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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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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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Indiana University Press Making German Jewish Literature Anew
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Garloff's new study shows how wrong we were to think of German Jewish literature has having reached its apex in prewar 'assimilation' or in postwar thematization of the Holocaust. On the contrary, German Jewish literary output has remained breathtakingly prolific and complexly heterogeneous; it is treated here—in Making German Jewish Literature Anew—with particular insight, precision, and candor."—William Collins Donahue, Cavanaugh Professor of the Humanities, and Professor of European Studies, University of Notre Dame"Garloff's Making German Jewish Literature Anew offers an insightful analysis of the growing corpus of contemporary German Jewish literature, including by writers who arrived from the former Soviet Union after the end of the Cold War. The book's key strength is its focus on how writers are both shaping a new canon and at the same time reflecting on the possibilities and potentialities of German Jewish literature, and indeed Jewish literature more generally. This is a volume of insightful and incisive readings of literary texts, supported by an original and highly productive theoretical framework."—Stuart Taberner, University of Leeds"This discussion of German Jewish writing from 1989 to the present is firmly embedded in current literary and theoretical debates and takes them further in compelling ways, urging the reader to think anew. Structured around the three gestures of 'performing authorship', 'remaking memory' and 'claiming places' – all central to the project of a literature that is always 'made anew' –, this book provides a rich and important contribution to current research into the hybrid, heterogeneous and dynamic character of Jewish writing in German."—Godela Weiss-Sussex, King's College Cambridge"Brilliant and riveting at every turn, Making German Jewish Literature Anew opens up entirely new vistas for understanding the evolving literary forms, paratextual shifts, and transcultural significance of multifaceted Jewish writing in Germany and Austria today. Katja Garloff's luminous study of "founding gestures" in this contemporary connection sparkles with countless conceptual insights for the broader humanities too. Anyone interested in thoughtfully revelatory approaches to literature, diversity, migration, comparison, similarity, difference, authorship, memory, place-claiming, innovation, and even literary tradition itself will be well served to read this remarkably refreshing book."—Leslie A. Adelson, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of German Studies, Cornell University"Making German Jewish Literature Anew probes the complexity of Jewishness, identity, culture, and ethnicity in post-1989 Jewish writing in Germany. Katja Garloff's thoughtful and trenchant work invites us to reflect on the reconfigurations of Jewishness in Germany today and the very category of Jewish literature itself. This is a brilliant work that opens up new spaces for thinking about the mechanisms of Jewish history and literature in a post-migrant Germany."—Leslie Morris, Beverly and Richard Fink Professor in Liberal Arts, University of MinnesotaTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Performing Authorship1. Authorial Self-Fashioning in Second-Generation Writers: Maxim Biller, Esther Dischereit, and Barbara Honigmann2. Playing with Paratext: Benjamin Stein's Die LeinwandPart II: Remaking Memory3. Memory and Mobility: The Novels of Doron Rabinovici4. Memory and Similarity: Katja Petrowskaja's Vielleicht EstherPart III: Claiming Places5. Returning: Diasporic Place-Making in Barbara Honigmann6. Transitioning: Migration Narratives in Vladimir Vertlib and Julya Rabinowich7. Arriving: Arrival Stories in Lena Gorelik, Dmitrij Kapitelman, and Jan HimmelfarbConclusionNotesIndex
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Indiana University Press Making German Jewish Literature Anew
Book SynopsisInMaking German Jewish Literature Anew, Katja Garlofftraces the emergence of a new Jewish literature in Germany and Austria from 1990 to the present. The rise of new generations of authors who identify as both German and Jewish, and who often sustain additional affiliations with places such as France, Russia, or Israel, affords a unique opportunity to analyze the foundational moments of diasporic literature. Making German Jewish Literature Anewis structured around a series of founding gestures: performing authorship, remaking memory, and claiming places. Garloff contends that these founding gestures are literary strategies that reestablish the very possibility of a German Jewish literature several decades after the Holocaust. Making German Jewish Literature Anew offers fresh interpretations of second-generation authors such as Maxim Biller, Doron Rabinovici, and Barbara Honigmann as well as of third-generation authors, many of whom come from Eastern European and/or mixed-religion bacTrade Review"Garloff's new study shows how wrong we were to think of German Jewish literature has having reached its apex in prewar 'assimilation' or in postwar thematization of the Holocaust. On the contrary, German Jewish literary output has remained breathtakingly prolific and complexly heterogeneous; it is treated here—in Making German Jewish Literature Anew—with particular insight, precision, and candor."—William Collins Donahue, Cavanaugh Professor of the Humanities, and Professor of European Studies, University of Notre Dame"Garloff's Making German Jewish Literature Anew offers an insightful analysis of the growing corpus of contemporary German Jewish literature, including by writers who arrived from the former Soviet Union after the end of the Cold War. The book's key strength is its focus on how writers are both shaping a new canon and at the same time reflecting on the possibilities and potentialities of German Jewish literature, and indeed Jewish literature more generally. This is a volume of insightful and incisive readings of literary texts, supported by an original and highly productive theoretical framework."—Stuart Taberner, University of Leeds"This discussion of German Jewish writing from 1989 to the present is firmly embedded in current literary and theoretical debates and takes them further in compelling ways, urging the reader to think anew. Structured around the three gestures of 'performing authorship', 'remaking memory' and 'claiming places' – all central to the project of a literature that is always 'made anew' –, this book provides a rich and important contribution to current research into the hybrid, heterogeneous and dynamic character of Jewish writing in German."—Godela Weiss-Sussex, King's College Cambridge"Brilliant and riveting at every turn, Making German Jewish Literature Anew opens up entirely new vistas for understanding the evolving literary forms, paratextual shifts, and transcultural significance of multifaceted Jewish writing in Germany and Austria today. Katja Garloff's luminous study of "founding gestures" in this contemporary connection sparkles with countless conceptual insights for the broader humanities too. Anyone interested in thoughtfully revelatory approaches to literature, diversity, migration, comparison, similarity, difference, authorship, memory, place-claiming, innovation, and even literary tradition itself will be well served to read this remarkably refreshing book."—Leslie A. Adelson, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of German Studies, Cornell University"Making German Jewish Literature Anew probes the complexity of Jewishness, identity, culture, and ethnicity in post-1989 Jewish writing in Germany. Katja Garloff's thoughtful and trenchant work invites us to reflect on the reconfigurations of Jewishness in Germany today and the very category of Jewish literature itself. This is a brilliant work that opens up new spaces for thinking about the mechanisms of Jewish history and literature in a post-migrant Germany."—Leslie Morris, Beverly and Richard Fink Professor in Liberal Arts, University of MinnesotaTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Performing Authorship1. Authorial Self-Fashioning in Second-Generation Writers: Maxim Biller, Esther Dischereit, and Barbara Honigmann2. Playing with Paratext: Benjamin Stein's Die LeinwandPart II: Remaking Memory3. Memory and Mobility: The Novels of Doron Rabinovici4. Memory and Similarity: Katja Petrowskaja's Vielleicht EstherPart III: Claiming Places5. Returning: Diasporic Place-Making in Barbara Honigmann6. Transitioning: Migration Narratives in Vladimir Vertlib and Julya Rabinowich7. Arriving: Arrival Stories in Lena Gorelik, Dmitrij Kapitelman, and Jan HimmelfarbConclusionNotesIndex
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Indiana University Press Building a City Writings on Agnons Buczacz in
Book SynopsisThe fiction of Nobel Laureate Shmuel Yosef Agnon is the foundation of the array of scholarly essays as seen through the career of Alan Mintz, visionary scholar and professor of Jewish literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Mintz introduced Agnon's posthumously published Ir Umeloah (A City in Its Fullness)a series of linked stories set in the 17th century and focused on Agnon's hometown, Buczacz, a town in what is currently western Ukraineto an English reading audience, and argued that Agnon's unique treatment of Buczacz in A City in its Fullness, navigating the sometimes tenuous boundary of the modernist and the mythical, was a full-throated, self-conscious literary response to the Holocaust. This volume is an extension of a memorial dedicated to Mintz's memory (who died suddenly in 2017) which combines selections of Alan's work from the beginning, middle and end of his career, with autobiographical tributes from older and younger scholars alike. The essays dealing w
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Indiana University Press Meat Matters
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this remarkable book, Hagar Salamon reveals unsuspected relationships and new domains of meaning communicated between species. Meat Matters is a major contribution at the vanguard of a challenging new scholarly field and should be required reading for ethnographers from across the disciplines."—Kay Kaufman Shelemay, G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and African and African American Studies at Harvard University"A rich, sensitive and nuanced ethnography of the interlaced practices, ideas, meanings, beliefs, and symbols of meat for the Beta Israel community. Beautifully conceptualized, written and illustrated, Hagar Salamon's evocative book offers illuminating insights into the singular Ethiopian Jewish experience and Ethiopian culture more broadly."—Jonathan Miran, author of Red Sea Citizens: Cosmopolitan Society and Cultural Change in MassawaTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Enduring Exposures: Everyday Bonding with Creatures2. Zooming In: Creaturely Sentiments3. Zooming Out: Emerging from the Pen4. Shifting Focus/Lenses: Interreligious Negotiations5. Transposing and Splitting: Under New Hegemonies6. Candid Camera: Focusing the Lens on Lost Meats7. Upraising the Vision: God Watches over Flesh8. Concluding Words and Continuing QuestionsReferencesGlossary
