Wayne State University Press: 405 books
by Matt Yockey
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
ABC’s action-comedy series Batman (1966–68) famously offered a dual address in its wildly popular portayal of a comic book hero in a live action format. Children uncritically accepted the show’s plots and characters, who were guided by lofty ideals and social values, while adults reacted to the...
by Novotny Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Beyond Blaxploitation, the first book-length anthology of scholarly work on blaxploitation film, sustains the momentum that blaxploitation scholarship has recently gained, giving the films an even more prominent place in cinema history. This volume is made up of eleven essays employing historical and...
Witnessing Unbound
Holocaust Representation and the Origins of Memory
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Primary witnessing, in its original forms—from survivor and bystander testimonies, to memoirs and diaries—inform our cultural understanding of the multiple experiences of the Holocaust. Henri Lustiger Thaler and Habbo Knoch look at many of these expressions of primary witnessing in Witnessing Unbound:...
by Guy Miron
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Explores the role of public memory and images of the past in the Jewish communities of Germany, France, and Hungary as they faced changing political and social conditions.
Mediating Modernity
Challenges and Trends in the Jewish Encounter with the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2008
In Mediating Modernity, contemporary Jewish scholars pay tribute to Michael A. Meyer, scholar of German-Jewish history and the history of Reform Judaism, with a collection of essays that highlight growing diversity within the discipline of Jewish studies. The occasion of Meyer’s seventieth birthday...
Reconstructing the Old Country
American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
The 1950s and early 1960s have not traditionally been viewed as a particularly creative era in American Jewish life. On the contrary, these years have been painted as a period of inactivity and Americanization. As if exhausted by the traumas of World War II, the American Jewish community took a rest...
by Katja Garloff
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Examines the responses of German Jewish writers to the geographical and cultural displacement that is one of the lasting consequences of the Holocaust.
Detroit
City of Race and Class Violence, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1989
This revised edition charts Detroit’s bitter history of race and class violence, and its particular effect on the city today.
by Gur Alroey
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Collects and analyzes letters from Jewish men and women in the early stages of migrating from Eastern Europe.
The People's Lawyer
The Life and Times of Frank J. Kelley, the Nation's Longest-Serving Attorney General
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
After several years as a small-town lawyer in Alpena, Frank J. Kelley was unexpectedly appointed Michigan’s attorney general at the end of 1961. He never suspected that he would continue to serve until 1999, a national record. During that time, he worked with everyone from John and Bobby Kennedy to...
by David Gardner Chardavoyne
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
A chronological history of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, from its beginnings in the 1830s to the present.
The Messiah Texts
Jewish Legends of Three Thousand Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Following a detailed introduction to the world of messianic ideology and its significance in Jewish history, The Messiah Texts traces the progress of the messianic legend from its biblical beginnings to contemporary expressions. Renowned scholar Raphael Patai has skillfully selected passages from a voluminous...
On the Margins of a Minority
Leprosy, Madness, and Disability among the Jews of Medieval Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
In medieval Europe, the much larger Christian population regarded Jews as their inferiors, but how did both Christians and Jews feel about those who were marginalized within the Ashkenazi Jewish community? In On the Margins of a Minority: Leprosy, Madness, and Disability among the Jews of Medieval Europe,...
The En Yaaqov
Jacob ibn Habib’s Search for Faith in the Talmudic Corpus
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Examines the origins of the En Yaaqov in the tumultuous medieval period and the motivations of its creator, exiled Spanish rabbi Jacob ibn Habib.