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Between the pagan past and christian present in byzantine visual culture
ENGUp to its pillage by the Crusaders in 1204, Constantinople teemed with magnificent statues of emperors, pagan gods, and mythical beasts. Yet the significance of this wealth of public sculpture has hardly been acknowledged beyond late antiquity. In this book, Paroma Chatterjee offers a new pers...
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Politics and power in early medieval europe
Ханс Хуммер рассматривает функционирование политической власти в Европе с 600 по 1000 год н. э. Сосредоточившись на регионе Эльзас, автор проясняет, как сети монастырей и родовых групп сформировали основу местного политического порядка раннего Средневековья. Расположенный на периодически возникаю...
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Love in a time of slaughters
От романов коренных народов и аниме до арт-инсталляций и докладов комиссий по установлению истины: в своей книге Сюзан Мак-Хью рассматривает спектр современных художественных нарративов, в которых геноцид и вымирание стирают межвидовые границы. Автор анализирует эти материалы, чтобы найти случаи,...
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The social life of inkstones
Чернильный камень — это не просто инструмент для растирания чернил, но и предмет искусства, ценность, предмет обмена между друзьями или даже суверенными государствами. Чернильный камень уже более тысячелетия связан с культурой вэнь (письмо, литература, ученость) в Китае, Корее и Японии, однако до...
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Mind, mood, and memory
ENGMind, Mood, and Memory in Multiple Sclerosis is enhanced both by the latest science and by eloquent case histories that illustrate each cognitive and emotional disorder. Feinstein also provides recommendations for evidence-based therapeutic interventions. Written in an immediate, accessible wa...
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The global remapping of american literature
ENG: This book charts how the cartographies of American literature as an institutional category have varied radically across different times and places. Arguing that American literature was consolidated as a distinctively nationalist entity only in the wake of the U.S. Civil War, Paul Giles ident...
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Nature and empire in ottoman egypt
Алан Михейл, автор этой одной из первых работ по экологической истории Османской империи, рассматривает отношения между империей и Египтом — ее самой богатой провинцией. В книге, основанной на материалах архивов населенных пунктов в сельской местности Египта, а также на собрании имперских распоря...
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Modern occultism in late imperial russia
Книга Юлии Маннхерц посвящена истории оккультных идей и практик в России. Автор исследует, как на рубеже веков оккультные воззрения, зародившиеся в закрытых салонах, проникли в массовую культуру. В своём исследовании Маннхерц рассматривает дебаты 1870-х годов о спиритических сеансах, анализирует ...
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That savage gaze
Imperial Russia’s large wolf populations were demonized, persecuted, tormented, and sometimes admired. That Savage Gaze explores the significance of wolves in pre-revolutionary Russia utilizing the perspectives of cultural studies, ecocriticism, and human-animal studies. It examines the ways in w...
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Avant-garde' art groups in china
Avant-garde' Art Groups in China 1979-1989 gives a critical polylogic (multi-voiced) account of four of the most significant Chinese avant-garde art groups of the late 1970s and 1980s: The Stars, The Northern Art Group, The Pond Association and Xiamen Dada. The book includes extended conversation...
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Empowering women in russia
Originally published in 2007, based on research conducted during 1996-1998, Julie Hemment’s engrossing study traces the development encounter through interactions between international foundation and Russian women’s groups during a decade of transformation. Prohibited from organizing independentl...
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Aesthetics and pragmatics
ENG:The text discusses how, in the post-industrial era (especially in developed Western countries), higher-order needs like self-expression and lifestyle have gained prominence. This has led to the broader application of aesthetic criteria in consumer culture and product evaluation. The interpene...
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Performing the temple of liberty
ENGJenna M. Gibbs explores the world of theatrical and related print production on both sides of the Atlantic in an age of remarkable political and social change. Her deeply researched study of working-class and middling entertainment covers the period of the American Revolution through the first...
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Infectious ideas
ENGHow did pre-modern scholars conceive of contagion and the transmissibility of disease in general? Infectious Ideas answers this question by looking carefully at both Muslim and Christian scholarship in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia and North Africa. Recent scholarship has focused extensivel...
