Walter Mattner and the Murder of Jewish Infants – by Dr Alex J. Kay
Dr. Alex J. KaySenior Lecturer at the Chair of Military History / Cultural History of Violence, University of Potsdam and author of, Empire of…
Jewish Studies
Jewish History & Culture: Survivors – an extract
This next post in our series on Jewish History and Culture features an extract from Survivors: Children’s Lives After the Holocaust by Rebecca Clifford…
Jewish History & Culture: Holocaust Testimonies
This post, the latest in our series on Jewish History and Culture, looks at holocaust survivor testimonies. It features extracts from Ecologies of Witnessing…
Jewish History & Culture: Emma Goldman
Our series of blog posts on Jewish History and Culture continues with this extract from Vivian Gornick’s biography of Emma Goldman, part of our…
Jewish History & Culture: Stanley Kubrick
Our series of blog posts on Jewish History and Culture continues with this extract from David Mikics’ biography of Stanley Kubrick, part of our…
Jewish History & Culture: Migration Stories
This first post in our new series on Jewish History and Culture looks at stories of movement and migration, including extracts from Well Worth…
Griselda Pollock explores the life and work of artist Charlotte Salomon
‘She found herself facing the question of whether to commit suicide or to undertake something wildly crazy.’ – from Life? or Theatre? by Charlotte…
A Q&A with Devorah Baum, author of Feeling Jewish
Described as ‘intellectually luminous, psychologically penetrating, existentially anxious, and wonderfully funny’ by Zadie Smith, Devorah Baum’s Feeling Jewish: A Book For Just About Anyone explores what…
What Are Brothers For? – Warner Bros, An Extract
The Warner brothers formed one of the most iconic and powerful movie studios of the 20th century, delighting audiences with many now classic films…
Jewish Lives – New Biographies
Yale are very proud to publish the Jewish Lives series, a collection of biographies that focus on prominent and influential figures in the worlds of art, entertainment, literature, philosophy…
Einstein & His General Theory of Relativity
2015 marks the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, and to celebrate this momentous occasion, Steven Gimbel, author of new Jewish…
Kristallnacht and the Nazi Imagination
How were the Nazis able to conceive of eradicating an entire people… of ‘A World Without Jews’? This week marks 76 years since Kristallnacht,…
Becoming Freud by Adam Phillips
From one of the world’s foremost authorities on Sigmund Freud comes a strikingly original biography of the father of psychoanalysis – explore Becoming Freud by…