HIST 4196: From the Bible to the Museum: Jewish Memory and Public History (Fall 2024)

Covers the major debates within public history; the methods and sources that comprise a public historian's tool kit; and exemplary examples of practice. It views public history as a dynamic process combining historical research and a wide range of work with and for the public, informed by a conceptual context. The editors acknowledge the imprecision bedeviling attempts to define public history, and use this book as an opportunity to shape the field by taking a deliberately broad view. They include professional historians who work outside the academy in a range of institutions and sites, and those who are politically committed to communicating history to the wide range of audiences.

Covers Jewish life, culture, history, and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists.

American Jewish popular culture, past and present in music, art, food, religion, literature, and more.

Covers communities, cultures, ethnicities, and experiences created by the Diaspora in every region of the world where Jews live or Jewish ancestry exists.

The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World covers an area of Jewish history, religion, and culture whichuntil now has Covers Jews of Muslim lands particularly in the late medieval, earlymodern and modern periods.