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Translating the Ketubah
The Jewish Marriage Contract in America and England
University of Alabama Press
Secrets I Won't Take with Me
Home, War, and the Struggle for Peace in Israel
By Yossi Beilin
University of Alabama Press
So We Died
A Memoir of Life and Death in the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania
By Levi Shalit; Translated by Veronica Belling, Ellen Cassedy, and Andrew Cassel; Introduction by Veronica Belling; Afterword by Justin Cammy
University of Alabama Press
A powerful eyewitness account of the Shavl ghetto in Nazi-occupied Lithuania
So We Died
A Memoir of Life and Death in the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania
By Levi Shalit; Translated by Veronica Belling, Ellen Cassedy, and Andrew Cassel; Introduction by Veronica Belling; Afterword by Justin Cammy
University of Alabama Press
Samson Raphael Hirsch's Religious Universalism and the German-Jewish Quest for Emancipation
University of Alabama Press
An account of how Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch promulgated an inclusive vision of Judaism in the context of advancing the civic equality of German Jews in the nineteenth century
Between Two Homelands
Argentine Migration to and from Israel
University of Alabama Press
Examines the experiences of thousands of Jewish Argentines migrated to and from Israel
Soloveitchik’s Children
Irving Greenberg, David Hartman, Jonathan Sacks, and the Future of Jewish Theology in America
University of Alabama Press
A close study of three of Soloveitchik’s most influential disciples in Jewish thought and philosophy
Soloveitchik's Children
Irving Greenberg, David Hartman, Jonathan Sacks, and the Future of Jewish Theology in America
University of Alabama Press
A close study of three of Soloveitchik’s most influential disciples in Jewish thought and philosophy
We Shall Build Anew
Stephen S. Wise, the Jewish Institute of Religion, and the Reinvention of American Liberal Judaism
University of Alabama Press
How Rabbi Stephen S. Wise changed the trajectory of American Reform Judaism over the course of the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first
Maurice Samuel
Life and Letters of a Secular Jewish Contrarian
University of Alabama Press
An intellectual biography that reassesses one of the premier Jewish humanists of the mid-twentieth century
The Sephardim in the Holocaust
A Forgotten People
University of Alabama Press
Documents the first-hand experiences in the Holocaust of the Sephardim from Greece, the Balkans, North Africa, Libya, Cos, and Rhodes
Zionism and the Melting Pot
Preachers, Pioneers, and Modern Jewish Politics
University of Alabama Press
Traces the roots of ideologies and outlooks that shape Jewish life in Israel and the United States today
Polacos in Argentina
Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture
University of Alabama Press
An examination of the social and cultural repercussions of Jewish emigration from Poland to Argentina in the 1920s and 1930s
Cosella Wayne
Or, Will and Destiny
By Cora WIlburn; Edited by Jonathan D. Sarna
University of Alabama Press
The first novel written and published in English by an American Jewish woman
A New Vision of Southern Jewish History
Studies in Institution Building, Leadership, Interaction, and Mobility
By Mark K. Bauman; Foreword by Ronald H. Bayor
University of Alabama Press
Essays from a prolific career that challenge and overturn traditional narratives of southern Jewish history
To Stand Aside or Stand Alone
Southern Reform Rabbis and the Civil Rights Movement
By P. Allen Krause; Edited by Mark K. Bauman and Stephen Krause; Introduction by P. Allen Krause and Mark K. Bauman
University of Alabama Press
To Stand Aside or Stand Alone is a landmark collection of previously unpublished interviews with Reform rabbis concerning their roles in the civil rights movement.
The Essential Hayim Greenberg
Essays and Addresses on Jewish Culture, Socialism, and Zionism
Edited by Mark A. Raider; Introduction by Mark A. Raider; Foreword by Paul Mendes-Flohr; By Hayim Greenberg
University of Alabama Press
This landmark collection showcases the writings of Hayim Greenberg, a founder of the Labor Zionist movement in America and a foremost writer, thinker, and activist in the fields of twentieth-century Jewish culture and politics.
Edgar and Brigitte
A German Jewish Passage to America
By Rosemarie Bodenheimer; Afterword by Rosemarie Bodenheimer
University of Alabama Press
A consummate story of change and adjustment, integration and melding
Memories of Two Generations
A Yiddish Life in Russia and Texas
By Alexander Z. Gurwitz; Edited by Bryan Edward Stone; Translated by Amram Prero; Introduction by Bryan Edward Stone; Preface by Alexander Z. Gurwitz
University of Alabama Press
The 1935 autobiography of Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz, an Orthodox Jew whose lively recounting of his life in Tsarist Russia and his immigration to San Antonio, Texas, in 1910 captures turbulent changes in early twentieth-century Jewish history
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