Social and cultural history Books
Indiana University Press Mapping Jewish Loyalties in Interwar Slovakia
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book makes a crucial contribution to the question of minority loyalties in Central Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. It points to a dramatic divergence of the constructions of loyalties between the majority and minority populations. * Slovakia *After WW I, former Hungarian territory became part of the newly established state of Czechoslovakia. Jews who had lived under Hungarian rule faced the problem of status and identity in a new state. . . The overall picture the author presents is skillfully balanced by effective individualized treatments of individuals and events. . . . Recommended. * Choice *Rebekah Klein-Pejšová's well-researched volume focuses on Slovakia between the two world wars, critically examining the position of Jews between the demise of Austria-Hungary and the proclamation of formally independent—but in reality, collaborationist—Slovakia. * Holocaust and Genocide Studies *Klein-Pejšová has contributed a succinct and sophisticated profile of an understudied community, one that can help us understand the impossible dynamic faced by all Jews who lived among multiple nationalities with competing national claims. * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Place-Names and List of Place-Name EquivalentsIntroduction: Seek the "Right Path": The Jews of Slovakia in Remapped Post-World War One East Central Europe 1. From Hungary to Czechoslovakia: Jewish Transition to the Consolidating Czechoslovak State 2. Nationality is an Internal Conviction: Jewish Nationality and Czechoslovak Statebuilding 3. Contested Loyalty: Proving Slovak Jewish Loyalty to Czechoslovakia 4. Between the Nationalities: Statist Slovak Jews, Separatist Slovaks, and the Revisionist Threat Conclusion: Mapping Jewish Loyalties NotesBibliography Index
£28.80
Indiana University Press New York Noise Radical Jewish Music and the
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewNew York Noise's invigorating discussion of the limits, unevenness, and incoherencies of culture offers a seminal contribution to the fields of ethnomusicology, musicology, cultural studies, American studies, and Jewish studies. * Project MUSE *"New York Noise will certainly be the standard text for fans and scholars of the RJC moment as well as an important reference for those interested in the downtown scene and contemporary Jewish musical practices." * Journal of the Society for American Music *A welcome addition to the literature on contemporary Jewish identity politics. * Jewish Book World *The book is detailed, well documented, and a fascinating analysis of a musical milieu that was less visible than the neo-klezmer movement . . . Just as valuable as the text is the availability of supplemental audio and video through a free account at ethnomultimedia.org . . . An outstanding study of a fascinating slice of New York culture. * Library Journal *Barzel provides plenty of sociohistorical contextualization to root her wider discussion of the role of Jewishly identified music in the downtown scene in New York City in the 1990s. Moreover, her inclusion of audio clips available on the publisher's website provides a soundtrack for critical listening, which is both practical and necessary. The book is expertly detailed in its musicological analysis. * H-Judaic *Recommended. * Choice *Questions of identity and musical originality are broached and compellingly entwined in Barzel's study, which is highly informative and refreshingly free of the dryness or excessive earnestness that can sometimes blight an account of a 'movement' of this kind. * Jazzwise *New York Noise fills an important void in the study of contemporary Jewish music and provides an array of insights into a unique efflorescence of Jewish culture that is sure to stimulate fans and scholars alike. * AJS Review *New York Noise only scratches the surface of potential research in this area, but Barzel adroitly tackles the larger questions of Jewish identity that Radical Jewish Culture wrestles with. Essential for Jewish libraries. * AJL Reviews *This book is appropriate for all academic collections and for the well informed and curious lay reader who is prepared for a very heavy read. It might easily serve as a textbook for a course on the subject. This book is highly recommended. * AJL Reviews *As the first book to tackle RJC in a closely studied manner, Barzel has provided an excellent foundation for future studies, as well as a very high bar by which they will be judged. * Musaica Judaica *Table of ContentsEthnomusicology Multimedia Series PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Downtown Scene1. Jewish Music: The Art of Getting it Wrong2. "Radical Jewish Culture": A Community Emerges3. From the Inexorable to the Ineffable: John Zorn's Kristallnacht and the Masada Project4. Queer Dada Judaism: G-d Is My Co-Pilot and the "Inbetween Space"5. Shelley Hirsch and Anthony Coleman: Music and Memory from the "Nowhere Place"EpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex
£19.79
Indiana University Press Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDouble Diaspora will enrich the multiple fields it participates in—medieval and romance studies, Sephardic history, Hebrew literature, and many more. * AJS Review *Wacks makes a crucial first foray toward a more nuanced critical understanding of the literary world of Spanish Jewry. His attempts to renegotiate the boundaries of the canon and extend Iberian literature to include non-Castilian and even non-Iberian texts raise profound questions about how Spanish literature should be studied and taught. * Hispania *Wacks's book uncovers the experience and enriches the academic field of Hebrew and Romance literary studies by opening up a whole new set of questions and by suggesting new approaches to the study of Jewish cultural heritage, which, as Wacks makes clear, should always take into account the surrounding non-Jewish intellectual context. * La coronica *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1. Diaspora Studies for Sephardic Culture 2. Allegory and Romance in Diaspora: Jacob ben Elazar's Book of Tales 3. Poetry in Diaspora: From al-Andalus to Provence and back to Castile 4. The Anxiety of Vernacularization: Shem Tov ben Isaac ibn Ardutiel de Carrión's Proverbios morales and Debate between the Pen and the Scissors 5. Diaspora as Tragicomedy: Vidal Benvenist's Efer and Dina 6. Empire and Diaspora: Solomon ibn Verga's Shevet Yehudah and Joseph Karo's Magid Meisharim7. Reading Amadís in Constantinople: Spanish Fiction in the Key of DiasporaConclusion NotesWorks Cited Index
£31.50
Indiana University Press Deep Roots
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis study is an excellent contribution to the growing literature on food in precolonial Africa. . . . [I]t is a trailblazing work in its innovative amalgamation of archaeological, linguistic, and written source materials. -- Jeremy Rich * International Journal of African Historical Studies *This study is an excellent contribution to the growing literature on food in precolonial Africa. . . . [I]t is a trailblazing work in its innovative amalgamation of archaeological, linguistic, and written source materials. * International Journal of African Historical Studies *Deep Roots, an important and innovative book, pioneers a multidisciplinary methodology, which substantially compensates for the lack of written documentation . . . and archeology data during the formative period of the transatlantic slave trade in Africa. * American Historical Review *Fields-Black has written an important book, thoroughly researched, persuasively argued, and engagingly written. It adds a major new chapter to our understanding of the African diaspora. Vol. 76, No. 3, August 2010 * The Journal of Southern History *Fields-Black has written an important groundbreaking agricultural and Diasporic cultural history. * Georgia Historical Quarterly *A stimulating study that deserves attention in graduate seminars . . . in African history . . . and in African diaspora studies. December, 2010 * HISTORIAN *While Deep Roots is a scholarly endeavor anyone interested in South Carolina's rice history or African history would find it both fascinating and full of interesting facts, stories, illustrations and graphs that bring the story to life.February 18, 2009 * Walterboro, SC *Fields-Black manages to make her research and its implications accessible to a wider audience. . . . Readers will appreciate the book's clarity of expression and revealing discussions of historical analysis and argumentation. . . . Recommended.December 2009 * Choice *[This] book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of rice cultivation in West Africa . . . .Vol. 50 2009 -- Erik Gilbert * Arkansas State University *In fine, Deep Roots represents an important contribution to the literature on risiculture in West Africa.XL.4 Spring 2010 -- Peter A. Coclanis * University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill *Deep Roots is a valuable addition to research on African rice systems and their origins. ...it contributes to the understanding of the rich cultural diversity of the coastal region extending from Gambia south and east to Liberia. Vol. 53.1 April 2010 -- Laurence C. Becker * Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon *The scope of the work makes it an important addition for African and Diaspora studies, as well as those more generally interested in the transference of ideas and ecology. * Journal of West African History *Table of ContentsList of TablesOrthographyIntroduction1. The Rio Nunez Region: A Small Corner of West Africa's Rice Coast Region2. The First-Comers and the Roots of Coastal Rice-growing Technology3. The Newcomers and the Seeds of Tidal Rice-Growing Technology4. Coastal Collaboration and Specialization: Flowering of Tidal Rice-Growing Technologies5. The Strangers and the Branches of Coastal Rice-growing Technology, c.1500 to 18006. Feeding the Slave Trade: The Trade in Rice and Captives from West Africa's Rice CoastConclusionAppendix I.1 Fieldwork InterviewsAppendix I.2 Rice Terminology in Atlantic Languages Spoken in the Coastal Rio Nunez RegionNotesBibliographyIndex
£21.59
Indiana University Press The Subject of Holocaust Fiction
Book SynopsisTrade Review The Subject of Holocaust Fiction is a profoundly challenging work of literary criticism by a brave critic who asks us to look beyond the difficult hard facts of the Holocaust to the complex subjectivities of all those affected by it, a scholar whose final legacy to us is the insistence that the subject of humanities scholarship must ultimately and always be the human. * Studies in Contemporary Jewry *E. M. Budick's The Subject of Holocaust Fiction is a timely addition to the steadily growing academic canon on Holocaust fiction. . . As Budick rightly acknowledges, it is . . . self-scrutiny performed both by its writers and by its readers, that makes Holocaust fiction so important and that should ensure its future standing. * Literature and History *Budick (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) presents new readings of well-known and understudied but significant texts of Holocaust fiction. . . This is an important contribution to literary studies. . . . Highly recommended.V.47 2016 * Choice *[E]xamining the themes of mourning, memory, and love, and considering the relationship of the Holocaust to apartheid and animal slaughter, the author provides a framework for students of literature, history, religion, philosophy, and ethics. * American Reference Book Annual *Gathers together almost a dozen essays on key Holocaust writers, from Cynthia Ozick and William Styron (in his role as the author of Sophie's Choice) to W. G. Sebald and Art Spiegelman. 5/11/16 * Times Literary Supplement *Emily Miller Budick packs an astonishing number of texts into The Subject of Holocaust Fiction and explores them through a number of lenses. Students and scholars of comparative literatures, Holocaust studies, or trauma and psychology in literature will all find something of interest, and for those familiar with many of the above texts the intertextual reading the author weaves through the book makes it a useful new resource. * Holocaust Studies *Table of ContentsIntroductionPrologue: Ghostwriting the Holocaust: The Ghost Writer, The Diary, The Kindly Ones, and MeSection One: Psychoanalytic Listening and Fictions of the Holocaust1. Voyeurism, Complicated Mourning, and the Fetish: Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl2. Forced Confessions: Subject Position, Framing, and the "Art" of Spiegelman's Maus3. Aryeh Lev Stollman's Far Euphrates: Re-picturing the Pre-Memory MomentSection Two: Golems, Ghosts, Idols, and Messiahs: Complicated Mourning and the Inter-textual Construction of a Jewish Symptom4. Bruno Schulz, the Messiah, and Ghost/writing the Past5. A Jewish History of Blocked Mourning and Love6. See Under: MourningSection Three: Mourning Becomes the Nations: Styron, Schlink, Sebald7. Blacks, Jews, and Southerners in William Styron's Sophie's Choice8. (Re)Reading the Holocaust from a German Point of View: Berhard Schlink's The Reader9. Mourning and Melancholia in W. G. Sebald's AusterlitzEpilogue: Holocaust, Apartheid, and the Slaughter of Animals: J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello and Cora Diamond's "Difficulty of Reality"NotesBibliographyIndex