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Indiana University Press Divine Money
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Divine Money offers an intimate look into the nuances and complexities of economic and religious interactions of often ignored social groups. Schaeublin's ethnography has a fascinating ability to clarify and make explicit the hidden rules and etiquette of life in the margins of one of Palestine's economic capitals. The implications of zakat, as a pillar of Islam, and the way it actually functions on the day to day basis and through face to face interactions have rarely been studied and Schaeublin's contribution to scholarship is thus significant."—Laurent Bonnefoy, author of Yemen and the World: Beyond Insecurity"Through close ethnographic attention to neighborly relations, greetings, coffeeshop encounters, financial transactions, stickers, posters, and gossip, Schaeublin offers an incisive account of how the Islamic tradition shapes public life in Nablus. A highly readable book, Divine Money beautifully illuminates the convergence of political and divine economies, offering an important contribution to our understanding of what it means to live an ethical and pious life under military occupation."—Amira Mittermaier, University of Toronto"It is a common idea that money liberates and estranges humans from their moral, spiritual and individual relations. Schaeublin shows that quite the opposite is often the case, following as he does various forms and ways of giving, receiving, and talking about Islamic alms in the Palestinian city of Nablus. A pleasure to read, insightful, and inspiring, Divine Money is a major contribution to understand the relationship of ethics and economy, attentive to the violent political context of occupation as well as to the divine horizon of alms, which rather than just moving between humans, constitute triadic relations between Humans and God."—Samuli Schielke, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration, Translation and AnonymizationIntroduction: An Anthropological Perspective on Zakat1. Fieldwork under Military Rule: Subjecting Oneself to Lateral Disciplining2. Zakat Institutions on Shifting Grounds3. Concealing and Exposing Need: Shyness, Piety and Dignity4. The Piety of Giving: Modelling Direct Zakat Interactions5. The Ethics of Giving and Market Transactions6. The Other World and the OccupationNotesReferencesIndex
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Indiana University Press Divine Money
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Divine Money offers an intimate look into the nuances and complexities of economic and religious interactions of often ignored social groups. Schaeublin's ethnography has a fascinating ability to clarify and make explicit the hidden rules and etiquette of life in the margins of one of Palestine's economic capitals. The implications of zakat, as a pillar of Islam, and the way it actually functions on the day to day basis and through face to face interactions have rarely been studied and Schaeublin's contribution to scholarship is thus significant."—Laurent Bonnefoy, author of Yemen and the World: Beyond Insecurity"Through close ethnographic attention to neighborly relations, greetings, coffeeshop encounters, financial transactions, stickers, posters, and gossip, Schaeublin offers an incisive account of how the Islamic tradition shapes public life in Nablus. A highly readable book, Divine Money beautifully illuminates the convergence of political and divine economies, offering an important contribution to our understanding of what it means to live an ethical and pious life under military occupation."—Amira Mittermaier, University of Toronto"It is a common idea that money liberates and estranges humans from their moral, spiritual and individual relations. Schaeublin shows that quite the opposite is often the case, following as he does various forms and ways of giving, receiving, and talking about Islamic alms in the Palestinian city of Nablus. A pleasure to read, insightful, and inspiring, Divine Money is a major contribution to understand the relationship of ethics and economy, attentive to the violent political context of occupation as well as to the divine horizon of alms, which rather than just moving between humans, constitute triadic relations between Humans and God."—Samuli Schielke, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration, Translation and AnonymizationIntroduction: An Anthropological Perspective on Zakat1. Fieldwork under Military Rule: Subjecting Oneself to Lateral Disciplining2. Zakat Institutions on Shifting Grounds3. Concealing and Exposing Need: Shyness, Piety and Dignity4. The Piety of Giving: Modelling Direct Zakat Interactions5. The Ethics of Giving and Market Transactions6. The Other World and the OccupationNotesReferencesIndex
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Indiana University Press Beekeeping in the End Times
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Indiana University Press The Jewish Inn in Polish Culture
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Indiana University Press New Yorks Jewish Jews
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Indiana University Press New Media in the Muslim World Second Edition The
Book SynopsisHow today's newest media are reshaping Muslim societies.Trade Review[T]he contributors to this collection have convincingly placed the forces of change introduced into Muslim societies by the modern media in precisely the right context-at the center of cultural developments. It is difficult to imagine a more thoughtful, balanced, or comprehensive treatment of this extremely elusive and difficult subject.Summer 2000 * DOMES *Table of ContentsPreliminary Table of Contents: Preface to the Second EditionAcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration1. Redefining Muslim Publics Dale F. Eickelman and Jon W. Anderson2. The New Media, Civic Pluralism, and the Struggle for Political Reform Augustus Richard Norton3. Communication and Control in the Middle East: Publication and Its Discontents Dale F. Eickelman4. The Internet and Islam's New Interpreters Jon W. Anderson5. The Birth of a Media Ecosystem: Lebanon in the Internet Age Yves Gonzalez-Quijano6. Muslim Identities and the Great Chain of Buying Gregory Starrett7. Bourgeois Leisure and Egyptian Media Fantasies Walter Arbrust8. From Piety to Romance: Islam-Oriented Texts in Bangladesh Maimuna Huq9. Civic Pluralism Denied? Jihadi Radicals the New Media in Post-Suharto Indonesia Robert W. Hefner10. Media Identities for Alevis and Kurds in Turkey M. Hakan YavuzGlossaryContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Peoples Temple and Black Religion in America
Book SynopsisThe Peoples Temple movement ended on November 18, 1978, when the children in Jonestown were put to death by adult members, most of whom then took their own lives. Little has been written about the Peoples Temple from the point of view of the black experience in America. This title addresses this gap in the scholarship on the Peoples Temple.Trade Review"…Peoples Temple and Black Religion in America is an insightful, provocative and useful assemblage of essays, a vital contribution to the literature in its own right. One hopes that, in addition, the book will have the happy effect of generating still more scholarship and—not least of all—making way for the voices of more survivors, especially African Americans, to find their way into print." —The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Peoples Temple as Black Religion: Re-Imagining the Contours of Black Religious Studies Anthony B. Pinn2. Daddy Jones and Father Divine: The Cult as Political Religion C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence Mamiya3. An Interpretation of the Peoples Temple and Jonestown: Implications for the Black Church Archie Smith, Jr.4. Demographics and the Black Religious Culture of People Temple Rebecca Moore5. Peoples Temple and Housing Politics in San Francisco Tanya M. Hollis6. To Die for the Peoples Temple: Religion and Revolution after Black Power Duchess Harris and Adam John Waterman7. Jim Jones and Black Worship Traditions Milmon Harrison8. Breaking the Silence: Reflections of a Black Pastor J. Alfred Smith9. America Was Not Hard to Find Muhammed Isaiah Kenyatta10. The Church in Peoples Temple Mary R. SawyerContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press PostHolocaust Interpretation Misinterpretation
Book SynopsisAddresses conceptual and ethical questions that arise from historical accounts of the Holocaust.Trade Review"These essays are extremely well written, with the clarity and accessibility that one has come to expect from Berel Lang, one of the most respected and significant philosophers writing about the Holocaust and its impact." Michael L. MorganTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. In the Matter of Justice1. The Nazi as Criminal: Inside and Outside the Holocaust2. Forgiveness, Revenge, and the Limits of Holocaust Justice3. Evil, Suffering, and the Holocaust4. Comparative Evil: Measuring Numbers, Degrees, People Part II. Language and Lessons5. The Grammar of Antisemitism6. The Unspeakable vs. the Testimonial: Holocaust Trauma in Holocaust History7. Undoing Certain Mischievous Questions about the Holocaust8. From the Particular to the Universal, and Forward: Representations and LessonsPart III. For and Against Interpretation9. Oskar Rosenfeld and Historiographic Realism (in Sex, Shit, and Status)10. Lachrymose without Tears: Misreading the Holocaust in American Life11. "Not Enough" vs. "Plenty": Which Did Pius XII?12. The Evil in Genocide13. Misinterpretation as the Author's Responsibility (Nietzsche's Fascism, for Instance)Afterword: Philosophy and/of the HolocaustNotesIndex
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MH - Indiana University Press The Jew in Cinema
