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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

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Book Synopsis-This is a collection of essays by world-famous author, Jean Améry, translated into English for the first time. -Although written prior to his death in 1978, their insights are as comptemporary and fresh as ever given the current political climate. -Améry's works have been a mainstay of IUP's Holocaust list of decades./Trade Review"Amery's searing and indispensable reflection on the Nazi death camps, At the Mind's Limits, has now been supplemented by this prescient collection that foresaw the rise of leftwing antisemitism and described its motivations and impact with exceptional clarity. The result is a book that interrogates the present moment from the moral and philosophical perspective of the Shoah. This is a compelling book that everyone concerned with our destiny should read."—Cary Nelson, author of Dreams Deferred and Not in Kansas Anymore"Remove the dates and historical markers on some of the essays, and you will think you are reading a contemporary critique of the left vis-à-vis the Jews and Israel. Jean Améry, for that reason, was, as much a major witness to the catastrophe, as a visionary intellectual who admonished those who had perverted the progressive project into the infamous "socialism of the fools." This collection of elegant translations prefaced by Alvin Rosenfeld shows an intellectual and a witness immune to all dogmas and whose heart and reason constitute the only measure of his ethical judgement."—Bruno Chaouat, author of Is Theory Good for the Jews? French Thought and the Challenge of the New Antisemitism"If there's a cure for today's woke antisemitism, this is it. Camouflaged as anti-Zionism, the world's oldest hatred runs amok on the left in new forms after World War II (which stigmatized old-fashioned, rightwing Jew-hatred for a time), as Améry saw ahead of the rest. Anti-Zionism is antisemitism, he recognized unflinchingly. In sum, there is no discussion worth having of campus antisemitism, the movement to boycott Israel, the upsurge in attacks on Jews around the world or Israeli-diaspora relations that ignores this prescient and piercing, achingly lucid volume"—Gabriel Noah Brahm, Northern Michigan UniversityTable of ContentsForewordIntroductionEssays1. On the Impossible Obligation to Be a Jew2. Between Vietnam and Israel3. Virtuous Antisemitism4. The New Left's Approach to "Zionism"5. Jews, Leftists, Leftist Jews6. The New Antisemitism7. Shylock, Kitsch, and Its Hazards8. Virtuous Antisemitism9. The Limits of Solidarity10. My JewishnessEpilogueNote on SourcesBiographical TimelineContributor BiographiesIndex

