Syracuse University Press: 176 books
The American Dream
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
There is no better way to understand America than by understanding the cultural history of the American Dream. Rather than just a powerful philosophy or ideology, the Dream is thoroughly woven into the fabric of everyday life, playing a vital role in who we are, what we do, and why we do it. No other...
Literary Awakenings
Personal Essays from the Hudson Review
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
During the past thirty years, the editors of the Hudson Review have observed a trend among some of the best literary essayists and reviewers to situate their criticism in a deeply personal manner as opposed to the theoretical, technocratic work being produced in many literary and academic publications....
Airplanes, Women, and Song
Memoirs of a Fighter Ace, Test Pilot, and Adventurer
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Boris Sergievsky was one of the most colorful of the early aviators. He made his first flight less than ten years after the Wright brothers made theirs; he made his last only four years before the Concorde took off. Born in Russia, Sergievsky learned to fly in 1912. In World War I, he became a much-decorated...
by Zsuzsanna Ozsvath
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Opening with the ominous scene of one young school girl whispering an urgent account of Nazi horror to another over birthday cake, Ozsváth’s extraordinary and chilling memoir tells the story of her childhood in Hungary, living under the threat of the Holocaust. The setting is the summer of 1944...
Blacks in the Adirondacks
A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Blacks in the Adirondacks: A History tells the story of the many African Americans who settled in or passed through this rural, mountainous region of northeastern New York State. In the area for a variety of reasons, some were lifetime residents, while others were there for a few years or months—as...
Albert Schweitzer in Thought and Action
A Life in Parts
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
In the 1940s and 1950s, Albert Schweitzer was one of the best-known figures on the world stage. Courted by monarchs, world statesmen, and distinguished figures from the literary, musical, and scientific fields, Schweitzer was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952, cementing his place as one of the...
Sheva's Promise
A Chronicle of Escape From a Nazi Ghetto
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
A remarkable story of a young Jewish girl’s Holocaust survival outside of the Ghetto in Poland and Germany through sheer determination, resourcefulness, luck and the assistance of a few non-Jewish "helpers."
by Chief Irving Powless Jr
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
In the rich tradition of oral storytelling, Chief Irving Powless Jr. of the Beaver Clan of the Onondaga Nation reminds us of an ancient treaty. It promises that the Haudenosaunee people and non-Indigenous North Americans will respect each other’s differences even when their cultures and behaviors...
The Salome Ensemble
Rose Pastor Stokes, Anzia Yezierska, Sonya Levien, and Jetta Goudal
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
The Salome Ensemble probes the entangled lives, works, and passions of a political activist, a novelist, a screenwriter, and a movie actress who collaborated in 1920s New York City. Together they created the shape-shifting, genre-crossing Salome of the Tenements, first a popular novel and then a Hollywood...
Leaving Russia
A Jewish Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Narrated in the tradition of Tolstoy's confessional trilogy and Nabokov's autobiography, Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story is a searing account of growing up a Jewish refusenik, of a young poet's rebellion against totalitarian culture, and of Soviet fantasies of the West during the Cold War. Shrayer's...
The Children of La Hille
Eluding Nazi Capture during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Following the horrors of Kristallnacht in November of 1938, frightened parents were forced to find refuge for their children, far from the escalating anti-Jewish violence. To that end, a courageous group of Belgian women organized a desperate and highly dangerous rescue mission to usher nearly 1,000...
by Ala Zuskin Perelman
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Described by theater critics as one of the twentieth century’s greatest talents, Benjamin Zuskin (1899–1952) was a star of the Moscow State Jewish Theater. In writing The Travels of Benjamin Zuskin, his daughter, Ala Zuskin Perelman, has rescued from oblivion his story and that of the theater...
"We Are Jews Again"
Jewish Activism in the Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Kosharovsky’s authoritative four-volume history of the Jewish movement in the Soviet Union is now available in a condensed and edited volume that makes this compelling insider’s account of Soviet Jewish activism after Stalin available to a wider audience. Originally published in Russian from 2008...
Literary Hasidism
The Life and Works of Michael Levi Rodkinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Michael Levi Rodkinson (1845–1904) was a journalist, author, and publisher whose literary projects spanned numerous countries and continents. Hero to some and scoundrel to others, Rodkinson was a polemical figure whose beliefs underwent many transformations over the course of his life, most significantly...