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496 books match the query 'Jewish' and 19 start with d
Data Mind
PoemsJoanna Fuhrman
Northwestern University Press, 2025
Wrestling with the experience of living online as a non-digital native
Joanna Fuhrman didn’t grow up online. Her generation entered the digital age as adults, with optimism about the possibilities it would bring for community building. In the alien landscape of the internet, they indeed found moments of joy and connection, but they also watched in anguish as what had been sold as a utopian space instead magnified the anti-democratic demons of necrocapitalism. In this darkly comic and surreal collection, Fuhrman lets herself fall into the internet wormhole of these conflicting realities. With titles ranging from “You Won’t Believe How Your Favorite Childhood Star Looks Now” to “We’ll Burn That Algorithm When We Get to It,” the feminist prose poems in Data Mind remix the tropes of digital life with the puckishness and embodied urgency for which Fuhrman is celebrated.
Defender of the Faithful
The Life and Thought of Rabbi Levi Yitshak of BerdychivArthur Green
Brandeis University Press, 2022
Defender of the Faithful explores the life and thought of Levi Yitshak of Berdychiv (1740–1809), one of the most fascinating and colorful Hasidic leaders of his time. This is an intellectual and religious biography, a reading of the development of his thought and career. Featuring examples of Levi Yitshak’s extraordinary texts alongside insightful analysis by scholar and theologian Arthur Green, Defender of the Faithful is a compelling study of both Levi Yitshak’s theology and broader philosophy.
Degas at the Gas Station
EssaysThomas Beller
Duke University Press, 2025
Demographic Avant-Garde
Jews in Bohemia between the Enlightenment and the ShoahJana Vobecká
Central European University Press, 2013
Denial and Repression of Anti-Semitism
Post-Communist Rehabilitation of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj VelimirovicJovan Byford
Central European University Press, 2008
Diaries by Jewish and Christian Adolescents
Reconstructing the Social Reality of Pre- and Post-Holocaust HungaryGergely Kunt
Central European University Press, 2027
Diaries by Jewish and Christian Adolescents
Reconstructing the Social Reality of Pre- and Post-Holocaust HungaryGergely Kunt
Central European University Press, 2027
Digital Samaritans
Rhetorical Delivery and Engagement in the Digital HumanitiesJim Ridolfo
University of Michigan Press, 2015
Dirshuni
Contemporary Women’s MidrashEdited by Tamar Biala
Brandeis University Press, 2022
Dirshuni: Contemporary Women’s Midrash, is the first-ever English edition of a historic collection of midrashim composed by Israeli women, which has been long-anticipated by multiple American audiences, including synagogues, rabbinical seminaries, adult learning programs, Jewish educators, and scholars of gender and religion. Using the classical forms developed by the ancient rabbis, the contributors express their religious and moral thought and experience through innovative interpretations of scripture. The women writers, from all denominations and beyond, of all political stripes and ethnic backgrounds, contribute their Torah to fill the missing half of the sacred Jewish bookshelf. This book reflects dramatic changes in the agency of women in the world of religious writings. The volume features a comprehensive introduction to Midrash for the uninitiated reader by the distinguished scholar Tamar Kadari and extensive annotation and commentary by Tamar Biala.
Dispersing the Ghetto
The Relocation of Jewish Immigrants Across AmericaJack Glazier
Michigan State University Press, 2005
In the early 20th century, the population of New York City’s Lower East Side swelled with vast numbers of eastern European Jewish immigrants. The tenements, whose inhabitants faced poverty and frequent unemployment, provoked the hostile attention of immigration restrictionists, many of whom disdained Jews, racial minorities, and foreigners as inferior. Accordingly, they aimed to stifle the growth of dense ethnic settlements by curtailing immigration.
Dispersing the Ghetto is the first book to describe in detail an important but little-known chapter in American immigration history, that of the Industrial Removal Office (IRO), founded in 1901. Established American Jews—arrivals from the German states only a generation before—felt vulnerable. They feared their security was at risk owing to the rising tide of Russian Jews on the east coast. German American Jews believed they too might become the objects of anti-Semitic scorn, which would be disastrous for German and Russian Jews alike if it were allowed to shape public policy. As a defensive measure to undercut the immigration restrictionist movement, American Jews of German origin established the Industrial Removal Office to promote the relocation of the immigrants to the towns and cities of the nation’s interior. Until the onset of World War I, the IRO directed the resettlement of Jewish immigrants from New York and other port cities to hundreds of communities nationwide.
Drawing on a variety of sources, including the IRO archive, first-person accounts of resettlement, local records, and the Jewish press, Glazier recounts the operation of the IRO and the complex relationship between two sets of Jewish immigrants.