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Book SynopsisCovering a range of media and a wide geographical spread, Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean reveals how 19th-century artists in the Middle East and North Africa reckoned with new tools, materials, and tastes from local perspectives.Trade Review"This book is a timely contribution to pressing debates about visual cultures of modernity across the modern Mediterranean. With a geographic diversity reaching from the Ottoman capital across North Africa, the essays in this book address a rich range of themes, from emergent forms of modern historicism to original readings of objects and images that trouble entrenched assumptions about aesthetic value. So too, this book's revisionary perspective makes clear the necessity to address the diversity of visual culture, from painting to photography, from craft work to infrastructure. The collective enterprise of this anthology transforms our understanding of what it meant to be modern across the Islamic Mediterranean."—Mary Roberts, author of Istanbul Exchanges: Ottomans, Orientalists and Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture, University of Sydney"Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean combines a compelling and well-researched range of studies that make a valuable contribution to the pluralization of global modernisms in art history, with a focus on nineteenth-century Islamic art and visual culture. This volume is a welcome addition to the literature of Islamic modernity and modern art."—Berin Golonu, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide"This attractive volume addresses the recent scholarly shift from the arts and architecture of the lands of Islam in the early caliphates of the Umayyads and Abbasids through the pre-modern Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal dynasties to modern and contemporary times. An introduction by Graves (Indiana Univ.) and Seggerman (Rutgers Univ., Newark) is followed by 11 essays focused on the different ways in which artists, artisans, and patrons in the Mediterranean lands from Morocco to Egypt and the Ottoman Empire in the 19th and 20th centuries engaged with European modernity and the colonial enterprise. The essays are roughly grouped around three topics: the introduction of photography and printing with movable type, new modes of craft production, and transportation by steamship and railroad. As with all such collections, the essays are uneven; some are unexpectedly fascinating—for example those on the exchange of photographic albums between the Ottoman sultan and the University of Pennsylvania to foster archaeological projects, the celebrations surrounding the opening of the Suez Canal, the introduction of Krupps' steel I-beam to Istanbul—but others are laden with academic jargon. (Reprinted with permission from Choice Reviews. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library Association.)"—J. M. Bloom, Boston College, ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean, by Margaret S. Graves and Alex Dika SeggermanPart I: Picturing Knowledge1. Well-Worn Fashions: Repetition and Authenticity in Late Ottoman Costume Books, by Ünver Rüstem2. Osman Hamdi and the Long Duration of History, by Gülru Çakmak3. Picturing Knowledge: Visual Literacy in Nineteenth-Century Arabic Periodicals, by Hala Auji4. The Muybridge Albums in Istanbul: Photography as Diplomacy in the Ottoman Empire, by Emily NeumeierPart II: Conceptualizing Craft5. The Double Bind of Craft Fidelity: Moroccan Ceramics on the Eve of the French Protectorate, by Margaret S. Graves6. The Manual Crafts and the Challenge of Modernity in Late Nineteenth-Century Damascus, by Marcus Milwright7. The Turn to Tapestry: Islamic Textiles and Women Artists in Tunis, by Jessica GerschultzPart III: Aesthetics of Infrastructure8. Alabaster and Albumen: Photographs of the Muhammad Ali Mosque and the Making of a Modern Icon, by Alex Dika Seggerman9. Tents and Trains: Mobilizing Modernity in the Late Ottoman Empire, by Ashley Dimmig10. Precious Metal: The I-Beam in the Late Ottoman Empire, by Peter Christensen11. November 1869: The Suez Canal Inauguration, by David J. RoxburghTimelineGlossaryIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A meticulously researched and elegantly written biography of a fascinating, multi-faceted and unjustly forgotten figure that exhumes lost dimensions of Anglo-Jewish history."—David Sorkin, Lucy G. Moses professor of Jewish history at Yale University"More than a biography, The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman reads like a saga of the British Jewish elite of the nineteenth and twentieth century. Redcliffe Salaman, the figure at this book's heart, took on the life of a country gentleman, embraced eugenics, married a translator of medieval Hebrew poetry, hobnobbed with Britain's leading Jewish lights, dedicated years to grappling with the history of the potato. He was wildly eccentric but also deeply embedded. All told, Salaman serves as a fascinating window into the salon of the historic, Anglo-Jewish upper class."—Sarah Abrevaya Stein, author of Family Papers: a Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century"Redcliffe Salaman was a privileged and cultured polymath, and Todd Endelman tells his story with authority and grace. More than a biography, Endelman's book is a tale of an interconnected Anglo-Jewish elite and its decline over the course of the 20th century. An absorbing account."—Derek J. Penslar, author of Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader"Meticulously researched and skilfully written, The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman reveals the dynamics of upper-middle class Jewish life in Britain from the late Victorians period to the middle of the twentieth century. Encompassing family and social life as well as intellectual and political history, Todd Endelman has produced a vivid and humane biography and, at the same time, brings new insights to the history of Jewish integration in modern Britain."—David Feldman, University of LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsNote on SourcesFamily TreeIntroduction1. Family Background and Early Years2. Medicine and Marriage3. Homestall4. Race Science5. Nina and the Hebrew Poets6. World War I and the Land of Israel7. The Home Front8. Communal Work and Personal Loss9. The Jewish Health Organization of Great Britain10. Conflicts at Home and Abroad11. The Potato Book12. Communal GadflyAfterwordGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisRedcliffe Salaman (18741955) was an English Jew of many facets: a country gentleman, a physician, a biologist who pioneered the breeding of blight-free strains of potatoes, a Jewish nationalist, and a race scientist. A well-known figure in his own time, The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman restores him to his place in the history of British science and the British Jewish community. Redcliffe Salaman was also a leading figure in the Anglo-Jewish community in the 20th century.At the same time, he was also an incisive critic of the changing character of that community.His groundbreaking book, The History and Social Influence of the Potato, first published in 1949 and in print ever since, is a classic in social history.His wife Nina was a feminist, poet, essayist, and translator of medieval Hebrew poetry.She was the first (and to this day, only) woman to deliver a sermon in an Orthodox synagogue in Britain. The Last-Anglo Jewish Gentleman offers a compelling biography of a unique individualTrade Review"A meticulously researched and elegantly written biography of a fascinating, multi-faceted and unjustly forgotten figure that exhumes lost dimensions of Anglo-Jewish history."—David Sorkin, Lucy G. Moses professor of Jewish history at Yale University"More than a biography, The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman reads like a saga of the British Jewish elite of the nineteenth and twentieth century. Redcliffe Salaman, the figure at this book's heart, took on the life of a country gentleman, embraced eugenics, married a translator of medieval Hebrew poetry, hobnobbed with Britain's leading Jewish lights, dedicated years to grappling with the history of the potato. He was wildly eccentric but also deeply embedded. All told, Salaman serves as a fascinating window into the salon of the historic, Anglo-Jewish upper class."—Sarah Abrevaya Stein, author of Family Papers: a Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century"Redcliffe Salaman was a privileged and cultured polymath, and Todd Endelman tells his story with authority and grace. More than a biography, Endelman's book is a tale of an interconnected Anglo-Jewish elite and its decline over the course of the 20th century. An absorbing account."—Derek J. Penslar, author of Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader"Meticulously researched and skilfully written, The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman reveals the dynamics of upper-middle class Jewish life in Britain from the late Victorians period to the middle of the twentieth century. Encompassing family and social life as well as intellectual and political history, Todd Endelman has produced a vivid and humane biography and, at the same time, brings new insights to the history of Jewish integration in modern Britain."—David Feldman, University of LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsNote on SourcesFamily TreeIntroduction1. Family Background and Early Years2. Medicine and Marriage3. Homestall4. Race Science5. Nina and the Hebrew Poets6. World War I and the Land of Israel7. The Home Front8. Communal Work and Personal Loss9. The Jewish Health Organization of Great Britain10. Conflicts at Home and Abroad11. The Potato Book12. Communal GadflyAfterwordGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA Sephardi Sea explores how practices of memory- and heritage-making has filled an identity vacuum in the three countries and helps the Jews from North Africa and Egypt to define their Jewishness in Europe and Israel today.Trade Review"Micoli has done a masterful research on the many forms of North African and Middle Eastern Jews post-colonial exiles. Digging in the depth of this memory lane, he presents the full texture of their narratives throughout the Mediterranean sea and shows with many luxurious details and stories, how their many migrations from its southern shores to the northern ones, redefined their identity, after the Shoah. A Sephardi Sea shows the centrality of this memory of migration and exile in the making of Sephardi and Mizrahi identities, with the Mediterranean sea at its center, and main site. It fills and immense gap in our knowledge of yet a little known exodus. Miccoli proves to be an avid interpreter of the present, with its many acute observations of Jewish Muslim mixed associations of migrants as sites of the future of Europe. A must read."—Yolande Cohen, Université du Québec à Montréal"In A Sephardi Sea, Miccoli took upon himself an important task that combines different scholarly approaches in an attempt to better understand the modes and practices that maintain the identity of communities in times of drastic changes - namely migration. This is not a history book, but rather an attempt to document the way migrants, men and women, negotiate between the past- looked upon nostalgically - and the present. Between official and non-official attempts to maintain identities and connect the past with the present. The interaction between time and space add to our understanding of ways of coping with trauma of migration."—Esther Schely-Newman, The Hebrew UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: Being Jewish in the Mediterranean1. Writing Exile2. (In)tangible Heritages3. An Unfinished PresentConclusion: Afterlives of exileReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisA Sephardi Sea explores how practices of memory- and heritage-making has filled an identity vacuum in the three countries and helps the Jews from North Africa and Egypt to define their Jewishness in Europe and Israel today.Trade Review"Micoli has done a masterful research on the many forms of North African and Middle Eastern Jews post-colonial exiles. Digging in the depth of this memory lane, he presents the full texture of their narratives throughout the Mediterranean sea and shows with many luxurious details and stories, how their many migrations from its southern shores to the northern ones, redefined their identity, after the Shoah. A Sephardi Sea shows the centrality of this memory of migration and exile in the making of Sephardi and Mizrahi identities, with the Mediterranean sea at its center, and main site. It fills and immense gap in our knowledge of yet a little known exodus. Miccoli proves to be an avid interpreter of the present, with its many acute observations of Jewish Muslim mixed associations of migrants as sites of the future of Europe. A must read."—Yolande Cohen, Université du Québec à Montréal"In A Sephardi Sea, Miccoli took upon himself an important task that combines different scholarly approaches in an attempt to better understand the modes and practices that maintain the identity of communities in times of drastic changes - namely migration. This is not a history book, but rather an attempt to document the way migrants, men and women, negotiate between the past- looked upon nostalgically - and the present. Between official and non-official attempts to maintain identities and connect the past with the present. The interaction between time and space add to our understanding of ways of coping with trauma of migration."—Esther Schely-Newman, The Hebrew UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: Being Jewish in the Mediterranean1. Writing Exile2. (In)tangible Heritages3. An Unfinished PresentConclusion: Afterlives of exileReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"With this book Susanna Schrafstetter has written one of the most thoughtful, well-researched, and genuinely comparative historical studies on rescue that I know of, and one of the only ones to reflect on restitution, postwar trajectories, and the place in postwar Germany for the survivors. Not only is it one of the most nuanced historical studies to appear on rescue in Germany, it is an essential read for historians of the topic in any national context."—Mark Roseman, Distinguished Professor of History, Pat M Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies, Indiana University"This is a rather remarkable book. It stands out from the hundreds of other books published every year on the Holocaust by focusing on a group of victims who have been somewhat neglected. There exists already some literature on hidden Jews in Berlin, but we have no study as detailed as this on another major German city like Munich. In terms of the critical analysis of all her sources and the existing literature, this study could stand as a model for undergraduate or graduate teaching. Beyond that, the searing stories of suffering, and the touching tales of assistance offered, make this a book that will appeal to a broader non-academic audience as well."—Geoffrey J. Giles, University of Florida"This extraordinarily careful exploration of a hitherto neglected aspect of German and Jewish history during World War II and the in the decades after the war will be of great interest to both scholars and those with a general interest Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, the occupation period, and the development of the Federal Republic of German since 1949."—Gerhard L. Weinberg, William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsMapsIntroduction1. Under Nazi Rule: Jews in Munich, 1933–19412. The Deportations3. Early Escapes: Fall 1941–Summer 19424. The Conclusion of the Mass Deportations in 1943: A Second Wave of Escapes?5. Evading the Final Deportations in February 19456. Dangers and Failed Escapes, 1941–1945: Denunciation, Exploitation, Discovery, Illness7. Specific Groups of Helpers and Those They Helped: Hidden Children and Church Aid8. To and from Munich: Regional, National, and Transnational Escape Routes and Connections9. After 1945: Reconstruction or New Beginning?10. Postwar Encounters11. Compensation for Surviving U-Boats, Their Family Members, and Their Helpers12. U-Boats and Their Helpers in Postwar German SocietyConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisBetween ten thousand and twelve thousand Jews tried to escape Nazi genocide by going into hiding. With the help of Jewish and non-Jewish relatives, friends, or people completely unknown to them, these U-boats, as they came to be known, dared to lead a life underground. Flight and Concealment brings to light their hidden stories. Deftly weaving together personal accounts with a broader comparative look at the experiences of Jews throughout Germany, historian Susanna Schrafstetter tells the story of the Jews in Munich and Upper Bavaria who fled deportation by going underground. Archival sources and interviews with survivors and with the Germans who aided or exploited them reveal a complex, often intimate story of hope, greed, and sometimes betrayal. Flight and Concealment shows the options and strategies for survival of those in hiding and their helpers, and discusses the ways in which some Germans enriched themselves at the expense of the refugees.Trade Review"With this book Susanna Schrafstetter has written one of the most thoughtful, well-researched, and genuinely comparative historical studies on rescue that I know of, and one of the only ones to reflect on restitution, postwar trajectories, and the place in postwar Germany for the survivors. Not only is it one of the most nuanced historical studies to appear on rescue in Germany, it is an essential read for historians of the topic in any national context."—Mark Roseman, Distinguished Professor of History, Pat M Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies, Indiana University"This is a rather remarkable book. It stands out from the hundreds of other books published every year on the Holocaust by focusing on a group of victims who have been somewhat neglected. There exists already some literature on hidden Jews in Berlin, but we have no study as detailed as this on another major German city like Munich. In terms of the critical analysis of all her sources and the existing literature, this study could stand as a model for undergraduate or graduate teaching. Beyond that, the searing stories of suffering, and the touching tales of assistance offered, make this a book that will appeal to a broader non-academic audience as well."—Geoffrey J. Giles, University of Florida"This extraordinarily careful exploration of a hitherto neglected aspect of German and Jewish history during World War II and the in the decades after the war will be of great interest to both scholars and those with a general interest Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, the occupation period, and the development of the Federal Republic of German since 1949."—Gerhard L. Weinberg, William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsMapsIntroduction1. Under Nazi Rule: Jews in Munich, 1933–19412. The Deportations3. Early Escapes: Fall 1941–Summer 19424. The Conclusion of the Mass Deportations in 1943: A Second Wave of Escapes?5. Evading the Final Deportations in February 19456. Dangers and Failed Escapes, 1941–1945: Denunciation, Exploitation, Discovery, Illness7. Specific Groups of Helpers and Those They Helped: Hidden Children and Church Aid8. To and from Munich: Regional, National, and Transnational Escape Routes and Connections9. After 1945: Reconstruction or New Beginning?10. Postwar Encounters11. Compensation for Surviving U-Boats, Their Family Members, and Their Helpers12. U-Boats and Their Helpers in Postwar German SocietyConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this deeply-researched and original book, Sarah Cramsey shows how the redefinition of Jewish identity after the Holocaust was part of an ethnic revolution that transformed Eastern Europe's shattered moral and political landscape. This is an important contribution to the history of European Jews, the creation of postwar Eastern Europe, and the complex relationship between nationality and statehood."—James J. Sheehan, Stanford University"In this impressive and carefully argued book, Sarah Cramsey tackles some very large themes - territory and belonging, nationalism, diaspora, minority rights, the Jewish Question - and proposes the intriguing new formulation of 'empirical Zionism' to help untangle the complexities of the 'ethnic revolution' that took place in central and eastern Europe from the mid-1930s to the mid-1940s. In doing so, she deftly combines analysis of institutions, ideologies, politics and people, and opens up welcome new perspectives on familiar issues that remain of great interest to historians."—David Rechter, University of Oxford"Ninety percent of Polish Jews perished in the Holocaust, but some 300,000 Polish-Jewish survivors remained the fourth biggest group of the European diaspora. This book tells the fascinating history of their mass exodus in the postwar years and perceptively analyzes its peculiar factors, which had developed in the previous decade: from the recent Jewish traumas to considerations of Jewish, Czechoslovak and Polish leaders, to radical changes of ideas on belonging, minority rights and desirable shape of polities."—Dariusz Stola, Polish Academy of Sciences"This superbly narrated book is essential reading for anyone interested in diaspora and nation-building in modern times. Uprooting the Diaspora follows Jewish and non-Jewish politicians, diplomats, thinkers, and writers in their quest for ideas on how to "resolve the tensions" surrounding Jewish national and spatial belonging in 20th century Poland and Czechoslovakia. The book explores rootedness, diaspora, and Zionism in the tragic decade of 1936-1946 with empathy, insight, and originality. Powerfully argued and meticulously researched, it's intellectual history at its best!"—Anna Cichopek-Gajraj, Arizona State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Rooted: A Contingent Look at Polish Jews in the Late 1930s2. In Exile: Debating Postwar Plans during an Uprooted Present, 1940–19433. Negating This Diaspora: The World Jewish Congress and the Prioritization of Postwar Life in Palestine, 1942–19444. Uncertain Citizenship: Anxious Postwar Returns to East Central Europe, 1945–19465. Uprooted: The "Miraculous" Remnant of Polish Jews Who Survived in the Soviet Union and Their Postwar MigrationsConclusion: The Postwar Life Is ElsewhereNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a genuinely remarkable book. The thinking behind it is sophisticated and well-founded, offering a telling portrait of popular responses to Nazi Germany."—Mark Roseman, Pat M Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies, Indiana University"Janosch Steuwer's magnificent and original analysis of keeping a diary probes the way individuals composed themselves during the Nazi period as they negotiated the push and pull of collective exuberance while ostensibly remaining true to themselves. This is a story not of the Nazi seizure of power but of the Nazi seizure of the self, a story not of coercion but of desire."—Peter Fritzsche, University of Illinois, author of An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler"Janosch Steuwer powerfully analyzes that Nazism was shaped by Germans who strove to define their own place within it. His path-breaking book, based on a numerous contemporary diaries, should be of interest to all historians of European dictatorships"—Moritz Föllmer, University of Amsterdam, author of Culture in the Third Reich"A milestone for the history of experience and emotions of the Third Reich."—Michael Wildt, Humboldt University of Berlin, author of Hitler's Volksgemeinschaft and the Dynamics of Racial Exclusion"How did ordinary Germans buy in to the Nazi regime? This question has fascinated and baffled historians for more years, usually producing answers which couple opportunism, peer pressure and fear. Sifting carefully through a large number of diaries, Janosch Steuwer offers the first answer to this question based consistently on the subjective sources produced by individuals themselves. Self-fashioning, wilful ignorance and projecting their own wishes onto the regime all come to the fore here, giving a far more nuanced and also much more morally and emotionally active sense of how Germans persuaded themselves that this was their government. A tremendous achievement and a must read book in the field."—Nicholas Stargardt, author of The German War: A Nation under Arms, 1939-45Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations and TermsIntroductionPart One1. The Social Dynamics of the "Seizure of Power"2. The Search for a Personal Stance toward the Nazi Regime3. Establishing a Personal Stance toward the Regime While under Social ObservationPart Two4. The National Socialist Education Project5. Political Self-Formation in the Nazi Education ProjectPart Three6. A New Political Culture in a New Political System7. The Government and Its Volk8. The Private and the Limits of the National Socialist Political SystemConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex of PersonsIndex of Subjects

