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“i am to be read not from left to right, but in jewish: from right to left”
Boris Slutsky (1919-1986) is a major original figure of Russian poetry of the second half of the twentieth century, whose oeuvre has remained unexplored and unstudied. The first scholarly study of the poet, Marat Grinberg’s book substantially fills this critical lacuna in the current comprehensio...
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On the genesis of thought and language
In On the Genesis of Thought and Language, linguist Alexey Koshelev explores fundamental questions of how human concepts arise in a child, why concepts appear in a child before words, the genesis of language, and why there are so many languages.
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The depths of russia
In The Depths of Russia, Yale anthropologist and historian Douglas Rogers tells the history of Russian oil from the perspective of the Perm region of the Urals. From the discovery of world’s first socialist oil in 1929 to the oil-fueled social and cultural politics of the 2000s, he shows how Perm...
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Dziga vertov
For 60 years, the Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov, creator of the famed Man with a Movie Camera (1929), has been recognized as a founding figure of documentary, avant-garde, and political-propaganda film. This book addresses Vertov's formative years in prerevolutionary and Soviet Russia, alongside ...
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Intellectual journeys of recent, mostly "defunct" economists
This book looks into the creative minds of some recent, mostly “defunct” economists. Many of the authors, such as Samuelson, Friedman, Galbraith, and Heilbroner, have penned popular works, while their scientific contributions were limited to the most specialized scholars. Others, such as Nobel Pr...
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A story of jewish experience in mississippi
In this memoir, Waldoff searches into his Russian–Jewish parents’ experience and that of the Jewish community in Hattiesburg from the 1920s through the 1960s, revealing times of acceptance and prosperity, but also of fears of anti-Semitism when a Jew is convicted of murder and fears of Klan viole...
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Teaching nineteenth-century russian literature
Teaching Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature: Essays in Honor of Robert L. Belknap grew out of a conference in honor of Robert Belknap, an outstanding teacher and scholar. The collected essays present concrete strategies for teaching the works of some of Russia’s best-known writers: Pushkin, Le...
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Dostoevsky beyond dostoevsky
This volume deals with Dostoevsky’s wide-ranging interests and engagement with philosophical, religious, political, economic, and scientific discourses of his time. It includes contributions by prominent Dostoevsky scholars, social scientists, scholars of religion and philosophy.
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Words for war
The poems collected in this volume engage with the events and experiences of war, reflecting on the themes of alienation, loss, dislocation, and disability; as well as justice, heroism, courage, resilience, generosity, and forgiveness. The anthology brings together some of the most compelling poe...
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Jewish faith in a changing world
Ever since the first encounter between Judaism and the western world in the second century BCE, Jewish thinkers like Maimonides, Gersonides, R. Moses Hayyim Luzzatto, and Rabbi A. I. Kook have grappled with issues of Jewish faith and modernity. The works they published, which comprise Jewish clas...
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The dual truth, volumes i & ii
This book explores three schools of fascinating, talented, and gifted scholars who absorbed into their thought the Jewish and secular cultures of their respective homelands.
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Where there is danger
Writer, professor, translator and editor Luba Jurgenson lives between two languages—her native Russian and her adopted French. She recounts the coexistence of these two languages, as well as two bodies and two worlds, in an autobiographical text packed with fascinating anecdotes.
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Class of ’31
Class of ’31 is a beautifully written memoir from a German Jew determined to learn the fate of his former classmates during the Third Reich. Jessel returned to Germany in 1945 as an American soldier hoping to understand how his friends survived World War II.
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Vladimir sorokin’s discourses
Vladimir Sorokin is the most controversial contemporary Russian writer. He became famous when the Putin youth organization burned his books and he picked up neo-imperialist discourses in his dystopian novels, making him one of the fiercest critics of Russia’s “new middle ages,” while remaining st...
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In the crook of the rock
Focusing upon the life of Chaya Walkin—one little girl from a distinguished Torah lineage in Poland—this book illustrates the inner resources of the refugee community that made possible survival with dignity. Based on a wide variety of sources and languages, this book is crafted around the voice ...
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Learning to read talmud
The first book-length study of how teachers teach and how students learn to read Talmud. Through a series of classroom studies conducted by scholars of Talmud, this book elucidates a broad range of ideas about what it means to learn to read Talmud and tools for how to achieve that goal.