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Nikolai zabolotsky
Sarah Pratt traces interwoven questions in the work of Nikolai Zabolotsky, a figure ranking just behind Pasternak, Mandelstram and Akhmatova in modern Russian poetry and the first major poet to come to light in the Soviet period. The book identifies a ""Soviet"" impulse, marked by a veneer of Mar...
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Modernism and the new spain
В своей книге Гейл Роджерс реконструирует межкультурные связи двух ключевых модернистских движений — британского и испанского, оказавших влияние на Ирландию, а также Северную и Южную Америку. В центре исследования — транснациональные литературные и культурные взаимодействия: диалог между журналам...
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Inscriptions of nature
В книге Пратика Чакрабарти на примере Индии исследуется глубинная история природы, ландшафта и населяющих его людей через призму политических, экономических и культурных влияний. Автор утверждает, что эта история неразрывно связана с колониальным присвоением природных ресурсов, товаров и мифов. Ч...
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Kenkoku university and the experience of pan-asianism
ENG: Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism makes a fresh contribution to the recent effort to re-examine the Japanese wartime ideology of Pan-Asianism by focusing on the experiences of students at Kenkoku University or “Nation-Building University,” abbreviated as Kendai (1938-1945...
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Russian baptists and spiritual revolution
ENGIn the early twentieth century, Baptists were the fastest-growing non-Orthodox religious group among Russians and Ukrainians. Heather J. Coleman traces the development of Baptist evangelical communities through a period of rapid industrialization, war, and revolution, when Russians found thems...
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Images of otherness in russia, 1547–1917
ENG:Defining the Others, “them”, in relation to one’s own reference group, “us”, has been an essential phase in the formation of collective identities in any given country or region. In the case of Russia, the formulation of these binary definitions – sometimes taking a form of enemy images – can...
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Ishikawa sanshirō's geographical imagination
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Sex, love, and migration
ENG: Sex, Love, and Migration complicates a narrative of women’s exploitation as a feature of migration in the twenty-first century, to argue that women’s mobility is marked not only by risks but also by personal and social transformation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork spanning a decade (2002...
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The ottoman “wild west”
ENGIn the late fifteenth century, the north-eastern Balkans were under-populated and under-institutionalized. Yet, by the end of the following century, the regions of Deliorman and Gerlovo were home to one of the largest Muslim populations in southeast Europe. Nikolay Antov sheds fresh light on t...
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Beautiful ugliness
Искусство — не всегда о прекрасном: во многих произведениях темой, предметом, элементами художественного языка становятся проявления уродства. Будь то формальное или содержательное безобразие, оно служит сильнодействующим средством, вызывая у публики мощный резонанс. Исследуя связь между прекрасн...
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Russia's path toward enlightenment
ENGThis book, focusing on the history of religious and political thinking in early modern Russia, demonstrates that Russia’s path toward enlightenment began long before Peter the Great’s opening to the West. Examining a broad range of writings, G. M. Hamburg shows why Russia’s enlightenment const...
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Корейские алкогольные напитки
В книге впервые на русском языке освещаются вопросы возникновения и истории корейского традиционного алкоголя, методы его производства, фудпейринг, а также приводится более 50 рецептов изготовления как ферментированных, так и дистиллированных традиционных напитков.
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Music of the renaissance
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Human rights and chinese thought
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Performing tsarist russia in new york
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Religion and its history
Религиоведение адаптировало широкий спектр научных подходов — от исслдовательских приемов социологии до идей и концепций из культурологии и антропологии. По мнению Йорга Рюпке, распространенные сегодня методы религиоведения неизбежно приводят к предвзятости — как модернистской (когда речь идет о ...
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Handbook of ukrainian literature
A comprehensive overview of Ukrainian literature within the local and global context.The Handbook of Ukrainian Literature is the most comprehensive English-language survey of Ukrainian literary history ever published. Spanning a millennium of literary production — from folklore and Kyivan Rus chr...
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Alleyways
The first full-length Hebrew novel written by a woman in Eretz Israel, available for the first time in English.This remarkable novel, the first modern Hebrew novel by a woman who was moreover not Jewish and never converted. It is set in the bohemian Moscow of 1922-1923 during Lenin’s NEP (New Eco...
