H-JewishRhetorics is the scholarly network for Klal Rhetorica, a community of scholars working in the overlapping areas of Rhetoric and Jewish Studies.

Below you will find the latest books published in Jewish Studies, including new titles streaming from the H-Net Book Channel and new book announcements posted to H-JewishRhetorics. You will also find announcements and discussion shared among subscribers to H-JewishRhetorics. Pertinent CFPs can be found in a link on the right hand side of the page.

H-JewishRhetorics is always looking for contributors, bloggers, discussants, resources gatherers, etc. Please join the Network and help us build an active online community! If you have questions or ideas about how you'd like to contribute to H-JewishRhetorics, please contact the network editor, Brandon Katzir, at brandon.katzir@gmail.com. 

Recent posts

Discussion published by Rafael Chaiken on Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Re: Introductions

My name is Rafael Chaiken; I'm the editor for Jewish studies at SUNY Press. We publish scholarly books on Jewish literature, philosophy, religion, history, and culture with a particular focus on the modern and contemporary periods; we also publish in Israel and Holocaust studies. Our Series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture may be of particular interest to this listserv.

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New Books in Jewish Studies

Page published by H-Net Book Channel on Thursday, July 26, 2018

New Book - Pennies for Heaven: The History of American Synagogues and Money (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life)

Author: Daniel Judson Title: Pennies for Heaven: The History of American Synagogues and Money (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life) Publisher: Brandeis Publication Date: 6/5/2018 ISBN: 9781512602753 Paperback  (English)

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Announcements

Discussion published by Michael Bernard-Donals on Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Re: Introductions!!!

Thanks for starting us off, Jan. To (re-)introduce myself to the Klal, my name's Michael Bernard-Donals, and I'm a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I teach in the rhetoric program and currently serving as the Vice Provost for Faculty and Staff. When Jan invited me to become a member of the Klal when it was founded I agreed because there just weren't spaces in the field where discussions about Jewish matters, well, mattered.

Discussion published by Janice Fernheimer on Sunday, July 8, 2018

Introductions!!!

Dear Klal Rhetorica/H-Jewishrhetorics members:

 

I hope this note finds you well and enjoying the summer. I'm writing to follow-up on some of the suggestions made at our RSA meeting in May and to kick-off introductions. For those of you who want a prompt--please tell us

1) who you are, your rank/institutional affiliation

2)what research questions connected  you to Klal Rhetorica

3) what you’re working on,

4)  what you hope to get from the community

5) what you can bring/contribute to it

 

Here's my attempt:

Discussion published by Brandon Katzir on Monday, June 18, 2018

Klal Rhetoric Meeting Minutes

Dear Klal Members:

Below, please find meeting minutes from our business meeting at the 2018 RSA Conference in Minneapolis, MN.

We had a productive meeting with the following individuals in attendance:

David Metzger

Michael Bernard-Donals

Jan Fernheimer

David Frank

Brad Serber

Iklim Goksel

Jamie Downing

Steve Katz

Patrick Shaw

Deborah Holdstein

Aaron Dicker

Elif Guler

Special welcome to new members--Aaron Dicker, Iklim Goksel, Jamie Downing, Eliza Gellis

Discussion published by Matthew Charlton on Friday, June 8, 2018

Edited Volume TOC: Conversations with Colleagues: On Becoming an American Jewish Historian, edited by Jeffrey S. Gurock

Academic Studies Press is pleased to announce the publication of Conversations with Colleagues: On Becoming an American Jewish Historian, edited by Jeffrey S. Gurock.

Series: North American Jewish Studies
April 2018 | 272 pp.
9781618118561 | $79.00 | CL

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