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Reducere. DescriptionRussian Cuisine in Exile brings the essays of Pyotr Vail and Alexander Genis, originally written in the mid-1980s, to an English-speakin...

Reducere. Night and Day (1934), an unfinished dilogy by Uzbek author Abdulhamid Sulaymon o'g'li Cho'lpon, gives readers a glimpse into the everyday struggles...

Reducere. Courage and Fear is a study of a multicultural city in times when all norms collapse. Ola Hnatiuk presents a meticulously documented portrait of Lv...

In this compelling and engaging book, Dvir Abramovich introduces readers to several landmark novels, poems and stories that have become classics in...

Zvi Preigerzon (1900-1969), a Hebrew writer in the Soviet Union, wrote this book in complete secrecy, to the extent that he even hid its existence ...

This book offers significant insights into contemporary Lithuanian folklore research. In a balanced way reflecting upon past and present, tradition...

Reducere. Jews lived in Egypt for centuries, since biblical times; nevertheless, Jewish life in medieval Islamic Egypt was for many years an obscure and unde...

Reducere. Cinemasaurus examines contemporary Russian cinema as a new visual economy, emerging over three decades after the Soviet collapse. Focusing on debat...

The poet Wilhelm Kuchelbecker, Pushkin's school-friend, suffered twenty years of imprisonment and Siberian exile for his part in the ill-fated Dece...

DescriptionThe early years of the twenty-first century have been an exciting transitional period in Russian cinema, as the industry recovered from ...

DescriptionThrough the story of his Russian-Jewish parents' arrival and in the Mississippi region, the author reveals the experience of the Jewish ...

Reducere. Coherent Judaism begins by excavating the theologies within the Torah and tracing their careers through the Jewish Enlightenment of the eighteenth ...

Reducere. Since the turn of the millennium, rapid advances in technology, globalized markets, and atomized politics instigated in the American and Israeli Je...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Mark AndryczykThe publication of "The White Chalk of Days: The Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series Anthology" commemor...

This literary guide leads students with advanced knowledge of Russian as well as experienced scholars through the text of Nikolai Gogol's absurdist...

Reducere. Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita, set in Stalin's Moscow, is an intriguing work with a complex structure, wonderful comic episodes...

A captivating memoir that bridges the past with the present, as we learn about the author's grandparents' drives to escape the Jewish worlds of Tsa...

Reducere. The Jewish intellectual tradition has a long and complex history that has resulted in significant and influential works of scholarship. In this boo...

Reducere. DescriptionLargely forgotten during the last 20 years of his life, the Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov (1896-1954) has occupied a singular and often ...

DescriptionImperial Russia's large wolf populations were demonized, persecuted, tormented, and sometimes admired. That Savage Gaze explores the sig...

Reducere. This two-volume reader is intended to accompany undergraduate courses in the history of Russian cinema and Russian culture through film. Each volum...

Breaking Free from Death examines how Russian writers respond to the burden of living with anxieties about their creative outputs, and, ultimately,...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is the extraordinary story of the author's twenty year quest to find gold coins which his father's family buried in their backyard ...

Reducere. Antisemitism on the Campus: Past & Present, edited by Eunice G. Pollack, is the first book of a multidisciplinary series on Antisemitism in America...

DescriptionThis volume provides for the first time a collection of writing that investigates the stories and struggles of survivors in the context ...

This book tells the story of Krystyna Bierzyńska, an acculturated Polish Jew, from her birth in Warsaw in 1928 up to the war's end in May 1945, whe...

This biographical history follows the iconoclastic career of John R. Friedeberg Seeley, pre-eminent "Pop Sociologist" and Mental Health Activist of...

Publisher: Academic Studies PressAuthor(s): Alessandro GuettaNumber of pages: 300Collection: Perspectives in Jewish Intellectual LifePublication da...

Reducere. Brodsky's poetic career in the West was launched when Joseph Brodsky: Selected Poems was published in 1973. Its translator was a scholar and war he...

Comparisons of Ivan the Terrible to Stalin have exacerbated the politicization of his image. Russians have never agreed on his role in Russian hist...

