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The Paranoid Apocalypse

A Hundred-Year Retrospective on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

by Steven T. Katz
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, first published in Russia around 1905, claimed to be the captured secret protocols from the first Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897 describing a plan by the Jewish people to achieve global domination. While the document has been proven to be fake, much of it plagiarized...
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The Shtetl

New Evaluations

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Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2006

Dating from the sixteenth century, there were hundreds of shtetls—Jewish settlements—in Eastern Europe that were home to a large and compact population that differed from their gentile, mostly peasant neighbors in religion, occupation, language, and culture. The shtetls were different in important...
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Modern Albania

From Dictatorship to Democracy in Europe

by Fred C. Abrahams
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015

In the early 1990s, Albania, arguably Europe’s most closed and repressive state, began a startling transition out of forty years of self-imposed Communist isolation. Albanians who were not allowed to practice religion, travel abroad, wear jeans, or read “decadent” Western literature began to...
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The Drug Company Next Door

Pollution, Jobs, and Community Health in Puerto Rico

by Alexa S. Dietrich
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013

"This fascinating and most timely critical medical anthropology study successfully binds two still emergent areas of contemporary anthropological research in the global world: the nature and significant impact of multinational pharmaceutical manufacturers on human social life everywhere, and...
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Transnational Adoption

A Cultural Economy of Race, Gender, and Kinship

by Sara K. Dorow
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006

Each year, thousands of Chinese children, primarily abandoned infant girls, are adopted by Americans. Yet we know very little about the local and transnational processes that characterize this new migration. Transnational Adoption is a unique ethnographic study of China/U.S. adoption, the largest...
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Diversión

Play and Popular Culture in Cuban America

by Albert Sergio Laguna
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017

Winner, 2018 Peter C. Rollins Book Prize, presented by the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association Winner, 2018 Robert K. Martin Book Prize, presented by the Canadian American Studies Association Honorable Mention, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, given by the Latina/o Studies Section of the Latin...
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Hitler's Millennial Reich

Apocalyptic Belief and the Search for Salvation

by David Redles
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008

After World War I, German citizens sought not merely relief from the political, economic, social, and cultural upheaval which wracked Weimar Germany, but also mental salvation. With promises of order, prosperity, and community, Adolph Hitler fulfilled a profoundly spiritual need on behalf of those...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010

At least 8,000 Jewish soldiers fought for the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War. A few served together in Jewish companies while most fought alongside Christian comrades. Yet even as they stood “shoulder-to-shoulder” on the front lines, they encountered unique challenges.In...
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Haven of Liberty

New York Jews in the New World, 1654-1865

by Howard B. Rock
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

Haven of Liberty chronicles the arrival of the first Jews to New York in 1654 and highlights the role of republicanism in shaping their identity and institutions. Rock follows the Jews of NewYork through the Dutch and British colonial eras, the American Revolution and early republic, and the antebellum...
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Unclean Lips

Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture

by Josh Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013

Winner of the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award presented by the Association for Jewish Studies Jews have played an integral role in the history of obscenity in America. For most of the 20th century, Jewish entrepreneurs and editors led the charge against obscenity laws. Jewish lawyers battled...
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In a Queer Time and Place

Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives

by Judith Halberstam
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005

In her first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space. She presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative...
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Christopher Hitchens and His Critics

Terror, Iraq, and the Left

by Thomas Cushman , Simon Cottee , Christopher Hitchens
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008

Christopher Hitchens—political journalist, cultural critic, public intellectual and self-described contrarian—is one of the most controversial and prolific writers of his generation. His most recent book, God Is Not Great, was on the New York Times bestseller list in 2007 for months. Like his hero,...
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Campus Wars

The Peace Movement At American State Universities in the Vietnam Era

by Kenneth J. Heineman
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1992

"At the same time that the dangerous war was being fought in the jungles of Vietnam, Campus Wars were being fought in the United States by antiwar protesters. Kenneth J. Heineman found that the campus peace campaign was first spurred at state universities rather than at the big-name colleges....
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Sisters in the Struggle

African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement

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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001

Women were at the forefront of the civil rights struggle, but their indvidiual stories were rarely heard. Only recently have historians begun to recognize the central role women played in the battle for racial equality. In Sisters in the Struggle, we hear about the unsung heroes of the civil rights...
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