiles Collection
of the Joods Historisch
Museum,
Amsterdam
Daniel M. Swetschinski
This selection from the textile collection of Amsterdam's Jewish
Historical Museum illustrates ritual objects as workaday items
illustrating the life and history of the Jews.
Dist. for Waanders
Publishers
1998. 248 pp., 170 color illus., bibliog., glossary, notes, index
90-400-9953-7 Cloth, $75.00
Portrait of American Jews
The Last Half of the Twentieth Century
Samuel C. Heilman
Has America been a place that has preserved and protected Jewish
life? Is it a place in which a Jewish future is ensured? Samuel
Heilman, long-time observer of American Jewish life, grapples with
these questions from a sociologist's perspective. He argues that the
same conditions that have allowed Jews to live in relative security
since the 1950s have also presented them with a greater challenge
than did the adversity and upheaval of earlier years.
Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures
in Jewish Studies
1995. 208 pp., notes, index
0-295-97470-2 Cloth, $30.00s
0-295-97471-0 Paper, $17.95s
Recent Archaeological
Discoveries
and Biblical Research
William G. Dever
"[A] provocative and often insightful volume. . . . The book's
central chapters describe in illuminating detail how the results of
recent . . . excavations affect our understanding of three major
issues and periods in the history of Israel. Dever's firsthand
knowledge of the material is everywhere apparent, and his
presentation of important new data is characteristically lucid."
--Biblical Archaeology Review
Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures
in Jewish Studies
1989. 200 pp., 65 illus., maps, index
0-295-97261-0 Paper, $14.95s
A Sephardi Life
in Southeastern Europe
The Autobiography and Journals
of
Gabriel Arié,1863-1939
Edited by Esther Benbassa
and Aron Rodrigue
Autobiographical texts are rare in the Sephardic world. This book
publishes in full the autobiography (covering the years 1863 to 1906)
and yearly journals (1906-1939) of Gabriel Arié, whose writings
express
the double, divided, and dissonant existence of a Westernized Jew in the
Levantine world.
A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book
1998. 333 pp., 14 illus., map, bibliog., indexes
0-295-97674-8 Paper, $25.00s
Zakhor
Jewish History and Jewish Memory
Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
Foreword by Harold Bloom
"Mr. Yerushalmi's previous writings . . . established him as one of the
Jewish community's most important historians. His latest book should
establish him as one of its most important critics. Zakhor is
historical
thinking of a very high order--mature speculation based on massive
scholarship."--New York Times Book Review
Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures
in Jewish Studies
1982. 154 pp., notes, index
0-295-97519-9 Paper, $13.95s
|
|
Books and Media
- New Releases
- Seasonal Catalogs
- Subject Catalogs
- Recent Award Winners
- UWP Series
- Electronic Media
- Books in Print
Sales and Marketing
- Ordering Information
- Order Form
- Sales Representatives
- AAUP Online Catalog
Inside the Press
- Contacting the Press
- Guide for Authors
- Conference Schedule
- Press Development
|
