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Recent Publications

It has been a banner year for new publications from the Frankel Center's dynamic faculty. The interdisciplinary nature of the program brings faculty from a range of disciplines together thus publications explore Jewish literature, culture, history and experience in the ancient and modern worlds. As the academic year continues, more volumes are expected - so check the listing frequently.

A sampling of the most recent publications includes:

Julian Levinson, Exiles on Mainstreet: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture (Indiana University Press, 2008).

Jonathan Freedman, Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity (Columbian University Press, 2007).

Anita Norich, Discovering Exile: Yiddish & Jewish American Culture During the Holocaust (Stanford University Press, 2007).

Zvi Gitelman, Revolution, Repression, & Revival: The Soviet Jewish Experience co-edited with Yaacov Ro'i (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).

Ruth Behar, An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba (Rutgers University Press, 2007)

Sara Blair, Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers & the Photograph in the Twentieth Century (Princeton University Press, 2007).

Gabriele Boccaccini Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man: Revisiting the Book of Parables(Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007).

Eileen Pollack, In the Mouth, including The Bris, featured in Best American Short Stories 2007 (Four Way Books, 2008).

Yaron Eliav God’s Mountain: The Temple Mount in Time, Place and Memory(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005).
2005 Winner of the Theology and Religious Studies Award from the Association of American Publishers.
2006 Winner of the Salo Baron Prize for the Best First Book in Judaic Studies from the American Academy of Jewish Research

Ruth Tsoffar The Stains of Culture: An Ethno-Reading of Karaite Jewish Women (Wayne State University Press, 2005).
2007 Winner of the Elli Kongas Maranda Prize from the Women's Section of the American Folklore Society.
2006 Finalist in the National Jewish Book Award in the category of Women's Studies

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