£56.10
Indiana University Press The Subject of Holocaust Fiction
Book SynopsisTrade Review The Subject of Holocaust Fiction is a profoundly challenging work of literary criticism by a brave critic who asks us to look beyond the difficult hard facts of the Holocaust to the complex subjectivities of all those affected by it, a scholar whose final legacy to us is the insistence that the subject of humanities scholarship must ultimately and always be the human. * Studies in Contemporary Jewry *E. M. Budick's The Subject of Holocaust Fiction is a timely addition to the steadily growing academic canon on Holocaust fiction. . . As Budick rightly acknowledges, it is . . . self-scrutiny performed both by its writers and by its readers, that makes Holocaust fiction so important and that should ensure its future standing. * Literature and History *Budick (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) presents new readings of well-known and understudied but significant texts of Holocaust fiction. . . This is an important contribution to literary studies. . . . Highly recommended.V.47 2016 * Choice *[E]xamining the themes of mourning, memory, and love, and considering the relationship of the Holocaust to apartheid and animal slaughter, the author provides a framework for students of literature, history, religion, philosophy, and ethics. * American Reference Book Annual *Gathers together almost a dozen essays on key Holocaust writers, from Cynthia Ozick and William Styron (in his role as the author of Sophie's Choice) to W. G. Sebald and Art Spiegelman. 5/11/16 * Times Literary Supplement *Emily Miller Budick packs an astonishing number of texts into The Subject of Holocaust Fiction and explores them through a number of lenses. Students and scholars of comparative literatures, Holocaust studies, or trauma and psychology in literature will all find something of interest, and for those familiar with many of the above texts the intertextual reading the author weaves through the book makes it a useful new resource. * Holocaust Studies *Table of ContentsIntroductionPrologue: Ghostwriting the Holocaust: The Ghost Writer, The Diary, The Kindly Ones, and MeSection One: Psychoanalytic Listening and Fictions of the Holocaust1. Voyeurism, Complicated Mourning, and the Fetish: Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl2. Forced Confessions: Subject Position, Framing, and the "Art" of Spiegelman's Maus3. Aryeh Lev Stollman's Far Euphrates: Re-picturing the Pre-Memory MomentSection Two: Golems, Ghosts, Idols, and Messiahs: Complicated Mourning and the Inter-textual Construction of a Jewish Symptom4. Bruno Schulz, the Messiah, and Ghost/writing the Past5. A Jewish History of Blocked Mourning and Love6. See Under: MourningSection Three: Mourning Becomes the Nations: Styron, Schlink, Sebald7. Blacks, Jews, and Southerners in William Styron's Sophie's Choice8. (Re)Reading the Holocaust from a German Point of View: Berhard Schlink's The Reader9. Mourning and Melancholia in W. G. Sebald's AusterlitzEpilogue: Holocaust, Apartheid, and the Slaughter of Animals: J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello and Cora Diamond's "Difficulty of Reality"NotesBibliographyIndex
£22.49
Indiana University Press Cubas Racial Crucible
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMorrison's book opens up several new avenues for research on sexuality and family formation in Cuba, and she does so with a masterful grasp on colonial sources and raises critical questions for the twentieth century. While most scholars accept the primacy of race and sexuality in Cuban history, Morrison succeeds at excavating these questions on a micro-level, providing new insights into the choices and family formations forged by both enslaved and free Cubans over time. * Cuban Studies *This thought-provoking book will appeal to specialists and should be quite useful in graduate seminars dealing with race, nation, and Latin American history. * Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism *What is most striking about Cuba's Racial Crucible is the manner in which it records why enslaved individuals labored to document paternity, maternity, and racial ascendency for social mobility, love, and individual stability. Those social actors are the highlight of Morrison's research. * American Quarterly *This rigorous yet accessible monograph covers an extensive period of Cuban history from a unique and innovative intersectional perspective. For these reasons, it would make an excellent addition to undergraduate collections in African and African American studies, Latin American studies, women's and gender studies, and history. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface: A Crucible of Race: Historicizing the Sexual Economy of Cuban Social IdentitiesAcknowledgments1. Ascendant Capitalism and White Intellectual Re-Assessments of Afro-Cuban Social Value to 18202. Slavery and Afro-Cuban Family Formation during Cuba's Economic Awakening, 1763–18203. The Illegal Slave Trade and the Cuban Sexual Economy of Race, 1820–18674. Nineteenth-Century Racial Myths and the Familial Corruption of Cuban Whiteness5. Afro-Cuban Family Emancipation, 1868–18866. "Regenerating" the Afro-Cuban Family, 1886–19407. Mestizaje Literary Visions and Afro-Cuban Genealogical Memory, 1920–1958Epilogue: Revolutionary Social Morality and the Multi-Racial National Family, 1959–2000NotesReferencesIndex
£56.10
Indiana University Press Cubas Racial Crucible
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMorrison's book opens up several new avenues for research on sexuality and family formation in Cuba, and she does so with a masterful grasp on colonial sources and raises critical questions for the twentieth century. While most scholars accept the primacy of race and sexuality in Cuban history, Morrison succeeds at excavating these questions on a micro-level, providing new insights into the choices and family formations forged by both enslaved and free Cubans over time. * Cuban Studies *This thought-provoking book will appeal to specialists and should be quite useful in graduate seminars dealing with race, nation, and Latin American history. * Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism *What is most striking about Cuba's Racial Crucible is the manner in which it records why enslaved individuals labored to document paternity, maternity, and racial ascendency for social mobility, love, and individual stability. Those social actors are the highlight of Morrison's research. * American Quarterly *This rigorous yet accessible monograph covers an extensive period of Cuban history from a unique and innovative intersectional perspective. For these reasons, it would make an excellent addition to undergraduate collections in African and African American studies, Latin American studies, women's and gender studies, and history. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface: A Crucible of Race: Historicizing the Sexual Economy of Cuban Social IdentitiesAcknowledgments1. Ascendant Capitalism and White Intellectual Re-Assessments of Afro-Cuban Social Value to 18202. Slavery and Afro-Cuban Family Formation during Cuba's Economic Awakening, 1763–18203. The Illegal Slave Trade and the Cuban Sexual Economy of Race, 1820–18674. Nineteenth-Century Racial Myths and the Familial Corruption of Cuban Whiteness5. Afro-Cuban Family Emancipation, 1868–18866. "Regenerating" the Afro-Cuban Family, 1886–19407. Mestizaje Literary Visions and Afro-Cuban Genealogical Memory, 1920–1958Epilogue: Revolutionary Social Morality and the Multi-Racial National Family, 1959–2000NotesReferencesIndex
£22.49
Indiana University Press Gold Coast Diasporas
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewProvocative and well written, Gold Coast Diasporas is a must-read for any scholar interested in African identity, the transatlantic slave trade, and resistance. Africanists and African diaspora specialists need to engage with this book and with the methodological contributions that Rucker presents. His comprehensive approach to African identity and his rigorous analysis have produced a highly recommended study. * American Historical Review *[O]ne of the book's greatest strengths is the ways in which Rucker painstakingly traces how ethnic labels were appropriated, recast, and ultimately employed as a means to establish community bonds and resist oppression. . . . Chapters that focus on the creation of the Gold Coast diaspora, religion, and women make for a captivating text that will be of interest to graduate students and specialist readers. Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart One: Social Life and Death 1. Gold Coast Backgrounds 2. Making the Gold Coast Diaspora 3. Slavery, Ethnogenesis, and Social ResurrectionPart Two: Social Resurrection and Empowerment 4. State, Governance, and War 5. Obeah, Oaths, and Ancestral Spirits6. Women, Regeneration, and PowerPostscript NotesBibliography Index
£40.50
Indiana University Press Living in the Ottoman Realm
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis unique volume . . . stands out from the many other assembled volumes on the Ottoman Empire due to the focused and coherent picture of the empire it presents. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Dealing with Identity in the Ottoman Empire / Christine Isom-Verhaaren and Kent F. SchullPart I. 13th-15th Centuries. Emergence and Expansion: From Frontier Beylik to Cosmopolitan Empire1. The Giving Divide: Food Gifts and Social Identity in Late Medieval Anatolia /Nicolas Trépanier2. Changing Perceptions along the Frontiers: The Moving Frontier with Rum in the Late Medieval Anatolian Frontier Narratives / Zeynep Aydoğan3. The Genoese of Pera in the Fifteenth Century: The Case of the Draperio and Spinola Families / F. Ozden Mercan4. From Byzantine Aristocracy to Ottoman Ruling Elite: Mahmud Pasha Angelović and his Christian Circle, 1458-1474 / Theoharis Stavrides5. Neşri's Cihannüma, an Early Ottoman History Book and the Politics of Ottoman Identity / Murat Cem Mengüç6. A Shaykh, a Prince and a Sack of Corn: An Anatolian Sufi Becomes Ottoman / Hasan KaratasPart II. 15-17th Centuries. Expansion and Cultural Splendor: The Creation of a Sunni Islamic Empire7. Ibn-i Kemal's Confessionalism and the Construction of an "Ottoman" Islam / Nabil al-Tikriti8. Becoming Ottoman in Sixteenth-century Aintab / Leslie Peirce9. Making Jerusalem Ottoman / Amy Singer10. Ibrahim b. Khidr al-Qaramani: A Merchant and Urban Notable of Early Ottoman Aleppo / Charles Wilkins11. Mihrimah Sultan: A Princess Constructs Ottoman Dynastic Identity / Christine Isom-VerhaarenPart III. 17th-18th Centuries. Upheaval and Transformation: From Conquest to Administrative State12. The Sultan's Advisors and their Opinions on the Identity of the Real Ottoman Elite, 1580-1653 / Linda T. Darling13. Fleeing "The Vomit of Infidelity": Borders, Conversion, and Muslim Women's Agency in the Early Modern Mediterranean / Eric Dursteller14. Policing Morality: Crossing Gender Communal Boundaries in an Age of Political Crisis and Religious Controversy in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul / Fariba Zarinebaf15. Leaving France, "Turning Turk," Becoming Ottoman: The Transformation of Comte Claude-Alexandre de Bonneval into Humbaraci Ahmed Pasha / Julia Landweber16. Out of Africa, into the Palace: The Ottoman Chief Harem Eunuch / Jane Hathaway17. The Province Goes to the Center: The Case of Hadjiyorgakis Kornesios, Dragoman of Cyprus / Antonis HadjikyriacouPart IV. 19th-20th Centuries. Modernity, Mass Politics, and Nationalism: From Empire to Nation-state18. Ruler Visibility, Modernity, and Ethno-nationalism in the Late Ottoman Empire / Darin Stephanov19. Muslims' Contribution to Science and Ottoman Identity / M. Alper Yalçinkaya20. Migrants, Revolutionaries, and Spies: Surveillance, Politics, and Ottoman Identity in the United States / David Gutman21. Ottomanism among the Greek Orthodox at the End of Empire: The Multiple Loyalties of Pavlos Carolidis / Vangelis Kechriotis22. Zionism in the Era of Ottoman Brotherhood / Michelle U. CamposConnections and Questions to Consider
£59.50
Indiana University Press Living in the Ottoman Realm
