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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Jews
Book Synopsis* A groundbreaking new study by a leading scholar on the history of the Jews and the process by which they became a diaspora people. * Wide-ranging in scope, from the expulsion of Jews from their ancestral homeland in the Ancient world to the 'Final Solution' and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Trade Review"Zeitlin successfully sums up extensive and detailed historical data while keeping them within a framework of the ideas he seeks to get across."Insight Turkey"Of Jewish histories there is no shortage. But this remarkable book offers history from the critical perspective of sociology - itself critically examined in the light of history. In short, an intellectual feast."Norman Miller, Trinity College, Hartford "This comprehensive study provides a profound discourse on the meanings and boundaries of 'Diaspora' as a central dimension of Jewish history. The author launches his historical tour of diverse Jewish religious, social, geographical, political and cultural communities with a probing "genealogy" of the very concept of Diaspora, including contemporary theories."Frederick M. Denny, University of Colorado at Boulder "A prominent sociologist employs the concepts of his discipline to write diaspora Jewish history, as the story of national-religious Jewish peoplehood. Zeitlin shows that separate accounts of Jews living in different nations often miss the real connections in Jewish history."Jacques Kornberg, University of TorontoTable of ContentsPreface Chapter One "Diaspora" on the Genealogy of a Concept The Relation of Theory to History and the Role of the Ideal Type Global Diasporas by Robin Cohen Ethnic Immigration in the Early Eras of American History Diasporas by Stéphane Dufux Static Thinking About Dispersion Powers of Diaspora by Jonathan Boyarin and Daniel Boyarin The Socratic Inversion of Values The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness by Paul Gilroy Children of Israel or Children of the Pharaohs Black Culture and Ineffable Terror Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century by James Clifford Chapter Two Varieties of Jewish Religious Experience Resting, however, on Unifying Jewish Religious Principles Moshe Rosman's Rethinking European Jewish History Cultures of the Jews Syncretism in Jewish History Polytheism and Monotheism The Nature of Polytheism Chapter Three Max Weber's Ancient Judaism The Hebrew Prophets: The Setting The Prophetic Ethic Chapter Four The Babylonian Empire The Revolt and the Destruction of the First Temple The Emigration to Egypt Chapter Five The Babylonian Exile and the Persian Supremacy (586-332BCE) The Diaspora in Babylon and Persia Chapter Six Alexander the Great and the new Hegemony of the West Chapter Seven The World Diaspora The Beginnings of the European Diaspora: Greece and Rome Chapter Eight The Diaspora in the 1st Century CE Judaism's Proselytism Chapter Nine The Jews in the Roman Near East Chapter Ten The Jews Move to Poland The Chmelnitzky Uprising of 1648-1649 Chapter Eleven Sabbatai Zevi Chapter Twelve Gershom Scholem's Error Dubnow on the Sabbatian Movement Chapter Thirteen The Rise of Hasidism and the Baal-Shem-Tob Enter the Man, Israel, Who Became the Baal-Shem-Tob (abbreviated the Besht) The Fundamental Principles of the Besht's Teachings The Growth of Tzaddikism Hasidism, Rabbinism and the Forerunners of the Enlightenment Chapter Fourteen The Jews of Spain The Inquisition The Jews, the Spanish and the "Conversos Problem" The Aftermath of the Pogroms Jewish Mysticism: The Kabbalah in Spanish-Jewish Life Chapter Fifteen The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain The Conquest of Granada Chapter Sixteen The Enlightenment and the Jews The English Deists Varieties of Enlightenment Views on Religion Voltaire Rousseau Rousseau on Judaism and the Jews Chapter Seventeen The Germanies The Emerging German National Mind Luther Luther's Attitude toward the Jews Hegel Hegel on Jews and Judaism Chapter Eighteen The Left Hegelians and the "So-Called" Jewish Question Bruno Bauer on the "Jewish Question" Marx Marx's Use of the Terms "Jew" and "Judaism" Weber vs. Sombart on the Spirit of Capitalism Chapter Nineteen From Religion to Race Afro-American Ð Jewish Parallels Arthur de Gobineau Chapter Twenty From Gobineau and H. Stewart Chamberlain to Wagner Nietzsche, the Jews, and Judaism Nietzsche's Legacy Chapter Twenty One The Rise of Nazism The Versailles Treaty The Origins of the Nazi Party After the Putsch Chapter Twenty Two The Early Nazi Regime and the Jews as Perceived by Non-Jewish Contemporaries Chapter Twenty Three The First World War, the Collapse of the Old Regimes and the Rise of Totalitarianism More on Nazi Ideology, Internal Factions and Foreign-Policy Aims The Turning Point: The Attack on Poland Chapter Twenty Four Max Weber on Bureaucracy and its Relevance for an Analysis of the Shoah (Holocaust) Bureaucracy German Ideology and Bureaucracy Weber's Serious Error Chapter Twenty Five Charisma, Bureaucracy and the "Final Solution" Raul Hilberg's, The Destruction of the European Jews The Administration of the Destructive Process The Reich-Protektorat Area The Creation of a Centralized authority in Ghettoized Jewish Communities The Polish Jews under the Nazis The Jewish Councils (Judenräte) Nazi Food Controls Mobile Killing Operations The Role of the Other Ethnic Groups Definition of "Jew" Again, and Himmler Ian Kershaw's Recent Re-Examination of the Issues Chapter Twenty Six Leon Poliakov's Complementary Analysis of the Shoah Hitler's Euthanasia Program Auschwitz The "Death's Head" Formations (SS Totenkopf) Back to the Question of a Distinctive German National Character Significant Political Differences Between Eastern and Western Europe The Role of the Christian Churches Postscript Chapter Twenty Seven The Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto A Reflection on Jewish Resistance Chapter Twenty Eight Zionism, Israel and the Palestinians Theodore Herzl The Historical Jewish Presence in the Arab World The Peace Conference of 1919 "The Unseen Question" Arab Rebellion Works Cited