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The angel of jewish history
The Angel of Jewish History casts a philosophical gaze upon the relationship between the traditional Jewish past and the present through the metaphysical worldviews of five formative Jewish studies scholars: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Amos Funkenstein, Gershom Scholem, Baruch Kurzweil, and Nathan Ro...
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The storytelling human
This book offers significant insights into contemporary Lithuanian folklore research. In a balanced way reflecting upon past and present, tradition and modernity, individual and collective, the eight separate essays comprising the book present a condensed view of the popular Lithuanian culture an...
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On counter-enlightenment, existential irony, and sanctification
The book introduces the topics of Enlightenment, Counter-Enlightenment, and social demography in Western art musics and shows their historical and sociological importance, while exploring the concepts of “existential irony” and “sanctification,” which have not previously been the focus of any oth...
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The russian avant-garde and radical modernism
The Russian avant-garde was a composite of antagonistic groups who wished to overthrow the basic aesthetics of classical realism. Modernism was the totality of these numerous aesthetic theories, which achieved a measure of coherence immediately after the First World War. This collection of essays...
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The many faces of maimonides
This volume offers a new reading of Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed. In particular, it explores how Maimonides’ commitment to integrity led him to a critique of the Kalām, to a complex concept of immortality, and to insight into the human yearning for metaphysical knowledge. Maimonides’ search...
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The religious genius in rabbi kook's thought
The postmodernist experience is associated with a strong interest in the concepts of saints and religious genius. In this volume, Dov Schwartz considers the questions related to these ideas through his close analysis of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook. This figure is revered by Zionists as a fou...
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The russian twentieth century short story
The Twentieth Century Russian Short Story: A Critical Companion is a collection of the most informative critical articles on some of the best twentieth-century Russian short stories from Chekhov and Bunin to Tolstaya and Pelevin. While each article focuses on a particular short story, collectivel...
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Yitz greenberg and modern orthodoxy
This volume offers a critical engagement with the thought of Rabbi Dr. Irving “Yitz” Greenberg, one of the most thoughtful and earnest voices to emerge from within American Orthodoxy. It examines his lifelong and complex encounter with the Modern Orthodox stream of American Judaism and the extent...
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“in the tight triangle of the night”
The book offers a thorough study of the early poetry (1956–1971) of the Ukrainian/American writer Yuriy Tarnawsky, focusing on its evolutionary path from late modernism to postmodernism, which the author conceptualizes as a “shift of dominants” from humanist (existentialist) questions to an anti-...
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New directions in the history of the jews in the polish lands
Making use of the leading scholars in the field from Poland, Western Europe, North America and Israel, the volume provides a definitive overview of the history and culture of one of the most important communities in the long history of the Jewish people.
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Interpreting chekhov’s prose
Chekhov's brief but highly meaningful life of forty-four years can be best defined as a brilliant merging of the professions of writer and physician, and this work treats this extensively in all its unique ramifications.
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The ghost of shakespeare
This first edition of the collected critical prose of Anna Frajlich, scholar of Polish literature and culture and award-winning Polish poet, presents comparative studies of major modern Polish writers, including Choromański, Grynberg, Herbert, Milosz, Schulz, Szymborska, and Wittlin.
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Don’t be a stranger
This study explores the consequences of being marked an outsider in the Russian-speaking world through a close study of several seminal works of Russian literature. The author combines the fields of literary studies, linguistics, and sociology to interpret these works for both the specialist and ...
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Marxism, christianity, and islam
Roger Garaudy was for many years at the centre of the French Communist Party but was eventually expelled for his liberal views. In the Seventies, he strove to bring Marxism and Christianity together, to include all humanity in a project to set all people free. What emerges from Garaudy’s project ...
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The greater judaism in making
Throughout history, Judaism has been under attack by other religions, attacks which strengthened the identification of the group as a whole. Modern challenges, however, are coming from different directions, and are producing different results. Jewish identification is declining at the same time a...
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Sing to victory! (eng)
This well researched, multi-faceted book depicts the relationship between song and society during WWII in the USSR. The songs from that era created a true cultural legacy which reflected both the hearts of the individuals fighting and the narrative of the party and state in bringing the nation ...
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This was america, 1865-1965
By examining Jewish experiences between the American Civil War and the African American Civil Rights Revolution, this book focuses on citizens who usually spent their daily lives in black and white “peoplehoods.”