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Anna Koch has written a fascinating and differentiated account of the German and Italian Jews who returned to their homelands after World War Two. Closely based on memoirs and archival documentation, Home after Fascism lucidly explores how German and Italian Jews had to redefine notions of home in order to find a place in the countries which had persecuted them."—Bill Niven, Professor Emeritus of Contemporary German History, Nottingham Trent University"At once expansive and intimate, Home After Fascism provides a meticulously researched history of the difficulties Jews faced as they tried to recreate their lives immediately after the Holocaust in the very countries that persecuted them. Grounding the study within the distinct memory cultures of Italy, East Germany, and West Germany, Anna Koch's brilliant book is a must read, interrogating how fresh memories of murder and betrayal clashed with individuals' sense of attachment to a language, a place, and a homeland."—Marion Kaplan, author Hitler's Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal"What is the meaning of home for people whose homes have been violently destroyed? Using a wealth of primary sources including letters, diaries, memoirs, and oral testimonies, Anna Koch draws on cutting-edge research in memory studies and the history of emotions to bring to life in vivid detail how German and Italian Jews renegotiated the meaning of 'home' in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Carefully researched and brilliantly argued, Home After Fascism is an important and compelling work."—Emiliano Perra, author of Conflicts of Memory: The Reception of Holocaust FilmsTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Returning Home?2. Entangled Memories3. Reclaiming Home4. BelongingConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Anna Koch has written a fascinating and differentiated account of the German and Italian Jews who returned to their homelands after World War Two. Closely based on memoirs and archival documentation, Home after Fascism lucidly explores how German and Italian Jews had to redefine notions of home in order to find a place in the countries which had persecuted them."—Bill Niven, Professor Emeritus of Contemporary German History, Nottingham Trent University"At once expansive and intimate, Home After Fascism provides a meticulously researched history of the difficulties Jews faced as they tried to recreate their lives immediately after the Holocaust in the very countries that persecuted them. Grounding the study within the distinct memory cultures of Italy, East Germany, and West Germany, Anna Koch's brilliant book is a must read, interrogating how fresh memories of murder and betrayal clashed with individuals' sense of attachment to a language, a place, and a homeland."—Marion Kaplan, author Hitler's Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal"What is the meaning of home for people whose homes have been violently destroyed? Using a wealth of primary sources including letters, diaries, memoirs, and oral testimonies, Anna Koch draws on cutting-edge research in memory studies and the history of emotions to bring to life in vivid detail how German and Italian Jews renegotiated the meaning of 'home' in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Carefully researched and brilliantly argued, Home After Fascism is an important and compelling work."—Emiliano Perra, author of Conflicts of Memory: The Reception of Holocaust FilmsTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Returning Home?2. Entangled Memories3. Reclaiming Home4. BelongingConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In a masterful, erudite, and lucidly written study, Yair Furstenberg explores the development of perceptions and practices of ritual purity from the Second Temple Period to the Rabbinic era as prisms through which fundamental issues of identity and community were negotiated during this tumultuous time. The book expertly and convincingly demonstrates the value of careful textual inquiry for the construction of a social history, as it uncovers the multiple and rich layers of ideas, concerns, and cultural and religious challenges that are hidden in one of the most fascinating sets of texts from Jewish antiquity."—Mira Balberg, author of Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In a masterful, erudite, and lucidly written study, Yair Furstenberg explores the development of perceptions and practices of ritual purity from the Second Temple Period to the Rabbinic era as prisms through which fundamental issues of identity and community were negotiated during this tumultuous time. The book expertly and convincingly demonstrates the value of careful textual inquiry for the construction of a social history, as it uncovers the multiple and rich layers of ideas, concerns, and cultural and religious challenges that are hidden in one of the most fascinating sets of texts from Jewish antiquity."—Mira Balberg, author of Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature

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Book SynopsisThe communities along the coastline of Ghana boast a long and vibrant maritime culture. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the region experienced creeping British imperialism and incorporation into the British Gold Coast colony. Drawing on a wealth of Ghanian archival sources, historian Kwaku Nti shows how many aspects of traditional maritime daily lifecustomary ritual performances, fishing, and concepts of ownership, and landserved as a means of resistance and allowed residents to contest and influence the socio-political transformations of the era. Nti explored how the Ebusua (female) and Asafo (male) local social groups, especially in Cape Coast, became bastions of indigenous identity and traditions during British colonial rule, while at the same time functioning as focal points for demanding a share of emerging economic opportunities. A convincing demonstration of the power of the indigenous everyday life to complicate the reach of empire, Maritime Culture and EverydaTrade Review"This book provides an in-depth study of maritime culture as well as everyday life in 19th and 20th century coastal Ghana, with an emphasis on the social history of Cape Coast. Kwaku Nti, its author, deserves high commendation for his meticulous research and laser-sharp analysis."—A.B. Assensoh, Emeritus Professor, Indiana University"Maritime Culture and Everyday Life in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Coastal Ghana puts Ghanaian fisherfolk, gender-based organizations, and traders front and center in the making of a 'colonial' city. Trying to explain to students how to mine colonial documents and read between the lines for African ideas, frames of reference, goals, and agency? Teach this book. It is a stunning model."—Laura Fair, Columbia University"Maritime Culture and Everyday Life in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Coastal Ghana, Kwaku Nti makes an important contribution to the social history of indigenous African institutions and figures, and the conflicts and compromises brokered between them and British imperialists on Africa's Gold Coast/Ghana. Using the optics of Cape Coast, broader historical patterns are insightfully revealed."—Kwasi Konadu, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Endowed Chair, Colgate University"Maritime Culture and Everyday Life in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Coastal Ghana is a well-written, engaging, compelling book that brilliantly centers Akan people in the telling of their history. Kwaku Nti's use of Akan sources, coupled with his skillful reading of European sources through an Akan lens, opens new vistas for considering Africans' historical experiences. A must read for Africanists and maritime historians, alike."—Kevin Dawson, University of California, Merced

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Book SynopsisThe communities along the coastline of Ghana boast a long and vibrant maritime culture. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the region experienced creeping British imperialism and incorporation into the British Gold Coast colony. Drawing on a wealth of Ghanian archival sources, historian Kwaku Nti shows how many aspects of traditional maritime daily lifecustomary ritual performances, fishing, and concepts of ownership, and landserved as a means of resistance and allowed residents to contest and influence the socio-political transformations of the era. Nti explored how the Ebusua (female) and Asafo (male) local social groups, especially in Cape Coast, became bastions of indigenous identity and traditions during British colonial rule, while at the same time functioning as focal points for demanding a share of emerging economic opportunities. A convincing demonstration of the power of the indigenous everyday life to complicate the reach of empire, Maritime Culture and EverydaTrade Review"This book provides an in-depth study of maritime culture as well as everyday life in 19th and 20th century coastal Ghana, with an emphasis on the social history of Cape Coast. Kwaku Nti, its author, deserves high commendation for his meticulous research and laser-sharp analysis."—A.B. Assensoh, Emeritus Professor, Indiana University"Maritime Culture and Everyday Life in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Coastal Ghana puts Ghanaian fisherfolk, gender-based organizations, and traders front and center in the making of a 'colonial' city. Trying to explain to students how to mine colonial documents and read between the lines for African ideas, frames of reference, goals, and agency? Teach this book. It is a stunning model."—Laura Fair, Columbia University"Maritime Culture and Everyday Life in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Coastal Ghana, Kwaku Nti makes an important contribution to the social history of indigenous African institutions and figures, and the conflicts and compromises brokered between them and British imperialists on Africa's Gold Coast/Ghana. Using the optics of Cape Coast, broader historical patterns are insightfully revealed."—Kwasi Konadu, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Endowed Chair, Colgate University"Maritime Culture and Everyday Life in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Coastal Ghana is a well-written, engaging, compelling book that brilliantly centers Akan people in the telling of their history. Kwaku Nti's use of Akan sources, coupled with his skillful reading of European sources through an Akan lens, opens new vistas for considering Africans' historical experiences. A must read for Africanists and maritime historians, alike."—Kevin Dawson, University of California, Merced

