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Jewish Studies, the first volume in a groundbreaking new series, Key Words in Jewish Studies, introduces the basic approach of the series by organizing discussion around key concepts in the field that have emerged over the last two centuries: history and science, race and religion, self and community, identity and memory. The book is oriented by contemporary critical theory, especially feminist and postcolonial studies, and the multidisciplinary approaches of cultural studies. By looking backward and forward-and across continents and disciplines-to unearth the evolution of the scholarly study of Jews, Andrew Bush provides a comprehensive introduction to the development of Jewish studies from the turn of the nineteenth century to the present. In the course of engaging scholarship on periods from the classical to the contemporary and from the disciplines of history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and literary studies, Bush questions male-dominated and Ashkenazi-centric visions of the field. He concludes with an experimental exposition of a new Jewish studies for a time where attention to difference has overtaken the security of canons and commonalities.

Jews --- Judaism --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Religions --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Religion

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Charlotte Montefiore published 'A Few Words to the Jews' anonymously in 1853. The volume is a collection of essays on Anglo-Jewish life, covering topics including the Sabbath, Jewish women, religious reform & practice, Jewish materialism, immortality, the idea of truth, & religious festivals. The essays, like Montefiore's collection of short stories, 'The Cheap Jewish Library', & her novel, 'Caleb Asher', carry a strong message of social justice. Montefiore, a wealthy, aristocratic & influential Jew, was deeply involved in social welfare & the education of young people within her community, establishing a number of foundations to aid underprivileged Jews, including the Jewish Emigration Society. In this work, Montefiore argues her case against inequality & economic exploitation within Jewish communities. The work offers an insight into the life & politics of Victorian Jews.

Jews --- History --- Social conditions --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism

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The first full-scale history of the creation, growth, and ultimate decline of the dominant twentieth-century model for American Jewish education

Jews --- Education --- History --- Benderly, Samson, --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Benderli, Shimshon, --- בנדרלי, שמשון --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism

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Winner of the 2012 Jewish Journal Book Prize After her father's death, Nancy K. Miller discovered a minuscule family archive: a handful of photographs, an unexplained land deed, a postcard from Argentina, unidentified locks of hair. These items had been passed down again and again, but what did they mean? Miller follows their traces from one distant relative to another, across the country, and across an ocean. Her story, unlike the many family memoirs focused on the Holocaust, takes us back earlier in history to the world of pogroms and mass emigrations at the turn of the twentieth century. Se

Jews --- Jews, Moldovan --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Jews, Moldavian --- Moldovan Jews --- Miller, Nancy K., --- Kipnis family. --- Family.

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This volume is a unique investigation of contemporary Jewish life in a Muslim country and the first ethnography of the Persian-Jewish diaspora, giving the reader a deep appreciation of this relatively unknown culture. The author describes in detail traditional Jewish life in the provincial city of Shiraz and the challenges of coexistence with a Muslim majority.

Jews --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Social life and customs. --- Shīrāz (Iran) --- Shiraz --- Chimaz (Iran) --- Chiraz (Iran) --- Schiras (Iran) --- Shahrdārī-i Shīrāz (Iran) --- Sirâz (Iran)