Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Yosef Haim Brenner: A Life by Anita Shapira

Yosef Haim Brenner: A Life

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Anita Shapira

488 pages • hardcover • 2008

nonfiction biography challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Stepchildren of the Shtetl: The Destitute, Disabled, and Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1939 by Natan M. Meir

Stepchildren of the Shtetl: The Destitute, Disabled, and Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1939

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Natan M. Meir

360 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction history reflective slow-paced
The Worlds of S. An-Sky: A Russian Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century by Gabriella Safran, Steven J. Zipperstein

The Worlds of S. An-Sky: A Russian Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Gabriella Safran, Steven J. Zipperstein

576 pages • hardcover

nonfiction biography
Jewish Emancipation in a German City: Cologne, 1798-1871 by Shulamit S. Magnus

Jewish Emancipation in a German City: Cologne, 1798-1871

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Shulamit S. Magnus

352 pages • hardcover • 1997

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
The Converso's Return: Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture by Dalia Kandiyoti

The Converso's Return: Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Dalia Kandiyoti

336 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction history literary religion challenging reflective medium-paced
The Jews of Edirne: The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders by Jacob Daniels

The Jews of Edirne: The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Jacob Daniels

324 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction history
A Jewish Life on Three Continents: The Memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden by Menachem Mendel Frieden

A Jewish Life on Three Continents: The Memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Menachem Mendel Frieden

520 pages • hardcover

nonfiction memoir reflective medium-paced
Another Modernity: Elia Benamozegh's Jewish Universalism by Clémence Boulouque

Another Modernity: Elia Benamozegh's Jewish Universalism

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Clémence Boulouque

328 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction history philosophy religion reflective medium-paced
A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987 by Kathryn Hellerstein

A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Kathryn Hellerstein

512 pages • digital • 2014

nonfiction feminism history poetry challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Sultanas Jew: Morocco and the Sephardi World by Daniel J. Schroeter

The Sultanas Jew: Morocco and the Sephardi World

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Daniel J. Schroeter

264 pages • hardcover • 2002

nonfiction history religion reflective medium-paced