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Language
This volume presents a sketch of the Meaning-Text linguistic approach, richly illustrated by examples borrowed mainly, but not exclusively, from English. Chapter 1 expounds the basic idea that underlies this approach—that a natural language must be described as a correspondence between linguistic...
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Poles and jews
Poles and Jews: A Call for Myth Reconstruction confronts the anti-Polonism deeply embedded among American Jews and Poland’s enduring relationship with antisemitism. With two decades of research and in-depth interviews with scholars, community leaders, and laity in Poland and the U.S., Stark-Blume...
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Contemporary covenantal thought
Refusing to accept anything but ever-increasing levels of human responsibility within a religious framework, covenantal thinkers audaciously suggest that the covenant empowers humanity as it binds and inhibits divinity. This is a reformulation of recurrent issues within the Jewish tradition, and ...
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Before they were titans
Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are the titans of Russian literature. As mature artists, they led very different lives and wrote vastly different works, but their early lives and writings display provocative kinships, while also indicating the divergent paths the two authors would take en route to literar...
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Jewish philosophy in the middle ages
Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages presents an overview of the formative period of medieval Jewish philosophy, from its beginnings with Saadiah Gaon to its apex in Maimonides, when Jews living in Islamic countries and writing in Arabic were the first to develop a conscious and continuous tradit...
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The contemporary russian cinema reader
This collection surveys recent developments in Russian cinema and introduces undergraduate students to significant films released between 2005 and 2016 that are also available with English subtitles. Essays on individual films provide background on directors’ careers, detailed analyses of selecte...
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Acco festival
Explores the history of Acco Festival for Other Israeli Theatre from 1980-2012 as a site of celebration and confrontation. Acco Festival is a borderland bringing together established directors from the center of the field with alternative artists outside of it, as well as bringing together the ce...
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Three jewish journeys through an anthropologist’s lens
Three Jewish Journeys Through an Anthropologist’s Lens provides an overview of the ethnographic works carried out by a leading Israeli anthropologist over the course of his career. It presents Moshe Shokeid’s explorations, discoveries, and feelings about the vicissitudes of social life, which he ...
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At the intersection of education, marketing, and transformation
There have been significant changes in the last decade in the fields of education and marketing. Both have been transformed by technology and globalization. Attention spans have been shortened due to accelerated delivery of entertainment. A new global cyber culture has emerged. Social networking ...
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Russian realisms
One fall evening in 1880, Russian painter Ilya Repin welcomed an unexpected visitor to his home: Lev Tolstoy. The renowned realists talked for hours, and Tolstoy turned his critical eye to the sketches in Repin's studio. Tolstoy's criticisms would later prompt Repin to reflect on the question of ...
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German jewry
German Jewry between Hope and Despair,1871-1933, provides important interpretations of this tumultuous and conflict-ridden period and invites readers to partake in the ongoing debate over modern Jewish identities and cultures. Marked at the outset by emancipation and the emergence of modern anti-...
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Dialogue and influence
Dialogue and Influence weds a commitment to translation studies to historical and conceptual questions about translation, literary influence, and global literary networks by highlighting the fantastically generative dialogue that Polish and American poets have engaged in since the 1960s. These es...
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China and israel
This book paints a broad picture of China-Israel relations from an historical and political perspective and from the Jewish and Israeli angle. To tell this story, Shai relies on rare documents, archival materials and interviews with individuals who were active in forming the relationship between ...
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Philo’s heirs: moses maimonides and thomas aquinas
The central claim of this book is that Philo of Alexandria’s philosophical method served as the model for Western philosophy for 1500 years. The author, through a careful examination of the works of Moses Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas, shows how this method worked and identifies its key elements.
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The literary field under communist rule
This volume widens the field of Soviet literature studies by interpreting it as a multinational project, with national literatures acting not as copies of the Russian model, but as creators of a multidimensional literary space. The book proposes a reconsideration of Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of li...
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The russian-jewish tradition
Brian Horowitz, the well-known scholar of Russian Jewry, argues that Jews were not a people apart but were culturally integrated in Russian society. The book lets us grasp the meaning of secular Judaism and gives models from the past in order to stimulate ideas for the present.
