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Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Volume IX
Oxford University Press 1993; US$ 144.99The essays contained in this yearbook examine the place of music in the process of Jewish assimilation into modern Europe, the role assigned to music in forging a new Jewish-Israel national identity, and the role of music in preserving a traditional Jewish lifestyle. more...
Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Volume XII
Oxford University Press 1996; US$ 119.99This volume of this series deals with Jewish identity in literature. Particular attention is paid to changing national and popular myths, folk memory, and the historical consciousness of Jews in modern times. more...
Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Volume XIX
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 124.99This volume offers a comparative view of alliances between Jewish communities and the state to show the price Jews paid for allying with unpopular regimes. The essays cover the American South, South Africa, Canada, Algeria, Morocco, Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Russia. more...
Studies in Contemporary Jewry
Oxford University Press 1999; US$ 97.99Like others in the series, this book presents current scholarship in the form of a symposium, essays, and book reviews by distinguished experts in Jewish studies from around the world. It is published annually by the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. more...
Jews and the Sporting Life
Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 54.99Symposium: Jews and the Sporting Life. Thoughts on the Jewish Body, Baseball, and the Problem of Integration, Sander L. Gilman (Emory University). Jews and Sports in Poland before the Second World War, Diethelm Blecking (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat). "Boxing for Everyone": Jewish DPs, Sports, and Boxing, Gabriel N. Finder (University of Virginia).... more...
Jews and Other Ethnic Groups in a Multi-ethnic World
Oxford University Press, USA 1987; US$ 110.99This series is published yearly by the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It is edited by Jonathan Frankel, Peter Medding, and Ezra Mendelsohn, all distinguished professors of history at The Hebrew University. Volume III, the first to be published by Oxford, includes symposia, articles, book reviews, and lists of... more...
On Modern Jewish Politics
Oxford University Press, USA 1993; US$ 49.99This book is a concise guide to and analysis of the complexities of modern Jewish politics in the interwar European and American diaspora. "Jewish politics" refers to the different and opposing visions of the Jewish future as formulated by various Jewish political parties and organizations and their efforts to implement their programs and... more...
Art and Its Uses
Oxford University Press, USA 1990; US$ 124.99The sixth volume of the annual publication of the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Art and Its Uses analyzes the levels of meaning present in a wide range of visual images, from high art by Jewish artists to Judaica, caricatures, and political propaganda. The use of such material to illuminate aspects of modern... more...
The Protestant-Jewish Conundrum
Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 54.99Volume XXIV of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry explores relations between Jews and Protestants in modern times. Far from monolithic, Protestantism has innumerable groupings within it, from the loosely organized Religious Society of Friends to the conservative Evangelicals of the Bible Belt, all of which hold a range of views... more...
The Jews and the European Crisis, 1914-1921
Oxford University Press, USA 1988; US$ 124.99This series is published yearly by the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It is edited by Jonathan Frankel, Peter Medding, and Ezra Mendelsohn, all distinguished professors of history at The Hebrew University. The volumes include symposia, articles, book reviews, and lists of recent dissertations by major scholars... more...









