Books Archive - University of Pittsburgh Press

Kaufmann’s

The Family That Built Pittsburgh’s Famed Department Store

By Marylynne Pitz, Laura Malt Schneiderman

Traces One Family’s Outsized Influence on Its Community and a Century of National Retail Trends in the Department Store Industry

Bound in the Bond of Life

Pittsburgh Writers Reflect on the Tree of Life Tragedy

Edited By Beth Kissileff, Eric Lidji

Essays That Confront the Personal and Public Aspects of Surviving Tragedy and Demonstrate How Pittsburgh Is Still Stronger Than Hate

The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture

By David E. Fishman

Acting as an important historical archive for the Jews of Eastern Europe, The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture examines the progress of Yiddish culture from its origins in Tsarist and inter-war Poland to its apex with the founding of the Yiddish Scientific Institute in 1925.

The Seventh Heaven

Travels through Jewish Latin America

By Ilan Stavans

Stavans’s Ongoing Quest to Find a Convergence Between the Personal and Historical