The Penn Press spring 2008 catalog announces Against the Wall, a wide-ranging series of essays, edited by Elijah Anderson, that look at the plight and prospects of young black urban men; Mapping Decline, by Colin Gordon, an illustrated history of urban decay in St. Louis; and Almost a Dynasty, by William Kashatus, about the world champion 1980 Philadelphia Phillies. Among many other notable new titles for the season are these: new editions of The Business of Sports Agents and The Academic Job Search Handbook; Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe; and Place and Memory in the Singing Crane Garden.
Titles from the Penn Press catalog, grouped by subject.
Bartal/Naor, The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881 (2005)
Berkovitz, Rites and Passages: The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Culture in France, 1650-1860 (2004)
Boyarin, Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity (2004)
Brann/Sutcliffe, Renewing the Past, Reconfiguring Jewish Culture: From al-Andalus to the Haskalah (2003)
Chajes, Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism (2003)
Cohen, Sanctifying the Name of God: Jewish Martyrs and Jewish Memories of the First Crusade (2004)
Coudert/Shoulson, Hebraica Veritas?: Christian Hebraists and the Study of Judaism in Early Modern Europe (2004)
Feiner/Naor, The Jewish Enlightenment (2003)
Ferziger, Exclusion and Hierarchy: Orthodoxy, Nonobservance, and the Emergence of Modern Jewish Identity (2005)
Goluboff, Jewish Russians: Upheavals in a Moscow Synagogue (2002)
Goodich, Other Middle Ages: Witnesses at the Margins of Medieval Society (1998)
Graizbord, Souls in Dispute: Converso Identities in Iberia and the Jewish Diaspora, 1580-1700 (2003)
Halperin-Kaddari, Women in Israel: A State of Their Own (2003)
Kessler, Spiritual Seeing: Picturing God's Invisibility in Medieval Art (2000)
Lampert, Gender and Jewish Difference from Paul to Shakespeare (2004)
McCracken, The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero: Blood, Gender, and Medieval Literature (2003)
Mulisch/Naborn, Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann: An Eyewitness Account (2005)
Poliakov/Howard, The History of Anti-Semitism, Volume I: From the Time of Christ to the Court Jews (2003)
Poliakov/Gerardi, The History of Anti-Semitism, Volume II: From Mohammed to the Marranos (2003)
Poliakov/Kochan, The History of Anti-Semitism, Volume III: From Voltaire to Wagner (2003)
Poliakov/Klin, The History of Anti-Semitism, Volume IV: Suicidal Europe, 1870-1933 (2003)
Rosen, Unveiling Eve: Reading Gender in Medieval Hebrew Literature (2003)
Rubin, Gentile Tales: The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews (2004)
Ruderman/Veltri, Cultural Intermediaries: Jewish Intellectuals in Early Modern Italy (2004)
Silver, Transformations: Jews and Modernity (2001)
Trachtenberg, Jewish Magic and Superstition: A Study in Folk Religion (2004)
Westheimer, Musically Speaking: A Life Through Song (2003)
Yadin, Scripture as Logos: Rabbi Ishmael and the Origins of Midrash (2004)
Zakim, To Build and Be Built: Landscape, Literature, and the Construction of Zionist Identity (2006)
Zlotnick, Dinah's Daughters: Gender and Judaism from the Hebrew Bible to Late Antiquity (2002)
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