Book SynopsisExplores cinematic representations of the "Jew" from film's early days to the presentTrade ReviewIn this important work, Omer Bartov examines how the cinematic representations of the 'Jew' as 'perpetrator', 'victim', 'hero' and 'anti-hero' emerge not only throughout the course of film history, but also within a larger cultural practice of stereotyping Jewish identity. His central concern is 'the manner in which the cinematic ''Jew'' reflects the popularization, transformation, resistance to, and reintroduction of anti-Semitic imagery'.Vol. 43, no. 2, 2009 -- Noah Shenker * Ph.D. candidate in Critical Studies at the School of Cinematic Arts,USCLA *A noted Holocaust scholar, Bartov (history, Brown) has written an extended analytical essay—as distinguished from an encyclopedia study—on the treatment of the figure of the Jew in some 70 European, American, and Israeli motion pictures. He examines these depictions under four separate categories: Jew as perpetrator, victim, hero, and antihero. As the subtitle indicates, the movies studied range chronologically from the 1920 German silent classic The Golem to Don't Touch My Holocaust (1994) and several others produced in Israel and dealing with current Jewish-Arab relations. Most of the films inevitably relate to the Shoah, its origins or aftereffects, and Bartov notes that Gentleman's Agreement (1947) managed to avoid mentioning the Holocaust almost entirely even though it deals with a journalist who posed as a Jew in order to investigate anti-semitism. Bartov's evaluations of individual films are perceptive and often provocative. He calls the television miniseries Holocaust (1978) one of the best cinematic productions ever made on this allegedly unrepresentable event despite its aesthetic limitations and occasional lapses into kitsch, and he is critical of accounts that distort historical reality by focusing on exceptional cases (The Pianist, Schindler's List) because they impede understanding and perpetuate stereotypes. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.July 2005 -- L. D. Stokes * emeritus, Dalhousie University *Bartov's style is refreshingly free of theoretical jargon and accessible to a wide audience. . . . a rich, deeply historicized, thoughtful, and provocative reading of a wide range of world cinema that grapples with the representation of Jewishness on screen. * Shofar *Table of ContentsContentsIntroductionList of Abbreviations1. The "Jew" as Perpetrator2. The "Jew" as Victim3. The "Jew" as Hero4. The "Jew" as Anti-HeroNotesIndexo
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Indiana University Press Zenana
Book SynopsisA rare, intimate glimpse into the daily lives of middle-class women in urban PakistanTrade ReviewZenana is a well-written and highly readable book that neither assumes prior knowledge of the literature on Karachi or Pakistan nor simply rehearses old debates about Pakistan's political history. Ring, rather, introduces the reader to issues cetnral to Pakistani society through a careful consideration of ethnographic vignettes. Volume 44/2—2010 * the Journal of Modern Asian Studies *. . . living among strangers remains an existential problem for many urban residents. In Karachi, a city riven by ethnic and sectarian violence since the 1980s, such problems take on added significance. In her gracefully written and incisively argued book, Laura Ring contends that the everyday efforts of women in Karachi to transform neighbors into—if not quite kin—something other than strangers, are the labors of peace. * Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote to the Reader1. Introduction: The Zenana Revisited2. A Day in the Life3. Tension4. Anger5. Intimacy6. Conclusion: Emotion and the Political ActorGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Poetry After Auschwitz Remembering What One
Book SynopsisDemonstrates that Theodor Adorno's famous injunction against writing poetry after Auschwitz paradoxically inspired an ongoing literary tradition. By speaking about or even as the dead, this work tells what it means to cite, reconfigure, consume, or envy the traumatic memories of an earlier generation.Trade ReviewA sensitive and superb treatment of Holocaust literature; the author . . . treats Holocaust art with sensitivity, introspection, respect, and humanity in a clear, readable, and elegant prose. Gubar's book will prove to be a seminal work in Holocaust studies. * H-Holocaust *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceList of Abbreviations for citations1. The Holocaust Is Dying2. Masters of Disaster3. Suckled by Panic4. About Pictures Out of Focus5. Documentary Verse Bears Witness6. The Dead Speak7. "Could You Have Made an Elegy for Every One?"8. Poetry and SurvivalNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Indiana University Press Wandering with Sadhus Ascetics in the Hindu
Book SynopsisPresents a portrait of Hindu renouncers or sadhus or ascetics in northern India and Nepal. This title considers a paradox that shapes their lives: while ostensibly defined by their solitary spiritual practice, the stripping away of social commitments, and their break with family and community.Trade Review"Will be of interest to students and scholars who are interested in any of a number of subjects: meditation, yoga, sacrifice, Vedanta, gender, bhakti, pilgrimage, body, space, desire, and liberation. Beautifully written, it is also a wonderful contribution to the fields of anthropology and religion." -Lindsey Harlan, Connecticut College "Wandering with Sadhus is a nuanced, humane, and evocative study of Hindu renouncers in South Asia. It is also a theoretically powerful contribution to anthropological scholarship on bodies in culture, the intricacies of social organization in South Asia, and the lived practice of a complex religious system." -Ernestine McHugh, author of Love and Honor in the Himalayas: Coming to Know Another Culture "Wandering with Sadhus will be of interest to students and scholars who are interested in any of a number of subjects: meditation, yoga, sacrifice, Vedanta, gender, bhakti, pilgrimage, body, space, desire, and liberation. It will have broad appeal, and yet it treats its subject matter in depth. Beautifully written, it is also a wonderful contribution to the fields of anthropology and religion." -Lindsey Harlan, Connecticut CollegeTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: Wandering with Renouncers1. The Body and Sadhu Society2. The Social Structures of Sadhu Life3. Hardwar: The Ground of Space4. Allahabad: The Community in Time5. Kathmandu: The Body in PlaceConclusion: The Culture of Hindu RenunciationAppendix: Literatures on Renunciation and EmbodimentNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Antisemitic Myths
Book SynopsisContains 90 documents that focus on the nature, evolution, and meaning of the principal myths that have made anti-Semitism such a lethal force in history: Jews as deicides, ritual murderers, agents of Satan, international conspirators, and conniving, unscrupulous Shylocks.Trade ReviewChoosing a representative sample of antisemitic documents in a field littered with so much information seems daunting. Much of the material chosen by Perry and Schweitzer illustrates the myth of a Jewish conspiracy to corrupt Christianity, Islam, or Gentile society in general. The authors correctly regard the idea of conspiracy as perhaps the most powerful force in the history of antisemitism and, indeed, it still dominates contemporary antisemitic discourse. While readers will find the usual excerpts from documents such as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (1934), the authors also include lesser-known figures, such as the Nazi Hans Knodn, whose 1920 plan for mass deportation reminds readers that Hitler was not an original thinker. While each section and document includes succinct and insightful commentary, it is not entirely clear why some documents were chosen. For example, the editors periodically include Jewish responses to antisemitism, such as early Zionist tracts, along with some Christian rejections of anti-Jewish animus, and while an argument can be made for their inclusion, the authors do not explicitly make such a case. This companion to the editors' previous text, Antisemitism: Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present (CH, Sep'03, 41-0465), has great potential for class use. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. -- F. Krome * Choice *. . . a good addition to any Jewish library. -- Arthur G. Quinn * AJL NWSLTR (ASSN JEWISH LIB) *The current revival of anti-Semitism in Europe and the demonization of Jews in parts of the Muslim world give special importance to the exposure of the myths and lies that for centuries led people to regard Jews as the dangerous 'other' and that led to violence and persecution. [A] provocative anthology . . . .71 Summer/Fall 2009 * Menorah Review *Any university student will benefit from studying Marvin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer's work ... [it] adds to the understanding of its subject matter and is a helpful companion to the editors' previous [book].Volume 14 Issue 7 2009 * European Legacy *[The] editors must be given great credit for educating a new generation as to why antisemitism is, in Robert Wistrich's words, 'the longest hatred'.Vol. 40 No. 3 2010 -- Ariel Hessayon * Goldsmiths, University of London *[A] fact-filled source book to educate students and a general readership on the ideology and vicious practice of one of the world's oldest hatreds and how to recognize the subtle (and not so subtle) myths and symbols involved and evolved in the old-new tenacity of evil.Vol. 44.3 Summer 2009 -- Adam Gregerman * Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies, Baltimore, MD *. . . Antisemitic Myths represents a forceful reminder of the enduring power and danger of bigotry.Vol. 27.3 Spring 2009 -- Sarah Salwen * Dept. Political Science, University of Pennsylvania *This is material that every antiracist should know. This is material that everybody who wants to talk about Israel and Palestine should understand. This is material with which anybody who wants to be able to judge whether or not a contemporary text is antisemitic needs to be familiar.32.4 May 2009 -- David Hirsh * Goldsmiths, University of London *. . . [a] comprehensive and invaluable collection of primary sources . . . .Spring 2009 -- Michael N. Dobkowski * Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Dept. of Religious Studies *. . . has great potential for class use. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries.February 2009 * Choice *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart 1. Medieval and Early Modern1. Christian Demonization of the Jews2. The Libel of Ritual Murder3. The Accusation of Host Desecration4. Jews Blamed for the Black Death5. Expulsion of the Jews from Spain6. The Spanish Inquisition and the Conversos7. The Persecution of Portuguese Jews8. Luther and the Jews9. The Misuse of Learning: The Professor as AntisemitePart 2. Modern10. Voltaire: The Philosophe as Antisemite11. Continuing Catholic Anti-Judaism and Antisemitism12. The Jew as Evil Capitalist: Marx and Sombart13. French Antisemitism and the Dreyfus Affair14. German Volkish Antisemitism15. Zionism as a Defense against Jew-Hatred16. Persecution and Pogroms in Tsarist Russia17. The Myth of an International Jewish Conspiracy18. The Intensification of German Antisemitism after World War I19. The Worldview of Adolf Hitler20. Nazi Racial Culture: The Corruption of the Intellect21. The Jew in Nazi Wartime Propaganda22. The Holocaust (Shoah)Part 3. Contemporary23. The Catholic Church Confronts Its Antisemitic Past24. Protestant Churches Confront Their Antisemitic Past25. Antisemitism in the Soviet Union and the New Russia26. The Lingering Appeal of Nazism in Germany27. Neo-Nazi Antisemitism in the United States: A Radical Fringe28. Holocaust Denial: A Neo-Nazi Mythology29. African American Antisemitism: The Nation of Islam30. Muslim Antisemitism: Recycling Old MythsBibliographyDetailed Table of ContentsIndex
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Indiana University Press Lódz Ghetto