Book SynopsisLiving in the Ottoman Realm brings the Ottoman Empire to life in all of its ethnic, religious, linguistic, and geographic diversity. The contributors explore the development and transformation of identity over the long span of the empire's existence. They offer engaging accounts of individuals, groups, and communities by drawing on a rich array of primary sources, some available in English translation for the first time. These materials are examined with new methodological approaches to gain a deeper understanding of what it meant to be Ottoman. Designed for use as a course text, each chapter includes study questions and suggestions for further reading.Trade ReviewThis unique volume . . . stands out from the many other assembled volumes on the Ottoman Empire due to the focused and coherent picture of the empire it presents. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Dealing with Identity in the Ottoman Empire / Christine Isom-Verhaaren and Kent F. SchullPart I. 13th-15th Centuries. Emergence and Expansion: From Frontier Beylik to Cosmopolitan Empire1. The Giving Divide: Food Gifts and Social Identity in Late Medieval Anatolia /Nicolas Trépanier2. Changing Perceptions along the Frontiers: The Moving Frontier with Rum in the Late Medieval Anatolian Frontier Narratives / Zeynep Aydoğan3. The Genoese of Pera in the Fifteenth Century: The Case of the Draperio and Spinola Families / F. Ozden Mercan4. From Byzantine Aristocracy to Ottoman Ruling Elite: Mahmud Pasha Angelović and his Christian Circle, 1458-1474 / Theoharis Stavrides5. Neşri's Cihannüma, an Early Ottoman History Book and the Politics of Ottoman Identity / Murat Cem Mengüç6. A Shaykh, a Prince and a Sack of Corn: An Anatolian Sufi Becomes Ottoman / Hasan KaratasPart II. 15-17th Centuries. Expansion and Cultural Splendor: The Creation of a Sunni Islamic Empire7. Ibn-i Kemal's Confessionalism and the Construction of an "Ottoman" Islam / Nabil al-Tikriti8. Becoming Ottoman in Sixteenth-century Aintab / Leslie Peirce9. Making Jerusalem Ottoman / Amy Singer10. Ibrahim b. Khidr al-Qaramani: A Merchant and Urban Notable of Early Ottoman Aleppo / Charles Wilkins11. Mihrimah Sultan: A Princess Constructs Ottoman Dynastic Identity / Christine Isom-VerhaarenPart III. 17th-18th Centuries. Upheaval and Transformation: From Conquest to Administrative State12. The Sultan's Advisors and their Opinions on the Identity of the Real Ottoman Elite, 1580-1653 / Linda T. Darling13. Fleeing "The Vomit of Infidelity": Borders, Conversion, and Muslim Women's Agency in the Early Modern Mediterranean / Eric Dursteller14. Policing Morality: Crossing Gender Communal Boundaries in an Age of Political Crisis and Religious Controversy in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul / Fariba Zarinebaf15. Leaving France, "Turning Turk," Becoming Ottoman: The Transformation of Comte Claude-Alexandre de Bonneval into Humbaraci Ahmed Pasha / Julia Landweber16. Out of Africa, into the Palace: The Ottoman Chief Harem Eunuch / Jane Hathaway17. The Province Goes to the Center: The Case of Hadjiyorgakis Kornesios, Dragoman of Cyprus / Antonis HadjikyriacouPart IV. 19th-20th Centuries. Modernity, Mass Politics, and Nationalism: From Empire to Nation-state18. Ruler Visibility, Modernity, and Ethno-nationalism in the Late Ottoman Empire / Darin Stephanov19. Muslims' Contribution to Science and Ottoman Identity / M. Alper Yalçinkaya20. Migrants, Revolutionaries, and Spies: Surveillance, Politics, and Ottoman Identity in the United States / David Gutman21. Ottomanism among the Greek Orthodox at the End of Empire: The Multiple Loyalties of Pavlos Carolidis / Vangelis Kechriotis22. Zionism in the Era of Ottoman Brotherhood / Michelle U. CamposConnections and Questions to Consider
£25.19
Indiana University Press The War of 1948 Representations of Israeli and
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsAvraham Sela and Alon Kadish Israeli and Palestinian Memories and Historical Narratives of the 1948 War—An OverviewAvraham Sela and Alon Kadish The 1948 Palestine War on the Small Screen: A Comparative Analysis of its Representation in Two Israeli Television SeriesBosmat GaramiIsrael's Publications Agency and the 1948 Palestinian RefugeesRafi Nets-ZangutThe War of Independence Exhibited: A Study of Three Israeli MuseumsOfer BoordContested Urban Memoryscape Strategies and Tactics in Post-1948 HaifaZiva KolodneyThe Making of a Myth: The Story of Kfar Etzion in Religious Zionism 1948–1967Dror GreenblumDescending the Khazooq: "Working Through" the Trauma of the Nakba in Emile Habibi's OeuvreAssaf PeledWa-Ma Nasayna (We Have Not Forgotten): Palestinian Collective Memory and the Print Work of Abed AbdiTal Ben-ZviThe Palestinian Exile—Drama Shapes MemoryMustafa KabhaEpilogue: Reflections on Post-Oslo Israeli and Palestinian History and Memory of 1948Avraham Sela and Neil Caplan
£17.99
Indiana University Press Igbo in the Atlantic World
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Makes a significant contribution to the sociology and historiography of the Igbo society, by documenting not only the cultural genealology, heterogeneity and dialects of this society but also their contributions to diasporic cultural formation, identity, and transmutation. This is probably the most comprehensive collection of scholarship on diverse aspects of Igbo society and culture." -Ifeanyi Ezeonu, Brock UniversityTable of ContentsAbbreviations Preface and Acknowledgments1. Introduction Raphael Chijioke Njoku and Toyin Falola SECTION I: IGBO INSTITUTIONS AND CUSTOMS AS BASELINE2. The Kingless People: The Speech Act as Shield and Sword Hannah Chukwu3. Igbo Goddesses and the Priests and Male Priestesses Who Serve ThemNwando Achebe 4. Gender Relations in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Igbo Society Gloria ChukuSECTION II: THE IGBO IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA: THE MECHANICS AND PATTERNS OF MIGRATIONS, SETTLEMENTS AND DEMOGRAPHICS5. The Aro and the Trade of the Bight A. E. Afigbo 6. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade from the Bight of Biafra: An Overview Kenneth Morgan7. The Igbo and African Backgrounds of the Slave Cargo of the Henrietta Maria John Thornton8. 'A Great Many Boys and Girls': Igbo Children in the British Slave Trade, 1700-1808Audra A. Diptee9. Becoming African: Igbo Slaves and Social Reordering in Nineteenth Century Niger Delta Raphael Chijioke Njoku10. The Clustering of Igbo in the Americas: Where, When, How, and Why?Gwendolyn Mildo Hall 11. The Demography of the Bight of Biafra Slave Trade, c. 1650-1850 Paul E. Lovejoy12. The Igbo Diaspora in the Era of the Slave Trade Douglas B. ChambersSECTION III: CULTURAL CROSSCURRENTS: DIMENSIONS OF THE IGBO EXPERIENCE IN THE ATHLANTIC WORLD13. The Igbo Diaspora in the Atlantic World: African Origins and New World Chima J. Korieh 14. Olaudah Equiano and the Forging of an Igbo Identity Vincent Carretta 15. Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa – What's in a Name? Paul E. Lovejoy16. Archibald Monteath: Imperial Pawn and Individual Agent Maureen Warner-Lewis17. Igbo Influences on Masquerading and Drum-Dances in the Caribbean Robert W. Nicholls18. The Afro-Caribbean Diaspora in Reverse and its Implications for the Development of Christianity and Education in Igboland, Southeastern Nigeria: 1895-1925 Waibinte E. Wariboko19. The Making of Igbo Ethnicity in the Nigerian Setting: Colonialism, Identity, and the Politics of Difference Raphael Chijioke Njoku20. Ethnicity and the Contemporary Igbo Artist: Shifting Igbo Identities in the Post-Civil War Nigerian Art World Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie21. SNDU: Patterns of the Igbo Quest for Jesus Power Ogbu U. KaluSelected Bibliography Notes on AuthorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Sephardi Jewish Argentine
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHistorian Brodsky has written a much-needed monograph on the role of Sephardic Jews in Argentina, and her work is an important contribution to the study of Jews in Latin America overall. * Choice *In short, the author has made a significant contribution not only to the study of the Sephardim and Jews in Argentina, but also to the study of the minority migrations in the country as a whole and the ethnic histories of the inland provinces of Argentina. This is an important work that hopefully will be the catalyst for further lines of research on the Sephardim, which, as Brodsky says, are no longer invisible in Argentina. * AJS Review *Overall, Brodsky's analysis of the tensions between assimilation and the maintenance of Jewish identity among the Sephardim in Argentina is a significant contribution to the study of identity. It will be a valuable contribution to all Jewish studies collections. * Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews *Adriana M. Brodsky's work is a much-needed addition to the growing field of Latin American Jewish studies. * The Americas *Brodsky has introduced a critical contribution to the study of Jewish Latin America, that highlights Sephardi history and that will continue to be valuable to the sub-discipline and to all scholars attempting to understand the complexity of competing migrant identities. * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *Brodsky's book is as rich in its sources as it is illuminating in its narrative. It is an excellent contribution to the field of Latin American Jewish studies but is also a necessary read for anyone engaged in diasporic, national, and ethnic studies. Brodsky's narrative is accessible, textured, and vivid, a work of solid scholarship vehemently rooted in both Argentine and Sephardi cultures. * Hispanic American Historical Review *Bodsky's fascinating study . . . focus[es] on how the Sephardic Jews in Argentina became Argentines, but also, perhaps more significantly, how they 'became Jewish' and came to play their own influential role in the history of Argentine Jewry. * Bulletin of Latin American Research *Table of ContentsNote about Translation and TransliterationAcknowledgementsIntroduction 1. Burying the Dead: Cemeteries, Walls and Jewish Identity in Early-Twentieth-Century Argentina2. Helping the Living: Philanthropy and the Boundaries of Sephardi Communities in Argentina3. The Limits of Community: Unsuccessful Attempts at Creating Single Sephardi Organizations4. Working for the Homeland: Zionism and the Creation of an "Argentine" Sephardi Community after 19205. Becoming Argentine, Becoming Jewish, Becoming and Remaining Sephardi: Jewish Women and Identity in Twentieth-Century Argentina6. Marriages and Schools: Living within Multiple BordersPostscriptNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press In the Shadow of the Shtetl
Book SynopsisThe story of how the Holocaust decimated Jewish life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe is well known. Still, thousands of Jews in these small towns survived the war and returned afterward to rebuild their communities. The recollections of some 400 returnees in Ukraine provide the basis for Jeffrey Veidlinger's reappraisal of the traditional narrative of 20th-century Jewish history. These elderly Yiddish speakers relate their memories of Jewish life in the prewar shtetl, their stories of survival during the Holocaust, and their experiences living as Jews under Communism. Despite Stalinist repressions, the Holocaust, and official antisemitism, their individual remembrances of family life, religious observance, education, and work testify to the survival of Jewish life in the shadow of the shtetl to this day.Trade ReviewHitherto the story of the Holocaust in the Eastern European shtetl has been told by those who left—on behalf of those who did not survive. What do we learn from these stories told from the shtetl itself? In the Shadow of the Shtetl restores horror to the setting in which it occurred: at home, among familiar people and places. . . . In their accounts the everyday and the extraordinary, the innocuous and the gruesome are continually intertwined. The same people participated in both. The relationship between the normal and the abnormal, the intimate and the alien takes on a different shape in these stories—perhaps a shape that can help us better understand places like Rwanda or Cambodia—or Bosnia. * New York Review of Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction Note on Translation 1. The Shtetl: A Historical Landscape 2.The Scars of Revolution 3.Social Structure of the Soviet Shtetl 4.Growing Up in Yiddish 5.The Sanctuary of the Synagogue 6.Religion of the Home: Food and Faith 7.Life and Death in Reichkommissariat Ukraine 8. Life Beyond the River: Transnistria 9. A Kind of Victory Conclusion Brief Biographies Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
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Indiana University Press Sephardi Jewish Argentine
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHistorian Brodsky has written a much-needed monograph on the role of Sephardic Jews in Argentina, and her work is an important contribution to the study of Jews in Latin America overall. * Choice *In short, the author has made a significant contribution not only to the study of the Sephardim and Jews in Argentina, but also to the study of the minority migrations in the country as a whole and the ethnic histories of the inland provinces of Argentina. This is an important work that hopefully will be the catalyst for further lines of research on the Sephardim, which, as Brodsky says, are no longer invisible in Argentina. * AJS Review *Overall, Brodsky's analysis of the tensions between assimilation and the maintenance of Jewish identity among the Sephardim in Argentina is a significant contribution to the study of identity. It will be a valuable contribution to all Jewish studies collections. * Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews *Adriana M. Brodsky's work is a much-needed addition to the growing field of Latin American Jewish studies. * The Americas *Brodsky has introduced a critical contribution to the study of Jewish Latin America, that highlights Sephardi history and that will continue to be valuable to the sub-discipline and to all scholars attempting to understand the complexity of competing migrant identities. * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *Brodsky's book is as rich in its sources as it is illuminating in its narrative. It is an excellent contribution to the field of Latin American Jewish studies but is also a necessary read for anyone engaged in diasporic, national, and ethnic studies. Brodsky's narrative is accessible, textured, and vivid, a work of solid scholarship vehemently rooted in both Argentine and Sephardi cultures. * Hispanic American Historical Review *Bodsky's fascinating study . . . focus[es] on how the Sephardic Jews in Argentina became Argentines, but also, perhaps more significantly, how they 'became Jewish' and came to play their own influential role in the history of Argentine Jewry. * Bulletin of Latin American Research *Table of ContentsNote about Translation and TransliterationAcknowledgementsIntroduction 1. Burying the Dead: Cemeteries, Walls and Jewish Identity in Early-Twentieth-Century Argentina2. Helping the Living: Philanthropy and the Boundaries of Sephardi Communities in Argentina3. The Limits of Community: Unsuccessful Attempts at Creating Single Sephardi Organizations4. Working for the Homeland: Zionism and the Creation of an "Argentine" Sephardi Community after 19205. Becoming Argentine, Becoming Jewish, Becoming and Remaining Sephardi: Jewish Women and Identity in Twentieth-Century Argentina6. Marriages and Schools: Living within Multiple BordersPostscriptNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Narratives from the Sephardic Atlantic Blood and
