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Indiana University Press Sephardi Jewish Argentine
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHistorian Brodsky has written a much-needed monograph on the role of Sephardic Jews in Argentina, and her work is an important contribution to the study of Jews in Latin America overall. * Choice *In short, the author has made a significant contribution not only to the study of the Sephardim and Jews in Argentina, but also to the study of the minority migrations in the country as a whole and the ethnic histories of the inland provinces of Argentina. This is an important work that hopefully will be the catalyst for further lines of research on the Sephardim, which, as Brodsky says, are no longer invisible in Argentina. * AJS Review *Overall, Brodsky's analysis of the tensions between assimilation and the maintenance of Jewish identity among the Sephardim in Argentina is a significant contribution to the study of identity. It will be a valuable contribution to all Jewish studies collections. * Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews *Adriana M. Brodsky's work is a much-needed addition to the growing field of Latin American Jewish studies. * The Americas *Brodsky has introduced a critical contribution to the study of Jewish Latin America, that highlights Sephardi history and that will continue to be valuable to the sub-discipline and to all scholars attempting to understand the complexity of competing migrant identities. * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *Brodsky's book is as rich in its sources as it is illuminating in its narrative. It is an excellent contribution to the field of Latin American Jewish studies but is also a necessary read for anyone engaged in diasporic, national, and ethnic studies. Brodsky's narrative is accessible, textured, and vivid, a work of solid scholarship vehemently rooted in both Argentine and Sephardi cultures. * Hispanic American Historical Review *Bodsky's fascinating study . . . focus[es] on how the Sephardic Jews in Argentina became Argentines, but also, perhaps more significantly, how they 'became Jewish' and came to play their own influential role in the history of Argentine Jewry. * Bulletin of Latin American Research *Table of ContentsNote about Translation and TransliterationAcknowledgementsIntroduction 1. Burying the Dead: Cemeteries, Walls and Jewish Identity in Early-Twentieth-Century Argentina2. Helping the Living: Philanthropy and the Boundaries of Sephardi Communities in Argentina3. The Limits of Community: Unsuccessful Attempts at Creating Single Sephardi Organizations4. Working for the Homeland: Zionism and the Creation of an "Argentine" Sephardi Community after 19205. Becoming Argentine, Becoming Jewish, Becoming and Remaining Sephardi: Jewish Women and Identity in Twentieth-Century Argentina6. Marriages and Schools: Living within Multiple BordersPostscriptNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Muslim Democratic Parties in the Middle East
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewYildirim's work represents an important advancement in developing the strand of literature that considers how economic conditions affect Islamist movements * Middle Eastern Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Muslim Democratic Parties1. A Social Theory of Muslim Democratic Parties2. Modeling Economic Liberalization in a Comparative Perspective3. From the Periphery to the Center: Competitive Liberalization in Turkey4. Stuck in the Periphery: Crony Liberalization in Egypt5. Pathways from the Periphery: Competitive Liberalization in MoroccoConclusionAppendix: List of InterviewsNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press On the Mediterranean and the Nile The Jews of
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWith On the Mediterranean and the Nile, Israel-Pelletier has paid homage to a bygone—but never entirely forgotten—Egypt, and to at least two generations of writers, whose literary works on the one hand reveal a little-known side of the Egyptian past, and on the other help us understand the fascinating web of feelings and images that continues to bind together memory, nationhood, and Jewishness in and beyond the Mediterranean. * Reading Religion *Israel-Pelletier's close readings, her vivid descriptions of characters and predicaments, her analyses of writer's positions and intentions, bring us invaluable glimpses into Egyptian Jewish writers' creative impulses. * Sephardic Horizons *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Jacques Hassoun: Return to Egypt2. Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff's Egypt: A View from the Nile3. Edmond Jabès: Egypt Recovered4. Paula Jacques, Resistance and Transmission: Transplanting Egypt on the Soil of France 5. André Aciman and the Mediterranean: The Staging of Egypt as Elsewhere EpilogueBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press The Emergence of Early Yiddish Literature
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis study of Yiddish texts dating from 1100 to 1750 is the definitive work in the field. Frakes is at home in the classics, medieval studies, German studies, comparative religion, and Hebrew and Yiddish, and he brings to this historical study of many of the same texts the impeccable scholarship characteristic of his previous works. * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. "Whither am I to Go?": Old Yiddish Love Song in a European Context 3. (Non-)Intersecting Parallel Lives: Pasquino in Rome and on the Rialto 4. Purimplay as Political Action in Diasporic Europe and/as Ancient Persia 5. Queen Vashti and Political Revolution: Gender Politics in a Topsy-Turvy World 6. The Political Liminality of Mordecai in Early Ashkenaz 7. Feudal Bridal-Quest Turned on its Jewish Head 8. The Other of Another Other: Yiddish Epic's Discarded Muslim Enemy 9. ConclusionAppendix: Elia Levita's Short Poems (English translation) Notes Bibliography Index
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Indiana University Press The Beginnings of Ladino Literature
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is heartily recommended for anyone wishing to learn more not only about one fascinating rabbi, traveller and author, but about the nature and development of a fascinating literary culture, and the world of two dynamic Ottoman cities. * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *With detailed notes, bibliography, and an index, this work is a critical addition to the growing body of research on the importance of Ladino literature today. * Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews *[Olga Borovaya's] labor of many years resulted in a superb and insightful book, which approaches the classics of Sephardi literature from a perspective different from the one adopted until now, and thus teaches us to explore new paths. It should be read and savored slowly, because one is sure to encounter there an intriguing fact that will open a gold mine where one will discover new approaches to the study of sixteenth-century Sephardi literature, a virgin field never before plowed in depth. We need many works like this one by Olga Borovaya. -- Pilar Romeu * Sefarad *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Translations, Transcriptions, Titles, and Proper NamesIntroductionPrologue. Jewish Vernacular Culture in Fifteenth-Century Iberia 1. Ladino in the Sixteenth Century: The Emergence of a New Vernacular Literature2. Almosnino's Epistles: A New Genre for a New Audience3. Almosnino's Chronicles: The Ottoman Empire Through the Eyes of Court Jews 4. The First Ladino Travelogue: Almosnino's Treatise on the Extremes of Constantinople 5. Rabbis and Merchants: New Readers, New Educational ProjectsEpilogue. Moses Almosnino, a Renaissance Man?Appendix. The Extremes of ConstantinopleNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Fast Money Schemes
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsDramatis Personae1. Studying Scams2. The Story of U-Vistract3. Money Schemes in Melanesia4. Cargo Cult Mentality5. Plausibility, Experimentation and Deception6. U-Vistract and the Prosperity Gospel7. Negative Nationalism and Christian Citizenship8. Christian Patrons and Cosmopolitan Sentiments9. "Some of us are fed up of banks!"10. Nationals Investing in the GlobalConclusion: DisillusionmentSelected GlossaryBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press The Andalusi Literary and Intellectual Tradition
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThroughout the book, Pearce never fails to adequately situate the reader within the proper context, striking the correct balance that makes this book accessible and enjoyable to specialists and non-specialists alike. * Readng Religion *Highly recommended for academic and research institutions. * AJL Reviews *As the first full-length study on Judah ibn Tibbon, Pearce's book fills a lacuna in the historiography of Hebrew literature and philosophy. * Medieval Encounters *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsA Note on Translations and TransliterationsIntroduction: 'The Preface of Every Book Is Its First Part': A Brief Overview of Materials and Methodology1. 'Pen, I Recount Your Favor': Reading, Writing and Translating in Memory of al-Andalus2. 'Examine your Hebrew Books Monthly and Arabic Books Bimonthly': Autobiography and Bibliography in the Islamic West3. 'On Every Sabbath, Read from the Bible in Arabic': Reading the Hebrew Bible as Arabic Literature4. 'The Words of the Ancient Poets': Poetics Between Jewish and Islamic Scripture5. 'The Arab Sage Said': Transmitting Arabic Wisdom in Translation6. 'From Vessel to Vessel': The Reception and Reimagining of the Tibbonid CorpusConclusion: "This Book Has Been Completed:" Looking Back and Ahead at al-Andalus in TranslationAppendix: Judah ibn Tibbon's Ethical Will: A New TranslationBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Fast Money Schemes
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsDramatis Personae1. Studying Scams2. The Story of U-Vistract3. Money Schemes in Melanesia4. Cargo Cult Mentality5. Plausibility, Experimentation and Deception6. U-Vistract and the Prosperity Gospel7. Negative Nationalism and Christian Citizenship8. Christian Patrons and Cosmopolitan Sentiments9. "Some of us are fed up of banks!"10. Nationals Investing in the GlobalConclusion: DisillusionmentSelected GlossaryBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Trauma in First Person Diary Writing During the