Book SynopsisDescribes and explains the tragedy that befell the Jews imprisoned in the first major ghetto imposed by the Germans. This book reconstructs the organization of the ghetto and discusses its provisioning, forced labor, diseases and mortality, crime and deportations, living conditions, political, social, and cultural life and resistance.Trade ReviewA monumental work. * Financial Times *Trunk's essential volume provides invaluable material for yet more objective 'appreciations' of the terrible plight of the Jewish leaderships and inhabitants in the 'ghettos for Jews' set up by the Nazi authorities in the East. Vol. 89, no. 1, January 2011 * Slavonic and East European Review *This translation . . . makes available an invaluable resource for English-language readers. . . . The book is handsomely produced and, in addition to 141 original documents (in translation), an extraordinarily detailed index, and period photographs, contains informative essays by translator-editor Shapiro and two renowned Holocaust scholars, the late Joseph Kermish and Israel Gutman. An indispensable tool for Holocaust research. . . . Essential. * Choice *Table of ContentsContentsList of Major Tables, Charts, and MapsList of AbbreviationsTranslator-Editor's Introduction Robert Moses ShapiroIsaiah Trunk Joseph KermishIntroduction: The Distinctiveness of the Lódz Ghetto Israel GutmanForeword Jacob RobinsonAuthor's Preface Isaiah TrunkI. Establishment of the Ghetto Documents 1–23II. Organization of the Ghetto Documents 26–64III. Provisioning Documents 65–83IV. Forced Labor Documents 84–95V. Diseases and MortalityVI. Persecutions, Murder, and Deportations Documents 96–112VII. Internal Conditions Documents 113–141VIII. The Problem of ResistanceIX. Conclusions and SummationsDocuments Arranged by ChapterStreet Names in Lódz GhettoBibliographyIndexes Names of German Officials and Business Firms Places Subjects
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Indiana University Press Queer Women and Religious Individualism
Book SynopsisSpiritual, queer, and community identity in 21st-century AmericaTrade ReviewWilcox (Whitman College) has crafted a remarkably fine study in the sociology of religion that she developed from a base of only 29 LBT core interview subjects. Here she proves herself the equal of Robert Bellah et al., in their landmark community studies Habits of the Heart (1985) and The Good Society (CH, Mar'92, 29-4200), by combining the skills of an adept urban historian, social geographer, gender philosopher, and empathetic observer. The resulting book integrates her interview data into a broader base that enables her to move beyond the responses of interviewees and boundaries of institutional religion into a close description of contemporary styles of spiritual seeking and alternative strategies of human identity formation. Wilcox's insights extend to the dilemmas faced by a large cross-section of 21st-century American citizens so that her study makes good on the two key phrases in her title. It is about religious individualism as well as queer women. She earlier published Coming Out in Christianity: Religion, Identity, and Community (CH, Jun'04, 41-5867) and coedited, with D. R. Machacek, Sexuality and the World's Religions (CH, Apr'04, 41-4608). Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. -- ChoiceG. R. Thursby, emeritus, University of Florida, April 2010"Original research into areas that have not been much investigated or written about.... A rather masterful user of [theory], Wilcox is especially interested in taking the idea of 'intersectionality'... and using it as a theoretical reminder that one must represent women in their clearest life contexts of race, gender, community, economics, physical and emotional resources, etc., as well as the individual power they muster to create their own religious lives." —Leonard Primiano, Cabrini College"A remarkably fine study in the sociology of religion. [Wilcox] proves herself the equal of Robert Bellah et al., in their landmark community studies Habits of the Heart (1985) and The Good Society, by combining the skills of an adept urban historian, social geographer, gender philosopher, and empathetic observer. [The result is] a close description of contemporary styles of spiritual seeking and alternative strategies of human identity formation. Highly recommended." —Choice"[This book] approaches the dialogue [of women and religion] with a timely case study that explores the intersection of religious experience and queer identities." —JAAR / Jrnl American Academy of Religion"In this volume Wilcox explores her findings of a survey of women conducted in the Los Angeles area, investigating female sexual variations in relation to religion and spirituality....The volume usefully concludes with biographical summaries and methodological considerations." —Stephen Hunt, Religion and GenderTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsMap of Los Angeles1. Beyond the Congregation2. Setting the Stage: Historical Contexts3. Queering the Spiritual Marketplace4. Negotiating Religion: Continuity, Conversion, Innovation5. Tiles in the Mosaic: Organizations as Resources6. Building a Mosaic: The Sacred (and the) Self7. Queer Women, Religion, and PostmodernityAppendix A. Biographical Summaries Appendix B. Methods and Methodological ConsiderationsAppendix C. Interview SchedulesNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Jewish Life in TwentyFirstCentury Turkey The
Book SynopsisDetails cosmopolitanism and Jewish identity on IstanbulTrade ReviewThe book provides much important information and analysis on important issues regarding contemporary Turkish Jews, though some of the theoretical parts might be of more interest to anthropologists. The study is an important contribution to our knowledge of Jewish life in the 21st century Middle East in general and Turkey in particular, and is of relevance as well for those interested in minority and culture studies. * AJL Reviews *Brink-Danan's volume offers a complex and thought-provoking portrait of Jewish life in twenty-first-century Turkey through the compelling lens of linguistic anthropology. It not only elucidates multiple facets of a Jewish community generally overlooked by scholars, but also encourages us to rethink the nature of 'cosmopolitanism,' 'tolerance,' and minority politics more broadly through the example of Turkey. * H-Judaic H-Net *Brink-Danan . . . ventures beyond the bland and the predictable and produces a thought-provoking book about an intriguing Jewish community in a fascinating Muslim country. * The Canadian Jewish News *[A] marvelously provocative book . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *[A]n outstanding study . . . . [I]t solves the riddles of Turkish Jewish culture by offering a critical contribution to the discussion of cosmopolitanism. * Comparative Studies in Society and History *Marcy Brink-Danan's study offers a rare and insightful view of the multilayered dynamics between and profiles of individuals peopling Istanbul's Jewish community. Jewish Life in 21st-Century Turkey is at once an important ethnographic investigation and a sociolinguistic analysis. As such, it stands apart from other studies of Turkey's contemporary Jews. * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsPreface: The Ends and Beginnings of 1992Acknowledgements Introduction1. Tolerance, Difference, and Citizenship2. Cosmopolitan Signs: Names as Foreign and Local3. The Limits of Cosmopolitanism4. Performing Difference: Turkish Jews on The National Stage5. Intimate Negotiations: Turkish Jews Between Stages6. The One Who Writes Difference: Inside SecrecyConclusionNotesReferences Index
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Indiana University Press Muslims and New Media in West Africa
Book SynopsisDeals with gender, religion and the new urban economyTrade ReviewSchulz's book is a solid ethnographic work that makes a significant contribution to the literature on Islam in Africa, and on the effects of media technologies on local peoples' lives both on and beyond the continent. * Intl Jrnl African Historical Studies *Muslims and New Media in West Africa makes a major contribution to the anthropological study of Islam as well as the study of Islam in West Africa. It adds to our knowledge of everyday practices of Islam as well as how these ordinary practices play into the creation of religious authorities. * Journal of Relgion in Africa *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsOverture1. "Our Nation's Authentic Traditions": Law Reform and Controversies over the Common Good, 1999–20062. Times of Hardship: Gender Relations in a Changing Urban Economy3. Family Conflicts: Domestic Life Revisited by Media Practices4. Practicing Humanity: Social Institutions of Islamic Moral Renewal5. Alasira, the Path to God6. "Proper Believers": Mass-mediated Constructions of Moral Community7. Consuming Baraka, Debating Virtue: New Forms of Mass-mediated ReligiosityEpilogueNotesReferencesIndex
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MH - Indiana University Press Art of the Court of Bijapur
Book SynopsisThe patrons and artists of Bijapur, an Islamic kingdom that flourished in the Deccan region of India in the 16th and 17th centuries, produced lush paintings and elaborately carved architecture. This illustrated study traces the development of Bijapuri art and courtly identity through detailed examination of selected paintings and architecture.Trade Review. . . [D]iscusses the architecture and painting of Bijapur, the capital of an Islamic kingdom in the Deccan region of India at its heyday between 1565 and 1635. Hutton describes the building of cities with fine stone palaces, tombs, and mosques; their carved decoration, paintings, and inscriptions; and how these reflected the courtly identity of the Khan. . . . Recommended. * Choice *I found the book a sheer joy to merely look at and immensely illuminating when I read it. . . * The Muslim World Book Review *. . . beautifully illustrated . . . and is an essential addition to religion and art collections that seek truly global coverage of the arts of Islamdom.13.1 2009 -- John Renard * Saint Louis University *Table of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Prosperous Beginnings3. Developing Visual Metaphors4. Meaning in Ornament5. ConclusionAppendix A: Adil Shahi Rulers of BijapurAppendix B: The Pem Nem's IllustrationsNotesBibliographyIndex
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MH - Indiana University Press Contemporary Jewish Writing in Europe
