Jewish Studies

Generations of Empire rethinks modern Mediterranean history through changing generational dynamics and representations of youth.

Part family history, part memoir, Behind the Glass tells the story behind the famous Villa Tugendhat.

This volume makes available Marsilio Ficino's polemical work De Christiana religione with introduction and notes.

Faces in the Crowd is an exploration of the lives and contributions of Jews to Canada.

Justice in Lyon is a comprehensive history of the trial for crimes against humanity of the Nazi Klaus Barbie.

In this powerful book, three graphic novelists tell the stories of Holocaust survivors, bringing their testimonies to life and seamlessly connecting the past with the present.

Kingdom of Night tells the stories of Canadians – in their own voices – during the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

Fighter, Worker, and Family Man explores how German-Jewish men tried to maintain their understandings of masculinity under Nazi rule.

Emil Fackenheim’s Post-Holocaust Thought and Its Philosophical Sources engages with the philosophers who made the greatest impact on the thought of Emil Fackenheim.

The Eichmann Trial Reconsidered explores the legacy and consequences of the trial of Adolf Eichmann.

Persons and Other Things looks closely at the Bible as a philosophical work, asking insightful questions about how to interpret the Hebrew Bible, what it means to be Jewish, and how to live a meaningful and moral life.

This is the first book in English to lay out the philosophical ethics and philosophy of law of Hermann Cohen, one of the leading figures in both Neo-Kantian and Jewish philosophy.

Applying the classic teachings of Judaism, Connected Capitalism is an empowering call to fix what is currently broken in our social, political, and economic spaces.

Exploring notions of justice and morality, this book offers a new interpretation of everyday life in the ghettos during the Second World War.

European Mennonites and the Holocaust is one of the first books to examine Mennonite involvement in the Holocaust, sometimes as rescuers but more often as killers, accomplices, beneficiaries, and bystanders.

No Better Home? brings together a unique combination of voices to question whether or not Canada is the best home that Jews have ever had.