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is a book that deserves to be read well beyond Holocaust studies. Goldberg's theoretical insights into "life stories" and his readings of law, language and what he calls the "epistemological grey zone" . . . provide a stunning antidote to our unthinking treatment of survivors as celebrities (as opposed to just people who have suffered terrible things) and to the ubiquity of commemorative platitudes. * Times Higher Education supplement *This is an important contribution to trauma studies and a powerful critique of those who use the "crisis" paradigm to study the Holocaust. -- Dovile Budryte - Georgia Gwinnett College * Holocaust and Genocide Studies *Every decade or so, an exceptional volume is born. Provocative and inspiring, historian Goldberg's volume is one such work in the field of Holocaust studies. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Amos Goldberg's Trauma in First Person: Diary Writing During the Holocaust is an important and thought-provoking book not only on reading Holocaust diaries, but also on what that reading can tell us about the extent of the destruction committed against Jews during the Holocaust. * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: "If This is a Man"Section I: Reading Holocaust Diaries 1. Holocaust Diaries—Between Life Story and Trauma2. Reading the Diaries as a Critique of Holocaust Historiography3. The Dynamic of the Text between the Two Deaths—A Theoretical Model for the Reading of Traumatic TextSection II: From Autobiographical Time to Documentation Time: Victor Klemperer's Diar4. The Life Story of Victor Klemperer5. The Disruption of Life-Story Time in the Klemperer Diaries6. From Autobiographical to Documentary DiarySection III: The Jewish Self and the Nazi Other: Chaim Kaplan's Warsaw Diary7. Chaim Kaplan and his Diary8. The Jews and Nazi "Law"9. Between Perpetrators and Victims: The Gray Zone of Consciousness in the Diary of Chaim KaplanConclusionBibliography Index
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Indiana University Press Framing Sukkot
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWhile providing fascinating and abundant ethnographic detail about sukkah builders, their families, and their daily lives, [Berlinger] raises important theoretical questions that merit additional attention. * Reading Religion *This is an important and timely book: important because it contributes significantly to the expanding literature on Jewish history and culture; and timely due to its arrival just as many are questioning the relationship folklore as a discipline has to the field of vernacular architecture studies. * Journal of Folklore Research *Berlinger's rich and nuanced ethnography sheds light on many sukkot from Bloomington to Tel Aviv, Jaffa, and Jerusalem, and back to Brooklyn; like the wandering in the Sinai desert, this journey is crucial, and although the Promised Land does not allow one to rest as it opens further questions, it is Berlinger's wandering that helps us in framing such wonderings. * Journal of American Folklore *The book is a clear and original contribution that considers Jewish folklore within wider sociopolitical contexts. It raises questions and offers insights previously unexplored in the field, within both Jewish Studies and vernacular architecture. * Western Folklore *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on Language UseIntroduction1. Translating Text: Sukkot in Bloomington, Indiana2. Shchunat Hatikva, Tel Aviv: A Geography of Difference3. Within Shchunat Hatikva: Values and Spaces4. Sukkot in Shchunat Hatikva5. Sukkot in Jaffa and Jerusalem6. The Right to House and Home7. Transcending Architecture: Sukkot in Brooklyn, New York8. ConclusionAppendix: Materials Chart and Sukkot Floor PlansBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Framing Sukkot
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWhile providing fascinating and abundant ethnographic detail about sukkah builders, their families, and their daily lives, [Berlinger] raises important theoretical questions that merit additional attention. * Reading Religion *This is an important and timely book: important because it contributes significantly to the expanding literature on Jewish history and culture; and timely due to its arrival just as many are questioning the relationship folklore as a discipline has to the field of vernacular architecture studies. * Journal of Folklore Research *Berlinger's rich and nuanced ethnography sheds light on many sukkot from Bloomington to Tel Aviv, Jaffa, and Jerusalem, and back to Brooklyn; like the wandering in the Sinai desert, this journey is crucial, and although the Promised Land does not allow one to rest as it opens further questions, it is Berlinger's wandering that helps us in framing such wonderings. * Journal of American Folklore *The book is a clear and original contribution that considers Jewish folklore within wider sociopolitical contexts. It raises questions and offers insights previously unexplored in the field, within both Jewish Studies and vernacular architecture. * Western Folklore *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on Language UseIntroduction1. Translating Text: Sukkot in Bloomington, Indiana2. Shchunat Hatikva, Tel Aviv: A Geography of Difference3. Within Shchunat Hatikva: Values and Spaces4. Sukkot in Shchunat Hatikva5. Sukkot in Jaffa and Jerusalem6. The Right to House and Home7. Transcending Architecture: Sukkot in Brooklyn, New York8. ConclusionAppendix: Materials Chart and Sukkot Floor PlansBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press On the Mediterranean and the Nile The Jews of
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWith On the Mediterranean and the Nile, Israel-Pelletier has paid homage to a bygone—but never entirely forgotten—Egypt, and to at least two generations of writers, whose literary works on the one hand reveal a little-known side of the Egyptian past, and on the other help us understand the fascinating web of feelings and images that continues to bind together memory, nationhood, and Jewishness in and beyond the Mediterranean. * Reading Religion *Israel-Pelletier's close readings, her vivid descriptions of characters and predicaments, her analyses of writer's positions and intentions, bring us invaluable glimpses into Egyptian Jewish writers' creative impulses. * Sephardic Horizons *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Jacques Hassoun: Return to Egypt2. Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff's Egypt: A View from the Nile3. Edmond Jabès: Egypt Recovered4. Paula Jacques, Resistance and Transmission: Transplanting Egypt on the Soil of France 5. André Aciman and the Mediterranean: The Staging of Egypt as Elsewhere EpilogueBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press In Search of the Hebrew People
Book SynopsisTrade Reviewlany's study is a significant, deeply erudite contribution to our understanding of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German culture and politics. * H-Judaic *Thanks to its erudition, the monograph could serve as an effective introduction to German history, biblical studies and modern nationalism, among other fields. * German History *Ilany's book has much to offer to biblical scholars invested in understanding the development of their field, but also to scholars of 18th- and 19th-century Germany and to those interested in the relationship between the academy and the ideological process of nation building more broadly. * Reading Religion *Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction 1. Troglodytes, Hottentots and Hebrews: The Bible and the Genesis of German Ethnography2. The Law and the People: Mosaic Law and German Enlightenment3. The Eighteenth-Century Polemic on the Extermination of the Canaanites4. "Is Judah Indeed the Teutonic Fatherland?" The Hebrew Model and the Birth of German National Culture5. "Lovers of Hebrew Poetry": The Battle over the Bible's Relevance at the Turn of the Nineteenth CenturyConclusion BibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Veils Turbans and Islamic Reform in Northern
Book SynopsisVeils, Turbans, and Islamic Reform in Northern Nigeria tells the story of Islamic reform from the perspective of dress, textile production, trade, and pilgrimage over the past 200 years.Trade ReviewRenne has written an exciting albeit challenging book. Readers unfamiliar with Nigeria and its complex history may feel overwhelmed at times by the sheer multitude of references to historic events and personalities. This notwithstanding, the book has a great many insights to offer to scholars of religious reform, Islamic dress and northern Nigeria. Everyone with an interest in these topics should read it. -- Hannah Hoechner * Islamic Africa *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction: Material Religion and Islamic Reform in Northern Nigeria 2. Islamic Dress, Textile Production, and Trade in the Time of the Sokoto Caliphate 3. Muslim Identity, Islamic Scholarship, and Cloth Connections in Ilorin 4. The Sardauna's Turbans 5. Veiling, Gender, and Fashion 6. Performing Pilgrimage: Worship and Travel, Textiles and Trade 7. Marks of Progress: Islamic Reform and Industrial Textile Production in Kaduna 8. Failures of Modernity and Islamic Reform: Dress and Deception in Northern Nigeria in the 21st Century9. Epilogue. Moral Imagination, Material Things, and Islamic Reform Glossary Bibliography Index
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Indiana University Press Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The recent attacks on minority identities have revived older, anti-Semitic stereotypes. The concomitant construction of 'white' identity (a construction which excludes Jews) and its alliance with political power makes Judith Ruderman's work particularly relevant. Until recently, we might have assumed that the place of Jews in American society was resolved, but I dare say this is no longer the case."—Diane Sasson, author of Yearning for the New Age: Laura Holloway-Langford and Late Victorian SpiritualityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChapter One: Jews and Their Complex Identities: "O Brave New World, That has Such People In't!"Chapter Two: The "Jewish Nose" and the Nose Job in Nathan Englander's The Ministry of Special Cases: "The Most Unkindest Cut of All"Chapter Three: Jewish American Women and the Nose Job: "God Hath Given You One Face, and You Make Yourself Another"Chapter Four: Renaming as a Strategy for Passing in Thyra Samter Winslow's "A Cycle of Manhattan": "A Ros[s] by Any Other Name"Chapter Five: Renaming and Reclaiming: "To Thine Own Self be True" Chapter Six: Jews and Gentiles Becoming the Other: "Neither a Borrower nor a Lender be" Chapter Seven: Racial Crossings Between Jews and Blacks: "That You Might See Your Shadow" Chapter Eight: The Use of Clothing in Passing Narratives: "The Fashion Wears out More Apparel than the Man"Chapter Nine: In Search of an "Authentic" Jewish American Identity: "Who is it Who Can Tell me Who I am?"Works CitedIndex
