Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

A Jewish Life on Three Continents: The Memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden by Menachem Mendel Frieden

A Jewish Life on Three Continents: The Memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Menachem Mendel Frieden

520 pages • hardcover

nonfiction memoir reflective medium-paced
The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule by Paris Papamichos Chronakis

The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Paris Papamichos Chronakis

416 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction history
Laws of the Spirit: Ritual, Mysticism, and the Commandments in Early Hasidism by Ariel Evan Mayse

Laws of the Spirit: Ritual, Mysticism, and the Commandments in Early Hasidism

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Ariel Evan Mayse

402 pages • digital • 2024

nonfiction religion
Inventing the Israelite: Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France by Maurice Samuels

Inventing the Israelite: Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Maurice Samuels

336 pages • hardcover • 2009

nonfiction history literary
Homes Away from Home: Jewish Belonging in Twentieth-Century Paris, Berlin, and St. Petersburg by Sarah Wobick-Segev

Homes Away from Home: Jewish Belonging in Twentieth-Century Paris, Berlin, and St. Petersburg

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Sarah Wobick-Segev

312 pages • digital • 2018

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
From Kabbalah to Class Struggle: Expressionism, Marxism, and Yiddish Literature in the Life and Work of Meir Wiener by Mikhail Krutikov

From Kabbalah to Class Struggle: Expressionism, Marxism, and Yiddish Literature in the Life and Work of Meir Wiener

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Mikhail Krutikov

408 pages • digital • 2010

nonfiction biography literary informative reflective medium-paced
Mixing Musics: Turkish Jewry and the Urban Landscape of a Sacred Song by Maureen Jackson

Mixing Musics: Turkish Jewry and the Urban Landscape of a Sacred Song

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Maureen Jackson

272 pages • digital • 2013

nonfiction history music challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Jewish Pasts, German Fictions: History, Memory, and Minority Culture in Germany, 1824-1955 by Jonathan Skolnik

Jewish Pasts, German Fictions: History, Memory, and Minority Culture in Germany, 1824-1955

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Jonathan Skolnik

280 pages • hardcover • 2014

nonfiction history literary informative reflective medium-paced
Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature: A Reader by Maurice Samuels, Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess

Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Maurice Samuels, Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess

469 pages • hardcover • 2013

fiction classics literary medium-paced
Reading Israel, Reading America: The Politics of Translation Between Jews by Omri Asscher

Reading Israel, Reading America: The Politics of Translation Between Jews

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Omri Asscher

256 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction literary sociology reflective medium-paced