WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS JEWISH STUDIES 2013 CATALOG JS 13 Cover.indd 1 12/4/12 10:50 AM WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS 2013 JEWISH STUDIES CATALOG CONTENTS New Titles . 1–2 European History . 3–7 American History . 8–11 Jewish History . 12–13 Holocaust Studies . 14 –16 Israeli and Middle East Studies . 17–20 Jewish Life and Tradition . 21 Music and Performance . 22–23 Jewish Thought . 24–27 Gender Studies . 28–30 Yiddish Culture and Folklore . 31 Folklore Studies . 32 Literature . 33–36 Index . 37–39 Sales Information . 40 Ordering Information . Inside back cover ON THE COVER Cover illustration from Choosing Yiddish edited by Lara Rabinovitch, Shiri Goren, and Hannah Pressman. Illustration by Joseph Remnant (please see page 31 of this catalog). Wayne State University Press is a distinctive urban publisher committed to supporting its parent institution’s core research, teaching, and service mission by generating high-quality scholarly and general-interest works of global importance. 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Look for this symbol throughout the catalog to find books with an ebook format. Our ebooks are available in the e Amazon Kindle Store, Google Play, and with library distributors such as Ebrary, Ebsco, and Project Muse. Custom content is also available for course packs through AcademicPub. 2 WAYNE StatE UNIVERSITY PRESS JEWISH STUDIES JS 13 Interior.indd 2 12/4/12 10:41 AM EUROPEAN HISTORY The Intellectual History and Rabbinic Culture of Medieval Ashkenaz Ephraim Kanarfogel “An exceptional book that offers a dramatically new paradigm for understand- ing intellectual life in medieval Ashkenaz. It is utterly clear that from this point forward, the older, far less grounded perspectives will be set aside.” —Jay Berkovitz, professor of Jewish history at the University of Massachusetts InThe Intellectual History and Rabbinic Culture of Medieval Ashkenaz, author Ephraim Kanarfogel challenges the dominant perception that medieval Ash- kenazic rabbinic scholarship was lacking in intellectualism or broad scholarly interests. While cultural interaction between Jews and Christians in western Europe was less than that of Sephardic Jews, Kanarfogel’s study shows that the intellectual interests of Ashkenazic rabbinic figures were much broader than Talmudic studies alone. Kanarfogel begins by highlighting several factors that have contributed to relatively narrow perceptions of Ashkenazic rabbinic culture and argues that the Tosafists, and Ashkenazic rabbinic scholarship more generally, advocated a wide definition of the truths that could be discovered through Torah study. He explores differences in talmudic and halakhic studies between the Tosafist centers of northern France and Germany, delves into aspects of biblical interpretation in each region, and identifies important Tosafists and rabbinic figures. Kanarfogel also examines the composition of liturgical poetry by Tosafists, interest in forms of (white) magic and mysticism on the part of a number of northern French Tosafists, and a spectrum of views on the question of anthropomorphism and messianism. Overall, Kanarfogel demonstrates that the approach taken by Tosafists was broader, more open, and more multi-disciplinary than previously considered. 2012 / 6 x 9 / 600 pp / ISBN 978-0-8143-3024-1, $59.95s cloth e Now Available in Paperback! “Peering through the Jewish Education and Lattices” Mystical, Magical, and Pietistic Society in the High Dimensions in the Tosafist Middle Ages Period Ephraim Kanarfogel Ephraim Kanarfogel The Jews of northern France, Germany, “Ephraim Kanarfogel [places] before and England, known collectively as the reader a wealth of printed texts and Ashkenazic Jewry, have commanded the unpublished manuscript material that prove the existence of a attention of scholars since the beginnings variety of mystical teachings and experiences among the rab- of modern Jewish historiography. Over the binic elite.” past century, historians have produced significant studies about —Israel Ta-Shma, Hebrew University Jewish society in medieval Ashkenaz that have revealed them as a well-organized, creative, and steadfast community. Indeed, the “This book will play an important role by revealing a wide array Franco-Russian Jewry withstood a variety of physical, political, of practices and doctrines not ordinarily associated with medieval and religious attacks in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries to Judaism. A learned and provocative new synthesis, it is one of the produce an impressive corpus of Talmudic and halakhic composi- most significant studies in English of northern European rabbinic tions, known collectively as Tosafot, that revolutionized the study culture during the High Middle Ages.” of rabbinic literature. —Marc Saperstein, George Washington University Although the literary creativity of the Tosafists has been docu- mented and analyzed, and the scope and policies of communal 2000 / 6 x 9 / 280 pp government in Ashkenaz have been fixed and compared, no ISBN 978-0-8143-2531-5, $34.95s cloth sustained attempt has been made to integrate these crucial Published with the assistance of the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation dimensions. Jewish Education and Society in the High Middle Ages considers these relationships by examining the degree of The Jews in communal involvement in the educational process, as well as the economic theories and communal structures that affected European History the process from the most elementary level to the production Seven Lectures of the Tosafist corpus. By drawing parallels and highlighting differences to pre-Crusade Ashkenaz, the period following the Saul Friedländer et al. Black Death, Spanish and Provençal Jewish society, and general medieval society, Ephraim Kanarfogel creates an insightful and These lectures by internationally re- compelling portrait of Ashkenazic society. nowned historians from Germany, 2007 / 6 x 9 / 214 pp Israel, and the United States were origi- ISBN 978-0-8143-3368-6, $25.95s paper e nally presented to large audiences at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich. Published soon thereafter, they have enjoyed remarkable popular- ity in Germany and now appear in English. 1997 / 6 x 9 / 152 pp ISBN 978-0-87820-212-6, $16.95s paper Published by Hebrew Union College Press and distributed by Wayne State University Press (800) 978-7323 wsupress.wayne.edu 3 JS 13 Interior.indd 3 12/4/12 10:41 AM EUROPEAN HISTORY Anthonius Margaritha and the Jewish Faith Jewish Life and Conversion in Sixteenth- Century Germany Michael T. Walton “Dr. Walton brings his impressive scholarly attention to Margaritha as an indi- vidual struggling to negotiate a multi-confessional German society, ambivalence toward two faiths, and the burden of a rabbinic family.