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Muscular Judaism
The Jewish Body and the Politics of Regeneration
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2007
Providing valuable insights into an element of European nationalism and modernist culture, this book explores the development of the 'Zionist body' as opposed to the traditional stereotype of the physically weak, intellectual Jew. It charts the cultural and intellectual history showing how the 'Muscle Jew' developed as a political symbol of national regeneration.
Franz Werfel: The Faith of an Exile
From Prague to Beverly Hills
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Franz Werfel was born in Prague in 1890 and died in Beverly Hills in 1945, a popular and artistic success in Europe and America. Despite his Jewish birth and upbringing, he was attracted to Christianity at any early age, and although he never formally converted, he celebrated his own vision of it...
Settler Colonialism
A Theoretical Overview
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
A vivid exploration of the history of a very powerful and long lasting idea: building European worlds outside of Europe. Veracini outlines how the founding of new societies was envisaged and practiced and explores the specific ways in which settler colonial projects tried to establish ideal and regenerated political bodies.
Scandal on Stage
European Theater as Moral Trial
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
New plays and operas have often tried to upset the status quo or disturb the assumptions of theatre audiences. Yet, as this study explores, the reactions of the audience or of the authorities are often more extreme than the creators had envisaged, to include outrage, riots, protests or censorship....
Aspiration, Representation and Memory
The Guise in Europe, 1506–1688
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Exploiting the turbulence and strife of sixteenth-century France, the House of Guise arose from a provincial power base to establish themselves as dominant political players in France and indeed Europe, marrying within royal and princely circles and occupying the most important ecclesiastical and...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Chekhov's works are unflinching in the face of human frailty. With their emphasis on the dignity and value of individuals during unique moments, they help us better understand how to exist with others when we are fundamentally alone. Written in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century, when the...
Foundational Pasts
The Holocaust as Historical Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Alon Confino seeks to rethink dominant interpretations of the Holocaust by examining it as a problem in cultural history. As the main research interests of Holocaust scholars are frequently covered terrain – the anti-Semitic ideological campaign, the machinery of killing, the brutal massacres during...
by Dan Michman
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
This book is a linguistic-cultural study of the emergence of the Jewish ghettos during the Holocaust. It traces the origins and uses of the term 'ghetto' in European discourse from the sixteenth century to the Nazi regime. It examines with a magnifying glass both the actual establishment of and the...
A Book Forged in Hell
Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published--"godless," "full of abominations," "a book forged in hell . . . by the devil himself." Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat...
by Max Beer
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
First published 1935, this title presents a series of recollections, some intimately personal, others bearing on the great social, cultural and political issues that faced the Jews and the European population more generally during the first part of the twentieth century. The author specifically focuses...
The League on Trial (Routledge Revivals)
A Journey to Geneva
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
First published in 1933, this title explores the inner workings and diplomatic culture of the League of Nations in Geneva, at a time when the increasing strain of international relations was beginning to take its toll and disillusionment towards the League was growing.
Written as a series of...
The Unpolitical
On the Radical Critique of Political Reason
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Massimo Cacciari is one of the leading public intellectuals in today's Italy, both as an outstanding philosopher and political thinker and as now three times (and currently) the mayor of Venice. This collection of essays on political topics provides the best introduction in English to his thought...
Dark Continent
Europe's Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2009
"A useful, important book that reminds us, at the right time, how hard [European unity] has been, and how much care must be taken to avoid the terrible old temptations." --Los Angeles Times
Dark Continent provides an alternative history of the twentieth century, one in which the triumph...
L'Adolescence clémentine de Clément Marot
Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
L’Adolescence clémentine paraît en 1532 et rassemble les textes de jeunesse du poète. Le recueil frappe par sa diversité. Dans son souci de jouer de toute la gamme du langage, Marot est l’héritier des grands rhétoriqueurs,...