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Mir collection
Nʹi︠u︡-Ĭork,
2006,
Soft,
280 p,
(In Russian)
ISBN 1-893552-40-3
A Companion to Andrei Platonov's ''The foundation pit''
Thomas Seifrid
Written at the height of Stalin's first five-year plan for the industrialization of Soviet Russia and the parallel campaign to collectivize Soviet agriculture, Andrei Platonov's "The Foundation Pit " registers a dissonant mixture of utopian longings…
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A roadmap to the heavens
Anthropological study of hegemony among priests, sages and laymen
Sigalit Ben-Zion
The book explores the rich and complex relationships among the sages, priests, and laymen who competed in social, cultural, and political arenas for hegemony. It demonstrates that this struggle was not a simple case of displacement of the priestly e…
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A world apart. A memoir of Jewish life in nineteenth-century Galicia
Translated by Rebecca Margolis, Ira Robinson
Joseph Margoshes
Margoshes gives the reader important insights into the many-faceted Jewish life of Austro-Hungarian Galicia. We read of the Orthodox and the Enlightened, urban and rural life, Jews and their gentile neighbors, and much more. This book is an importa…
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All the Same the Words Don't Go Away
Essays on Authors, Heroes, Aesthetics, and Stage
Caryl Emerson
All the Same the Words Don't Go Away brings together twenty five years of essays and reviews, linked loosely by three themes. First is the creative potential inherent in transposing classic literary texts into other genres or media (operatic, dramat…
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Slavica Publishers
Bloomington IN (USA),
2008,
Soft,
270 p,
(In English)
ISBN 0-89357-358-4
Another way, another time
Religious inclusivism and the sacks chief rabbinate
Meir Persoff
British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks launched his tenure of office in 1991 with the aim of an inclusivist Decade of Jewish Renewal. Within a few years – fulfilling his installation prediction that ‘I will have failures, but I will try again, another w…
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Beyond political messianism
The poetry of the second generation of religious zionist settlers
David C. Jacobson
In recent decades, a group of second generation religious Zionist West Bank settlers have turned away from the collectivist political messianic ideology of the first generation of settlers and have begun to explore poetry as a mode of individual sel…
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Bieganski
The brute Polak stereotype in Polish-Jewish relations and American popular culture
Danusha V. Goska
Exposure of one stereotype of Poles and other Eastern Europeans. In the “Bieganski” stereotype, Poles exhibit the qualities of animals (they are strong, violent, fertile, dirty and hateful). Their special hatefulness is epitomized by their Polish An…
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Brodsky through the eyes of his contemporaries
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Volume 1
)
Valentina Polukhina
The collection combines biographical details with a new and authoritative interpretation of the poetics, style, and ideas of one of the most influential poets to emerge in post-Stalinist Russia. As a poet, essayist, and playwright, Brodsky is widely…
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Controversy and crisis
Studies in the history of the Jews in modern Britain
Geoffrey Alderman
Professor Geoffrey Alderman is the acknowledged authority on the history of the Jews in modern Britain. During an academic career spanning forty years he has produced some of the most authoritative and controversial studies in this field, lighting u…
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Encounters of Consequence
Jewish philosophy in the twentieth century and beyond
Michael Oppenheim
Analysis of key issues in Jewish philosophy: the nature of Judaism and Jewish identity, the quests for meaning and continuity, the value of remaining a Jew, the relevance of Jewish law, the challenges of secularism, modern history, feminism and rel…
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Exemplary bodies
Constructing the Jew in Russian culture: 1880s to the present
Henrietta Mondry
Research of the construction of the Jew’s physical and ontological body in Russian culture as represented in literature, film, and non-literary texts from the 1880s to the present. With the rise of the dominance of biological and racialist discourse…
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Exotic Moscow under Western eyes
Essays on culture, civilization and barbarism
Irene Masing-Delic
This collection of essays on Turgenev, Goncharov, Conrad, Dostoevsky, Blok, Briusov, Gor’kii, Pasternak and Nabokov represents diverse voices but is also unified. Recurring themes in Masing-Delic’s (Ph.D. from the University of Stockholm) work inclu…
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From theory to praxis
New perspectives in Jewish philosophy
Avi Sagi
Avi Sagi's book ponders one of the most intriguing shifts in modern Jewish thought: the turn from a metaphysical and theological standpoint toward a new manner of philosophizing essentially based on practice. This stance tries to examine Jewish quin…
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Holy Russia, sacred Israel
Jewish-Christian encounters in Russian religious thought
Dominic Rubin
Holy Russia, Sacred Israel examines how Russian religious thinkers, both Jewish and Christian, conceived of Judaism, Jewry and the ‘Old Testament’ philosophically, theologically and personally at a time when the Messianic element in Russian consciou…
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Israel's political economy
A historical perspective from below
Lev Luis Grinberg
Grinberg summarizes both his own work and that of other political economists, providing a coherent historical narrative since the beginning of Socialist Zionism (1904) until the Oslo Accords and the neo-liberalization of the economy (1994-1996). The…
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Jacob's ladder
Kabbalistic allegory in Russian literature
Marina Aptekman
This volume shows the evolution of kabbalistic symbolism in Russian intellectual culture as reflected in literary works from the end of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. Mainly focused on the close study of literary works pre…
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Jewish peoplehood
Change and challenge
Ezra Kopelowitz, Menachem Revivi (ed.)
This volume represents the first in-depth effort to address the concept of Jewish peoplehood since the initial attempts of early 20th century Jewish intellectuals Mordechai Kaplan and Salo Baron. Indeed, its substance goes far beyond the range of a …
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Jewish philosophy in the Middle Ages
Raphael Jospe
Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages presents an overview of the formative period of medieval Jewish philosophy, from its beginnings with Saadiah Gaon to its apex in Maimonides, when Jews living in Islamic countries and writing in Arabic were the fi…
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Jewish religion after theology
Avi Sagi
Avi Sagi's book ponders one of the most intriguing shifts in modern Jewish thought: from a metaphysical and theological standpoint toward a new manner of philosophizing based primarily on practice. Different chapters study this great shift and its v…
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Narrating Post/Communism
Colonial Discourse and Europe's Borderline Civilization
Natasa Kovacevic
The transition of communist Eastern Europe to capitalist democracy post-1989 and in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars has focused much scholarly attention - in history, political science and literature - on the fostering of new identities across Ea…
Routledge
London (UK),
2009,
Soft,
240 p,
(In English)
ISBN 978-0-415-54642-3
78 USD
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Routledge
London (UK),
2009,
Soft,
240 p,
(In English)
ISBN 978-0-415-54642-3
Narrating Post/Communism
Colonial Discourse and Europe's Borderline Civilization
Natasa Kovacevic
The transition of communist Eastern Europe to capitalist democracy post-1989 and in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars has focused much scholarly attention - in history, political science and literature - on the fostering of new identities across Ea…
Routledge
London (UK),
2008,
Hard,
240 p,
(In English)
ISBN 978-0-415-46111-5
275 USD
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Routledge
London (UK),
2008,
Hard,
240 p,
(In English)
ISBN 978-0-415-46111-5
New rituals – old societies
Invented rituals in contemporary Israel
Nissan Rubin
Focusing on the secular society of contemporary Israel, this collection of essays examines the way civil religion invents collective rites for turning points in community life, and personal definitional rites for ratification of identity change in t…
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