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Studies in the history of russian-israeli literature
The studies gathered in the collection present the Russian-language Israeli literature that has been forming over the past hundred years in all the variety of genres and aesthetic movements. In every generation and in every aliyah, Russian-Israeli authors tirelessly search for new forms, born of ...
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Jewish culture and creativity
Jewish Culture and Creativity honors the wide-ranging scholarship of Prof. Michael Fishbane with contributions of his students on subjects that cover the gamut of Jewish studies, from biblical and rabbinic literature to medieval and modern Jewish culture, and concluding with case studies of the c...
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The parallel universes of david shrayer-petrov
This volume celebrates the literary oeuvres of David Shrayer-Petrov—poet, fiction writer, memoirist, essayist, and literary translator (and medical doctor and researcher in his parallel career). Author of the refusenik novel Doctor Levitin, Shrayer-Petrov is one of the most important representati...
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From the cincinnati reds to the moscow reds
This book brings together a lifetime of experiences told by a beloved member of the field of Slavic languages and literature - Irwin Weil. During the Soviet era, Irwin frequently visited and corresponded with outstanding Russian cultural figures, such as Vladimir Nabokov, Korney Chukovsky, and Dm...
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Bo, jenny, and i
Bo, Jenny and I is a memoir describing the life of a young woman growing up in unusual circumstances, as well as a discussion of political and sociological effects of troubled times upon “ordinary people.” After an early childhood in pre-war Antwerp, the author, her formidable grandmother, and he...
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Word and image in russian history
Word and Image invokes and honors the scholarly contributions of Gary Marker. Twenty scholars from Russia, the United Kingdom, Italy, Ukraine and the United States examine some of the main themes of Marker’s scholarship on Russia—literacy, education, and printing; gender and politics; the importa...
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Lives lived and lost
Lives Lived and Lost stands at the intersection of biography, autobiography, memory and history. It narrates a mother’s and daughter’s separate perspectives of their experiences before, during, and after World War II. The book is also an ethnography of lives of women and children during a transfo...
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Garden of broken statues
Marianna Tax Choldin has studied censorship in Russia for 40 years. She describes the tension between her strong commitment to freedom of expression and her growing understanding of Russian and Soviet censorship. Fluent in Russian, she travels widely in post-Soviet Russia, speaking with hundreds ...
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Mo(ve)ments of resistance
In Mo(ve)ments of Resistance, Grinberg summarizes both his own work and that of other political economists, providing a coherent historical narrative covering the time from the beginning of Socialist Zionism (1904) to the Oslo Accords and the neoliberalization of the economy (1994–1996). The theo...
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Faith
Faith: Jewish Perspectives explores important questions in both modern and premodern Jewish philosophy regarding the idea of faith. Is believing a voluntary action, or do believers find themselves within the experience of faith against their will? Can faith be understood through other means (psyc...
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The new jewish canon
The New Jewish Canon is both text and textbook of the Jewish intellectual and communal zeitgeist for the contemporary period. With both primary sources and analytical essays by leading scholars, this book offers a conceptual roadmap to make sense of the mass production and proliferation of new Je...
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Hating the jews
With attacks by Muslims against Jews in Western Europe reaching all-time highs, Jews are now facing levels of genocidal anti-Semitism not seen since WWII. Muslims committing attacks on Jews seek to substitute their own claims of victimhood for the Jews’ plight, defining themselves as the “new Jew...
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Russian notions of power and state in a european perspective, 1462-1725
The book highlights the main features and trends of Russian “political” thought in an era when sovereignty, state, and politics, as understood in Western Christendom, were non-existent at all in Russia, or were only beginning to be articulated there. A comparison with Western Christendom frames t...
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The dream of social justice and bad moral luck
This volume examines the intertwined lives of six women and three men, Russian Jews in the first half of the twentieth century, as their belief in the Soviet dream unraveled. Under what circumstances did they bow to political pressures, and under what circumstances did they resist, even heroically?
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Thoughts of a polish jew
A family story of Polish Jews—lease-holders, bankers, industrialists, politicians, communal leaders, army officers, scholars, and artists—integrated into the national life of the Old Commonwealth, the Habsburg Empire, and the Second Polish Republic.
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Afghanistan
Barnett R. Rubin, one of the world’s leading scholars of contemporary conflict and politics in Afghanistan, offers unique insights into the country’s turbulent history, gleaned from four decades of work as a scholar and practitioner for both the United Nations and the United States. After situati...
