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Swimming against the Current: Reimagining Jewish Tradition in the Twenty-First Century. Essays in Honor of Chaim Seidler-Feller
By David N. Myers, Shaul Seidler-FellerThere is also a more contemporary significance to this essay, one which goes to the theme of swimming against the current of scholarly thought. The sages and their realm of activity—the study hall—have been cited by some as a paradigm ...
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Performing History: Approaches to History Across Musicology
By Nancy November“Questions on Performances. In Place of War.” In Representations of War Migration and Refugeehood, edited by Daniel H. Rellstab and Christiane Schlote, 183–190 (New York: Routledge, 2015). University of Oxford Podcasts.
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The Witching Hour and Other Plays by Nina Sadur
By Nina SadurThe Witching Hour (1983), a work included in this collection, offers the key to Sadur's phantasmagoric theater and artistic philosophy. ... When Lidya gets lost amidst the endless empty fields, she meets a certain “Auntie.
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She Animates: Gendered Soviet and Russian Animation
By Michele Leigh, Lora MjolsnessGendered Soviet and Russian Animation Lora Mjolsness, Michele Leigh ... suggest in The Worlds of Russian Village Women.33 In the West, men who make changes to traditions are expressing their individuality, while women are thought to be ...
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On Counter-Enlightenment, Existential Irony, and Sanctification: Essays in the Sociology of Western Art Musics
By Judah Matrashe Shostakovich case for Jewish has existential recently irony been as impressively a musical ethos made in the by work ... are more generally characterized by existential ironies which illustrate or represent an ethnic-specific ethos.
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Without Permission: Conversations, Letters, and Memoirs of Henry Mandel
By Samuel FlaksChertoff, Daniel S. Palestine Posts: An Eyewitness Account of the Birth of Israel Based on the Letters of Mordecai S. Chertoff. ... Angels in the Sky: How a Band of Volunteer Airmen Saved the New State of Israel. New York: W. W. Norton ...
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Quest for Life: A Study in Aharon David Gordon’s Philosophy of Man in Nature
By Yossi TurnerIn addition, the book discusses the repercussions of Gordon’s thought with respect to contemporary civilization while suggesting its implicit ‘quest for life’ as the basis for a re-evaluation of such topics as the meaning of human ...
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Dostoevsky’s "Crime and Punishment": A Reader’s Guide
By Deborah A. MartinsenMartinsen demonstrates how Dostoevsky first plunges the reader into Raskolnikov’s fevered brain, creating sympathy for him, and she explains why most readers root for him to get away from the scene of the crime.
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Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin’s Gulag
By Julie S. DraskoczyBelomor complicates our understanding of the Gulag by looking at both prisoner motivation and official response from multiple angles, thereby offering a more expansive vision of the labor camp and its connection to Stalinism.
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Coherent Judaism: Constructive Theology, Creation, and Halakhah
By Shai CherryCoherent Judaism begins by excavating the theologies within the Torah and tracing their careers through the Jewish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century.
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Embodied Differences: The Jew’s Body and Materiality in Russian Literature and Culture
By Henrietta MondryFor a view that Dostoevsky was concerned with the immortality of the soul in his dealings with suicide, see John Desmond, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Walker Percy, and the Age of Suicide (Washington: Catholic University of America, 2019).
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Night and Day: A Novel
By Abdulhamid Sulaymon o’g’li Cho’lponNight and Day (1934), an unfinished dilogy by Uzbek author Abdulhamid Sulaymon o’g’li Cho’lpon, gives readers a glimpse into the everyday struggles of men and women in Russian imperial Turkestan.
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Between Rome and Byzantium: The Golden Age of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania’s Political Culture. Second half of the fifteenth...
By Jūratė Kiaupienė“Aleksander wielki książę litewski daje pełnomocnictwo pięciu posłom swoim do udziału w elekcji króla polskiego i do ewentualnych pertraktacyj o unję z Polską ...
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Lev Shestov: The Philosophy and Works of a Tragic Thinker
By Andrea OppoThis study spans the entire life and work of the Russian philosopher Lev Shestov (1866-1938).
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The Voice of Silence: The Story of the Jewish Underground in the USSR
By EphraimThis is an exceedingly rare case of victory over the KGB. This book documents this trying episode of his life and provides a unique perspective from inside the USSR.
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The Lithuanian Metrica: History and Research
By Artūras Dubonis, Darius Antanavičius, Raimonda RagauskienėIn Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės istorijos šaltiniai: Faktas. Kontekstas. Interpretacija, edited by A. Dubonis et al., 139–178. Vilnius: Lietuvos istorijos institutas, 2007. ———. “Originalių Lietuvos Metrikos XVI a. knygų sąrašas.
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Silent Love: The Annotation and Interpretation of Nabokov’s "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight"
By Gerard VriesAn Autobiography Revisited. London: Penguin Books, 2000. 238–251. The Defense. New York: Vintage International, 1990. (Defense). Despair. New York: Vintage International, 1989. Eugene Onegin, A Novel in Verse by Aleksandr Pushkin.
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Sephardi: Cooking the History. Recipes of the Jews of Spain and the Diaspora, from the 13th Century to Today
By Hélène Jawhara PiñerIn this extraordinary cookbook, chef and scholar Hélène Jawhara-Piñer combines rich culinary history and Jewish heritage to serve up over fifty culturally significant recipes.
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Marranos on the Moradas: Secret Jews and Penitentes in the Southwestern United States, from 1590 to 1890
By Norman Toby SimmsTwo groups were persecuted over the course of four hundred years in what is now the southwestern United States, each dissimulating and disguising who they truly were. Both now declare...
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Peace and Faith: Christian Churches and The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
By Cary Nelson, Michael C. GizziIn Frankel, J. and E. Mendelsohn, eds., The Protestant-Jewish Conundrum. Studies in Contemporary Jewry, vol. 24 (2010) 141-157. New York City, New York: Oxford University Press. Weissman, Deborah, “Zionism as Jewish Hope and ...