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Book SynopsisIs there anything more mysterious than a piece of fabric covering something? Since the author of this book started noticing classical images with its young figures holding a veil while working in Pompeii, the study of this iconography has become his passion. This volume will focus only on Ancient Greece, but it explores a fascinating topic with strong connexions in current societies. The book will delve into the iconography of the veil gesture, but will also explore other topics closely related to it from an anthropological perspective. SPANISH DESCRIPTION: La Historia del Arte se ha entendido en muchas ocasiones como el estudio de los temas que se representan con cierta pericia en distintos formatos y que, por consenso, consideramos “arte”. Este libro nace, en parte, con la intención de dar una vuelta de tuerca a esta concepción de los estudios histórico-artísticos y comenzar a plantearlos como un estudio de abajo a arriba, de los motivos, no de los temas. De este modo, partiremos de un pequeño gesto, aquel que realizan las mujeres griegas para cubrirse o descubrirse con el velo, y lo analizaremos en profundidad como indicador arqueológico de una cultura del pasado. El gesto del velo lleva implícito un juego de ambivalencias que le hace moverse entre el pudor o “aidós” y el erotismo o “peitho”, es este tira y afloja en el que nos moveremos a lo largo de todo el libro el que nos ayudará a entender mejor la historia del arte griego pero también la sociedad griega y, en especial, la figura de la mujer en esa sociedad. Este recorrido de cerca de mil años entre el siglo XII y el II a.C. nos permitirá abordar también otros temas como la relación entre arte y realidad, la importancia del velo en la sociedad contemporánea o la validez de las teorías del análisis iconográfico tradicionales. Espero que este libro, más allá de ayudar al lector a entender el uso del velo y su representación en el arte griego, permita también clarificar la relación entre historia del arte, arqueología e historia, y la necesidad de que estas disciplinas se entiendan para hacernos comprender mejor nuestro pasado.

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Book SynopsisXenophon's Hellenica is a historical account of the events in Greece and the Greek world from 411 BC to 362 BC. It begins with the fall of Athens in the Peloponnesian War and covers the rise of Sparta, the war with Persia, and the power struggles among the Greek city-states. The first four books of the Hellenica cover the period of the Peloponnesian War and the subsequent peace negotiations. The remaining books cover the rise of Spartan power and the decline of Athens, as well as the battles fought between various Greek city-states. Throughout the work, Xenophon presents a pro-Spartan viewpoint, portraying them as the defenders of Greek culture and civilization. He also emphasizes the importance of piety, obedience to the law, and the virtues of the Greek city-state system. Overall, Hellenica provides a valuable historical account of the turbulent period of Greek history in the fourth century BC, with insights into the political, social, and cultural factors that shaped the ancient Greek world.

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Book SynopsisMemoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815 Vol.-II by means of Baron Pierre Alexandre Édouard Fleury de Chaboulon is a records work that offers a shiny and private account of Napoleon Bonaparte's life, return, and rule in the course of the important yr of 1815. Baron Chaboulon, who become Napoleon's non-public secretary, gives a totally distinctive view of what passed off in the course of the famous emperor's second rule. The 2d part of Napoleon's diaries is going into extra element approximately his personal life and the political situation when he came returned from exile. I became involved approximately Chaboulon in lots of approaches, and he allows me recognize the difficulties, successes, and complexities of Napoleon's rule. The tale is instructed thru a combination of ancient elements and private testimonies that supply readers a complete photo of the character at the back of the tale. It's in Chaboulon's writing that you could simply experience the political and personal drama of Napoleon's rule in 1815. This account is a critical series of vintage files that upload to our understanding of Napoleon's lifestyles and time. Baron Chaboulon's first-hand account, that's based on his close proximity to the events and people involved, takes readers on a ride through the non-public and public lives of one in all records's most critical figures.

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Book SynopsisThe essays in the book compare the Czech Republic and Slovakia since the breakup of Czechoslovakia in 1993. The papers deal with the causes of the divorce and discuss the political, economic and social developments in the new countries. This is the only English-language volume that presents the synoptic findings of leading Czech, Slovak, and North American scholars in the field. The authors include two former Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, eight leading scholars (four Czechs and four Slovaks), and eight knowledgeable commentators from North America. The most significant new insight is that in spite of predictions by various pundits in the Western World that Czechia would flourish after the breakup and Slovakia would languish, the opposite has happened. While the Czech Republic did well in its early years, it is now languishing while Slovakia, which had a rough start, is now doing very well. Anyone interested in the history of the Czech and Slovak Republics over the last twenty years will find gratification in reading this book.Trade Review"Growing out of a conference held at the University of Ottawa in 2013, M. Mark Stolarik’s edited volume brings together the work of scholars from North America and the Czech and Slovak Republics. The conference and subsequent publication had two main goals: to reevaluate the “Velvet Divorce,” the peaceful agreement that led to Czechoslovakia’s split, and to compare the post-divorce trajectories of the two independent states. Stolarik’s comprehensive introduction names the “debate over issues of individual agency and deeper political structures” as the most striking theme of the volume. The authors analyze the split’s main causes and question its inevitability by exploring the emergence of nationalism and national identity, cultural and economic factors, political elites, and public opinion. The chapters represent a wide array of disciplinary approaches, including history, economics, political science, sociology, and law. In addition, two politicians contributed their plenary addresses from the Ottawa conference: Josef Moravčík, a Slovak lawyer, professor, and 1989 activist, and Petr Pithart, a Czech dissident, Charter ’77 signatory, and Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from 1990 to 1992 while Czechoslovakia was still a federal state. Graduate students and scholars of the region will find much of this collection useful. Each chapter includes extensive references, and there is a thorough bibliography at the end. Some of the most important North American and European scholars have weighed in on the many significant topics facing the Czech and Slovak Republics today." * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Introduction M. Mark Stolarik Part I: The Dissolution of Czechoslovakia Chapter 1: The “Velvet Split” of Czechoslovakia (1989–1992) Jan Rychlík Chapter 2: Czechoslovakia’s Dissolution Twenty Years After Michael Kraus Chapter 3: The Dissolution of Czechoslovakia. The Slovak Perspective Jozef Žatkuliak and Adam Hudek Chapter 4: The Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: The Slovak Perspective Stanislav J. Kirschbaum Chapter 5: The Slovak Republic After Twenty Years Jozef Moravčík Chapter 6: The Czech Republic After Twenty Years: Gains and Losses Petr Pithart Part II: Political Developments After 1993 Chapter 7: Of People, Mice and Gorillas: Slovak Politics Twenty Years After Juraj Hocman Chapter 8: Thinking Big About a Small Country: On Juraj Hocman’s “Of People, Mice and Gorillas” Kevin Deegan-Krause Chapter 9: Letting Czechoslovakia Go: Czech Political Developments Since 1993 Adéla Gjuričová Chapter 10: Czech Political Developments Since 1993: Some Comments Carol Skalnik Leff Part III: Economic Developments After 1993 Chapter 11: Economic Developments in Slovakia Since 1993 Ľudovít Hallon, Miroslav Londák, and Adam Hudek Chapter 12: To Neoliberalism and Back? Twenty Years of Economic Policy in Slovakia John A. Gould Chapter 13: Economic Developments in the Czech Republic, 1993–2013 Martin Pospíšil Chapter 14: The Czech Economic Transition: From Leader to Laggard Sharon Fisher Part IV: Social Developments After 1993 Chapter 15: Reflections on Social Developments in Slovakia, 1993–2013 Martin Bútora and Zora Bútorová Chapter 16: Social Developments in Slovakia after Twenty Years: The Impact of Politics Sharon L. Wolchik Chapter 17: Social Developments in the Czech Republic Since 1993 Oldřich Tůma Chapter 18: Some Comments on “Social Developments in the Czech Republic” James W. Peterson Contributors Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBy providing a survey of consumption and lifestyle in Hungary during the second half of the twentieth century, this book shows how common people lived during and after tumultuous regime changes. After an introduction covering the late 1930s, the study centers on the communist era, and goes on to describe changes in the post-communist period with its legacy of state socialism. Tibor Valuch poses a series of questions. Who could be called rich or poor and how did they live in the various periods? How did living, furnishings, clothing, income, and consumption mirror the structure of the society and its transformations? How could people accommodate their lifestyles to the political and social system? How specific to the regime was consumption after the communist takeover, and how did consumption habits change after the demise of state socialism? The answers, based on micro-histories, statistical data, population censuses and surveys help to understand the complexities of daily life, not only in Hungary, but also in other communist regimes in east-central Europe, with insights on their antecedents and afterlives.Trade Review"Tibor Valuch is anything but a newcomer to the field of consumption history of modern Hungary. His impressive oeuvre spans almost four decades of publishing activities, engaging profoundly with the material situation of different social classes, especially during state socialism, but also after the political change of 1989–90. While the bulk of his work has so far only been accessible to Hungarian- and, occasionally, German-speaking academia, Valuch’s newest book finally makes the essence of his research on everyday consumption practices in Hungary available to most scholars interested in consumption patterns in Eastern Europe. Based on an analysis filling more than 500 pages, this is a major and highly awaited undertaking." Link to review: https://doi.org/10.5325/hungarianstud.49.2.0277 -- Annina Gagyiova * Hungarian Studies Review *"Tibor Valuch’s publications have been key sources for many of us studying everyday life in Hungary, especially under state socialism. This rich collection of a variety of data and accompanying social analysis is now available for a wider, international audience that it clearly deserves. The rich research foundations of Everyday Life Under Communism will make it a key source for scholars of consumption in Eastern Europe." https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/soeu-2022-0041/html -- Zsuzsa Gille * Comparative Southeast European Studies *"Valuch convincingly demonstrates that high levels of inequality were present throughout the period, and that consumption, especially from the 1960s onward, became one of the most important means and realms of social representation and distinction. Accordingly, the book provides a more nuanced understanding of socialist-era consumption, housing, clothing, and dietary habits. It is essential reading not only for scholars of the socialist era but also for those who want to understand the experience of social transformation and regime change in Central and Eastern Europe after 1990." https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/austrian-history-yearbook/article/abs/tibor-valuch-everyday-life-under-communism-and-after-lifestyle-and-consumption-in-hungary-19452000-budapest-central-european-university-press-2021-pp-508/BD1F62D2A536D7771D61977993DF4C70?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles -- Sándor Horváth * Austrian History Yearbook *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables List of Acronyms Introduction Chapter One: The Study of Hungarian Everyday Life: Historiography, Methods, and Concepts About the sources used for this volume The concept of daily life, correlations between lifestyle and changes in society Chapter Two: Two Hundred Pengős a Month, Five Hundred Forints, Two Thousand Forints…: Financial Circumstances, Prices, Wages, and Income Inequalities in Everyday Life National revenue, real wages, and changes in the standard of living Wages, prices, inequalities Unchanging and changing forms of poverty Accumulating property and wealth Chapter Three: From Plentiful Privation to a Consumer Society: The Changes and Characteristics of Consumer Consumption Consumption and consumer attitudes The corner store, the supermarket, and the shopping center: Changes in the locations of consumer consumption Homes, home construction, furnishings, and durable goods Clothing and the consumption of apparel The consumption and supply of foodstuffs Chapter Four: This Is How We Lived: Housing Conditions, Usage of Living Space, and Interior Decoration The general characteristics determining housing and the state of urban housing Village houses, village dwellings For those without a home: apartments for rent, beds to let, and work dormitories Living in dire straits—slums, shantytowns, and ghettos The general characteristics of changes in home interiors Working-class and middle-class homes Rural and peasant interiors The interior world of Soviet-type housing estates Summer and weekend homes Chapter Five: “Well-dressed and Fashionable”: Changes in Clothing Styles, Habits, and Fashion Need and puritanism: rural and urban styles of dress in the mid-twentieth century Fashion and dressing habits during the state socialist period: changes in norms for everyday and formal occasions Up-to-date fashion and the re-differentiation of apparel at the end of the century Chapter Six: “We Ate, We Drank, We Filled Our Stomachs”: Nutrition, Eating, and Dietary Habits The general characteristics of eating habits From starvation to “goulash communism” The years of “feeling full” Abundance and shortages after the fall of the Iron Curtain Conclusions Appendix Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThree generations of a family of lawyers have run a firm founded in 1893 in the small city of Becskerek (today in Serbian Zrenjanin), first part of the Austro-Hungarian Habsburg monarchy, then Hungary, then Yugoslavia, then for a while under German occupation, then again part of Yugoslavia and finally Serbia. In the Banat district of the province of Vojvodina, the multiplicity of languages and religions and changes of place-names was a matter of course. What is practically unprecedented, all files, folders and documents of the law office have survived. They concern marriages, divorces, births and testaments, as well as expulsions, emigrations, incarcerations and releases of these largely rural and small-town dwellers. Mundane cases reflect times through war, peace, revolution and counter-revolution, through serfdom and freedom, through comfort and poverty. The files also show everyday lives shaped in spite of history. Tibor Várady transforms them into affecting and vivid vignettes, selecting and commenting without sentimentality but with empathy. The law office of the three generations of the Várady family demonstrates that the legal profession permits and in difficult times even requires its members to defend the ordinary men and women against the powers of state and society.Trade Review"Várady earlier published accounts of some of these case files, first in Hungarian in 2013, then in Serbian in 2015, and then in German in 2016. Anglophones are fortunate now to have access. For a social historian, interest lies in what the cases reveal about the life of a multi-ethnic community living through difficult times. A lawyer reading the book will wonder how s/he would have dealt with the situations that confronted the Várady law firm. An introduction by Professor Richard Buxbaum, former editor of the American Journal of Comparative Law, notes the book’s broader importance. It could well serve as a model for writers on law and social history, even those who do not have elders who practiced law through two world wars and one social revolution." -- John Quigley * Law and History Review *"The book reveals new sides of institutions and regimes, a pragmatic side to German officials’ legal decision-making that sometimes conflicted with their racial agendas and a complexity to communist revolutionary policies as lived experience. The result is a book in which we, as readers, feel as though we are accompanying the author to his attic, unpacking boxes, and making sense of the people whose lives comprised this tumultuous and devastating moment in the region’s history." https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2023.29 -- Emily Greble * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsFOREWORD by Richard Buxbaum What is This Book about? I. ON THE RELEVANCE OF HISTORY II. THREE BECSKEREK STORIES Featuring Local Jews and Germans in the Leading Roles An anacrusis 1. The Eckstein Case 2. Socks on the Chandelier, Lives by a Thread 3. The Freund/Baráth Document III. HUNGARIAN STORIES OF BANAT People and Formulae 1. An Early Attempt to Topple the Soviet Power in Hungary 2. The Case of István Bakai with Various Armies 3. Is There a Window to Shoot From? IV. A STORY FROM THE BORDER OF BANAT From Goose-down Business and Border Trespassing to Concentration Camp V. DIVORCES, NEAR DIVORCES, AND SHAM DIVORCES 1. A Near Divorce 2. Divorces and Sham Divorces in the Wake of World War Two 3. A Husband Who Very Seldom Visits Pubs and Only in the People's Interest VI. LEGENDS CHECKED IN LEGAL FILES 1. The Messinger 2. Dueling in Becskerek VII. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ECONOMIC SITUATION Lawsuits in the Years of the First Five-Year Plan Some Perspective in Introduction 1. Corn or Corn Flour 2. Even if the Money is Made Available, I Cannot Transfer It 3. Cooperative Denial 4. A Calf-Killing Against the People’s Interests 5. Mafia-type Activity in the Years of the First Five-Year Plan VIII. EXPLOITING FASCISM AND ANTI-FASCISM IN DISPUTES BETWEEN NEIGHBORS AND CHURCHES 1. Fascism for Household Use in Becskerek 2. A Cynical Anti-People Smile (From Behind the Window)