Reducere. The "Voice of Silence" is the personal story of an underground Hebrew teacher in the communist Soviet Union who was sentenced to prison after false...

Dr. Yalonetzky introduces readers to a physical microcosm of the intersectionbetween Peruvian and Jewish identity, elucidated through the varied vo...

Reducere. DescriptionThe armed conflict in the east of Ukraine brought about an emergence of a distinctive trend in contemporary Ukrainian poetry: the poetry...

Reducere. This book offers a study of the Jewish community in Kielce and its environs during World War II and the Holocaust. It is the first of its kind in p...

Explores the resurgence of interest in Talmudic stories in Israel and presents some of the most popular Talmudic stories in contemporary Israeli cu...

Reducere. Justice in the City argues, based on the rabbinic textual tradition, especially the Babylonian Talmud, and utilizing French Jewish philosopher Emma...

On a Clear April Morning, by Marcos Iolovitch, is a lyrical and riveting coming of age story set among early twentieth-century settlers brought to ...

Reducere. The Jewish Metropolis: New York from the 17th to the 21st Century covers the entire sweep of the history of the largest Jewish community of all tim...

Celebrates the literary oeuvres of David Shrayer-Petrov - poet, fiction writer, memoirist, essayist and translator (and medical doctor and research...

Reducere. DescriptionThe three novellas of Farewell, Aylis take place over decades of transition in a country that rather resembles modern-day Azerbaijan. In...

Reducere. The Horizontal Society is an exposition of rabbinic thought as exemplified by Maimonides. The thought streams of Greece, Rome, and Christendom serv...

Reducere. An exploration of Rav Kook's formative years in Eastern Europe, 1865-1904.About author(s): Yehudah Mirsky is Full Professor of Near Eastern and Jud...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Translator: Anthony AnemoneTranslator: Peter ScottoAuthor: Daniil KharmsIn addition to his numerous works in prose and poetry for b...

Reducere. In 1936, Joseph Margoshes (1866-1955), a writer for the New York Yiddish daily, "Morgen" Journal, published a memoir of his youth in Austro-Hungari...

DianeTuckman and Cecile Spiegel fled religious persecution with WWII conflicts attheir heels. Hiding in plain sight, Cecile eluded the Nazis in Fra...

DescriptionThe publication of "The White Chalk of Days: The Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series Anthology" commemorates the tenth year of the ...

Reducere. The Mishna Berura is, without a doubt, Rabbi Israel Meir Kagan's greatest and most complex contribution to the canon of Orthodox Jewish Law; it is ...

Reducere. Leading scholars use the lenses of history, sociology, political science, psychology, philosophy, religion, and literature to examine, disentangle,...

Tens of thousands of Jewish children were orphaned during World War I and in the subsequent years of conflict. In response, Jewish leaders in Polan...

Explores the cycle of Jewish holidays, which reflects a sense of identity with, and belonging to, the Jewish people, while simultaneously shaping t...

Over the decades, the Holocaust has remained a critical issue both historically and politically. This is due to the modernization of anti-Semitism ...

Reducere. The present book is a sequel to Ephraim Chamiel's two previous works The Middle Way and The Dual Truth--studies dedicated to the "middle" trend in ...

Reducere. Awards🏆Winner (2014) - National Jewish Book Award - (Education/Identity)Contributor(s): Author: Elie HolzerAuthor: Orit KentNo longer confined to t...

Reducere. The largest, most comprehensive anthology of its kind, this volume brings together significant, representative stories from every decade of the twe...

Reducere. DescriptionEven before Japan joined Nazi Germany in the Axis Alliance, its leaders clarified to the Nazi regime that the attitude of the Japanese g...

Academic Encounters Level 2 Teacher's Manual Listening and Speaking: American Studies contains general teaching guidelines for the course, task by ...

DescriptionThe black power movement helped redefine African Americans' identity and establish a new racial consciousness in the 1960s. As an influe...

Reducere. Folklore Rules is a brief introduction to the foundational concepts in folklore studies for beginning students. Designed to give essential backgrou...