Wayne Press: 446 books
by Geoffrey Jacques
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2005
A breakthrough collection of poetry from a distinctive new urban voice.
by Glenn Dynner
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Brings together highly regarded scholars of Jewish and Christian mysticism in Eastern Europe to analyze the overlap of mysticism in the two religions.
Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals
Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2005
Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals is the first book-length study of mystical eating practices and experiences in the kabbalah. Focusing on the Jewish mystical literature of late-thirteenth-century Spain, author Joel Hecker analyzes the ways in which the Zohar and other contemporaneous literature represent...
Louis Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews
Ancient Jewish Folk Literature Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
At the beginning of the twentieth century, many perceived American Jewry to be in a state of crisis as traditions of faith faced modern sensibilities. Published beginning in 1909, Rabbi and Professor Louis Ginzberg’s seven-volume The Legends of the Jews appeared at this crucial time and offered a landmark...
Sister in Sorrow
Life Histories of Female Holocaust Survivors from Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
Sister in Sorrow offers a glimpse into the world of Hungarian Holocaust survivors through the stories of fifteen survivors, as told by thirteen women and two spouses presently living in Hungary and Israel. Analyzing the accounts as oral narratives, author Ilana Rosen uses contemporary folklore studies...
Response to Modernity
A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1995
The movement for religious reform in modern Judaism represents one of the most significant phenomena in Jewish history during the last two hundred years. It introduced new theological conceptions and innovations in liturgy and religious practice that affected millions of Jews, first in central and Western...
Britton on Film
The Complete Film Criticism of Andrew Britton
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
For fifteen years before his untimely death, Andrew Britton produced a body of undeniably brilliant film criticism that has been largely ignored within academic circles. Though Britton’s writings are extraordinary in their depth and range and are closely attuned to the nuances of the texts they examine,...
by Jim Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2007
A major new collection by one of America’s foremost poets of city life and work, In Line for the Exterminator brings Jim Daniels back to his native Detroit.
A Fluid Frontier
Slavery, Resistance, and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River Borderland
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
As the major gateway into British North America for travelers on the Underground Railroad, the U.S./Canadian border along the Detroit River was a boundary that determined whether thousands of enslaved people of African descent could reach a place of freedom and opportunity. In A Fluid Frontier: Slavery,...
Hollywood Goes Oriental
CaucAsian Performance in American Film
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
An in-depth look at the portrayal of Asian characters by non-Asian actors in classical Hollywood film.
The New Life
Jewish Students of Postwar Germany
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Jewish Displaced Persons (DPs) survived in concentration and death camps, in hiding, and as exiles in the Soviet interior. After liberation in the land of their persecutors, some also attended university to fulfill dreams of becoming doctors, engineers, and professionals. In The New Life: Jewish Students...
by Vladimir Jabotinsky
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2015
Vladimir Jabotinsky is well remembered as a militant leader and father of the right-wing Revisionist Zionist movement, but he was also a Russian-Jewish intellectual, talented fiction writer, journalist, playwright, and translator of poetry into Russian and Hebrew. His autobiography, Sippur yamai, Story...
Jewish Souls, Bureaucratic Minds
Jewish Bureaucracy and Policymaking in Late Imperial Russia, 1850-1917
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Jewish Souls, Bureaucratic Minds examines the phenomenon of Jewish bureaucracy in the Russian empire—its institutions, personnel, and policies—from 1850 to 1917. In particular, it focuses on the institution of expert Jews, mid-level Jewish bureaucrats who served the Russian state both in the Pale...
by Matt Yockey
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
ABC’s action-comedy series Batman (1966–68) famously offered a dual address in its wildly popular portayal of a comic book hero in a live action format. Children uncritically accepted the show’s plots and characters, who were guided by lofty ideals and social values, while adults reacted to the...