BESTSELLER FROM THINGS LOST Forgotten Letters and the Legacy of the Holocaust Shirli Gilbert Feb 2017 192pp 9780814342657 Paperback £25.95 / €29.00 In May 1933 Rudolf Schwab fled Nazi-occupied Germany. His departure allegedly came at the insistence of a close friend who later joined the Party. Schwab eventually arrived in South Africa, and years later resumed a relationship in letters with the Nazi who in many ways saved his life. From Things Lost is a story of displacement, survival, and an unlikely friendship in the wake of the Holocaust. THE ORIGIN OF THE MODERN JEWISH WOMAN WRITER Romance and Reform in Victorian England Michael Galchinsky Dec 2017 280pp, 4 b&w Images 9780814344446 Paperback £22.95 / €26.00 Between 1830 and 1880, the Jewish community flourished in England. During this time, known as the Anglo-Jewish Enlightenment, Jewish women in England became the first Jewish women anywhere to publish novels, histories, periodicals, theological tracts, and conduct manuals. This book analyses this critical but forgotten period in the development of Jewish women’s writing. WHITECHAPEL NOISE Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London 1884-1914 Vivi Lachs May 2018 312pp, 40 b&w Images 9780814343555 Paperback £33.95 / €38.00 9780814344880 Hardback £88.50 / €99.00 Archive material from the London Yiddish press, songbooks, and satirical writing offers a window into an untold cultural life of the Yiddish East End. This work positions London’s Yiddish popular culture in historical perspective within Anglo-Jewish history, English socialist aesthetics, and music-hall culture, and shows its relationship to the transnational Yiddish-speaking world. Jewish Studies 2018 HIGHLIGHTS AMBIGUOUS RELATIONS The American Jewish Community and Germany Since 1945 Shlomo Shafir Dec 2017 528pp, 33 b&w Images 9780814345085 Paperback £23.95 / €27.00 Addresses for the first time the complex relationships between American Jews and Germany over the fifty years following the end of World War II. ANTI-SEMITIC STEREOTYPES WITHOUT JEWS Images of the Jews in England 1290–1700 Bernard Glassman Aug 2017 200pp 9780814343548 Paperback £30.95 / €35.00 A study of the persistence of anti-Semitic stereotypes for 400 years in a society almost completely devoid of a Jewish population. BETWEEN EXILE AND EXODUS Argentinian Jewish Immigration to Israel, 1948–1967 Sebastian Klor Jun 2017 304pp, 6 charts, 11 tables 9780814343678 Hardback £56.95 / €63.00 Examines the case of the 16,500 Argentine Jewish immigrants who arrived in Israel during the first two decades of its existence. CONCRETE BOXES Mizrahi Women on Israel’s Periphery Pnina Motzafi-Haller Jan 2018 360pp 9780814340592 Paperback £38.50 / €43.00 9780814344422 Hardback £66.95 / €75.00 Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology Offers a rich depiction of contemporary life in one marginalized development town in the Israeli Negev. Placing the stories of five women at the centre, author Pnina Motzafi-Haller depicts a range of creative strategies used by each woman to make a meaningful life within a reality of multiple exclusions. CONSTRUCTING MODERN IDENTITIES Jewish University Students in Germany, 1815-1914 Kieth H. Pickus Aug 2017 242pp 9780814343524 Paperback £30.95 / €35.00 By examining the lives and social dynamics of Jewish university students, Pickus shows how German Jews rearranged their self-images and redefined what it meant to be Jewish. ELI’S STORY A Twentieth-Century Jewish Life Meri-Jane Rochelson Jun 2018 288pp, 68 b&w Photos 9780814340219 Paperback £28.95 / €32.00 9780814344941 Hardback £77.50 / €86.00 Presents the biography of a Jewish doctor who survived and triumphed over the horrors of the Holocaust. The book tells the story of a man whose life spanned two world wars, several migrations, an educational odyssey, the massive upheaval of the Holocaust, and finally, a frustrating yet ultimately successful effort to restore his professional credentials and identity, as well as re-establish family life. THE FORERUNNERS Dutch Jewry in the North American Diaspora Robert P. Swierenga Feb 2018 472pp, 12 b&w Images 9780814344170 Paperback £22.95 / €26.00 American Jewish Civilization Series Between 1800 and 1880 approximately 6,500 Dutch Jews emigrated to the United States to join the hundreds who had come during the colonial era. This work offers a detailed history of the emigration of Dutch Jews to the United States and to the whole American diaspora. FOR OUR SOUL Ethiopian Jews in Israel Teshome G. Wagaw Dec 2017 320pp, 19 b&w photos 9780814344101 Paperback £23.95 / €27.00 Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology Based on fieldwork conducted over several years, this work describes the ongoing process of adjustment and absorption that the Ethiopian Jewish immigrants experienced in Israel. FROM EAST TO WEST The Westward Migration of Jews from Eastern Europe During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Moses A. Shuvlass Aug 2017 164pp 9780814343463 Paperback £30.95 / €35.00 Migration has been a major factor in the life of the Jewish people throughout the two and a half millennia of their dispersion. This work covers the period of the Chmielnicki Massacre and the Thirty Years War, and the movement of impoverished Jewish refugees into Western Europe. FROM SOFIA TO JAFFA The Jews of Bulgaria and Israel Guy H. Haskell Feb 2018 240pp, 20 b&w Images 9780814344064 Paperback £22.95 / €26.00 Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology Within two years of the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, an astounding 45,000 of Bulgaria’s 50,000 Jews left voluntarily for Israel. This work chronicles the fascinating saga. BESTSELLER THE HEBREW GODDESS Third Enlarged Edition Raphael Patai Jun 1990 369pp, 36 b&w photos 9780814322710 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00 Demonstrates that the Jewish religion, far from being pure monotheism, contained from earliest times strong polytheistic elements, chief of which was the cult of the mother goddess. Lucidly written and richly illustrated, this third edition contains new chapters of the Shekhina. Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology