Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

A Tale of Ritual Murder in the Age of Louis XIV: The Trial of Raphaël Lévy, 1669 by Pierre Birnbaum

A Tale of Ritual Murder in the Age of Louis XIV: The Trial of Raphaël Lévy, 1669

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Pierre Birnbaum

192 pages • hardcover • 2008

nonfiction history dark reflective medium-paced
Ancestral Tales: Reading the Buczacz Stories of S.Y. Agnon by Alan Mintz

Ancestral Tales: Reading the Buczacz Stories of S.Y. Agnon

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Alan Mintz

440 pages • hardcover • 2017

nonfiction history literary challenging reflective medium-paced
Geography of Hope: Exile, the Enlightenment, Disassimilation by Pierre Birnbaum

Geography of Hope: Exile, the Enlightenment, Disassimilation

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Pierre Birnbaum

488 pages • hardcover • 2008

nonfiction history religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
As Light Before Dawn: The Inner World of a Medieval Kabbalist by Eitan P. Fishbane

As Light Before Dawn: The Inner World of a Medieval Kabbalist

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Eitan P. Fishbane

336 pages • hardcover • 2009

nonfiction religion challenging medium-paced
No Longer Ladies and Gentlemen: Gender and the German-Jewish Migration to Mandatory Palestine by Viola Alianov-Rautenberg

No Longer Ladies and Gentlemen: Gender and the German-Jewish Migration to Mandatory Palestine

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Viola Alianov-Rautenberg

336 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction gender history
Uneasy Asylum: France and the Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1933-1942 by Vicki Caron

Uneasy Asylum: France and the Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1933-1942

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Vicki Caron

608 pages • paperback • 1999

nonfiction history
The Modernity of Others: Jewish Anti-Catholicism in Germany and France by Ari Joskowicz

The Modernity of Others: Jewish Anti-Catholicism in Germany and France

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Ari Joskowicz

392 pages • digital • 2013

nonfiction history religion challenging informative medium-paced
Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry by Scott Ury

Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Scott Ury

448 pages • hardcover • 2012

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context by Golan Y. Moskowitz

Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Golan Y. Moskowitz

312 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction biography lgbtqia+ medium-paced
A History of the Grandparents I Never Had by Ivan Jablonka

A History of the Grandparents I Never Had

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Ivan Jablonka

352 pages • digital • 2012

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad slow-paced