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From Kabbalah to Class Struggle is an intellectual biography of Meir Wiener (1893-1941), a Austrian Jewish intellectual and a student of Jewish mysticism, who emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1926 and reinvented himself as a Marxist scholar and Yiddish writer.

Reconstructing Ashkenaz shows that, contrary to traditional historical accounts, the Jews of western Europe in the High Middle Ages were not a society of saints and martyrs.

"Original title: Herkunft und Textkultur: euber jeudische Erfahrungswelten in romanischen Literaturen 1499-1627."

"Originally published in French in 2012 under the title Les juifs et la Bible."

Promised Land questions the prevailing assumption that Eastern European Jews were motivated by Zionism to immigrate to Palestine in the early twentieth century.

A deeply researched and revealing study of the Jews of Moravia throughout the nineteenth century.

"Originally published in Hebrew in 2008 under the title Brenner: Sippur hayim."

This is the second volume of an unabridged, critical edition of Pauline Wengeroff's Memoirs of a Grandmother, the only full-scale memoir by a woman to chronicle Russian Jewish society's shift from traditionalism to modernity through the experience of women and families.

Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age examines the nexus of new media and memory practices through an in-depth study of the Shoah Visual History Archive, the world's largest and most widely available collection of video interviews with Holocaust survivors, to understand how advances in digital technologies impact the practice of Holocaust remembrance.

Confessions of the Shtetl explores Jewish conversions to a variety of Christian confessions in the Russian empire, with special attention to the relations of trust and attraction between Jews and Christians that facilitated religious conversions in the provincial heartland of Jewish Eastern Europe.

"Originally published in French under the title Histoire des grand-parents que je n'ai pas eus."

The Full Severity of Compassion is both a modular retrospective of Yehuda Amichai's poetric project and a reassessment-by attending closely to the theory embedded in the poetry-of major issues in contemporary literary studies, from the politics of form to radical allusion, and from metaphor to translation.

The book explores the drama of the Hebrew poetry coping with the violence of the Holocaust and the Israel-Arab war.

This book brings together a uniquely wide variety of sources, including historical chronicles, gravestones, ritual objects, liturgy, popular songs and more, to sketch a portrait of the ways in which Jews of this storied, populous, understudied community preserved their own local history and sought to transmit it to future generations.

This book seeks to revolutionize the way scholars use the treasure trove of the Cairo Geniza, the largest and richest store of documentary evidence for the medieval Islamic world.

The book explores the Christian interest in and engagement with the Yiddish language and literature in early modern Germany (ca. 1500-1750).

The book traces how German and French Jews employed anti-Catholic polemics to create their own visions of modernity, national belonging, and proper religiosity from the Enlightenment to the early twentieth century.

Through an examination of North African Jewish youth practices in Paris, Rhinestones explains the production of race, alienation, and intolerance within an understudied European minority population.

This is a study of German historical novels about Jewish history from the 1800s through the Holocaust.

In History's Grip is a study of three novels by Philip Roth-American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, and The Human Stain-showing that they are built upon the notion of history as disruptive for individuals, cities, and nations and exploring their place in Roth's career.

A pioneering biography of Nathan Birnbaum, one of the central but largely forgotten founders of Zionism, leader in Jewish nationalism, and theoretician of Orthodox political activism.

This is a revolutionary work in the study of Yiddish literature and post-colonial theory, offering a new methodology for comparative research, a new definition of literary modernism, and an unprecedented juxtaposition of Jewish Studies with African literature.

Music from a Speeding Train challenges the view that there was no Jewish culture in the Soviet Union by exploring over one hundred Russian and Yiddish works from the 1920s to the turn of the 21st century.

This book argues that the representation of Jews in European literature has little to do with actual, human Jews, but rather is derived from the conception of Jews as Christianity's paradigmatic Other, eternally reenacting their morally ambiguous New Testament role as the Christ-bearing and -killing chosen people of God.