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe book will be of great interest to scholars of the colonial Iberian world, Jewish studies, and anyone interested in religion during the early modern era. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Audience and Archive: Text, Context, and the Literary Construction of Experience2. "Hermanos en el Señor": Spiritual and Social Fraternity and Paternity in Luis de Carvajal, el mozo's Spiritual Autobiography (Mexico 1595) 3. A Prophetic Matrix: Motherhood, Sorority and a Re-imagined Sagrada Familia4. Writing His Way into the Jewish People: Faith, Blood and Community in Manuel Cardoso de Macedo's Vida del buenaventurado Abraham Pelengrino5. "All of us are Brothers": Race, Faith and the Limits of Brotherhood in the Relación of Antonio de Montezinos, alias Aharon HaLevi (1644)AfterwordBibliographyIndex
£40.50
Indiana University Press Orientalizing the Jew
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewKalman's book represents a valuable contribution to the growing historical scholarship of Jews in the French colonies. By focusing on aspects of pre-colonial contact between French travelers and the Jews they encountered, her research deepens our understanding of the multiple levels on which Orientalism operated. * H-France *Jews of France, nominally full citizens since the French Revolution . . . experienced uncertainty regarding whether their status would be reversed with each change of government. . . . Kalman's work contributes significantly to an understanding of that insecurity, as she fleshes out the stereotypes that others, officials, artists, authors and intellectuals, projected onto the Jews living among them inside France. * French History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Pilgrimage to the Holy Land Within2. Travel and Intimacy3. The Kings of AlgiersConclusionBibliographyNotesIndex
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Indiana University Press Spain Unmoored Migration Conversion and the
Book SynopsisTrade Review[Rogozen-Soltar's] methodological and theoretical approaches provide some lovely insights and very teachable moments about the complexities of European history, categorical difference, social alliances and betrayals, and identity itself. * City & Society *"An impressively accomplished ethnography of the ambivalent inclusion and exclusion of Islam and Muslims in Granada, Andalusia, Spain. Detailing a set of social encounters between migrant Muslims, Spanish Muslim converts, and non-Muslim Granadians, Rogozen-Soltar successfully charts the 'unequal multiculturalism' resulting from the peripheral city's harnessing of a historical narrative of convivencia to its claims for a privileged position within Spanish and European cosmopolitan modernity. -- Paul SilversteinThis timely, well-researched and engaging book examines the ways Muslim residents of Granada see themselves, and are seen by others, in relation to Granada's Arab past. . . . [B]y illuminating many aspects of the relationships between and within Muslims and non-Muslims in Granada today, Spain Unmoored will be of great interest to students and scholars interested in Spain, Islam and multiculturalism in Europe today. * Anthropos *"Of all the book's persuasive arguments, what stands out is Rogozen-Soltar's careful engagement of the heterogeneity of Granada's Muslim community and her attention to the ways disparity figures into Muslims' relations with one another as much as their encounters with others. An insightful study of multiculturalism and religion in Europe, relevant to scholars, students, and general readers." * Choice Reviews *While Rogozen-Soltar's book is well grounded in anthropological theory, it is not dragged down by jargon or theoretical disquisitions unrelated to the subject matter at hand. On the contrary, Rogozen-Soltar centers her narrative on the analysis of field experiences and uses theory to enrich and contextualize her analysis. * Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies *Table of ContentsPreface: Between Convivencia and Malafollá: Coexistence or Exclusion?AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Andalusian Encounters and the Politics of Islam1. Historical Anxiety and Everyday Historiography2. Paradoxes of Muslim Belonging and Difference3. Muslim Disneyland and Moroccan Danger Zones: Islam, Race, and Space4. A Reluctant Convivencia: Minority Representation and Unequal Multiculturalism5. Embodied Encounters: Gender, Islam, and Public SpaceConclusion: Granada Moored and UnmooredBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press On the Mediterranean and the Nile The Jews of
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWith On the Mediterranean and the Nile, Israel-Pelletier has paid homage to a bygone—but never entirely forgotten—Egypt, and to at least two generations of writers, whose literary works on the one hand reveal a little-known side of the Egyptian past, and on the other help us understand the fascinating web of feelings and images that continues to bind together memory, nationhood, and Jewishness in and beyond the Mediterranean. * Reading Religion *Israel-Pelletier's close readings, her vivid descriptions of characters and predicaments, her analyses of writer's positions and intentions, bring us invaluable glimpses into Egyptian Jewish writers' creative impulses. * Sephardic Horizons *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Jacques Hassoun: Return to Egypt2. Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff's Egypt: A View from the Nile3. Edmond Jabès: Egypt Recovered4. Paula Jacques, Resistance and Transmission: Transplanting Egypt on the Soil of France 5. André Aciman and the Mediterranean: The Staging of Egypt as Elsewhere EpilogueBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press The Beginnings of Ladino Literature
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is heartily recommended for anyone wishing to learn more not only about one fascinating rabbi, traveller and author, but about the nature and development of a fascinating literary culture, and the world of two dynamic Ottoman cities. * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *With detailed notes, bibliography, and an index, this work is a critical addition to the growing body of research on the importance of Ladino literature today. * Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews *[Olga Borovaya's] labor of many years resulted in a superb and insightful book, which approaches the classics of Sephardi literature from a perspective different from the one adopted until now, and thus teaches us to explore new paths. It should be read and savored slowly, because one is sure to encounter there an intriguing fact that will open a gold mine where one will discover new approaches to the study of sixteenth-century Sephardi literature, a virgin field never before plowed in depth. We need many works like this one by Olga Borovaya. -- Pilar Romeu * Sefarad *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Translations, Transcriptions, Titles, and Proper NamesIntroductionPrologue. Jewish Vernacular Culture in Fifteenth-Century Iberia 1. Ladino in the Sixteenth Century: The Emergence of a New Vernacular Literature2. Almosnino's Epistles: A New Genre for a New Audience3. Almosnino's Chronicles: The Ottoman Empire Through the Eyes of Court Jews 4. The First Ladino Travelogue: Almosnino's Treatise on the Extremes of Constantinople 5. Rabbis and Merchants: New Readers, New Educational ProjectsEpilogue. Moses Almosnino, a Renaissance Man?Appendix. The Extremes of ConstantinopleNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press A History of Jews in Germany since 1945
Book SynopsisOriginally published in German in 2012, this comprehensive history of Jewish life in postwar Germany provides a systematic account of Jews and Judaism from the Holocaust to the early 21st century by leading experts of modern German-Jewish history. Beginning in the immediate postwar period with a large concentration of Eastern European Holocaust survivors stranded in Germany, the book follows Jews during the relative quiet period of the fifties and early sixties during which the foundations of new Jewish life were laid. Brenner's volume goes on to address the rise of anti-Israel sentiments after the Six-Day War as well as the beginnings of a critical confrontation with Germany's Nazi past in the late sixties and early seventies, noting the relatively small numbers of Jews living in Germany up to the 1990s. The contributors argue that these Jews were a powerful symbolic presence in German society and sent a meaningful signal to the rest of the world that Jewish life was possible again Trade ReviewThis very readable book edited by Michael Brenner deals with the continuities and changes in the history of Jews in Germany after 1945 and for the first time constitutes a systematic history of the Jewish community in postwar Germany until the present time. Together with eight modern historians, Brenner presents a thoroughly researched chronicle and always differentiated interpretations of the events. * Neue Zürcher Zeitung *This volume, which illuminates a multi-faceted panorama of Jewish life after 1945, will remain the authoritative reading on the subject for the time to come. * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung *A lot of archival work was necessary (for the first chapter). Thus, there is a huge amount of information already on the first 140 pages of this excellent work. This first part clarifies the difficult situation of Liberal, Orthodox, and Zionist Jews, who were looking for a new home. * Süddeutsche Zeitung *Table of ContentsIntroduction Michael BrennerBanished: Jews in Germany after the Holocaust Dan DinerPart One: Way Station 1945–1949Atina Grossmann and Tamar Lewinsky1. Displaced Persons2. An Autonomous Society3. German Jews4. Dissolution and EstablishmentPart Two: 1950–1967 Michael Brenner and Norbert Frei5. Institutional New Beginning6. Religion and Culture7. German Jews or Jews in Germany?8. After the Deed9. Germans and Jews during the Decade of the "Enlightenment"Part Three: 1968–1989 AlignmentsConstantin Goschler and Anthony Kauders10. The Jewish Community11. The Jews in German SocietyPart Four: 1990–2012New Directions12. The Russian-Jewish ImmigrationYfaat Weiss and Lena Gorelik13. A New German Jewry?Michael BrennerAppendixAcknowledgmentsTimelineChairpersons and Presidents of the Central Council of Jews in GermanyStatisticsAbbreviationsArchivesReferences
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Indiana University Press Everyday Life in the Balkans