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Book SynopsisA Scholar's Quest for Home and Identity Experience the remarkable story of a Romanian-born, Hungarian-speaking Jewish professor. From Vienna to Columbia and Harvard, he navigates a life marked by rootlessness, seeking comfort and purpose. His journey unfolds against the backdrop of five decades, two continents, and significant political and cultural changes. As we follow his pursuit of a home, we gain insight into the critical developments of post-1945 Europe and America. Markovits's emigration experiences, first from Romania to Vienna and later from Vienna to New York, shed light on the challenges he faced. His journey offers a panoramic view of the forces shaping the latter half of the 20th century. Despite America's flaws, he finds it a beacon of academic excellence, intellectual openness, cultural diversity, and religious tolerance—qualities that Europe lacked. Explore the complexities of identity, culture, and the universal search for belonging in this captivating narrative.Trade Review"The great Jew­ish his­to­ri­an Salo Baron defined the ​“lachry­mose school of Jew­ish his­to­ri­og­ra­phy,” that long litany of suf­fer­ing and per­se­cu­tion that for many defines Jew­ish life and his­to­ry. Andy Markovits’s mem­oir is the anec­dote to that school: a sun­ny, opti­mistic, and uplift­ing read. It doesn’t gloss over the sad­ness of post-War Europe, but it shows how that lost world could pro­duce a vital future and how a state­less, root­less per­son could nonethe­less turn that con­di­tion into a ful­filled life." https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/the-passport-as-home-comfort-in-rootlessness -- Martin Green * Jewish Book Council *"Perhaps the best that one may hope for sometimes is the richness of a life lived without such a destructive set of emotions, the worth of work that is grounded on logic and evidence, the support of people (as the author generously attests to in this memoir) from whom one can learn and with whom one can share insight and understanding. It is this record and these experiences, perhaps above all, which shine brightest out of this evocative memoir." -- Philip Spencer * Fathom *Table of ContentsForeword by Michael Ignatieff Preface and Acknowledgements Chapter One Origins: The Virtues of Rootlessness Chapter Two A Paean to Tante Trude (Who Might or Might Not Have Been a Nazi) Chapter Three Four Friendships: Discovering America in Vienna Chapter Four Daphne Scheer, Real Madrid and Internazionale Milano (Inter Milan): The Personal Meets the Political Chapter Five The Rolling Stones Play Vienna (Resulting in Bodily Harm to the City’s Jews) Chapter Six Arrival in New York: The Dream Meets the Reality Chapter Seven Columbia 1968: How the World – and Andy – Changed in a Single Year Chapter Eight Kiki: Big Politics and Little Andy Chapter Nine The Grateful Dead: My American Family Chapter Ten Harvard’s Center for European Studies: The Interloper Finds a Home Chapter Eleven Dogs: The Rescuer Rescues Himself Chapter Twelve Germany: Admiration for the Bundesrepublik, Discomfort with Deutschland Epilogue

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Book SynopsisThis book centers on the Report of the International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars, published in Washington in the early summer of 1914 by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The volume was born from the conviction that the full assessment of the significance of the Carnegie Report—one of the first international non-governmental fact-finding missions with the intention to promote peace—requires a deeper exploration of the context of its birth. The authors examine how the countries involved in the wars handled the inquires of the Carnegie Commission and the role of the report in the remembrance of the wars in the respective states. Although the report considered both the Ottoman Empire and the Balkan nation-states insufficiently civilized to wage wars within the limits of the codes of conduct of international law, this orientalist conclusion can in part be explained by the liberal internationalist strategy of the Carnegie Endowment, and of the commission members’ professional, political, and ethnic background. Overshadowed by the outbreak of World War I, the Carnegie Report’s direct impact on international arbitration or international criminal law was limited, yet—in the authors’ opinion—it ultimately contributed to the further juridification of international relationsTable of ContentsDietmar Müller The Balkan Wars and the Carnegie Report: Historiography and significance for international law. An Introduction The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Philanthropy and Internationalism in 20th Century Helke Rausch International Law and Conciliation under Pressure: Political Profiles of the Carnegie Men behind the Balkan Report c.1910–1919 Isabella Löhr “The International Law of the Future”: The Carnegie Endowment and the Sovereign Limits of International Jurisdiction, 1910s–1960s Katja Naumann Shaping International Minds: Education for Peace and International Cooperation after the Great War in the United States Biographical Approaches: The Commission Nadine Akhund The Balkan Carnegie Commission of 1913: Origins and Features Stefan Troebst Macedonia as a Lifelong Topic: Henry Noël Brailsford Thomas Bohn History and Politics: Macedonia in the Assessment of Pavel N. Miliukov The Carnegie Commission on the spot and its legacies Ivan Ilčev The 1913 Carnegie Commission of Inquiry: Background, Fact-Finding and International Reactions Adamantios Skordos Doomed to Fail: The Carnegie Commission in Greece Stefan Djordjević The Carnegie Commission Reports and Serbia: Balkan Wars and their Legacies Maria Todorova The Balkan Wars in Memory: The Carnegie Report and Trotsky’s War Correspondence

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Book SynopsisThe Lower Danube—the stretch of Europe’s second longest river between the Romanian-Serbian border and the confluence to the Black Sea—was effectively transformed during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In describing this lengthy undertaking, Luminita Gatejel proposes that remaking two key stretches—the Iron Gates and the delta—not only physically altered the river but also redefined it in a legal and political sense. Since the late eighteenth century, military conflicts and peace treaties changed the nature of sovereignty over the area, as the expansionist tendencies of the Habsburg and British Empires encountered rival Ottoman and Russian imperial plans. The inconvenience that the river’s physical shape obstructed free navigation and the growth of commercial traffic, was an increasing concern to all parties. This book shows that alongside imperial aspirations, transnational actors like engineers, commissioners and entrepreneurs were the driving force behind the river regulation. In this highly original, deeply researched, and carefully crafted study, Gatejel explores the formation of international cooperation, the emergence of technical expertise and the emergence of engineering as a profession. This constellation turned the Lower Danube into a laboratory for experimenting with new forms of international cooperation, economic integration, and nature transformation.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Exploring the Danube 2. Connecting the Danube with the Sea 3. From Confrontation to Cooperation: the Crimean War and Its Aftermath 4. The Danube Delta: A Success in International Ruling 5. The Iron Gates Torn Between Imperial, International and National Interests Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisOver the early 21st century, democracy worldwide has deteriorated significantly. At the same time, new populist forces have appeared that challenge democracies through legal reforms. The stark contrast between Eastern and Western Europe in this respect is the focus of this collection of essays. The authors consider the 2008-2012 economic crisis to be at the root of the success of the populist parties and the rise of cultural backlash against liberal values. In turn, European governments’ responses to the crisis—mainly austerity measures demanded by IMF and the EU— help explain desenchantment with the European Union. These policies made the wider public feel that they were being left out of politics, and populist parties promised to return power to them. The contributors argue that polarization of the electorate can set in motion a radicalization that strengthens authoritarians at the expense of democrats. They also demonstrate that Eastern and Western Europe differ in their attitudes to the decline in quality of democracy. The studies consider how satisfied people are with the political changes they witness, and argue that seemingly more authoritarian attitudes in the East explain why people feel more satisfied with a defective democracy that empowers the populist-authoritarian political actors that they support.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Carlos García Rivero Part 1. Populism in Europe. Concept and context Chapter 1. The Quality of Democracy in Europe – Enrique Clari & Carlos García-Rivero Chapter 2. The Concept of Populism and Populist Democracy – Ángel Rivero Chapter 3. Mapping Populist Political Parties in Europe – Enrique Clari Chapter 4. On the Persistence of Radical-Right-Wing Populism in Europe: The Role of Grievances and Emotions – Hans-Georg Betz Part 2. Political Participation under Populism. Trends and Limits Chapter 5. The Limits of Democratic Competition. Evidence of the Asymmetrical Impact of Polarization on Europeans Political Attitudes and Behaviour – Enrique Clari and Carlos García-Rivero Chapter 6. Populist’s Voters’ Profiles in Different Electoral Calls. Lessons from Spain – Javier Antón-Merino, Sergio Pérez-Castaños and Marta Méndez-Juez Chapter 7. Ideological Congruence in the Extreme Right in Europe. Germany, Poland and Sweden in Comparative Perspective – Carlos García-Rivero and Hennie Kotzè Chapter 8. Internal Sanctions for the Rule of Law Breaches Under Art.7 TEU: Why is the EU Dragging its Feet? – Clara Portela and Ruth Ferrero Part 3. Populist Parties in Different European regions Chapter 9. Populism in Western vs Eastern Europe – José Rama and Andrés Santana Chapter 10. Populism in Southern Europe – Belén Fernández and Ángel Valencia Chapter 11. Populism in the Nordic countries – Eirikur Bergmann Conclusions. What Lies Ahead – Carlos García-Rivero About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisDespite the central role of tourism in the political making of the Yugoslav socialist state after WWII and in everyday life, the topic has remained neglected as an object of historical research, which has tended to dwell on war and ethnicA" conflict in the past two decades. For many former citizens of Yugoslavia, however, memories of holidaymaking, as well as tourism as a means of livelihood, today evoke a sense of the good lifeA" people enjoyed before the economy, and subsequently the country, fell apart. Undertakes a critical analysis of the history of domestic tourism in Yugoslavia under Commumism. The story evolved from the popularization of tourism and holidaymaking among Yugoslav citizens in the 1950s and 1960s to the consumer practices of the 1970s and 1980s. It reviews tourism as a political, economic and social project of the Yugoslav federal state, and as a crucial field of social integration. The book investigates how socialist and Yugoslav ideologies aimed to turn workers into consumers of purposefulA" leisure, and how these ideas were set against actual practices of recreation and holidaymaking.Trade Review"The wars that ended Yugoslavia obscured the country's successes during its 1945-91 existence, and few now recall that from the 1960s through 1990, Yugoslavia was a major destination for tourists from Western Europe. The country also had a well-developed domestic tourist industry. Thirteen authors cover topics ranging from broad considerations of tourism and the making of socialist Yugoslavia through specific analyses of youth work brigades, the political tourist shrine created out of Tito's birthplace, cross-border shopping in Italy by Yugoslavia tourists, and an insightful analysis of the Sarajevo Olympics as both unifying spectacle for Yugoslavia's people and source of contention between the politicians of its constituent republics. The changes in Yugoslav tourism from free vacations at "workers' resorts" to market-driven transformation of small, privately owned "weekend houses" into rental cottages is also covered well. In the end, it seems that tourism contributed to the successes of Yugoslav socialism, but also to the increased perceptions of Yugoslavs in the 1980s that the country was failing to deliver on promises of the good life. A major contribution to studies of Yugoslavia, tourism, and cultural history. Summing Up: Highly recommended." * Choice *"This work not only provides a comprehensive account of tourism under the four-and-a-half decades of communist rule in Yugoslavia, but goes further to assert its crucial role in the establishment and complex evolution of the fragile postwar federation.... Yugoslavia’s Sunny Side is strongly interdisciplinary, incorporating scholars of anthropology, ethnology, and history. Despite this diverse collection of voices, the book achieves admirable resonance and harmony. In an array of different contexts, the authors consistently demonstrate not only the importance of tourism to the country economically, but more significantly its inherent contradictions that threatened to undermine the “project” of postwar Yugoslavia.... Yugoslavia’s Sunny Side, then, is a fine example of contemporary tourism scholarship. It advances our understanding of tourism’s political and social significance, and sheds new light on the ways in which Yugoslavia’s distinctive openness to Western outsiders both sustained and threatened the always-fragile federation. It will be of significant value to readers interested not only in tourism history, but also in the historical evolution, and ultimate disintegration, of the postwar Yugoslavian vision." * East Central Europe *"In general, Yugoslavia's Sunny Side deconstructs the monolithic imaginings of state socialism, complex ideologies, and power relations. It provides rich historical records and empirical materials for understanding the processes of proletarization; the social and cultural meanings of class; different forms of Balkanism, Orientalism, and Western cultural hegemony; economies of shortage; parallel economies; and the unstable, shifting, and fluid loyalties under Yugoslavian socialism." * Slavic and East European Journal *"Yugoslavia’s Sunny Side is multidisciplinary in approach. At the same time, through three thematic sections, it retains a historical arch that encourages the reader to see the individual essays as speaking to larger shifts. Each authored piece, however long or short, is followed by a full list of references. On the other hand, this detailed approach does mean that the book functions as an effective resource for both research and teaching. Postwar realities largely dashed hopes for the unifying power of communism—of both the Bloc and Yugoslav variety. One of those realities was consumerism; another was nationalism, to which Yugoslavia was particularly vulnerable. The editors aim to provide a history that will counter the recent nationalism-dominated narratives, but what these essays reveal is that holiday-making, like so much else in 'sunny' Yugoslavia, was ultimately rife with contradiction." * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface 1. Tourism and the Making of Socialist Yugoslavia: an Introduction PART 1: Holidays on CommandA" 2. Workers into Tourists. Entitlements, Wishes and Realities of Social Tourism in Yugoslav Socialism 3. From Comrades to Consumers: Holidays, Leisure Time and Ideology in Communist Yugoslavia 4. The Yugoslav Road towards International Tourism: Opening, Decentralization and Propaganda in the Early 1950s PART 2: Tourism and the Yugoslav DreamA" 5. Travelling to the Birthplace of "The Greatest Son of Yugoslav Nations". The Construction of Kumrovec as a Political Tourism Destination 6. My Own Vikendica - Holiday Cottages as Idyll and Investment 7. Highways of Desire: Cross-Border Shopping in Former Yugoslavia, 1960s-1980s PART 3: Tourism Economies in Transformation 8. Fishing for Tourists - Tourism and Household Enterprise in Biograd na Moru 9. Youth Labour Action (Omladinska radna akcija) as Ideological Holidaymaking 10. What to Do at the Weekend? Leisure for Happy Consumers, Refreshed Workers and Good Citizens 11. Yugoslav Unity and Olympic Ideology at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympic Games Synopsis 12. What Tourism and Leisure Meant for the History of the Socialist Federation of Yugoslavia Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis‘I was on a train, and a German soldier began shouting at me and poking me in the ribs with his machine gun. I just thought that was it, the game was up . . .’Downed airman Bob Frost faced danger at every turn as he was smuggled out of France and over the Pyrenees. Prisoner of war Len Harley went on the run in Italy, surviving months in hiding and then a hazardous climb over the Abruzzo mountains with German troops hot on his heels. These are just some of the stories told in heart-stopping detail as Monty Halls takes us along the freedom trails out of occupied Europe, from the immense French escape lines to lesser-known routes in Italy and Slovenia. Escaping Hitler features spies and traitors, extraordinary heroism from those who ran the escape routes and offered shelter to escapees, and great feats of endurance. The SAS in Operation Galia fought for forty days behind enemy lines in Italy and then, exhausted and pursued by the enemy, exfiltrated across the Apennine mountains. And in Slovenia Australian POW Ralph Churches and British Les Laws orchestrated the largest successful Allied escape of the entire war.Mixing new research, interviews with survivors and his own experience of walking the trails, Monty brings the past to life in this dramatic and gripping slice of military history.