Book SynopsisWith contributions from a dozen American and European scholars, this volume presents an overview of Jewish writing in post-World War II Europe. It includes essays that portray Jewish authors across Europe as writers and intellectuals of multiple affiliations and hybrid identities.Trade ReviewThis volume presents an overview of Jewish writing in post-World War II Europe. Striking a balance between close readings of individual texts and general surveys of larger movements and underlying themes, the essays portray Jewish authors across Europe as writers and intellectuals of multiple affiliations and hybrid identities. Aimed at a general readership and guided by the idea of constructing bridges across national cultures, this book maps for English-speaking readers the productivity and diversity of Jewish writers and writing that has marked a revitalization of Jewish culture in France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Hungary, Poland, and Russia. -- Joseph Haberer * SHOFAR *This volume should prove useful not only for educators planning to use the material in classrooms but also for scholars and general audiences seeking recommendations for literature on specific themes. . . . * Shofar *. . . the essays indicate that contemporary Jewish writing in Europe is constantly evolving; this volume not only helps bring us closer to understanding the complicated nature of that evolution in the recent past, but also inspires us to imagine what shape it might take in the future.Vol. 27.3 Spring 2009 -- Lisa Silverman * University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee *Recommended for any person or congregation interested in European literature in general and Jewish literature in particular.Fourth issue 2009 -- Evelyn Pockrass * Church and Synagogue Libraries *Liska . . . and Nolden . . . insightfully contextualize historic and cultural national frames and elucidate common themes and genres of post-Holocaust literature. In addition to offering strong essays on familiar Austrian, German, and French works, the volume elucidates less-familiar writers of Poland, Russia, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Great Britain, and Scandinavia through close readings of major figures or broad national overviews. . . . Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsContentsForeword by Alvin H. RosenfeldAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Thomas Nolden and Vivian Liska1. Secret Affinities: Contemporary Jewish Writing in Austria Vivian Liska2. Writing against Reconciliation: Contemporary Jewish Writing in Germany Stephan Braese3. Remembering or Inventing the Past: Second-Generation Jewish Writers in the Netherlands Elrud Ibsch4. Bonds with a Vanished Past: Contemporary Jewish Writing in Scandinavia Eva Ekselius5. Imagined Communities: Contemporary Jewish Writing in Great Britain Bryan Cheyette6. A la recherche du Judaïsme perdu: Contemporary Jewish Writing in France Thomas Nolden7. Ital'Yah Letteraria: Contemporary Jewish Writing in Italy Christoph Miething8. Writing along Borders: Contemporary Jewish Writing in Hungary Péter Varga with Thomas Nolden9. Making Up for Lost Time: Contemporary Jewish Writing in Poland Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska10. De-Centered Writing: Aspects of Contemporary Jewish Writing in Russia Rainer Grübel and Vladimir NovikovList of ContributorsIndex
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MH - Indiana University Press Exiles on Main Street
Book SynopsisHow have Jews reshaped their identities as Jews in the face of the radical newness called America? This book explores the ways in which exposure to American literary culture - in particular the visionary tradition identified with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman - led American Jewish writers to a new understanding of themselves as Jews.Trade Review. . . Exiles on Main Street is an original contribution to the continuing story of the creative encounter between Jewish writers and America.Summer 2009 * Jewish Book World *Levinson's well-researched book makes a significant contribution to studies of Jewish American Literature and Jewish Cultural continuity.2007 -- S.L. Kremer * Choice Reviews Online *. . . a standout work in the field of American Jewish Literature . . . Levinson is well-attuned to the critical trends and thinking that are prevalent in the world of literary scholarship and applies them to the book's selected authors and texts in a way that is fresh and thoughtful. . . December 12, 2008 -- Shana Rosenblatt Mauer * Jerusalem Post *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1. Breathing Free in the New World: Transcendentalism and the Jewish Soul 1. Songs of a Semite: Emma Lazarus and the Muse of History 2. Ecstasies of the Credulous: Mary Antin and the Spirit of the ShtetlPart 2. Battling the Nativists: Mystics, Prophets, and Rebels in Interwar America 3. "Pilgrim to a Forgotten Shrine": Ludwig Lewisohn and the Recovery of the Inner Jew 4. Modernist Flasks, Jewish Wine: Waldo Frank and the Immanence of God 5. Cinderella's Dybbuk: Anzia Yezierska as the Voice of GenerationsPart 3. Yiddish Interlude 6. From Heine to Whitman: The Yiddish Poets Come to AmericaPart 4. "Orating in New Yorkese": The Languages of Jewishness in Postwar America 7. "My Private Orthodoxy": Alfred Kazin's Romantic Judaism 8. The Jewish Writer Flies at Twilight: Irving Howe and the Recovery of YiddishkaytConclusionNotesIndex
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Indiana University Press The Holocaust Object in Polish and PolishJewish
Book SynopsisThe vulnerability of material objects as Holocaust textsTrade ReviewShallcross's book is a significant contribution to current discussions of the Shoah, providing important insights into a broad range of themes that linger at a core of our debates. * H-Poland *Shallcross's illuminating study . . . underlines the way objects can relay information in a subliminal, almost visceral, but ambivalent way. * Russian Review *In analyzing the artifacts of writers who took up the ethical and precarious charge of testifying to the destruction engulfing and surrounding them, Shallcross has written an important book. * H-Judaic *Shallcross's book is intelligent, articulate . . . and for all its lucid and detached analysis, deeply moving. It is itself now a document of the Holocaust, at once concerned with the desperately important business of vivifying the past and those who constituted it. * American Historical Review *Here, as aptly as she has in her previous work, Shallcross looks at depictions of the depths of suffering through the 'dispossession' of belongings when a prisoner entered a concentration camp. This is a brilliant analysis. ...Highly recommended.October 2011 * Choice *Shallcross . . . is to be congratulated for bringing to the attention of the world these literary remnants by translating these Polish-lanaguage testimonies and interpreting them with great learning and skill. * Chicago Jewish Star *Table of ContentsThe Totalized Object: An IntroductionOn Jouissance 1. A Dandy and Jewish Detritus 2. The Material Letter JOn Waste and Matter 3. Holocaust Soap and the Story of Its Production 4. The Guilty Afterlife of the SomaOn Contact 5. The Manuscript Lost in Warsaw 6. Things, Touch, and Detachment in AuschwitzCoda: The Post-Holocaust ObjectAcknowledgments and PermissionsNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press The End of the Holocaust
Book SynopsisRosenfeld charts the cultural forces that have minimized the Holocaust in popular perceptions.Trade ReviewThe time . . . is ripe for The End of the Holocaust, an important and deeply sobering book.7/11/2011 * Human Rights Service *Alvin Rosenfeld has written an important book that deserves a wide audience, not only to help us maintain a clear picture of our troubled past, in order to come to terms with its historical reality—but indeed to help us avoid a future that will bring back the darkness and the fog. 7/11/2011 * new-compass.net *Rosenfeld is never shrill and often eloquent. But his book, now the indispensable study of its subject, cannot be read with pleasure, even by people who believe that 'in the destruction of the wicked, there is joy.'June, 2011 * Scholars for Peace in the Middle East *The End of the Holocaust is an illuminating exploration that offers a worried look at Holocaust representation in contemporary culture and politics, reminding us that the great works focus on the distinctive tragedy of extermination, killing, radical dehumanization, and continuing trauma. August 2011 * H-Holocaust *Alvin Rosenfeld is a brave man, and his new work is courageous. [It] is not reluctant to take on the unexamined pieties that have grown up around the slaughter, and the sentimentalization that threatens to smother it in meretricious uplift. October 10, 2011 -- Ron Rosenbaum * Tablet Magazine *Although Holocaust denial threatens to undermine the record of Nazi Germany's criminal legacy, Rosenfeld persuasively argues that other forces are inadvertently as dangerous. -- Jack Fischel * Hadassah Magazine *What Rosenfeld has written, with passion and precision and some notably unanswered questions, is less an acccount of the Shoah being forgotten or denied than of being wrongly remembered. May/June 2011 * Moment *This book fills the reader with gloom and rage, in nearly equal measure. The heart sinks, the mind reels, in contemplating the variegated assaults on Holocaust memory that Alvin Rosenfeld describes, analyzes, and seeks to throw back. Vol. 16, Issue 35 * The Weekly Standard *Let us hope that, in the months and years to come, this important book finds a ready place on some important bedside tables. June 2011 * Israel Affairs *The End of the Holocaust is a model of critical intelligence, restrained in its judgments, never shrill or accusatory in its disagreements, always illuminating in its insights into the motives and achievements of the major Holocaust writers Rosenfeld discusses. June 15, 2011 * Forward *This work is an important and impassioned defense of the undeniable truth of the Holocaust and of its moral significance. * Holocaust and Genocide Studies *For showing us how to remember the Holocaust, and how to recognize many of the ways in which its memory is being killed, we owe Alvin Rosenfeld a debt of immense gratitude. * Wilson Quarterly *Alvin Rosenfeld's The End of the Holocaust is a uniquely important work by one of the founding figures in the field of Holocaust literary studies. * Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas *Alvin Rosenfeld . . . has performed an invaluable service for the cause of memory and historical accuracy. . . . While simultaneously documenting the mutilation inflicted on the history of the Shoah by contemporary culture and politics, he eloquently argues for the specificity of the Holocaust and its continuing impact on survivor writers. * Modern Judaism *This book has monumental importance in Holocaust studies because it demands answers to the question how our culture is inscribing the Holocaust in its history and memory. * Arcadia *The End of the Holocaust is a work of historical research and scholarship. It is certainly a major contribution to our understanding of the relationship of history to society, which is after all the historian's task. The End of the Holocaust is an intelligently structured argument against current tendencies to relativize or negate the significance of the Nazi project of Jewish extermination. * H-German *This remarkable new work of scholarship—written in accessible language and not in obscure academese—is exactly the Holocaust book the world needs now. Indeed, it could not have been written before now because it is about now and how the specificity of the Nazis' gruesome, unprecedented and nearly sucessful genocide against Europe's Jews is being lost today, turned into mushy metaphor, unplugged from its historical roots. April 16, 2011 * Bill's 'Faith Matters' Weblog *Alvin Rosenfeld brings a wealth of information to this highly readable, intelligently argued account of how the Holocaust is being conveyed and distorted to modern day audiences. Fall 2011 * Jewish Book World *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Popular Culture and the Politics of Memory2. The Rhetoric of Victimization3. The Americanization of the Holocaust4. Anne Frank: The Posthumous Years5. The Anne Frank We Remember/The Anne Frank We Forget6. Jean Améry: The Anguish of the Witness7. Primo Levi: The Survivor as Victim8. Surviving Survival: Elie Wiesel and Imre Kertész9. The End of the HolocaustEpilogue: A "Second Holocaust"?
