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Sounds of Belonging
U.S. Spanish-language Radio and Public Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
How Spanish-language radio has influenced American and Latino discourse on key current affairs issues such as citizenship and immigration.
Winner, Book of the Year presented by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education
Honorable Mention for the 2015 Latino Studies Best...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1992
"An ambitious study, the fruit of sustained work over many years. Professor Carter's book deploys a stunning knowledge of Proust and places Carter among the first line of Proust scholars in the country."
-Roger Shattuck,Boston University
The Proustian Quest is the first full-length study...
by Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, Anna Livia
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1995
Set in the lesbian and gay circles of Paris in the 1920s, The Angel and the Perverts tells the story of a hermaphrodite born to upper class parents in Normandy and ignorant of his/her physical difference. As an adult, s/he lives a double life as Marion/Mario, passing undetected as a lesbian in the...
Civil War Citizens
Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in America’s Bloodiest Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
At its core, the Civil War was a conflict over the meaning of citizenship. Most famously, it became a struggle over whether or not to grant rights to a group that stood outside the pale of civil-society: African Americans. But other groups--namely Jews, Germans, the Irish, and Native Americans--also...
Busting the Mob
The United States v. Cosa Nostra
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1994
Since Prohibition, the Mafia has captivated the media and, indeed, the American imagination. From Al Capone to John Gotti, organized crime bosses have achieved notoriety as anti- heroes in popular culture. In practice, organized crime grew strong and wealthy by supplying illicit goods and services...
Policing Pleasure
Sex Work, Policy, and the State in Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Mónica waits in the Anti-Venereal Medical Service of the Zona Galactica, the legal, state-run brothel where she works in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico. Surrounded by other sex workers, she clutches the Sanitary Control Cards that deem her registered with the city, disease-free, and able to work. On the...
Newark
A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Newark’s volatile past is infamous. The city has become synonymous with the Black Power movement and urban crisis. Its history reveals a vibrant and contentious political culture punctuated by traditional civic pride and an understudied tradition of protest in the black community. Newark charts...
Marginal Workers
How Legal Fault Lines Divide Workers and Leave Them without Protection
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Undocumented and authorized immigrant laborers, female workers, workers of color, guest workers, and unionized workers together compose an enormous and diverse part of the labor force in America. Labor and employment laws are supposed to protect employees from various workplace threats, such as poor...
Historicism, the Holocaust, and Zionism
Critical Studies in Modern Jewish History and Thought
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1992
"[Of] the 12 well-crafted essays in this volume...the most useful are those dealing with the Holocaust."
Choice
"Especially recommended for college-level students of Jewish history and culture."
-The Bookwatch
This is a critical exploration of the most repercussive topics in...
Nachman Krochmal
Guiding the Perplexed of the Modern Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1993
"A well-organized and engaging read."
-Religious Studies Review
The first in-depth look at...an important nineteenth century Jewish thinker and historian. Well-written [and] well- researched."
-The Jerusalem Post Magazine
"A significant contribution to our understanding of the...
Martin Buber's Social and Religious Thought
Alienation and the Quest for Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1990
“Moore focuses on Buber’s central message about what it means to be a human being, a person of faith, and what mankind can do to overcome the eclipse of God.”
-Shofar
“Solid, well researched, and sympathetic…. might well spur a person to go back and read Buber.”
-Commonwealth
The Essential Agus
The Writings of Jacob B. Agus
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1997
Rabbi Jacob Agus' (1911-1986) intellectual production spanned nearly a half century and covered an enormous historical and conceptual range, from the biblical to the modern era. Best known as an important Jewish scholar, he also held important rabbinic, teaching, and public positions. Although born...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Despite an outpouring of scholarship on the Holocaust, little work has focused on what happened to Europe’s Jewish communities after the war ended. And unlike many other European nations in which the majority of the Jewish population perished, France had a significant post‑war Jewish community...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1995
How did Judaism, a religion so often defined by its minority status, attain equal footing in the trinity of Catholicism, Protestantism, and Judaism that now dominates modern American religious life?
THE AMERICANIZATION OF THE JEWS seeks out the effects of this evolution on both Jews in America and...