Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art

This series focuses on literary, musical, and artistic expressions of modern Jewish life, and has benefited from the guidance of editor Ken Frieden, the B.G. Rudolph Professor of Judaic Studies at Syracuse University, since 1994. The series publishes books that bridge the gap between academic scholarship and general readers.

Our list includes groundbreaking critical studies by Naomi Brenner, Karen Grumberg, and Dan Miron; vibrant literary works in translation, such as the anthology of Classic Yiddish Stories and Vilna My Vilna: Stories by Abraham Karpinowitz; and memoirs like Reuben Iceland’s From Our Springtime. Studies in music and art include such titles as Sholom Kalib’s The Musical Tradition of the Eastern European Synagogue and Matthew Baigell’s Social Concern and Left Politics in Jewish American Art, 1880-1940. The Judaic Traditions series welcomes original manuscripts pertaining to modern Hebrew and Yiddish writing, European and American Judaic literature, Jewish music, art, architecture, and film.

After Weegee: Essays on Contemporary Jewish American Photographers Daniel Morris Cloth $29.95    |    978-0-8156-0987-2    |    2011   Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture David G. Roskies Paper $19.95    |    0-8156-0615-X    |    1999   American Artists, Jewish Images Matthew Baigell Cloth $45.00s    |    0-8156-3067-0    |   2006   American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States Michael Weingrad With a Foreword by Alan Mintz Cloth $34.95s    |    978-0-8156-3251-1    |    2010   The Art and Artists of the Fifth Zionist Congress, 1901: Heralds of a New Age Gilya Gerda Schmidt Cloth $49.95s    |    0-8156-3030-1    |   2003   Benjamin Fondane’s Ulysses: Bilingual Edition Benjamin Fondane Translated from the French and with an Introduction by Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody Foreword by David Rieff Hardcover $55.00L    |    978-0-8156-3499-7    |    2017 Paper $19.95s    |    978-0-8156-3516-1    |    2017   Bridging the Divide: The Selected Poems of Hava Pinhas-Cohen Edited and Translated from the Hebrew by Sharon Hart-Green Cloth 59.95s    |    978-0-8156-3419-5    |    2015 ebook 978-0-8156-5333-2 Paper $29.95    |    978-0-8156-1054-0    |    2015   Childhood An Autobiographical Fragment Moses Rosenkranz Edited and Translated by David Dollenmayer Cloth $24.95s    |    978-0-8156-3178-1    |    2007   Classic Yiddish: Stories of S. Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz Edited by Ken Frieden Paper $16.95s    |    978-0-8156-3291-7    |    2011   Contemporary Jewish American Writers and the Multicultural Dilemma: The Return of the Exiled Andrew Furman Cloth $39.95L    |    0-8156-2843-9    |    2000 Paper $19.95s    |    0-8156-2846-3    |    2000   The Dybbuk and the Yiddish Imagination: A Haunted Reader Joachim Neugroschel, trans. & ed. Paper $24.95s    |    0-8156-2872-2    |    2000   Early Yiddish Epic Edited and Translated by Jerold C. Frakes Cloth $59.95s    |    978-0-8156-3355-6    |    2014   Enlarging America: The Cultural Work of Jewish Literary Scholars, 1930-1990 Susanne Klingenstein Cloth $34.95    |    0-8156-0540-4    |    1998   Facing the Fires: Conversations with A. B. Yehoshua Bernard Horn Cloth $34.95    |    0-8156-0493-9    |    1998   Finding the Jewish Shakespeare: The Life and Legacy of Jacob Gordin