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Kibbutz: Utopia and Politics
This biography of Meir Yaari, the leader of Hashomer Hatza’ir and its Kibbutz movement, discusses pivotal issues in the history of the Jewish people and the State of Israel, such as the friction between Zionism and socialism, the Arab question, Jewish resistance during the Holocaust, the absorpti...
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Rank and Style
Rank and Style is a collection of essays by Irina Reyfman, a leading scholar of Russian literature and culture. Ranging in topic from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, the essays focus on the interaction of life and literature. In the first part, Reyfman examines how obligatory state servi...
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The Translator's Doubts
Using Vladimir Nabokov as its “case study,” this volume approaches translation as a crucial avenue into literary history and theory, philosophy and interpretation. The book attempts to bring together issues in translation and the shift in Nabokov studies from its earlier emphasis on the “metalite...
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Blood Will Tell
Blood Will Tell explores the ways in which writers, thinkers, and politicians used blood and vampire-related imagery to express social and cultural anxieties in the decades leading up to the First World War. Covering a wide variety of topics, including science, citizenship, gender, and anti-Semit...
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Stavans Unbound
Who is Ilan Stavans? What has he done as a critic? In this book, more than twenty experts in both the Latinx and Jewish American studies field analyze his contributions to those canons.
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Zionism and Jewish Culture
Zionism and Jewish Culture offers a fresh cultural perspective on Zionism, highlighting the dominant role of pre-modern Jewish culture on the modern Jewish national movement. The book investigates the history, politics and Zionist vision of the pre-state period. These issues are still relevant, t...
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Essays on the Evolutionary-Synthetic Theory of Language
This book implements a multidisciplinary approach in describing language both in its ontogenetic development and in its close interrelationship with other human subsystems such as thought, memory, and activity, with a focus on the semantic component of the evolutionary-synthetic theory.The volume...
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A New Life in Israel
This book completes Shimon Redlich’s autobiographical trilogy about his childhood and adolescence in wartime Europe and in early Israel. It bears witness to the adjustment of one young immigrant –one among thousands – to the realities of life in the new country.
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The Rhetorical Rise and Demise of “Democracy” in Russian Political Discourse, Volume 2
Russia in the 1990s had a “Wild West” vibe, as reformist and conservative elements struggled for ascendancy. It was a time of heightened media freedom, a burgeoning civil society, and a quest for a new national identity. This volume examines the arc of official political rhetoric during this crit...
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Rabbi Marcus Jastrow and His Vision for the Reform of Judaism
Rabbi Marcus Jastrow (1829-1903) was one of the most important figures of nineteenth-century Judaism, but is often neglected. This volume presents his life and his views on the reform of Judaism in the context of the changes and developments of Judaism in his lifetime. It covers his early life an...
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Brodsky Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries (Vol 2)
In the new second volume of Brodsky Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries, the collection of interviews features eye-witness accounts of Joseph Brodsky’s friends and family members, publishers, editors, translators, students, and fellow poets including John Le Carre, Oleg Tselkov, Petr Vail, Ben...
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Palestine in Turmoil
This comprehensive account examines the growing conflict between Arab and Jew in Palestine that first surfaced clearly in the pivotal years 1933-1939, and which proved to be an irreconcilable rift once the leadership of both peoples refused to accept minority status. A compelling narrative, lucid...
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Towards the Mystical Experience of Modernity
An exploration of Rav Kook’s formative years in Eastern Europe, 1865-1904.
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The Rhetorical Rise and Demise of “Democracy” in Russian Political Discourse, Volume 3
This volume examines the rhetorical development that occurred over the first two terms of Vladimir Putin’s tenure as president of Russia. During that time Putin abandoned any effort at integration with the West, turning toward Eurasia and promoting a mythical image of Russia as a singular geopoli...
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Visionaries from Lviv
Year 2023 marked 120 years of the Lazarus Jewish Hospital in Lviv (Lwów/Lemberg). This richly illustrated book is a tribute to its place in the once-vibrant Jewish community of the city and in the society at large during the period 1903-1939. Visionaries from Lviv presents the hospital’s history ...
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Strange Journey
This biographical history follows John R. Friedeberg Seeley’s iconoclastic career as a pre-eminent 1950s “Pop Sociologist.” Seeley was the author of Crestwood Heights, a seminal work of postwar social science. He was also a controversial leader of the postwar mental health movement, and a foundin...
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Sorrow and Distress in the Talmud
Both the Babylonian Talmud and the Jerusalem Talmud depict a wide range of sorrowful situations tied to every level of society and to the complexities of human behavior and the human condition. The causes and expressions of sorrow amongst the Sages, however, are different from their counterparts ...
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New Directions in Anglo-Jewish History
The past two decades have witnessed a remarkable renaissance in the academic study of the history of the Jews in Great Britain and of their impact upon British history. In this volume Professor Geoffrey Alderman presents essays that reflect the richness of this renaissance, penned by a new genera...
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Permanent Evolution
A key figure in the Russian Formalist school of literary theory, Yuri Tynianov sought to revolutionize—and liberate—thinking about literature and the other arts. Permanent Evolution gathers together for the first time Tynianov’s seminal articles on literary theory and film.
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Without Red Strings or Holy Water
Maimonides was one of the greatest Jewish personalities of the Middle Ages: a halakhist par excellence, a great philosopher, a political leader of his community, and a guardian of Jewish rights. In 1180 CE, Maimonides composed his Halakhic magnum opus, the Mishneh Torah, which can be described wi...
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