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Indiana University Press Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The recent attacks on minority identities have revived older, anti-Semitic stereotypes. The concomitant construction of 'white' identity (a construction which excludes Jews) and its alliance with political power makes Judith Ruderman's work particularly relevant. Until recently, we might have assumed that the place of Jews in American society was resolved, but I dare say this is no longer the case."—Diane Sasson, author of Yearning for the New Age: Laura Holloway-Langford and Late Victorian SpiritualityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChapter One: Jews and Their Complex Identities: "O Brave New World, That has Such People In't!"Chapter Two: The "Jewish Nose" and the Nose Job in Nathan Englander's The Ministry of Special Cases: "The Most Unkindest Cut of All"Chapter Three: Jewish American Women and the Nose Job: "God Hath Given You One Face, and You Make Yourself Another"Chapter Four: Renaming as a Strategy for Passing in Thyra Samter Winslow's "A Cycle of Manhattan": "A Ros[s] by Any Other Name"Chapter Five: Renaming and Reclaiming: "To Thine Own Self be True" Chapter Six: Jews and Gentiles Becoming the Other: "Neither a Borrower nor a Lender be" Chapter Seven: Racial Crossings Between Jews and Blacks: "That You Might See Your Shadow" Chapter Eight: The Use of Clothing in Passing Narratives: "The Fashion Wears out More Apparel than the Man"Chapter Nine: In Search of an "Authentic" Jewish American Identity: "Who is it Who Can Tell me Who I am?"Works CitedIndex
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Indiana University Press In Sickness and in Wealth Migration Gendered
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn Sickness and in Wealth is a precious contribution in the expanding anthropological literature on morality, perhaps peculiarly salient in its bouncing off different perspectives. Thanks to its elegant and accessible style, furthermore, it makes for an engaging read also for those interested in the Indonesian and Southeast Asian scholarship at large. -- Roberto Rizzo * Social Anthropology *This book is essential reading for students wishing to learn about the cultural constitution of one specific mobility system: Javanese women's transnational labor migration. It will be useful for those comparing the lives of other transnational migrants and overseas domestic workers from and within Asia. Studying migration from the vantage point of the "sending" communities—in this case, villages in Central Java—is less common than studying migrant experiences from the "receiving" countries' perspectives. Chan's research thus adds to a small but growing number of studies that have shown the importance of learning about the social context from which people leave, circulate, and return, as well as communicate, sustain relationships, and participate in social, political, and economic life transnationally. -- Emily Hertzman * Indonesia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsNote on Names and Indonesian CurrencyList of Abbreviations and TermsIntroduction: Faith in Migration1. The Politics of Morality and Identity in Central Java2. Mobilizing and Moralizing Indonesian Labor3. Evaluating Migrant Success and Failure4. Shame5. Faith6. Contesting the Terms of BelongingConclusion: Gendered Moral Economies of MigrationBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press In Sickness and in Wealth
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn Sickness and in Wealth is a precious contribution in the expanding anthropological literature on morality, perhaps peculiarly salient in its bouncing off different perspectives. Thanks to its elegant and accessible style, furthermore, it makes for an engaging read also for those interested in the Indonesian and Southeast Asian scholarship at large. -- Roberto Rizzo * Social Anthropology *This book is essential reading for students wishing to learn about the cultural constitution of one specific mobility system: Javanese women's transnational labor migration. It will be useful for those comparing the lives of other transnational migrants and overseas domestic workers from and within Asia. Studying migration from the vantage point of the "sending" communities—in this case, villages in Central Java—is less common than studying migrant experiences from the "receiving" countries' perspectives. Chan's research thus adds to a small but growing number of studies that have shown the importance of learning about the social context from which people leave, circulate, and return, as well as communicate, sustain relationships, and participate in social, political, and economic life transnationally. -- Emily Hertzman * Indonesia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsNote on Names and Indonesian CurrencyList of Abbreviations and TermsIntroduction: Faith in Migration1. The Politics of Morality and Identity in Central Java2. Mobilizing and Moralizing Indonesian Labor3. Evaluating Migrant Success and Failure4. Shame5. Faith6. Contesting the Terms of BelongingConclusion: Gendered Moral Economies of MigrationBibliographyIndex
£25.19
Indiana University Press Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDowty's book will serve as an accessible and important work in the field of the history of the Yishuv during the Ottoman period and the early stages of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The combination of attention to detail and a broad overview means that this work will be useful to scholars and students for years to come, and the author deserves every praise for this. -- Tamir Karkason * H-Judaic *A seminal work of impeccable and meticulous scholarship, Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine: Two Worlds Collide by Professor Alan Dowty must be considered a core addition to community, college and university library Turkish, Palestinian, and Israeli history collections and supplemental studies curriculums. * MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW *The rigorous research and scholarly perspective of Alan Dowty's Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine shines a light on issues of the Arab-Israel conflict that others have overlooked. * Jewish Press.com *Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine is a study rich with insight and information that is skillfully put into a broader context. You will finish the book with a wealth of knowledge about the past and greater insight into the present. -- Dinah Rokach * HaShomer *Table of ContentsPreface1. Palestine before Zionism2. Russian Jews before Zionism3. Two Worlds Collide4. Unneighborly Relations5. Truth from the Land of Israel6. The Arena Expands7. Battle LinesEpilogueBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Jewish Difference and the Arts in Vienna
Book SynopsisJewish Difference and the Arts in Vienna explores how Jewish writers and composers sought, through their engagement with musical forms and styles, to capture Jewish voices and their dynamic expression of compassion and otherness.Trade ReviewGiven the variety of artistic works examined, this will surely be useful to the likely graduate students who will use this work. * Association of Jewish Libraries *In her epilogue, Kita makes a convincing case for the continued need for compas- sionate art in our own time, as the works explored in this volume serve as testaments of the transformative potential of such art, ultimately "offering hope and comfort in our shared humanity" (166). In addition to serving as a valuable contribution to German Jewish studies, Jewish Difference and the Arts in Vienna offers a new framework for reading fin-de-siècle Viennese literature and culture and will thus be of interest to Germanists and musicologists alike. * German Studies Review *This book is a true testament to the idea that the musical notes on a page are the result of a human story. In this case, the human story behind the works of these composers is both complicated and compassionate in a variety of ways. -- Karen L. Uslin - Rowan University * AJS Review *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsNote on TranslationIntroduction1. A Case for Compassion: Siegfried Lipiner's Adam2. Voicing Compassion: Gustav Mahler's Second and Third Symphonies3. Polyphony as a Poetics of Compassion: Arnold Schoenberg's Die Jakobsleiter4. Dialogues of Compassion: Richard Beer-Hofmann's Jaákobs Traum5. Compassion as Communal Song: Stefan Zweig's JeremiasEpilogueBibliography Index
£32.40
Indiana University Press Antisemitism in Film Comedy in Nazi Germany
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAntisemitism in Film Comedy in Nazi Germany offers an intriguing point of departure for future inquiries into the functions of coded antisemitism in mainstream Western culture today. -- Ofer Ashkenazi- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem * Antisemitism Studies *
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Indiana University Press Antisemitism in Film Comedy in Nazi Germany
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAntisemitism in Film Comedy in Nazi Germany offers an intriguing point of departure for future inquiries into the functions of coded antisemitism in mainstream Western culture today. -- Ofer Ashkenazi- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem * Antisemitism Studies *
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Indiana University Press A Jewish Refugee in New York
Book SynopsisBy depicting one woman as a Jewish refugee in the US during WWII, A Jewish Refugee in New York provides keen insight into the social, political, and cultural tensions of that time and place and reveals the day-to-day activities of the large immigrant Jewish community of New York.Trade ReviewMolodovsky's novel adds further dimension to our ever-growing understanding of the diverse ways postwar Jewish literature responded to the destruction of Eastern European Jewish civilization. -- Rachel Rubinstein * In Geveb A Journal of Yiddish Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Anita NorichFrom Lublin to New York: The Journal of Rivke Zilberg, A Young Jewish Refugee / A novel by Kadya Molodovsky
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Indiana University Press A Jewish Refugee in New York
Book SynopsisBy depicting one woman as a Jewish refugee in the US during WWII, A Jewish Refugee in New York provides keen insight into the social, political, and cultural tensions of that time and place and reveals the day-to-day activities of the large immigrant Jewish community of New York.Trade ReviewMolodovsky's novel adds further dimension to our ever-growing understanding of the diverse ways postwar Jewish literature responded to the destruction of Eastern European Jewish civilization. -- Rachel Rubinstein * In Geveb A Journal of Yiddish Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Anita NorichFrom Lublin to New York: The Journal of Rivke Zilberg, A Young Jewish Refugee / A novel by Kadya Molodovsky
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Indiana University Press The Vanishing Generation Faith and Uprising in