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis richly illustrated volume features more than fifty, often beautiful, black-and-white photographs of everyday scenes.Everyday Life in the Balkans is a smart sampler, a best-off that provides short glimpses into late socialist, post-socialist, and recent scholarship. It is highly recommended bedtime reading for any scholar of the region—student or more advanced—interested in looking beyond his or her own nose. * Suedosteuropa *Tthis volume offers invaluable insights into how the people of the Balkans construct their daily life in terms of art, religion, history, and ethnic relations. * KULT online *The edited volume Everyday Life in the Balkans shows us that what is mundane is not at all boring. . . . Overall, this book is a welcome contribution to the literature on both the Balkans and everyday life. Its contributors together paint a vivid composite picture of life in an area that has been misunderstood for so long. This volume will go a long way in countering such misunderstandings by creating familiarity with local cultures and customs. -- Victoria Clement * Europe-Asia Studies *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgements1. Seeing Everyday Life in the Balkans / David W. MontgomerySection I: The (Historical) Context of Everyday Life2. Early Balkan Everyday Life / Andrew Wachtel3. Crimes and Misdemeanors: Scenes of Everyday Life among the Gendarmerie in Ottoman Macedonia, ca. 1900 / Ipek K. Yosmaoğlu4. It's What's Inside That Counts: Furnishing the Modern in the Apartments of Socialist Yugoslavia / Patrick Hyder Patterson5. Consuming Lives: Inside the Balkan Kafene / Mary Neuburger6. Burek, Da! Sociality, Context, and Idiom in Macedonia and Beyond / Keith BrownSection II: The Home(s) of Everyday Life7. Kinship and Safety Nets in Croatia and Kosovo / Carolin Leutloff-Grandits8. "This Much We Know": Domestic Remedies and Quotidian Tricks since Tito's Bosnia / Larisa Jašarević9. Femininity, Fashion, and Feminism: Women's Activists in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Elissa Helms10. That Black Cloud upon Our Family: Everyday Life of Gays and Lesbians in Slovenia / Roman Kuhar11. Between Past and Future: Young People's Strategies for Living a "Normal Life" in Post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina / Monika Palmberger12. "But Where Else Could They Go?" The State, Family, and Private Care in a Bosnian Town / Azra HromadžićSection III: The Livelihoods of Everyday Life13. Cars, Coffee, and "The Crisis": Balkan Migration in Precarious Times / Ana Croegaert14. "We Don't Belong Anywhere": Everyday Life in a Serbian Town Where Immigrants Are Former Refugees / Mila Dragojević15. Neoliberal Spaces of Immorality: The Creation of a Bulgarian Land Market and "Land-grabbing" Foreign Investors / Deema Kaneff16. Making Ends Meet in a Rural Community: The Life and Times of Aleksandar Živojinović / Andrew Konitzer 17. A Lot of Sweat, a Little Bit of Fun, and Not Entirely "Hard Men": Worker's Masculinity in the Uljanik Shipyard / Andrea Matošević18. Perceptions of Balkan Belonging in Post-dictatorship Greece / Daniel M. KnightSection IV: The Politics of Everyday Life19. Neither the Balkans nor Europe: The "Where" and "When" in Present-day Albania / Nataša Gregorič Bon20. Growing Up in Montenegro: A Story of Transformation and Resistance / Jelena Džankić21. War Criminals, National Heroes, and Transitional Justice in Macedonia / Vasiliki P. Neofotistos22. A Lively Border / Čarna Brković and Stef Jansen23. "Politicians Are All Crooks!" Everyday Politics in Bulgaria / Emilia Zankina24. Life among Statues in Skopje / Ilká ThiessenSection V: The Religion(s) of Everyday Life25. "The Hardest Time was the Time without Morality": Religion, Transition, and Social Navigation in Albania / David W. Montgomery26. Ramadan in Prizren / Frances Trix27. The Cross at the Crossroads: The Feast of Slava between Faith and Custom / Milica Bakić-Hayden28. Boundaries of Freedom, Boundaries of Responsibility: Everyday Religious Life of Croatian Catholic Women / Slavica Jakelić29. Religious Boundaries, Komsholuk, and Sharing Sacred Spaces in Bulgaria / Magdalena Lubanska30. The Everyday of Religion and Politics in the Balkans / Albert DojaSection VI: The Art of Everyday Life31. Unintentional Memorials: Everyday Places of Memory in Post-transition Bucharest / Alyssa Grossman32. Between East and West, Folk and Pop, State and Market: Changing Landscapes of Bulgarian Folk Music / Carol Silverman33. Mothers in Balkan Film / Yana Hashamova34. Memories of Foreign Love / Ervin Hatibi35. The Sound of Charcoal Rustling: Drawing from Life in Belgrade / Marko ŽivkovićPostface / David W. MontgomeryIndex
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Indiana University Press Modernism without Jews GermanJewish Subjects and
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHighly recommended. * Choice *Spector's book is required reading for all students of modernism and the German-Jewish contribution to this fraught moment in European history. * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsPreface: Historicizing German-Jewish Subjectivity1. Forget Assimilation: Subjectivity and German-Jewish History2. Modernism Without Jews: A Counter-Historical Argument3. The Secularization Question: Germans, Jews, and the Historical Understanding of Modernity4. Edith Stein's Passing Gestures: Intimate Histories, Empathic Portraits5. Two Vultures: Freud Between "Jewish Science" and Humanism6. Elsewhere in Austria: Jewish Writing between "Habsburg Myth" and "Central Europe Effect"7. Max Brod's Homelands, Kafka's Patrimony8. Kafka and Literary Modernism9. The Law of the Letter: Kafka's Correspondence with Milena JesenskáIndex
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Indiana University Press Women and the French Army during the World Wars
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is a fascinating study of intended and unintended consequences, wellresearched, well-written, and a pleasure to read. * H-France Review *Recommended. * Choice *[Orr's] book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of many diverse subjects and builds on the existing work by other gender historians who have shown us the complexity of gender relations during the interwar period. What is especially noteworthy about Orr's book is not the gender history, however, but the military history. Orr's research provides an excellent reminder that militaries are so much more than their front-facing services. In focusing on the civilian employees of the French army, Orr is able to tease out some of the nuances of this history that would otherwise be obscured. * French History * Women and the French Army is well researched and provides an engaging read. * Women in French Studies *Orr has successfully made the leap into what we have needed for decades: a truly modern and mainstream study of the complex interplay of women and the military in modern society that also takes into account the complex interplay of race and class. * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Weapons of Total War, 1914-1918 2. The Failure of the Demobilization Purge, 1919-1923 3. The 1927 and 1928 Army Laws 4. War Clouds, 1929-1938 5. "She remained at her post until the very end:" Women and Second World War ConclusionSelected Bibliography
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Indiana University Press Women and the French Army during the World Wars
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is a fascinating study of intended and unintended consequences, wellresearched, well-written, and a pleasure to read. * H-France Review *Recommended. * Choice *[Orr's] book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of many diverse subjects and builds on the existing work by other gender historians who have shown us the complexity of gender relations during the interwar period. What is especially noteworthy about Orr's book is not the gender history, however, but the military history. Orr's research provides an excellent reminder that militaries are so much more than their front-facing services. In focusing on the civilian employees of the French army, Orr is able to tease out some of the nuances of this history that would otherwise be obscured. * French History * Women and the French Army is well researched and provides an engaging read. * Women in French Studies *Orr has successfully made the leap into what we have needed for decades: a truly modern and mainstream study of the complex interplay of women and the military in modern society that also takes into account the complex interplay of race and class. * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Weapons of Total War, 1914-1918 2. The Failure of the Demobilization Purge, 1919-1923 3. The 1927 and 1928 Army Laws 4. War Clouds, 1929-1938 5. "She remained at her post until the very end:" Women and Second World War ConclusionSelected Bibliography
£21.59
Indiana University Press Modernism without Jews GermanJewish Subjects and
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHighly recommended. * Choice *Spector's book is required reading for all students of modernism and the German-Jewish contribution to this fraught moment in European history. * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsPreface: Historicizing German-Jewish Subjectivity1. Forget Assimilation: Subjectivity and German-Jewish History2. Modernism Without Jews: A Counter-Historical Argument3. The Secularization Question: Germans, Jews, and the Historical Understanding of Modernity4. Edith Stein's Passing Gestures: Intimate Histories, Empathic Portraits5. Two Vultures: Freud Between "Jewish Science" and Humanism6. Elsewhere in Austria: Jewish Writing between "Habsburg Myth" and "Central Europe Effect"7. Max Brod's Homelands, Kafka's Patrimony8. Kafka and Literary Modernism9. The Law of the Letter: Kafka's Correspondence with Milena JesenskáIndex
£17.99
Indiana University Press On the Mediterranean and the Nile The Jews of
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWith On the Mediterranean and the Nile, Israel-Pelletier has paid homage to a bygone—but never entirely forgotten—Egypt, and to at least two generations of writers, whose literary works on the one hand reveal a little-known side of the Egyptian past, and on the other help us understand the fascinating web of feelings and images that continues to bind together memory, nationhood, and Jewishness in and beyond the Mediterranean. * Reading Religion *Israel-Pelletier's close readings, her vivid descriptions of characters and predicaments, her analyses of writer's positions and intentions, bring us invaluable glimpses into Egyptian Jewish writers' creative impulses. * Sephardic Horizons *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Jacques Hassoun: Return to Egypt2. Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff's Egypt: A View from the Nile3. Edmond Jabès: Egypt Recovered4. Paula Jacques, Resistance and Transmission: Transplanting Egypt on the Soil of France 5. André Aciman and the Mediterranean: The Staging of Egypt as Elsewhere EpilogueBibliographyIndex
£21.59
Indiana University Press How Young Holocaust Survivors Rebuilt Their Lives
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFrançoise Ouzan has given the now elderly survivors one last opportunity to tell their stories and to ensure that they will be preserved for their children and the children of their children. * Jewish Political Studies Review *Recommended. * Choice *How Young Holocaust Survivors Rebuilt Their Lives is an important contribution to the historical record because it focuses not only on individual heart-wrenching narratives in the different countries, but it also documents the contributions of child survivors to each of their societies. * The Hidden Child *[Ouzan's] writing shines light to the world through the individual stories of people who came through darkness and showed us the way. It will certainly remain a book of courage, strength and inspiration. * The Jerusalem Report *This ability to renew and rebuild out of utter destruction is, ultimately, a story of hope. * Jewish Book Council *In sum, the conceptual contribution of this book is important: it is a synthesis that was missing about the paradox of a 'distinct generation' wounded by their trials and yet, that came out reinforced from the destruction of the Jews. * Cahiers Bernard Lazare *Accessible to a broad audience who will likely find the individual life narratives interesting...Many of the stories she portrays are fascinating with their twists and turns, and Ouzan succeeds in answering the enigma she sets out to solve, revealing how survivors, who seemed doomed to suffer, found dignity and ways to contribute to their chosen communities. -- Elizabeth S. Scheiber - Rider University * HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE STUDIES *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsArchives and AbbreviationsIntroduction: Humiliation and Life Reborn1. From Victims to Survivors and Social Actors2. Struggling to Rebuild in France: Concentration Camp Survivors3. High Achievers among "Hidden Children" in France4. Death Camp Survivors and Partisan Fighters in America5. Visibility of Hidden Children and Refugees in America 6. "To Build and to be Built" in Israel7. Israel, Jewish Identity, and the Diaspora8. International Impact of Survivors and Universal Issues9. An Unbroken Chain? BibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Less Oil or More Caskets
Book Synopsis- Profiling the history of the US in the Middle East and the impact oil has had on its international politics. - Supporting new technologies, the author argues oil-independence will save hundreds of thousands of lives of soldiers - The author is a US Marine Lt. Colonel (retired) and former mayor of IndianapolisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsMoving Away from Oil: Why Now?1. What is the Situation? 2. The Military Side 3. What Are the Costs? 4. How Did We Get to This Point? 5. What Is the Technology Today—and What Does the Future Hold? 6. What Would Happen? 7. What Should We Do Now? 8. A Final ThoughtAppendix A: Congressional Donations Data Appendix B: Price of a Barrel of Oil, 1986-2015 Appendix C: Even the Saudis Know Appendix D: How Did We Get Here?Selected Bibliography
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Indiana University Press Everyday Life in the Balkans
