Routledge Jewish Studies Series
About the Book Series
Studies, which are interpreted to cover the disciplines of history, sociology, anthropology, culture, politics, philosophy, theology, religion, as they relate to Jewish affairs. The remit includes texts which have as their primary focus issues, ideas, personalities and events of relevance to Jews, Jewish life and the concepts which have characterised Jewish culture both in the past and today. The series is interested in receiving appropriate scripts or proposals.
Gentile Food Bans: Halakhah and the Fear of Intermarriage
1st Edition
By David Raab
July 24, 2026
Gentile Food Bans: Halakhah and the Fear of Intermarriage challenges long-standing rabbinic and scholarly assumptions about the origins of dietary restrictions in Jewish law. Re-examining halakhic texts across centuries, this book argues that the early prohibitions against consuming Gentile bread ...
The Jewish Question Revisited: Trade, Class and Identity
1st Edition
By Sabby Sagall
June 18, 2026
The Jewish Question Revisited: Trade, Class and Identity reinterprets the historical trajectory of Jewish identity through the lens of economic function, class dynamics, and the rise of Zionism - offering a provocative reassessment of one of history’s most enduring social questions. Engaging with ...
Moses Maimonides and Chaim Volozhiner: How Judaism Continues after the Deliteralization of God
1st Edition
By Aryeh Botwinick
March 30, 2026
Moses Maimonides and Reb Chaim Volozhiner are among the most famous and influential medieval and early modern writers offering theoretical resolutions about how to comprehend the concept of God. Aryeh Botwinick explores some of the broad based philosophical and theological issues about human ...
Israel and the Rise of the Global Domain: Interpreting Jewish Existence
1st Edition
By Mark Tilse
February 25, 2026
Israel and the Rise of the Global Domain: Interpreting Jewish Existence offers the first comprehensive theoretical framework for understanding Jewish existence through the lens of spatial paradigms within the global epoch, drawing upon innovative interpretive methods across political science, ...
Ancient Bible Interpretation and its Legacies: Politics, Literature, and Heresy
1st Edition
By David Aberbach
December 29, 2025
Ancient Bible Interpretation and its Legacies: Politics, Literature, and Heresy offers a sweeping exploration of the evolving role of Bible interpretation from ancient to modern times, revealing its profound impact on religious, political, literary, and secular culture. Tracing the origins of ...
Samuel Joseph Agnon, Psychoanalysis and Jewish History: A Comparative Study
1st Edition
By David Aberbach
September 12, 2025
Samuel Joseph Agnon, Psychoanalysis and Jewish History: A Comparative Study compares the writings of Samuel Joseph Agnon (1887–1970) with other writers, including Gustav Flaubert, Franz Kafka, D.H. Lawrence, and Carl Gustav Jung, as well as his great Hebrew predecessors, Mendele Mocher Sefraim and ...
The Poetry and Essays of Uri Zvi Grinberg: Politics and Zionism
1st Edition
By Tamar Wolf-Monzon
July 31, 2025
This book focuses on the complex network of relationships between the poet Uri Zvi Grinberg and the Labor Movement in Mandate Palestine from 1923 to 1937. Making use of letters found in the Uri Zvi Grinberg Archive at the National Library of Israel (NLI), the author reconstructs the characteristics...
Jewish Women: Between Conformity and Agency
1st Edition
By Katharina Galor
May 06, 2025
Jewish Women: Between Conformity and Agency examines the concepts of gender and sexuality through the primary lens of visual and material culture from antiquity through to the present day. The backbone of this transhistorical and transcontextual study is the question of Jewish women’s agency in ...
Jewish Hungarian Orthodoxy: Piety and Zealotry
1st Edition
By Menachem Keren-Kratz
April 14, 2025
Beginning with the informal establishment of Jewish Orthodoxy by a Hungarian rabbi in the early nineteenth century, this book traces the history and legacy of Jewish Hungarian Orthodoxy over the course of the last 200 years. To date, no single book has provided a comprehensive overview of the ...
Expressivist Religious Zionism: Modernity and the Sacred in a Nationalist Movement
1st Edition
By Shlomo Fischer
December 24, 2024
This book presents a new approach to the study of Religious Zionism. In counter-distinction to the prevalent fundamentalist approach, it argues that mainstream of Religious Zionism is a romantic religious nationalist movement in which the modern idea of self-expression and related notions, such as ...
Contemporary Israeli Haredi Society: Profiles, Trends, and Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Kimmy Caplan, Nissim Leon
December 18, 2024
This edited volume offers profiles of contemporary Israeli Haredi (i.e., Jewish Ultra-Orthodox) society from several disciplinary points of view, resisting a generalized approach and examining the different, sometimes competing currents, that define it. It is argued that Haredi society has ...
Bialik, the Hebrew Bible and the Literature of Nationalism
1st Edition
By David Aberbach
October 08, 2024
This book explores the life and poetry of Chaim Nachman Bialik (1873–1934) in the context of European national literature between the French Revolution and World War I, showing how he helped create a modern Hebrew national culture, spurring the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language. The author ...