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is an important book, combining discussions of large-scale political events with insights into their impact on individual Muslims and Muslim communities. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *This is an important book for scholars of modern Uzbekistan, and will be a worthwhile addition to student reading lists. It provides a fascinating journalistic account of an important period in modern post-Soviet politics, and will also appeal to general readers interested in the Central Asian region. For students and scholars of Islamist movements, there are also important insights into processes of religious revival and radicalization. -- David Lewis * The Russian Review *
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Indiana University Press Der Nisters Soviet Years
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewKrutikov's book is the most definitive and accessible work in English to date on Der Nister and his monumental novel The Family Mashber. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *I think that Der Nister would have really liked Krutikov's book. It gives justice to Der Nister without making him into a saint, villain, or a misguided idealist, but instead sees him as a writer searching for his path... -- Anna Shternshis * AJS REVIEW *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. 1929: The Year of the Great Turn and the End of Symbolism2. From Symbolism to Reality: Space, Politics and Self in Hoyptshtet3. The 1930s in Children's Poetry4. The Generation of 1905 5. Text and Context of The Family Mashber6. The Last Decade, 1939–1949: Revealing "The Hidden"EpilogueBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Der Nisters Soviet Years
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewKrutikov's book is the most definitive and accessible work in English to date on Der Nister and his monumental novel The Family Mashber. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *I think that Der Nister would have really liked Krutikov's book. It gives justice to Der Nister without making him into a saint, villain, or a misguided idealist, but instead sees him as a writer searching for his path... -- Anna Shternshis * AJS REVIEW *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. 1929: The Year of the Great Turn and the End of Symbolism2. From Symbolism to Reality: Space, Politics and Self in Hoyptshtet3. The 1930s in Children's Poetry4. The Generation of 1905 5. Text and Context of The Family Mashber6. The Last Decade, 1939–1949: Revealing "The Hidden"EpilogueBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Its Literary Forms
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis well-written, accessible collection demonstrates a maturation in Jewish studies and medieval philosophy. It convincingly opens up the canon of philosophical texts and authors, and will enrich readers' understanding of the diverse literary forms of medieval Jewish philosophical projects. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Comprising sophisticated scholarship and realizing its goal of challenging conventions in the study of medieval Jewish philosophy, [Medieval Jewish Philosophy] convincingly advocates for a fruitful approach that, it may be hoped, others will be inspired to pursue. * H-Judaic *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Aaron W. Hughes and James T. Robinson1. Animal Fables and Medieval Jewish Philosophy / Kalman P. Bland, z'l2. Biblical Commentaries as a Genre of Jewish Philosophical Writing / Raphael Dascalu3. Commentaries on The Guide of the Perplexed: A Brief Literary History / Igor H. de Souza4. Philosophical Commentary and Supercommentary: The Hebrew Aristotelean Commentaries of the Fourteenth through Sixteenth Centuries / Yehuda Halper5. The Author's Haqdamah as a Literary Form in Jewish Thought / Steven Harvey6. Does Judaism Make Sense? Early Medieval Kalām as Literature / Gyongyi Hegedus7. Dialogues / Aaron W. Hughes8. Poetry / Aaron W. Hughes9. Poetic Summaries of Scientific and Philosophical Works / Maud Kozodoy10. The Philosophical Epistle as a Genre of Medieval Jewish Philosophy / Charles Manekin11. The Sermon in Late Medieval Jewish Thought as Method for Popularizing Philosophy / Chaim Meir Neria12. Lexicons and Lexicography in Medieval Jewish Philosophy / James T. Robinson13. Theological Summas in Late Medieval Jewish Philosophy / Shira WeissIndex
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Indiana University Press Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Its Literary Forms
Book SynopsisToo often the study of philosophical texts is carried out in ways that do not pay significant attention to how the ideas contained within them are presented, articulated, and developed. This was not always the case. The contributors to this collected work consider Jewish philosophy in the medieval period, when new genres and forms of written expression were flourishing in the wake of renewed interest in ancient philosophy. Many medieval Jewish philosophers were highly accomplished poets, for example, and made conscious efforts to write in a poetic style. This volume turns attention to the connections that medieval Jewish thinkers made between the literary, the exegetical, the philosophical, and the mystical to shed light on the creativity and diversity of medieval thought. As they broaden the scope of what counts as medieval Jewish philosophy, the essays collected here consider questions about how an argument is formed, how text is put into the service of philosophy, and the social andTrade ReviewThis well-written, accessible collection demonstrates a maturation in Jewish studies and medieval philosophy. It convincingly opens up the canon of philosophical texts and authors, and will enrich readers' understanding of the diverse literary forms of medieval Jewish philosophical projects. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Comprising sophisticated scholarship and realizing its goal of challenging conventions in the study of medieval Jewish philosophy, [Medieval Jewish Philosophy] convincingly advocates for a fruitful approach that, it may be hoped, others will be inspired to pursue. * H-Judaic *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Aaron W. Hughes and James T. Robinson1. Animal Fables and Medieval Jewish Philosophy / Kalman P. Bland, z'l2. Biblical Commentaries as a Genre of Jewish Philosophical Writing / Raphael Dascalu3. Commentaries on The Guide of the Perplexed: A Brief Literary History / Igor H. de Souza4. Philosophical Commentary and Supercommentary: The Hebrew Aristotelean Commentaries of the Fourteenth through Sixteenth Centuries / Yehuda Halper5. The Author's Haqdamah as a Literary Form in Jewish Thought / Steven Harvey6. Does Judaism Make Sense? Early Medieval Kalām as Literature / Gyongyi Hegedus7. Dialogues / Aaron W. Hughes8. Poetry / Aaron W. Hughes9. Poetic Summaries of Scientific and Philosophical Works / Maud Kozodoy10. The Philosophical Epistle as a Genre of Medieval Jewish Philosophy / Charles Manekin11. The Sermon in Late Medieval Jewish Thought as Method for Popularizing Philosophy / Chaim Meir Neria12. Lexicons and Lexicography in Medieval Jewish Philosophy / James T. Robinson13. Theological Summas in Late Medieval Jewish Philosophy / Shira WeissIndex
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Indiana University Press Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps
Book SynopsisDevoted to the ways in which Holocaust literature and Gulag literature provide contexts for each other, Leona Toker shows how the prominent features of one shed light on the veiled features and methods of the other.Trade ReviewThis is a welcome new approach to camp testimony, and many such comparative accounts will surely follow. * Times Higher Education *For many scholars already ensconced in the field of camp literature, Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps may serve as a platform from which to reconsider stale assumptions and definitions. For a great many future scholars, it will be a launching pad. -- Benjamin Paloff * Antisemitism Studies *Toker writes with erudition, nuance, and complexity that few other scholars could match on this topic. -- Katherine R. Jolluck * The Russian Review *Toker expands our understanding of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust and Soviet Gulag with this expansive and engaging study. -- Julie Draskoczy Zigoris * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsInter-Contextuality: Introduction1. The Gulag and Nazi Camps: From Improvisation to Stability2. Two Strands of Concentration Camp Literature: A Brief History of an Entanglement 3. The Muselmann and the Dokhodiaga 4. Forced Labor 5. The Drowned and the Reprieved 6. On the Way to Resistance7. Faith 8. Endgames 9. Survivor GuiltConcluding ReflectionsWorks CitedIndex
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Indiana University Press Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps
Book SynopsisDevoted to the ways in which Holocaust literature and Gulag literature provide contexts for each other, Leona Toker shows how the prominent features of one shed light on the veiled features and methods of the other.Trade ReviewThis is a welcome new approach to camp testimony, and many such comparative accounts will surely follow. * Times Higher Education *For many scholars already ensconced in the field of camp literature, Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps may serve as a platform from which to reconsider stale assumptions and definitions. For a great many future scholars, it will be a launching pad. -- Benjamin Paloff * Antisemitism Studies *Toker writes with erudition, nuance, and complexity that few other scholars could match on this topic. -- Katherine R. Jolluck * The Russian Review *Toker expands our understanding of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust and Soviet Gulag with this expansive and engaging study. -- Julie Draskoczy Zigoris * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsInter-Contextuality: Introduction1. The Gulag and Nazi Camps: From Improvisation to Stability2. Two Strands of Concentration Camp Literature: A Brief History of an Entanglement 3. The Muselmann and the Dokhodiaga 4. Forced Labor 5. The Drowned and the Reprieved 6. On the Way to Resistance7. Faith 8. Endgames 9. Survivor GuiltConcluding ReflectionsWorks CitedIndex
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Indiana University Press The Scandal of Continuity in Middle East Anthrop
