Syracuse University Press: 176 books
Jonah and Sarah
Jewish Stories of Russia and America
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
From the deceptively simple narratives Apple Cider Vinegar and Hurricane Bob to the surrealist story Dismemberers and the magical tales Jonah and Sarah and Lanskoy Road, the tempo fluctuates, but throughout, David Shrayer-Petrov seamlessly preserves familiar voices. The stories have a genuine feel...
With Rake in Hand
Memoirs of a Yiddish Poet
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Joseph Rolnik is widely considered one of the most prominent of the New York Yiddish poets associated with Di Yunge, an avant-garde literary group that formed in the early twentieth century. In his moving and evocative memoir, Rolnik recalls his childhood growing up in a small town in Belarus and...
Monarch of the Square
An Anthology of Muhammad Zafzaf’s Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
A master of the short story form, Muhammad Zafzaf is one of Morocco’s greatest narrative writers. This anthology, the first collection of his work translated into English, is a tribute to the remarkable influence he exerted on an entire generation of Moroccan storytellers.
Zafzaf’s stories are...
Acts of Conscience
World War II, Mental Institutions, and Religious Objectors
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2009
In the mid- to late 1940s, a group of young men rattled the psychiatric establishment by beaming a public spotlight on the squalid conditions and brutality in our nation’s mental hospitals and training schools for people with psychiatric and intellectual disabilities. Bringing the abuses to the...
by David Shrayer-Petrov
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
These fourteen stories by the acclaimed master of Jewish-Russian fiction
are set in the former USSR, Western Europe, and America. Dinner with
Stalin features Soviet Jews grappling with issues of identity, acculturation,
and assimilation. Shrayer-Petrov explores aspects of antisemitism and persecution,
problems...
by David Gantt Gurley
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt and the Poetics of Jewish Fiction presents a bold new reading of one of Denmark’s greatest writers of the nineteenth century, situating him, first and foremost, as a Jewish artist. Offering an alternative to the nationalistic discourse so prevalent in the scholarship, Gurley...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
In an age when geek chic has come to define mainstream pop culture,
few writers and producers inspire more admiration and response than
Joss Whedon. From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Much Ado About Nothing,
from Dr. Horrible’s Sing–Along Blog to The Avengers, the works of
Whedon have been the focus...
The Snake's Pass
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
In 1890, The Snake’s Pass was published in serialized form in the periodical The People. It is the story of Arthur Severn, an Englishman who has inherited wealth and a title through an aunt who took him under her wing to the exclusion of closer relations. His inheritance includes land in Ireland,...
We Are Iraqis
Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
While the occupation of Iraq and its aftermath has received media and political attention, we know very little about the everyday lives of Iraqis. Iraqi men, women, and children are not merely passive victims of violence, vulnerable recipients of repressive regimes, or bystanders of their country’s...
Auburn, New York
The Entrepreneurs’ Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Nestled in the heart of the Finger Lakes region, Auburn, New York, is home to
some of the key figures in our nation’s history. Both William Seward and Harriet
Tubman lived in Auburn, as did Martha Coffin Wright, a pioneering figure
in the struggle for women’s suffrage. Auburn’s significance...
Colonial Jerusalem
The Spatial Construction of Identity and Difference in a City of Myth, 1948-2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
In one of the few anthropological works focusing on a contemporary Middle Eastern city, Colonial Jerusalem explores a vibrant urban center at the core of the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This book shows how colonialism, far from being simply a fixture of the past as is often
suggested,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
First published in 1959, The Autobiography of James Monroe collects the compelling fragments of Monroe’s unfinished autobiography, written after his retirement from the presidency. The memoirs trace his boyhood, education, and experiences during his long service as a public servant before becoming...
by Faedah Totah
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
In Preserving the Old City of Damascus, Totah examines the recent
gentrification of the historic urban core of the Syrian capital and the ways
in which urban space becomes the site for negotiating new economic and
social realities. The book illustrates how long-term inhabitants of the historic
quarter,...
Blood and Faith
Christianity in American White Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Since the 1980 US presidential races, the term "religious right" has come to signify a politically and socially conservative form of Christianity. This term implies a joining of socially conservative evangelical Christianity with conservative politics that continues to shape the Republican Party to...