An American Story of Racism and Rupture in a Jewish Family
A family secret uncovered after eighty years inspires a personal reckoning with racism. In 2016, Clare Kinberg discovered her estranged Aunt Rose's death certificate on the internet. What followed was an unearthing of contradictions of what "family" means in a segregated United States. In the 1930s, Rose, an Ashkenazi Jewish woman, married ......
The first translation of this radical novel set at the heart of 1930s Israel/Palestine. In late 1920s Palestine, Zalmen has just arrived at Jaffa port on his way to a small northern kibbutz. Young and idealistic, he hopes to put down roots and help create a model society. But he soon realizes that the power dynamics between British colonists and ......
The first translation of this radical novel set at the heart of 1930s Israel/Palestine. In late 1920s Palestine, Zalmen has just arrived at Jaffa port on his way to a small northern kibbutz. Young and idealistic, he hopes to put down roots and help create a model society. But he soon realizes that the power dynamics between British colonists and ......
Brings crip aesthetics and disability justice into conversation with Israel studies. In the first work to bring crip aesthetics into conversation with Israel studies, Ilana Szobel explores disability culture and disability justice through the work of artists with disabilities in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. This book outlines ......
Brings crip aesthetics and disability justice into conversation with Israel studies. In the first work to bring crip aesthetics into conversation with Israel studies, Ilana Szobel explores disability culture and disability justice through the work of artists with disabilities in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. This book outlines ......
This affectionate adaptation of a telenovela offered much-needed representation of Latinx lives on US television. Jane the Virgin (CW, 2014-19) remains one of the most well-known television shows of the 2010s in the US and abroad. Revisiting key moments in the arc of the show's plot alongside its social context, scholar Paul Julian Smith ......
Award-winning stories about growing up and finding resiliency amid uncertainty. In 1970s and '80s Detroit, the city wrestles with an unending economic downturn, increasing violence, and white exodus to the suburbs. Amid all of this is twentysomething Mary who is just trying to grapple with her identity in a world filled with uncertainty. In ......
An authoritative call to end anti-fat bias and champion the acceptance of all bodies. In this remarkable book, Minna Bromberg lays bare the harm of anti-fat bias and the restorative potential for body liberation in Jewish tradition to confront fatphobia. Bromberg traces her own journey of identity formation, bodily autonomy, and self-acceptance ......
A deeply humane memoir that combines scholarship, art, and reflection from decades of collaboration with Holocaust survivors. This moving collection chronicles the personal and creative journey of Henry Hank Greenspan across five decades of sustained and deepening collaborations with Holocaust survivors. The book includes the first print ......
