This short volume considers conversion in a Jewish context as broadly as possible, as an act of socioreligious boundary crossing. It charts how, across the long arc of Jewish history from biblical times to the present, patterns of boundary crossing have developed and shifted, whether of Gentiles entering Jewish life or of Jews exiting from it.

Class Cultures and Social Mobility tells the stories of people who grew up working-class, became the first of their family to graduate from college, and undertook professional work that serves working-class people, drawing upon their roots to construct careers aimed at building stability, mobility, and fulfillment for the next generation.

Chronicling the life of Korea’s “National Poet,” Yun Dong-ju (1917-1945), Song WooHye explores the historical and political backgrounds that influenced Yun’s development as a poet and a patriot. Universally acclaimed as the most comprehensive and definitive biography of the poet in South Korea, and now translated into English by Flora M. Kim, it is an indispensable guide to understanding Yun Dong-ju and Korea’s colonial period.
 

This book is published with the support of the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea). 

In these two stories, "Granny Wild Goose" and "The Root's Tale," award-winning South Korean writer Kim Soom presents portraits of complex women who have emerged wiser from life’s brutality. One is a former comfort woman, one is a modern woman in a failing relationship, yet neither flinches away from their lives. The sensitive translation maintains Kim’s beautiful imagery and musical prose.
 

In his poetry collection, Flatfish, Moon Tae-jun offers an aesthetic that emphasizes the author’s exploration of the inner self. At times sparse and allusive, his poems use blank space and other stylistic considerations to convey a voice and thought that ranges from the contemplative to the surreal and absurd. Moon’s poems suggest Buddhist ideologies, natural images, and Korean temples.

Economies of Gender: Masculinity, "Mail Order Brides," and Women’s Labor explores the global dating industry, challenging stereotypes by examining how men seek "feminine capital" in international partners. Through twelve years of research, the book reveals how gender, labor, and cultural dynamics shape relationships across different regions.

Economies of Gender: Masculinity, "Mail Order Brides," and Women’s Labor explores the global dating industry, challenging stereotypes by examining how men seek "feminine capital" in international partners. Through twelve years of research, the book reveals how gender, labor, and cultural dynamics shape relationships across different regions.

Unpacking My Father’s Bookstore brings to life the history of J. Roth / Bookseller of Fine & Scholarly Judaica, which was a microcosm of the Los Angeles Jewish community from 1966 to 1994 and one of the premier Jewish bookstores in the United States.

A powerful resource for classrooms and individual readers alike, The Nursing Clio Reader invites reflection on how the past informs current debates, urging us to engage deeply with the history of reproductive justice in a time of unprecedented change.