Brandeis University Press

A magisterial biography of Israel's first president. Beginning with his childhood in Belorussia and concluding with his tenure as president, Reinharz and Golani describe how a Russian Jew, who...

The novel Mazaltob (1930) by Blanche Bendahan is the forerunner of a modern Sephardi feminist literature in French, which in recent decades has earned growing recognition. Yet this model for a vital...

Colm T?b?? personal account of encountering James Baldwin? work, published in Baldwin? centenary year. Acclaimed Irish novelist Colm T?b? first read James Baldwin just after turning eighteen. He had...

In Philosopher Fish Carey immerses himself in the world of sturgeon, the fish that lays these golden eggs. Ancient, shrouded in mystery, inexplicable in several of its behaviors, the sturgeon has a...

A first-class narrative writer blends his unique cartographic and topographic understanding of the key ports of early seaborne commerce. We may think of "globalism" as a recent development but its...