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  • Battle Lines

    A Graphic History of the Civil War

    by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, Ari Kelman ...
    Featuring breathtaking panoramas and revelatory, unforgettable images, Battle Lines is an utterly original graphic history of the Civil War.A collaboration between the award-winning historian Ari Kelman and the acclaimed graphic novelist Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, Battle Lines showcases various objects from the conflict (a tattered American flag from Fort Sumter, a pair of opera glasses, a bullet, an ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • A Misplaced Massacre

    struggling over the memory of Sand Creek

    by Ari Kelman ...
    On November 29, 1864, over 150 Native Americans, mostly women, children, and elderly, were slaughtered in one of the most infamous cases of state-sponsored violence in U.S. history. Kelman examines how generations of Americans have struggled with the question of whether the nation’s crimes, as well as its achievements, should be memorialized. ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • A Misplaced Massacre

    Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek

    by Ari Kelman ...
    **Winner of the Bancroft PrizeAn award-winning account of the Sand Creek Massacre that killed hundreds of Native Americans and brutally reshaped the Colorado Territory.**In the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the First Colorado and nearly all of the Third Colorado volunteer regiments, commanded by Colonel John Chivington, surprised hundreds ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Jewish Education

    by Ari Y Kelman ...
    Series series Key Words in Jewish Studies
    Most writing about Jewish education has been preoccupied with two questions: What ought to be taught? And what is the best way to teach it? Ari Y Kelman upends these conventional approaches by asking a different question: How do people learn to engage in Jewish life? This book, by centering learning, provides an innovative way of approaching the questions that are central to Jewish education ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Shout to the Lord

    Making Worship Music in Evangelical America

    by Ari Y. Kelman ...
    Series Book 9 - North American Religions
    How music makes worship and how worship makes music in Evangelical churchesMusic is a nearly universal feature of congregational worship in American churches. Congregational singing is so ingrained in the experience of being at church that it is often misunderstood to be synonymous with worship. For those who assume responsibility for making music for congregational use, the relationship between ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Is Diss a System?

    A Milt Gross Comic Reader

    Edited by Ari Y. Kelman ...
    Series Book 16 - Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish Studies
    Milt Gross (1895-1953), a Bronx-born cartoonist and animator, first found fame in the late 1920s, writing comic strips and newspaper columns in the unmistakable accent of Jewish immigrants. By the end of the 1920s, Gross had become one of the most famous humorists in the United States, his work drawing praise from writers like H. L. Mencken and Constance Roarke, even while some of his Jewish ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Sacred Strategies

    Transforming Synagogues from Functional to Visionary

    by Isa Aron, Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ari Y. Kelman, Steven M. Cohen ...
    Sacred Strategies is about eight synagogues that reached out and helped people connect to Jewish life in a new way—congregations that had gone from commonplace to extraordinary. Over a period of two years, researchers Aron, Cohen, Hoffman, and Kelman interviewed 175 synagogue leaders and a selection of congregants (ranging from intensely committed to largely inactive). They found these ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Thinking Jewish Culture in America

    by Noam Pianko, Akiba Lerner, Gregory Kaplan, Ken Koltun-Fromm, Claire E. Sufrin, Jessica Rosenberg, Einat Ramon, Leonard Kaplan, Ari Y. Kelman, Mara H. Benjamin0, Arnold M. Eisen1 ...
    Series series Graven Images
    Thinking Jewish Culture in America argues that Jewish thought extends our awareness and deepens the complexity of American Jewish culture. This volume stretches the disciplinary boundaries of Jewish thought so that it can productively engage expanding arenas of culture by drawing Jewish thought into the orbit of cultural studies. The eleven contributors to Thinking Jewish Cultures, together with ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

  • Beyond Jewish Identity

    Rethinking Concepts and Imagining Alternatives

    Edited by Jon A. Levisohn, Ari Y. Kelman ...
    There is something deeply problematic about the ways that Jews, particularly in America, talk about “Jewish identity” as a desired outcome of Jewish education. For many, the idea that the purpose of Jewish education is to strengthen Jewish identity is so obvious that it hardly seems worth disputing—and the only important question is which kinds of Jewish education do that work more effectively or ... Read more

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    An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought

    by Leora Batnitzky ...
    Is Judaism a religion, a culture, a nationality--or a mixture of all of these? In How Judaism Became a Religion, Leora Batnitzky boldly argues that this question more than any other has driven modern Jewish thought since the eighteenth century. This wide-ranging and lucid introduction tells the story of how Judaism came to be defined as a religion in the modern period--and why Jewish thinkers have ... Read more

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  • The No-State Solution

    A Jewish Manifesto

    by Daniel Boyarin ...
    **A provocative manifesto, arguing for a new understanding of the Jews’ peoplehood“A self-consciously radical statement that is both astute and joyous.”—Kirkus Reviews**Today there are two seemingly mutually exclusive notions of what “the Jews” are: either a religion or a nation/ethnicity. The widespread conception is that the Jews were formerly either a religious community in exile or a nation ... Read more

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  • Orthodox by Design

    Judaism, Print Politics, and the ArtScroll Revolution

    by Jeremy Stolow ...
    Orthodox by Design, a groundbreaking exploration of religion and media, examines ArtScroll, the world’s largest Orthodox Jewish publishing house, purveyor of handsomely designed editions of sacred texts and a major cultural force in contemporary Jewish public life. In the first in-depth study of the ArtScroll revolution, Jeremy Stolow traces the ubiquity of ArtScroll books in local retail markets, ... Read more

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