Book SynopsisDespite a rich history of ethnographic research in Middle Eastern societies, the region is frequently portrayed as marginal to anthropology. The contributors to this volume reject this view and show how the Middle East is in fact vital to the discipline. Trade Review"'Continuity' includes the ideas and practice of kinship, tribe, lineage, and moral authority that continue to underlie on shared values that are not just global or local, but that encompass much in between. It is good to think with."—Dale F. Eickelman, author of Muslim Politics"Highlights the severely underappreciated theoretical productivity of work in Middle East anthropology. This is an exciting and intellectually fluent work that avoids most of the clichés of contemporary anthropological thought."—Gregory Starrett, editor (with Eleanor Abdella Doumato) of Teaching Islam: Textbooks and Religion in the Middle EastTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: On the Left Hand of Knowledge / Judith Scheele and Andrew Shryock1. Dialogues of Three: Making Sense of Patterns That Outlast Events / Andrew Shryock2. Totality and Infinity: Sharia Ethnography in Lebanon / Morgan Clarke3. A Mirror for Fieldworkers / Christa Salamandra4. Who are the Taliban? The Deflection of Truth among Tribal Pashtun in Pakistan / Ammara Maqsood5. Secrecy and Continuity in Rajasthan / Anastasia Piliavsky6. The Place of Strangers in Moroccan Domesticity: Nostalgia, Secrets, and the Continuity of Scandal / Mary Montgomery7. Claiming an Individual Name: Revisiting the Personhood Debate with Afghan Poets in Iran / Zuzanna Olszewska8. Segmentation versus Tyranny: Politics as Empirical Philosophy / Judith Scheele9. The Republic of Precarity: 'Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi, Trickster Politician / Walter Armbrust10. Experience and Its Modes / Paul Dresch References CitedIndex
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Indiana University Press The Scandal of Continuity in Middle East Anthrop
Book SynopsisDespite a rich history of ethnographic research in Middle Eastern societies, the region is frequently portrayed as marginal to anthropology. The contributors to this volume reject this view and show how the Middle East is in fact vital to the discipline. Trade Review"'Continuity' includes the ideas and practice of kinship, tribe, lineage, and moral authority that continue to underlie on shared values that are not just global or local, but that encompass much in between. It is good to think with."—Dale F. Eickelman, author of Muslim Politics"Highlights the severely underappreciated theoretical productivity of work in Middle East anthropology. This is an exciting and intellectually fluent work that avoids most of the clichés of contemporary anthropological thought."—Gregory Starrett, editor (with Eleanor Abdella Doumato) of Teaching Islam: Textbooks and Religion in the Middle EastTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: On the Left Hand of Knowledge / Judith Scheele and Andrew Shryock1. Dialogues of Three: Making Sense of Patterns That Outlast Events / Andrew Shryock2. Totality and Infinity: Sharia Ethnography in Lebanon / Morgan Clarke3. A Mirror for Fieldworkers / Christa Salamandra4. Who are the Taliban? The Deflection of Truth among Tribal Pashtun in Pakistan / Ammara Maqsood5. Secrecy and Continuity in Rajasthan / Anastasia Piliavsky6. The Place of Strangers in Moroccan Domesticity: Nostalgia, Secrets, and the Continuity of Scandal / Mary Montgomery7. Claiming an Individual Name: Revisiting the Personhood Debate with Afghan Poets in Iran / Zuzanna Olszewska8. Segmentation versus Tyranny: Politics as Empirical Philosophy / Judith Scheele9. The Republic of Precarity: 'Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi, Trickster Politician / Walter Armbrust10. Experience and Its Modes / Paul Dresch References CitedIndex
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Indiana University Press Israel Denial
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe book completely discredits BDS by demonstrating in devastating detail how much it corrupts academic standards and undermines the chances for peace. With its more than 400 pages of text, some 50 pages of notes, and an extensive bibliography, the book not only reflects Nelson's longstanding concern about the corrosive effects of BDS activism, but also his vast experience and erudition as a prolific scholar whose academic career spans almost five decades. * The Algemeiner *After Nelson's book, no one should be able to take the work of the BDS professors seriously, given their reliance on propagandistic lies. Cary Nelson's Israel is not the mythic realm of demons fantasized by BDS advocates but an actual place that contains signs of hope. -- David Mikics, TabletNelson has written a very good book: clear, judicious, and exemplary in its concern for reason and evidence. * Fathom * Israel Denial is an epic response to BDS and its pseudo-intellectual underpinnings. * elder of Ziyon *Israel Denial seeks to take the rug out from beneath the feet of scholars pushing vilification of Israel and promoting discrimination against Israeli institutions by discriminating against Israeli faculty and students. This is an important book for those who want to be equipped with fighting what is called academic BDS. * Israel Diaries *[T]his book fills a desperate need—the need to expose the bigotry of the anti-Israel academy and the thinly veiled fictions they propagate. * Commentary *Israel Denial is a staggering work of rigorous intellectual inquiry that helps us understand how a deep anti-Israel animus in academia has fueled the rise of intersectionality as a movement to isolate and exclude Jews. * Jewish Journal *Table of ContentsPREFACE INTRODUCTION PART ONE—CONTRASTING AGENDAS: BOYCOTT VERSUS PEACEBUILDINGI THE GOALS AND TACTICS OF THE BOYCOTT MOVEMENTII FIVE COMPONENTS OF A PEACE PLANPART TWO—FOUR BDS FACULTY PORTRAITSIII JUDITH BUTLER: A Philosopher Promotes a One-State Fantasy IV STEVEN SALAITA: The Fluid Line Between Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism V SAREE MAKDISI: Criminalizing Israeli Law and Culture VI JASBIR PUAR: Obsessive Demonology as a Research AgendaPART THREE—TEACHING FOR EMPATHY OR HOSTILITYVII ANTI-ZIONIST HOSTILITY: Teaching to Delegitimate the Jewish State VIII PEDAGOGY AS EMPATHY:Teaching Jewish-Israeli, Arab-Israeli, and Palestinian Poetry Together PART FOUR—CHALLENGES IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND IN PALESTINEIX A FACULTY GROUP ORGANIZES A BOYCOTT CAMPAIGNX ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN PALESTINIAN UNIVERSITIES XI THE CASE FOR COORDINATED UNILATERAL WITHDRAWL FROM THE WEST BANK: A Proposal to Rescue the Two-State Paradigm AFTERWORDWhere BDS is Headed in the Academy BIBLIOGRAPHY NOTES INDEX
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Indiana University Press Israel Denial
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe book completely discredits BDS by demonstrating in devastating detail how much it corrupts academic standards and undermines the chances for peace. With its more than 400 pages of text, some 50 pages of notes, and an extensive bibliography, the book not only reflects Nelson's longstanding concern about the corrosive effects of BDS activism, but also his vast experience and erudition as a prolific scholar whose academic career spans almost five decades. * The Algemeiner *After Nelson's book, no one should be able to take the work of the BDS professors seriously, given their reliance on propagandistic lies. Cary Nelson's Israel is not the mythic realm of demons fantasized by BDS advocates but an actual place that contains signs of hope. -- David Mikics, TabletNelson has written a very good book: clear, judicious, and exemplary in its concern for reason and evidence. * Fathom * Israel Denial is an epic response to BDS and its pseudo-intellectual underpinnings. * elder of Ziyon *Israel Denial seeks to take the rug out from beneath the feet of scholars pushing vilification of Israel and promoting discrimination against Israeli institutions by discriminating against Israeli faculty and students. This is an important book for those who want to be equipped with fighting what is called academic BDS. * Israel Diaries *[T]his book fills a desperate need—the need to expose the bigotry of the anti-Israel academy and the thinly veiled fictions they propagate. * Commentary *Israel Denial is a staggering work of rigorous intellectual inquiry that helps us understand how a deep anti-Israel animus in academia has fueled the rise of intersectionality as a movement to isolate and exclude Jews. * Jewish Journal *Table of ContentsPREFACE INTRODUCTION PART ONE—CONTRASTING AGENDAS: BOYCOTT VERSUS PEACEBUILDINGI THE GOALS AND TACTICS OF THE BOYCOTT MOVEMENTII FIVE COMPONENTS OF A PEACE PLANPART TWO—FOUR BDS FACULTY PORTRAITSIII JUDITH BUTLER: A Philosopher Promotes a One-State Fantasy IV STEVEN SALAITA: The Fluid Line Between Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism V SAREE MAKDISI: Criminalizing Israeli Law and Culture VI JASBIR PUAR: Obsessive Demonology as a Research AgendaPART THREE—TEACHING FOR EMPATHY OR HOSTILITYVII ANTI-ZIONIST HOSTILITY: Teaching to Delegitimate the Jewish State VIII PEDAGOGY AS EMPATHY:Teaching Jewish-Israeli, Arab-Israeli, and Palestinian Poetry Together PART FOUR—CHALLENGES IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND IN PALESTINEIX A FACULTY GROUP ORGANIZES A BOYCOTT CAMPAIGNX ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN PALESTINIAN UNIVERSITIES XI THE CASE FOR COORDINATED UNILATERAL WITHDRAWL FROM THE WEST BANK: A Proposal to Rescue the Two-State Paradigm AFTERWORDWhere BDS is Headed in the Academy BIBLIOGRAPHY NOTES INDEX
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Indiana University Press Blaming the Jews
Book SynopsisIn Blaming the Jews, author Bernard Harrison offers a new and unique analysis of the nature of antisemitism and its persistence as a cultural phenomenon.Trade ReviewHarrison's book, in short, offers great insight into the feverish hate and hysteria displayed by the hardcore anti-Israel crowd. Those interested in the phenomenon of anti-Zionism/anti-Israelism, scholars and laypersons alike, should definitely consult their eye-opening work. -- David Rodman * Israel Affairs *Bernard Harrison's book is crucial, essential, and indispens- able to understanding: 1) the nature of antisemitism; 2) the immi- nent threat of antisemitism; and, 3) the connections between Jew hatred for the hatred of the other to the connections between Jew hatred and the hatred of the other. This book is required reading for anyone who wants to understand antisemitism. -- David Pattterson - University of Texas * Antisemitism Studies *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionI. Varieties of Antisemitism1. Hamas Addresses the Jewish Question2. "Profiting" from the Holocaust3. Questions of DefinitionII. Why the Jews?4. The Disease Metaphor5. An Obstinate PeopleIII. Is Israel "illegitimate"?6. Accusation and Narrative7. Narrative and Reality8. The Legacy of 19679. Is "Anti-Zionism" Antisemitic?10. Israel, the Left and the UniversitiesIV. Judaism Defaced11. A Primitive Religion?12. Mitzva and Moral Theory. 13. What's Wrong With Universalism?V. Antisemitism as a Problem for Non-Jews14. Jew-Baiting on Campus15. Defamation Disguised16. Judgement UnhingedBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Blaming the Jews
