Jewish Culture and Contexts

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.

Jewish Culture and Contexts
Published in association with the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies of the University of Pennsylvania David B. Ruderman, Series Editor

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)

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)

Dohrmann/Stern, Jewish Biblical Interpretation and Cultural Exchange: Comparative Exegesis in Context (May 2008)

Feiner/Naor, The Jewish Enlightenment (2003)

Ferziger, Exclusion and Hierarchy: Orthodoxy, Nonobservance, and the Emergence of Modern Jewish Identity (2005)

Graizbord, Souls in Dispute: Converso Identities in Iberia and the Jewish Diaspora, 1580-1700 (2003)

Himmelfarb, A Kingdom of Priests: Ancestry and Merit in Ancient Judaism (2006)

Hoffman/Mendelsohn, The Revolution of 1905 and Russia's Jews (Feb 2008)