David B. Ruderman, ed. Essential Papers on Jewish Culture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. (Essential Papers on Jewish Studies.) New York and London: New York University Press, 1992. xi + 598 pp. $60 cloth; $25 paper.

1994 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 948-950
Author(s):  
Ben Levine
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Jewish Studies ◽  
New York University ◽  
Jewish Culture

Essential Papers on Jews and the Left(New York: New York University Press, 1997); pp. viii + 552 (paperback)

2000 ◽  
pp. 433-434
Author(s):  
Ezra Mendelsohn
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Jewish Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
New York University ◽  
Previous Volume

Ezra Mendelsohn’s book appeared in the series Essential Papers on Jewish Studies and is an excellent continuation of the previous volume, Essential Papers on Zionism. Both books present a complicated picture of the two most significant currents in contemporary Jewish political and ideological life. I would be glad to see a third volume on the traditional, conservative movements (with Agudat Yisrael as the most important) and perhaps another containing the other currents which cannot be represented in the previous books....

Salo Wittmayer Baron: Architect of Jewish History

2000 ◽  
pp. 443-444
Author(s):  
Robert Liberles
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Jewish Studies ◽  
Full Length ◽  
New York University

(New York: New York University Press, 1995); pp. xiii + 426 Salo Baron (1895‒1989), born in Tarnów, Galicia, became one of the foremost Jewish historians of the twentieth century and one of the pioneers of academic Jewish studies in the United States. Liberles attempts to interweave two stories in this first full-length study of Baron and his ...

Benjamin Schreier, The Impossible Jew: Identity and Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History. New York: New York University Press, 2015. 269 pp.

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Jewish Studies ◽  
Jewish Literature ◽  
Jewish American ◽  
New York University ◽  
American Literary History ◽  
The Way

This chapter reviews the book The Impossible Jew: Identity and Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History (2015), by Benjamin Schreier. In The Impossible Jew, Schreier challenges the dominance of a totalizing (historicist/nationalist/anthropologist) context in Jewish studies in America. Rather than asking what is “Jewish” in a text, he wishes to focus on scholars’ and readers’ inclination to conceptualize texts within one of these essentialist categories. He rejects the approach used by scholars to distinguish between the “Jews” and the “non-Jews.” Instead, he offers an alternative that highlights the way (Jewish) literature destabilizes these same categories. The Impossible Jew is thus a reflection on the impossibility of Jewishness as a coherent identity.

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