Beth Kaplan Paper $19.95    |    978-0-8156-0996-4    |    2012 Cloth $24.95    |    978-0-8156-0884-4    |    2007   From Our Springtime: Literary Memoirs and Portraits of Yiddish New York Reuben Iceland Translated by Gerald Marcus Cloth $29.95s    |    978-0-8156-3303-7    |   2012   God, Man, and Devil: Yiddish Plays in Translation Edited by Nahma Sandrow Paper $24.95s    |    0-8156-2787-4    |    1999   Here and Now: History, Nationalism, and Realism in Modern Hebrew Fiction Todd Hasak-Lowy Cloth $29.95s    |    978-0-8156-3157-6    |    2008   The Holocaust in American Film, Second Edition Judith E. Doneson Paper $19.95s    |    0-8156-2926-5    |    2002   A House with Seven Windows: Short Stories Kadya Molodowsky Translated from the Yiddish by Leah Schoolnik Paper $19.95    |    0-8156-0845-4    |   2006   Hurban: Responses to Catastrophe in Hebrew Literature Alan Mintz Paper $19.95    |    0-8156-0424-6    |    1996   The Image of the Shtetl and Other Studies of Modern Jewish Literary Imagination Dan Miron Cloth $49.95L    |    0-8156-2857-9    |    2000 Paper $19.95s    |    0-8156-2858-7    |    2000   The Implacable Urge to Defame: Cartoon Jews in the American Press, 1877-1935 Matthew Baigell Hardcover $60.00L    |    978-0-8156-3496-6    |    2017 Paper $29.95s    |    978-0-8156-3510-9    |    2017   In Harness: Yiddish Writers’ Romance with Communism Gennady J. Estraikh Cloth $24.95s    |   0-8156-3052-2    |   2004      In Lieu of Memory: Contemporary Jewish Writing in France Thomas Nolden Cloth $29.95s    |    0-8156-3089-1    |    2005   Intimations of Difference: Dvora Baron in the Modern Hebrew Renaissance Sheila E. Jelen Cloth $24.95s    |    0-8156-3130-8    |    2006   The Jewish Book of Fables: The Selected Works of Eliezer Shtaynbarg Eliezer Shtaynbarg; Curt Leviant, trans. & ed. Cloth $34.95    |    0-8156-0718-0    |    2003   Jews in the American Academy, 1900-1940: The Dynamics of Intellectual Assimilation Susanne Klingenstein Paper $19.95    |    0-8156-0541-2    |    1998   Language, Absence, Play: Judaism and Superstructuralism in the Poetics of S. Y. Agnon Yaniv Hagbi Cloth $34.95s    |    978-0-8156-3227-6    |    2009   Letters to America: Selected Poems of Reuven Ben-Yosef Edited and Translated by Michael Weingrad Paper $24.95s    |    978-0-8156-3398-3    |    2015   Lingering Bilingualism: Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in Contact Naomi Brenner Cloth $59.95L    |    978-0-8156-3423-2    |    2015 Paper $29.95s    |    978-0-8156-3409-6    |    2015   Literary Hasidism: The Life and Works of Michael Levi Rodkinson Jonatan Meir Translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey G. Amshalem Cloth $59.95L    |    978-0-8156-3459-1    |    2016 Paper $29.95s    |    978-0-8156-3447-8    |    2016   Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt and the Poetics of Jewish Fiction David Gantt Gurley Hardcover $65.00L    |    978-0-8156-3486-7    |    2016 Paper $29.95s    |    978-0-8156-3472-0    |    2016   Missing a Beat: The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim Edited and with an Introduction by Mark Cohen Forward by Dan Wakefield Cloth $29.95    |    978-0-8156-0948-3    |    2010   The Musical Tradition of the Eastern European Synagogue, Volume I: History and Definition Sholom Kalib Cloth $59.95L    |    0-8156-2927-3    |    2002   The Musical Tradition of the Eastern