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Entrapment
How a home for Ukrainian intellectuals in the 1920's became a deadly trap.In 1920's Kharkiv, when the city was the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, a group of Ukrainian writers championed the construction of an apartment complex that would be dedicated to housing members of the...
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Essays on russian literature
An anthology of Solzhenitsyn’s literary criticism, reflecting his own, idiosyncratic, defamiliarizing take on familiar works, genres, and styles.Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was perhaps the foremost moral witness to Soviet totalitarianism, and the last great representative of the 19th-century Russian e...
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The biographies of illuminated manuscript haggadot
A pictorial and analytical examination of Haggadot, from the medieval era to the twenty-first century.The nearly one-thousand-year-old Jewish ritual book for the Passover holiday is called a Haggadah. During the medieval period the only way these could be created was as unique, beautifully manusc...
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Untamed shrews
В своей книге Шу Ян прослеживает эволюцию образа непокорных женщин в китайской литературе — от презираемых «строптивиц» до вызывающих восхищение «новых женщин». Известный своей жестокостью, ревнивостью и распущенностью, образ строптивицы традиционно виделся угрозой для конфуцианского общественног...
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World of echo
Каким был мир на слух в эпоху позднего Средневековья? Междисциплинарное исследование Эйдин Лирс дает возможность это узнать (и услышать!), приблизившись к пониманию того, как мыслили и чувствовали люди той эпохи. Анализируя труды выдающихся писателей — от Джеффри Чосера и Уильяма Ленгленда до мис...
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Beethoven in russia
Как Людвиг ван Бетховен помог свергнуть царский режим? Фредерик Скиннер исследует взаимосвязь музыки и политики в России, рассматривая восприятие произведений Бетховена российским обществом с конца XVIII века до наших дней. Книга показывает, как музыка Бетховена служила не только призывом к дейст...
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Mao and the economic stalinization of china, 1948–1953
В 1953 году Мао изменил направление экономической политики и решительно направил Китай по сталинскому пути, коренным образом преобразовав экономический и политический ландшафт страны. Опираясь на широкий корпус архивных материалов, Ли Хуаюй исследует эволюцию идеологии Мао и его отношения со Стал...
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“and you shall tell your son”
Explores the cycle of Jewish holidays, which reflects a sense of identity with, and belonging to, the Jewish people, while simultaneously shaping that identity and sense of belonging. Throughout the generations, observance of the holidays has developed and changed, thus enabling generations of Je...
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Jews, food, and spain
In this intricate and absorbing study, Hélène Jawhara Piñer presents readers with the dishes, ingredients, techniques, and aesthetic principles that make up a sophisticated and attractive cuisine, one that has had a mostly unremarked influence on modern Spanish and Portuguese recipes.
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Psalm
Friedrich Gorenstein (1932–2002) stands as one of the most original and uncompromising voices in twentieth‑century Russian literature.His novels blend fiction, philosophy, religion, and politics in a way that is unmistakably recognisable as Russian literature, yet he tackles these very same issue...
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The metahistory of western knowledge in the modern era
ENGThe Metahistory of Western Knowledge in the Modern Era is a study of the evolving history of knowledge in the arts and sciences in the modern era—from 1648 through the present. Modernism is treated as an epoch with evolving disciplines whose articulated problems of a time and the inquiry metho...
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Ḥiddushim
A Centennial, writes Hebrew College President Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, is an opportunity “to ask ourselves what has changed and what has endured…to articulate our aspirations for the next one hundred years.” Gathering incisive essays in Jewish studies alongside powerful personal stories, Ḥidd...
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Ha-tov v’ha-meitiv: contemporary scholarship in jewish studies
The book presents a group of distinguished scholars who examine key themes in Jewish religious life. Their essays revolve around the dimensions of rabbinic, intellectual, cultural, communal, educational, political, and social leadership, as well as a reflective look at one of the most tragic even...
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Nabokov and indeterminacy
In Nabokov and Indeterminacy, Priscilla Meyer shows how Vladimir Nabokov’s early novel The Real Life of Sebastian Knight illuminates his later work. Is there life after death? Can we attain any knowledge about the otherworld? Nabokov explores this question through his personal tragedy of having t...