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Inside the Brotherhood
Book SynopsisThis is the first in-depth study of the relationship between the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and its own members.Trade Review"Kandil's overall portrait offers an impressive but bleak dissection that debunks the wishful thinking of many liberals who imagined the Brotherhood as a left-wing counterweight to Egypt's generals."International Affairs "The overall thrust of the book presents an interesting and plausible account of recent historical events in Egypt. But the real value of the work lies not in its ideological drive but in the richness of its empirical data and the rare glimpse of this well-known but little-understood religio-political movement 'from the inside.'"Middle East Monitor "A deeply intimate portrait of an organisation rightly known as "the mother of all Islamist movements."Morning Star "Hazem Kandil has written a fascinating, highly intimate account of the internal practices of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. Kandil takes the reader inside the organization to reveal detailed information about everything from recruitment practices to social network formation to construction of an organizational worldview. Inside the Brotherhood is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand the Muslim Brotherhood's political rise and fall in Egypt."Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University "Hazem Kandil has written an original and challenging interpretation of the organisation and ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood enriched by unique access to members and functions. The subordination of policy and strategy to piety and proselytization helps to explain the Brotherhood's twists and turns at crucial points in modern Egyptian history, and their rise and fall since 2011, as well as the messianic reaction to their defeat and suppression."Sami Zubaida, Birkbeck, University of London "By probing what it means to be a Muslim Brother, exploring how the Brotherhood organization is structured, and placing religion at the center of the movement's amorphous ideology, Hazem Kandil offers helpful new interpretations even when going over familiar ground. The resulting picture is not always flattering, but it helps shed light on the group's sometimes puzzling behavior."Nathan Brown, George Washington University "Fascinating and lively."Foreign Affairs "Hazem Kandil's Inside the Brotherhood, as its title suggests, contributes remarkably to our understanding of the inner ideological commitments and organisational dynamics of the brotherhood through its examination of MB instructions, dozens of memoirs by MB members and years of observing and participating in its activities and social networks." LSE Review of Books "Kandil's book is able to provide an in-depth, elaborate analysis of the contours of the recruitment and socialisation process as well as the re(construction) of networks."Political Studies ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 1 Cultivating the Brother 5 2 Building the Brotherhood 48 3 Forging the Ideology 81 4 The Slow Rise and Rapid Fall from Power 119 5 Islamism in Egypt and Beyond 146 Conclusion: The End of Islamism? 175 Appendix: A Note on Theory and Method 179 Acknowledgements 184 Notes 185 Bibliography 199 Index 210
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John Wiley & Sons Gods Province
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking exploration of the religious roots of Alberta conservatism.Trade Review"Carefully researched and effectively argued, God' s Province provides a balanced and convincing argument about the complex, sometimes subtle, yet often significant ways in which religion has influenced Alberta' s political leaders and shaped the province' s political character and trajectory." Steve Patten, University of Alberta "This work will interest those who study the role of religion in social and political development as well as those interested in North American political philosophy, Canadian history and politics, and comparative North American political cultures. Highly recommended." CHOICE
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McGill-Queen's University Press The Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital
Book SynopsisA compelling look at the remarkable progress of Montreal's Jewish General Hospital, from a community hospital to a first-class medical and research centre.
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University of British Columbia Press Religion and Canadian Party Politics
Book SynopsisA unique and timely exploration of the important ways that religion shapes political conflict across Canada.Trade ReviewThis is a solid monograph, based on an impressive array of sources ... It is also very readable, and mercifully free of jargon, making it accessible for undergraduates and interested lay readers outside academia. It is recommended to anybody seeking to understand the role of religion in the recent Canadian political landscape. It is also an important contribution to the ongoing debate over 'secularization' in Canadian society. -- Bruce Douville, History Department, Algoma University * Canadian Parliamentary Review *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Faith and Party Politics in CanadaPart 1: Federal Politics1 Conservative Faith and Federal Parties2 Abortion Politics and Federal PartiesPart 2: Persistent Denominationalism in Provincial Politics3 Religion in Atlantic Provincial Politics: The Special Cases of Newfoundland and Labrador and New Brunswick4 Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives and Tenacious Denominational Politics, 1943–85Part 3: Religious Conservatism and the Partisan Right5 Sexual Diversity and the Mobilization of Faith Communities in Ontario, 1986–20156 The Declining Influence of Conservative Faith in Alberta since 19717 Schooling, Sexuality, and Religious Conservatism in British Columbia PoliticsPart 4: Canada’s Most Distinctive Regions8 Conflicted Secularism in Francophone Quebec Party Politics9 Evangelical Christianity and Northern Territorial PoliticsConclusion: Canadian Diversity in Comparative ContextNotes; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Beyond Accommodation