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Book Synopsis'A delightful insight into an eclectic life'The Daily Telegraph'Very funny and astute . . . a loathly feast for royal-watchers' Hilary Mantel, New Statesman Books of the Year 2018'A complete delight, conjuring up, with a few sharp strokes of the pen, a mad, exotic species from a world gone by'Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday'Gloriously indiscreet . . . the best royal book ever'Harry Mount, Financial Times* * *When James Pope-Hennessy began his work on Queen Mary's official biography, it opened the door to meetings with royalty, court members and retainers around Europe. The series of candid observations, secrets and indiscretions contained in his notes were to be kept private for 50 years. Now published in full for the first time and edited by the highly admired royal biographer Hugo Vickers, this is a riveting, often hilarious portrait of the eccentric aristocracy of a bygone age. Giving much greater insight into Queen Mary than the official version, and including sharply observed encounters with, among others, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the Duke of Gloucester, and a young Queen Elizabeth, The Quest for Queen Mary is set to be a classic of royal publishing.Trade Review'Arguably the most riotously funny volume published this year' -- Max Hastings * The Sunday Times *'A complete delight, conjuring up, with a few sharp strokes of the pen, a mad, exotic species from a world gone by . . . one of this year's funniest and most eccentric books' -- Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday *'Intoxicating, frank and often hilarious anthology of interviews . . . what this fine book demonstrates with wit, candour, and unassailable force, is that royal persons are not at all like ordinary people' -- Alexander Waugh * New York Review of Books *'Illuminating, intriguing and boundlessly entertaining' -- Martin Williams * Country Life *'Superbly edited ... like all the best interviews, these are stories about the hunter circling his prey, and they reveal as much about the interviewer as his subject ... a splendid book' -- Jane Ridley * Spectator *'Wickedly indiscreet . . . one of those rare books that will fascinate and amuse' * The Herald Scotland *

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Book Synopsis"With this timely book in Hackett Publishing's Passages series, Michael Bryant presents a wide-ranging survey of the trials of Nazi war criminals in the wartime and immediate postwar period. Introduced by an extensive historical survey putting these proceedings into their international context, this volume makes the case, central to Hackett's collection for undergraduate courses, that these events constituted a 'key moment' that has influenced the course of history. Appended to Bryant's analysis is a substantial section of primary sources that should stimulate student discussion and raise questions that are pertinent to warfare and human rights abuses today." Michael R. Marrus, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies at the University of TorontoTrade Review"An excellent text for students. Cutting through the vast literature on Nazi criminality and efforts to bring the culprits -- not just the 'major perpetrators,' as these are usually understood, but ordinary professionals as well -- to justice, Bryant's masterful study boils down the essential facts and complex historiography. The inclusion of the actual indictments, court verdicts, and laws upon which the trials were based shows students how the legal scaffolding of modern international criminal law was constructed." -- Michael Bazyler, The 1939 Society Scholar in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies and law professor, Fowler School of Law, Chapman University

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Book SynopsisDuring the 1740s, literate Russians mostly kept to traditional forms of written language. Although the linguistic reforms undertaken by Peter the Great earlier in the century affected printed secular texts and the imperial administration, these reforms were less radical than often assumed. This study draws conclusions based on an analysis that differs from earlier ones. First of all, the study examines the Russian language during a comparatively little-known decade of the eighteenth century. In doing so, it takes into account not only strictly linguistic data, but also developments in Russian society. Second, the investigation analyzes sources that are seldom valued for their linguistic content, thus offering a broader perspective on the Russian language of the period. Trade Review“This book offers a meticulous examination of written Russian texts dating to the 1740s, the first decade of Tsarina Elizabeth’s reign. … The author’s methodology will inform future investigations of brief time periods in the history of Russian language usage needed to better understand the country’s social development. This book is a model for sociolinguists, especially social historians interested in the development of education and literacy in czarist Russia. … Recommended.”— E. J. Vajda, Western Washington University, CHOICE (April 2023: Vol. 60 No. 8)"...[T]he manuscript heritage of the 1740s is an extensive and very heterogeneous material. A comprehensive analysis of this array in all its diversity is a matter of the future – in this regard, T. Rosen's book offers a promising direction for further research and is an essential step towards them."— Natalia Kareva, Вивлiоѳика: E-Journal of Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies (Translated from Russian)Table of ContentsAuthor’s NotesNotes on TransliterationSpelling of NamesThe Old Style CalendarTranslation of QuotationsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: Introduction1.1 Aim and Purpose of the Investigation1.2 Language and Society in Eighteenth-Century Russia1.3 Historical Sociolinguistics?1.4 Chronological Delimitations1.5 Was Post-Petrine Russian in Disarray?1.6. Research Questions1.6.1 Extralinguistic Questions1.6.2 Linguistic Questions:1.7 Outline of the InvestigationChapter 2: Survey of Existing Research2.1 Russian Language from the 1740s as a Field of Study2.2 General Studies of Eighteenth-Century Russian2.3 Sociolinguistically Oriented Studies of Eighteenth-Century Russian2.4 Language and Politics in the 1740s2.5 Assessing the Situation2.6 ConclusionsChapter 3: The Impact of Society on Language3.1 Introductory Remarks3.1.1 Peoples and Languages3.1.2 Social Stratification3.1.3 Politics and Administration3.2 Education and Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Russia3.2.1 Education3.2.2 Literacy3.3 Language Management3.3.1 Examining Language Management in Handwritten Documents from the 1740s3.3.2 The Imperial Academy of Sciences, a Language Management Agency3.3.3 A New Function: The Founding of the Russian Conference3.3.4 The Demise of the Russian Conference3.4 Language Management in the Administration3.4.1 Template for the Imperial Title, 17413.4.2 Template for a Letter of Credit, 17443.5 ConclusionsChapter 4: Available Sources4.1 Electronic Corpora of Eighteenth-Century Texts4.2 Printed Texts4.2.1 Books4.2.2 Newspapers4.2.3 Popular Prints4.3 Archival Material4.3.1 Selection of Sources4.4 Paleographic Characteristics of the Material4.4.1 Developments in Printing during the 1740s4.4.2 Handwritten Documents4.5 The People behind the MaterialChapter 5: Methodological Considerations5.1 Existing Methods5.2 Methodological Renewal5.2.1 The Uniformitarian Principle5.2.2 The Uniformitarian Principle and the Registers of Eighteenth-Century Russian5.2.3 What May Have Influenced the Registers?5.2.4 Register Analysis5.3 Register Analysis of Russian from the 1740sChapter 6: Situational Analysis of Registers6.1 Participants6.1.1 Individuals6.1.2 Institutions6.2 Relationships among Participants6.3 Channel6.3.1 Change of Printed Medium: A Weather Phenomenon in Spain6.3.2 Speech to Writing: Witness Statements6.4 Processing Circumstances6.5 Setting6.6 Communicative Purpose6.7 Topics6.8 ConclusionsChapter 7: Linguistic Analysis7.1 Autographs7.1.1 Mate Filipp Lanikin’s Receipt7.1.2 Mikhail Turchenikov’s Letter and Its Cultural Contexta) The Reportb) The Letters7.2 The Language of Regional Administration7.3 The Language of Diplomacy7.3.1 The Treaty on Subsidies7.3.2 Letters to the Royal Families7.3.3 A Letter by A. I. Rumiantsev7.4 The Life of Printed Texts7.4.1 Printing and Obsolete Characters7.4.2 The Development of Printed Texts7.4.3 Parallel Editions: Field-Marshal de Lacy’s Reports from the FrontChapter 8: Functional Analysis8.1 Tradition8.2 Education8.3 Social Identity8.4 Efficiency of Administration8.5 Informativity8.6 ConclusionChapter 9: General Conclusions9.1 Territorial Expansion and the Need for Trained Specialists9.2 Education and Literacy9.3 Organized Language Management9.4 Functional Spheres of Russian in the 1740s9.5 PerspectivesBibliographyArchival SourcesArchival Sources on the InternetPrinted SourcesLiterature

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Book SynopsisOf the many Cold War radio DJs who broadcast to the USSR, Seva Novgorodsev must be near the top of the list. A masterful BBC presenter, Seva was considered a sage of rock ‘n’ roll. His programs introduced forbidden western popular music and culture into the USSR, rendering him an “enemy voice” and ideological saboteur to the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Despite KGB threats and constant media pillorying, Seva remained on the air for 38 years, acquiring millions of listeners all across the breadth of the USSR and beyond. He became a cult phenomenon, dismantling the Soviet way of life in the hearts and minds of youth. This is the story of Russia’s first and best-known DJ.Trade Review"Michelle Daniel's book is more than a biography of the legendary DJ who brought western musical culture to the Soviet Union via BBC radio. It is, by turns, insightful political, cultural, and social history. Compelling features include testimony from Seva's listeners and Daniel’s speculation on just why he became so central a feature of Soviet life. A fascinating read for all interested in understanding the final years of the Cold War, the power of radio, or the role of what has been termed Soft Power in international relations."— Nicholas J. Cull, Professor of Public Diplomacy, University of Southern California“With the creation of any new medium—newsprint, radio, television—propagandists learn first how to exploit it for their own purposes. In our own era of ‘fake news,’ disinformation, and the ongoing political assault on truth, we’ve seen this play out over the Internet. But be careful: because the ‘soft power’ of popular familiarity with any new technology often undermines the clunky, cloying voice of the ideologue, in favor of the cool, revolutionary voice of popular culture. In this engaging tale of the life of Seva Novgorodsev—and how his popular BBC broadcasts helped lead to the downfall of the Soviet empire—Michelle Daniel weaves a narrative tale that is compelling and instructive, full of lessons about how the human need for truth and authenticity triumphs. While this book will surely appeal to Russia scholars and historians alike, it deserves a wide audience, for it reads like a novel and tells a story that is especially important in our own cultural moment. What can we learn from the early ‘weaponization’ of radio to amplify propagandistic falsehoods—then seeing this turned back on itself as young people discovered the pleasure of listening to rock ‘n’ roll music—that can be applied to today's disinformation war? Plenty, for we now face an age-old beast in new clothing: the human desire to lie for political profit, up against the indomitable spirit of today's young people, whose heroes are still emerging in this digital era.”— Lee McIntyre, author of Post-Truth“Rock 'n' roll was a revolutionary movement in the West. Behind the Iron Curtain, however, it also played an inordinate role in helping to change culture, politics, and society. Michelle Daniel's book is a welcome volume that adds to our understanding of how music and radio waves—amplified by Seva Novgorodsev—were able to work their way through the semi-permeable membranes of otherwise seemingly impenetrable Cold War borders and mindsets.”— Markos Kounalakis, Ph.D., former Radio Sweden International shortwave radio producerTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Radio, Rock ‘n’ “Role” Part One: 1917-761. The Great Wireless Experiment2. The Sounds of War3. Big Waves4. Birth of the Cool5. Rocket Around the Clock6. Between Jazz and a Hard Rock Place7. After ‘While, KrokodilPart Two: 1976-918. Smoke on the Water9. Round Midnight10. It’s a Hard Rock Life11. The Barbarossa of Rock ‘n’ Roll12. Red Waves on the “Cinderella Hour” 13. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction14. Highway to Hell15. Welcome to the Jungle16. It’s the End of the World as We Know ItConclusionAcknowledgementsBibliography

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Book SynopsisHabsburg Sons describes Jewish participation in the Habsburg Army, 1788-1918, concentrating on their role in World War I. Approximately 300,000-350,000 Jews fought in the Austro-Hungarian Armies on all fronts. Of these, 30,000–40,000 died of wounds or illness, approximately 25,000 were officers. At least 17% were taken prisoner in camps all over Russia and Central Asia. Many soldiers were Orthodox Ostjuden, and soldiers came into regular contact with Jewish civilians. Over 130 Feldrabbiner (chaplains) served mainly on Eastern and Italian Fronts. Antisemitism was present but generally not overt. The book uses personal diaries and newspaper articles (most available in English for the first time) to describe their experiences. The comparative experiences of Jews in German, Russian, Italian Armies is also summarized.Trade Review“Like many of Dr. Appelbaum’s previous books, which looked at the Jewish troops and chaplains in the German Army, [Habsburg Sons] reveals a landscape we know almost nothing about: the lives of Jewish soldiers who fought on the side of the Central Powers in World War I. Because of what the Germans and Austrians and their collaborators did to the Jews in World War II, we can hardly picture the patriotic Jewish sons of Germany or Austro-Hungary—but Dr. Appelbaum’s works open that world up for us. He does not simply present a dry history of these soldiers and chaplains. Instead, acting both as author and translator, he develops their story using their own words, from their contemporaneous accounts and later memoirs… [T]he records of how the Jews served their countries and how they felt about their efforts remain a poignant testament of their belief regarding where they belonged and what they were obligated to do.”— Yossi Krausz, Ami MagazineTable of ContentsTable of ContentsForeword: A History of a Bygone Era, by Manfried Rauchensteiner Jewish Soldiers in Habsburg Austria, by Gerald Lamprecht IntroductionPlatesChapter 1. Setting the StageChapter 2. Jews in the Armies of Austro-Hungary before the Great War: A Comparative FrameworkChapter 3. The Kaiser Needs You! Initial Reaction to the Declaration of WarChapter 4. Snapshots from the Eastern Front: Diaries, Memoirs, ReportsChapter 5. Snapshots from Other Fronts: The Balkans, Italy, and PalestineChapter 6. Austro-Hungarian Feldrabbiner: Tallit, Torah, and TobaccoChapter 7. Captives of the Tsar in European Russia, Siberia, and Central AsiaChapter 8. Epilogue. The Fate of Habsburg Jewish Veterans and Their Influence on Postwar EuropeBibliography