European Synagogue: Volume 2: The Weekday Services Sholom Kalib 4 Book Slipcased Set Cloth $125.00L    |    0-8156-3077-8    |   2004      The Musical Tradition of the Eastern European Synagogue, Volume 3A: The Sabbath Eve Service Sholom Kalib Cloth $150.00s    |    978-0-8156-3505-5    |    2017   Bilingual Edition My Blue Piano Else Lasker-Schüler Poems Translated from the German by Brooks Haxton Cloth $39.95s    |    978-0-8156-3420-1    |    2015 Paper $14.95    |    978-0-8156-1056-4    |    2015   My Friendship with Martin Buber Maurice Friedman Cloth $24.95    |    978-0-8156-1016-8    |    2013   Nathan and His Wives: A Novel Miron C. Izakson; Betsy Rosenberg, translator; Ken Frieden, editor Cloth $19.95    |    0-8156-0788-1    |    2003   Neither With Them Nor Without Them: The Russian Writer and the Jew in the Age of Realism Elena M. Katz Cloth $34.95s    |    978-0-8156-3182-8    |    2008   The New Country: Stories from the Yiddish about Life in America Henry Goodman, trans. & ed. Cloth $26.95    |    0-8156-0669-9    |    2001   Nineteen to the Dozen: Monologues and Bits and Bobs of Other Things Sholem Aleichem; Ted Gorelick, translator; Ken Frieden, editor Cloth $24.95    |    0-8156-0477-7    |    1998 Paper $19.95    |    0-8156-0634-6    |    2000   Old Jewish Folk Music: The Collections and Writings of Moshe Beregovski Mark Slobin, trans. & ed. Paper $29.95    |    0-8156-2868-4    |    2000   The Passing Game: Queering Jewish American Culture Warren Hoffman Cloth $24.95s    |    978-08156-3202-3    |    2009   Past Imperfect: 318 Episodes from the Life of a Russian Artist Grisha Bruskin Translated from the Russian by Alice Nakhimovsky Cloth $34.95    |    978-0-8156-0901-8    |    2008   Paul Celan: The Romanian Dimension Petre Solomon Translated from the Romanian by Emanuela Tegla With an Introduction by J. M. Coetzee Hardcover $60.00L    |    978-0-8156-3594-9    |   2018 Paper $29.95s    |    978-0-8156-3602-1    |   2018   Petty Business Yirmi Pinkus Translated from the Hebrew by Evan Fallenberg and Yardenne Greenspan Hardcover $50.00s    |    978-0-8156-3551-2    |    2017 Paper $19.95    |    978-0-8156-1091-5    |    2017   The People of Godlbozhits Leyb Rashkin Translated from the Yiddish by Jordan Finkin With an Introduction by David Rechter Hardcover $75.00s    |    978-0-8156-3552-9    |    2017 Paper $39.95    |    978-0-8156-1092-2    |    2017   Pioneers: The First Breach S. An-sky Hardcover $50.00s    |    978-0-8156-3504-8    |    2017 Paper $19.95    |    978-0-8156-1084-7    |    2017   Place and Ideology in Contemporary Hebrew Literature Karen Grumberg Cloth $39.95s    |    978-0-8156-3259-7    |    2011   Polish Jewish Literature in the Interwar Years Eugenia Prokop-Janiec; Abe Shenitzer, trans. Cloth $24.95s    |    0-8156-2984-2    |    2003   Recovering "Yiddishland": Threshold Moments in American Literature Merle L. Bachman Cloth $29.95s    |    978-0-8156-3151-4    |    2007   Red Shoes for Rachel: Three Novellas Boris Sandler Translated from the Yiddish by Barnett Zumoff With a Foreword by Mikhail Krutikov Hardcover $55.00s    |    978-0-8156-3507-9    |    2017 Paper $19.95    |    978-0-8156-1087-8    |    2017   Representing the Immigrant Experience: Morris Rosenfeld and the Emergence of Yiddish Literature in America Marc Miller Cloth $29.95L    |    978-0-8156-3110-1    |    2007 Paper $19.95s    |    978-0-8156-3136-1    |    2007   The Revolutionary Roots of Modern Yiddish, 1903-1917 Barry Trachtenberg Cloth $24.95s    |    978-0-8156-3190-3    |    2008   Rhetoric and Nation: The Formation of Hebrew National Culture, 1880–1990 Shai P. Ginsburg Cloth $49.95s    |    978-0-8156-3333-4    |    2014   Rock ‘n’ Roll Jews Michael Billig Paper $19.95    |    0-8156-0705-9    |    2001   A Room of His Own: In Search of the Feminine in the Novels of Saul Bellow Gloria Cronin Cloth $39.95L    |    0-8156-2862-5    |    2001 Paper $19.95s    |    0-8156-2863-3    |    2001   Social Concern and Left Politics in Jewish American Art: 1880–1940 Matthew Baigell Cloth $39.95s    |    978-0-8156-3396-9    |    2015   Songs from Bialik: Selected Poems of Hayim Nahman Bialik Atar Hadari, trans. Cloth $39.95L    |    0-8156-2814-5    |    2000 Paper $19.95    |    0-8156-0605-2    |    2000   The Stories of David Bergelson: Yiddish Short Fiction from Russia Golda Werman, trans. & ed. Paper $16.95    |    0-8156-0402-5    |    1996   Translating Israel: Contemporary Hebrew Literature and It’s Reception In America Alan L. Mintz Cloth $39.95L    |    0-8156-2899-4    |    2001 Paper $19.95s    |    0-8156-2900-1    |    2001   A Traveler Disguised: The Rise of Modern Yiddish Fiction in the Nineteenth Century Dan Miron Paper $19.95    |    0-8156-0330-4    |    1996   Travels in Translation: Sea Tales at the Source of Jewish Fiction Ken Frieden Cloth $65.00L    |    978-0-8156-3457-7    |    2016 Paper $29.95s    |    978-0-8156-3441-6    |    2016   The Travels of Benjamin Zuskin Ala Zuskin Perelman Cloth $29.95    |    978-0-8156-1050-2    |    2015   The Undying Flame: Ballads and Songs of the Holocaust Jerry Silverman Paper $34.95    |    0-8156-0708-3    |    2002   Vagabond Stars: A World of Yiddish Theater Nahma Sandrow Paper $19.95    |    0-8156-0329-0    |    1996   Vilna My Vilna: Stories by Abraham Karpinowitz Translated from the Yiddish by Helen Mintz Foreword by Justin Cammy Cloth $49.95s    |    978-0-8156-3426-3    |    2015 ebook 978-0-8156-5352-3 Paper $19.95    |    978-0-8156-1060-1    |    2015   What Must be Forgotten: The Survival of Yiddish in Zionist Palestine Yael Chaver Cloth $29.95s    |    0-8156-3050-6    |   2004   Who Will Die Last: Stories of Life in Israel David Ehrlich Edited by Ken Frieden Paper $19.95    |    978-0-8156-1019-9    |    2013   The Wishing Ring: A Novel S.Y. Abramovitsh (Mendele Moyher Sforim); Michael Wex, trans. Cloth $29.95    |    0-8156-3035-2    |    2003   With Rake in Hand: Memoirs of a Yiddish Poet Joseph Rolnik Translated from the Yiddish by Gerald Marcus Hardcover $65.00L    |    978-0-8156-3495-9    |    2016 Paper $29.95s    |    978-0-8156-3478-2    |    2016   Writing as Freedom, Writing as Testimony: Four Italian Writers and Judaism Sergio Parussa Cloth $24.95s    |    978-0-8156-3198-9    |    2008   Yiddish Poetry and the Tuberculosis Sanatorium 1900–1970 Ernest B. Gilman Cloth $24.95s    |    978-0-8156-3379-2    |    2014   For more information: Series Editors Professor Harold Bloom 179 Linden Street New Haven, CT 06511 Professor Ken Frieden Judaic Studies Program Syracuse University 501 Hall of Languages Phone 315-443-1894 / 3861 Fax: 315-443-3958 kfrieden@syr.edu Acquisitions Deborah Manion Acquisitions Editor Syracuse University Press 621 Skytop Road, Suite 110 Syracuse, New York 13244-5290 Tel.: 315-443-5647 dmmanion@syr.edu