Book SynopsisBy showing how Muslim Canadians successfully navigate and negotiate their religiosity in their everyday lives, Beyond Accommodation critiques the reasonable accommodation framework and proposes an alternative picture of how religious difference is worked out.Trade Review"In sum[...]Beyond Accommodation offers a useful contrast to the more politically oriented approach of reasonable accommodation. It shows the potential for ethnographic research to highlight the local particularities of secular political discourses and frameworks and, in doing so, to productively critique representations of secular neutrality claims that tend to reproduce a kind of ‘view from nowhere’." -- Samuel Victor * Anthropologica *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Figures That Haunt the Everyday2 Knowledge Production and Muslim Canadians’ Historical Trajectories3 Secularism in Canada4 Narratives of Navigation and Negotiation5 Mutual Respect and Working Out DifferenceConclusionNotes; References; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Beyond Accommodation
Book SynopsisBy showing how Muslim Canadians successfully navigate and negotiate their religiosity in their everyday lives, Beyond Accommodation critiques the reasonable accommodation framework and proposes an alternative picture of how religious difference is worked out.Trade Review"In sum[...]Beyond Accommodation offers a useful contrast to the more politically oriented approach of reasonable accommodation. It shows the potential for ethnographic research to highlight the local particularities of secular political discourses and frameworks and, in doing so, to productively critique representations of secular neutrality claims that tend to reproduce a kind of ‘view from nowhere’." -- Samuel Victor * Anthropologica *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Figures That Haunt the Everyday2 Knowledge Production and Muslim Canadians’ Historical Trajectories3 Secularism in Canada4 Narratives of Navigation and Negotiation5 Mutual Respect and Working Out DifferenceConclusionNotes; References; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Religion at the Edge
Book SynopsisReligion at the Edge shows how the distinctive social and physical landscape of the Pacific Northwest proves fertile ground for an expansive exploration of contemporary spirituality and secularity.Trade ReviewI deeply relate to the stories of the interviewees...By reading this book, I feel, as a pastor, the sense of getting an inside look at the religious mindset of our region. -- Seth Thomas * Christ & Cascadia *I highly recommend [Religin at the Edge] as a tool for meeting Cascadian people at their spiritual heart. -- Fr. Thomas Murphy, S.J. * BC Studies *With Religion at the Edge: Nature, Spirituality, and Secularity in the Pacific Northwest, Bramadat and his collaborators have given us a clutch of rich essays. -- Michael Ledger-Lomas * Literary Review of Canada *Readers seeking information about secularism, the spiritual-but-not-religious cohort, environmentalism and religion, and the future of religion across Canada and the United States will want to read Religion at the Edge... Highly recommend. * Nova Religio *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Religion, Spirituality, and Irreligion in The Best Place on Earth / Paul Bramadat1 Reverential Naturalism: From the Fancy to the Sublime / Paul Bramadat2 On Religion, Irreligion, and Settler Colonialism in the Pacific Northwest: A Snapshot from the Field / Chelsea Horton3 Border Crossings: Indigenous Spirituality and Culture in Cascadia / Suzanne Crawford O’Brien4 But People Tend to Go the Way Their Families Go: Irreligion across the Generations in the Pacific Northwest / Tina Block and Lynne Marks5 Second to None: Religious Nonaffiliation in the Pacific Northwest / Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme6 From Outlier to Advance Guard: Cascadia in Its North American Context / Mark Silk7 Questing for Home: Place, Spirit, and Religious Community in the Pacific Northwest / Patricia O’Connell Killen8 The Precarious Nature of Cascadia’s Protestants: New Strategies for Evangelical and Liberal Christians in the Region / James K. Wellman Jr. and Katie E. Corcoran9 Evangelicals in the Pacific Northwest: Navigating the “None Zone” / Michael Wilkinson10 “To Be or Not to Be” Religious: Minority Religions in a Region of Nones / Rachel D. Brown11 Everything Old is New Again: Reverential Naturalism in Cascadian Poetry / Susanna Morrill12 Conclusion: Religion at the Edge of the Continent / Paul Bramadat and Patricia O’Connell KillenList of Contributors; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Religion at the Edge
