Why the Jews?: How Jewish Values Transformed Twentieth Century American Pop Culture, Hardcover - Robert Cherry

Reducere. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish immigrants upended Protestant control of vaudeville and the silent film industry. This book rejec...

Reducere. The Cultural Front charts the extraordinary upsurge of cultural activity and theory in America that began during the Great Depression and embraced ...

Reducere. A writer investigates her family's secret history, uncovering a story that spans a century, two World Wars, and three generations. Hadley Freeman k...

DescriptionThe generational and social thinking changes that caused an unprecedented shift toward support for gay marriage How did gay marriage--so...

Humans are a striking anomaly in the natural world. While we are similar to other mammals in many ways, our behavior sets us apart. This book offer...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestselling author of Alexander Hamilton, the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical, comes this definitive biogr...

Reducere. Following The People and the Books, which "covers more than 2, 500 years of highly variegated Jewish cultural expression" (Robert Alter, New York T...

Contributor(s): Author: Furio JesiTranslator: Richard BraudeIn the decades before the rise of the Third Reich, "Secret Germany" was a phrase used b...

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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 ...

Reducere. Celebrate the empowering and inspiring women who helped create, shape, and make pop culture great, from the creator of SYFY WIRE's FANGRRLS and the...

An argument that Modernism is a cognitive phenomenon rather than a cultural one.At the beginning of the twentieth century, poetry, music, and paint...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Aria S. HallidayIllustration(s): 34 color photographsNumber of pages: 208Collection: Feminist Med...

Reducere. Two brothers grow up on the Jewish streets of Warsaw. At the turn of the twentieth century, Adolphe leaves to seek work and start a family in Switz...

Reducere. Hilaire Belloc describes the European Jewish diaspora, its contributions to the life and intellectual culture of the continent, and the undercurren...

From the Nuremberg Trials onwards, Jews figure prominently in international legal history. Yet ties between Jewish identity and legal thought rarel...

The first anthology in over twenty-five years to focus exclusively on American dance practices across a wide span of American culture. This volume ...

Reducere. In its last decade, the Ottoman Empire underwent a period of dynamic reform, and the 1908 revolution transformed the empire's 20 million subjects i...

Winner, American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, 2012Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cu...

Reducere. "We can battle insensitivity, immorality and dishonesty in our lives individually and collectively as a people. We have a wonderful road map in the...

Description Literal and metaphorical excavations at Sweet Briar College reveal how African American labor enabled the transformation of Sweet Briar...

Reducere. DescriptionBetween 1900 and 1950, Americans built the most powerful steam locomotives of all time--enormous engines that powered a colossal industr...

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Reducere. Penguin's landmark poetry anthology Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, introduces readers to the most ...

Publisher: Tate PublishingAuthor(s): Nicolette JonesIllustration(s): 46 illustrationsNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 246 x 30...

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In the 1990s, Vienna's Jews and queers abandoned their clandestine existence and emerged into the city's public sphere in unprecedented numbers. Th...

Paperback edition of Judt's final book, which was written up by Snyder from conversations he had with the great historian as he suffered from a fat...

Reducere. Andrew L. Yarrow tells the story of Look magazine, one of the greatest mass-circulation publications in American history, and the very different Un...

An erudite and accessible survey of Jewish life and culture in the twentieth century, as reflected in seminal texts.Publisher: WW Norton & CoAuthor...

DescriptionFrom nationally recognized Jewish brand Wise Sons, the cookbook Eat Something features over 60 recipes for salads, soups, baked goods, h...

Reducere. Written by the late Dr. Hugh J. Schonfield. Re-edited and re-printed by Bruce R. Booker under permission of The Hugh & Helene Schonfield World Serv...

Provides a kaleidoscopic review of the avant-garde and radical subcultures of the twentieth century, and explains how artistic statements of the er...

This book examines the thinking of early twentieth-century US foreign policy makers and their advisors, including business leaders and economists -...

DescriptionIran is home to the largest Jewish population in the Middle East, outside of Israel. At its peak in the twentieth century, the populatio...

Heffernan uses modernist and post-modernist novels as evidence of the diminished faith in the existence of an inherently meaningful end.