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A Century of Russian Art, 1900-2000
John E. Bowlt
A Century of Russian Art, 1900-2000 focuses on the artists, ideas and movements which contributed to Russia’s cultural renaissance during the first years of the twentieth century and continued to provide Soviet and then post-Soviet art with its dist…
Academic Studies Press
Brighton MA (USA),
2014,
Soft,
350 p., 100 color il,
(In English)
ISBN 978-1-934843-77-2
75 USD
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Academic Studies Press
Brighton MA (USA),
2014,
Soft,
350 p., 100 color il,
(In English)
ISBN 978-1-934843-77-2
A coat of many colors
Dress culture in the young state of Israel
Anat Helman
The book investigates Israel’s fi rst seven years as a sovereign state through the unusual prism of dress. Clothes worn by Israelis in the 1950s refl ected political ideologies, economic conditions, military priorities, social distinctions, and cult…
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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 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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Akko Festival: between celebration and confrontation
Naphtaly Shem-Tov
This research follows the history of Akko Festival for Other Israeli Theatre in the years 1980-2012 as a site of a celebration as well as a confrontation. Thus Akko Festival is a borderland bringing together established directors and producers from …
121 USD
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A “Labyrinth of Linkages” in Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina
Gary L. Browning
The renowned Russian writer Leo Tolstoy created a realistic masterpiece in Anna Karenina (1878). In the same work, moreover, he utilized allegory and symbol to an extent and at a level of sophistication unknown in his other woks. In Browning’s study…
39 USD
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Alfred Dreyfus
Man, milieu, mentality, and midrash
Norman Simms
This book by Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and English at University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand, is to be published in October 2011. When people say the Dreyfus Affair split a nation or enaugurated a new era, they are …
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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…
69 USD
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Alternative and Bio-Medicine in Israel: Boundaries and Bridges
Judith Shuval
This book explores the macro and micro social contexts in which alternative and bio-medicine co-exist in Israel. It includes a history of alternative health care in Israel and analysis of current policies and dilemmas regarding different forms of he…
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Academic Studies Press
SPb.: Boston,
2024,
150 copies,
Hard,
390 p,
(In Russian. Translated from English)
ISBN 978-5-907918-01-6
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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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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Answering a question with a question
Judaism and contemporary psychoanalysis
Lewis Aron and Libby Henik (ed.)
In Jewish tradition it is incumbent upon every generation to attempt to make meaning of its history. Until now, no single book has brought together contemporary writers to address the interface of Jewish thought and psychoanalysis. In Answering a Qu…
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Anti-Semitism on the campus
Past and present
Eunice G. Pollack (ed.)
In the book eighteen leading scholars explore the roots and manifestations of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism at American, British, and Canadian colleges and universities over the course of the 20th century and the responses to them. Topics range fro…
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A partisan from Vilna
Rachel Margolis
A Partisan from Vilna is the memoir of Rachel Margolis, the sole survivor of her family, who escaped from the Vilna Ghetto with other members of the resistance movement, the FPO (United Partisan Organization), and joined the Soviet partisans in the …
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A partisan from Vilna
Rachel Margolis
A Partisan from Vilna is the memoir of Rachel Margolis, the sole survivor of her family, who escaped from the Vilna Ghetto with other members of the resistance movement, the FPO (United Partisan Organization), and joined the Soviet partisans in the …
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A political theory for the Jewish people
Gans KH.
Современный сионистский нарратив играет ключевую роль формировании еврейской идентичности как в самом Израиле, так и за его пределами. В книге Хаима Ганса дается историко-философский анализ современной версии сионизма и его антитезы — постсионизма.
А…
Academic Studies Press
SPb.: Boston,
2025,
200 copies,
Hard,
394 p,
(In Russian. Translated from English)
ISBN 978-5-907918-23-8
44 USD
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Academic Studies Press
SPb.: Boston,
2025,
200 copies,
Hard,
394 p,
(In Russian. Translated from English)
ISBN 978-5-907918-23-8
A ration of fashion
Dress culture in the young state of Israel
Anat Helman
A Ration of Fashion investigates Israel's first seven years as a sovereign state through the unusual prism of dress. Clothes worn by Israelis in the 1950s reflected political ideologies, economic conditions, military priorities, social distinctions,…
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A Reader's Guide to Nabokov's "Lolita"
Julian W. Connolly
One of the most fascinating and controversial novels of the twentieth century, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita is renowned for its innovative style and notorious for its subject matter and influence on popular culture. A Reader’s Guide to Nabokov’s “Lolit…
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A Red Rose in the Dark
Self-constitution through the poetic language of Zelda, Amichai, Kosman, and Adaf
Dorit Lemberger
How can we characterize the uniqueness of poetic language? How can we describe the evasive enchantment of the paradox that is created by both universal and autobiographical expression? How does ordinary language function aesthetically while motivati…
161 USD
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Arnold Schoenberg’s "A survivor from Warsaw" in postwar Europe
Kaliko D.
Джой Калико рассматривает историю культуры послевоенной Европы через призму исполнения и восприятия «Выжившего из Варшавы» Арнольда Шенберга (1874—1951). Шенберг, еврейский композитор, пионер додекафонии, чье творчество было для нацистов одним из гл…
Academic Studies Press
SPb.: Boston,
2025,
200 copies,
Hard,
342 p,
(In Russian. Translated from English)
ISBN 978-5-907918-27-6
42 USD
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Academic Studies Press
SPb.: Boston,
2025,
200 copies,
Hard,
342 p,
(In Russian. Translated from English)
ISBN 978-5-907918-27-6
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…
80 USD
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Attuned learning
Rabbinic texts on habits of the heart in learning interactions
Elie Holzer
Groundbreaking interpretations of classical rabbinic texts lead the reader through an exploration of "attuned learning"--an emerging paradigm of mindfulness that emphasizes alertness to one's own mental, emotional, and physical workings as well as a…
103 USD
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