First 25 Volumes in the Series: Studies in Contemporary Jewry (an Annual)
Bloomington (IN) / New York/Oxford: Indiana Univ. Press / Oxford Univ. Press, 1984-2011. First edition. Publisher's cloth or glossy boards. 25 volumes, octavo. Original publisher's bindings: 22 of 23 cloth-bound volumes in dust jacket; 2 volumes in glossy boards without jacket (as issued). Vol. 1 and vol. IV dust jackets with short tears at spine head; vol. II lacks jacket, discreet library de-accession stamp verso title and traces of paper label removed from spine tail; vol. VI with gift dedication at blank endleaf; vol. IX with cellotape reinforcement to jacket tear at spine tail -- remaining 19 dust jackets fine. Overall, a nearly fine, clean set.
First 25 volumes in the series Studies in Contemporary Jewry. The papers from the first two years of what developed into an annual symposium were published by Indiana University Press for The Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Institute of Contemporary Judaism (noted as the Avraham Harman Institute, after 1994). From 1987 onwards, Oxford University Press assumed responsibility for publication.
Volume titles: Studies in Contemporary Jewry I; Studies in Contemporary Jewry II; Jews and Other Ethnic Groups in a Multi-ethnic World; The Jews and the European Crisis, 1914-1921; Israel: State and Society, 1948-1988; Art and Its Uses: The Visual Image and Modern Jewish Society; Jews and Messianism in the Modern Era: Metaphor and Meaning; A New Jewry? America Since the Second World War; Modern Jews and Their Musical Agendas; Reshaping the Past: Jewish History and the Historians; Values, Interests, and Identity: Jews and Politics in a Changing World; Literary Strategies: Jewish Texts and Contexts; The Fate of the European Jews, 1939-1945: Continuity or Contingency?; Coping with Life and Death: Jewish Families in the Twentieth Century; People of the City: Jews and the Urban Challenge; Jews and Gender: the Challenge to Hierarchy; Who Owns Judaism? Public Religion and Private Faith in America and Israel; Jews and Violence: Images. Ideologies, Realities; Jews and the State: Dangerous Alliances and the Perils of Privilege; Jews and Communism; Jews, Catholics, and the Burden of History; Sephardic Jewry and Mizrahi Jews; Jews and the Sporting Life; The Protestant-Jewish Conundrum; Ethnicity and Beyond: Theories and Dilemmas of Jewish Group Demarcation. Near fine / nearly fine. Item #56090
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