Book SynopsisReligion at the Edge shows how the distinctive social and physical landscape of the Pacific Northwest proves fertile ground for an expansive exploration of contemporary spirituality and secularity.Trade ReviewI deeply relate to the stories of the interviewees...By reading this book, I feel, as a pastor, the sense of getting an inside look at the religious mindset of our region. -- Seth Thomas * Christ & Cascadia *I highly recommend [Religin at the Edge] as a tool for meeting Cascadian people at their spiritual heart. -- Fr. Thomas Murphy, S.J. * BC Studies *With Religion at the Edge: Nature, Spirituality, and Secularity in the Pacific Northwest, Bramadat and his collaborators have given us a clutch of rich essays. -- Michael Ledger-Lomas * Literary Review of Canada *Readers seeking information about secularism, the spiritual-but-not-religious cohort, environmentalism and religion, and the future of religion across Canada and the United States will want to read Religion at the Edge... Highly recommend. * Nova Religio *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Religion, Spirituality, and Irreligion in The Best Place on Earth / Paul Bramadat1 Reverential Naturalism: From the Fancy to the Sublime / Paul Bramadat2 On Religion, Irreligion, and Settler Colonialism in the Pacific Northwest: A Snapshot from the Field / Chelsea Horton3 Border Crossings: Indigenous Spirituality and Culture in Cascadia / Suzanne Crawford O’Brien4 But People Tend to Go the Way Their Families Go: Irreligion across the Generations in the Pacific Northwest / Tina Block and Lynne Marks5 Second to None: Religious Nonaffiliation in the Pacific Northwest / Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme6 From Outlier to Advance Guard: Cascadia in Its North American Context / Mark Silk7 Questing for Home: Place, Spirit, and Religious Community in the Pacific Northwest / Patricia O’Connell Killen8 The Precarious Nature of Cascadia’s Protestants: New Strategies for Evangelical and Liberal Christians in the Region / James K. Wellman Jr. and Katie E. Corcoran9 Evangelicals in the Pacific Northwest: Navigating the “None Zone” / Michael Wilkinson10 “To Be or Not to Be” Religious: Minority Religions in a Region of Nones / Rachel D. Brown11 Everything Old is New Again: Reverential Naturalism in Cascadian Poetry / Susanna Morrill12 Conclusion: Religion at the Edge of the Continent / Paul Bramadat and Patricia O’Connell KillenList of Contributors; Index
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Best Contemporary Jewish Writing
Book SynopsisPresents a collection of short stories, poetry, and essays from renowned contributors such as Naomi Wolf, US Senator Joseph Lieberman, William Safire, and Marge Piercy. This work reflects the diversity of thought, opinion, and sensibility of known Jewish thinkers and writers.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Best Contemporary Jewish Writing
Book SynopsisMichael Lerner collects the greatest Jewish writing of the 1990s in this first volume of a new series. It features pieces on Jewish culture, identity, and spirituality.Trade ReviewIn this collection of Jewish writing dating from 1994 to 2000, Lerner, the editor of Tikkun magazine, highlights his idea of the politics of meaning and the Jewish religious themes of healing and reconciliation. A wide range of authors (writing fiction, poetry, and essays) discusses questions of Jewish identity, religion, culture, the Holocaust, and Israel. Feminism, gay studies, and environmental concerns are important aspects of the selections. Many well-know authors are included, among them Adrienne Rich, Philip Roth, Yehuda Amichai, Aharon Appelfeld, and Norman Podhoretz. Zalman Schacter Shalomi presents an open and honest attempt to rethink Jewish religious thought, Marge Piercy and Jacqueline Osherow's poems bring new elements to Jewish thinking, and Morris Dickstein describes the changing themes and ideas of writers in the United States. The result is an interesting and diverse anthology. Recommended for Jewish studies collections. (Gene Shaw, NYPL, Library Journal, August 2001) Whenever my old friend, the curmudgeonly book lover, came across an anthology with a title like "Best Plays" or "Best-Loved Poems," he'd always mutter, "Best? Best? Who says so?" Who, indeed? Why, editors of anthologies claiming "bestness," of course. The editor of "Best Contemporary Jewish Writing" is Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun magazine and himself included in Utne Reader's list of America's "100 Most Important Visionaries." Continuing his quest for the best, Lerner concludes his collection with a list of "The One Hundred Best Contemporary Jewish Books." So many judgment calls about what's best may well stimulate debate. Still, why quibble? As Lerner explains, this is simply his opinion of what is most significant. Lerner is a man with a mission, and the mission concerns Jewish spiritual renewal. If large numbers of American Jews in the early and middle decades of the 20th century were breaking loose from their traditional moorings, the last few decades have witnessed, if not quite a return to origins, then certainly a renewed interest among Jews in their religious and cultural heritage. And, indeed, the sheer diversity of voices in this collection, the passion, intelligence and sense of commitment that can be heard are ample evidence of this renewal. Many kinds of writing have been included: memoirs, essays, literary criticism, fiction and poetry. Sen. Joseph Lieberman describes the origins of his commitment to public life. Moroccan-born Ruth Knafo Setton reflects on her personal experiences as a "Sephardic Jewess" (from the title of her piece). In "Gay and Orthodox," Rabbi Steve Greenberg discusses the dilemmas he has faced trying to reconcile his sexuality with scriptural injunctions against lying with men. Questions of Jewish identity, such as finding the right path between assimilation and distinctness, are addressed in a variety of forms, including an engaging poem by Kenneth Koch and a thoughtful essay by David Biale. Several pieces by feminists, such as theologian Rachel Adler and novelist Anita Diamant, offer provocative and illuminating interpretations of biblical stories (although Susan Schnur's diatribe against sexism in the Book of Esther is simply obtuse). On the current literary front, Morris Dickstein surveys contemporary Jewish writers, while Norman Podhoretz has some incisive things to say about Philip Roth and Saul Bellow. Perhaps the most fascinating material in this book deals with human