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A History of Jews in Germany Since 1945

Politics, Culture, and Society

by Michael Brenner
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018

A comprehensive account of Jewish life in a country that carries the legacy of being at the epicenter of the Holocaust.   Originally published in German in 2012, this comprehensive history of Jewish life in postwar Germany provides a systematic account of Jews and Judaism from the Holocaust to the...
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by Abdourahman A. Waberi
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017

In 1994, the akazu, Rwandan’s political elite, planned the genocidal mass slaughter of 500,000 to 1,000,000 Tutsi and Hutu who lived in the country. Given the failure of the international community to acknowledge the genocide, in 1998, ten African authors visited Rwanda in a writing initiative that...
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Congo Inc.

Bismarck's Testament

by In Koli Jean Bofane
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018

To the sound of machine gun fire and the smell of burning flesh, award-winning author In Koli Jean Bofane leads readers on a perilous, satirical journey through the civil conflict and political instability that have been the logical outcome of generations of rapacious multinational corporate activity,...
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Transit

A Novel

by Abdourahman A. Waberi
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012

Waiting at the Paris airport, two immigrants from Djibouti reveal parallel stories of war, child soldiers, arms trafficking, drugs, and hunger. Bashir is recently discharged from the army and wounded, finding himself inside the French Embassy. Harbi, whose wife, Alice, has been killed by the police,...
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Russia and the Golden Horde

The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History

by Charles Halperin
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 1987

... an imaginative and dispassionate re-examination of the significance of the Mongol Conquest and its aftermath for Russia’s historical development." —Slavic Review On all counts Russia and the Golden Horde infuses the subject with fresh insights and interpretations." —History Combining...
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by Larry H. Addington
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1994

“This important work . . . synthesizes the evolution of warfare from 1775 to the present.” —Military Review   A thorough revision of a highly successful text, the second edition of this classic work provides a comprehensive picture of the evolution of modern warfare. Addington discusses...
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Starring Madame Modjeska

On Tour in Poland and America

by Beth Holmgren
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011

The “important . . . meticulously researched” prize-winning biography of the pre-eminent Polish star of the nineteenth century global stage (CosmopolinReview.com).   In reintroducing “a little-remembered actress to a new American audience” biographer Beth Holgram delivers a revelatory...
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European Muslim Antisemitism

Why Young Urban Males Say They Don't Like Jews

by Günther Jikeli
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015

Antisemitism from Muslims has become a serious issue in Western Europe, although not often acknowledged as such. Looking for insights into the views and rationales of young Muslims toward Jews, Günther Jikeli and his colleagues interviewed 117 ordinary Muslim men in London (chiefly of South Asian...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015

Deciphering the New Antisemitism addresses the increasing prevalence of antisemitism on a global scale. Antisemitism takes on various forms in all parts of the world, and the essays in this wide-ranging volume deal with many of them: European antisemitism, antisemitism and Islamophobia, antisemitism...
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Disloyal Mothers and Scurrilous Citizens

Women and Subversion during World War I

by Kathleen Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 1999

A concise and highly readable study of women’s influence on a crucial era in American political and cultural history. Kathleen Kennedy’s unique study explores the arrests, trials, and defenses of women charged under the Wartime Emergency Laws passed soon after the US entered World War I....
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Sightings

Stories

by B.J. Hollars
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013

B. J. Hollars’s debut short story collection offers ten thematically linked tales, all of which are out to subvert conventional notions of the Midwestern coming-of-age story. The stories feature an assemblage of Bigfoot believers, Civil War reenactors, misidentified Eskimos, and grief-stricken clowns,...
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William Faulkner

A Life through Novels

by André Bleikasten
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017

“Accessible . . . Engaging . . . May well be our fullest account to date of what Bleikasten calls Faulkner’s ‘energy for life’ and ‘will to write.’” —Theresa Towner, author of The Cambridge Introduction to William Faulkner Writing to American poet Malcolm Cowley in 1949, William...
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Blue White Red

A Novel

by Alain Mabanckou
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013

This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans living between worlds. When Moki returns to his village from France wearing designer clothes and affecting all the manners of a Frenchman, Massala-Massala, who lives the life of a humble peanut farmer after giving up his studies, begins...
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City of Rogues and Schnorrers

Russia's Jews and the Myth of Old Odessa

by Jarrod Tanny
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011

“Outstanding . . . A delightfully written work of serious scholarship.” —Jewish Book World Old Odessa, on the Black Sea, gained notoriety as a legendary city of Jewish gangsters and swindlers, a frontier boomtown mythologized for the adventurers, criminals, and merrymakers who flocked...
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