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The stories of the more than 500,000 Jewish men and women who served in the American military during World War II have never been told with more honesty and heart than they are here. Françoise Ouzan has written a history that challenges, educates, and inspires. This book is a must-have for any World War II history shelf."—Michael S. Neiberg, author of When France Fell: Vichy and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance."Françoise Ouzan demonstrates the salience of emotions such as solidarity, empathy, and the yearning for honor for the experience of American Jewish men and women who served in the Second World War. Ouzan's canvas is global, but her approach is personal, drawing on a rich array of life-writing to tell a deeply moving story."—Derek Penslar, author of Jews and the Military: A History"True to My God and Country makes an important contribution to the scholarship of World War II, Jewish-American history, and women's history. It highlights the ways in which Jewish servicewomen crossed gender and social boundaries. It also illuminates how Jewish service women strove to be accepted in a military framework, and how they successfully confronted anti-Jewish attitudes."—Patricia Kollander, Florida Atlantic University"Research on the Jewish experience during and vis-à-vis World War II and theHolocaust naturally focuses on the fate of Jews under the control of Nazi Germany and its allies and on the reactions to that fate in the free world. Antisemitism experienced by Jews outside this orbit has hitherto drawn only minimal attention. In this fascinating account of the experiences of the many Jewish GIs in the American military at all fronts of the global war, Françoise Ouzan provides an in-depth picture of their coping with the widespread antisemitism that they suffered among their fellow soldiers. Their unexpected encounter with anti-Jewish hostility in French North Africa also shaped their Jewish identity. This excellent study is a most valuable contribution to the history of antisemitism, to the broader picture of the Jewish war experience, and to American Jewish history."—Dan Michman, Head, The International Institute for Holocaust Research; and the John Najmann Chair of Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The stories of the more than 500,000 Jewish men and women who served in the American military during World War II have never been told with more honesty and heart than they are here. Françoise Ouzan has written a history that challenges, educates, and inspires. This book is a must-have for any World War II history shelf."—Michael S. Neiberg, author of When France Fell: Vichy and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance."Françoise Ouzan demonstrates the salience of emotions such as solidarity, empathy, and the yearning for honor for the experience of American Jewish men and women who served in the Second World War. Ouzan's canvas is global, but her approach is personal, drawing on a rich array of life-writing to tell a deeply moving story."—Derek Penslar, author of Jews and the Military: A History"True to My God and Country makes an important contribution to the scholarship of World War II, Jewish-American history, and women's history. It highlights the ways in which Jewish servicewomen crossed gender and social boundaries. It also illuminates how Jewish service women strove to be accepted in a military framework, and how they successfully confronted anti-Jewish attitudes."—Patricia Kollander, Florida Atlantic University"Research on the Jewish experience during and vis-à-vis World War II and theHolocaust naturally focuses on the fate of Jews under the control of Nazi Germany and its allies and on the reactions to that fate in the free world. Antisemitism experienced by Jews outside this orbit has hitherto drawn only minimal attention. In this fascinating account of the experiences of the many Jewish GIs in the American military at all fronts of the global war, Françoise Ouzan provides an in-depth picture of their coping with the widespread antisemitism that they suffered among their fellow soldiers. Their unexpected encounter with anti-Jewish hostility in French North Africa also shaped their Jewish identity. This excellent study is a most valuable contribution to the history of antisemitism, to the broader picture of the Jewish war experience, and to American Jewish history."—Dan Michman, Head, The International Institute for Holocaust Research; and the John Najmann Chair of Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPREFACETHE RONAN ROBE SERIES BY JAUNE QUICK-TO-SEE-SMITHIntroductionPaula Gunn AllenGrandmotherSnowgooseCoyote's Daylight TripThe Trick Is ConsciousnessStar Child SuiteThe Beautiful Woman Who SingsSuicid/ing(ed) Indian WomenPoem for PatDonnaRobinWomanworkMadonna of the HillsRain for Ka-waik(San Ysidro, Cabezon)Kopis'tayaThe Bearer of the Sun Arises (Fiction)Diane BurnsOur PeopleBig FunFor CaroleHouston and Bowery, 1981Gladys CardiffLong PersonTsa'lagi Council TreeTlanusi'yi, The Leech PlaceGrey WomanOuter Space, Inner SpaceWhere Fire BurnsLeaves like FishSimplesNora DauenhauerWinter DevelopingSkiing on Russian ChristmasBreech BirthPregnant Image of "Exaggerating the Village"JessySeal PupsKelpRookeryVoicesGenocideTlingit Concrete PoemCharlotte de Cluethe underside of trees61HealingMorning Song.Place-of-Many-Swans.In Memory of the Moon. (A Killing.)Ijajee's StoryTo the spirit of MonahsetahDiary.Louise ErdrichJacklightBalind's DanceThe Lady in the Pink MustangThe Strange PeopleSnow TrainPainting of a White Gate and SkyDear John WayneTurtle Mountain ReservationScales (Fiction)Rayna GreenMexico City Hand GameWhen I Cut My HairNaneye'hiCoosaponakeesaAnother Dying ChieftainOld Indian TrickRoad HazardPalace Dancer, Dancing at LastHigh Cotton (Fiction)Joy HarjoEarly Morning WomanThe Blanket around HerConversations between Here and HomeI Am a Dangerous WomanThere Was a Dance, SweetheartSomeone TalkingThere are OceansFireObscene Phone Call #2She Was a Pretty HorseCarol Lee SanchezPrologueTribal ChantThe Way I Was...Open Dream SequenceQuotes from a ReviewYesterdayConversations from the Nightmare(The Syl La Ble Speaks En Erg Y/Sound)Mary TallMountainIndian BloodThe Last WolfCrazy DogholkodaMatmiyaThe Ivory Dog for My SisterGood GreaseOnce the Striped QuaggaTs'eekkaayahNaaholooyah (Fiction)Judith Mountain Leaf VolborthVihio ImagesSelf-PortraitA Time of TurquoiseThree Songs to Mark the NightDusk ChantVihio ImagesGoat-Woman DaresCorn-Woman RememberedHow Came She to Such Poppy-Breath?Iron-Door-WomanAnnette Areketa WestCoyote Brother SongNaming the RainChild PoemPoem for My FatherBlackbird WinterCalumet Early Eveningglenpoolsalt manRoberta Hill WhitemanBeginning the Year at Rosebud, S.D.Midnight on Front StreetLines for Marking TimeStar QuiltDream of RebirthThe Long ParenthesisFire Dragon, Fall Near Me Again (Fiction)Shirley Hill WittSeboyeta ChapelPunto FinalSomeday Soon I Will BeLa Mujer de Valor (Fiction)GlossaryBibliographyContributorsCredits

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Book SynopsisRewrites the history of the civil rights movement, recognizing the contributions of Black women.Trade Review"[Women in the Civil Rights Movement] helps break the gender line that restricted women in civil rights history to background and backstage roles... It is an invaluable resource which helps set history straight." Julian Bond " ... the volume remains one of the best single sources currently available on the unique contributions of Black women in the desegregation movement." Manning MarableTable of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSACKNOWLEDGMENTSEDITORS' INTRODUCTION1. Men Led, but Women Organized: Movement Participation of Women in the Mississippi Delta, by Charles Payne2. Beyond the Human Self: Grassroots Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, by Vicki Crawford3. Is This Amer? Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, by Mamie E. Locke4. Civil Rights Women: A Source for Doing Womanist Theology, by Jacquelyn Grant5. Ella Baker and the Origins of Participatory Democracy, by Carol Mueller6. Trailblazers: Women in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, by Mary Fair Burks7. Septima P. Clark and the Struggle for Human Rights, by Grace Jordan McFadden8. Modjeska Simkins and the South Carolina Conference of the NAACP, 1939-1957, by Barbara A. Woods9. Gloria Richardson and the Cambridge Movement, by Annette K. Brock10. The Women of Highlander, by Donna Langston11. The South Carolina Sea Island Citizenship Schools, 1957-1961, by Sandra B. Oledendorf12. The Role of Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement, by Anne Standley13. Women as Culture Carriers in the Civil Rights Movement: Fannie Lou Hamer, by Bernice Johnson Reagon14. Behind the Scenes: Doris Derby, Denise Nicholas and the Free Southern Theater, by Clarissa Myrick-Harris15. A Reluctant by Persistent Warrior: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Early Civil Rights Movement, by Allida M. Black16. Methodist Women Integrate Schools and Housing, 1952-1959, by Alice G. Knotts17. And the Pressure Never Let Up: Black Women, White Women, and the Boston YWCA, 1918-1948, by Sharlene Voogd CochraneThe ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines defining moments in African American women's fiction and its reception: the "Women's Era" of the 1890s, the Harlem Renaissance, and the "New Black Renaissance" of the 1970s and 1980s.Table of ContentsPreface—Speaking To You about the "Changing the Same"Part I Thinking About MethodsChapter One — New Directions for Black Feminist CriticismPart II Ideas of TraditionChapter Two — Race of Saints: Four Girls at Cottage CityChapter Three — "The Changing Same": Generational Connections and Black Women Novelists—Iola Leroy and The Color PurplePart III Undercover: Passing and Other DisguisesChapter Four—On FAce: Textual Identities in Jessie Fauset's Plum Bun or Marking and Marketing in the Harlem RenaissanceChapter Five: "The nameless . . . Shameful Impulse": Sexuality in Nella Larsen's Quicksand and PassingPart IV The Reader in the TextChapter Six—Boundaries: Or Distant Relations and Close Kine — SulaChapter Seven: Reading Family MattersPart V Hesitating Between Tenses or Allegories of HistoryChapter Eight—Witnessing Slavery AFter Freedom—Dessa RoseChapter Nine—Transferences: Black Feminist Discourse: The "Practice" of "Theory"

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Book SynopsisThe lives and work of women in the Harlem Renaissance - Jessie Redmon Fauset, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, and others - situated in the traditions of African-American and American writing.Table of ContentsAuthor's PrefaceA Note on the JourneyChapter IOn Being Young—a Woman—and ColoredWhen Harlem Was in VogueChapter IIJessie Fauset: Treveling in PlaceChapter IIINella Larsen: Passing For What?Chapter IVZora Neale Hurston's Traveling BluesEpilogueDestinations DeferredAppendix Selected Bibliography of Writings by Women of the Harlem RenaissanceNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisContains contributions on the state of race relations from several scholars who reflect upon their careers to show how personal experiences have influenced their scholarship.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionJumping Jim Crow, George B. TindallThe Making of an Historian, Leon F. LitwackReflections of a REconstructed White Southerner, dan T. CarterReflections on Race and Gender Systems, Darlene Clark HineFrom Eurocentrism to Polycentrism, David Levering LewisMy Life as a Historian, Eric FonerAutobiography and Scholarship, Jacqueline JonesConclusion: The Significance of the Personal for the Professional, Mark A. Naison

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Book SynopsisA collection of plays that focus on women's view of lynching. It reveals a social history of interracial cooperation between black and white women and an artistic tradition that continues to evolve through the work of African American women artists. It includes examples of both one-act and full-length dramas.Trade Review"These lynching dramas may not present the picture that America wants to see of itself, but these visions cannot be ignored because they are grounded--not only in the truth of white racism's toxic effect on our national existence but also in the truth that there exists a contesting, collective response that is part of an on-going and continually building momentum." Theatre Journal "A unique, powerful collection worthy of high school and college classroom assignment and discussion." Bookwatch

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Book SynopsisAfrican American suffragists in the suffrage movement.Trade Review"Rarely has a short book accomplished so much as Terborg-Penn's seminal work. With the utmost attention to detail Terborg-Penn examines the contributions of black suffragist stalwarts ... It undoubtedly will become the definitive work on African American women's involvement in the mainstream woman suffrage movement and specifically on black women's struggle for the vote." --Choice "This groundbreaking volume provides a theoretical and practical framework for new paradigms in African American women's history... All Black politicians should read and discuss this unique and brilliant book. Many lessons can be learned." - Philadelphia New Observer

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Book SynopsisFrom 1918 into the early twenties, any African American who spoke out forcefully for their race-editors, union organizers, civil rights advocates, radical political activists, and Pan-Africanists - were likely to be investigated by a network of federal intelligence agencies. This title presents an account of this story.Trade Review[Kornweibel] is the pre-eminent expert on the large-scale federal effort to monitor, control, and undermine black protest from the early post-war years to the mid-twenties. His book, tightly written, carefully documented, and at times passionately argued, bares the sordid story of government efforts to circumscribe and ultimately crush black dissent and protest." --Left History "Read Kornweibel's important book--and fret over the American Government's timeless compulsion to wield extralegal procedures against the unpopular and dispossessed." --The San Diego Union-Times "It should enlighten a broad audience on a period and a type of racial and political suppression less well known than those of later decades... Kornweibel's matter-of-fact treatment avoids rancour, allows the charged events to speak for themselves, showing how 'the political agenda of many white Americans--white supremacy--became the security agenda of powerful arms of the national government.'" --Kirkus Reviews For several years after World War I, any African Americans who spoke out forcefully for their race--editors, union organisers, civil rights advocates, political activists, and Pan-Africanists--were likely to be investigated by a network of federal intelligence agencies. A young J. Edgar Hoover of the Bureau of Investigation (later the FBI) spearheaded the effort to discredit black activists and their demands for civil rights as communist-inspired and a threat to national security, a real Red Scare. For this gripping account of a neglected, shameful chapter of American political intelligence, Theodore Kornweibel has uncovered much new material, including the identities of black informers and agent provocateurs. [Kornweibel's] book is based almost entirely on extensive primary research in numerous archives and in difficult-to-decipher microfilm. Others may build on his work in the future, but I am certain that no one will duplicate his research... ["Seeing Red" is] a significant contribution both to African American history and to the history of intelligence-[gathering]."--Susan Rosenfeld, former Chief Historian of the FBI "Kornweibel is an adept storyteller who admits he is drawn to the role of the historian-as-detective... What emerges is a fascinating tale of secret federal agents, many of them blacks, who were willing to take advantage of the colour of their skin to spy upon others of their race. And it is a tale of sometimes desperate and frequently angry government officials, including J. Edgar Hoover, who were willing to go to great lengths to try to stop what they perceived as threats to continued white supremacy."--Patrick S. Washburn, Journalism History"