responsibility toward the natural world. "My commitment to the life of the planet is stronger than my commitment to any philosophy or creed," declares Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, founder of the Jewish Renewal Movement. "If you have felt commanded by the Divine Imperative to protect Earth from planetary destruction, then you have undergone the first stage of a Gaean initiation." Citing Evan Eisenberg's book "The Ecology of Eden" (one of the 100 best on Lerner's list), Arthur Waskow offers an account of the Hebrew religion as a response of humble, freedom-loving Western Semites--shepherds, hunter-gatherers and hill farmers--to the far more regimented, hierarchical world of the Babylonian empire, where a revolution in agricultural technology had created wealth, order and stability, but at the cost of a drastic change in man's relationship to the Earth, to women and to his fellow man. Two later sections, "Living in the Shadows of the Holocaust" and "Israel in Conflict," are marked by a certain tendentiousness. Although Lerner makes some concession to representing those pushing for the peace process and those who consider it sadly unrealistic, the overall thrust is to lend plausibility to the doves. A triad of essays discussing the Holocaust--by Jonathan Rosen, Zymunt Bauman and Tikkun's associate editor Peter Gabel--makes some interesting points about everything from the film "Schindler's List" to the Nazi mentality. Read in sequence, they function as a kind of three-pronged critique of Jews who (as they see it) use the Holocaust as an "excuse" to justify Israeli hard-line policies. Jews concerned for their safety and survival having thus been discredited as victims of mass hysteria, the stage is set for Israeli revisionist historian Benny Morris' critique of previous Israeli historians for their tendency to minimize Israel's role in getting Palestinian Arabs to flee their homes during the Israeli War of Independence. Then, for anyone still concerned about the dangers of anti-Semitism--anyone who's been following the venomous goings-on at the soi-disant "anti-racism" (viz. anti-Zionism) U.N. conference in Durban--Jerome Slater notes (rightly, but perhaps no longer all that relevantly) that Palestinian Arabs were not innately anti-Jewish and only became that way after their land was occupied by Israel. (To this, one might say: Nor were Germans overwhelmingly anti-Semitic until they were humiliated at Versailles! To recognize a "root cause" does not necessarily, by itself, enable one to undo the effects.) A grimmer and (sadly, one fears) more realistic view is provided in Daniel Pipes' essay "Land for What?" Still, there is an optimism, excitement and animation about Lerner's collection that is hard to resist. This volume is the first in a series that is planned to come out each year. It is clearly an auspicious beginning. (By Merle Rubin, LA Times, September 17, 2001)Table of ContentsIntroduction: Jewish Writing and Healing the World xiii The Many Identities of a Jew To Jewishness 3 The Melting Pot and Beyond: Jews and the Politics of American Identity 8 Poems: Reversion and What Kind of Times Are These 15 Justify My Love 17 Ten Ways to Recognize a Sephardic 'Jew-ess' 29 Redemption on East Tremont: The kindness of Christians and a seder's matzah helps the daughter of Mendel Beilis fix the old fears 36 News About Jews 40 Gay and Orthodox 42 Slipping the Punch 55 The Night Game 70 From The Roots of a Public Life 73 From And What Is My Lifespan? 79 Stories: Grandmother Eve, Consecrating the Ordinary, Blessing, and The Reward 80 The Legacy: A Parable About History and Bobe-mayses, Barszcz, and Borscht and the Future of the Jewish Past 86 Reclaiming the Spirit in Judaism Nishmat 95 Starting on My Spiritual Path 97 On Renewing God 103 Eternity Utters a Day 113 A Kabbalah for the Environmental Age 115 Is God in Trees? 127 The Emergence of Eco-Judaism 134 A Theology of Illness and Healing 145 Death and What's Next 150 Eros and the Ninth of Av 152 From The Book of Jewish Values 155 Poems: Yom Kippur Sonnet and Science Psalm 162 Rereading Sacred Texts of Our Tradition From And Peace and Justice Shall Kiss 169 From Imagining the Birth of a Nation 186 From The Red Tent 193 From The Bible and You, the Bible and You and Other Midrashim 199 Aaron's God--and Ours: A Yom Kippur Reflection 200 Our (Meaning Women's) Book-of-Esther Problem 205 Living in the Shadows of the Holocaust Cattle Car Complex 213 Force Fields 221 The Sanctuary 228 The Trivialization of Tragedy 230 Hereditary Victimhood: The Holocaust's Life as a Ghost 241 The Meaning of the Holocaust: Social Alienation and the Infliction of Human Suffering 252 Israel in Conflict The New Historiography: Israel Confronts Its Past 265 Land for What? 281 Occupation and Antisemitism 284 A Novelist's Optimism: Reclaiming the Jewish Tradition 297 From Booking Passage 300 Poems: From In My Life, On My Life; Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Why Jerusalem?; and The Jewish Time Bomb 323 Hovering at a Low Altitude 326 The Pleasure of Jewish Culture Making Judaism Cool 331 Old Man 339 Poems: When You Come to Sleep with Me, Come Like My Father and Hebrew 342 Esther and Yochanan 346 The Twenty-seventh Man 352 Against Logic 367 The Healing Power of Jewish Stories 371 The Complex Fate of the Jewish American Writer 375 Bellow at 85, Roth at 67 392 Jewish Writing and the Spiritual Journey: A Speculative Journey 409 The One Hundred Best Contemporary Jewish Books 417 The Editor 423 The Contributors 425 Credits 431
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Cornell University Press Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason
Book SynopsisWhy, if a loving God exists, are there "reasonable nonbelievers," people who fail to believe in God but through no fault of their own? In Part 1 of this book, the first full-length treatment of its topic, J. L. Schellenberg argues that when we notice...
