Announcing New Titles in the Jewish Culture and Contexts Series: Fall 2024

We are proud to celebrate a year of new books in the Jewish Culture and Contexts series published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. 

This interdisciplinary series illuminates Jewish culture in its manifold geographic and historical contexts. The depth and breadth of the series is on full display in this past year’s publications, which approach Jewish history from antiquity to the present, and tackle topics including law and society, language and literature, art and architecture, and philosophy and epistemology.

Warm congratulations to the authors!

Anne C. Dailey, Martin Kavka, and Lital Levy, eds., Unsettling Jewish Knowledge: Text, Contingency, Desire (September 2023)

**This volume was borne out of the 2015–16 fellowship year at the Katz Center, which focused on “Jews Beyond Reason: Exploring Emotion, the Unconscious, and Other Dimensions of Jews' Inner Lives.” Peruse past fellowship volumes here.

Christoph Schulte, Zimzum: God and the Origin of the World (September 2023)

Hannan Hever, Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism: Chapters in Literary Politics (October 2023)

Katherine Aron-Beller, Christian Images and Their Jewish Desecrators (January 2024)

Avinoam Yuval-Naeh, An Economy of Strangers: Jews and Finance in England, 1650–1830 (January 2024)

Elana Stein Hain, Circumventing the Law: Rabbinic Perspectives on Loopholes and Legal Integrity (January 2024)

Iris Idelson-Shein, Between the Bridge and the Barricade: Jewish Translation in Early Modern Europe (March 2024)

Frances Tanzer, Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City (May 2024)

Yoram Meital, Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo (July 2024).   

         **Read a related blog post by the author here.

Hannah Pollin-Galay, Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish (September 2024)

Roni Henig, On Revival: Hebrew Literature Between Life and Death (November 2024)

Lior Libman, State of Shock: The Kibbutz in Israel from Avant-Garde to Fetish, 1948–1955 (November 2024)