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Indiana University Press Modern Ladino Culture Press Belles Lettres and
Book SynopsisExplores the literary culture of the Ottoman Empire's Sephardic JewsTrade ReviewBorovaya's meticulously-researched book examines the relationship between linguistic and historical developments as they come into view through these Ladino texts.1.2 2013 * Journal of Jewish Languages *Olga Borovaya's brilliant book—the first comprehensive study of modern Ladino print culture—transforms our understanding of the Ottoman Sephardi world in the era of westernisation that preceded its demise. . . [T]his terrific book is a work of prodigious scholarship and arresting insight. It should be required reading not just for modern Jewish historians, but for all those interested in literacy, secularisation and the impact of the West in the Ottoman world. Dec. 2015 * English Historical Review *With detailed notes and an index Borovaya presents a comprehensive but highly readable analysis which provides a welcome companion to the study of a rather rare collection of materials. * Jewish Book Council *Olga Borovaya has written a highly intelligent and highly intelligible book on Ladino literary production in the modernizing, secularizing final century and a half of the Ottoman empire. Borovaya brings clarity and freshness to an area of study that has long remained the hotly debated and often fiercely guarded domain of a small clutch of scholars. * Slavic Review *This is a groundbreaking and comprehensive study of the modernization of the culture of a minority group. ... On the basis of exhaustive research, Borovaya combines enlightening analysis with detailed information in a study that provides an innovative approach to the study of Ladino culture and Sephardi history. In addition to scholars of Sephardi studies, this work is of tremendous importance for those interested in cultural developments among minority groups, and the interconnections among various cultural aspects. * H-Judaic *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on Translation, Transcription, Proper Names, and DatesIntroductionPart 1. The PressThe Emergence of modern Culture Production in Ladino: The Sephardi PressThe Press in Salonica: a Case StudyPart 2. Belles LettresThe Serialized Novel as Rewriting Ladino Fiction: Case StudiesPart 3. TheaterSephardi Theater: Project and PracticeLadino Drama: Case StudiesConclusionNotesIndex
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Indiana University Press Jewish Life in TwentyFirstCentury Turkey The
Book SynopsisDetails cosmopolitanism and Jewish identity on IstanbulTrade ReviewThe book provides much important information and analysis on important issues regarding contemporary Turkish Jews, though some of the theoretical parts might be of more interest to anthropologists. The study is an important contribution to our knowledge of Jewish life in the 21st century Middle East in general and Turkey in particular, and is of relevance as well for those interested in minority and culture studies. * AJL Reviews *Brink-Danan's volume offers a complex and thought-provoking portrait of Jewish life in twenty-first-century Turkey through the compelling lens of linguistic anthropology. It not only elucidates multiple facets of a Jewish community generally overlooked by scholars, but also encourages us to rethink the nature of 'cosmopolitanism,' 'tolerance,' and minority politics more broadly through the example of Turkey. * H-Judaic H-Net *Brink-Danan . . . ventures beyond the bland and the predictable and produces a thought-provoking book about an intriguing Jewish community in a fascinating Muslim country. * The Canadian Jewish News *[A] marvelously provocative book . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *[A]n outstanding study . . . . [I]t solves the riddles of Turkish Jewish culture by offering a critical contribution to the discussion of cosmopolitanism. * Comparative Studies in Society and History *Marcy Brink-Danan's study offers a rare and insightful view of the multilayered dynamics between and profiles of individuals peopling Istanbul's Jewish community. Jewish Life in 21st-Century Turkey is at once an important ethnographic investigation and a sociolinguistic analysis. As such, it stands apart from other studies of Turkey's contemporary Jews. * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsPreface: The Ends and Beginnings of 1992Acknowledgements Introduction1. Tolerance, Difference, and Citizenship2. Cosmopolitan Signs: Names as Foreign and Local3. The Limits of Cosmopolitanism4. Performing Difference: Turkish Jews on The National Stage5. Intimate Negotiations: Turkish Jews Between Stages6. The One Who Writes Difference: Inside SecrecyConclusionNotesReferences Index
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University of Notre Dame Press Against All England
Book SynopsisAgainst All England examines a diverse set of poems, plays, and chronicles produced in Cheshire and its vicinity from the 1190s to the 1650s that collectively argue for the localization of British literary history. These works, including very early monastic writing emanating from St. Werburgh's Abbey, the Chester Whitsun plays, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, seventeenth-century ceremonials, and various Stanley romances, share in the creation and revision of England's cultural tradition, demonstrating a vested interest in the intersection of landscape, language, and politics. Barrett's book grounds itself in Cestrian evidence in order to offer scholars a new, dynamic model of cultural topography, one that acknowledges the complex interlacing of regional and national identities within the longue durée extending from the post-Conquest period to the Restoration. Covering nearly five centuries of literary production within a single geographical location, the Trade Review“A study of plays, poems and chronicles produced in Cheshire that document a regional literary identity.” —The Chronicle Review“Identities national or local, and their links with landscape, borders, and the like, are a fashionable topic. . . . In five chapters, Against All England hence surveys five centuries of Cheshire writing with this theme. . . . The author has worked hard, providing maps of Cheshire and Chester, and even photographs of Chester now, with the chapel of St Nicholas. . .” —Modern Language Review“. . . a thorough historical study arguing for the importance of regional identities in dialogue with the national one. The book lives, however, not in that claim but in its many absorbing details. It is also interesting for what it adds to our knowledge of a great work of English literature outside our period, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” —Studies in English Literature 1500 – 1900“Barrett’s conclusion is a tour de force which reinforces many of the arguments of the book through an examination of present day Chester ceremonial . . . this remains an important book which should be read by all those concerned with place and space, identity, urban literature and the fundamental narratives by which we understand literary history.” —Review of English Studies“Offering a rich survey of Cheshire culture in a literary-historical analysis that transcends medieval-modern boundaries, Robert W. Barrett, Jr.’s Against All England: Regional Identity and Cheshire Writing, 1195-1656 provides a crucial intervention in recent conversations about medieval nationhood. Barrett’s Against All England powerfully presents the continuity of such regional discourse, even as his richly sourced study explores the varying medieval and early modern cultural and historical pressures negotiated by Cheshire writing.” —Journal of English and Germanic Philosophy“In this book, Robert W. Barrett, Jr., investigates the ways in which medieval and early modern Cheshire texts ‘work together to complicate persistent academic binaries of metropole and margin, centre and periphery, and nation and region.’ Barrett’s study demonstrates that regional identity can be shaped and asserted according to disparate agendas, showing how ‘county unit’ itself was always ‘a product of intraregional conflict and compromise’ as well as negotiation with national narratives.” —English Historical Review“Robert Barrett Jr. presents a spirited challenge to persistent chronological and national/regional boundaries in England, in particular those based on London’s literary production. Throughout the book, Barrett deftly shifts between literary and historical analysis, as for him local identity ‘has a material basis in distinct institutions and practices. . . . Barrett makes the most of the sources, working in gender, architectural, and other analyses to provide a crisp, detailed picture of the region and its identities.” —Sixteenth Century Journal“This is an ambitious scholarly book that will reward its readers not just because it provides a complex and subtle discussion of Cestrian writing but also because it is an engaging model for a nimble, spatially oriented literary history that asks us to reconsider every paradigm we hold dear.” —Speculum“Barrett succinctly and precisely situates his primary materials in terms of the local, regional, national, and even international issues they engage. Moreover, the book is noteworthy for Barrett’s graceful assertion of his claims while sustaining a generous stance toward other critics. The quality of the edition also merits mention. During a time when so many presses employ minuscule fonts to cut costs, Notre Dame has published a reader-friendly book.” —Modern Philology“This is a provocative and engaging study, which challenges previously held critical views of Cheshire and its literature. . . . Barrett’s monograph is path breaking and proposes fertile avenues for further research.” —Studies in the Age of Chaucer
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University of Notre Dame Press Five Biblical Portraits
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Deeply moving and enlightening.” —Chicago Tribune (review of a previous edition)“This collection of biographies of prophets does a masterful job of humanizing these figures. Elie Wiesel does more than inform us about their lives and supposed thoughts. He asks today’s questions in the context of the past. . . . There is no ambiguity or vagueness in Wiesel’s writing. He promises us portraits, and there is not a wasted brushstroke, not a blurred line.” —The Christian Century (review of a previous edition)Table of ContentsIntroduction by Ariel Burger 1. Joshua 2. Elijah 3. Saul 4. Jeremiah 5. Jonah Sources
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Pennsylvania State University Press Imagining the Kibbutz Visions of Utopia in
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the literary and cinematic representations of the kibbutz movement in Israel. Authors discussed include Amos Oz, Savyon Liebrecht, Nathan Shaham, Avraham Balaban, Atallah Mansour, Eli Amir, and Batya Gur. Directors discussed include Yitzhak Yeshurun, Akiva Tevet, Dror Shaul, and Jonathan Paz.Trade Review“Thanks to the extensive outlook and the copious collection of texts, Imagining the Kibbutz is a valuable resource and a welcome contribution to the field of kibbutz studies.”—Lior Libman Israel Studies Review“In a brilliant analysis that is both comprehensive and penetrating, Ranen Omer-Sherman illuminates the vast spectrum of literary and cinematic narratives that emerged from one of the most radical and thrilling social experiments of our time: the Israeli kibbutz. Omer-Sherman writes with authority and passion, in prose that will excite the scholar and layperson alike. Part literary critique, part social history, Omer-Sherman’s book sheds light not only on the narratives of the kibbutz but also on the utopian enterprise itself, from its heady idealism to its bitter contentiousness. I was, quite honestly, unable to put it down. Anyone interested in Israel, literature, film, or the myriad ways in which artistic expression reflects and shapes the birth and growth of a modern nation would do well to read this book.”—Joan Leegant,author of An Hour in Paradise and Wherever You Go“The kibbutz is an extraordinary human, social, and economic accomplishment, widely recognized as one of the most impressive achievements of Zionism. The impact of the kibbutz has always far exceeded its numerical size, and Imagining the Kibbutz makes us realize that this is also the case with the visions of the kibbutz in Hebrew literature and in films made in or on Israel. Ranen Omer-Sherman very skillfully combines the particularity of the local scene with universal human experience transcending space and time, such as the clash between individual desires and unyielding national imperatives. Combining the critical outlook of the academic outsider with deep, loving insight acquired through his own personal experience, the author portrays the kibbutz as a crucial microcosm for understanding Israeli values and identity. The book proves that the reports of the kibbutz’s death are greatly exaggerated; it is still a vibrant society making an inspiring imprint both on Israeli reality and Hebrew literature and film. Imagining the Kibbutz is a very relevant and up-to-date book, enhancing our understanding of contemporary Israel at large.”