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Book SynopsisHabsburg Sons describes Jewish participation in the Habsburg Army, 1788-1918, concentrating on their role in World War I. Approximately 300,000-350,000 Jews fought in the Austro-Hungarian Armies on all fronts. Of these, 30,000–40,000 died of wounds or illness, approximately 25,000 were officers. At least 17% were taken prisoner in camps all over Russia and Central Asia. Many soldiers were Orthodox Ostjuden, and soldiers came into regular contact with Jewish civilians. Over 130 Feldrabbiner (chaplains) served mainly on Eastern and Italian Fronts. Antisemitism was present but generally not overt. The book uses personal diaries and newspaper articles (most available in English for the first time) to describe their experiences. The comparative experiences of Jews in German, Russian, Italian Armies is also summarized.Trade Review“Like many of Dr. Appelbaum’s previous books, which looked at the Jewish troops and chaplains in the German Army, [Habsburg Sons] reveals a landscape we know almost nothing about: the lives of Jewish soldiers who fought on the side of the Central Powers in World War I. Because of what the Germans and Austrians and their collaborators did to the Jews in World War II, we can hardly picture the patriotic Jewish sons of Germany or Austro-Hungary—but Dr. Appelbaum’s works open that world up for us. He does not simply present a dry history of these soldiers and chaplains. Instead, acting both as author and translator, he develops their story using their own words, from their contemporaneous accounts and later memoirs… [T]he records of how the Jews served their countries and how they felt about their efforts remain a poignant testament of their belief regarding where they belonged and what they were obligated to do.”— Yossi Krausz, Ami MagazineTable of ContentsTable of ContentsForeword: A History of a Bygone Era, by Manfried Rauchensteiner Jewish Soldiers in Habsburg Austria, by Gerald Lamprecht IntroductionPlatesChapter 1. Setting the StageChapter 2. Jews in the Armies of Austro-Hungary before the Great War: A Comparative FrameworkChapter 3. The Kaiser Needs You! Initial Reaction to the Declaration of WarChapter 4. Snapshots from the Eastern Front: Diaries, Memoirs, ReportsChapter 5. Snapshots from Other Fronts: The Balkans, Italy, and PalestineChapter 6. Austro-Hungarian Feldrabbiner: Tallit, Torah, and TobaccoChapter 7. Captives of the Tsar in European Russia, Siberia, and Central AsiaChapter 8. Epilogue. The Fate of Habsburg Jewish Veterans and Their Influence on Postwar EuropeBibliography

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Book SynopsisDuring the 1740s, literate Russians mostly kept to traditional forms of written language. Although the linguistic reforms undertaken by Peter the Great earlier in the century affected printed secular texts and the imperial administration, these reforms were less radical than often assumed. This study draws conclusions based on an analysis that differs from earlier ones. First of all, the study examines the Russian language during a comparatively little-known decade of the eighteenth century. In doing so, it takes into account not only strictly linguistic data, but also developments in Russian society. Second, the investigation analyzes sources that are seldom valued for their linguistic content, thus offering a broader perspective on the Russian language of the period. Trade Review“This book offers a meticulous examination of written Russian texts dating to the 1740s, the first decade of Tsarina Elizabeth’s reign. … The author’s methodology will inform future investigations of brief time periods in the history of Russian language usage needed to better understand the country’s social development. This book is a model for sociolinguists, especially social historians interested in the development of education and literacy in czarist Russia. … Recommended.”— E. J. Vajda, Western Washington University, CHOICE (April 2023: Vol. 60 No. 8)"...[T]he manuscript heritage of the 1740s is an extensive and very heterogeneous material. A comprehensive analysis of this array in all its diversity is a matter of the future – in this regard, T. Rosen's book offers a promising direction for further research and is an essential step towards them."— Natalia Kareva, Вивлiоѳика: E-Journal of Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies (Translated from Russian)Table of ContentsAuthor’s NotesNotes on TransliterationSpelling of NamesThe Old Style CalendarTranslation of QuotationsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: Introduction1.1 Aim and Purpose of the Investigation1.2 Language and Society in Eighteenth-Century Russia1.3 Historical Sociolinguistics?1.4 Chronological Delimitations1.5 Was Post-Petrine Russian in Disarray?1.6. Research Questions1.6.1 Extralinguistic Questions1.6.2 Linguistic Questions:1.7 Outline of the InvestigationChapter 2: Survey of Existing Research2.1 Russian Language from the 1740s as a Field of Study2.2 General Studies of Eighteenth-Century Russian2.3 Sociolinguistically Oriented Studies of Eighteenth-Century Russian2.4 Language and Politics in the 1740s2.5 Assessing the Situation2.6 ConclusionsChapter 3: The Impact of Society on Language3.1 Introductory Remarks3.1.1 Peoples and Languages3.1.2 Social Stratification3.1.3 Politics and Administration3.2 Education and Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Russia3.2.1 Education3.2.2 Literacy3.3 Language Management3.3.1 Examining Language Management in Handwritten Documents from the 1740s3.3.2 The Imperial Academy of Sciences, a Language Management Agency3.3.3 A New Function: The Founding of the Russian Conference3.3.4 The Demise of the Russian Conference3.4 Language Management in the Administration3.4.1 Template for the Imperial Title, 17413.4.2 Template for a Letter of Credit, 17443.5 ConclusionsChapter 4: Available Sources4.1 Electronic Corpora of Eighteenth-Century Texts4.2 Printed Texts4.2.1 Books4.2.2 Newspapers4.2.3 Popular Prints4.3 Archival Material4.3.1 Selection of Sources4.4 Paleographic Characteristics of the Material4.4.1 Developments in Printing during the 1740s4.4.2 Handwritten Documents4.5 The People behind the MaterialChapter 5: Methodological Considerations5.1 Existing Methods5.2 Methodological Renewal5.2.1 The Uniformitarian Principle5.2.2 The Uniformitarian Principle and the Registers of Eighteenth-Century Russian5.2.3 What May Have Influenced the Registers?5.2.4 Register Analysis5.3 Register Analysis of Russian from the 1740sChapter 6: Situational Analysis of Registers6.1 Participants6.1.1 Individuals6.1.2 Institutions6.2 Relationships among Participants6.3 Channel6.3.1 Change of Printed Medium: A Weather Phenomenon in Spain6.3.2 Speech to Writing: Witness Statements6.4 Processing Circumstances6.5 Setting6.6 Communicative Purpose6.7 Topics6.8 ConclusionsChapter 7: Linguistic Analysis7.1 Autographs7.1.1 Mate Filipp Lanikin’s Receipt7.1.2 Mikhail Turchenikov’s Letter and Its Cultural Contexta) The Reportb) The Letters7.2 The Language of Regional Administration7.3 The Language of Diplomacy7.3.1 The Treaty on Subsidies7.3.2 Letters to the Royal Families7.3.3 A Letter by A. I. Rumiantsev7.4 The Life of Printed Texts7.4.1 Printing and Obsolete Characters7.4.2 The Development of Printed Texts7.4.3 Parallel Editions: Field-Marshal de Lacy’s Reports from the FrontChapter 8: Functional Analysis8.1 Tradition8.2 Education8.3 Social Identity8.4 Efficiency of Administration8.5 Informativity8.6 ConclusionChapter 9: General Conclusions9.1 Territorial Expansion and the Need for Trained Specialists9.2 Education and Literacy9.3 Organized Language Management9.4 Functional Spheres of Russian in the 1740s9.5 PerspectivesBibliographyArchival SourcesArchival Sources on the InternetPrinted SourcesLiterature

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Book SynopsisDiane Tuckman and Cecile Spiegel fled religious persecution with WWII conflicts at their heels. Separately, from Egypt and from Germany, each leaped continents, cultures, and languages as a refugee before finding a new home in the United States. Hiding in plain sight in France, Cecile eluded capture by the Nazis, but lost many dear to her. Diane came of age there, far from the Mediterranean idyll of her childhood in Egypt. They relied on family, faith, and resilience to overcome the otherness felt by displaced peoples. As they dictated their memoirs to one another, Diane and Cecile discovered the anatomy of their friendship in their parallel odysseys and the optimism of 20th-century American womanhood.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Beginnings / Diane2. Beginnings / Cecile3. Winds of Change / Diane4. Winds of Change / Cecile5. On the Run, with Children / Cecile6. New Realities / Diane7. Coming to America / Cecile8. Never Forget / Cecile9. American Odyssey / Diane and Cecil10. Reflections on Immigration11. Lekh-L’kha / Diane12. Anatomy of a Friendship / Cecile and Diane13. Second ActsEpilogue / DianePostscript and AcknowledgmentsTimeline

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Book SynopsisDiane Tuckman and Cecile Spiegel fled religious persecution with WWII conflicts at their heels. Separately, from Egypt and from Germany, each leaped continents, cultures, and languages as a refugee before finding a new home in the United States. Hiding in plain sight in France, Cecile eluded capture by the Nazis, but lost many dear to her. Diane came of age there, far from the Mediterranean idyll of her childhood in Egypt. They relied on family, faith, and resilience to overcome the otherness felt by displaced peoples. As they dictated their memoirs to one another, Diane and Cecile discovered the anatomy of their friendship in their parallel odysseys and the optimism of 20th-century American womanhood.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Beginnings / Diane2. Beginnings / Cecile3. Winds of Change / Diane4. Winds of Change / Cecile5. On the Run, with Children / Cecile6. New Realities / Diane7. Coming to America / Cecile8. Never Forget / Cecile9. American Odyssey / Diane and Cecil10. Reflections on Immigration11. Lekh-L’kha / Diane12. Anatomy of a Friendship / Cecile and Diane13. Second ActsEpilogue / DianePostscript and AcknowledgmentsTimeline

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Book SynopsisThis book aims to provide a history of twentieth-century labour in the British colony of Antigua and Barbuda. It documents the labour and class struggles between landowners and peasants both before and after the legalization and formation of trades and labour unions in 1940. It exposes the political and racial dynamics of British colonialism in the eastern Caribbean as never before. The racial dynamics are evident between white colonial administrators, landowners and mill and factory owners, as they struggled to maintain control over a black and coloured population in a changing world. The long overlooked history of the role of the British Trades Union Congress (TUC) in facilitating the end of British colonialism is one of the surprising stories of this book, as is the astonishing role of women. Despite their exclusion from labour and trade union history, oral sources show women played a key role as labour organizers who defied employers by planning meetings and actively recruiting union members. They were always there, as domestic workers in urban areas, in the fields and in the factories. They served as recruiters and organizers, carried the lights for outdoor meetings and encouraged and stood behind the union leaders. Despite their central role, they did not «jump out», and their stories became forgotten, overlooked even, in the history of Caribbean labour.Table of ContentsContents: Historical Overview: Labour and Social Conditions – Sugar Monoculture in Decline – Women in a Modern Colony – The Foundations of Trade Unionism – Local Level Leadership – Gender Exclusion – Politics and Labour Unions.

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Book SynopsisRetrospectively, the Prague Spring appears to have been a coherent but unsuccessful experiment in finding a synthesis of Western democracy and socialism. However, this perspective ignores that different groups and individuals participated in these developments and shaped the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia with their completely varying professional, generational, national, and gender-specific experiences. What appears retrospectively as a goal-oriented reform movement or as an 'interrupted revolution' looked in the eyes of the protagonists rather like the situation in a laboratory, where they worked on new syntheses with uncertain results. The volume focuses on the protagonists' ideas of politics, society, and their reform plans. Of particular interest is the question which new thoughts about the interrelation of politics, science, economics, and arts were developed in Czechoslovakia.

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Book SynopsisWhich everyday practices allowed women to sustain and fulfill individuality and agency under dictatorial rule? This book adds to a rich scholarship on the history of late Francoism and the transition to democracy in Modern Spain through the lens of oral history and life writing. Aurora Morcillo tells the stories of anonymous individuals from both student and working class backgrounds - crucial sites of active resistance against the dictatorship at the time - and provides an interdisciplinary feminist analysis of the inevitable modernization of Spain in the 1960s and 1970s. This study uncovers a Deleuzian rendition of historical unfolding/becoming rather than simply being a collection of oral histories: a historical narration which proposes to be a creative historical ontology.Table of ContentsForeword; Introduction: Space and Time or the Poetics of Oral History; Concha & Amalias's Kaloskeagathos; Revolutionary Mystique: Socorro and Jesús; Claros del Bosque: Joaquín and Arturo's Stories; Al Amparo de Fecun; Julia's Prosody; Marga's Dos Orillas; Intermezzo: In-visible: Aurora's Trinity; Patrocinio 101; Pura's Rashomon Effect (1926-2013); In Antigone's Shadow: Valentina; Esperanza's and Adoración's Cartographies of Mercy; Luz Invisible; Coda; Bibliography; Glossary.