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis richly illustrated volume features more than fifty, often beautiful, black-and-white photographs of everyday scenes.Everyday Life in the Balkans is a smart sampler, a best-off that provides short glimpses into late socialist, post-socialist, and recent scholarship. It is highly recommended bedtime reading for any scholar of the region—student or more advanced—interested in looking beyond his or her own nose. * Suedosteuropa *Tthis volume offers invaluable insights into how the people of the Balkans construct their daily life in terms of art, religion, history, and ethnic relations. * KULT online *The edited volume Everyday Life in the Balkans shows us that what is mundane is not at all boring. . . . Overall, this book is a welcome contribution to the literature on both the Balkans and everyday life. Its contributors together paint a vivid composite picture of life in an area that has been misunderstood for so long. This volume will go a long way in countering such misunderstandings by creating familiarity with local cultures and customs. -- Victoria Clement * Europe-Asia Studies *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgements1. Seeing Everyday Life in the Balkans / David W. MontgomerySection I: The (Historical) Context of Everyday Life2. Early Balkan Everyday Life / Andrew Wachtel3. Crimes and Misdemeanors: Scenes of Everyday Life among the Gendarmerie in Ottoman Macedonia, ca. 1900 / Ipek K. Yosmaoğlu4. It's What's Inside That Counts: Furnishing the Modern in the Apartments of Socialist Yugoslavia / Patrick Hyder Patterson5. Consuming Lives: Inside the Balkan Kafene / Mary Neuburger6. Burek, Da! Sociality, Context, and Idiom in Macedonia and Beyond / Keith BrownSection II: The Home(s) of Everyday Life7. Kinship and Safety Nets in Croatia and Kosovo / Carolin Leutloff-Grandits8. "This Much We Know": Domestic Remedies and Quotidian Tricks since Tito's Bosnia / Larisa Jašarević9. Femininity, Fashion, and Feminism: Women's Activists in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Elissa Helms10. That Black Cloud upon Our Family: Everyday Life of Gays and Lesbians in Slovenia / Roman Kuhar11. Between Past and Future: Young People's Strategies for Living a "Normal Life" in Post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina / Monika Palmberger12. "But Where Else Could They Go?" The State, Family, and Private Care in a Bosnian Town / Azra HromadžićSection III: The Livelihoods of Everyday Life13. Cars, Coffee, and "The Crisis": Balkan Migration in Precarious Times / Ana Croegaert14. "We Don't Belong Anywhere": Everyday Life in a Serbian Town Where Immigrants Are Former Refugees / Mila Dragojević15. Neoliberal Spaces of Immorality: The Creation of a Bulgarian Land Market and "Land-grabbing" Foreign Investors / Deema Kaneff16. Making Ends Meet in a Rural Community: The Life and Times of Aleksandar Živojinović / Andrew Konitzer 17. A Lot of Sweat, a Little Bit of Fun, and Not Entirely "Hard Men": Worker's Masculinity in the Uljanik Shipyard / Andrea Matošević18. Perceptions of Balkan Belonging in Post-dictatorship Greece / Daniel M. KnightSection IV: The Politics of Everyday Life19. Neither the Balkans nor Europe: The "Where" and "When" in Present-day Albania / Nataša Gregorič Bon20. Growing Up in Montenegro: A Story of Transformation and Resistance / Jelena Džankić21. War Criminals, National Heroes, and Transitional Justice in Macedonia / Vasiliki P. Neofotistos22. A Lively Border / Čarna Brković and Stef Jansen23. "Politicians Are All Crooks!" Everyday Politics in Bulgaria / Emilia Zankina24. Life among Statues in Skopje / Ilká ThiessenSection V: The Religion(s) of Everyday Life25. "The Hardest Time was the Time without Morality": Religion, Transition, and Social Navigation in Albania / David W. Montgomery26. Ramadan in Prizren / Frances Trix27. The Cross at the Crossroads: The Feast of Slava between Faith and Custom / Milica Bakić-Hayden28. Boundaries of Freedom, Boundaries of Responsibility: Everyday Religious Life of Croatian Catholic Women / Slavica Jakelić29. Religious Boundaries, Komsholuk, and Sharing Sacred Spaces in Bulgaria / Magdalena Lubanska30. The Everyday of Religion and Politics in the Balkans / Albert DojaSection VI: The Art of Everyday Life31. Unintentional Memorials: Everyday Places of Memory in Post-transition Bucharest / Alyssa Grossman32. Between East and West, Folk and Pop, State and Market: Changing Landscapes of Bulgarian Folk Music / Carol Silverman33. Mothers in Balkan Film / Yana Hashamova34. Memories of Foreign Love / Ervin Hatibi35. The Sound of Charcoal Rustling: Drawing from Life in Belgrade / Marko ŽivkovićPostface / David W. MontgomeryIndex
£29.70
Indiana University Press The First Book of Jewish Jokes
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAs a reference text, both Oring's analysis and Lang's translation will prove to be invaluable to scholars looking for the etiology of a certain comic trope, or those trying to trace the history of certain comedic ideas. * Reading Religion *Oring . . . provides readers with an opportunity to test his ideas about Jewish jokes on a rich set of empirical material. Going back to one of the first known sources of Jewish jokes, he helps us to trace their genesis. * European Journal of Humour Research *The First Book of Jewish Jokes is an interesting hybrid: a joke book that offers a glimpse of what was considered funny in the past and two excellent essays by Oring that place the jokes into historical context. Readers interested in Jewish folklore and those curious about the nature of Jewish humor in the 19th century will find this work of interest. * The Reporter Group *The title The First Book of Jewish Jokes may seem to indicate that this book is a joke collection. It is, but it is also a complex, demanding work, rich in context and interpretation, engaging and compelling. -- Steve Siporin * Folklore *All told, this is an excellent piece of scholarship. . . it can serve as a capstone to Elliott Oring's lifetime project on understanding the joke and the Jewish joke in particular. * Western Folklore *The present volume contains a complete critical edition of both works, translated from the German by Michaela Lang and annotated with analogs from other Jewish joke collections. Elliott Oring has added a concordance of texts that Büschenthal took from Ascher and two lengthy introductory chapters discussing the collection and its author and describing the social and political life of European Jews in Büschenthal's day. . . . Perhaps the most significant question that Oring addresses in this work is this: "Why did Jews adopt the joke genre as a symbol of their nationhood" (7)? Büschenthal's project was meant, as his subtitle put it, as "a contribution to the characterization of the Jewish nation," intended to both showcase Jewish distinctiveness and humanize their image. -- Moira Marsh * Journal of Folklore Research *Table of ContentsForewordAcknowledgmentsPart I: Introduction1. On Jewish Jokes and the Collection of Lippmann Moses Büschenthal2. The Jews in the Century of BüschenthalPart II: The Texts3. Collection of Witty Notions from Jews as a Contribution to the Characterization of the Jewish Nation / L. M. Büschenthal4. Selections from The Friend of the Jews or Selected Anecdotes, Pranks, and Notions of the Children of Israel / Judas AscherAppendix I: Büschenthal Texts Taken from Judas Ascher, Der JudenfreundAppendix II: Sources of Joke AnalogsList of ReferencesIndex
£48.60
Indiana University Press The First Book of Jewish Jokes
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAs a reference text, both Oring's analysis and Lang's translation will prove to be invaluable to scholars looking for the etiology of a certain comic trope, or those trying to trace the history of certain comedic ideas. * Reading Religion *Oring . . . provides readers with an opportunity to test his ideas about Jewish jokes on a rich set of empirical material. Going back to one of the first known sources of Jewish jokes, he helps us to trace their genesis. * European Journal of Humour Research *The First Book of Jewish Jokes is an interesting hybrid: a joke book that offers a glimpse of what was considered funny in the past and two excellent essays by Oring that place the jokes into historical context. Readers interested in Jewish folklore and those curious about the nature of Jewish humor in the 19th century will find this work of interest. * The Reporter Group *The title The First Book of Jewish Jokes may seem to indicate that this book is a joke collection. It is, but it is also a complex, demanding work, rich in context and interpretation, engaging and compelling. -- Steve Siporin * Folklore *All told, this is an excellent piece of scholarship. . . it can serve as a capstone to Elliott Oring's lifetime project on understanding the joke and the Jewish joke in particular. * Western Folklore *The present volume contains a complete critical edition of both works, translated from the German by Michaela Lang and annotated with analogs from other Jewish joke collections. Elliott Oring has added a concordance of texts that Büschenthal took from Ascher and two lengthy introductory chapters discussing the collection and its author and describing the social and political life of European Jews in Büschenthal's day. . . . Perhaps the most significant question that Oring addresses in this work is this: "Why did Jews adopt the joke genre as a symbol of their nationhood" (7)? Büschenthal's project was meant, as his subtitle put it, as "a contribution to the characterization of the Jewish nation," intended to both showcase Jewish distinctiveness and humanize their image. -- Moira Marsh * Journal of Folklore Research *Table of ContentsForewordAcknowledgmentsPart I: Introduction1. On Jewish Jokes and the Collection of Lippmann Moses Büschenthal2. The Jews in the Century of BüschenthalPart II: The Texts3. Collection of Witty Notions from Jews as a Contribution to the Characterization of the Jewish Nation / L. M. Büschenthal4. Selections from The Friend of the Jews or Selected Anecdotes, Pranks, and Notions of the Children of Israel / Judas AscherAppendix I: Büschenthal Texts Taken from Judas Ascher, Der JudenfreundAppendix II: Sources of Joke AnalogsList of ReferencesIndex
£18.89
Indiana University Press Black Lives Matter and Music
Book SynopsisTrade Review[A] book for our time that is right on time. * Journal of Folklore Research *[T]his book should inspire activists, scholars, and those who fall on both sides to conduct research globally on the topics explored, since anti-blackness is a worldwide issue. All people should know the depth of power music can spark in activists, scholarly and non-scholarly alike, and how music can mobilize significant change in the world. * Western Folklore *Table of ContentsForeword / Portia K. MaultsbyAcknowledgmentsIntroduction to Black Lives Matter and Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection / Fernando Orejuela 1. BlackMizzou: Music and Stories One Year Later / Stephanie Shonekan2. Black Matters: Black Folk Studies and Black Campus Life Matters / Fernando Orejuela 3. Blackfolklifematters: SLABs and The Social Importance of Contemporary African American Folklife / Langston Collin Wilkins 4. BlackMusicMatters: Affirmation and Resilience in African American Musical Spaces in Washington, D.C. / Alison Martin5. Black Detroit: Sonic Distortion Fuels Social Distortion / Denise DalphondConclusion: Race, Place, and Pedagogy in the Black Lives Matter Era / Stephanie ShonekanIndex
£40.50
Indiana University Press Jewish Religious Music in NineteenthCentury
Book SynopsisJewish Music in Nineteenth Century America looks at key Jewish American musical figures and texts from the 19th century, demonstrating the significant influence central European traditions had during this period and complicating the notion that American Jewish musical traditions "progressed" from solo chant to canters and choirs.Trade ReviewOccasionally an historical work provides the breadth and details of an era that forever changes our perceptions of that period. Judah Cohen's book accomplishes this feat for Jewish music in America in the nineteenth century. * AJL Reviews *The story Cohen tells by analyzing these musical works, their authors, underlying ideas, and envisaged practices is fascinating and thoroughly researched. . . . Cohen succeeds in his aim of "chronicling this era in musical terms" without requiring in-depth specialist music knowledge of the reader (p. 9). The author does not trail off in detailed musical analyses of individual compositions. Rather, he examines music publications as a whole, in designing a bigger picture of their genesis and history. He analyzes their scopes and paratexts, their authorship, their meaning for the performance and the liturgy, and their reception in Jewish communities. The generous use of illustrations, showing the original musical material rather than rewritten musical examples, gives an unaltered impression of the settings, layout, and presentation of the original works. A large number of quotations from primary sources, like the contemporary press and meeting minutes from community organizations, make this pioneering study a vivid reading. Unmuting the American Jewish nineteenth century, it is indeed an important contribution to American Jewish history and Jewish music studies. -- Martha Stellmacher * H-Judaic *Cohen's achievement here sets a high standard for historical musicology, engaging the archival record while contributing to the establishment of evidence-based criteria for identifying the "Jewish" in "Jewish Religious Music"—criteria that actively deconstruct inherited wisdom that has inhibited the scope of research agendas. -- Jeremiah Lockwood * Musica Judaica *Judah M. Cohen's work takes a refreshing approach to Jewish music history, which to date has been largely examined within its own context—that is, away from discussions of other sacred (or secular) music. . . . Cohen's work is an important addition to both Jewish music and more mainstream musicological literature. -- Danielle Padley * Notes *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsAccessing Supplemental MaterialsIntroduction1. Early Strata: Of Choirs and Reform through the Mid-Nineteenth Century2. The Sound of German Jewry: Hymnals and Singing Societies in Wilhelm Fischer's Zemirot Yisrael3. Bildungsmusik: G. M. Cohen, B'nai B'rith, and the Voices of American Jewish Cultivation4. Musical Populists: G. S. Ensel, Simon Hecht, and the Quest for the Singing Congregation5. The 1866 Sulzerfeier: the Viennese Model and the Grandeur of the Urban Worship6. A New Cantor, A New Repertoire: Zimrath Yah7. The Path to The Union HymnalConclusion: Restoring the Soundtrack of Jewish Life in Nineteenth Century AmericaWorks CitedIndex
