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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, vol. III
Camps and Ghettos under European Regimes Aligned with Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
This monumental seven-volume encyclopedia, prepared by the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, examines the universe of camps and ghettos)—more than 40,000 in all—that the Nazis and their allies operated, from Norway...
Ex-Centric Migrations
Europe and the Maghreb in Mediterranean Cinema, Literature, and Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Ex-Centric Migrations examines cinematic, literary, and musical representations of migrants and migratory trends in the western Mediterranean. Focusing primarily on clandestine sea-crossings, Hakim Abderrezak shows that despite labor and linguistic ties with the colonizer, migrants from the Maghreb...
by Kathryn T. Gines
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
While acknowledging Hannah Arendt's keen philosophical and political insights, Kathryn T. Gines claims that there are some problematic assertions and oversights regarding Arendt’s treatment of the "Negro question." Gines focuses on Arendt's reaction to the desegregation of Little Rock schools, to...
Becoming Soviet Jews
The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
An “endlessly rewarding” contribution to the study of Jewish life in the Soviet Union: “Fascinating . . . nuanced and respectful of human limitations” (Slavic Review).
Minsk, the present capital of Belarus, was a heavily Jewish city in the decades between the world wars. Recasting our...
The Holocaust
History & Memory
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2016
“A compact and cogent academic account of the Holocaust.” —Kirkus Reviews
Brilliant and wrenching, The Holocaust: History and Memory tells the story of the brutal mass slaughter of Jews during World War II and how that genocide has been remembered and misremembered ever since. Taking issue...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Why is there no "Grand Theory" in the study of folklore? Talcott Parsons (1902–1979) advocated "grand theory," which put the analysis of social phenomena on a new track in the broadest possible terms. Not all sociologists or folklorists accept those broad terms; some still adhere to the empirical...
Joachim Prinz, Rebellious Rabbi
An Autobiography--the German and Early American Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2007
Joachim Prinz (1902–1988) was one of the most extraordinary and innovative figures in modern Jewish history. Never one for conformity, Prinz developed and modeled a new rabbinical role that set him apart from his colleagues in Weimar Germany. Provocative, strikingly informal and determinedly anti-establishment,...
In Search of Jewish Community
Jewish Identities in Germany and Austria, 1918–1933
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 1999
A collection of essays interrogates the nature of Jewish identity in the time between two world wars.
The history of Jews in interwar Germany and Austria is often viewed either as the culmination of tremendous success in the economic and cultural realms and of individual assimilation and acculturation,...
A Philosophical Anthropology of the Cross
The Cruciform Self
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
What does the cross, both as a historical event and a symbol of religious discourse, tell us about human beings? In this provocative book, Brian Gregor draws together a hermeneutics of the self—through Heidegger, Gadamer, Ricoeur, and Taylor—and a theology of the cross—through Luther, Kierkegaard,...
Nomadic Text
A Theory of Biblical Reception History
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Brennan W. Breed claims that biblical interpretation should focus on the shifting capacities of the text, viewing it as a dynamic process rather than a static product. Rather than seeking to determine the original text and its meaning, Breed proposes that scholars approach the production, transmission,...
Paul Tillich and Pentecostal Theology
Spiritual Presence and Spiritual Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Paul Tillich (1886–1965) is widely regarded as one of the most influential theologians of the 20th century. By bringing his thought together with the theology and practices of an important contemporary Christian movement, Pentecostalism, this volume provokes active, productive, critical, and creative...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Few philosophers have devoted such sustained, almost obsessive attention to the topic of death as Søren Kierkegaard. Kierkegaard and Death brings together new work on Kierkegaard's multifaceted discussions of death and provides a thorough guide to the development, in various texts and contexts, of...
Pragmatic Fashions
Pluralism, Democracy, Relativism, and the Absurd
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
John J. Stuhr, a leading voice in American philosophy, sets forth a view of pragmatism as a personal work of art or fashion. Stuhr develops his pragmatism by putting pluralism forward, setting aside absolutism and nihilism, opening new perspectives on democracy, and focusing on love. He creates a...
by Deborah Whitehead
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
William James, Pragmatism, and American Culture focuses on the work of William James and the relationship between the development of pragmatism and its historical, cultural, and political roots in 19th-century America. Deborah Whitehead reads pragmatism through the intersecting themes of narrative,...