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Book SynopsisText in German. Seit 1997 ist das FORUM fester Bestandteil der Zeitschriftenlandschaft der Osteuropaforschung. Neben Fakten der Zeitgeschichte bietet es tiefe Einblicke in die Ideengeschichte, spiegelt aktuelle Diskussionen wider und liefert Rezensionen zu Werken der mittel- und osteuropäischen Zeitgeschichte. Gerade in den Rubriken Ideengeschichte und Zeitgeschichte bietet es mehr als "nur" Geschichte fächerübergreifend kommen u.a. Politologen, Literatur-, Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftler sowie Philosophen zu Wort. Das FORUM versteht sich als Brücke zwischen Ost und West. Durch die Übersetzung und Veröffentlichung von Dokumenten und Beiträgen aus dem Russischen, Polnischen und Tschechischen bietet es dem westlichen Leser Einblicke in den wissenschaftlichen Diskurs Osteuropas. Heft 1/2014: Der lange Abschied vom totalitären Erbe Das Modell der bundesrepublikanischen Vergangenheitsbewältigung gilt als Vorbild für viele postautoritäre bzw. posttotalitäre Transformationsstaaten in Ost und West, ungeachtet mancher Schattenseiten des langwierigen Prozesses der deutschen Vergangenheitsbewältigung nach der "Stunde Null". Das aktuelle Forum-Heft vergleicht in seinem thematischen Schwerpunkt die Spezifika der deutschen Erinnerungskultur mit denjenigen der osteuropäischen Länder, vor allem Polens und Russlands, seit dem Beginn der Entstalinisierungsdebatten.Table of ContentsEinfuhrung I. Der lange Abschied vom totalitaren Erbe - die deutsche, die russische und die polnische Vergangenheitsbewaltigung im Vergleich (internationale und interdisziplinare Tagung des ZIMOS) - Mai 2012 Einleitung, by Leonid Luks Die Wehrmachtsgeneralitat und die "Bewaltigung" ihrer NS-Vergangenheit, by Johannes Hurter Die deutsche Besatzung im kollektiven Gedachtnis der Polen, by Tomasz Chincinski and Tomasz Rabant Anmerkungen zum polnischen Russlandbild nach 1956, by Leonid Luks Eine neue Popularitat Stalins? - Der Platz Stalins in der Erinnerungskultur des heutigen Russland, by Boris Chavkin Russland und das totalitare Erbe: Zwischen nationalen Traumata und "falsifizierter" Geschichte, by Antonina Zykowa Die deutsch-franzosische Aussohnung nach 1945 als Vorbild?, by Madeleine Mahrla The Making of Democrats: Die US-amerikanische Bildungsarbeit in Nachkriegsdeutschland, by John Andreas Fuchs Kampfplatz Geschichte. Anmerkungen zur europaischen Erinnerungspolitik nach dem Untergang des Kommunismus, by Jurgen Zarusky II. Zeitgeschichte Sowjetische Reaktionen auf die nationalsozialistische Machtubernahme, by Helmut Altrichter Zwischen der EU und Russland: die Ukraine in einer Zerreissprobe, by Martin Malek III. Kunstgeschichte "Zwei sind im Zimmer" - Rodcenko, Lenin und Majakovskij: zur Prasenz des Abwesenden, by Anne Rennert IV. Debatte Ideologie oder Psychopathologie? Aus Anlass einer Rezension Jorg Baberowskis, by Lothar Fritze Von Tatern und Theorien. Anmerkungen zu einer Kontroverse uber den Zusammenhang von Ideologie und Politik unter totalitaren Verhaltnissen, by Manfred Zeidler Uber den Glauben der totalitaren Tater an die "moralische Erlaubtheit" ihres Tuns. Eine Replik auf die Thesen von Lothar Fritze, by Leonid Luks V. Dokumente VI. Buchbesprechungen Uber die Autoren

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Book SynopsisThis anthology focuses on various aspects and manifestations of consciousness, in particular of mass consciousness, in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia (with a detour to the new Lithuania). Written by an international group of European scholars.

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Book SynopsisThis volume is an annotated collection of original, informative, and moving photographs of the twins who survived the brutal medical experiments conducted at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp (1943-1945). The experiments were conducted by the infamous physician, Josef Mengele. These never-before-seen photographs were taken by the author (Segal) at the 40th anniversary of the camp’s liberation (January 27, 1985) and the public hearing on Mengele’s crimes at Yad Vashem (Hand and Name) in Jerusalem that followed. Other memorable moments, captured in photographs include traveling to Krakow, visiting Warsaw and hearing survivors’ testimonies. The photographs are organized into ten sections that unfold chronologically—each section is accompanied by a brief essay to provide compelling context and each photograph has an informative caption.Trade Review“Archfiend Josef Mengele escaped earthly justice for his ghoulish experiments on child twins and other Auschwitz victims, but Nancy Segal gives them a voice and lights an eternal candle in their memory. A testament to the power of love over evil.”— Ralph Blumenthal, former New York Times reporter on Nazi crimes, and author of The Believer“‘For us, forgetting was never an option’ observed Elie Wiesel. In this very moving and significant book of photographs, Dr. Segal has ensured the twins, who endured horrific experiments at the hands of Josef Mengele, will be remembered as Jews who had families before the war and built meaningful new lives after the war. The Germans sought to strip them of their identities and their humanity, but the Jews prevailed against all odds.”— Dr. Alex Z. Grobman, senior resident scholar at the John C. Danforth Society“Dr. Nancy L. Segal has done an incredible job. Looking through The Twin Children of the Holocaust, I was instantly captivated by the photographs, and also left speechless—the emotion they conveyed was overwhelming. The images of the young twins in their striped garments are shocking, even to those of us familiar with such horrific scenes. The nearly 150 photographs also include the twins’ 40th anniversary reunion events at Auschwitz-Birkenau, their public testimonies at Yad Vashem, their visit to Holocaust memorials in Warsaw, and the Inquest that examined evidence of Mengele’s death. Segal takes us on an unforgettable journey in this unique compendium.”— Nancy Spielberg, President, Playmount Productions“Nancy L. Segal has specialized in the psychological study of twins, identical and fraternal. So, we are fortunate that she attended the reunion of the Mengele twins and reminds us of the issues that were raised by the experimentation at Auschwitz by Josef Mengele—rightfully called the Angel of Death—and by the twins’ quest for information and justice. Her work is part scholarship, part reportage, part travelogue, but we are the beneficiaries of a lifetime of learning that led to her insights. The experience of these twins was worthy of independent study and their reunion certainly merits skilled reporting. We are grateful for all that Dr. Segal has revealed, having listened so well to the voices of these survivors and being uniquely capable of understanding them.”— Dr. Michael Berenbaum, Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, Director, Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust, American Jewish University“This riveting photographic accounting of their journey provides a glimpse into the 40th anniversary reunion of the twins’ release from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1985 and their ensuing trip to Israel for the Yad Vashem hearing of Mengele’s atrocities. … The book is not only a recounting of the adventure that a number of surviving twins experienced in 1985. It also serves as a testament to them and a memorial to those who were unable to be there. … This document is fascinating, upsetting, and important. It should be read as a celebration of those who survived, with a reminder to all of us that these events must not be forgotten.”— The Jewish Press“In this book, renowned twin researcher and author, Nancy Segal, offers a unique and photographic perspective of her journey with twins who survived the brutal medical experiments conducted at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. … The rawness of the images effectively captures the twins’ mixed emotions as they meet fellow inmates and recall the horrors of the camp. Alongside photographs of the twins before and after their liberation, Nancy’s annotations provide vital and authentic historical context. … What shines through in the book… are the twins’ personal stories of resilience and resourcefulness at the time of their captivity to the time of their reunion. … I highly recommend The Twin Children of the Holocaust for all twin researchers and for everyone who wants to know about this tragic time in human history.”— Jeffrey M. Craig, Twin Research and Human Genetics“What is fascinating about this book is the format of factual text, accompanied by photographs taken by Nancy Segal and with explanations. The reader feels that they meet the survivors and that they are looking through a personal photo album. … These personal stories, accompanied by photographs, remind the reader of the people who were harmed, making this a very powerful text. In addition, the individual survivors portrayed in this book demonstrate how resilience and intelligence played a role in their ability to survive the ordeals that they faced.”— Julie Aitken Schermer, Personality and Individual Differences“For anyone moved by the stories of the ‘Mengele twins’... the book will be worth consulting. … [T]he photographs of the twins are thought-provoking: pictures of surviving twins in 1985 juxtaposed with images of them as children… are simultaneously images of survival, loss, migration, and a whole host of other things. Photographs need a caption, however brief. Without knowing that the twins shown here are survivors of Mengele’s experiments in Auschwitz, there would be little to say about them. Seeing them with this knowledge moves the viewer to ponder on the suffering of the twins as children and the ways in which their twinhood was a source of comfort, anguish, or both to them, whether during or after their time in the camp.”— Dan Stone, Contemporary Jewry“When I was asked to review this book I hesitated for a moment, fearing that the content would be too gruesome. But I went ahead anyway, thinking that regardless of the emotions it would stir up, reading it was necessary to begin to understand both the depths of depravity to which we humans may sink, and the carnage that can result when research is conducted without a solid grounding in morality and ethics... Yet as I made my way through the book, I felt a surprising sense of uplift and inspiration. … The largely verbally unadorned images bring the victims to life, providing a poignant reminder of their reality and humanity. … It provides a permanent memorial to the victims, who have a right to be known and to have their experiences shared.” — Edward Bell, Behavior Genetics“Thanks to Dr. Segal, the history of the Mengle twins, which, for the most part, has been overlooked by many Holocaust historians, is no longer just a footnote in the history of the Shoah.”— The Jewish Link“The infamous twin medical experiments have been described in many other publications; this unusual book of photographs testifies to the remarkable resilience of those twins who survived.”— Ruth O. Selig, Twinless Times“In this new book, Nancy Segal tells the survival story of some of the people [twins] who were subjected to Josef Mengele's horrors at Auschwitz. . . She can relate what happened at that meeting because she accompanied the survivors on the trip to Auschwitz and Israel. This book will help you realize that this cannot happen again.”— Multifamilias (translated from the Spanish)Table of ContentsForeword by David G. Marwell Preface1. Minneapolis to Auschwitz and Jerusalem: How Did it Happen? 2. Pre-event Activities: Meeting Twins3. Traveling to Poland4. Visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau: Reunion and Re-enactment 5. Exploring Auschwitz-Birkenau: An Art Museum, a Chance Meeting and a Trip to the Polish Border6. Medical Experiments: Process and Purpose7. Touring Warsaw: War Memorials and Everyday Life 8. Twin Testimonies: Public Hearing on Josef Mengele’s War Crimes 9. Aftermath: Inquiries and Inquest10. Twin Children of the Holocaust: After the Hearing and BeyondParting WordsAcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorOther Books by Nancy L. Segal

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Book SynopsisOf the many Cold War radio DJs who broadcast to the USSR, Seva Novgorodsev must be near the top of the list. A masterful BBC presenter, Seva was considered a sage of rock ‘n’ roll. His programs introduced forbidden western popular music and culture into the USSR, rendering him an “enemy voice” and ideological saboteur to the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Despite KGB threats and constant media pillorying, Seva remained on the air for 38 years, acquiring millions of listeners all across the breadth of the USSR and beyond. He became a cult phenomenon, dismantling the Soviet way of life in the hearts and minds of youth. This is the story of Russia’s first and best-known DJ.Trade Review"Michelle Daniel's book is more than a biography of the legendary DJ who brought western musical culture to the Soviet Union via BBC radio. It is, by turns, insightful political, cultural, and social history. Compelling features include testimony from Seva's listeners and Daniel’s speculation on just why he became so central a feature of Soviet life. A fascinating read for all interested in understanding the final years of the Cold War, the power of radio, or the role of what has been termed Soft Power in international relations."— Nicholas J. Cull, Professor of Public Diplomacy, University of Southern California“With the creation of any new medium—newsprint, radio, television—propagandists learn first how to exploit it for their own purposes. In our own era of ‘fake news,’ disinformation, and the ongoing political assault on truth, we’ve seen this play out over the Internet. But be careful: because the ‘soft power’ of popular familiarity with any new technology often undermines the clunky, cloying voice of the ideologue, in favor of the cool, revolutionary voice of popular culture. In this engaging tale of the life of Seva Novgorodsev—and how his popular BBC broadcasts helped lead to the downfall of the Soviet empire—Michelle Daniel weaves a narrative tale that is compelling and instructive, full of lessons about how the human need for truth and authenticity triumphs. While this book will surely appeal to Russia scholars and historians alike, it deserves a wide audience, for it reads like a novel and tells a story that is especially important in our own cultural moment. What can we learn from the early ‘weaponization’ of radio to amplify propagandistic falsehoods—then seeing this turned back on itself as young people discovered the pleasure of listening to rock ‘n’ roll music—that can be applied to today's disinformation war? Plenty, for we now face an age-old beast in new clothing: the human desire to lie for political profit, up against the indomitable spirit of today's young people, whose heroes are still emerging in this digital era.”— Lee McIntyre, author of Post-Truth“Rock 'n' roll was a revolutionary movement in the West. Behind the Iron Curtain, however, it also played an inordinate role in helping to change culture, politics, and society. Michelle Daniel's book is a welcome volume that adds to our understanding of how music and radio waves—amplified by Seva Novgorodsev—were able to work their way through the semi-permeable membranes of otherwise seemingly impenetrable Cold War borders and mindsets.”— Markos Kounalakis, Ph.D., former Radio Sweden International shortwave radio producerTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Radio, Rock ‘n’ “Role” Part One: 1917-761. The Great Wireless Experiment2. The Sounds of War3. Big Waves4. Birth of the Cool5. Rocket Around the Clock6. Between Jazz and a Hard Rock Place7. After ‘While, KrokodilPart Two: 1976-918. Smoke on the Water9. Round Midnight10. It’s a Hard Rock Life11. The Barbarossa of Rock ‘n’ Roll12. Red Waves on the “Cinderella Hour” 13. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction14. Highway to Hell15. Welcome to the Jungle16. It’s the End of the World as We Know ItConclusionAcknowledgementsBibliography

