Syracuse University Press: 176 books
The Extraordinary Adirondack Journey of Clarence Petty
Wilderness Guide, Pilot, and Conservationist
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
The inspiring biography of an Adirondack legend whose tireless efforts are credited with much of today's preservation policies in the Adirondacks.
Law of Desire
Temporary Marriage in Shi’i Iran, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
As an Iranian Muslim woman and a granddaughter of a well-known ayatollah, Shahla Haeri was accepted into the communities where she conducted her fieldwork on mut’a, temporary marriage. Mut’a is legally sanctioned among the Twelver Shi’ites who live predominantly in Iran.
Drawing on rich interviews...
Syria from Reform to Revolt
Volume 2: Culture, Society, and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
As Syria’s anti-authoritarian uprising and subsequent civil war have left the country in ruins, the need for understanding the nation’s complex political and cultural realities remains urgent. The second of a two-volume series, Syria from Reform to Revolt: Culture, Society, and Religion draws...
In the Wake of the Poetic
Palestinian Artists After Darwish
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Heralding a new period of creativity, In the Wake of the Poetic explores the aesthetics and politics of Palestinian cultural expression in the last two decades. As it increasingly gains a significant presence on the international scene, much of Palestinian art owes a debt to Mahmoud Darwish, one of...
Back Channel Negotiation
Security in Middle East Peace Process
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
Wanis-St. John takes on the question of whether the complex and often perilous, secret negotiations between mediating parties prove to be an instrumental path to reconciliation or rather one that disrupts the process. Using the Palestinian-Israeli peace process as a framework, the author focuses on...
Letters to America
Selected Poems of Reuven Ben-Yosef
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Letters to America presents the life and work of an accomplished Jewish poet who exchanged the American promised land for the Israeli one, yet struggled to exorcise the ghosts of his American past and make his home in the Jewish state. Born Robert Reiss in 1930s New York, in 1959 Reuven Ben-Yosef...
Because of Eva
A Jewish Genealogical Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
In Because of Eva, an American Jewish woman travels to Eastern Europe and Israel to solve mysteries in her family’s past by delving into World War II and Holocaust history. What began as a seemingly simple search for "Eva," the elderly relative who had signed Gordon's grandfather's death certificate...
Pioneers
The First Breach
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
When young Zalmen Itzkowitz steps off the train on a dark, dreary day at the close of the nineteenth century, the residents of Miloslavka have no idea what’s in store for them. Zalmen is a freethinker who has come to the rural town to earn his living as a tutor. Yet, rather than teach Hebrew, he...
by Giulia Bruna
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Between the late 1890s and the early 1900s, the young Irish writer John Millington Synge journeyed across his home country, documenting his travels intermittently for ten years. His body of travel writing includes the travel book The Aran Islands, his literary journalism about West Kerry and Wicklow...
Captain America, Masculinity, and Violence
The Evolution of a National Icon
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Since 1940, Captain America has battled his enemies in the name of American values, and as those values have changed over time, so has Captain America’s character. Because the comic book world fosters a close fan–creator dialogue, creators must consider their ever-changing readership. Comic book...
Picturing Disability
Beggar, Freak, Citizen and Other Photographic Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Bogdan and his collaborators have studied thousands of historical photographs of people with disabilities in writing this book. Their work shows how people with disabilities have been presented but in a much wider range than we have ever seen before.
Bigger than Ben-Hur
The Book, Its Adaptations, and Their Audiences
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
First published in 1880, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ became a best-seller. The
popular novel spawned an 1899 stage adaptation, reaching audiences of over
10 million, and two highly successful film adaptations. For over a century, it has
become a ubiquitous pop cultural presence, representing a deeply...
Waiting For America
A Story of Emigration
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
In 1987 a young Jewish man, the central figure in this captivating book, leaves Moscow for good with his parents. They celebrate their freedom in opulent Vienna and spend two months in Rome and the coastal resort of Ladispoli. While waiting in Europe for a U.S. refugee visa, the book’s twenty-year-old...
Lingering Bilingualism
Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in Contact
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
At the beginning of the twentieth century, ambitious young writers flocked from
Jewish towns and villages to cultural centers like Warsaw, Odessa, and Vilna
to seek their fortunes. These writers, typically proficient in both Hebrew and
Yiddish, gathered in literary salons and cafés to read, declaim,...