£56.10
Indiana University Press Jewish Religious Music in NineteenthCentury Ame
Book SynopsisJewish Music in Nineteenth Century America looks at key Jewish American musical figures and texts from the 19th century, demonstrating the significant influence central European traditions had during this period and complicating the notion that American Jewish musical traditions "progressed" from solo chant to canters and choirs.Trade ReviewOccasionally an historical work provides the breadth and details of an era that forever changes our perceptions of that period. Judah Cohen's book accomplishes this feat for Jewish music in America in the nineteenth century. * AJL Reviews *The story Cohen tells by analyzing these musical works, their authors, underlying ideas, and envisaged practices is fascinating and thoroughly researched. . . . Cohen succeeds in his aim of "chronicling this era in musical terms" without requiring in-depth specialist music knowledge of the reader (p. 9). The author does not trail off in detailed musical analyses of individual compositions. Rather, he examines music publications as a whole, in designing a bigger picture of their genesis and history. He analyzes their scopes and paratexts, their authorship, their meaning for the performance and the liturgy, and their reception in Jewish communities. The generous use of illustrations, showing the original musical material rather than rewritten musical examples, gives an unaltered impression of the settings, layout, and presentation of the original works. A large number of quotations from primary sources, like the contemporary press and meeting minutes from community organizations, make this pioneering study a vivid reading. Unmuting the American Jewish nineteenth century, it is indeed an important contribution to American Jewish history and Jewish music studies. -- Martha Stellmacher * H-Judaic *Cohen's achievement here sets a high standard for historical musicology, engaging the archival record while contributing to the establishment of evidence-based criteria for identifying the "Jewish" in "Jewish Religious Music"—criteria that actively deconstruct inherited wisdom that has inhibited the scope of research agendas. -- Jeremiah Lockwood * Musica Judaica *Judah M. Cohen's work takes a refreshing approach to Jewish music history, which to date has been largely examined within its own context—that is, away from discussions of other sacred (or secular) music. . . . Cohen's work is an important addition to both Jewish music and more mainstream musicological literature. -- Danielle Padley * Notes *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsAccessing Supplemental MaterialsIntroduction1. Early Strata: Of Choirs and Reform through the Mid-Nineteenth Century2. The Sound of German Jewry: Hymnals and Singing Societies in Wilhelm Fischer's Zemirot Yisrael3. Bildungsmusik: G. M. Cohen, B'nai B'rith, and the Voices of American Jewish Cultivation4. Musical Populists: G. S. Ensel, Simon Hecht, and the Quest for the Singing Congregation5. The 1866 Sulzerfeier: the Viennese Model and the Grandeur of the Urban Worship6. A New Cantor, A New Repertoire: Zimrath Yah7. The Path to The Union HymnalConclusion: Restoring the Soundtrack of Jewish Life in Nineteenth Century AmericaWorks CitedIndex
£28.80
Indiana University Press Smyllies Ireland Protestants Independence and
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe writing in this short but superb thought-provoking book is sparkling. * The Irish Catholic *In another age when the slant of the news and the bias of the media generates global attention, added to an acceleration of purportedly progressive and anti-religious critiques among the intelligentsia, academia, and all who transmit thought made viral, Smyllie's Ireland offers a case study in how a newspaper in command of an influential elite has shaped a nation's fate. * Reading Religion *Smyllie's Ireland: Protestants, Independence, and the Man Who Ran the Irish Times describes the rich history of Irish Protestants who found themselves aliens in their own land. This book tells a different story about Irish Protestants by exploring their success instead of highlighting their failures. -- Sara Seebaum * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *This is a thoughtful, superbly researched and elegantly written study of one the most important pioneering Irish newspaper editors of the past 150 years, of his influence and his craft. It is also a timely reminder of the continuing importance of its journalism, warts and all, in the creation and maintenance of the kind of society we will, with luck, bequeath to the generations that follow us. -- John Hogan * Journal of British Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Locals2. West Brits3. Continentals4. Patrons5. Liberals6. Patriots7. Gaels8. Anglo-IrishConclusion: Smyllie's IrelandBibliographyIndex
£59.50
Indiana University Press Smyllies Ireland
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe writing in this short but superb thought-provoking book is sparkling. * The Irish Catholic *In another age when the slant of the news and the bias of the media generates global attention, added to an acceleration of purportedly progressive and anti-religious critiques among the intelligentsia, academia, and all who transmit thought made viral, Smyllie's Ireland offers a case study in how a newspaper in command of an influential elite has shaped a nation's fate. * Reading Religion *Smyllie's Ireland: Protestants, Independence, and the Man Who Ran the Irish Times describes the rich history of Irish Protestants who found themselves aliens in their own land. This book tells a different story about Irish Protestants by exploring their success instead of highlighting their failures. -- Sara Seebaum * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *This is a thoughtful, superbly researched and elegantly written study of one the most important pioneering Irish newspaper editors of the past 150 years, of his influence and his craft. It is also a timely reminder of the continuing importance of its journalism, warts and all, in the creation and maintenance of the kind of society we will, with luck, bequeath to the generations that follow us. -- John Hogan * Journal of British Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Locals2. West Brits3. Continentals4. Patrons5. Liberals6. Patriots7. Gaels8. Anglo-IrishConclusion: Smyllie's IrelandBibliographyIndex
£25.19
Indiana University Press Transportation and the American People
Book Synopsis1) Grant is considered one of the leading scholars in transportation and a well-respected addition to the list.2) This is the first book that examines all of these aspects of transportation. It will be the authoritative book on the subject.3) IUP's railroad titles have traditionally sold well and are considered at the top of their field.Trade ReviewThis is an outstanding contribution to transportation history, one that is genuinely needed to both enrich and expose the core scholarly resources available in the field. Especially noteworthy is the attention to previously neglected topics: stagecoaches, paddle boats, canal transport, and buses, making this work a unique source for the study of transportation in the US. * Choice *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Steady but Uncomfortable: Stagecoaches and the American People2. Waterways and the American People3. Slow and Steady: Canals and the American People4. Railways and the American People5. Buses and the American People6. Airplanes and the American PeopleIndex
£28.80
Indiana University Press Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks
Book Synopsis1. This bold work takes on many of the myths of Ottoman tolerance of Jews. 2. It links ties between Muslims and Jews in Turkey to denial of the Armenian genocide. 3. It presents meaningful information about the history of Muslim-Jewish relations, reflection on the Jewish experience in Turkey, and ignorance of inconvenient historical facts.Trade ReviewSultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks is a tour de force that is written with a backdrop of 500 years of Jewish history, spanning from when the Ottoman Empire embraced Jewish refugees fleeing Spain in 1492 all the way until today. In between those years, there were days of honey and days of onions, and as Baer shows, it was often only the sweetness we heard about, with the bitterness buried deep within the souls who suffered it, covered up by an 'utopian narrative of Ottoman and Turkish Jewish history.' -- Louis Fishman * Turkish Studies *In this disturbing and thought-provoking book, Marc David Baer, a Jewish American and a long-time academic scholar of Turkish Studies, bursts the bubble that the Turks throughout history were "God's rod" for the Jews, who smote the antisemitic Christians, welcomed Jews from the Spanish Inquisition and saved them from the Holocaust. * Times Literary Supplement TLS *Table of ContentsContents<\>PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Friend and Enemy1. Sultans as Saviors2. The Empire of Tolerant Turks3. Grateful Jews and Anti-Semitic Armenians and Greeks4. Turkish Jews as Turkish Lobbyists5. "Five Hundred Years of Friendship"6. Whitewashing the Armenian Genocide with Holocaust Heroism7. The Emergence of Critical Turkish Jewish Voices8. Living in Peace and Harmony, or in Fear?Conclusion: New Friends and EnemiesEpilogue
£67.15
Indiana University Press Unexpected State British Politics and the
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A Usable Past2. The Balfour Zeitgeist 1917-19283. The Passfield Reversal 1929-19354. The MacDonald Betrayal 1936-19395. From War to Withdrawal 1940-1948The Last WordBibliographyIndex
£49.30
Indiana University Press Unexpected State British Politics and the
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A Usable Past2. The Balfour Zeitgeist 1917-19283. The Passfield Reversal 1929-19354. The MacDonald Betrayal 1936-19395. From War to Withdrawal 1940-1948The Last WordBibliographyIndex
£22.49
Indiana University Press Jews and the Mediterranean
Book SynopsisTrade Review[Jews and the Mediterranean] takes aim in part at a trope in Mediterranean studies that plays up the integration of minorities across communities, with character types of cosmopolitanism, fluidity, and diversity. The papers examine what made Jews and Jewish communities distinctive, even as they interacted with their Muslim and Christian neighbors and business partners. * Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews *Studious, erudite, and highly recommended. * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Jewish History in the Mediterranean, the Mediterranean in Jewish History / Jessica Marglin and Matthias Lehmann1. Globalization or Culture: The Ancient Jews and the Mediterranean / Seth Schwartz2. The New Melting Pot? Mediterraneanism and the Study of Jewish History / Jonathan Ray3. Can we Speak of a Geographical Axis in Medieval Jewish Culture? / Andrew Berns4. Jews and the Early Modern Mediterranean Slave Trade / Daniel Hershenzon5. Religious Boundaries in Italy during an Era of Free Trade, 1550-1750: The Case of Livorno / Corey Tazzara6. A Father's Consolation: Intra-Cultural Ties and Religion in a Trans-Mediterranean Jewish Commercial Network / Francesca Bregoli7. Soap and the Making of a Short Distance Network in the Nineteenth-Century Adriatic / Constanze Kolbe8. A Guide to the Jewish Mediterranean: Le Guide Sam and the Shaping of an Interwar Mediterranean Diaspora / Devi Mays9. A New Myth of Coexistence? The Jewish Mediterranean Dream and the Three Ages of Nostalgia / Clémence BoulouqueIndex
£21.59
Indiana University Press Atomic Tunes