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Cornell University Press Fantasies of Witnessing
Book SynopsisFantasies of Witnessing explores how and why those deeply interested in the Holocaust, yet with no direct, familial connection to it, endeavor to experience it vicariously through sites or texts designed to make it "real" for nonwitnesses. Gary...Trade ReviewFantasies of Witnessing is a remarkable book that examines how we understand, experience and become aware of the Holocaust. Fantasies of Witnessing is an absolutely fascinating book. Weissman's well-researched ideas and premises are set forth in a straightforward manner, making this a compelling read for anyone with an interest in the Holocaust, memory or philosophy. * Jewish Book World *Seeking to understand why some people attempt to 'experience' the Holocaust viscerally, Weissman argues that we must first understand how we remember it.... Weissman argues that recently the trend is to move away from literary or artistic representations and attempt to re-create the experience itself, as visitors to the U.S. Holocaust Museum can attest. * LIBRARY JOURNAL *
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Cornell University Press Race Rights and Recognition
Book SynopsisDean J. Franco explores the work of recent Jewish American writers, many of whom have taken unpopular stances on social issues, distancing themselves from the politics and public practice of multiculturalism.Trade ReviewRace, Rights & Recognition comments on issues that were pressing in the 1960s, have remained so through the twentieth century, and will continue to be important in the future.... Franco presents invaluable persepectives in his analyses that preserve academic quality while remaining passionate and often personal in their tone. His book is not only thought provoking but also meticulously-structured and therefore suitable for both students well-versed in literary theory and scholars alike. -- Attila Lénárt-Muszka * Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies *Franco departs from prevailing literary scholarship interpreting Jewish writing within the parameters of Euro-American Jewish history and culture and also from standard multicultural rejectionism to analyze selected texts by Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, Allegra Goodman, Lore Segal, Tony Kushner, and Gary Shteyngart through multicultural and postcolonial lenses.... Sensitive to the exclusion of Jewish American writers from multicultural curricula and criticism..., Franco moves beyond the dominant critical paradigms to persuasively argue for the inclusion of Jewish writers in American ethnic studies. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Politics and Ethics of Jewish American Literature and Criticism Part I: Pluralism, Race, and Religion 1. Portnoy's Complaint: It's about Race, Not Sex (Even the Sex Is about Race) 2. Re-Reading Cynthia Ozick: Pluralism, Postmodernism, and the Multicultural Encounter 3. The New, New Pluralism: Religion, Community, and Secularity in Allegra Goodman’s Kaaterskill Falls Part II: Recognition, Rights, and Responsibility 4. Recognition and Effacement in Lore Segal’s Her First American 5. Responsibility Unveiled: Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul 6. Globalization’s Complaint: Gary Shteyngart’s Absurdistan and the Culture of Culture Epilogue: Less Absurdistan, More Boyle Heights
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Cornell University Press Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia
Book SynopsisKefeli shows how traditional education, with Sufi mystical components, helped to Islamize Finno-Ugric and Turkic peoples in the Kama-Volga countryside and set the stage for the development of modernist Islam in Russia.Trade ReviewAgnès Kefeli's book vividly recreates the dynamic cultural world of the indigenous people of the Middle Volga region on the eve of the advent of modern education, and it places the nineteenth-century Kräshen apostasy movements within the context of ethnic and religious diversity and multiplicity of available identities. Kefeli's work underscores the shifting religious and cultural boundaries among the communities located on the fault line between Islam and Christianity and demonstrates the ways in which the interaction between the two shaped and continues to shape identities in theVolga-Ural region and Russia at large. Historians, scholars of religion and literature will greatly benefit from this rich, imaginative and impeccably researched book. -- Madina Zainullina Goldberg * Russian Review *Agnès Nilüfer Kefeli's fresh, original, and comprehensively researched examination of baptized Tatar (Kräshen) apostasy in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century tsarist state represents a major advance for scholarship on the social and religious history of imperial Russia. Relying on a diverse array of archival sources, family histories, biographies of theProphet, Sufi texts, and other genres of popular religious literature, this book treats the great Kräshen apostasies, or movements to gain the state's permission to 'return’ to Islam spanning the period from roughly 1802–1905, as a site of communal identity formation and negotiation. This negotiation, Kefeli argues, took place in a realm of religious practice embracing Islam, Orthodox Christianity, and animist practices common among semi-nomadicsteppe peoples. -- Eren Tasar * Canadian Slavonic Papers *In this much-needed and fascinating study, Agnès Nilüfer Kefeli unravels a story of the Kräshens, baptized Tatars who apostatized in masses throughout the long nineteenth century. How and why this became possible are the central questions of this book. Kefeli skilfully shows that the apostasy movements were products of spiritual battles, conscious missionary efforts, competing religious influences, agency and religious education.The book is richly illustrated and contains useful maps of the Middle Volga. It is highly recommended for students and scholars of Muslim communities of Russian and Eurasia, Sufism in Eurasia, and modern Islamic history. -- Rozaliya Garipova * Central Asian Survey *The Volga basin in what is now Tatarstan has been a frontier zone between the Slavic-Christian and Muslim-Turkic worlds in Eurasia for over a millennium. It provides an ideal locale for a fruitful study of religious traditions and their interactions, but very few scholars in the world have the necessary linguisticand disciplinary skills to do justice to the subject. For this reason, Agnes Kefeli's book is a tour de force. She brings tobear on her analysis a mastery of sources in Russian and Tatar, a keen understanding of popular religion and religious change, and a solid command of issues of empire. -- Adeeb Khalid * Journal of Religion *This is an excellent book for scholars and advanced students interested in Imperial Russia's Christian-versus-Islamic struggle among peoples (primarily Tatars, but also others, such as the Chuvash, Maris, and Udmurts) in its Middle Volga region. The book's subtitle indicates its main focus, which is based on fieldwork and extensive archival and other research (indicated in copious footnotes and bibliography). The role of literacy, education, women, Tatar modernists, and the reaction of the Russian government and Orthodox Church also receive special attention. Kefeli (Arizona State Univ.) demonstrates that the apostasy of tens of thousands of Kräshens (Tatar Christians) and others was much more complex than previously acknowledged. -- W.G. Moss * Choice *This book is timely, given the growth of Islam in Europe due to immigration and conversion and renewed debates about the Krashen apostasies in Tatarstan today. Kefeli's book provides deep history to this current situation, and reminds us of the persistence of tsarist-era history into the present. -- Eileen Kane, Connecticut College * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Apostasy, Conversion, and Literacy at Work2. Popular Knowledge of Islam on the Volga Frontier3. Tailors, Sufis, and Abïstays: Agents of Change4. Christian Martyrdom in Bolghar Land5. Desacralization of Islamic Knowledge and National MartyrdomConclusion and EpilogueSelected Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press Compassionate Communalism