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Book SynopsisHow black identities were forged in New World cultures.Trade ReviewThe editorial goal of this collection, gathered from papers of a 1996 conference, is to deepen understanding of how transplanted African populations (and their descendants) interacted with the physical, cultural, and intellectual environment of the New World. This goal mandates an assessment of the survival of African origins—an ongoing debate between the Essentialist school (a strong and continuous African presence) and those advocating a more syncretic viewpoint (an African presence more mutable and interactive with the new environment). The papers present both views and draw their evidence from a variety of disciplines: art, music, literature, linguistics, history, and sociology. The thematic grouping of the papers (e.g., Race, Gender, and Image), coupled with an introduction that succeeds in the difficult task of connecting most of the presentations, makes intelligible the variety of approaches and views. Undergraduate instructors in African American history and sociology can assign selected papers to illustrate methodology and stimulate discussion. History students, for example, will profit from Joseph E. Inikori's comments on the dangers inherent in applying the word slavery to the subject peoples of Africa. Upper-division undergraduates and above.February 2000 -- R. T. Ingoglia * Felician College *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, Isidore OkpewhoPart 1. The Diaspora: Orientations and Determinations1. Michael J. C. Echeruo, An African Diaspora: The Ontological Project2. Maureen Warner-Lewis, Cultural Reconfigurations in the African Caribbean3. Elliott P. Skinner, The Restoration of African Identity for a New MilleniumPart 2. Addressing the Constraints4. Joseph E. Inikori, Slaves or Serfs?: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Serfdom in Europe and Africa5. Richard Price, Modernity, Memory, Martinique6. Peter P. Ekeh, Kinship and State in African and African American Histories7. Jack S. Blocker, Jr., Wages of Migration: Jobs and Homeownership Among Black and White Workers in Muncie, Indiana, 19208. Ira Kincaid Blake, The Significance of Cognitive-Linguistic Orientation for Academic Well- Being in African American Children9. Sharon Aneta Bryant, The Relationship of Place of Birth and Health StatusPart 3. Race, Gender, and Image10. Celia M. Azevedo, Images of Africa and the Haiti Revolution in American and Brazilian Abolitionism11. Kimberly Welch, Our Hunger is Our Song: The Politics of Race in Cuba, 1900-192012. Antonio Benítez-Rojo, The Role of Music in the Emergence of Afro-Cuban Culture13. Sally Price, The Centrality of Margins: Art, Gender, and African American Creativity14. Eliana Guerreiro Ramos Bennett, Gabriela Cravo e Canela: Jorge Amado and the Myth of the Sexual Mulatta in Brazilian Culture15. Patience Elabor-Idemudia, Gender and the New African Diaspora: African Immigrant Women in the Canadian Labor Force16. Sandra L. Richards, Horned Ancestral Masks, Shakespearean Actor Boys, and Scotch-Inspired Set Girls: Social Relations in Nineteenth-Century Jamaican JonkonnuPart 4. Creativity, Spirituality, and Identity17. Oyekan Owomoyela, From Folklore to Literature: The Route from Roots in the African World18. Jean Rahier, Blackness as a Process of Creolization: The Afro-Esmeraldian Décimas (Ecuador)19. Niyi Afolabi, The (T)error of Invisibility: Ellison and Cruz e Souza20. Adetayo Alabi, Recover, Not Discover: Africa in Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain and Philip's Looking for Livingstone21. Ali A. Mazrui, Islam and the African Diaspora: The Impact of Islamigration22. Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure, From Legba to Papa Labas: New World Metaphysical Self/Refashioning in Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo23. Robert Elliott Fox, Diasporacentricism and Black Aural Texts24. David Evans, The Reinterpretation of African Musical Instruments in the United States25. Nkiru Nzegwu, The Concept of Modernity in Contemporary African Art26. LeGrace Benson, Habits of Attention: Persistence of Lan Ginée in Haiti27. Andrea Frohne, Representing Jean-Michel Basquiat28. Charles Martin, Optic Black: Implied Texts and the Colors of Photography29. Keith Q. Warner, Caribbean Cinema, or Cinema in the Caribbean?Part 5. Reconnecting with Africa30. Laura J. Pires-Hester, The Emergence of Bilateral Diaspora Ethnicity among Cape Verdean-Americans31. Alvin B. Tillery, Jr., Black Americans and the Creation of America's Africa Policies: The De-Racialization of Pan-African Politics32. Joseph McLaren, Alice Walker and the Legacy of African American Discourse on Africa33. Joyce Ann Joyce, African-Centered Womanism: Connecting Africa to the DiasporaContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisExplores the connections between American pragmatism and Native American thought. This book argues that philosophical ideas and attitudes prevalent among Native Americans constituted an essential element in the development of pragmatism. It also engages questions of pluralism and cultural difference.Trade ReviewAccepting the common view that pragmatism is the uniquely American philosophy, Pratt (Univ. of Oregon) maintains that much of what American philosophy is known for can be traced to its origins in the borderlands between Europe and America and its 'originality' to well—established aspects of Native American thought. At these borderlands, he discerns the emergence of an attitude of resistance to the attitudes of European colonialism. This new attitude drove commitments to interaction, pluralism, community, and growth, the core of pragmatic thought. He plumbs Native American thought for sources of these commitments; he argues for the influence of a Native Prophetic movement on Benjamin Franklin, whose ideas in turn influenced the initial formulation of pragmatism by Peirce and James. He also asserts a prominent role for Native thought in the development of the women's movement. Readers may be skeptical regarding the extent to which Native thought shaped pragmatism, and Pratt admits that his volume is not intended as a comprehensive history, but rather as an additional perspective. Read as such, this is an interesting and insightful study of the origins of American pragmatism. For general readers and upper—division undergraduates through faculty. -- S. C. Pearson * Choice *. . . [T]his is an interesting and insightful study of the origins of American pragmatism. November 2002 * Choice *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Problem of Origins2. American Pragmatism3. The Colonial Attitude4. American Progress5. The Indigenous Attitude6. Welcoming the Cannibals7. The Logic of Place8. "This Very Ground"9. Science and Sovereignty10. The Logic of Home11. Feminism and PragmatismConclusion: The Legacy of Native American ThoughtNotesWorks Cited Index

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Book SynopsisPresents the world of rhythm and blues from the perspective of an insider. This book features anecdotes about such R&B legends as Otis Redding, Curtis Mayfield, and Dionne Warwick. It chronicles the 'Iceman's' journey from rural Mississippi to Chicago and the founding and eventual breakup of the legendary Impressions vocal group.Trade ReviewBeginning as a member of the Impressions in Chicago in 1958, Butler (b. 1939) launched a vocal career that has lasted into the 21st century. This autobiography details his growing up in poverty and his initial musical successes and ends with his foray into politics with his election to the Cook County Board of Commissioners in 1985 and his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991. Along the way Butler supplies considerable information on various managers and recording companies, especially Vee Jay Records, Mercury Records, and later Motown. The author concentrates not on private lives but on musical careers—his own and those of numerous others, e.g., Curtis Mayfield, Little Willie John, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Patti LaBelle. His behind-the-scenes look at race relations within the music industry during the last half of the century supplements and chronologically expands Robert Pruter's discussion in Doowop: The Chicago Scene (CH, Nov'96) and Chicago Soul (CH, May'91). Selected illustrations, discography, brief notes, and bibliography are helpful. Highly recommended for academic and general readers alike with an interest in popular music. All levels.march 2001 -- R. D. Cohen * Indiana University Northwest *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionProloguePart I: The Early Years1. The Beginning2. Starting Over in Sweet Home Chicago3. Learning the Basics4. Reality Sets InPart II: The Vee Jay Years5. What's in a Name?6. Coming Apart7. Picking Up the Pieces8. Learning Experiences9. Making My Mark10. With a Little Help from My FriendsPart III: The Mercury Years11. The Producers12. "Kill or Be Killed"13. Changing the World with a SongPart IV: The Motown Years and Beyond14. You've Got What It TakesPart V: The Political Years15. Summing UpEpilogueNotesBibliographyDiscographyIndex

