Welcome to the Association for Jewish Studies Virtual Exhibit

Welcome to the virtual book exhibit for the Association for Jewish Studies. Use coupon code AJS20 for 30% off.

Have a project you'd like to discuss? Several of our editors acquire books related to Jewish studies.

Browse the Eisenbrauns AJS offerings here.

 

The Prophetic Quest

The Stained Glass Windows of Jacob Landau, Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania

David S. Herrstrom and Andrew D. Scrimgeour

$34.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08781-8
Coming in

176 pages
8.25 x11.5"
54 color/12 b&w illustrations
2021

Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination

Friendship in Jewish History, Religion, and Culture

Edited by Lawrence Fine

$95.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08794-8
Coming in February

270 pages
6" × 9"
6 b&w illustrations
2021

Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination

Judaism, Race, and Ethics

Conversations and Questions

Edited by Jonathan K. Crane

$49.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08580-7

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304 pages
6" × 9"
2020

Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination

The Nun in the Synagogue

Judeocentric Catholicism in Israel

Emma O’Donnell Polyakov

$74.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08725-2

242 pages
6" × 9"
2020

The Objects That Remain

Laura Levitt

$24.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08782-5

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184 pages
6" × 8"
10 b&w illustrations
2020

Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination

Drawing on Religion

Reading and the Moral Imagination in Comics and Graphic Novels

Ken Koltun-Fromm

$34.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08775-7
Coming in December

264 pages
7" × 10"
38 color/39 b&w illustrations
2020

The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua

Yael Halevi-Wise

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08785-6
Coming in December

226 pages
6" × 9"
10 maps
2020

Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination

Hebrew Melodies

Heinrich Heine, Translated by Stephen Mitchell and by Jack Prelutsky, Illustrated by Mark Podwal, and Foreword by Elisheva Carlebach

$20.00 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08480-0

120 pages
9.25" × 10.75"
40 color illustrations
2019

Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination

Here in This Island We Arrived

Shakespeare and Belonging in Immigrant New York

Elisabeth H. Kinsley

$39.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08322-3

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216 pages
6" × 9"
14 b&w illustrations/1 map
2019

The Book of Sarah

Sarah Lightman

$25.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08473-2

240 pages
6.7" × 9.4"
240 color illustrations
2019
Co-published with Myriad Editions

Graphic Medicine

Life Support

Invitation to Prayer

Judith Cohen Margolis

$21.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08373-5

96 pages
4" × 6"
9 color/21 b&w illustrations
2019

Graphic Medicine

Polemical Encounters

Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond

Edited by Mercedes García-Arenal and Gerard Wiegers

$149.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08121-2

$44.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08122-9

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440 pages
6" × 9"
6 b&w illustrations
2019

Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755

Jewish Literary Cultures

Volume 2, The Medieval and Early Modern Periods

David Stern

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08483-1

308 pages
6" × 9"
4 color/62 b&w illustrations
2019

Jews in China

Cultural Conversations, Changing Perceptions

Irene Eber, and Edited with an introduction by Kathryn Hellerstein

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08496-1

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276 pages
6" × 9"
2019

Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination

Ecological Solidarities

Mobilizing Faith and Justice for an Entangled World

Edited by Krista E. Hughes, Dhawn B. Martin, and Elaine Padilla

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08462-6

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248 pages
6" × 9"
4 color/2 b&w illustrations
2019

World Christianity

The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture

Samantha Baskind

$44.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-07870-0

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328 pages
7.5" × 9.5"
30 color/57 b&w illustrations
2018

The Human Spirit

Beginnings from Genesis to Science

Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle

$104.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08204-2

$44.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08205-9

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344 pages
6" × 9"
1 b&w illustration
2018

Image, Action, and Idea in Contemporary Jewish Art

Ben Schachter

$34.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-07912-7

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176 pages
6" × 8"
24 color/1 b&w illustrations
2017

Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination

Reality’s Fugue

Reconciling Worldviews in Philosophy, Religion, and Science

F. Samuel Brainard

$29.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-07931-8

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288 pages
6" × 9"
8 b&w illustrations
2017

Texts in Transit in the Medieval Mediterranean

Edited by Y. Tzvi Langermann and Robert G. Morrison

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-07109-1

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280 pages
7" × 10"
1 b&w illustration
2016

Once@9:53am

Terror in Buenos Aires

Ilan Stavans, Marcelo Brodsky, and with an afterword by Ilan Stavans

$17.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-07718-5

136 pages
6.75" × 10.25"
325 color/7 b&w illustrations
2016

Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination

The Jeselsohn Collection of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea

