This book documents the exponential increase in the number of lawyers tapped to serve as college and university presidents and explores the reasons behind this trend. Many different pathways lawyers have taken to the presidency are discussed.
This volume discusses a Muslim’s perspective on the Holocaust and antisemitism. It offers an honest and comprehensive interpretation of Jewish-Muslim relations in contemporary... Læs mere
Creativity and Conflict reexamines interwar Polish Jewish history through both the author's essays and responses from leading scholars in the field.
This volume bridges ancient wisdom and contemporary Jewish spirituality, offering fresh insights into Hasidic homilies as sources of... Læs mere
This book calls on educators to teach the whole child by including their faith as integral to their identity and offers suggestions for how to honor faith within a nurturing learning environment.
Decades after that war, when she was hospitalized in a psychiatric ward suffering from deep depression, Marta Wollner, a Holocaust survivor, wrote her memoir. Comprising a an intimate... Læs mere
This groundbreaking study explores concepts of faith, conviction, and trust in the Judeo-Arabic tradition—from Saadya to Maimonides—highlighting... Læs mere
This interdisciplinary study of cosmopolitan spaces in Odesa explores topical issues in cultural diversity, ethnicity, literature, and... Læs mere
This book is the definitive demographic study of German Jewry from the age... Læs mere
Can lessons of history develop our orientation in time? Few scholars have responded positively to this challenge. In this... Læs mere