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Book SynopsisColonial Africa saw an explosion of writing and printing. This book considers the profusion of literary culture, the propensity to collect and archive text, and the significance attached to reading as a form of self-improvement. It also explores the innovative, intense, and sociable interest in reading and writing.Trade Review"... the authors - remarkably - have made a long and tortuous story short and simple without smothering the complexities. Their grasp of the various intellectual themes is impressive, so is their even-handedness. The book should be prized among African Studies collections." —Walter Gam Nkwi, University of Buea, Cameroon, African Affairs, Feb. 3, 2009"Comprising an insightful introduction and fifteen richly textured essays, Africa’s Hidden Histories is an important contribution to standing research on a range of topics in twentieth—century African studies. Literary scholars, educationists, and social, political, and intellectual historians will draw particular benefit and pleasure from the unhurried, penetrating studies—incorporating an abundance of engrossing illustrations and photographs—that mark the volume’s status as a major archival and theoretical project." —African Studies Review"This is on many levels an exceptionally engaging book.... Africa's everyday writers can have no better introduction to the scholarly world than Karin Barber's exciting book. This is a volume that should command wide readership." —Derek R. Peterson, Selwyn College, University Cambridge, Jrnl Royal Anthropological Inst JRAI , Vol. 14. 3 Sept. 2008Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Hidden Innovators in Africa Karin BarberPart 1. Diaries, Letters, and the Constitution of the Self1. "My Own Life": A. K. Boakye Yiadom's Autobiography—The Writing and Subjectivity of a Ghanaian Teacher-Catechist Stephan F. Miescher2. "What is our intelligence, our school going and our reading of books without getting money?" Akinpelu Obisesan and His Diary Ruth Watson3. The Letters of Louisa Mvemve Catherine Burns4. Ekukhanyeni Letter-Writers: A Historical Inquiry into Epistolary Network(s) and Political Imagination in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa Vukile Khumalo5. Reasons for Writing: African Working-Class Letter-Writing in Early-Twentieth-Century South Africa Keith Breckenridge6. Keeping a Diary of Visions: Lazarus Phelalasekhaya Maphumulo and the Edendale Congregation of AmaNazaretha Liz Gunner7. Schoolgirl Pregnancies, Letter-Writing, and "Modern" Persons in Late Colonial East Africa Lynn M. ThomasPart 2. Reading Cultures, Publics, and the Press8. Entering the Territory of Elites: Literary Activity in Colonial Ghana Stephanie Newell9. The Bantu World and the World of the Book: Reading, Writing, and "Enlightenment" Bhekizizwe Peterson10. Reading Debating/Debating Reading: The Case of the Lovedale Literary Society, or Why Mandela Quotes Shakespeare Isabel Hofmeyr11. "The present battle is the brain battle": Writing and Publishing a Kikuyu Newspaper in the PreMau Mau Period in Kenya Bodil Folke Frederiksen12. Public but Private: A Transformational Reading of the Memoirs and Newspaper Writings of Mercy Ffoulkes-Crabbe Audrey GadzekpoPart 3. Innovation, Cultural Editing, and the Emergence of New Genres13. Writing, Reading, and Printing Death: Obituaries and Commemoration in Colonial Asante T. C. McCaskie14. Writing, Genre, and a Schoolmaster's Inventions in the Yoruba Provinces Karin Barber15. Innovation and Persistence: Literary Circles, New Opportunities, and Continuing Debates in Hausa Literary Production Graham FurnissList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisOffers a critical approach to African cinema - one that requires that we revisit the beginnings of African filmmaking and the critical responses to which they gave rise, and that we ask what limitations they might have contained, what price was paid for the approaches then taken, and whether we are still caught in those limitations today.Trade Review[This book] is at once a strange and exciting work worthy of attention ...Issue 47 * Film International *Every now and again a single book changes a discipline. Richard Harvey did this in geography; C. Wright Mills preceded him in sociology. And now Ken Harrow has done it for cinema studies. The short preface to Postcolonial African Cinema offers a subversive exhortation written in the style of manifestos issued by other Africanists on the nature, objectives, and identity of African cinema. Through a layered analysis, Harrow positions his study relative to his critics, to African essentialism, and to critical assumptions embedded in outworn conceptual frameworks, refining the counterargument initially developed in Less than One and Double (Heinemann, 2002).Volume 52.2, September 2009 -- Keyan A. Tomaselli * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *Table of ContentsContentsPreface: Out with the Authentic, In with the WazimamotoAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Creation of a Cinema Engagé1. Did We Get Off to the Wrong Start? Toward an Aesthetic of Surface versus Depth2. Sembène's Xala, the Fetish, and the Failed Trickster3. Cameroonian Cinema: Ba Kobhio, Teno, and the Technologies of Power4. From Jalopy to Goddess: Quartier Mozart, Faat Kine, and Divine carcasse5. Toward a Žižekian Reading of African Cinema6. Aristotle's Plot: What's Inside the Can?7. Finye: The Fantasmic Support8. Hyenas: Truth, Badiou's Ethics, and the Return of the Void9. Toward a Postmodern African Cinema: Fanta Nacro's "Un Certain matin" and Djibril Diop Mambéty's Parlons Grand-MèreNotesFilmographyBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTells the little-known story of a highly celebrated auto-racing event for African Americans, the Gold and Glory Sweepstakes. These races were held in Indiana and throughout the Midwest during the racial turbulence of the 1920s and 1930s, when the Ku Klux Klan cast a shadow over the social and political landscape of the state and region.Trade ReviewAuthor Todd Gould has a remarkable eye for detail and a good ear for pace and tone. . . . For Gold and Glory is an exciting ride about an American legend, a book that almost turns an ordinary man into a superhero. * Black Issues Book Review *Anyone who loves history and sports will thoroughly enjoy this story. * Bookviews *This book offers much more than its title suggests. Gould describes how African American racing came to life in the 1920s and 1930s—'gold and glory' refers to the Gold and Glory Sweepstakes, a celebrated race for black drivers—but vanished before WW II. . . . The absolute segregation of early Triple A racing and the Indianapolis racing circuit is now difficult to imagine, but even today one finds few African American drivers in Indy cars or in formula racing. This makes Gould's excellent treatment of times long forgotten—or more likely never known—not only an excellent resource but also an excellent reminder of the times and the travails of the black community. . . . Recommended. All readers, all levels. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Racing for "Gold and Glory"The AdventurerThe Dawn of a New Opportunity100% AmericanThe Negro Speed KingCharlie's Gang"A Darn Good Move on Us"A Bad PremonitionEpilogue: These Men of Grease and GritAppendix: Gold and Glory Sweepstakes WinnersNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisConspiracy theories have been a part of the American experience since colonial times. This anthology provides students with documents relating to some of the important conspiracy theories in American history and politics, some based on reality, many chiefly on paranoia. It looks at a persistent and troubling aspect of democratic society.Trade ReviewIn this primary source collection of conspiracy theories through six stages of US history, objective editors interested in exploring the phenomena argue that insecurities during rapidly changing times encourage suspicions and irrational conspiracies. The first stage looks at the post-Revolutionary era Federalist belief in a Jeffersonian conspiracy to support French radicalism, the Burr western land plot, and Masonic support of Andrew Jackson's presidency. Stage two surveys anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic, anti-Mormon, and anti-national bank sentiment. Stage three focuses on abolitionists and slave power conspiracies. The fourth stage reviews the Red Scare, robber baron capitalism, racism, anti-Semitism, and isolationism. Stage five concentrates on the Cold War era, space aliens, and the 1960s assassinations. Stage six looks at more contemporary issues related to globalization and the new world order, the AIDS conspiracy thesis, and terrorism. The editors touch on a few additional assorted conspiracies throughout. The work compares favorably to Richard Hofstadter's The Paranoid Style in American Politics (CH, Mar'66), Robert Goldberg's Enemies Within, (Jun'02, 39-6001), and Mark Fenster's Conspiracy Theories (1999). Summing Up: Recommended. All academic levels/libraries. -- S. Prisco III * Choice *[O]bjective editors interested in exploring the phenomena argue that insecurities during rapidly changing times encourage suspicions and irrational conspiracies. . . . Recommended.May 2009 * Choice *Table of ContentsContentsIntroductionSection 1. Conspiracy in a New NationSection 2. Conspiracy in an Age of DemocracySection 3. Conspiracy in a Divided NationSection 4. Conspiracy in the Industrial Age through the New DealSection 5. Conspiracy in the Cold War EraSection 6. Conspiracy in Contemporary AmericaFor Further ReadingIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines the emergence of a new generation of Jewish immigrant authors in America, most of whom grew up in formerly communist countries. This collection chronicles and clarifies issues of personal and cultural dislocation and loss, but also affirms the possibilities of reorientation and renewal.Trade ReviewThis engrossing volume brings evocative personal accounts of displacement—physical, emotional, and particularly linguistic—by contemporary writers like Norman Manea, Lara Vapnyar, and Geoffrey Hartman.Spring 2009 * Jewish Book World *What binds the writers in this book together, despite their varied approaches to exile and emigration, is that they all moved from one place and ideological system - the Soviet Union and Communist eastern Europe - to another, the United States, where they each have found quite successful personal and professional homes as writer, thinkers and tenured professors. This is no small feat for a fiction writer. . . Perhaps this is one of the volume's unwitting arguments: late twentieth/early twenty-first-century America is now or has once again become the cosmopolitan reservoir of so much Jewish literary creativity.Vol. 39.2 August 2009 -- David Shneer * University of Colorado *[T]his is an immensely valuable collection of truly stimulating essays. Vol. 28, no. 1, 2009 * SHOFAR *[T]his is a worthwhile read. . . . Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, general readers.March 2009 * Choice *Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction / Alvin H. RosenfeldNomadic Language / Norman ManeaOn Norman Manea's The Hooligan's Return / Matei CalinescuWriting about Uprootedness / Henryk GrynbergExile as Life after Death in the Writings of Henryk Grynberg and Norman Manea / Katarzyna JerzakThe Writer as Tour Guide / Lara VapnyarQuestions of Identity: The New World of the Immigrant Writer / Morris DicksteinA Displaced Scholar's Tale: The Jewish Factor / Geoffrey HartmanExile: Inside and Out / Bronislava VolkováFrom Country to Country: My Search for Home / Zsuzsanna OzsvathFinding a Virtual Home for Yiddish Poetry in Southern Indiana / Dov-Ber KerlerAfterword / Eva HoffmanList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines the cultural identities that Jews were creating and disseminating through voluntary associations such as libraries, drama circles, literary clubs, historical societies, and even fire brigades.Trade Review... a deeply engaging and insightful book ... * Slavic Review *By posing questions that have never been debated previously about Jews in the Russian Empire, Professor Veidlinger has produced a book that transforms our perspective on Jewish civil society in the critical moments at the end of tsarism.September 2009 -- Brian Horowitz * Tulane University *This book provides a sense of the dynamism of Jewish cultural life, broadly defined, in what was the world's largest Jewish community whose descendants established American Jewry.Winter 5770/2009 * Jewish Book World / Jewish Book Council *Based on research in five languages ina wide range of published sources and on material located in four major archival collections, the book succeeds admirably in depicting the emergence into 'modernity' of the largest Jewish community in the world . . . Veidlinger is to be congratulated for having produced a compelling and important study on a cultural development that transformed East European Jewry and that has been crucial in the history of world Jewry over the past century.Vol. 115. 1 Feb. 2010 -- Abraham Ascher * Graduate Center, City University of New York *... a fascinating and exhaustively researched account ... a major contribution to the rich and burgeoning scholarship on Jewish society in late imperial Russia.55.1 Spring 2011 * Slavic and East European Journal *In all, Jewish Public Culture is rich, thoroughly researched, and engagingly written; it presents new data and compelling analysis to show how the new Jewish public culture flourished in the late tsarist Russia. The book is an important contribution to both Slavic and Jewish studies, and a welcome addition to the growing body of literature on Russian Jewish history and culture. * Russian Review *In exploring how Jewish public culture was created and experienced throughout the Russian Empire, Veidlinger's book breaks new ground in a number of ways. . . [H]e argues for the importance of performers, both professional and amateur, in a historical record that has typically favored intellectuals and political activists.1002.3 Summer 2012 * Jewish Quarterly Review *This wonderful, thoroughly researched, and well-crafted study convincingly argues that fundamental changes in the ways that Jewish activists and intellectuals viewed the intersection between culture and community transformed the very experience of daily life and the nature of community for early twentieth-century Jews in the Russian Empire. * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on TransliterationIntroduction: Jewish Public Culture1. The Jews of this World2. Libraries: From the Study Hall to the Public Library3. Reading: From Sacred Duty to Leisure Time4. Literary Societies: The Culture of Language and the Language of Culture5. Cultural Performance: The People of the Book and the Spoken Word6. Theater: The Professionalization of Performance7. Musical and Dramatic Societies: Amateur Performers and Audiences8. The Jewish Historical and Ethnographic Society: Collecting the Jewish Past9. Public History: Imagining Russian JewsConclusion: and They GatheredNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisPresents the story of the war as it unfolded in one small town, New Castle, Indiana through the eyes of the residents of Plum Street as families search for information about the progress of war and the fate of loved ones in the censored accounts in local newspapers. This book captures the war on the home front as lived by some average Americans.Trade ReviewThis is a unique look at the war, far from the front lines, but equally impacting life on the home front. April 2009 * Bookviews.com *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Migration and a New Start in the 1920s2. Coping with Hard Times in the 1930s3. The Slow Pull Upward, Late 1930s4. Into the Storm, 1939–19415. Duty Calls Every Citizen, 19426. Bearer of Bad News, 19427. Urgent Preparation, 19438. Together, and Alone, 19439. Despair and Bitter Hope, 194410. Invasion, 194411. Will It Never End? 194512. We'll Meet Again, 1945EpilogueSourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisAnalyzing the impact of black abolitionist iconography on early black literature and the formation of black identity, this book argues that the visual offered an alternative to literacy for current and former slaves, whose works mobilize forms of illustration that subvert dominant representations of slavery by both apologists and abolitionists.Trade Review[T]his startlingly original, meticulously researched study opens up new ways of considering the acts of self-representation in visual objects and literary texts by African Americans. -- Susan Belasco * American Literature *. . . the scholarship is excellent . . . Chaney's readings are exhaustive, persuasive, and murkily brilliant. * Journal of American History *. . . emphasizes the relationship between the literary character of slave narratives and the iconic images that often accompanied those narratives in the form of frontispieces, illustrations, or panoramas. [The author's] attention to both the visual and the verbal elements of African American culture challenges and complicates the now-classic studies of slave narrative that tend to highlight the mastery of literacy as the key to self-mastery and, thus, liberty.vol. 9 no. 4.5 Sept. 2009 -- Corey Capers * University of Illinois, Chicago *Fugitive Vision [is] an important and well-researched study . . . Michael A. Chaney makes a distinct contribution to the literature about slave-born men and women who were dedicated to the permanent liberation of minds and bodies. * American Studies *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Looking Beyond and Through the Fugitive IconPart 1. Fugitive Gender: Black Mothers, White Faces, Sanguine Sons1. Racing and Erasing the Slave Mother: Frederick Douglass, Parodic Looks, and Ethnographic Illustration2. Looking for Slavery at the Crystal Palace: William Wells Brown and the Politics of Exhibition(ism)3. The Uses in Seeing: Mobilizing the Portrait in Drag in Running a Thousand Miles for FreedomPart 2. Still Moving: Revamped Technologies of Surveillance4. Panoramic Bodies: From Banvard's Mississippi to Brown's Iron Collar5. The Mulatta in the Camera: Harriet Jacobs's Historicist Gazing and Dion Boucicault's Mulatta Obscura6. Throwing Identity in the Poetry-Pottery of Dave the PotterConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisIdentity, race, and social networks in the African diasporaTrade Review"[T]his is a strong and enjoyable contribution to deepen our understanding of complex gendered processes, serving as an antidote to studies of diaspora that 'obscure ideas of class and nation [and] gender as well'... and an antidote to accounts which present women too readily as victims." —Leeds African Studies Bulletin"In foregrounding women's changing forms of engagement during their border-crossing encounters, we also gain important knowledge about both changing gender ideologies and changing politics, policies, and political movements across the African diaspora at given historical periods. This is a critically important and interesting addition not only to diaspora studies, but also to our general knowledge about gender roles in the Caribbean and hinterland Nigeria." —Constance Sutton, New York University"This collection... strengthens the significance of understanding the African diaspora across time, and provides a model for studying other diasporas as well." —Constance Sutton, New York UniversityTable of ContentsPrefaceA Note on the Structure of the VolumeIntroductionPart 1. Africa in the Caribbean Imagination 1. Of Laughter and Kola Nuts; or, What Does Africa Have to Do with the African Diaspora? / Faith Lois Smith 2. From Africa to "The Islands": New World Voyages in the Fiction of Maryse Condé and Paule Marshall / Anthea MorrisonPart 2. Race, Gender, and Agency in the Shadow of Slavery 3. Mary Rose: "White" African Jamaican Woman? Race and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica / Linda L. Sturtz 4. Trading Places: Market Negotiations in Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands / Antonia MacDonald-Smythe 5. Blacks in the White Imagination: Race in the Investigation of Rape on Nineteenth-Century Emigrant Ships to the Colonial Caribbean / Verene A. Shepherd 6. Maria Jones of Africa, St. Vincent, and Trinidad / Brinsley Samaroo 7. Slavery, Marriage, and Gender Relations in Eastern Yorubaland, 18751920 / Olatunji Ojo 8. On Equal/Unequal Footing with Men: Diaspora Linkages and Issues of Gender and Education Policy in Barbados, 18751945 / Janice MayersPart 3. Building Diaspora in the Web of Empire 9. Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Nigerian Progress Union / Hakim Adi 10. "Crack Kernels, Crack Hitler": Export Production Drive and Igbo Women during the Second World War / Gloria Chuku 11. Intersections: Nigerian Episodes in the Careers of Three West Indian Women / LaRay Denzer 12. Immigrant Voices in Cyberspace: Spinning Continental and Diasporan Africans into the World Wide Web / Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké OkomeNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisDealing with the archaeology of African life on both sides of the Atlantic, this title highlights the importance of archaeology in completing the historical records of the Atlantic world's Africans. It presents a picture of Africans' experiences during the era of the Atlantic slave trade.Trade ReviewShould be required reading for Africanist archaeologists and students of African American and diasporic archaeology. . . . Highly recommended.January 2009 * Choice *. . . an excellent book . . . .This is an important and readable work that represents a milestone in a holistic approach to Africa and its Diasporas in the Atlantic world.July 28, 2009 (online) * African Archaeology Review *A breakthrough volume in the study of the material culture of the slave trade. . . [P]resents a diverse, richly textured picture of Africans' experiences during the era of the Atlantic slave trade and offers the most comprehensive explanation of how African lives became entangled with the creation of the modern world. * Assn for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora ASWAD *For those who want to expand their knowledge of African religion, this is an important addition to a growing series of probing studies.Volume 52 - 2011 * The Journal of African History *Ogundiran and Falola's collection charts a powerful and ambitious starting point for a truly transatlantic diasporan archaeology. 2010, 44 (2) * Historical Archaeology *[T]he true value of this book perhaps lies in its ability to acquaint very different readerships with a wealth of sources and research with which they may hitherto have been unfamiliar with. Volume 12, Issue 1, Fall 2010 * African Studies Quarterly *. . . this volume is an important contribution to understanding the diverse and global extent of African experiences and cultural transformations, as well as demonstrates the important role of Africa in the creation of the modern world. . . . all archaeologists and historians working in the Africana world should, not only read this book, but engage the findings presented here in their own work. . . .September 2009 -- Paula V. Saunders * African Diaspora Archaeology Network Newsletter *. . . this book is remarkably successful. It is equally useful for specialists in later African archaeology and for archaeologists of the African Diaspora. Furthermore, . . . [it] provides an excellent introduction to the state of research on the subject, and is appropriate for anyone wishing to develop an understanding of the big issues in the archaeology of the African Diaspora.Vol. 44.2 August 2009 -- Kenneth G. Kelly * University of South Carolina *A rich perspective on the archaeology of African life in the Atlantic world. . . . The volume will be widely appreciated by readers wishing to learn about an exciting area of archaeological research. * International Journal of African Historical Studies *[The editors] skilfully articulate the importance of integrating the African Atlantic and the African Diaspora within a single analytical framework . . . Common to most of these papers is a breadth of vision that encompasses the archaeological record and relevant history, ethnographic and palaeoclimatic data in ways that highlight the complexity of the processes taking place in Atlantic Africa from (indeed, before) the fifteenth century.2008 * Journal of African History *Table of ContentsContentsPrefacePart 1. Introduction1. Pathways in the Archaeology of Transatlantic Africa Akinwumi Ogundiran and Toyin Falola Part 2. Atlantic Africa2. Entangled Lives: The Archaeology of Daily Life in the Gold Coast Hinterlands, AD 1400-1900 Ann Brower Stahl3. Living in the Shadow of the Atlantic World: History and Material Life in a Yoruba-Edo Hinterland, ca. 1600-1750 Akinwumi Ogundiran4. Dahomey and the Atlantic Slave Trade: Archaeology and Political Order on the Bight of Benin J. Cameron Monroe5. Enslavement in the Middle Senegal Valley: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives Alioune Déme and Ndeye Sokhna Guèye6. The Landscape and Society of Northern Yorubaland during the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade Aribidesi Usman7. The Collapse of Coastal City-States of East Africa Chapurukha M. Kusimba8. Ghana's "Slave Castles," Tourism, and the Social Memory of the Atlantic Slave Trade Brempong Osei-TutuPart 3. African Diaspora9. BaKongo Identity and Symbolic Representation in the Americas Christopher C. Fennell10. "In This Here Place": Interpreting Enslaved Homeplaces Whitney L. Battle-Baptiste11. Bringing the Out Kitchen In? The Experiential Landscapes of Black and White New England Alexandra A. Chan12. African Metallurgy in the Atlantic World Candice L. Goucher13. Between Urban and Rural: Organization and Distribution of Local Pottery in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica Mark W. Hauser14. Allies, Adversaries, and Kin in the African Seminole Communities of Florida: Archaeology at Pilaklikaha Terrance Weik15. Scars of Brutality: Archaeology of the Maroons in the Caribbean E. Kofi Agorsah16. The Archaeological Study of the African Diaspora in Brazil Pedro P. Funari17. The Vanishing People: Archaeology of the African Population in Buenos Aires Daniel Schávelzon18. Maritime Archaeology and the African Diaspora Fred L. McGhee19. Archaeology of the African Meeting House on Nantucket Mary C. Beaudry and Ellen P. Berkland20. Practicing African American Archaeology in the Atlantic World Anna S. Agbe-DaviesReferencesList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisOffers fresh perspectives on the various forms of social and political activism in Maghrib. This title presents some of the best thinking in the field of Berber studies, also offering insight into historical antecedents, language usage, land rights, household economies, artistic production, and human rights.Trade ReviewHoffman and Miller have done a real service to the anthropology of North Africa by bringing these articles together. Any work done on Berbers in the future will stand on the shoulders of this excellent collection. * Anthropos *Berbers and Others ... brings together some of the very best of the new generation of scholars working on Berber issues from a variety of perspectives ... both North Africanists and all those interested in the nexus between ethnicity, culture, politics, and history, will derive much benefit and pleasure from this elegant and informed volume.June 2011 * H-Africa *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroduction / Katherine E. Hoffman and Susan Gilson MillerPart 1. Sources and Methods 1. Histories of Heresy and Salvation: Arabs, Berbers, Community, and the State / James McDougall 2. Internal Fractures in the Berber-Arab Distinction: From Colonial Practice to Post-national Preoccupations / Katherine E. Hoffman 3. The Makhzan's Berber: Paths to Integration in Pre-Colonial Morocco / Mohamed El MansourPart 2. Practices: Local, National, and International 4. The Local Dimensions of Transnational Berberism: Racial Politics, Land Rights, and Cultural Activism in Southeastern Morocco / Paul A. Silverstein 5. Imazighen on Trial: Human Rights and Berber Identity in Algeria, 1985 / Jane E. Goodman 6. Globalization Begins at Home: Children's Wage Labor and the High Atlas Household / David CrawfordPart 3. Varieties of Representation 7. The "Numidian" Origins of North Africa / Mokhtar Ghambou 8. "First Arts" of the Maghrib: Exhibiting Berber Culture at the Musée du quai Branly / Lisa Bernasek 9. Deconstructing the History of Berber Arts: Tribalism, Matriarchy, and a Primitive Neolithic Past / Cynthia BeckerList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisJewish life in late imperial KievTrade ReviewKiev, Jewish Metropolis is a welcome addition to our knowledge of an important city that, [Meir] correctly points out, has remained surprisingly underresearched. Vol. 70.3, Fall 2011 * Slavic Review *Natan Meir's meticulous new history of Kiev Jewry in the modern period, is an assiduous work of conventional scholarship. Meir provides a thorough, lucid and ultimately heartrending account of the noble successes of Kiev's Jews in building a solid Jewish community.May 25, 2011 * Forward *Without any doubt this is a very important first monograph on the history of Jews in Kiev, which reveals many new aspects of Jewish life in the city and in the Tsarist Empire and brings one of the largest Jewish communities in Russia into the scholarly orbit. * Shofar *Meir has given us a penetrating study. His style of writing is clear and interesting. He knows how to tell a story, arouse curiosity, and sustain interest, a quality that so many academic studies lack. The book merits translation into Hebrew. It is a significant contribution to the historiography of East European Jewry. * Jewish History *Kiev, Jewish Metropolis . . . is a rich social, cultural, and institutional history of Jewish life in one of its most important and hitherto least understood urban centers. * The Journal of Modern History *The author attempted to and succeeded in doing two things: producing 'a history of late-imperial Kiev Jewry and an evaluation of the developent of Jewish life in a Russian city under the last three tsars'. . . . Recommended. April 2011 * Choice *The best books in Russian-Jewish history of recent years continue to question the myths and to look at the facts anew with the help of archival materials and other rare sources. Natan Meir's book does exactly this. . . . As he demonstrates in this book, Natan Meir is a careful and innovative scholar. * SEER *Meir's book provides a broad history of Jewish Kiev in the half-century between the loosening of residence restrictions and the outbreak of the First World War, and gives an exceptionally rich portrait of the complex and changing nature of Kiev's Jewish community. * Revolutionary Russia *Meir's book has opened up a number of new perspectives for those interested in Jewish experiences in late imperial Russia, specifically in the city that was then almost equally Jewish, Ukrainian, Russian, and Polish. The book is also indispensable for students of modern Ukrainian history and of Ukrainian-Jewish relations, which has only recently begun attracting serious scholarly attention. * Journal of Ukrainian Studies *This study . . . represents an important addition to the historiography of Russian Jewry in that it addresses a notable gap in the literature: the Jewish population of late imperial Kiev. . . . Meir's portrait of Kievan Jewry and its institutional formation is a thoroughly researched study that considers multiple perspectives, namely those of a diverse Jewish community, its competing political leaders, the tsarist government, and provincial and municipal administrators. * East European Jewish Affairs *Drawing on archival documents, the local press, memoirs, and belles letters, Meir shows Kiev's Jews at work, at leisure, in the synagogue, and engaged in the activities of myriad Jewish organizations and philanthropies.74 Winter/Spring 2011 * Menorah Review *There is a great deal to learn and appreciate in this splendid book.Autumn 2013 * Journal of Jewish Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1. The Early Years 1. Settlement and Growth, 1859–1881 2. The Foundations of Communal LifePart 2. Jewish Metropolis 3. The Consolidation of Jewish Kiev, 1881–1914 4. Modern Jewish Cultures and Practices 5. Jew as Neighbor, Jew as Other: Interethnic Relations and Antisemitism 6. Varieties of Jewish Philanthropy 7. Revolutions in Communal LifeConclusionAbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisJewish communities of the Maghrib from ancient to modern timesTrade Review[This] volume as a whole demonstrates the ways in which both Jewish studies and Maghrib studies are emerging from their historic marginalization and into broader discussions of regional history.March 2013 * Journal of African History *[T]his collection goes a long way to increasing our understanding of North African Jewish history and encourages new lines of inquiry into the subject. * Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online *[This] is a highly informative and thought-provoking collection of essays, from which the reader is certain to derive satisfaction and knowledge of a region made all the more significant in light of the revolutionary changes that have taken place in North Africa since the spring of 2011. * AJL Reviews *Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction1. Emily Benichou Gottreich and Daniel J. Schroeter, Rethinking Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa2. Mohammed Kenbib, Muslim-Jewish Relations in Contemporary MoroccoPart II: Origins, Diasporas, and Identities3. Farid Benramdane, Place Names in Western Algeria: Biblical Sources and Dominant Semantic Domains 4. Mabrouk Mansouri, The Image of the Jews among Ibadi Imazighen in North Africa until the Tenth Century5. Abdellah Larhmaid, Jewish Identity and Landownership in the Sous Region of Morocco6. Aomar Boum, Southern Moroccan Jewry between the Colonial Manufacture of Knowledge and the Postcolonial Historiographical Silence7. Yaron Tsur, Dating the Demise of the Western-Sephardi Jewish Diaspora: The Mediterranean AspectPart III: Communities, Cultural Exchange and Transformations8. Philippe Barbé, Jewish-Muslim Syncretism and Intercommunity Cohabitation in the work of Albert Memmi: The Partage of Tunis 9. Susan Gilson Miller, Making Tangier Modern: Ethnicity and Urban Development, 1880-193010. Stacy E. Holden, Muslim and Jewish Interaction in Moroccan Meat Markets, 1873-191211. Saddek Benkada, A Moment in Sephardi History: The Re-establishment of the Jewish Community of Oran, 1792-1831 12. Hadj Miliani, Crosscurrents: Trajectories of Algerian Jewish Artists and Men of Culture since the End of the Nineteenth CenturyPart IV: Between Myth and History: Sol Hachuel in Moroccan Jewish Memory13. Yaelle Azagury, Sol Hachuel in the Collective Memory and Folktales of Moroccan Jews14. Sharon Vance, Sol Hachuel, 'Heroine of the Nineteenth Century': Gender, the Jewish Question, and Colonial Discourse15. Ruth Knafo Setton, Searching for Suleika: A Writer's JourneyPart V: Gender, Colonialism, and the Alliance Israélite Universelle16. Joy A. Land, Corresponding Lives: Women Educators of the Alliance Israélite Universelle in Tunisia, 1882-191417. Keith Walters, Education for Jewish Girls in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Tunis and the Spread of French in Tunisia18. Jonathan G. Katz, 'Les Temps Héroïques': The Alliance Israélite Universelle in Marrakech on the Eve of the French ProtectoratePart VI: North African Jews and Political Change in the Late Colonial and Post-Colonial Periods19. Fayçal Cherif, Jewish-Muslim Relations in Tunisia during World War II: Propaganda, Stereotypes, and Attitudes, 1939-1943 20. Jamaâ Baïda, The Emigration of Moroccan Jews, 1948-195621. Belkacem Mebarki, Zouzef Tayayou (Joseph the Tailor): A Jew from Nedroma, and the Others 22. Oren Kosansky, The Real Morocco Itself: Jewish Saint Pilgrimage and the Idea of the Moroccan Nation