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Engaged anthropology
Способна ли антропология быть не только академической дисциплиной, но и участвовать в решении мировых проблем? Стюарт Кирш, многие годы проведший с борющимися за экологическую безопасность и политический суверенитет коренными жителями Тихоокеанских островов и Амазонии, считает, что не только спос...
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Industry, state, and society in stalin’s russia, 1926–1934
В своей книге Дэвид Ширер пересматривает истоки сталинской государственности в период быстрой индустриализации в конце 1920-х — начале 1930-х годов. Автор утверждает, что централизованная государственная экономическая система была сознательно задуманным политическим творением советских лидеров, а...
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Married to the empire
Во владениях Российской империи в Новом свете жизнь была далека от европейских представлений о цивилизованности. Поселенцы не брезговали пьянством и коррупцией, что делало их плохим примером для коренных жителей — людей, которых империя считала отчаянно нуждающимися в нравственном просвещении. Чт...
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Music and monumentality
Через несколько недель после объединения Германии Леонард Бернстайн продирижировал Девятую симфонию Бетховена на руинах Берлинской стены, заменив в знаменитой Оде «радость» на «свободу». Это ставшее культовым выступление — наглядный пример музыкальной монументальности, важной концепции, которая д...
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Made in censorship
Подавление демонстрации на площади Тяньаньмэнь в 1989 году считается самой табуированной темой в современном Китае. Но несмотря на цензуру, китайская культура продолжает обращаться к истории, смыслу и памяти тех событий. В своем исследовании Томас Чен рассматривает книги и фильмы о Тяньаньмэнь, с...
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Bolshevik festivals, 1917–1920
В первые годы существования СССР большевики активно организовывали социалистические фестивали — мероприятия, сопряженные с огромными затратами и участием тысяч людей. Почему же в условиях разрухи новый режим выделял средства на подобные зрелища? Джеймс фон Гельдерн рассматривает массовые мероприя...
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Composing the modern subject
Книга Сары Райхардт «Сочиняя субъект современности. Четыре струнных квартета Дмитрия Шостаковича» представляет собой глубокое музыковедческое исследование квартетов No 6–9 композитора. Автор использует психоаналитическую теорию Жак Лакана, чтобы показать, как фрагментированный и деструктивный муз...
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The american ymca and russian culture
В своей книге Мэттью Ли Миллер исследует влияние деятельности Христианского союза молодых людей (YMCA, ХСМЛ) на жителей России и русских эмигрантов в позднеимперский и раннесоветский периоды. ХСМЛ, крупнейшая американская благотворительная организация, начала свою активную деятельность в России в...
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The russo-japanese war and its shaping of the twentieth century
Война России с Японией стала одним из самых громких событий fin de siècle, рубежом, с которого начался настоящий, а не календарный ХХ век. В книге исследователя Франка Якоба «Русско-японская война и ее влияние на ход истории в XX веке» небольшой, казалось бы, региональный конфликт на Дальнем Вост...
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Miracles of book and body
В конце XII века буддийский монах Мёэ в благоговении перед священными текстами лишил себя уха. Эта книга — попытка понять, как японский буддист мог прийти к убеждению, что отрезание части тела способно чудесным образом переписать книги. Шарлотта Юбэнкс обращается к двум ключевым жанрам священной ...
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The fair folk and little orphan mary
A classic children’s tale about Gnomes, appealing equally, if not more so, to the adult child. Written in rich, lyrical prose, frequently shifting into the peasant dialect and interspersed with sundry verses and songs, the tale is replete with mytho-folkloric motifs, legends, superstitions, histo...
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Religious zionism
Religious Zionism is a major component of contemporary Israeli society and politics. The author reviews the history of religious Zionism from both a historical and an ideological-theological perspective. His basic assumption is that religious Zionism cannot be fully understood solely through a hi...
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Women and war (english edition)
What kind of letter would you write to those who live in peace and freedom and don’t know what it is like to live with war every day? 30 women from Ukraine answered this question by writing letters that reveal the horror of the conflict, but also the humanity of these people struggling to survive.
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Rabbinism and politics in religious zionism
The book examines the relationship between the rabbinate and politics in religious Zionism during the early years of the State of Israel and discusses a number of dilemmas encountered by the rabbis at that time.
