Wayne Press: 446 books
American Aliya
Portrait of an Innovative Migration Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The major focus is on the who, when, and where of American immigration to Israel, but it is the "why" of this aliya which constitutes the core of the book. Waxman analyzes the relationship between Zionism, aliya, and the Jewish experience. Chapters include "Zion in Jewish culture,"...
"To Tread on New Ground"
Selected Hebrew Writings of Hava Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Hava Shapiro is among the nearly forgotten Jewish women writers who sought acceptance in Jewish literary circles of the last century. Born in Slavuta (modern-day Ukraine) in 1878, she published works of fiction, memoir, literary criticism, and journalism, including a volume of short fiction and a scholarly...
by Gayatri Devi
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
While Middle Eastern culture does not tend to be associated with laughter and levity in the global imagination, humor—often satirical—has long been a staple of mainstream Arabic film. In Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema, editors Gayatri Devi and Najat Rahman shed light on this tradition, as well as...
Blackness Is Burning
Civil Rights, Popular Culture, and the Problem of Recognition
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Blackness Is Burning is one of the first books to examine the ways race and psychological rhetoric collided in the public and popular culture of the civil rights era. In analyzing a range of media forms, including Sidney Poitier’s popular films, black mother and daughter family melodramas, Bill Cosby’s...
Tales in Context
Sefer ha-ma'asim in Medieval Northern France
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
In the thirteenth century, an anonymous scribe compiled sixty-nine tales that became Sefer ha-ma’asim, the earliest compilation of Hebrew tales known to us in Western Europe*.* The author writes that the stories encompass “descriptions of herbs that cure leprosy, a fairy princess with golden tresses...
The Genocidal Gaze
From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
The first genocide of the twentieth century, though not well known, was committed by Germans between 1904–1907 in the country we know today as Namibia, where they exterminated thousands of Herero and Nama people and subjected the surviving indigenous men, women, and children to forced labor. The...
The Reuther Brothers
Walter, Roy, and Victor
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
The tale of the Reuther brothers-Walter, Roy, and Victor-is more than a story of how one of America's great unions was created. It is also a powerful example of how teamwork, dedication, and concern for others can improve the lives of many people. This book portrays the brothers' lifelong commitment...
The Politics of Black Empowerment
The Transformation of Black Activism in Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
In analyzing Black politics since the late 1960s, James Jennings focuses on both the behavioral aspects, such as individual and group characteristics of voting and nonvoting and elections, as well a more fundamental philosophical and cultural questions regarding Black politics. This study examines how...
by Haya Gavish
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
A study of the Iraqi Jewish community of Zakho that investigates the community’s attachment to the Land of Israel, the effects of Zionist activity, and immigration to Palestine and Israel.
Anthonius Margaritha and the Jewish Faith
Jewish Life and Conversion in Sixteenth-Century Germany
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
A biography of Anthonius Margaritha, convert to Christianity and reporter on Jewish life and religious practices.
by Sheila A. Spector
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
A full-length critical inquiry into the complex interrelationship between the British poet and the Jews.
by Steven Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Discusses the aesthetic appeal, production history, philosophical themes, and enduring importance of the groundbreaking 1980s television series.
Fairy Tales and Feminism
New Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2004
In the 1970s, feminists focused critical attention on fairy tales and broke the spell that had enchanted readers for centuries. By exposing the role of fairy tales in the cultural struggle over gender, feminism transformed fairy-tale studies and sparked a debate that would change the way society thinks...
by Susan Bernofsky
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
A new perspective on the principal developments in translation practice and theory in Germany during the Age of Goethe with emphasis on the work of Goethe, Hölderlin, and Kleist as translators.