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Toppling the Melting Pot
Immigration and Multiculturalism in American Pragmatism
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
The catalyst for much of classical pragmatist political thought was the great waves of migration to the United States in the early twentieth century. José-Antonio Orosco examines the work of several pragmatist social thinkers, including John Dewey, W. E. B. Du Bois, Josiah Royce, and Jane Addams,...
Jewish Life in Twenty-First-Century Turkey
The Other Side of Tolerance
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Turkey is famed for a history of tolerance toward minorities, and there is a growing nostalgia for the "Ottoman mosaic." In this richly detailed study, Marcy Brink-Danan examines what it means for Jews to live as a tolerated minority in contemporary Istanbul. Often portrayed as the "good minority,"...
The Ink of Melancholy
Faulkner's Novels from The Sound and the Fury to Light in August
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Ink of Melancholy re-examines and re-evaluates William Faulkner’s work from the late 1920s to the early 1940s, one of his most creative periods. Rather than approach Faulkner's fiction through a prefabricated grid, André Bleikasten concentrates on the texts themselves—on the motivations and circumstances...
How Young Holocaust Survivors Rebuilt Their Lives
France, the United States, and Israel
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Drawing on testimonies, memoirs, and personal interviews of Holocaust survivors, Françoise S. Ouzan reveals how the experience of Nazi persecution impacted their personal reconstruction, rehabilitation, and reintegration into a free society. She sheds light on the life trajectories of various groups...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2008
Identifying who was "inside" and who was "outside" the Soviet/Russian body politic has been a matter of intense and violent urgency, especially in the high Stalinist and post-Soviet periods. It is a theme encountered prominently in film. Employing a range of interpretive methods...
Reply All
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
A “touching and funny” story collection full of “sympathetic characters who are deeply flawed but just as deeply human”****(Booklist).
Reply All, the third volume of award-winning and widely anthologized short stories by Robin Hemley, takes a humorous, edgy, and frank look at the human...
by Alfred David
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 1974
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 1974
Alfred David and Mary Elizabeth Meek have compiled a collection of fairy tales that ranges from the Grimm brothers' inimitable recreations of archetypal folktales to the modern prose charm of James Thurber's Many Moons. The appeal of the stories is wide and varied: the refined intelligence of Perrault,...
by Martin Heidegger
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
The Phenomenology of Religious Life presents the text of Heidegger’s important 1920–21 lectures on religion. The volume consists of the famous lecture course Introduction to the Phenomenology of Religion, a course on Augustine and Neoplatonism, and notes for a course on The Philosophical Foundations...
by Martin Heidegger
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Martin Heidegger's Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation presents crucial elements for understanding Heidegger's thinking from 1936 to 1940. Heidegger offers a radically different reading of a text that he had read decades earlier, showing how his relationship with Nietzche's has changed, as well...
Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature
Jewish Cultural Production Before and After 1492
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
The year 1492 has long divided the study of Sephardic culture into two distinct periods, before and after the expulsion of Jews from Spain. David A. Wacks examines the works of Sephardic writers from the 13th to the 16th centuries and shows that this literature was shaped by two interwoven experiences...
From Schlemiel to Sabra
Zionist Masculinity and Palestinian Hebrew Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Philip Hollander is a new voice in gender and literary studies of the early years of the Yishuv, Zionist Palestine prior to the establishment of the state of Israel.
Hollander grapples with the importance of images of potent masculinity in the foundation of the state and advancement of...
Trauma in First Person
Diary Writing During the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
What are the effects of radical oppression on the human psyche? What happens to the inner self of the powerless and traumatized victim, especially during times of widespread horror? In this bold and deeply penetrating book, Amos Goldberg addresses diary writing by Jews under Nazi persecution. Throughout...
Der Nister's Soviet Years
Yiddish Writer as Witness to the People
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2019
In Der Nister's Soviet Years, author Mikhail Krutikov focuses on the second half of the dramatic writing career of Soviet Yiddish writer Der Nister, pen name of Pinhas Kahanovich (1884–1950). Krutikov follows Der Nister's painful but ultimately successful literary transformation from his symbolist...
On the Mediterranean and the Nile
The Jews of Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Aimée Israel-Pelletier examines the lives of Middle Eastern Jews living in Islamic societies in this political and cultural history of the Jews of Egypt. By looking at the work of five Egyptian Jewish writers, Israel-Pelletier confronts issues of identity, exile, language, immigration, Arab nationalism,...