Dispossession
Plundering German Jewry, 1933-1953Christoph Kreutzmüller and Jonathan R. Zatlin, Editors
University of Michigan Press, 2020
Divrei Mishkan HaNefesh
A Guide to the CCAR MachzorRabbi Edwin Goldberg
Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2016
Divrei Mishkan T'filah
Delving into the SiddurRabbi Richard S. Sarason
Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2018
Dodging
Charles Bernstein
University of Chicago Press, 0
A new, expansive collection by one of the most provocative and inventive poets of our time.
In Dodging, Charles Bernstein pushes his poetics toward new kinds of formal and tonal attentions. This multifaceted work brings together comic velocity, pointed political critique, and passages of lyric intensity. Bernstein calls these poems “too late”: written late in life as irreversibility presses against reflection, regret, and renewed resistance—a situation in which dodging is not evasion but survival, a way of moving through political catastrophe and personal loss without being silenced by either.
The collection unfolds in three interrelated “fits”—a term suggesting bursts of composition, rhythmic surges, and formal groupings—titled “Dodging,” “Struggle,” and “Reflection.” These sections move from a series of flashes and fragments, then to assembled riffs and collaborations with poet Tracie Morris, and finally turn to refractions and aphorisms that embrace active contradiction. Together they trace a shifting field of contrasts: between satire and elegy, volatility and concentration, comedy and grief.
Both fundamentally true to Bernstein’s voice and radically radiant in its range, Dodging is a work that moves restlessly across forms and tones—by turns sly, searching, and unguarded, where humor and grief occupy the same ground.
Don Isaac Abravanel
An Intellectual BiographyCedric Cohen-Skalli
Brandeis University Press, 2020
Don Isaac Abravanel (1437–1508) was one of the great inventors of Jewish modernity. A merchant, banker, and court financier, a scholar versed in both Jewish and Christian writings, a preacher and exegete, a prominent political actor in royal entourages and Jewish communities, Abravanel was one of the greatest leaders and thinkers of Iberian Jewry in the aftermath of the expulsion of 1492. This book, the first new intellectual biography of Abravanel in twenty years, depicts his life in three cultural milieus—Portugal, Castile, and post-expulsion Italy—and analyzes his major literary accomplishments in each period. Abravanel was a traditionalist with innovative ideas, a man with one foot in the Middle Ages and the other in the Renaissance. An erudite scholar, author of a monumental exegetical opus that is still studied today, and an avid book collector, he was a transitional figure, defined by an age of contradictions. Yet, it is these very contradictions that make him such an important personality for understanding the dawn of Jewish modernity.
Drawing the Iron Curtain
Jews and the Golden Age of Soviet AnimationMaya Balakirsky Katz
Rutgers University Press, 2016
Dreamer of the Ghetto
The Life and Works of Israel ZangwillJoseph H. Udelson
University of Alabama Press, 1990
"An impressive achievement. . . . Udelson provides a trenchant analysis of Zangwill's works set within a historical context, i.e., Jewish emancipation and the dilemma of how one might remain fully Jewish while becoming fully modern, that helps to illuminate Zangwill's life as well as his writings."
—Jewish Book News
"By carefully following the threads of Zangwill's own divided self through the labyrinths of his life and writings, Udelson convinces us not only of the author's startling political prescience, but that he embodies attitudes now shared by almost all secular Jews as a result of events Zangwill did not witness—Nazism and the founding of Israel."
—Shofar
Durkheim and the Jews of France
Ivan Strenski
University of Chicago Press, 1997
Strenski begins each chapter by weighing particular claims (some anti-Semitic, some not) for the Jewishness of Durkheim's work. In each case Strenski overturns the claim while showing that it can nonetheless open up a fruitful inquiry into the relation of Durkheim to French Jewry. For example, Strenski shows that Durkheim's celebration of ritual had no innately Jewish source but derived crucially from work on Hinduism by the Jewish Indologist Sylvain Lévi, whose influence on Durkheim and his followers has never before been acknowledged.
Dynamic Repetition
History and Messianism in Modern Jewish ThoughtGilad Sharvit
Brandeis University Press, 2022
Dynamic Repetition proposes a new understanding of modern Jewish theories of messianism across the disciplines of history, theology, and philosophy. The book explores how ideals of repetition, return, and the cyclical occasioned a new messianic impulse across an important swath of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German Jewish thought. To grasp the complexities of Jewish messianism in modernity, the book focuses on diverse notions of “dynamic repetition” in the works of Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin, Franz Kafka, and Sigmund Freud, and their interrelations with basic trajectories of twentieth-century philosophy and critical thought.