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Book SynopsisAn Igbo woman becomes king at a time of extraordinary change in AfricaTrade ReviewThe Female King of Colonial Nigeria makes a solid contribution to the literature on women's (auto) biography and the cogent treatments of gender, and sexualities. The book will benefit scholars, students, and those interested in issues of women and gender. * African Studies Quarterly *[A] fascinating exploration of the fluidity of gender and the nature of political authority. And it's a remarkable reconstruction not only of colonial rule at the local level, but also of pre-colonial life and post-colonial memory. I highly recommend.6/29/12 * New Books in Gender *Achebe presents a compelling history that embodies yet transcends the local. This thorough and detailed biography will be of great use to specialists in Igbo history and to scholars of women's and gender history more broadly. * American Historical Review *The Female King is a thoughtful, well-written, and amply documented work that should have great influence on those who write about the Igbo, about African women, and about African history. * Women's Review of Books *The Female King of Colonial Nigeria will be a valuable read for a variety of audiences. Whether one is interested in colonial history, gender history, family history, or women's history, there is much to be found in this biography to enrich and complicate one's understandings. * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History *The Female King of Colonial Nigeria is a rich and significant book that illuminates history, culture, politics, and gender constructions in Igbo land. The book is lucidly written, provides good examples of field methods, and will enrich scholars and students of a wide range of disciplines from history to anthropology and gender studies. * Intl. Journal of African Historical Studies *The Female King of Colonial Nigera . . . is one of the most compellingly argued, rigorously researched scholarly writings in the fields of history and women studies in colonial Igbo society, Nigeria and Africa. * Leeds African Studies Bulletin *[This is] the story of a woman, Ahebi Ugbabe, who rose from the status of a local girl and commercial sex worker to that of a village headman, a warrant chief and a king....[This book]... salvage[s] the history of a woman who became the only warrant chief in colonial Nigeria...distinguishes between Western concepts of gender and sexuality, and the indigenous meanings of these concepts in an African setting.... [A] well-written, amply researched, and efficiently documented [book]. It is a major contribution to African history and the practice of oral history.March 2013 * Reviews in History *Table of ContentsEkene / AcknowledgmentsNkwado / The Preparation: All Trees Grow in the Forest, but the Ora Singled Itself OutNkowa / The Introduction: Unspoken, Blame the Mouth; Unheard, Blame the Ear1. Oge Nwatakili: The Time of Childhood, ca. 1880–18952. Mgbakpu Ahebi: Exile in Igalaland, ca. 1895–19163. Performing Masculinities: Homecoming—and She Becomes a Man, ca. 1916–19484. Inside King Ahebi's Palace, ca. 1916–19485. Mastering Masculinities: Ekpe Ahebi Masquerade—the Final Insult, ca. 1931–1948Mmechi / The Conclusion: Ahebi Today—the Works That We Do Are the Things by Which We Are RememberedAppendix: Select Criminal and Civil Cases in Nsukka Division, 1921–1935Glossary of Enugu-Ezike Chronological TermsGlossary of Igbo, Igala, and Akpoto WordsNotesBibliographyIndex

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