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2022 Ab Imperio Award for the Best Study in New Imperial History and History of Diversity in Northern EurasiaThis first English-language synthesis of the history of Dnipro (until 2016 Dnipropetrovsk, until 1926 Katerynoslav) locates the city in a broader regional, national, and transnational context and explores the interaction between global processes and everyday routines of urban life. The history of a place (throughout its history called ‘new Athens’, ‘Ukrainian Manchester’, ‘the Brezhnev`s capital’ and ‘the heart of Ukraine’) is seen through the prism of key threads in the modern history of Europe: the imperial colonization and industrialization, the war and the revolution in the borderlands, the everyday life and mythology of a Soviet closed city, and the transformations of post-Soviet Ukraine. Designed as a critical entangled history of the multicultural space, the book looks for a new analytical language to overcome the traps of both national and imperial history-writing.Trade Review“Overall, the book offers a vivid assemblage of interwoven storylines and episodes from the city’s multi-dimensional past, which combined result in an entangled history of Dnipro as a European city. This book is an essential read for everyone wishing to understand the multi-layered history of Ukraine and diversity of its regions.”— Olena Palko, European History Quarterly“Andrii Portnov has written a fascinating, well-illustrated book about an ‘entangled’ history of the Ukrainian city of Dnipro/Dnipropetrovsk… After reading Portnov’s amazing study about a history of the city of my youth, I reevaluated Dnipro’s complicated past… Portnov’s book is a most interesting and important contribution to the field of the Ukrainian studies, demonstrating the role of such multinational cities as Dnipro in the Ukrainian struggle against the Russian and Soviet empires.”— Sergei I. Zhuk, Russian Review“It is rare to find a book title more apt than the one selected by Andrii Portnov for his monograph Dnipro. An Entangled History of a European City. … I claim so because Portnov, in publishing the first English-language monograph on the history of Katerynoslav (1776–1926), then Dnipropetrovsk (1926–2016), and now Dnipro (since 2016), today the fourth largest city in Ukraine by population, has expertly demonstrated how to apply this approach to the past in practice. … Portnov’s historical tale of Katerynoslav / Dnipropetrovsk / Dnipro faithfully and consequently reflects the entangled character of the city’s history.”— Tomasz Stryjek, Kultura i Społeczeństwo“One outstanding feature of the book is its ability to bring different strands of Ukrainian historiography into dialogue. … [T]he footnotes are a priceless treasure trove of source material, secondary literature in Western languages, Russian, and, most importantly, Ukrainian and Polish. The book is written in straightforward, relatable English and is easily accessible to readers possessing no prior knowledge of Ukrainian or Russian history. … Although Portnov’s book ends before Russia’s attempted total invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, it offers very timely reading, integrating different strands of Ukraine’s history into the story of a city. … In combining a multitude of different sources, research literature, and narrative styles (from interviews to close reading of sources to birds-eye geopolitical analyses), this book highlights the complexity and often contradictory nature of Dnipro’s history. This does not always make for easy reading, but following the different paths of this European city is worthy of the reader’s time.”— Boris Belge, H-Soz-Kult“This book is a great example of a history of a place that resists any linear genealogy. Andrii Portnov introduces this place—Dnipro (Ekaterynoslav/Katerynoslav, Dnipropetrovsk/Dnepropetrovsk)—as a city without ‘a single national majority, well-established self-identification, or a broadly recognizable mythology,’ and manages to avoid ascribing it one. His ‘entangled history’ approach combines a thorough, sometimes truly fascinating exploration of local circumstances with a broader perspective on the dynamics that Dnipro embodied in the pre-1917 and Soviet imperial formations. The book discusses the overlapping (national and social) revolutions, cultural movements in the city, considerable economic transformations, local religious and linguistic patterns, and aspects of basic everyday coexistence, cooperation, and competition of the city’s various ethnic and confessional communities. Dnipro is simultaneously a microhistory and a decentered history of ‘European,’ imperial, and national modernity. Finally, Portnov’s ‘entangled history’ explains the evolution of typically ‘Eastern Ukrainian’ Dnipropetrovsk into a center of Ukrainian resistance against pro-Russian separatism after the Euromaidan (2013–14) and later, its defiance of Russian aggression. The book thus offers a unique view, still lacking in English, on modern Ukrainianness. It deserves to be broadly read by all those interested in historical complexity and human agency’s potential to overcome the determinism of the past.”— Marina Mogilner, Edward and Marianna Thaden Chair in Russian and East European Intellectual History, University of Illinois at Chicago"This is a brilliant study of Katerynoslav-Dnipropetrovsk-Dnipro – the changes of the name are a first indicator of the dramatic fate of this extraordinary urban project. Andrii Portnov draws a fascinating portrait of the city that evolved from a new Athens in Southern Russia to a Soviet Manchester and finally to a stronghold of Ukrainian independence. He explains the rather surprising resistance against the covert Russian aggression in 2014 against the background of the multifaceted history of the city. Portnov takes an innovative, methodologically reflected approach and includes cultural, religious, social and political aspects in his nuanced analysis. As Portnov convincingly shows, the entangled history of Dnipro can be read as a history of Ukraine in nuce.”— Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schmid, Eastern European Studies, University of St. Gallen (Switzerland)“The fascinating city of Dnipro on the river bearing the same name is indispensable for understanding modern Ukraine and modern Eastern Europe. Surprisingly for the city of its size and importance, very little has been written about Dnipro. Andriy Portnov’s pathbreaking study finally gives the city its due. Portnov promises and delivers an ‘entangled history’ at its very best. Not only are the fates of the city’s many ethnic groups intertwined and interdependent, the city itself is written into a broader story of global processes and events that have shaped the modern world. As the book shows those global forces themselves are interlocked and materialize in all their complexity only in concrete tangible places, and Andriy Portnov’s Dnipro is one of those places.”— Andriy Zayarnyuk, Professor of History, University of Winnipeg“Professor Portnov has written an outstanding history of Dnipro, one of the most interesting cities in Ukraine. He reveals how, by the turn of the twentieth century, this Russian imperial outpost in the, South named Katerynoslav after Catherine II, became a ‘new Manchester,’ an industrial hub straddling a major river, the Dnipro. In 1926 the Soviets renamed it Dnipropetrovsk after the local Bolshevik leader Hryhorii Petrovsky. A major center of Jewish settlement that produced important Zionist leaders, Dnipropetrovsk saw the brutal murder of its Jews during the Holocaust. The Soviets then turned it into a well-supplied ‘closed city’ producing intercontinental ballistic missiles. By examining the situational responses of the local elites and civil society, Portnov solves the puzzle of present-day Dnipro, now stripped of Petrovsky’s ghost: how this eastern Ukrainian city became a Ukrainian stronghold against Russian aggression. This book makes a major contribution to the field.”— Serhy Yekelchyk, author of Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to KnowTable of ContentsIntroduction: “The Unfinished City” and Its Histories1. The Potemkin City2. Manchester on the Dnipro3. The Symphony of Revolutions4. The Soviet Dnipropetrovsk5. A City at War 6. Brezhnev’s CapitalEpilogue: Neither the City Number One nor the City Number Two BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe late Steven Lowenstein was a brilliant social historian who, after retiring from his academic position at the University of Judaism, toiled for years—and up to his final days—to complete this monumental book, which is the definitive demographic history of German Jewry. Lowenstein took the research of Hebrew University demographer Professor Osiel Oscar Schmelz and brought it to life in the daily lived experiences of German Jews. The book is organized chronologically from Napoleon to German Unification (1815-1871), Imperial Germany and then the post- World War I era through the Nazi period. Later chapters are regional and topical studies. Lowenstein’s calling as a social historian required him to examines “every leaf on every tree in the forest;” but he never lost sight of the trees and the forest – larger context. We know the ending of the story of German Jewry. Lowenstein’s great achievement is to document the extraordinary demographic resources that bespoke a vibrant German Jewish culture—and made that ending especially tragic. Trade Review“The pioneering research of Usiel Oscar Schmelz and Steven Lowenstein provides a new dimension for German-Jewish History. Instead of relying on a few personal accounts and anecdotal evidence, this book constitutes a tool to decipher the complete picture of the German-Jewish community. It is an indispensable source for everyone interested in the modern Jewish experience.”— Michael Brenner, President of the International Leo Baeck Institute for the Research of German-Jewish History and Culture“Steven Lowenstein’s landmark volume presents the history of German Jewry from the early 19th century into the Nazi era through the prism of shifting population patterns. Replete with an incomparable array of data, the book’s meticulous narrative also serves as a memorial to a diverse Jewish community whose history reflected the triumphs and tragedies of the modern Jewish experience.”— Jack Wertheimer, Professor of American Jewish History, The Jewish Theological Seminary“Steven Lowenstein’s demographic history of Jews in Germany is a state-of-the-art study that will certainly become a classic. He has absorbed and presented in highly readable prose the chronological, regional, and topical demographic interpretations of the years 1815-1939 while also engaging in historiographical debates. This new and all-embracing picture of German Jewry offers readers careful analyses of such topics as urbanization, marriage and intermarriage, births and deaths, in and out migration and internal migration, and addresses age, region, and gender while also comparing to non-Jewish populations in Germany. The book is breathtaking in its research and scope and a must-read for every scholar of German-Jewish history.”— Marion Kaplan, Skirball Professor Emerita of Modern Jewish History, New York University“Stephen Lowenstein has published the definitive demographic history of German Jewry. This is a monumental curated archive, actually a twice posthumous book. Lowenstein’s initial statistics were compiled by the Israeli demographer Usiel Oscar Schmelz, and Lowenstein himself died before finishing this tome. Family historians, genealogy buffs and population historians will rely on Lowenstein’s volume and appreciate its comparative reach and meticulous detail.”— Deborah Hertz, Wouk Chair in Modern Jewish Studies, Department of History, University of California at San Diego“This monumental work by the eminent social historian, Steven Lowenstein (1945–2020), appears posthumously; with his early loss, Jewish Studies has lost a prodigious and pathbreaking researcher. The book is based on the huge documentary collections and research of Usiel Oscar Schmelz, a pioneering demographer of Jewry, left unfinished at his death. These Lowenstein supplemented by massive further research and reorganization….The old adage, ‘anecdotes do not data make,’ well sums up Lowenstein’s book, which is about data: precise, specific, and substantiated.”— Shulamit S. Magnus, Jewish History Table of ContentsForeword (Prof. Sergio DellaPergola, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem)Preface 1. The Life and Work of Steven M. Lowenstein z”l (1945–2020): “From Washington Heights to Skid Row—a Life of Learning and Doing” (David N. Myers, UCLA)Preface 2. Steven Lowenstein’s Demographic History (Michael Berenbaum, American Jewish University)AcknowledgmentsEditors’ NoteIntroductionCHRONOLOGICAL SECTION1. From the Fall of Napoleon to the Unification of Germany (1815–1871)2. German Jewish Population Changes in Imperial Germany (1871–1918)3. From the “Demographic Crisis” of the 1920s to the Flight to Escape after 1933TOPICAL SECTION4. Natural Growth and Changes in the German Jewish Family5. Changing Age Structure6. Conversion and Intermarriage7. Migration—Overall Trends and Internal Migration8. Immigration and Emigration9. From Countryside to City: Urbanization and the Survival of Small-Town Jewish Communities10. Jewish Residential Concentration in German CitiesREGIONAL SECTION11. The Eastern Provinces12. Central and Northwestern Germany—from Sparse Jewish Density to an Urban and Immigrant Center13. Western Germany14. Southern GermanyConclusionsBibliographyGeographic names in German and English (Alphabetized in German)A Note on Discrepancies

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Book SynopsisDefining the Others, “them”, in relation to one’s own reference group, “us”, has been an essential phase in the formation of collective identities in any given country or region. In the case of Russia, the formulation of these binary definitions – sometimes taking a form of enemy images – can be traced all the way to medieval texts, in which religion represented the dividing line. Further, the ongoing expansion of the empire transferred numerous “external others” into internal minorities. The chapters of this edited volume examine the development and contexts of various images, perceptions and categories of the Others in Russia from the 16th century Muscovy to the collapse of the Russian empire.Trade Review“This timely volume brings together exciting new research on the perception of ‘others’ during four centuries of Russia’s imperial history. While older research often highlighted adherence to Orthodoxy as the main marker of Russianness, this volume’s case studies provide a far more nuanced picture. They demonstrate that different—and often contradicting—markers of identity existed side by side and that perceptions of internal and external ‘others’ were inextricably interwoven. Processes of incorporation and differentiation took place simultaneously and led to a constant shifting of borders between those perceived as ‘Russians’ and the ‘others.’ Ultimately, this book indicates that these contradictions resulted from the ambiguities of Russia’s own identity as a multiethnic state oscillating between empire and nation, with consequences to the Soviet era and beyond.”— Ulrich Hofmeister, University of Munich“From pre-Petrine depictions of steppe dwellers to eighteenth-century categorizations of foreigners and non-Orthodox people, from Pushkin’s encounters with Circassians to imagined Crimean Tatars, from early photographs of the multi-ethnic Caucasus to zoomorphic depictions of the enemy around 1900—this book has it all. Starting in the sixteenth century, it provides a rich tableau of images and imaginations that populate the extensive canon of Russian perceptions of otherness, exoticism, xenophobia, and plain national stereotypes before 1917. At a time when Russian concepts of ‘us’ versus ‘them’ loom large again and dehumanization of the ethnic or religious other has become daily currency, this collection of articles provides historical depth to how Russianness was construed through the ages.”— Hubertus F. Jahn, Professor of the History of Russia and the Caucasus, University of Cambridge“Hegel wrote that subjective Spirit comes to recognize its existence outside itself by meeting itself in the minds of others. More recently, Axel Honneth has examined the construction of our social world as a sequence of recognition relations, often protracted and contentious, some achieving mutual recognition through the acceptance of difference and the according of respect, some refusing such recognition. This is one of the most important subjects for the writing of cultural history, and Images of Otherness in Russia, 1547-1917 engages it directly. The book is impressive in its breadth: it deals with a half-millenium of the successive image construction of a wide range of peoples encountered in the course of expansion of the Russian Empire—Crimean Tatars, indigenous Siberians, Central Asian Turkic peoples, Caucasus mountaineers, the Jews, the political and racial ‘enemies’ of the late Empire (such as the Germans and the ‘Yellow Peril’). It is also attentive to the successive cultural and legal categories used to classify these Others (inozemtsy, inorodtsy, inovertsy), the interests such classification served, and how it shaped Imperial policy.”— Brian Davies, University of Texas at San AntonioTable of ContentsPrefaceKati Parppei and Bulat RakhimzianovIntroduction: Images, Otherness, and Images of the OthersKati Parppei and Bulat RakhimzianovPart One: Creating PrototypesSection SummaryDavid M. GoldfrankVarieties of Otherness in Ivan IV’s Muscovy: Relativity, Multiplicity, and AmbiguityCharles J. HalperinThe Depiction of “Us” and “Them” in the Illuminated Codex of the 1560s–1570s Jaakko LehtovirtaThe Image of the Other: The Perception of Tatars by Russian Intellectuals and Officials in the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries (Chroniclers, Diplomats, Voivodes, and Writers)Maksim MoiseevFrom Inozemtsy to Inovertsy and Novokreshchenye: Images of Otherness in Eighteenth-Century Russia Ricarda VulpiusPart Two: Categorizing the “Internal Others”Section SummaryMichael KhodarkovskyFrom “Sovereign’s Strangers” to “Our Savages”: Otherness of Siberian Indigenous Peoples in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Russia Yuri Akimov The Russians and the Oirats (Dzungars) in Asia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Contacts and Images of the “Other” in the Era of Empire BuildingVladimir Puzanov “In a Menagerie of Nations”: Crimean Others in Travelogues, c. 1800Nikita KhrapunovVisually Integrating the Other Within: Imperial Photography and the Image of the Caucasus (1864–1915)Dominik Gutmeyr-SchnurPerception of Others within One Ethnic Minority: Jewish Ethnographic Studies in the Late Russian EmpireMarina ShcherbakovaPart Three: The Other in Times of Conflict and CrisisSection SummaryStephen M. Norris The Russian Imagological Bestiary: The Zoomorphic Image of the Enemy (“Other”) at the Turn of the Century, 1890–1905Anna Rezvukhina, Alena Rezvukhina, and Sergey Troitskiy Hungry and Different—“Otherness” in Imperial Famine Relief: 1891–1892Immo Rebitschek “Agitators and Spies”: The Enemy Image of Itinerant Russians in the Grand Duchy of Finland, 1899–1900 Johanna Wassholm The Self and the Other: Representations of the Monarchist Foe and Ally in the Satirical Press of the Russian Right (1906–1908) Oleg Minin The Construction of the Image of the “Other” in the Discussion of the “Yellow Peril”: Chinese People in Late Imperial RussiaAndrey Avdashkin “Own” and “Other”: Soldiers, Officers, and the Fatal Zigzags of the Russian Revolution in the Last Year of the Life of General L. G. Kornilov (1870–1918)Il'ia Rat'kovskiiContributors