Book SynopsisIn Blaming the Jews, author Bernard Harrison offers a new and unique analysis of the nature of antisemitism and its persistence as a cultural phenomenon.Trade ReviewHarrison's book, in short, offers great insight into the feverish hate and hysteria displayed by the hardcore anti-Israel crowd. Those interested in the phenomenon of anti-Zionism/anti-Israelism, scholars and laypersons alike, should definitely consult their eye-opening work. -- David Rodman * Israel Affairs *Bernard Harrison's book is crucial, essential, and indispens- able to understanding: 1) the nature of antisemitism; 2) the immi- nent threat of antisemitism; and, 3) the connections between Jew hatred for the hatred of the other to the connections between Jew hatred and the hatred of the other. This book is required reading for anyone who wants to understand antisemitism. -- David Pattterson - University of Texas * Antisemitism Studies *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionI. Varieties of Antisemitism1. Hamas Addresses the Jewish Question2. "Profiting" from the Holocaust3. Questions of DefinitionII. Why the Jews?4. The Disease Metaphor5. An Obstinate PeopleIII. Is Israel "illegitimate"?6. Accusation and Narrative7. Narrative and Reality8. The Legacy of 19679. Is "Anti-Zionism" Antisemitic?10. Israel, the Left and the UniversitiesIV. Judaism Defaced11. A Primitive Religion?12. Mitzva and Moral Theory. 13. What's Wrong With Universalism?V. Antisemitism as a Problem for Non-Jews14. Jew-Baiting on Campus15. Defamation Disguised16. Judgement UnhingedBibliographyIndex
£26.99
Indiana University Press Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin
Book SynopsisIn Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin, Marc Caplan explores the reciprocal encounter between Eastern European Jews and German culture in the days following World War I.Trade ReviewYiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin is full of sharp insights and bold statements, which at times can raise incidental doubts in the reader's mind. Caplan's book is a work of creative critical research on modern Yiddish literature, particularly well-suited to the contemporary historical moment. * Forward Magazine *Caplan [is] mindful of and likely alarmed by the parallels between the 2020s and the 1920s, and rightly draw our attention to works of art and literature that might help us navigate our own troubled era. * LA Review of Books *Caplan's work is a sprawling, at times idiosyncratic, rich, and deeply earnest study of modernist aesthetics and the political, social, artistic, and literary contexts that inform them from the vantage points of center and periphery. -- Jessica Kirzane * AJS Review *Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin is a remarkable work of critical imagination that stages a conversation between Yiddish and German modernism. -- Matthew Johnson * German Studies Review *Caplan's work is a sprawling, at times idiosyncratic,rich, and deeply earnest stu y of modernist aesthetics and the political, social, artistic, and lit rary contexts that inform them from the vantage points of center and periphery. -- Jessica Kirzane - The University of ChicagoYiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin is a remarkable work of critical imagination that stages a conversation between Yiddish and German modernism. In lively and often memorable prose, Caplan analyzes "the reciprocal encounter between Eastern European Jews and German culture, concentrating primarily on a small group of avant-garde Yiddish writers working in Berlin during the Weimar Republic, taken in comparison with corresponding figures working in German-language literature, critical theory, journalism, and film. -- Matthew Johnson * German Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Weimar and NowSpectral Empires: Landscapes, Nation-States, and the Homelessness of Weimar Modernism1. A Past Become Space: Alfred Döblin and Dovid Bergelson in Poland, the Soviet Union—and Berlin2. At the Crossroads of the Twentieth Century: Neue Sachlichkeit and Dovid Bergelson's Berlin StoriesMelancholic Conspiracies: Masks, Masques, and the Performance of Self in Yiddish and German Modernism3. Watch the Throne: The Baroque, The Gothic, and Symbolism in Der Nister's Early Stories4. Harold Lloyd and the Hermit: Popular Culture, Gothic Aesthetics, and the End of Der Nister's Symbolist CareerApocalyptic Origins: The Politics of Nostalgia in German and Yiddish Modernism5. Arrested Development: Fragmentation, Apocalypse, and the Pursuit of Origins in Joseph Roth's Representation of Eastern Europe6. Moyshe Kulbak's Berlin Writings: Here, There, Everywhere (Nowhere)Conclusion: Origin Is the GoalBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin
Book SynopsisIn Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin, Marc Caplan explores the reciprocal encounter between Eastern European Jews and German culture in the days following World War I.Trade ReviewYiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin is full of sharp insights and bold statements, which at times can raise incidental doubts in the reader's mind. Caplan's book is a work of creative critical research on modern Yiddish literature, particularly well-suited to the contemporary historical moment. * Forward Magazine *Caplan [is] mindful of and likely alarmed by the parallels between the 2020s and the 1920s, and rightly draw our attention to works of art and literature that might help us navigate our own troubled era. * LA Review of Books *Caplan's work is a sprawling, at times idiosyncratic, rich, and deeply earnest study of modernist aesthetics and the political, social, artistic, and literary contexts that inform them from the vantage points of center and periphery. -- Jessica Kirzane * AJS Review *Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin is a remarkable work of critical imagination that stages a conversation between Yiddish and German modernism. -- Matthew Johnson * German Studies Review *Caplan's work is a sprawling, at times idiosyncratic,rich, and deeply earnest stu y of modernist aesthetics and the political, social, artistic, and lit rary contexts that inform them from the vantage points of center and periphery. -- Jessica Kirzane - The University of ChicagoYiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin is a remarkable work of critical imagination that stages a conversation between Yiddish and German modernism. In lively and often memorable prose, Caplan analyzes "the reciprocal encounter between Eastern European Jews and German culture, concentrating primarily on a small group of avant-garde Yiddish writers working in Berlin during the Weimar Republic, taken in comparison with corresponding figures working in German-language literature, critical theory, journalism, and film. -- Matthew Johnson * German Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Weimar and NowSpectral Empires: Landscapes, Nation-States, and the Homelessness of Weimar Modernism1. A Past Become Space: Alfred Döblin and Dovid Bergelson in Poland, the Soviet Union—and Berlin2. At the Crossroads of the Twentieth Century: Neue Sachlichkeit and Dovid Bergelson's Berlin StoriesMelancholic Conspiracies: Masks, Masques, and the Performance of Self in Yiddish and German Modernism3. Watch the Throne: The Baroque, The Gothic, and Symbolism in Der Nister's Early Stories4. Harold Lloyd and the Hermit: Popular Culture, Gothic Aesthetics, and the End of Der Nister's Symbolist CareerApocalyptic Origins: The Politics of Nostalgia in German and Yiddish Modernism5. Arrested Development: Fragmentation, Apocalypse, and the Pursuit of Origins in Joseph Roth's Representation of Eastern Europe6. Moyshe Kulbak's Berlin Writings: Here, There, Everywhere (Nowhere)Conclusion: Origin Is the GoalBibliographyIndex
£28.80
Indiana University Press Kinship Islam and the Politics of Marriage in
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Hughes has written a one-of-a-kind study of the politics and textures of Muslim marriage in contemporary Jordan. The beautifully-written book explores marriage on multiple scales, from the necessary house to the housing market, the wedding feast to the courthouse, the home wedding to the mass wedding. Engaging multiple theoretical approaches and scholarly traditions, and using rich ethnographic research in Jordan, Hughes shows the importance of the Islamic Movement, the Jordanian government, and major banks to understanding the shape and workings of "affection and mercy" in the country."—Frances S. Hasso, Duke University"Hughes is a versatile ethnographer. His accounts of Jordanian weddings, the inner workings of the sharia courts, where marriages are certified, the gender counseling and sex education offered to engaged couples by Islamist NGOs, the building and buying of homes for newlyweds — all are captivating and complexly rendered. The centrality of marriage to Jordanian political economy emerges vividly on these pages, as do the joys and frustrations of married life. It is a remarkable study, from start to finish."—Andrew Shryock, University of Michigan"In this compelling and illuminating account, Geoffrey Hughes vividly demonstrates the productivity of marriage as a lens through which to understand society. Engagingly written, nuanced and ethnographically rich, his rendition of houses, proposals and weddings in Jordan enlarges our comprehension of marriage's enduring significance-a tour de force."—Janet Carsten, University of EdinburghTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: A Crisis of Marriage, A Crisis of Legitimacy?Part I: The House: Changing Conceptions of Property and Domestic Space1. The House2. The Housing MarketPart II: The Proposal: Making Persons and Other Moral Agents3. The Delegation4. The CourthousePart III: The Wedding: Privatizing Joys?5. The Feast6. The Chastity SocietyConclusion: Affection and MercyBibliographyIndex
£49.30
Indiana University Press The Golden Age of the Lithuanian Yeshivas