Ada Yardeni

$129.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-965-217-394-2

757 pages
8.5" × 11"
1159 color illustrations
2016
Distributed by Penn State University Press for Yad Ben-Zvi Press

The Monk’s Haggadah

A Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Codex from the Monastery of Tegernsee, with a prologue by Friar Erhard von Pappenheim

Edited by David Stern, Christoph Markschies, and Sarit Shalev-Eyni

$79.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-06399-7

296 pages
7" × 10"
78 color/26 b&w illustrations/1 map
2015

Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination

Contested Treasure

Jews and Authority in the Crown of Aragon

Thomas W. Barton

$69.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-06472-7

$34.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-06473-4

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312 pages
6" × 9"
3 maps
2015

Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755

Jewish Literary Cultures

Volume 1, The Ancient Period

David Stern

$74.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-06752-0

$44.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-06753-7

256 pages
6" × 9"
4 b&w illustrations
2015

Imagining the Kibbutz

Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film

Ranen Omer-Sherman

$84.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-06557-1

$39.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-06558-8

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352 pages
6" × 9"
18 b&w illustrations
2015

Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination

An Inch or Two of Time

Time and Space in Jewish Modernisms

Jordan D. Finkin

$74.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-06641-7

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264 pages
6" × 9"
2015

Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination

Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-Century America

Samantha Baskind

$39.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-05983-9

260 pages
8" × 10"
43 color/78 b&w illustrations
2014

Mosaics of Faith

Floors of Pagans, Jews, Samaritans, Christians, and Muslims in the Holy Land

Rina Talgam

$129.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-06084-2

600 pages
9" × 11"
360 color/144 b&w illustrations
2014
Co-published with the Yad Ben-Zvi Institute

Art of Estrangement

Redefining Jews in Reconquest Spain

Pamela A. Patton

$82.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-05383-7

220 pages
8" × 10"
23 color/59 b&w illustrations
2013

Chaim Potok

Confronting Modernity Through the Lens of Tradition

Edited by Daniel Walden

$29.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-05982-2

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208 pages
6" × 9"
2 b&w illustrations
2013

Abraham in Medieval Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Art

Edited by Colum Hourihane

$35.00 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-9837537-2-8

240 pages
6.5" × 10"
152 color/30 b&w illustrations
2013

The Index of Christian Art: Resources

The Aroma of Righteousness

Scent and Seduction in Rabbinic Life and Literature

Deborah A. Green

$77.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-03767-7

$34.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-05066-9

304 pages
6" × 9"
11 b&w illustrations
2011

A Rhetorical Conversation

Jewish Discourse in Modern Yiddish Literature

Jordan D. Finkin

$72.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-03630-4

$31.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-03537-6

216 pages
6" × 9"
2 b&w illustrations
2010

The Shame of Survival

Working Through a Nazi Childhood

Ursula Mahlendorf

$24.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-03448-5

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376 pages
6.125" × 8.625"
8 b&w illustrations/5 maps
2009

Avodah

Ancient Poems for Yom Kippur

Translated and edited by Michael D. Swartz and Joseph Yahalom

$77.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-02357-1

$30.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-05854-2

400 pages
6" × 9"
2004

Penn State Library of Jewish Literature

Editorial Staff to contact

Director His book series include Africana Religions, Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination, and Penn State Studies in the History of the Book.

Assistant Director, Editor-in-Chief acquires in the areas of animal studies and graphic studies. Her book series include Animalibus: Of Animals and Culture, AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series, and Graphic Medicine. She is the publisher of Graphic Mundi.

Executive Editor acquires in the areas of art and architectural history, visual culture, history of photography, medieval and early modern studies, occultism and esoterism, Iberian and Latin American history and culture. Her book series include Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies, Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755, Latin American Originals, Magic in History, Magic in History Sourcebooks, and Refiguring Modernism

Acquisitions Editor acquires in the areas of Pennsylvania and mid-Atlantic history, regional studies and regional trade, religious studies, interdisciplinary literary studies, and sensory studies. Her series include Inventing Christianity; Religion Around; The Max Kade Research Institute Series: Germans beyond Europe; Keystone Books; Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies; Cultural Inquiries in English Literature, 1400–1700; World Christianity; and Perspectives on Sensory History.

Acquisitions Editor acquires for the Eisenbrauns imprint in the areas of ancient Near East, biblical studies, ancient Near Eastern languages and linguistics, and archaeology. See the full list of series published by Eisenbrauns here

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