The Generation of Postmemory. Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust, Paperback - Marianne Hirsch

Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): Marianne HirschIllustration(s): B&W Illus.: 57, Number of pages: 320Collection: Gender and Culture S...

After the Holocaust's near complete destruction of European Yiddish cultural centres, the Yiddish language was largely viewed as a remnant of the p...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Marianne HirschFamily photographs - snapshots and portraits, affixed to the refrigerator or displayed in gilded frames, cra...

Reducere. The chapters in this volume examine a few facets in the drama of how the survivors of the Holocaust contended with life after the darkest night in ...

DescriptionThe astonishing story of the efforts of scholars and activists to rescue Jewish cultural treasures after the HolocaustIn March 1946 the ...

In this touching account, veteran New York Times reporter Joseph Berger describes how his own family of Polish Jews -- with one son born at the clo...

Reducere. For many years I lived my life with a hole in my soul that could not be filled. Something was missing. In 1995 my beating heart found the echo hear...

Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Rebecca CliffordIllustration(s): 28 color illus.Number of pages: 344Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 12...

Publisher: Glasgow Museums PublishingAuthor(s): Geraldine ShenkinIllustration(s): 1 Maps; 30 Illustrations, black and white; 80 Illustrations, colo...

A pair of silver Regency candlesticks. Pieces of well-worn family jewelry. More than a thousand documents, letters, and photographs Lotte Meyerhoff...

Reducere. Visual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation is a vibrant, in-depth, and visually appealing history of punk, ...

Reducere. This beautifully produced deep dive into Yosemite National Park features stunning photography by Robb Hirsch and fascinating natural history from k...

Extortion, lies, duplicity and murder, all of which take place in Moscow's dark underworld. At the center, unknowingly, is Alexandra Malikova, a wh...

Reducere. Current scholarship in the study of ancient Christianity is now available to nonspecialists through this collection of essays on anti-Judaism in th...

In his third and final book, Benjamin "Ben" Hirsch begins his narrative in the mid -1950s upon discharge from U.S. Army service and becoming a Geor...

From couture fashion to opulent perfumes and decadent food, the luxury goods and services industry has grown at an unprecedented rate even in the c...

Suitable for students of art history as well as those seeking an understanding of art and of the cultural and historical context in which it is mad...

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From 1940 to 1954, The Bell was notable as an outspoken liberal voice at a time of political and intellectual stagnation. While primarily a literar...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Sheldon (University of California, Davis, USA) LuIllustration(s): 40 bw illusNumber of pages: 256Col...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagNumber of pages: 250Collection: Culture & Theory (COL)Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 149 x 224 x 25Cover type: Paper...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

An impressive list of authors examine how abjection can be discussed in relation to a host of different subjects, including marginality and gender....

Reducere. As the Holocaust recedes in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the next generation. How sh...

Reducere. DescriptionNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ● From the bestselling author of The Survivor comes a touching novella of the unrelenting force of love, the p...

The idea which I shall present here came to me more or less out of the blue. I was on a train some fives years ago, on my way to spend a day at Hea...

A pair of silver Regency candlesticks. Pieces of well-worn family jewelry. More than a thousand documents, letters, and photographs Lotte Meyerhoff...

DescriptionAre you satisfied with the current state of public discourse? The almost unanimous response from people across the nation is a loud and ...

This book explores how the comparative analysis of visual cultural artefacts, from objects to architecture and fiction films, can contribute to our...

This book highlights that masquerade can be regarded as a distinct genre of performance activity that employs elements of the carnivalesque, circus...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Can paintings, buildings or installations be 'read' in the way texts are read or deciphered, or do works of visual art ask for their own kind of ap...

Reducere. Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, is recited in a time of deep sorrow. In it, the sacredness of the Almighty One is affirmed. In her new gat...

Gendered Testimonies of the Holocaust considers the gendered dimension of the phenomenon of writing as a means of speaking to or for others and for...

Reducere. After the Holocaust brings together scholarship, activism, poetry, and personal narratives from some of the last living survivors of the Holocaust ...

The first major anthology of writing that offers readers an overview of this other tradition as it lives in the early decades of the 21st century. ...

This is the first English-language monograph on monarchy in the Dutch colonial world. It reveals the role of mass and amateur photography in foster...

Reducere. On two separate days in August 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As the seventy-fift...

DescriptionAn engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. The mass murder of European Jews by the Nazis, stands out ...

Reducere. How could it have happened?The question haunted George Feher, all his adult life. Belonging to the generation whose life was impacted by the Holoca...

Argues that humour performs political, cultural, and social functions in the wake of horror. David Slucki, Gabriel Finder and Avinoam Patt have ass...

Contributors examine the import of Barthes's shifting positions on photography and visual representation and the impact of his work on current deve...

A magisterial survey of the ways in which postwar Irish writers have witnessed the frustration of the promise of Irish independence.

Reducere. Successful visual outcomes can only be arrived at through the generation of great ideas, driven by research that will ultimately provide the design...

The essays in this volume engage directly with topical issues around art and gender, globalization, cultural difference, and curating, as well as e...

DescriptionIslamic Art and Visual Culture is a collection of primarysources in translation accompanied by clear and conciseintroductory essays that...