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Book Synopsis“Extraordinary storytelling about unfathomable horror.” — Library Journal (starred review)"[A] worthy tribute to the extraordinary bravery of a remarkable woman.” — Publishers WeeklyIn World War II's Poland, thirty year old Zofia Sterner and her husband Wacek refuse to be classified as Jews destined for extermination.Instead, they evade the Nazis and the Soviets in several dramatic escapes and selflessly rescue many Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto and a labor camp, later becoming active participants in the Warsaw Uprising where they are taken prisoner. This retelling, captured through diaries, interviews, war crime trial testimonies, and letters, detail the Sterners' heroic rescues, escapes, and ultimate survival. A true story of hope amid horrifying tragedy, How We Outwitted and Survived the Nazis illustrates how war brings out the worst and the best in people, and how true humanity and heroism of ordinary people are revealed by their willingness to risk everything and help others. This story is about being human under the most inhumane conditions.Trade Review“The book reads like a fast-paced thriller with stories about … escapes, participation in the Warsaw Uprising and subsequent arrests… Extraordinary storytelling about unfathomable horror. At the core of it is a remarkable woman and her family who not only refused to allow the Nazis to exterminate them, but they also saved others. For readers who enjoy history, Judaic studies, and human-interest stories.” — Library Journal (starred review)“Dziarski debuts with a dynamic narrative … [and] renders in palpably urgent, first-person, present tense writing the remarkable story of a woman who was driven by her belief that ‘every life was precious’ to save strangers. … It’s a worthy tribute to the extraordinary bravery of a remarkable woman.” — Publishers Weekly“In the vast literature on the Holocaust, few memoirs are told from the point of view of the rescuers. Roman Dziarski’s reconstruction of the story of a Polish-Jewish couple under German occupation stands out for its presentation of events from the perspective of Zofia, an ethnic Pole married to her Jewish husband and member of the Polish resistance, Wacław Sterner. Under Nazi racial laws, both are to don the Star of David armband and report to the Warsaw ghetto, which they refuse, taking their chances on the so-called Aryan side. With ties to the Polish underground and the milieu of assimilated Warsaw Jewry, the couple is involved in a sort of grassroots ‘Żegota’ rescue operation that helps dozens of Jews escape the ghetto. The story, punctuated by counterintuitive twists, demonstrates the difficulty of generalizing about Polish-Jewish relations during the Second World War and beyond. This creative retelling, pieced together from sources found in the family's archive by the author, a nephew of the protagonists, saves this remarkable story from oblivion.”— Tomasz Frydel, PhD, Concordia University“How We Outwitted and Survived the Nazis reads like a thriller. It is a page-turner. What makes it unique is that the story conveys the precarious lives of Poles under the German occupation and after liberation without whitewashing the antisemitism that existed. If, like Roman Dziarski, Poles and Jews can acknowledge the suffering of each group, perhaps these groups can transcend the argument about ‘who suffered most’ and work together to teach the history of World War II and its aftermath.”— from the foreword by Eva Fogelman, author of Conscience & Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust“[T]here is such a confidence . . ., such a gift, such abandon of Good! I am greatly struck by it, when Zofia Sterner tells me how she led her charges out of the ghetto. . . . [D]uring all the occupation, the Sterners devoted heart and soul to the cause which they had voluntarily chosen: to save Jews, give them comfort, and to help them leave for more secure places, with passes in their pockets.”— Marek Halter, La force du Bien (Stories of Deliverance: Speaking with Men and Women Who Rescued Jews from the Holocaust) Table of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1: FleeingChapter 2: Getting helpChapter 3: Mob and lossChapter 4: Reunion and fleeing againChapter 5: Back with the familyChapter 6: EvadingChapter 7: BirthChapter 8: ResistanceChapter 9: RescuesChapter 10: Passing and hidingChapter 11: Working for the enemyChapter 12: BlackmailChapter 13: UndergroundChapter 14: UprisingChapter 15: PrisonerChapter 16: DeportationChapter 17: Escape and freedomChapter 18: ReturnChapter 19: Back homeChapter 20: Epilogue – Zosia and Edek KosmanThe main charactersAfterwordPostfaceJewish situation in Poland before WWIIPolish-Jewish relations, Polish help, and Polish atrocities on Jews in WWIIHuman cost of WWIIA note on terminologyAbbreviations and glossaryAcknowledgementsReferencesList of FiguresFigure creditsIndex

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Book SynopsisCosmopolitan Spaces in Odesa: A Case Study of an Urban Context is the first book to explore Odesa’s cosmopolitan spaces in an urban context from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. Leading scholars shed new light on encounters between Jewish, Ukrainian, and Russian cultures. They debate different understandings of cosmopolitanism as they are reflected in Odesa’s rich multilingual culture, ranging from intellectual history and education to music, opera, and literature. The issues of language and interethnic tensions, imperialist repression, and language choice are still with us today. Moreover, the book affords a historical view of what lay behind the Odesa myth, as well as insights into the Jewish and Ukrainian cultural revivals of the early twentieth century.Trade Review"A rich, consistently fascinating volume that provides more than ample evidence of the fascination inspired by this city - forever intertwined, of course, with a complex welter of mythology. With use of a wide range of sources, the book is testimony to a scholarly arena that continues to attract impressive talent." — Steven J. Zipperstein, Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionMirja Lecke and Efraim Sicher 1. Localism and Cosmopolitanism in Odesa: The Case of the Odesan Literary-Artistic Society, 1898–1914Guido Hausmann2. The Ukrainian Odes(s)a of Vladimir JabotinskyYohanan Petrovsky-Shtern3. Merchants, Clerks, and Intellectuals: The Social Underpinnings of the Emergence of Modern Jewish Culture in Late Nineteenth-Century OdesaSvetlana Natkovich4. Elitism and Cosmopolitanism: The Jewish Intelligentsia in Odesa’s School Debates of 1902Brian Horowitz5. Ethnic Violence in a Cosmopolitan City: The October 1905 Pogrom in OdesaRobert Weinberg6. The Cosmopolitan Soundscape of OdesaAnat Rubinstein7. Gender, Poetry, and Song: Vera Inber and Isa Kremer in OdesaMirja Lecke8. The End of Cosmopolitan Time: Between Myth and Accommodation in Babel’s Odesa StoriesEfraim Sicher9. Where the Steppe Meets the Sea: Odesa in the Ukrainian City TextOleksandr Zabirko10. The Ukrainization of Odes(s)a? On the Languages of Odesa and Their UseAbel Polese11. Rereading Babel in Post-Maidan Odesa: Boris Khersonsky’s Critical CosmopolitanismAmelia M. GlaserContributorsBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book comprises interviews with the last veterans of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ŻOB), accompanied by never previously published photographic “postcards” from ghettos in the Warsaw region, and a reconstruction of the only existing list of the (ŻOB) soldiers.The first part of the book, a collection of conversations with the last soldiers of the ŻOB, which fought in the Warsaw ghetto uprising, is called “Still Circling”. The first of the interviews was recorded in 1985 with ŻOB commander Marek Edelman, and the last another conversation with him from 2000. Grupińska’s other interlocutors are also ŻOB veterans—rank-and-file soldiers, men and women. They relate the stories of their homes and backgrounds—some were Bundists, others from Zionist or religious families—followed by their recollections of how they experienced and remembered the uprising. This provides several unique perspectives on shared episodes. Images include portraits of Grupińska’s interlocutors, as well as never previously published photographs of the ghetto and its surroundings that are reminiscent of postcards.The second part of the book, “Rereading the List,” is intended to function like a litany of the names of the ŻOB members who fought in the Warsaw ghetto uprising. This list was compiled by a group of fighters in 1943 and rediscovered by the author in 2000. Each name is accompanied by a short story about the fighter—sometimes only a sentence or two—as well as any available photograph of them. The list is followed by a reconstruction of the ŻOB army, its divisions, and the places they fought. Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsPart One. Still Circling: Conversations with Soldiers of the Jewish Fighting OrganizationRecording the HolocaustWhat Was of Importance in the Ghetto? Nothing! Nothing! Don’t Be Ridiculous! Back Then, There Were Many Legends . . .Someone Must Have Pushed That Closet up Flush from Outside . . .I’m Telling You so Superficially Because I Don’t Remember Well, I’m Here, Aren’t I?! Truth Be Told, I Left My House in 1942 and Never Went Back And That’s All My Life Story I Know What I Know, And I Remember What I Remember None of It Is of Any SignificancePart Two. Rereading the List: Stories about the Soldiers of the Jewish Fighting Organization List of Those Who Fell in the Defense of the Warsaw Ghetto A Rereading of the List A Cemetery of Letters, a Cemetery of Words Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Dream of Social Justice and Bad Moral Luck examines the intertwined lives of five women and three men, Russian Jews in the first half of the twentieth century, as their belief in social transformation unraveled. The book looks at why these eight people bought into the dream, and what they did when things went bad. Under what circumstances did they bow to political pressures antithetical to the ideas they professed, and under what circumstances did they resist, even heroically? Political cowardice is a constant theme, but so is moral resistance that had no point beyond an individual’s conscience.Trade Review“If you were arrested and interrogated by the NKVD in Lubyanka, how would you act? In telling not only the WHAT but also exploring the crucial WHY, award-winning author Alice Stone Nakhimovsky brings posthumous justice and dignity to the martyrs of socialism. In eight dramatic story-biographies, she fixes on truth in the face of humanity’s most painful cruelties.”— Brian (Yossi) Horowitz, Sizeler Family Chair Professor, Tulane University“The Dream of Social Justice and Bad Moral Luck provides parallel stories of eight men and women—all of them Jews—who lived and died under catastrophic historical circumstances, the 1917 revolution, World War II, the Holocaust, and several waves of Stalin’s terror, forced to make difficult moral choices. The results were out of their control.A historical study, carefully researched, this book will fascinate diverse readers who wonder how people lived and acted in ‘dark times.’ Superbly written, enhanced by the author’s gentle irony, it speaks to those who negotiate the political and cultural landscape we inhabit today.”— Irina Paperno, author of Stories of the Soviet Experience: Memoirs, Diaries, Dreams“This book by Alice Nakhimovsky makes a superb new addition to the growing library of studies of Soviet Jewry, which is not surprising, considering Nakhimovsky's status as one of the founders of the field of Russian-Jewish literary studies. The stories Nakhimovsky tells—from the poet Leyb Kvitko to the writer Vasily Grossman—illuminate the hopes and tragedies of the lives of Soviet Jewish intellectuals under Stalin, enriching immensely the readers' understanding of this complex and pivotal epoch.”— Marat Grinberg, Professor of Russian and Humanities, Reed College “Alice Nakhimovsky's new book writes new history of Soviet Jewish culture by focusing on individuals who both created it and fell victims to Soviet policies towards it. Focusing on eight people, three men and five women, including writers Vassily Grossman and Leyb Kvitko, scientist Lina Shtern, translator Lilianna Lungina and others, the book offers insights on career trajectories, difficult choices and dilemmas of these talented individuals. By avoiding the old-fashioned lenses of suppression or totalitarian ideologies, or imposing measures of identity, the book is an excellent example of what happens to a historical writing when people are placed front and center, rather than as illustrations to broader phenomenon. Nakhimovsky’s study is deeply researched, extraordinarily insightful, and beautifully written. I cannot recommend it highly enough!”— Anna Shternshis, Al and Malka Green Professor of Yiddish Studies, University of TorontoTable of ContentsA Note on TranscriptionPrefaceIntroduction: The Soviet-Jewish Historical Calendar and Moral Decision-Making, 1890 to 19531. OriginsDoba-Mera Medvedeva: A Working Girl Seeks a FutureLeyb Kvitko: Shtetl, Poetry, ViolenceSolomon Lozovsky: Blacksmith, Autodidact, Orator2. Communist Romance and Border Crossings, 1917 through the 1930s: Part ILeyb Kvitko: TransformationsSolomon Lozovsky: Fighter, Compromiser, Fiction WriterLina Shtern: A Career in Science and a Fateful ChoiceDoba-Mera Medvedeva: Two Borders, Poor Choices3. Communist Romance and Border Crossings, 1917 through the 1930s: Part INadezhda and Alexander Ulanovsky: Anarchism to EspionageMary Leder: Santa Monica, Birobidzhan, MoscowLilianna Lungina: A German Child, a French Child, a Soviet Adolescent4. Negotiating the Late 1930s: Terror and CareerKvitko: Prosperity and CompromiseMary Leder: Close EncountersNadezhda Ulanovskaya: Communications and Failed CommunicationsVasily Grossman: Jews vs Bolsheviks, and Jewish Bolsheviks5. War: 1941–1945Kvitko: Despair and FaithShtern: IconoclasmLeder: Evacuation and TraumaMedvedeva: Evacuation without Privilege, Grief beyond ResentmentGrossman: A Personal Quest6. Jews, Scientists, and the Trial of the Jewish Antifascist Committee, 1944–1952Kvitko: “I don’t value my life. I want to leave here with a pure heart”Lozovsky: “I can’t look Academician Shtern in the eyes”Shtern: “I always tell the truth”Grossman: Scientists and Old Bolsheviks7. Jews, Doctors, and AliensNadezhda Ulanovskaya: Foreign ConnectionsMary Leder: EndgameLilianna Lungina: Reality and RumorVasily Grossman: A Novel and a Letter8. What Happened NextBibliography