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Recent decades have seen the yeshiva recreated as an institution for all Jewish men, and in some places for Jewish women as well. Yet in its origin the yeshiva was an elite institution, for men who were prepared to devote themselves to years of Torah study. The most outstanding of the yeshivas were found in Lithuania, and the period between the two World Wars saw important developments in these schools, developments that continue to reverberate in Orthodox society. Ben-Tsiyon Klibansky has made great use not merely of the memoir literature and academic sources, but has immersed himself in archives in order to offer us the first scholarly study of the yeshivas during the interwar years. For those seeking to understand where the yeshivas came from, how they functioned, what ideals guided them, and how unfortunately they came to their end in Eastern Europe, there is no better guide than Klibansky."—Marc B. Shapiro, Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies, University of Scranton"Through a thorough and rigorous study of numerous sources, Ben Tsiyon Klibansky demonstrates that interwar Poland, rightly characterized as an age of decline to Orthodox Judaism, was an age of thriving to one of its major institutions: the Yeshiva. The complete destruction of the Lithuanian yeshivas in World War II, first by the Soviet occupation and then by the Nazi Holocaust, put an end to this thriving institution, but, as Klibansky concludes, they remained a source of inspiration to the renewed yeshivas of the postwar period."—Benjamin Brown, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem"Nowadays the term "Lithuanian Yeshiva" is used for a type of yeshivas that emerged in Lithuania in the nineteenth century and developed a special "school" of learning and a code of living and dressing, which is still existent. Yet, knowledge about yeshivas in Lithuania itself, especially in the twentieth century up till and into the Holocaust, is unknown. Ben-Tsiyon Klibansky's The Golden Age of the Lithuanian Yeshivas bridges this lack in knowledge and uncovers in a fascinating way and based on in-depth research the general picture of this period as well as its particulars. Klibansky successes in depicting and analyzing the renewal and vitality of the Yehiva world vis-à-vis the deep political, social, religious and cultural changes of the first decades of the twentieth century, and by doing so also re-emphasizes the enormous loss to Jewry, Judaism and Yiddishkeit caused by the Holocaust."—Dan Michman, Head, The International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem; Professor (Emeritus) of Modern Jewish History, Bar-Ilan Universit"Few institutions influenced the world of European Jewry as did the yeshivas. The fact that the yeshiva framework was 'emulated' in the United States, Israel, England, France, and elsewhere by newly coalescing traditionalist communities is proof of its lasting significance. At the same time, few institutions were so misunderstood as were the yeshivas. The pious attempts that were written to describe how they functioned missed the key points – usually out of ignorance. Klibansky's magnum opus transforms our understanding of how the traditionalist Jews created structures to maintain adherence. It is no less significant in explaining what the self-conscious modernists in Europe were responding to. In short, it is one of those transformative works that are basic texts for both understanding a world that was destroyed and a new world that was created."—Shaul Stampfer, Sandrow Professor of Soviet and East European Jewish History (emeritus), Hebrew University of Jerusalem"Ben-Tsiyon Klibansky has stepped into a historiographical void of the interwar East European Jewish experience with his The Golden Age of the Yeshivas, a study of all facets of the Lithuanian yeshiva world: leadership, student body, curriculum, economics, and self-image. Through a rare combination of historical empathy and judicious use of sources, Klibansky has reconstructed the interwar Lithuanian yeshivas in all their panoramic commonalities and granular specificities. In so doing, he has parsed the central paradox of the phenomenon of a golden age of the Lithuanian yeshivas, set against the background of Jewish secularization, educational practicality, and political and economic crisis."—Joshua Karlip, Herbert S. and Naomi Denenberg Associate Professor of Jewish History, Yeshiva UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionSection I: Consolidation and Expansion1. The Renewal of the Yeshiva World after the First World War2. Expansion Trends in the Yeshiva WorldSection II: Aspects of the Yeshiva World3. Economy4. Studies5. Leadership6. The TalmidimSection III: The Beginning of the End7. Return to Wandering8. Under Soviet RuleEpilogueBrief BiographiesGlossaryBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy
Book SynopsisHighlighting the multifaceted experience of music within Jewish communities, Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy sheds new light on the place of music in complex, previously misunderstood environments.Trade ReviewBowring, Cypess, and Malamut's collection provides valuable insights into this unique and colorful period of Jewish history, a zigzag of alternating oppression and acceptance, a complex of negotiated identities. -- Joshua R. Jacobson * Early Music America *Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of Musical ExamplesList of TablesEditorial PrinciplesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, by Rebecca Cypess1. Written in Italian, Heard as Jewish: Reconsidering the Notated Sources of Italian Jewish Music , by Francesco Spagnolo2. Miriam's Timbrel: The Decameron as Exodus, by Aaron Beck3. Traces of Jewish Music and Culture at the Urbino Court of Federico da Montefeltro , by J. Drew Stephen4. The Peripatetic Career of a Converted Jew: The Music Theorist Pietro Aaron , by Bonnie J. Blackburn5. A Fire, a Fight, and a Knight: Elye Bokher in Verse and Song , by Avery Gosfield6. The Bassanos at the Court of Henry VIII: A Story of Cooperation and Protection , by Dongmyung Ahn7. Jewish and Converted Musicians and Musical Instruments Makers in Southern Italy in the Fifteenth through Early Seventeenth Centuries, by Luigi Sisto8. Salamone Rossi's Songs of Solomon: The Pleasures and Pains of Marginality, by Stefano Patuzzi9. Orality and Literacy in the Worlds of Salamone Rossi , by Rebecca Cypess and Lynette Bowring10. L'Accademia degli Impediti: A Reevaluation , by Liza MalamutBibliography: Manuscript SourcesPrinted SourcesPrinted ScoresDiscographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment explores the racialization and sexualization of Jews through a selection of film and television examples. In so doing, it is a contribution not only to Jewish studies, as well as film and television studies, but also a personal and political intervention to address the contemporary situation in the United States."—Nathan Abrams, Bangor University"I cannot imagine a more timely book than Carol Siegel's Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment. More than ever, cultural-studies scholarship urgently needs to track, evaluate, and analyze the ways popular culture represents Jews because such representations constitute commonsense knowledge and assumptions about this minority. Prof. Siegel's book is an important contribution to this effort."—Linda Mizejewski, Ohio State University"Provocative, wide-ranging, and disarmingly personal, Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment provides timely and urgent readings of Jewish characters on American screens."—Henry Bial, University of Kansas"Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment is a book that fuses film with theories of spectatorship to decipher the impact of representations of Jewishness in popular entertainment with a broad lens."—Thabiti Lewis, Washington State University VancouverTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Sexual Perversity and the Jewish Therapist Figure2. Imaginary Histories of Americanized Jews in Love3. Sex and Revenge, Rage and Bliss4. Jews, Sex Crimes, and Holocaust Erasure on Film5. Two Funerals and a Wedding6. Monstrous Jewish Sexualities and Minoritarian Cinema7. Our Erasure Is Being TelevisedConclusionFilmographyBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment explores the racialization and sexualization of Jews through a selection of film and television examples. In so doing, it is a contribution not only to Jewish studies, as well as film and television studies, but also a personal and political intervention to address the contemporary situation in the United States."—Nathan Abrams, Bangor University"I cannot imagine a more timely book than Carol Siegel's Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment. More than ever, cultural-studies scholarship urgently needs to track, evaluate, and analyze the ways popular culture represents Jews because such representations constitute commonsense knowledge and assumptions about this minority. Prof. Siegel's book is an important contribution to this effort."—Linda Mizejewski, Ohio State University"Provocative, wide-ranging, and disarmingly personal, Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment provides timely and urgent readings of Jewish characters on American screens."—Henry Bial, University of Kansas"Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment is a book that fuses film with theories of spectatorship to decipher the impact of representations of Jewishness in popular entertainment with a broad lens."—Thabiti Lewis, Washington State University VancouverTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Sexual Perversity and the Jewish Therapist Figure2. Imaginary Histories of Americanized Jews in Love3. Sex and Revenge, Rage and Bliss4. Jews, Sex Crimes, and Holocaust Erasure on Film5. Two Funerals and a Wedding6. Monstrous Jewish Sexualities and Minoritarian Cinema7. Our Erasure Is Being TelevisedConclusionFilmographyBibliographyIndex
£18.99
Indiana University Press Beyond Piety and Politics
Book SynopsisBy highlighting the dynamic societal and political implications of religious devotion, Beyond Piety and Politics offers a fascinating new theoretical perspective on Islam.Trade Review"Beyond Piety and Politics is an important contribution to the study of religion and politics. This well-written, carefully documented study nuances our understanding of religiosity by considering how religious groups' standings in society and vis-à-vis the state shape individuals' attitudes. It pushes the field to dismiss blunt conceptions of religiosity, focusing on how these groups navigate state and society."—Ellen Lust, University of Gothenburg"This is an excellent and sophisticated book that examines the sources of religious preferences and outlooks. It insightfully argues that communal associations shape religious outlooks and these outlooks influence political and social worldviews. The authors advance a nuanced and context-driven understanding of religion in the everyday lives of citizens in MENA."—Amaney A. Jamal, Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsDedicationList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Religious Communities, the State, and Religious Outlooks2. Attitudes of the Devout: The Nature of the Substance or the Nurture of Relationship?3. Empirical Foundations of Religious Outlooks4. The Individual and Contextual Determinants of Muslim Religious Outlooks in MENA5. Islam and Support for Democracy6. Temporal Change in Religious Outlooks and Political Preferences7. Islam and Distributive PreferencesConclusionAppendix AAppendix BBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Spirit Service
