Wayne State University Press: 405 books
Transnational Identities
Women, Art, and Migration in Contemporary Israel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Translated originally from Hebrew, Transnational Identities: Women, Art, and Migration in Contemporary Israel offers a critical discussion of women immigrants in Israel through an analysis of works by artists who immigrated to the country beginning in the 1990s. Though numerous aspects of the issue...
by Henry J. Pratt, Ronald Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2004
Beginning in the 1890s, the social gospel movement and its secular counterpart, the Progressive movement, set the stage for powerful church and city governance connections. What followed during the next 100 years was the emergence of religious bodies as an important instrument for influencing City Hall...
by M. L. Liebler
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
In I Want to Be Once, M. L. Liebler approaches current events with a journalistic eye and a poet’s response. Part autobiographical, part commentary, the lines of Liebler’s poems come hard-hitting, but not without moments of great tenderness and humanity. Ordered into three sections, I Want To Be...
Revolution Detroit
Strategies for Urban Reinvention
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
After decades of suburban sprawl, job loss, and lack of regional government, Detroit has become a symbol of post-industrial distress and also one of the most complex urban environments in the world. In Revolution Detroit: Strategies for Urban Reinvention, John Gallagher argues that Detroit's experience...
The New Diaspora
The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
The Edward Lewis Wallant Award was founded by the family of Dr. Irving and Fran Waltman in 1963 and is supported by the University of Hartford’s Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies. It is given annually to an American writer, preferably early in his or her career, whose fiction is considered...
Cinema and Community
Progressivism, Exhibition, and Film Culture in Chicago, 1907-1917
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
Caught between the older model of short film and the emerging classic era, the transitional period of American cinema (1907-1917) has typically posed a problem for studies of early American film. Yet in Cinema and Community: Progressivism, Exhibition, and Film Culture in Chicago, 1907-1917, author Moya...
A Jew in the Public Arena
The Career of Israel Zangwill
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2010
After winning an international audience with his novel Children of the Ghetto, Israel Zangwill went on to write numerous short stories, four additional novels, and several plays, including The Melting Pot. Author Meri-Jane Rochelson, a noted expert on Zangwill’s work, examines his career from its beginnings...
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...
All-American Anarchist
Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
All-American Anarchist chronicles the life and work of Joseph A. Labadie (1850-1933), Detroit's prominent labor organizer and one of early labor's most influential activists. A dynamic participant in the major social reform movements of the Gilded Age, Labadie was a central figure in the pervasive...
by Yosef Tobi, Tsivia Tobi
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
As a result of the introduction of the printing press in the mid-nineteenth century and the proximity of European culture, language, and literature after the French occupation in 1881, Judeo-Arabic literature flourished in Tunisia until the middle of the twentieth century. As the most spoken language...
Choosing Yiddish
New Frontiers of Language and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Yiddish Hip Hop, a nineteenth-century “Hasidic Slasher,” obscure Yiddish writers, and immigrant Jewish newspapers in Buenos Aires, Paris, and New York are just a few of the topics featured in Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture. Editors Lara Rabinovitch, Shiri Goren, and Hannah...
by Rebecca Bell-Metereau
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Suffering in cinema can be crucial to how stars are cast in roles and perceived by audiences, whether it is performed on the screen or weathered in the form of scandal, heartbreak, disfiguration, or aging in an actor’s real life. In Star Bodies and the Erotics of Suffering, editors Rebecca Bell-Metereau...
by Andy Mozina
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
In a wide range of forms and tones, the fifteen stories in Andy Mozina’s new collection, Quality Snacks, center on high-stakes performances by characters trying to gratify both deep and superficial needs, often with unexpected consequences. Driven by strange ambitions, bungled love, and a taste for—or...
Max Lilienthal
The Making of the American Rabbinate
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Explores the life and thought of Rabbi Max Lilienthal, who created a new model for the American rabbinate.