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Book SynopsisThe title of this monograph, ‘Polish Jewish Re-Remembering’, refers to the post-1989, thirty-year-long process of reviving attention to Polish-Jewish relations in historical, cultural, and literary studies, including the impact of Jews on the development of Polish culture, their presence in Polish social life, and the relationships between Jews and non-Jews in Poland. The book consists of four parts: the first focuses on Polish, Jewish and Polish-Jewish Literature (dealing mainly with pre-1939 literary works); the second, on the post-war literary output of the Polish-Jewish writer Arnold Słucki (1920–1972); the third, on Polish-Israeli literary images in the works of writers who were active in Israel (1948–2018); and the fourth, on recent (after 2000) Polish Holocaust literature.Trade Review“In this sweeping and heart-wrenching book, Slawomir Żurek takes us on a fascinating voyage from the prewar Polish-Jewish poets to Polish writers in Israel who are struggling to contend—in the shadow of the Shoah and in their mother tongue—with the shattering of their once-flourishing world. Packed with deftly sketched portraits, the result is an impassioned and poignant history of a bifurcated Polish-Jewish culture.”— Vivian Liska, author of German-Jewish Thought and its Afterlife: A Tenuous Legacy“This wide-ranging and path-breaking collection of essays is a comprehensive account of the way the impact of Polish Jews on the development of Polish culture, their presence in Polish social life, and relations between Jewish and non-Jewish Poles has been reflected in literature and literary criticism. These complex and controversial topics are handled in a manner that is both sensitive and dispassionate, and the book seeks to find a path to a common Polish Jewish remembering. It is essential reading for all those interested in the complex interaction of Poles and Jews.”— Antony Polonsky, Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University, Chief Historian, Global Education Outreach Project, Museum of Polish Jews in Warsaw“The relation between the Polish and Jewish literary fields constitutes a major area of Sławomir Jacek Żurek’s scholarly research. His dedication to ‘The Polish-Jewish Borderland’ has lasted decades, and his contributions to the field of Christian-Jewish relations and the origin of antisemitism contains important studies on historical, sociological, literary, and spiritual topics.In Polish-Jewish Re-Remembering, Żurek aspires to a commendable goal of reevaluating a topic that’s in ‘the processes of transformation, transmutation, and transfiguration,’ to identify the crucial sources of his conclusions. The reader observes people of different identities, including different identities among Jews themselves.This well informed and fascinating narration provides a roadmap to dealing with one of the most difficult areas in history and literature as well as the reality we still experience around us.” — Anna Frajlich, Senior Lecturer Emerita, Columbia University, and Polish writer. “Zurek's book is an extensive study of Polish-Jewish relations. The area where everything is played out here is memory, and the title category of re-remembering means extracting content from the deep layers of forgetting and repression. The author's interpretive work can be called burying in memory, which has a double sense: it is about digging through memory and burying in it what has been dug up, about extracting from oblivion and entrusting the social memory with the extracted content. Even more explicitly: it's about revival and burial at the same time.In this archaeological-philological work, the author seeks above all that which is connective, bilateral, and therefore neither exclusively Jewish nor exclusively Polish, but Jewish-Polish or even JewishPolish. He discusses literary depictions of Polish-Jewish cities (Lublin) and regions (the Borderlands), presents a common warfare (Polish Jews in the army of the Second Polish Republic), analyzes the linguistic consciousness of Polish-Jewish poets, extensively presents the work of the important poet Arnold Slutsky, and interprets the writings of Polish Jews creating in Israel.All these studies bring us closer to the last part of the book, in which the author presents Polish literature written after 2000 as a rogue method of assimilating and processing Jewish culture. Younger writers introduce traces of the presence of Jewish culture into Polish literature but use the Holocaust as a kind of bible of the third millennium—as the broadest common language, as a system of cultural references, as a set of topoi. In addition, they introduce the Holocaust using pop culture, collective psychoanalysis, or pornography. They consider no literary tricks forbidden, no register of language inaccessible. And they shatter the system of correctness. Not because they want to use the Holocaust for scandal, but because they want to understand the Polish present—full of social aggression, transferred hatred, crafted memories and real content of displacement. Zurek thus leads us to the conclusion that one cannot understand oneself in today's Polish society without understanding Polish-Jewish relations during the Holocaust. Actually, a reader could start reading the whole book from this last part. And then retreat into the depths of memory. Re-memorizing corpses of texts and corpses of bodies.” — Professor Przemysław Czapliński, Director of Center for Open Humanities, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland Table of ContentsIntroduction: Why “Re-Remembering?” BETWEEN ARIA AND GOLUS: POLISH, JEWISH, AND POLISH JEWISH LITERATURE1. Magen Lublin (לובלין מגן): Arnsztajnowa and Czechowicz2. Shadows of Jewish Lublin in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Polish Poetry3. Polish Jews in the Army of the Second Republic: Adolf Rudnicki’s Profile i drobiazgi żołnierskie 4. Christian-Jewish Relationships: Shalom Acsh’s “The Witch from Castile”5. The Languages of Polish Jews: Linguistic Dilemmas of Polish Jewish Poets 6. The Mythical Phenomenon of the Borderlands in Polish Jewish Poetry7. Polish Jewish Poetry and the ChildFOUR SIDES OF TIME: THE LITERARY TRAVELS OF ARNOLD SŁUCKI8. Polish Jewish Warsaw: Lyrical Notes9. Two Faces of Russia: Biography and Poetry10. “Idols” and “Idol”: Interpretations 11. A Polish Publicist in IsraelTWO LANDS AND TWO SKIES: POLISH ISRAELI LITERARY IMAGES12. Poland and Poles in the Poetry of Authors Writing in Polish in Israel13. The Double Messiah: Leo Lipski’s Piotruś 14. Poetry and Judaism: Anna Frajlich’s “Wiersze izraelskie”15. Literary Criticism in the Israeli Daily Newspaper Nowiny-Kurier after 1968: A ReconnaissanceTHE TEXTUAL WORLD OF THE HOLOCAUST: THE SHOAH IN RECENT POLISH LITERATURE16. The Shoah and Topoi17. Reconstructions 18. Transfigurations 19. SubversionsConclusion: Comparative Study of MemoryBibliographyIndex of Persons

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Book SynopsisSet in Ukraine and Crimea, this unique autobiography offers a fascinating, detailed picture of life in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Tsarist Russia. Goldenshteyn (1848-1930), a traditional Jew who was orphaned as a young boy, is a master storyteller. Folksy, funny, streetwise, and self-confident, he is a keen observer of nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, both Jewish and non-Jewish. His accounts are vivid and readable, sometimes stunning in their intensity. The memoir is brimming with information; his adventures shed light on communal life, persecution, family relationships, religious practices and beliefs, social classes, local politics, interactions between Jews and other religious communities (including Muslims, who formed the majority of Crimea’s populace), epidemics, poverty, competition for resources, migration, war, modernity and secularization, holy men and charlatans, acts of kindness and acts of treachery. In chronicling his own life, Goldenshteyn inadvertently tells a bigger story—the story of how a small, oppressed people, among other minority groups, struggled for survival in the massive Russian Empire.Until now, only a small circle of Yiddish-speaking scholars had access to this extremely significant primary source. This translation is a game-changer, making this treasure trove of information accessible to academics and ordinary readers alike. Informed by research in Ukrainian, Israeli, and American archives and personal interviews with the few surviving individuals who knew Goldenshteyn personally, The Shochet is a magnificent new contribution to Jewish and Eastern European history.Trade Review“This is a remarkable book, brimming with much information about East European traditional Jewish life in the second half of the nineteenth century. Its author, Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn, describes his experiences in a most direct, straightforward way, with great attention to detail. The Shochet contains a treasure trove of information for the scholar and will provide hours of reading pleasure for the layman."— Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter, University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought, Yeshiva University“Pinkhes Dov Goldenshteyn’s lengthy memoir is of great significance as he takes us with him throughout his journeys in East European Orthodox society. Here we meet many fascinating personalities up close. Originally written in Yiddish, we can thank Michoel Rotenfeld for his wonderful translation—a true labor of love— and his learned introduction and notes that allow us to get the most out of this fascinating work."— Marc B. Shapiro, Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies, University of Scranton “This autobiography’s importance is indisputable. It is a rare example of an ego-document written by a ‘simple,’ ordinary Jew, someone who never belonged to the elite circles of the maskilim, but instead lived far from their centers and influences. For historians of the period seeking to draw a fair and balanced portrait of the times, Goldenshteyn’s voice is an important one.”— Professor David Assaf, Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University“A rare journey deep into the Hasidic world of nineteenth-century Tsarist Russia. Goldenshteyn, a Lubavitcher Hasid, conveys his daily struggles and fleeting joys in a manner unencumbered by the nostalgia and alienation so typical of secularist Jewish memoirs. The Shochet is meticulously edited, and is essential reading for an understanding of everyday Hasidic Eastern Europe.”— Glenn Dynner, author of The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust (Oxford University Press)“[T]his is… an extremely fascinating book that details the life of an unassuming Jewish man in late 19th-century Ukraine. The book, brilliantly translated from the original Yiddish by Michoel Rotenfeld... is the story of Rabbi Pinkhes Dov Goldenshteyn, who was a shochet and wrote his autobiography for his children so they could understand the trials and tribulations he went through. While Goldenshteyn’s intent was for his children, he has also bequeathed a great gift to us all. … Goldenshteyn was an ordinary person, who like his contemporaries, was simply struggling to survive. He never intended to write a historical account, but in his ordinariness, he has left the world with a captivating historical narrative about Jewish life in the Ukraine. … In the annals of Jewish and Eastern European history, The Shochet is a remarkably unique and fascinating work.”— Ben Rothke, The Jewish Press“The Shochet stands as a valuable addition to the corpus of Eastern-European Jewish memoir literature, offering readers an intimate and eye-opening view of the author’s life and the unique situation of Eastern European Jewish communities of this time period. Rotenfeld's translation expertly captures the author’s skillful storytelling, further enriching it with elucidations and notes. This renders the memoir a compelling and insightful exploration of a bygone era that resonates deeply with readers.”— Rabbi Moshe Maimon, SeforimChatter“The Shochet is an innocuously titled travelogue memoir of a righteous, forward moving, determined individual who recorded his difficult life in the later years of the 19th century and the early parts of the 20th century. In this masterpiece of detail, much peril and danger is presented and discussed, including the fright of border crossings, the terror of poverty and oppression, the nastiness of underhanded charlatans, and the inhumane snobbery of class warfare.”— Martin Bodek, Jewish LinkTable of ContentsVolume One AcknowledgementsA Note about the TranslationIntroduction: The Autobiography of Pinkhes-Dov (Pinye-Ber) Goldenshteyn—A Traditionalist’s Unique Depiction of Nineteenth-Century Jewish Life in Tsarist RussiaAn Exceptional Autobiographer: Pinye-Ber’s Status, Motives, And ChoicesPinye-Ber in Contrast to Modern Jewish AutobiographersHow Did Pinye-Ber Come to Write an Autobiography?Pinye-Ber’s Alltagsgeschichte: Traditional Jews in Tsarist RussiaCommon Life and Incidental ObservationsWork, Family Life, and Social StruggleThe Rebbe as an Inspirational LightAnti-Fanaticism and Anti-Corruption Religious Self-RealizationPinye-Ber’s Sense of Divine ProvidenceA Divine-Providence-Centered ConsciousnessHasidism and Divine ProvidenceA Life Seen as God’s WillDates in the AutobiographyPinye-Ber’s Language ConclusionBibliographyThe Shochet: A Memoir of Jewish Life in Ukraine and Crimea In Lieu of a PrefacePart I: My Family and YouthMy Parents and SiblingsChapter 1: My Parents Chapter 2: The Deaths of My Parents, Brother-in-Law, and Brother, 1854–1857Chapter 3: Tragedy in the Lives of Three of My Sisters, ca. 1857–1864 My Early Years, 1848–1864Chapter 4: My Early Childhood, 1848–1855Chapter 5: A New Set of Parents, 1856Chapter 6: With Grandfather in Groseles, 1857–1858Chapter 7: Shuffled Around, 1858–1860Chapter 8: Sent Off to an “Uncle,” 1860Chapter 9: My Dream of a Celestial Palace, 1860Chapter 10: Working as a House Servant for Shulem Tashliker, 1860–1863Chapter 11: Beyle’s Fiancé, 1863Chapter 12: Gaining Admittance to the Yeshiva in Odessa, 1863Chapter 13: In Odessa, Tiraspol, and Romanovke, 1863–1864Part II: Engagement, Marriage, and Seeking a Livelihood, 1864–1873Chapter 14: My Unexpected Engagement, 1864–1865Chapter 15: Obtaining a Romanian Passport and Traveling to Lubavitch, 1865Chapter 16: The Lubavitcher Rebbe and Studying in Shklov, 1865–1866Chapter 17: Delivering an Esreg to the Lyever Rebbe, 1866–1867Chapter 18: My Wedding and a Fiery Pursuit, 1867–1868Chapter 19: In Search of a Livelihood, 1868–1869Chapter 20: Studying to Be a Shoykhet and Searching for Uncle Idl, 1870–1872Chapter 21: Receiving Certification as a Shoykhet and Returning to Lubavitch, 1872–1873Volume Two Part III: My Forty Years as a Shoykhet, and Moving to Palestine, 1873–1929Chapter 22: As the Shoykhet of Slobodze, 1873–1875Chapter 23: The Nobleman’s Attack and Moving to the Crimea, 1876–1880Chapter 24: Corruption in Bakhchisaray and Ungrateful Relatives, 1880–1889Chapter 25: The Threat of Banishment from Tsarist Russia, 1881–1884Chapter 26: Persecution in Bakhchisaray, 1884–1889Chapter 27: Raising My Children and My Wife’s Death, 1884–1897Chapter 28: Remarrying and My Children’s Departure from Russia, 1896–1910 Chapter 29: Preparing to Leave for Palestine, 1910–1914 Part III—Addendum: My Life in Palestine, 1913–1928Chapter 30: The World War and the Death of My Second Wife, 1913–1916Chapter 31: Marrying Off My Niece and Writing a Torah Scroll, 1916–1917Chapter 32: Exile to Kfar-Saba, 1917–1918Chapter 33: Suffering in Exile and Returning to Petakh-Tikva, 1918Chapter 34: Completing the Torah Scroll, the Arab Attack, and My Children Join Me in Palestine, 1919–1929Appendices:Appendix A: The Author and His Relatives The Author’s Final Years in Petakh-Tikva The Author’s Children Isaac Goldstein, the Author’s Nephew Feyge, the Author’s Second Wife Bashe, the Author’s Third Wife Salomon Bernstein, Relative and Portraitist of the Author The Printing of The Author’s Autobiography Appendix B: Translations of Documents Written by the Author Hebrew Engagement Contract for His Daughter Nekhame (1897) Hebrew Ethical Will (1920) Family Letters Appendix C: Translations of Additional Documents Hebrew Letter from Rabbi Medini (Sdei Khemed) Regarding the Author (1879) Episodes Related by the Author about Rabbi Medini (Sdei Khemed) Two Certificates in Sh’khita Obtained by the Author’s Son Refúel (1904 and 1906) Appendix D: Genealogical Charts The Author’s Ancestors and Siblings The Extended Family of Ershl Teplitsky, the Author’s Brother-in-Law The Author’s Children and Grandchildren The Extended Hershkovitsh Family, the Family of the Author’s Wife Freyde Appendix F: PhotographsAppendix E: Maps Tiraspol and Its Environs Bakhchisaray, Crimea, and Its Environs BibliographyGlossaries: Introduction to the Glossaries and the Transliteration SchemesGlossary 1: Foreign TermsGlossary 2: Jewish Personal NamesGlossary 3: Geographic Locations in Eastern Europe Index of Names, Places, and Subjects

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