In May, the US observes Jewish History Month, in recognition of the contributions of the Jewish community to American society.
Jewish History Month serves to observe the impact of Jewish individuals across various spheres—culture, history, military, science, government, and beyond.
Manchester University Press is participating in this month’s observance, in solidarity with our American audience. To mark this occasion, we’ve created a selection of titles that explore the study of Jewish history and culture, offering readers a deeper understanding and appreciation of the Jewish faith.
You can get 30% off any of the below title using JHM30 at checkout.
Tracking the Jews
£25.00
Carolyn Sanzenbacher
This book reconstructs an unprecedented initiative for world evangelisation of Jews in the years before, during and after the Nazi Holocaust. It reveals the ways in which a broad toleration of traditional anti-Judaism allowed, under a banner of Christian benevolence, a transnational discourse of antisemitic ideas masked in conversionary language.
Jewish Women in Europe in the Middle Ages
£25.00
Simha Goldin
Looks at the relationships between men and women within Jewish communities living in Germany, northern France and England in the late Middle Ages.
Herminie and Fanny Pereire
£85.00
Helen M. Davies
This book, a companion to the author's acclaimed Emile and Isaac Pereire (2015), sheds new light on elite Jewish families in nineteenth-century France.
Raoul Wallenberg
£25.00
Ulf Zander
This book tells the story of how a Swedish diplomat who saved the lives of thousands of Jews in Hungary became a symbol after his disappearance in January 1945. A variety of aspects are analysed, including secret diplomacy and representations of Wallenberg on film and television as well as in monuments.
Emile and Isaac Pereire
£19.99
Helen M. Davies
A fascinating biography that sheds light on Jewish history, economic history and nineteenth-century France
No masters but God
£20.00
Hayyim Rothman
A study in the writings of a transnational constellation of rabbis, scholars, activists, and theologians active during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It explores how, through the lense of biblical, rabbinic, and kabbalistic literature, they developed themes of anti-authoritarianism, antinomianism, nationalism, and pacifism.
The contract of mutual indifference
£14.99
Norman Geras, Oliver Kamm
Norman Geras discusses a central aspect of the experience of the Holocaust with a view to exploring its most important contemporary implications. Geras's argument focuses on the figure of the bystander to consider the moral consequences of looking on without active responses at persecution and great suffering.
Antisemitism and the left
£18.99
Robert Fine, Philip Spencer
A highly original conceptual study of the opposing faces of universalism, its stimulation for Jewish emancipation and the struggle for its rescue from repressive, antisemitic associations.
Sport and British Jewry
£25.00
David Dee
Sport and British Jewry provides the first wide-ranging examination of the importance of sport in the history of the British-Jewish community. Covering the period from 1890 through to 1970, it examines the peak era of Jewish involvement and interest in sport and physical recreation in Britain in recent times.
The British left and Zionism
£19.99
Paul Kelemen
The changes and divisions on the British left over the Israel-Palestine conflict forms the central theme of this archive based study.
Leeds and its Jewish community
£25.00
Derek Fraser
The definitive history of the third-largest Jewish community in the UK, which analyses the factors which contributed to its growth and success and explores the disproportionate influence the community had on the modern history of Leeds.
Austerity baby
£25.00
Janet Wolff
Austerity Baby might best be described as an 'oblique memoir'. Janet Wolff's fascinating volume is a family history - but one that is digressive and consistently surprising. The central underlying...
Anglo-Jewry since 1066
£19.99
Tony Kushner
This is a study of the history and memory of Anglo-Jewry from medieval to the present. The particular focus is on the relationship between the local (in this case Hampshire), the national and the global.