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Visions of the future
This book is inspired by the author’s work as part of a major international and interdisciplinary research group at the University of Konstanz, Germany: “What If—On the Meaning, Relevance, and Epistemology of Counterfactual Claims and Thought Experiments.” Having contributed to great discoveries,...
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Bieganski
In this study, Goska exposes one stereotype of Poles and other Eastern Europeans. In the “Bieganski” stereotype, Poles exhibit the qualities of animals. They are strong, stupid, violent, fertile, anarchic, dirty, and especially hateful in a way that more evolved humans are not. Their special hate...
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"our native antiquity"
For Russian modernists in search of a past, there were many antiquities of different provenances and varying degrees of prestige from which to choose: Greece or Rome; Byzantium or Egypt. The modernists central to "Our Native Antiquity" located their antiquity in the Eurasian steppes, where they f...
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The lithuanian metrica
The book presents an analysis of the history of the Lithuanian Metrica—the chancellery books of the Lithuanian grand duke—from its formation in the mid-fifteenth century until today. A great deal of new factographic material is revealed, offering new answers to traditional questions on the histor...
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Prayer after the death of god
The book offers a new theory of prayer, based on an analysis of the actual experience of praying individuals rather than on the relationship with God. The thesis is that prayer is a primary phenomenon conveying that humans are praying beings.
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Development, learning, and community
Development, Learning, and Community uses data drawn from a study of pluralistic Jewish high schools to illustrate the complex and often challenging interplay between the cognitive and socio-affective elements of education. Throughout, Kress grapples with questions such as: How can the balance be...
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Twentieth century jews
This extensively-researched collection of essays lucidly explores how members of the ever-beleaguered Jewish people grappled with their identities during the past century in the United States and in Eretz Israel, the new centers of Jewry’s long historical experience. With the pivotal 1903 Kishine...
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Emerging heroes
Seven haunting portraits of WWII refugees motivated Akira Kitade to identify the individuals portrayed. Were they among the thousands rescued by Chiune Sugihara’s life-saving Japanese transit visas? In this account of his investigation, Kitade uncovers more saviors, including the Dutch diplomat J...
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The pushkin project
“Bethea’s book conveys the story of an amazingly ambitious attempt to preserve the humanities while also saving the future of disadvantaged high school students in Chicago. … Highly recommended.” — Library Journal (starred review)The Pushkin Project tells the story of how a Russian studies profes...
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American sociology and holocaust studies
The first résumé in English of up-to-date research on post-Holocaust Sociology. A single volume full of relevant tips to help a wide audience rethink the genocide in sociological tools and investigate the history of the same Sociology.
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From fashion to politics
Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist organization of America, has wielded power in the halls of American political institutions and in the minds of many Jews in the United States. This book enriches our understanding of both modern Jewish history and American women’s history. Hadassah is important not o...
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Dostoevsky as a translator of balzac
This book focuses on Dostoevsky’s first literary publication—his 1844 translation of the first edition of Balzac’s Eugе́nie Grandet (1834). Through the prism of close reading, the author analyzes Dostoevsky’s literary debut and the stylistic choices he made while working on Balzac’s novel in the ...
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Maimonides as biblical interpreter
Although Maimonides did not write a running commentary on any book of the Bible, biblical exegesis occupies a central place in his writings, particularly in his Guide of the Perplexed. In this book, Sara Klein-Braslavy offers a collection of essays on several key biblical interpretations by Maimo...
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Russian idea—jewish presence
In Russian Idea—Jewish Presence, Professor Brian Horowitz follows the career tracks of Jewish intellectuals who, having fallen in love with Russian culture, were unceremoniously repulsed. Horowitz relays the paradoxes of a synthetic Jewish and Russian self-consciousness in order to correct critic...
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The destruction of jewish cemeteries in poland
The Destruction of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland offers a comprehensive examination of the history of Jewish cemeteries in Poland, shedding light on an overlooked aspect of Holocaust history. Beginning with the settlement of Jewish communities in Poland, the book covers the establishment and subseq...
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Readings on maramarosh
Since World War II, the sub-Carpathian Mountain region once known as Maramarosh has remained “Judenrein” (free of Jews). Jewish Maramarosh lives on, however, through the contributions to scholarship and humanity of Maramarosh Holocaust survivors and their progeny, including Nobel laureate Elie We...
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