—Aviva Halamish,The Open University of Israel “Imagining the Kibbutz is not only a masterful study of literary representations of the kibbutz, but also a portrait of a country—Israel—through the lens of its most radical experiment. Tracing the evolution of the kibbutz from its utopian beginnings through economic crisis and ideological disillusionment to its current hybrid forms, Ranen Omer-Sherman illuminates the tensions between individualism and collectivism, capitalism and socialism, diaspora and national identity that lie at the heart of Israeli society. A probing analysis of a wide array of imaginative renderings of the kibbutz experience, this important book should be required reading for anyone interested in understanding Israel’s individual diversity and collective soul.”—Margot Singer,author of The Pale of Settlement“What makes Imagining the Kibbutz particularly compelling is its emphasis on the affective power that the kibbutz exercises upon the individual. Ranen Omer-Sherman guides us through a diverse array of literary and cinematic texts with sensitivity and astuteness, urging us to bear in mind culture’s humanizing function even in its representation of the most intensely politicized situations. A deeply engaged and delightfully engaging writer, Omer-Sherman balances his experiences with the kibbutz with a discerning and rigorous critical eye, confronting its complexities and contradictions in order to suggest that in many ways these reflect paradoxes that continue to inhabit the core of Israeli identity itself.”—Karen Grumberg,University of Texas at Austin“The kibbutz has always played an outsized role in images of Israel, representing in microcosm the ideals upon which the nation was founded. The kibbutz embodied, in its purest form, the inherent tension between common goals and individual interests. As Ranen Omer-Sherman gracefully demonstrates in this penetrating analysis, the literature growing out of the kibbutz experience is also an outsized component of Israeli culture. From the outset, the kibbutz was ‘always in crisis,’ portrayed sensitively in the many novels, short stories, essays, and films inspired by the tension between ideology and reality. This landmark study also puts the recent ‘normalization’ of the kibbutz into clearer perspective, making it clear that its role in the broader society remains central. Anyone with an interest in Israeli culture and society will find this book indispensable in highlighting a critical dimension of the Israeli experience, past and present.”—Alan Dowty,University of Notre Dame“From its emergence in pre-war Palestine until its privatization in the mid-1980s, the kibbutz was an iconic symbol of the settlement of Jews in their historic land. The lived experience of that utopian experiment was sometimes too controversial to deal with in nonfiction, but found expression in literature and film. Ranen Omer-Sherman has produced a valuable survey of such representations, which he considers wistfully, yet hopefully, at a time when kibbutzim are succumbing to privatization, even as some cling to their erstwhile promise of communalism.”—Aviva Ben-Ur,University of Massachusetts Amherst“A volume whose sharp insights and wide-ranging analyses (some of them appearing here for the first time in English) contribute greatly to our understanding of the histories of and shifting perceptions surrounding one of modernity’s most fascinating ideological movements. Informative for the specialist reader as well as accessible for students and a general lay audience, Imagining the Kibbutz promises to shape the ways in which historiographers, ethnographers, literary and cultural critics, and even authors and artists themselves discuss portrayals of the kibbutz phenomenon in the decades to come.”—Nathan P. Devir Studies in American Jewish Literature“Just as some new religions changed and structured themselves in innovative routines, while others failed and declined, the kibbutzim have gone through a similar process of triumph, fall, decline, and change. Imagining the Kibbutz offers an excellent opportunity to review these transformations.”—Motti Inbari Nova ReligioTable of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction1. Trepidation and Exultation in Early Kibbutz Fiction2. “With a Zealot’s Fervor”: Individuals Facing the Fissures of Ideology in Oz, Shaham, and Balaban3. The Kibbutz and Its Others at Midcentury: Palestinian and Mizrahi Interlopers in Utopia4. Late Disillusionments and Village Crimes: The Kibbutz Mysteries of Batya Gur and Savyon Liebrecht5. From the 1980s to 2010: Nostalgia and the Revisionist Lens in Kibbutz FilmAfterword: Between Hope and Despair: The Legacy of the Kibbutz Dream in the Twenty-First Century AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£35.06
Pennsylvania State University Press The Anglican Communion at a Crossroads The Crises
Book SynopsisAnalyzes the tensions within the contemporary Anglican Communion, addresses the theological arguments and social forces involved, and explores the dynamics of religious conflict in a global era. Trade Review“A fascinating read, regardless of your personal faith or politics.”—Eric C. Miller Reading Religion“The interviews and the authors’ wide knowledge of the literature on church conflict, globalisation, and related issues combine to produce a book that clearly lays out the roots of the discord within the Anglican Communion and challenges some tired explanations for the conflict.”—Church Times“Of the books on the state of the Anglican Communion in the last two decades, Brittain and McKinnon offer the best analysis to date, offering a lucid, coherent, and balanced presentation of the situation the Anglican Communion finds itself in.”—James Tengatenga Anglican Theological Review“As closely tied to national identities as the churches are themselves, the nature and fate of the Anglican Communion will be a continuing research area for some time: this book is recommended for students, scholars, and practitioners.”—Abby Day Sociology of Religion“This timely, lucid, and admirably balanced book should be required reading for all those who care about the Anglican Communion. The debate about same-sex relationships is correctly perceived as the presenting issue of deeper tensions, which are then explored from a variety of perspectives. I recommend it warmly.”—Grace Davie,author of Religion in Britain: A Persistent Paradox“Americans seeking to understand the conflict raging within the Episcopal Church will gain perspective from this valuable book. It’s not just a battle in the ‘culture war.’ Homosexuality is the ‘presenting symbol’ of broader struggles within a 500-year-old, increasingly transnational institution. Making use of sociological theory, religious history, and interviews with church leaders around the world, Brittain and McKinnon assess the fate of Anglicanism in the context of its current crisis.”—R. Stephen Warner,author of A Church of Our Own: Disestablishment and Diversity in American Religion Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Cultural Logic of Symbols and Anglican “Orthodoxy”2. Globalization, Communication, and the Redistribution of Religious Authority3. The Global South and the Communion: Africa as the New Anglican “Center of Gravity” 4. Local Disagreement in the Midst of a Global Dispute: The View from the Pews in the Diocese(s) of Pittsburgh5. National Strictures, Global Structures, and the Ties That Bind6. Authority, Practice, and Ecclesial Identity7. Anglican Identity in the Twenty-First CenturyConclusion: The “End” of the Communion?NotesBibliographyIndex
£84.56
Pennsylvania State University Press Friendship in Jewish History Religion and Culture
Book SynopsisA collection of essays exploring the subject of friendship in Jewish culture, history, and religion from ancient Israel to the twenty-first century. Trade Review“This volume’s pattern of frequently pairing the overarching identity of Jewishness alongside an additional identity varying by chapter (socioeconomic, gender, interfaith, race, etc.) cuts right to the heart of human connection, developing implications beyond the Jewish tradition and community. ... This work truly understands friendship as a phenomenon to be experienced rather than one to be analyzed in isolation and written into the text.”—Michael Tofte Religious Studies Review“This book definitely contributes to the scholarly conversation in Jewish studies by connecting in multiple ways to issues of Jewish literature, history, and religion. The diversity of themes and methodological orientations in the chapters mirrors the diversity to be found in the field of Jewish studies and therefore will have great resonance among scholars and students of Jewish studies.”—Ira Robinson,editor of Renewing Our Days: Montreal Jews in the Twentieth Century“This innovative and accessible anthology highlights the significance of a frequently neglected facet of Jewish life. I know of no other scholarly work that explores the varieties of human friendship in such a wide range of Jewish sources. The attention to gender is particularly noteworthy and adds immensely to the value and interest of this important volume.”—Judith R. Baskin,author of Midrashic Women: Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic LiteratureTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Studying Friendship in Jewish History, Religion, and CultureLawrence FinePart 1: Love, Intimacy, and Friendship Between Men1. “Cherished in Life, for They Loved Each Other Exceedingly”:Friendship in Medieval AshkenazEyal Levinson2. God in the Face of the Other: Mystical Friendship in the ZoharEitan P. Fishbane3. Friendship and Gender: The Limits and Possibilities of Jewish PhilosophyHava Tirosh-SamuelsonPart 2: Women and the Bonds of Friendship4. “She and Her Friends”: On Women’s Friendship in Biblical NarrativeSaul M. Olyan5. Friends and Friendship in the Memoir of Glückel of Hameln:Learning from ExperienceJoseph Davis6. “Got Yourself Some Friends? Now Build a Movement!” Friendship in the Jewish Women’s Movement in the United StatesMartha AckelsbergPart 3: Friendship and its Challenges7. Jacob and Esau: Twinship, Identity, and Failed FriendshipGeorge Savran8. Hebraica Amicitia: Leon Modena and the Cultural Practices of Early Modern Intra-Jewish FriendshipMichela Andreatta9. Friendship and Betrayal: Hasidism and Secularism in EarlyTwentieth-Century PolandGlenn DynnerPart 4: Crossing Boundaries: Friendship Between Women and Men, and Between Jews and Gentiles10. Interfaith Encounters Between Jews and Christians in the Early Modern Period and Beyond: Toward a FrameworkDaniel Jütte11. Friendship, Jewish Female Philosophers, and FeminismHava Tirosh-Samuelson12. A Friendship in the Prophetic Tradition: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Luther King Jr.Susannah HeschelList of ContributorsIndex
£71.96
Pennsylvania State University Press Negotiating the Christian Past in China Memory
Book SynopsisFocuses on the ways in which Christianity has become an integral part of Xiamen, a southeastern Chinese city profoundly influenced by western missionaries. Illustrates the complexities of memory and mission in shaping the city's cultural landscape, church-state dynamics, and global aspirations.Trade Review“This is a wonderful new resource for all scholars of Chinese religion and historians of China more generally. It is a beautiful example of how contemporary ethnographic work combined with historical archival research can produce some of the most pertinent and insightful portraits of state– society relations and their co-production of memory, history and identity.”—Gerda Wielander China Quarterly“Negotiating the Christian Past in China coalesces granular, deeply researched ethnographic data into a fresh and expansive take on the unique patterns of Church-state engagement and the relationship between social memory and faith identity. This story is local and global, particular and general. For anyone who has not yet visited, or cannot travel to, Xiamen, especially Gulangyu Island, this book is the next best thing.”—Joseph T. H. Lee,Pace University“Drawing on firsthand interviews, locally produced Chinese-language histories, and observation of historical celebrations, Negotiating the Christian Past in China offers a new understanding of China’s Christian past. In particular, Liu shows how this past is constructed by combining both official frameworks and unofficial nostalgias and experiences into a social memory that is actively produced without being dominated by state repression or characterized as grassroots resistance. This book takes readers as never before inside the lived world of Xiamen’s Christian present. It does so by exploring how protagonists construct its past in negotiations with other societal actors in the shadow of the state.”—Carsten Vala,author of The Politics of Protestant Churches and the Party-State in China“This book is not only a catalyst for the development of empirical Christian studies in China but also contributes to deepening the exploration of the field of Christian history and cultural memory studies.”—Wei Xiong Religious Studies Review
£84.96
SPCK Publishing But Where Are You Really From On Identity
Book SynopsisA thought-provoking essay that challenges polarising perceptions and celebrates universal connections.