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Perhaps no religion has been more maligned and misrepresented than Vodu, Vodún, Vaudou, or Voodoo. Spirit Service engages the top scholars of Vodún in the world to capture the diversity and vitality of this quintessential African religion in a single volume, while at the same time offering a timely and vigorous counternarrative and testament to the Black religious imagination in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas. Indeed, Spirit Service is a tour de force in scale and scope, examining themes as important as they are riveting—art, performance, ritual, healing, resistance, funerary rights. Each treatment captures a complexity of the whole that is Vodún—highlighting the profound ways in which this religion has continued to adapt, rebuild, and reclaim all that is African religion. A must-read for students of African studies, history, religious studies, anthropology, and performance studies."—Nwando Achebe, Jack and Margaret Sweet Endowed Professor of History, Michigan State University"The religious systems known as Vodu, Vodún, Vaudou, Voodoo, Gorovodu, and more have never been so thoroughly explored, interpreted, interrogated, and esteemed as by the writers of this lavish collection. The fourteen chapters in this volume provide extraordinarily diverse descriptions and narratives that allow readers to understand in abundant detail how Vodún (etc.) is not a single religion, but rather a vast global proliferation of sacred beliefs and practices that are in many ways related to one another, yet significantly different from place to place and through different historical periods. Readers will appreciate not only the diversity of forms and intentions of spirit service, but also that of the writers' relationships to their subjects, their closeness to the rituals or their more scientific distance, their identification (or not) with the community they study, their attention to performance, passion, aesthetics, rapture; and finally to political issues, class and race, state intervention, colonialism and its violence. This collection is an excellent and necessary addition to anthropology, history, and religious studies courses on Haiti, Voodoo in the U.S., African cultures, world religions, religious ritual and performance, art, and more."—Judy Rosenthal, Professor Anthropology Emeritus, University of Michigan, Flint"An impressive overview of Beninese Vodún and Haitian Vodou, this volume explores their various manifestations on both sides of the Atlantic. The essays in this anthology examine Vodún and Vodou's common history, their integration in their respective communities, their encounter with Christianity and Islam, and their remarkable adaptability to various social and economic changes. The Middle Passage and chattel slavery, and of late the migration of Vodún and Vodou to many parts of the world has transformed their sacred traditions to produce a multiverse of symbolic forms and has altered their beliefs and ritual practices. The authors examine the current forms of Vodún and Vodou as well as their continuity and discontinuity with their past. Vital for historians of religion, anthropologists, sociologists, and political scientists, this book is likely to be an authoritative collection of essays and an important resource for scholarly research for years to come."—Leslie G. Desmangles, Professor Religious Studies Emeritus, Trinity CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Christian Vannier and Timothy R. LandryPart I: Encounter1. Vodou Genesis: Africans and the Making of a National Religion in Saint-Domingue, by Terry Rey2. Universalism and Syncretism in Beninese Vodún, by Douglas J. Falen3. Crossing Currents: Gorovodu and Yewevodu in Contemporary Togo, by Eric James Montgomery4. A Prayer for a Muslim Spirit: Islam in Gorovodu, by Christian Vannier5. Where Have All the Ounsi Gone?, by Karen Richman6. Sailing between Local and Global: Vodou in the Modern and Contemporary Arts of Haiti, by Natacha Giafferi-DombrePart II: Engagement7. Taking Hold of a Faith, by Jeffrey E. Anderson8. The Physic(s)ality of Vodún and the (Mis)behavior of Matter, by Venise N. Adjibodou9. Vodou Skins: Making Bodily Surfaces Social in Haitian Vodou Infant-Care, by Alissa M. Jordan10. Spirited Forests and the West African Forest Complex, by Timothy R. Landry11. Vodou, an Inclusive Epistemology: Towards A Queer Eco-Theology of Liberation, by Nixon Cleophat12. Necroscape and Diaspora: Making Ancestors in Haitian Vodou, by Elizabeth McAlister13. Conclusion: Global Vodún and Vodou: Encounter and Engagement, by Eric James Montgomery and Timothy R. LandryIndex
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Indiana University Press Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewCompiled by editors Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Daniel Majchrowicz and Sunil Sharma, Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women showcases writings from 45 Muslim women — acquired through an extensive selection of writings in 10 languages, including Arabic, Turkish, Urdu, Punjabi, Indonesian, English and others. . . . What emerges is a group of women writers who were not afraid to voice their thoughts in the presence of authority figures and unfavourable circumstances. Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women Writers is an enduring testament to just a few of the countless fascinating stories documented by women travellers throughout the ages. -- Fehmida Zakeer * The National News *This anthology will be of interest to anyone working on travel, colonial history, Muslim women, and comparative literature, Islamic Studies. It will also be an excellent resource in many courses that cover a range of topics be it religious piety, feminism, travel, travel writing, and much more. -- Shobhana Xavier * New Books Network *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Translation, Transliteration and SyntaxIntroduction: Muslim Women, Travel Writing and Cultures of Mobility, by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley and Daniel MajchrowiczPart I: Travel as Pilgrimage1. The Widow of Mirza Khalil: A Bereaved Wife Seeks Solace2. Nawab Sikander Begum: A Queen's Impressions of Mecca3. Mehrmah Khanom: Adventures on the Road to Iraq4. Hajiyeh Khanom Alaviya Kermani: Iran to Mecca by Way of Bombay5. Sakineh Soltan Khanom Esfahani Kuchak: Iraq Diary6. Nawab Sultan Jahan Begum: The Long March to Medina7. Ummat al-Ghani Nur al-Nisa: Notes from Mecca and the Levant8. Begum Sarbuland Jang: Seeking Sisterhood in Damascus9. Rahil Begum Shervaniya: Life Aboard a Pilgrim Ship10. Nur Begum: Poems from a Punjabi Pilgrim11. Zainab Cobbold: At Home in the Hijaz with a British Convert12. Fatima Begum: An Indian Haji Observes her Fellow Pilgrims13. Qaisari Begum: The Long Road to Mecca14. Begum Hasrat Mohani: Letters from a Pilgrimage to Iraq15. Mahmooda Rizvi: Three Months in IraqPart II: Travel as Emancipation and Politics16. Melek Hanim: A Turk among the Greeks17. Huda Shaarawi: A European Summer on the Eve of War18. Zeyneb Hanoum: A Turkish Désenchantée in Europe19. Selma Ekrem: Alone in New York City20. Şükûfe Nihal Başar: Three Days in Finland21. Halide Édib: A Turkish Nationalist in Colonial India22. Amina Said: An Egyptian Feminist at an Indian Conference23. Shareefah Hamid Ali: Representing India at the United Nations24. Suharti Suwarto: Ten Indonesian Women in the Soviet UnionPart III: Travel as Education25. Atiya Fyzee: Living and Learning in London26. Maimoona Sultan: To Turkey by Train through a Child's Eyes27. Sediqeh Dowlatabadi: An Iranian Feminist Travails in France28. Begum Habibullah: With Three Boys at an English Boarding School29. Iqbalunnisa Hussain: At the University of Leeds30. Muhammadi Begum: Oxford Diary31. Herawati Diah: A Journalist in the Making32. Mehr al-Nisa: An Indian Nurse in Ohio33. Zaib-un-nissa Hamidullah: Sixty Days in AmericaPart IV: Travel as Obligation and Pleasure34. Princess Jahanara: Mystical Meetings in Kashmir35. Dilshad: A Prisoner is Taken to Khoqand36. Sayyida Salamah bint Said/Emily Ruete: A Lover's Flight from Zanzibar37. Taj al-Saltanah: Life and Death in Qajar Iran38. Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain: A Pleasure Trip to the Himalaya39. Nazli Begum: On Grand Tour with the Nawab of Janjira40. Safia Jabir Ali: Touring Europe on Business41. Sughra Humayun Mirza: Meeting the Caliph in Switzerland42. Sughra Sabzvari: An Indian Family in Iran43. Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah: Life in England on the Brink of War44. Shams Pahlavi: A Shah's Daughter in Exile45. Nyonya Aulia-Salim: An Indonesian Tours America by MotorGlossaryContributorsIndex
£78.30
Indiana University Press From Occupation to Occupy
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Debates about antisemitism on the left are often focused on the public positions that activists take. In contrast, Sina Arnold's deep ethnographic engagement with US left activists, helps us understand the deeper complexities and nuances of discourse about antisemitism. In doing so, she offers a possible way out of intractable conflicts on and about antisemitism the left that currently generate more heat than light."—Keith Kahn-Harris, Leo Baeck College, and author of Strange Hate: Anti-semitism, racism, and the Limits of Diversity"This is an important study about the antisemitism of the American Left and its relationship to Israel. Arnold succeeds to step back and analyze different sides behind this all-to-familiar and all-too-heated debate. It tackles no less the question of how we find the truth in a world of differing interests, experiences and worldviews and argues for an ethics of responsibility."—Natan Sznaider, The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel"Sina Arnold's work emerges not just in conversation with the political left, but from within it: her own commitment to the values that mark left-wing social movements drives her critiques of failures within the activist world. Her analysis draws on a rich tradition of critical scholarship that pushes the left to fulfill its stated promise of equality and freedom from oppression for all. Few books have the scope, rhetorical precision, and depth of analysis that Arnold brings, and this volume is sure to become one of the essential texts on contemporary antisemitism."—Shane Burley, Author of Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the ApocalypseTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Antisemitism Old and New2. A Quick Look Back3. What's Left of the Left: Recent Movements, Recent Debates4. Interviews with Activists5. Conceptualizations of Antisemitism and Jews6. Antiracism7. Israeli-Palestinian Conflict8. Holocaust Remembrance9. The USA and Its Political Structures10. Critique of Capitalism: Occupy Wall Street as Case Study11. "Different Ways of Being Jewish": Jewish-Left IdentitiesThe Invisible Prejudice: ConclusionsAppendix I: Overview of the InterviewsAppendix II: Transcription RulesAppendix III: AbbreviationsReferencesIndex
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