Book SynopsisIn Lebanon, religious parties such as Hezbollah play a critical role in providing health care, food, poverty relief, and other social welfare services alongside or in the absence of government efforts. Some parties distribute goods and services broadly, even to members of other parties or other faiths, while others allocate services more narrowly to their own base. In Compassionate Communalism, Melani Cammett analyzes the political logics of sectarianism through the lens of social welfare. On the basis of years of research into the varying welfare distribution strategies of Christian, Shia Muslim, and Sunni Muslim political parties in Lebanon, Cammett shows how and why sectarian groups deploy welfare benefits for such varied goals as attracting marginal voters, solidifying intraconfessional support, mobilizing mass support, and supporting militia fighters. Cammett then extends her arguments with novel evidence from the Sadrist movement in post-Saddam Iraq and the BharaTrade ReviewOverall, Compassionate Communalism is the kind of work on non-state social welfare that fills a gap in the political economy literature. I highly recommend the book for anyone interested in Lebanese and Middle Eastern politics, political economy in weak states, ethnic politics and consocialism. -- Barea M. Sinno * International Affairs *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Welfare and Sectarianism in Plural Societies 2. Political Sectarianism and the Residual Welfare Regime in Lebanon 3. Political Mobilization Strategies and In-Group Competition among Sectarian Parties 4. The Political Geography of Welfare and Sectarianism 5. Political Loyalty and Access to Welfare 6. Sectarian Parties and Distributional Politics 7. Welfare and Identity Politics beyond Lebanon Conclusion: The Consequences of Welfare Provision by Identity-Based Organizations Appendixes: A. List of Elite Interview Respondents and Provider Questionnaire B. List of Nonelite Interview Respondents and Questionnaire C. National Survey Questions
£97.20
Cornell University Press Growing Up Muslim
Book SynopsisWhile 9/11 and its aftermath created a traumatic turning point for most of the writers in this book, it is telling that none of their essays begin with that moment. These young people were living, probing, and shifting their Muslim identities long before 9/11.... I''ve heard it said that the second generation never asks the first about its story, but nearly all the essays in this book include long, intimate portrayals of Muslim family life, often going back generations. These young Muslims are constantly negotiating the differences between families for whom faith and culture were matters of honor and North America''s youth culture, with its emphasis on questioning, exploring, and inventing one's own destiny.from the Introduction by Eboo PatelIn Growing Up Muslim, Andrew Garrod and Robert Kilkenny present fourteen personal essays by college students of the Muslim faith who are themselves immigrants or are the children of immigrants to the United States. In their essays, the stTrade Review"Growing Up Muslim is a candid portrayal that goes beyond abstract cliches of the 'good' educated and secular Muslims versus the undereducated, `bad’ religious believers. The stories offer insight into the challenges Muslims face as well as the comfort they derive from their religion. Muslims and non-Muslims alike will benefit greatly from this work." -- Geneive Abdo, author of Mecca and Main Street"I thoroughly enjoyed reading Growing Up Muslim. The essays are well written, deeply reflective, and complementary to each other. Their consistency of quality, subject matter, and flow allows the reader to easily observe the salient variations across each person, resulting in a highly humanistic collection of portraits of young adult Muslims living, some only for a time, in North America." -- Louise Cainkar, Marquette University, author of Homeland Insecurity: The Arab American and Muslim American Experience after 9/11"In this beautifully edited collection, veteran scholars of youth autobiography Andrew Garrod and Robert Kilkenny empower young American Muslims to narrate their own lives in the midst of the cacophonous discourse surrounding Islam in America today. They introduce readers to the diverse experiences and religious understandings of immigrant Muslims and invite us to look at American multiculturalism anew through their struggles, hopes, and accomplishments." -- Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Reed College, author of A History of Islam in AmericaTable of ContentsIntroduction Eboo Patel PART I. STRUGGLES WITH DIVERSITY 1. Far from Getting Lost Zahra Ahmed 2. A World More Complex Than I Thought Ala' Alrababa’h 3. My Expanding World Asyah Saif 4. The Novice’s Story Abdul Moustafa PART II. STRUGGLES WITH ISLAMOPHOBIA 5. A Muslim Citizen of the Democratic West Aly Rahim 6. Living Like a Kite Shakir Quraishi PART III. STRUGGLES WITH SEXUALITY AND RELATIONSHIPS 7. The Burden Abdel Jamali 8. My Permanent Home Sabeen Hassanali PART IV. STRUGGLES WITH PIETY 9. On the Outside Arif Khan 10. Being Muslim at Dartmouth Adam W. 11. Shadowlands Sarah Chaudhry 12. The Headscarf Sara L. PART V. STRUGGLES WITH FAMILY 13. A Child of Experience Tafaoul Abdelmagid 14. A Debt to Those Who Know Us Nasir Nasser About the Editors and Author of the Introduction
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Cornell University Press Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany