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The story of sonechka
A previously untranslated masterpiece of Russian literature, The Story of Sonechka, written in 1937, is a vivid account, at once comic and tragic, of the love between the now famous twenty-six-year-old poet Maria Tsvetaeva the twenty-four-year-old actress Sonia Holliday (Sonechka), and a wonderfu...
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French jewry and the church-state dilemma
As this book demonstrates, the organized French Jewish community strategically charted the political waters by steering clear of extremist political positions and by adopting a “soft clerical” approach to Church-State issues. This centrist approach subjected French Jews to criticism from both ant...
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Nabokov on the heights
This unique volume features a baker’s dozen of essays about Vladimir Nabokov by Boston College students and. The essays cover a broad thematic and intellectual terrain and showcase cutting-edge Nabokov scholarship and criticism. The collection will be of great interest to students and scholars, a...
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The rhetorical rise and demise of “democracy” in russian political discourse volume four
Vladimir Putin’s return to the presidency in 2012 is characterized by a redefinition of “democracy” as the foundation of Russian society and an aggressive posture regarding Ukrainian sovereignty and relations with the West. Volume Four analyzes Putin’s rhetoric as exemplified in his speeches, int...
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Inclusive strategies and critical pedagogies for east european and eurasian languages
Since 2020, there have been various calls to action in the instruction of East European and Eurasian Languages to address the predominantly white demographics in the fields of Slavic and Eurasian studies and long-standing disparities in access and opportunities for students of the global majority...
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Siberian summer
This is a true, vivid story of Soviet Russia during the last decades of the USSR. The memoir documents love, hatred, betrayal, and loyalty, dissidents, Soviet prisons, Academic town in Siberia, antisemitism, and the Jewish movement during Perestroika.
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The stage of her life
Lea Koenig, one of the most loved and appreciated Jewish actresses, sat down with Dr. Yaniv Goldberg for conversations about theater and life. In an exciting way, Lea recalls defining moments of her life, weaves memory after memory, and discovers how life and the theater are intertwined.
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Living in both worlds
Living in Both Worlds is the first-ever book-length history of Modern Orthodoxy, a form of American Judaism that seeks to maintain traditional Orthodox tenets and practices while at the same time participating in and remaining open to the contemporary intellectual and cultural world.
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The population history of german jewry 1815–1939
This book is the definitive demographic study of German Jewry from the age of Napoleon to the tie of Hitler. With exquisite details and vast range, Steven Lowenstein details the impact of industrialization and urbanization, medical care and birth control, immigration and emigration, social and se...
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Transit culture and postcolonial trauma
This book explores transitional post-Soviet cultural consciousness in Ukraine at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The main themes in the book are postcolonial traumas in relation to past empires and old historiographical narratives; post-totalitarian consciousness, which is characterize...
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Building and consoling a nation
In the early twentieth century, when the dream of Jewish cultural nationalism in the Diaspora was growing among champions for Yiddish, its leading intellectuals included the “Yiddish historians” who helped to uncover the history of East-European Jews. Before the Holocaust, their mission was to di...
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A room of his own
Not just another book on Brodsky, this is a journey into the art of literary translation. The author unpacks the delicate balance between ‘good poem’ and ‘good translation,’ tracing Brodsky’s drafts and bilingual evolution to reveal how he reshaped both Russian and Anglo-American literary traditi...
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The pessimist’s son
A personal depiction of life in Poland set against the Nazi and Soviet takeovers of Europe and their cataclysmic aftermaths. It is the compelling memoir of Alexander Kimel, taking him from a shtetl to a Nazi ghetto to liberation and the parallel Holocaust story of his beloved wife, written by the...
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A voice from the lost town of trochenbrod
This English translation from Hebrew and Yiddish is the first compilation of Yisrael Beider’s surviving life work. The collection includes extraordinary poems, essays and letters by a son of Trochenbrod - an exclusively Jewish town that was completely destroyed in the Holocaust and its population...
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Crisis, war, and the holocaust in lithuania
Crisis, War, and the Holocaust in Lithuania examines the Holocaust with a new perspective based on previously inaccessible sources. The book relates the history of the crises which preceded the Shoah, describes in detail the process of destruction, and concludes by addressing Lithuanian society’s...
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