Jewish Cultures of the World

Impure Migration

Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina

Kabbalistic Revolution

Reimagining Judaism in Medieval Spain

The Phantom Holocaust

Soviet Cinema and Jewish Catastrophe

Becoming Frum

How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism

Through Soviet Jewish Eyes

Photography, War, and the Holocaust

Arabs of the Jewish Faith

The Civilizing Mission in Colonial Algeria

One People, One Blood

Ethiopian-Israelis and the Return to Judaism

Jewish Cultures of the World publishes books that examine Jewish life through the methodologies of ethnography and cultural studies. It includes the work of anthropologists, ethnomusicologists, folklorists, historians, linguists, and sociologists, as well as scholars working in the fields of cultural studies, performance studies, and religious studies. Dealing with Jewish existence throughout the diaspora and in Israel, and including studies of Jews’ interrelations with their non-Jewish neighbors, this series offers books of interest to scholars in Jewish studies and those in comparative religion, cultural anthropology, ethnic studies, and other related fields. Jewish Cultures of the World is committed to publishing works of vivid ethnography and strong writing, books of interest to an array of scholars in the humanities and social sciences as well as to a general audience.

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