£9.49
University of Texas Press The Man Who Swam into History The Mostly True
Book SynopsisA collection of stories by an award-winning historian that preserves fragments of memory-true or false, remembered or imagined-from three generations of a Jewish familyTrade Review"One of our most imaginative living historians takes us into the midst of his own past and makes us part of his family, even as he becomes part of our own. This book stands as a triumph of new scholarship and narrative." Alan Cheuse, writer and book commentator for National Public RadioTable of Contents Introduction Prologue: Romania, Rumania, Roumania One. The Man Who Swam Two. Far from Hasenpoth Three. Lazarus West Four. Wild Hannah Five. The Afterthought Six. Transylvania Sank Seven. Lower California, Here We Come Eight. Hannah's Lament Nine. Mixed-up Bobby Ten. Izzy the Red Eleven. Café Odessa Epilogue: Sunday in Montreal
£18.99
University of Texas Press Israeli Culture between the Two Intifadas
Book SynopsisAn intriguing portrait of Israel’s “Generation X,” and the perceived decline in Zionism among contemporary urban Israeli youth between the Palestinian uprisings that began in 1987 and 2000Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Bourgeoisification and Its Discontent Chapter 2: Popular Media in a Post-National Age Chapter 3: Etgar Keret: A Dispirited Rebel with a Cause Chapter 4: Romance as a Defiant Escape Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£15.19
University of Texas Press Red Black and Jew
Book SynopsisThe first English book-length study of its kind: A fascinating examination of American Jewish immigrants whose literary legacy included messages of freedom for all marginalized populations, particularly Native Americans and those with African ancestry.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One. Encountering Native Americans: B. N. Silkiner's Mul ohel Timmura Chapter Two. Facing the Sunset: Israel Efros on Native Americans Chapter Three. To Be as Others: E. E. Lisitzky's Representation of Native Americans Chapter Four. Fantasy or Plain Folk: Imagining Native Americans Chapter Five. Child's Play: Hillel Bavli's "Mrs. Woods" and the Indian in American Hebrew Literature Chapter Six. Red Heart, Black Skin: E. E. Lisitzky's Encounters with African American Folksong and Poetry Chapter Seven. From Prop to Trope to Real Folks: Blacks in Hebrew Literature Chapter Eight. Representing African Americans: The Realistic Trend Chapter Nine. The Language of Alienation: The Anxiety of an Americanized Hebrew Chapter Ten. Singing the Song of Zion: American Hebrew Literature and Israel Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£25.19
University of Texas Press Muslim Reformers in Iran and Turkey
Book SynopsisThe first systematic study of the evolution of Islamic politics in Iran and Turkey, based on primary documents from both countries.Trade ReviewTezcür’s work is very reader-friendly, which is a rare quality for books that have ambitious conceptual frameworks. The author’s ability to weave his fieldwork interviews with statistical data is impressive. * Contemporary Islam *Table of ContentsList of Tables and FiguresList of AbbreviationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. From Islamists to Muslim Reformers: A Theory of Political ChangeChapter 3. Muslim Reformism in Comparative PerspectiveChapter 4. Muslim Reformism: Engagement with Secularism and Liberal Democracy Chapter 5. The Guardians and Elections in Iran and TurkeyChapter 6. A Moment of Enthusiasm in the Islamic RepublicChapter 7. Elusive Democratization in the Secular RepublicChapter 8. A Tale of Two ElectionsChapter 9. ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
£22.79
University of Texas Press The American Jewish Story through Cinema
Book SynopsisBy analyzing select mainstream films from the beginning of the sound era until today, this groundbreaking study uses the medium of cinema to provide an understanding of the American Jewish experience over the last century.Trade ReviewFor those who don’t often read academic criticism, this book may prove an enlightening way of rethinking how to experience a film. Goldman’s style isn’t too Ivory Tower as to not be inclusive, plus the stories of Jewish icons like Barbra Streisand and Jewish film producers are good and juicy. * The Times of Israel *Goldman offers readers a superb, thought-provoking analysis tracing the metamorphosis of the image of the Jew as portrayed through 80 years of American cinema....Goldman paints a powerful portrait of the Jewish image by focusing his study on nine films that had a profound influence on the American public....A well-referenced, well-researched contribution to any film studies collection. * Library Journal *The aim of this comprehensive photograph-filled book is to show how films portray the American Jewish experience. This is a herculean task, for it needs not only a knowledge of films made over the decades but a mastery of American Jewish history, literature, sociology, politics and religion. But Eric A. Goldman has the all-encompassing grasp to tell this story, both on a broad canvas and in fascinating anecdotal portraits. This is a wonderful book for any lover of American films. * Hadassah Magazine *A fine addition to the field. . . . Goldman's film selections, primary sources, and pedagogical tools may very well provide the impetus to stir students’ interest in the American Jewish experience. -- Silvia RodeTable of Contents Preface. Film as Haggadah: Toward a Better Understanding of America's Jews Chapter 1. Introduction: A Century of American Jewish Life Chapter 2. The Jazz Singer: Out of the Jewish Ghetto (The 1920s) Chapter 3. Gentleman's Agreement and Crossfire: Films That Took on Anti-Semitism in 1947 (The 1940s) Chapter 4. The Young Lions: Guaranteeing Acceptance (The 1950s) Chapter 5. The Way We Were and The Prince of Tides: Barbra Streisand and the Evolving American Jewish Woman (The 1970s and 1980s) Chapter 6. Avalon and Liberty Heights: The Spirit of Family—Remembering Better (The 1990s) Chapter 7. Everything Is Illuminated: A New Direction in Film—Searching for a Usable Past (The Twenty-First Century) Notes Selected Bibliography Selected Filmography Index
£17.99
University of Texas Press For God and Country
Book SynopsisChallenging conventional assumptions about religious believers, this study reveals how religious student-soldiers negotiate the sometimes conflicting goals and norms of their Orthodox Jewish faith and the Israel Defense Forces in which they serve.Trade ReviewThis highly original and sophisticated study goes far beyond traditional two-dimensional descriptions of ideologies to uncover how religion fits in with other elements of society. . . . It is not often that a book based on the methodologies of political science is so useful to students of religion. In this case, it can offer a starting point for similar studies in different contexts. This is a fascinating study . . . both path breaking and profound. * Religious Studies Review *Table of Contents Introduction Part 1. Structures and Institutions Chapter 1. Greedy Institutions, Mediating Structures, and Empirical Examples Greedy Institutions and Mediating Structures Religion and the Military as Greedy Institutions Chapter 2. Military Attitudes toward Religious Soldiers: Five Case Studies The Iranian Armed Forces The Turkish Military The United States Military The Indian Armed Forces The International Context and the Israeli Case Part 2. Being a Soldier and a Religious Jew: Dilemmas and Solutions Chapter 3. Military Service from Ideological, Halakhic, and Value Perspectives Halakhic and Practical Problems during Military Service A Collision of Values Issues of Identity Chapter 4. The Hesder Yeshivot The Nature and Structure of the Hesder Program Program Characteristics and Military Service as a Hesder Student Curriculum and Faculty Preparation for Military Service Demographics Student Expectations Military Service in the Hesder Program Contact between the Hesder Yeshiva and Students in the Military Chapter 5. The Shiluv Program The Nature and Structure of the Shiluv Program Program Characteristics and Military Service as a Shiluv Student Curriculum and Faculty Preparation for Military Service Demographics Student Expectations Military Service in the Shiluv Program Contact between the Shiluv Program and Students in the Military Chapter 6. The Mekhinot: Preservice Preparatory Seminaries The Nature and Structure of the Mekhinot Program Curriculum and Faculty Preparation for Military Service Demographics Student Expectations Military Service after Studying in the Mekhina Contact between the Mekhinot and Students in the Military Chapter 7. The Gar’inim Program: Jewish Orthodox Women and the IDF Religious Zionist Women, Torah Studies, and Military Service The Beginning of the Women’s Gar’inim Program The Nature and Structure of the Gar’inim Program Curriculum and Faculty Preparation for Military Service Demographics Contact between the Midrasha and Students in the Military Student Expectations Chapter 8. Mediation in Practice Coed Service: Ha-Shiluv Ha-Ra’ui Disobeying Orders for Ideological Reasons Disbanding Hesder Units Chapter 9. Problems for Individual Religious Soldiers during Military Service Halakhic Problems during Military Service Erosion in the Observance of Mitzvot Feelings toward the Military Environment Strategies in Problem Solving Chapter 10. Senior and Junior Officers’ Views on the Study Programs Chapter 11. Mediation as Communication: The Programs’ Role in Conveying Messages between Students and Superstructures Messages Communicated by Students through the Study Programs Messages Communicated to Students through the Study Programs Tensions between the Programs Part 3. Summaries and Conclusions Chapter 12. Study Programs as Mediating Structures Uses of Mediation Multidimensional Mediation The Contribution of Mediating Structures in the Israeli Case The Limits of Mediation: When Mediating Structures Fail Chapter 13. Comparisons and Conclusions Theoretical Implications Implications for General Civil-Military Relations Understanding Civil-Military Relations in Israel Methodological Appendix Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
£21.59
University of Texas Press Beyond the Forest
Book SynopsisThis evocative photo essay explores how Jewish communities in Ukraine, Poland, Romania, and the Czech Republic are reclaiming their history, rebuilding their communities, and revivifying their Jewish identity following the Holocaust and decades of SovietTrade ReviewThe author’s ability to develop a narrative through images is masterful. * Fort Worth Weekly *Kantor has rendered the colors with a consistent softness that’s inviting, even welcoming. These pictures are of daily life, almost like pages from some kind of tribal family album. It’s a present in which the past never feels altogether absent. * The Boston Globe *Table of Contents Introduction: Non Omnis Moriar (Anda Rottenberg) Presence (Loli Kantor) Plates Afterword (Joseph Skibell) Plates List Acknowledgments
£45.00
University of Washington Press What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Both scholarly and intensely personal, these essays depict with grace and deep perceptiveness a trend that is a disturbing reality for all who care about the continuing legacy of Hebrew culture." * Choice *"The volume’s contributors look to alert their English-language readers, whoever they may be, to Hebrew’s beauty and the possibilities its offers." * Studies in American Jewish Literature *
£29.66
University of Washington Press Privileged Minorities
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Privileged Minorities successfully problematizes the politics of minority rights, interrogating whether numerical minority status equates to sociopolitical disadvantage...[A] crucial text for the expert and non-expert alike..." * Religious Studies Review *
£110.48
University of Washington Press Privileged Minorities
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Privileged Minorities successfully problematizes the politics of minority rights, interrogating whether numerical minority status equates to sociopolitical disadvantage...[A] crucial text for the expert and non-expert alike..." * Religious Studies Review *
£33.98
University of Washington Press Bhakti and Power
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[G]ives the reader a kaleidoscopic vision of power as it has been inflicted, resisted, managed, redirected, and experienced across South Asia." * Journal of Asian Studies *"[A] welcome intervention in the field of bhakti studies. The work capably challenges neat narratives." * Reading Religion *"This edited volume is an excellent source for navigating the many distinct voices and traditions referred to as bhakti...a much-needed resource for scholars and teachers." * Religious Studies Review *"The book should inform and stimulate future studies of bhakti, and its warnings against reading modern concerns into pre-modern sources should be heeded." * Religions of South Asia *
£33.98
