Jewish Law in Transition

How Economic Forces Overcame the Prohibition against Lending on Interest

Hillel Gamoran
ISBN 978-0-87820-462-5 / 196 pages / cloth, $35.00 / Order from Wayne State University Press, 1-800-978-7323
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Let Me Continue to Speak the Truth

Bertha Pappenheim as Author and Activist

Elizabeth Loentz
ISBN 0-87820-460-1 / 314 pages / cloth, $34.95 / Order from Wayne State University Press, 1-800-978-7323
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My Dear Daughter

Rabbi Benjamin Slonik and the Education of Jewish Women in Sixteenth-Century Poland

Edward Fram
ISBN: 0-87820-459-8, 360 pages, cloth, $39.95, Order from Wayne State University Press, 1-800-978-7323
Runner-up in the 2008 National Jewish Book Awards in the category of Eastern European Jewish Studies
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The New Tradition: Essays on Modern Hebrew Literature

Seminal essays by acclaimed literary critic Gershon Shaked exploring the evolution of a modern Hebraic literary and cultural tradition.

Gershon Shaked
Available May 2006 / 350 pp / ISBN 0-87820-250-1, cloth: $40.00, 6" x 9"
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Nelson Glueck: Biblical Archaeologist and President of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

A fascinating biography of an extraordinarily charismatic man whose life straddled two distinct Jewish worlds.

Jonathan M. Brown and Laurence Kutler
2005 / 272 pp / ISBN ISBN 0-87820-119-X, cloth: $30.00, 6" x 9", 17 illustrations
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