Jewish Studies — Markus Wiener Publishers

Subject: Jewish Studies

Islam, Judaism, and Christianity: Theological and Historical Affiliations
	Busse, Heribert (translated by Allison Brown) Subject: Middle East, Religion	Islam is by nature and history related to Judaism and Christianity. Muhammad grappled with conflicting attitudes toward both religions for a long period before opting for his own way. Ultimately, he acknowledged Judaism and Christianity as independent but less legitimate … More Information

Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism
	Schenker, Hillel and Ziad Abu-Zayyadis, editors Subject: Middle East, Religion	Islamophobia and anti-Semitism, based on often-interchangeable historic stereotypes, fan the flames of fear and hatred against the “other.” Thus Jews and Muslims serve as convenient scapegoats for many of society’s ills and leaders’ misguided agendas. In the post-9/11 world, the … More Information

Israel and Palestine: Peace Plans and Proposals from Oslo to Disengagement (Updated 2008 Edition)
	Golan, Galia Subject: Middle East	“Delivering a readable and remarkably evenhanded account, Golan, an Israeli activist and professor of government, dissects each of the major Israeli and Palestinian peace attempts, from Oslo in 1993 to the 2005 Israeli disengagement from Gaza, and evaluates the current … More Information

Jews and Judaism in African History
	Hull, Richard Subject: Africa, Religion, Middle East, Jewish Studies	This timely book is the first to cover the history of Jews from the times of Alexander the Great and Caesar to Idi Amin and Nelson Mandela. Jews have often been a marginalized minority, yet they have played a role … More Information

Jews of a Saharan Oasis: The Elimination of the Tamantit Community
	Hunwick, John Subject: Africa, Religion, Jewish Studies, Middle East	“Jews spread out from Israel into northern Africa after the Roman destruction of much of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. and settled in Saharan oases. Although there was no love for Jews after the birth of Islam five centuries later, Muslim … More Information

Jews of Nigeria: An Afro-Judaic Odyssey
	Miles, William F. S. Subject: Africa, Religion, Jewish Studies	While Jews have long had a presence in Ethiopia and the Maghreb, Africa’s newest Jewish community of note is in Nigeria, where upwards of twenty thousand Igbos are commonly claimed to have adopted Judaism. Bolstered by customs recalling an Israelite … More Information

Minorities in the Ottoman Empire
	Greene, Molly, editor Subject: Middle East	The Ottoman Empire was a multi-ethnic, multi-religious state encompassing most of the modern Middle East, and for much of its 600-year existence it managed to rule effectively its diverse peoples. The essays of this work move beyond the traditional state- … More Information

Old New Land
	Herzl, Theodor (edited by Jacques Kornberg) Subject: Middle East, World History, World Literature, Jewish Studies	The first publication of Old New Land in 1902 forever altered the world’s perception of the Middle East. The book was a nineteenth-century utopian blueprint for a modern state of Israel. There were Jewish settlers in Palestine, and zionist ideas … More Information

Once Jews: Stories of Caribbean Sephardim
	Goldish, Josette Capriles Subject: Caribbean, Religion,Jeiwsh Studies	Honorable Mention, Latin American Jewish Studies Association (LAJSA) Book Award Committee The phrase “I am Catholic, but I am Jewish” may seem contradictory to some, but in the Caribbean islands and the countries of the Caribbean periphery, there … More Information

Parricide on the Pampa: A New Study and Translation of Los Gauchos Judíos
	Gerchunoff, Alberto (edited by Edna Aizenberg) Subject: Religion, South America	This book presents a radical rereading of Alberto Gerchunoff’s classic Argentinian immigrant saga, Los gauchos judíos (The Jewish Gauchos; 1910). This collection of stories about early 20th-century agricultural colonies founded by persecuted Eastern Europeans Jews on the pampa has been … More Information