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In Atomic Tunes, Tim and Joanna Smolko have written a long-overdue analysis of Cold War popular music which combines insightful analysis of individual songs and popular musical genres expertly embedded within their political and historical contexts. Their discussions of women's voices, of novelty songs, country and gospel music and other categories are balanced in a way that accommodates many different perspectives, both left wing and right. If you lived through the Cold War or approach it from a historical and musicological perspective, the Smolkos, along with the songs they explore, provide what they call a 'visceral sense of what it was like to live through the Cold War.' A very important work."—Russell Reising, University of Toledo professor emeritus of American culture and Asian studies"Tim and Joanna Smolko's book is a welcome and well-researched study on the role that the Cold War played in American and British popular music. The Smolkos take on topics such as communism and the Red Scare, civil defense, and nuclear fear in a study that places popular and folk music at the center of its contemporary social history in a way no other book has done before. They consider society, politics, race, and place are at the core for understanding the composition and performance of Cold War popular music, from satire to serious. Their book probes the essential questions we likely didn't know we had about the role of music in one of the most fraught eras in world history."—Reba Wissner, author of Music and the Atomic Bomb on American Television, 1950-1969, Columbus State University"In this immaculately researched book, Tim and Joanna Smolko examine how Cold War anxieties shaped songs by an incredibly diverse range of musicians—from earnest folkies and jokey rock 'n' rollers, to long-haired metalheads and political punks. The book's scope and thematic range is impressive, and even the biggest fan of this music will discover new insights—and tunes!—through the authors' in-depth discussions of the musical and social significance of these songs. In addressing a major gap in the burgeoning literature on Cold War-era music-making, Atomic Tunes should be essential reading for historians, musicologists, and fans alike."—Nicholas Tochka, author of Audible States: Socialist Politics and Popular Music in Albania, Head of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music"Richly detailed and meticulously researched, Atomic Tunes provides an invaluable contribution to our understanding of Anglo-American popular music in the Cold War era. The book's sweeping survey of songs, ranging from country and comedy to punk and heavy metal, captures all the vivid anxiety, paranoia, fear, fantasy, and dark humor of this vital period of global history, and makes for an endlessly fascinating read."—Theo Cateforis, author of Are We Not New Wave: Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Fine Arts and Music History at Syracuse University"Atomic Tunes is unparalleled as a sweeping inquiry into popular music's response to the Cold War and the arms race. Tim and Joanna Smolko deftly combine social and political history with musical analysis, stressing that the words and music mattered as artists and listeners tried to make sense of an anxious and confusing time in world history."—Steve Waksman, author of This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and PunkTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Cold War History in Music and Lyrics1. Folk: From Paul Robeson to Bob Dylan2. Folk: Women's Voices3. Country: The Conservative Stance4. Novelty and Comedy Songs: The Cold War as a Big Joke5. Early Rock and Other Styles: Rocking the Bomb6. Mainstream Rock: Bowie, U2, Sting, Billy Joel, and Springsteen7. Hard Rock and Heavy Metal: The Electric Guitar as the Bomb8. Punk Rock: Three Chords and the Apocalypse9. Electronic and New Wave: The Cold War in a Synthesizer10. Wind of Change: The Fall of the Wall and the End of the Cold WarConclusionBibliography, Discography, VideographyIndex
£77.35
Indiana University Press Casting a Giant Shadow
Book SynopsisCasting a Giant Shadow is a collection of articles that embraces the notion of transnationalism to consider the limits of what is "Israeli" within Israeli cinema.Trade Review"Casting a Giant Shadow provides, in anthology form, an excellent encyclopedic overview of how Israeli cinema—from its earliest days—has had transnational elements along with those that are specific to its national history and sensibility—addressing this broad topic in myriad imaginative ways. Clear and well-written, it is a major contribution to film studies."—Lucy Fischer, Distinguished Professor of English and Film Studies, University of Pittsburgh"Casting a Giant Shadow will make you see Israeli films in an entirely new light. This new collection puts Israeli cinema squarely on a map of global markets and influences, from Cannon Films to K-cinema, from Westerns to New Extremism. This important book reflects shift towards the transnational in film studies."—Olga Gershenson, University of Massachusetts Amherst
£66.60
Indiana University Press Casting a Giant Shadow
Book SynopsisCasting a Giant Shadow is a collection of articles that embraces the notion of transnationalism to consider the limits of what is Israeli within Israeli cinema.Trade Review"Casting a Giant Shadow provides, in anthology form, an excellent encyclopedic overview of how Israeli cinema—from its earliest days—has had transnational elements along with those that are specific to its national history and sensibility—addressing this broad topic in myriad imaginative ways. Clear and well-written, it is a major contribution to film studies."—Lucy Fischer, Distinguished Professor of English and Film Studies, University of Pittsburgh"Casting a Giant Shadow will make you see Israeli films in an entirely new light. This new collection puts Israeli cinema squarely on a map of global markets and influences, from Cannon Films to K-cinema, from Westerns to New Extremism. This important book reflects shift towards the transnational in film studies."—Olga Gershenson, University of Massachusetts Amherst
£28.80
Indiana University Press The Golden Age of the Lithuanian Yeshivas
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Recent decades have seen the yeshiva recreated as an institution for all Jewish men, and in some places for Jewish women as well. Yet in its origin the yeshiva was an elite institution, for men who were prepared to devote themselves to years of Torah study. The most outstanding of the yeshivas were found in Lithuania, and the period between the two World Wars saw important developments in these schools, developments that continue to reverberate in Orthodox society. Ben-Tsiyon Klibansky has made great use not merely of the memoir literature and academic sources, but has immersed himself in archives in order to offer us the first scholarly study of the yeshivas during the interwar years. For those seeking to understand where the yeshivas came from, how they functioned, what ideals guided them, and how unfortunately they came to their end in Eastern Europe, there is no better guide than Klibansky."—Marc B. Shapiro, Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies, University of Scranton"Through a thorough and rigorous study of numerous sources, Ben Tsiyon Klibansky demonstrates that interwar Poland, rightly characterized as an age of decline to Orthodox Judaism, was an age of thriving to one of its major institutions: the Yeshiva. The complete destruction of the Lithuanian yeshivas in World War II, first by the Soviet occupation and then by the Nazi Holocaust, put an end to this thriving institution, but, as Klibansky concludes, they remained a source of inspiration to the renewed yeshivas of the postwar period."—Benjamin Brown, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem"Nowadays the term "Lithuanian Yeshiva" is used for a type of yeshivas that emerged in Lithuania in the nineteenth century and developed a special "school" of learning and a code of living and dressing, which is still existent. Yet, knowledge about yeshivas in Lithuania itself, especially in the twentieth century up till and into the Holocaust, is unknown. Ben-Tsiyon Klibansky's The Golden Age of the Lithuanian Yeshivas bridges this lack in knowledge and uncovers in a fascinating way and based on in-depth research the general picture of this period as well as its particulars. Klibansky successes in depicting and analyzing the renewal and vitality of the Yehiva world vis-à-vis the deep political, social, religious and cultural changes of the first decades of the twentieth century, and by doing so also re-emphasizes the enormous loss to Jewry, Judaism and Yiddishkeit caused by the Holocaust."—Dan Michman, Head, The International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem; Professor (Emeritus) of Modern Jewish History, Bar-Ilan Universit"Few institutions influenced the world of European Jewry as did the yeshivas. The fact that the yeshiva framework was 'emulated' in the United States, Israel, England, France, and elsewhere by newly coalescing traditionalist communities is proof of its lasting significance. At the same time, few institutions were so misunderstood as were the yeshivas. The pious attempts that were written to describe how they functioned missed the key points – usually out of ignorance. Klibansky's magnum opus transforms our understanding of how the traditionalist Jews created structures to maintain adherence. It is no less significant in explaining what the self-conscious modernists in Europe were responding to. In short, it is one of those transformative works that are basic texts for both understanding a world that was destroyed and a new world that was created."—Shaul Stampfer, Sandrow Professor of Soviet and East European Jewish History (emeritus), Hebrew University of Jerusalem"Ben-Tsiyon Klibansky has stepped into a historiographical void of the interwar East European Jewish experience with his The Golden Age of the Yeshivas, a study of all facets of the Lithuanian yeshiva world: leadership, student body, curriculum, economics, and self-image. Through a rare combination of historical empathy and judicious use of sources, Klibansky has reconstructed the interwar Lithuanian yeshivas in all their panoramic commonalities and granular specificities. In so doing, he has parsed the central paradox of the phenomenon of a golden age of the Lithuanian yeshivas, set against the background of Jewish secularization, educational practicality, and political and economic crisis."—Joshua Karlip, Herbert S. and Naomi Denenberg Associate Professor of Jewish History, Yeshiva UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionSection I: Consolidation and Expansion1. The Renewal of the Yeshiva World after the First World War2. Expansion Trends in the Yeshiva WorldSection II: Aspects of the Yeshiva World3. Economy4. Studies5. Leadership6. The TalmidimSection III: The Beginning of the End7. Return to Wandering8. Under Soviet RuleEpilogueBrief BiographiesGlossaryBibliographyIndex
£59.50
Indiana University Press The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In the first comprehensive English-language study of the crucial March 1968 events in Poland, Anat Plocker deftly analyzes the sources of the upheaval that ended in the forced emigration of 13,500-15,000 Jews from the country. Using a wide array of archival and memoir sources, Plocker convincingly demonstrates that the communist party's anti-Zionist campaign was the product of Polish nationalist thinking in the party as it intersected with Polish anti-Semitism and the politicized memory of the war and Holocaust. This is a personal and deeply scholarly account that makes for riveting reading."—Norman Naimark, Stanford University"This is the first comprehensive English monograph of the infamous "anti-Zionist campaign" of 1968, which forced in exile thousands of Polish Jews and almost ended the organized Jewish life in Poland. Analyzing a broad source base, including previously top secret documents of the communist party and Security Service, it expands our knowledge and challenges some of the key theses of Polish historiography on the topic."—Dariusz Stola, Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN"Plocker challenges our understanding of recent Polish history by exploring a seemingly episodic event: the antisemitic campaign conducted by the communist government in 1967-68 against the remnants of the Jewish community in Poland. This powerful book shows us how the forced emigration of alleged "Zionists" was a defining moment for the consolidation of Polish ethnonationalism and a distinct memory of World War Two that continues to shape Polish politics today. Extensively researched and lucidly argued, this book masterfully combines intellectual rigor with a deeply humanistic narrative."—Malgorzata Fidelis, University of Illinois at Chicago."In this clear-sighted and compelling book, Anat Plocker skillfully mines the archives to trace the origins, course, and legacies of the anti-Zionist campaign in 1960s Poland, when communist leaders and lower-level officials alike mobilized antisemitism to advance their political agendas. By focusing on the language and processes of exclusion, she also offers timely context for understanding the revival of both Polish nationalist narratives of the Holocaust and fear-based campaigns against vulnerable populations across the world."—Kathryn Ciancia, University of Wisconsin-MadisonTable of ContentsPrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. From inclusion to Exclusion2. Not to Be Trusted3. The Encyclopedia and "The Falsification of History"4. We, the Students5. "To Warsaw Students"6. "Zionism is Not a Danger to Poland"ConclusionsIndex
£21.59