Book SynopsisIn this an interdisciplinary study of a diverse set of public speeches given by major literary and cultural figures in the 1950s and 1960s, Sonja Boos demonstrates that these speakers both facilitated and subverted the construction of a public discourse about the Holocaust in postwar West Germany.Trade Review"Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany is a well-honed, meticulously researched, and theoretically grounded study of public speeches that sought to intervene into the memory culture of postwar West Germany. By considering a wide range of sources, Sonja Boos manages to establish the public speech as a genre in its own right, one that became crucial in challenging the biases and blind spots of West German Vergangenheitsbewälitgung. Indeed, Boos's book confers upon the public speech an entirely new status in the study of postwar German culture, history, and memory. From political to psychoanalytical theory, from discourse analysis to memory studies, Boos brings a range of theoretical approaches to bear in her insightful readings of the speeches at hand. The successful integration of classical rhetoric, speech act theory, and public sphere theory in Boos's theoretical framework is particularly laudable." -- Katja Garloff, Reed College"This is an ambitious and important book. Sonja Boos displays extensive familiarity with the early cultural history of West Germany, presenting a valuable series of snapshots of intellectual life there through the mid-1960s, focusing on the engagement of public intellectuals in memory of the Holocaust. Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany offers complex and insightful analyses of these interventions." -- Russell A. Berman, Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: An Archimedean PodiumPart I. In the Event of Speech: Performing Dialogue 1. Martin Buber 2. Paul Celan 3. Ingeborg BachmannPart II. "Who One Is": Self-Revelation and Its Discontents 4. Hannah Arendt 5. Uwe JohnsonPart III. Speaking by Proxy: The Citation as Testimony 6. Peter Szondi 7. Peter WeissConclusion: Speaking of the Noose in the Country of the Hangman (Theodor W. Adorno)Bibliography Index
£97.20
Cornell University Press Riots Pogroms Jihad
Book SynopsisIn October 2002 a bomb blast in a Balinese nightclub killed more than two hundred people, many of them young Australian tourists. This event and subsequent attacks on foreign targets in Bali and Jakarta in 2003, 2004, and 2005 brought Indonesia into...Trade Review"Beneath the many phenomena of violence that John T. Sidel has amply researched, he rightly discerns and repeatedly describes a key role for anxieties about religious identity." -- Theodore Friend, Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia"John T. Sidel has written an original, wise, and lasting book unlike the vast majority of breathless, ambulance-chasing, and shallow studies of ethnic and religious violence. If you are more interested in the deep historical and structural causes of political violence—in the accumulation of social dynamite—rather than the particular match that lights the fuse, then, this is the only book you'll need to understand contemporary Indonesia." -- James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology, Yale University"John T. Sidel's method and conclusions—and, indeed, the very aims of his analysis—are pathbreaking. Riots, Pogroms, Jihad is destined to become one of the most important works in Indonesian studies of the post-Suharto period. It will be critical to scholars and policymakers eager to understand the dynamics of Indonesian politics and society. Political scientists, historians, and anthropologists working outside of Southeast Asia will also find in this book a fruitful guide to developing new ways of thinking about religion and violence elsewhere in the world." -- Danilyn Rutherford, University of Chicago"This is an important and original book that compares diverse contexts and manifestations of religious violence across Indonesia. Riots, Pogroms, Jihad is strongly grounded in empirical evidence and the author's deep familiarity with Indonesia." -- Nancy Lee Peluso, University of California, Berkeley
£24.29
Cornell University Press Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason
Book SynopsisWhy, if a loving God exists, are there "reasonable nonbelievers," people who fail to believe in God but through no fault of their own? In Part 1 of this book, the first full-length treatment of its topic, J. L. Schellenberg argues that when we notice...Trade Review"A tightly argued, superbly crafted and religiously sensitive book. . . . Nobody interested in philosophical issues pertaining to our relation to God can afford to miss it."—Mind"This book deserves to be seen as the definitive study to date of its subject. That subject is the implications of the lack of clear cut evidence and argument for the existence of God."—Religious Studies"J. L. Schellenberg has developed the argument from hiddenness against the existence of God in a more thorough way than has ever been done before. I consider this book one of the six or seven most important books on the philosophy of religion published in the last fifteen years."—Richard Swinburne, University of Oxford"This book is a splendid, illuminating study of Divine hiddenness and its implications for the question of whether the God of traditional theism actually exists."—William L. Rowe, Department of Philosophy, Purdue University"Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason is a carefully argued, deeply insightful, and richly rewarding book. J. L. Schellenberg singlehandedly turned the problem of divine hiddenness into a major issue in contemporary philosophy of religion."—Paul Draper, Purdue University
£22.39
Cornell University Press Idols in the East
Book SynopsisRepresentations of Muslims have never been more common in the Western imagination than they are today. Building on Orientalist stereotypes constructed over centuries, the figure of the wily Arab has given rise, at the dawn of the twenty-first century...Trade ReviewAkbari's wide-ranging and ambitious book examines portrayals of the Saracens and the Orient in texts of diverse nature written in Latin and European vernaculars between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.... It will become essential reading for all who wish to understand the place of the Orient and the Saracen in later medieval thought. -- John Tolan * Journal of Religion *In Idols in the East, Suzanne Conklin Akbari writes a prehistory of Orientalism. In order to consider the possible contours of a medieval Orientalism, Akbari analyzes a wide range of primary and secondary sources. By focusing on texts that represented Muslims and also on texts that structured a cosmology where Muslims and Islam could fit within a Christian worldview, the book provides a conceptual narrative. * Speculum *Provocative yet never overreaching, as compelling as it is meticulously researched, this groundbreaking book now stands as the best treatment of Islam in the medieval Christian imagination that we possess. It will not be easily superseded. * American Historical Review *
£22.79
Cornell University Press Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany
Book SynopsisSpeaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany is an interdisciplinary study of a diverse set of public speeches given by major literary and cultural figures in the 1950s and 1960s. Through close readings of canonical speeches by Hannah Arendt, Theodor W. Adorno, Ingeborg Bachmann, Martin Buber, Paul Celan, Uwe Johnson, Peter Szondi, and Peter Weiss, Sonja Boos demonstrates that these speakers both facilitated and subverted the construction of a public discourse about the Holocaust in postwar West Germany. The author's analysis of original audio recordings of the speech events (several of which will be available on a companion website) improves our understanding of the spoken, performative dimension of public speeches. Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany emphasizes the social constructedness of discourse, experience, and identity, but does not neglect the pragmatic conditions of aesthetic and intellectual productionmost notably, the felt need to respond to Trade Review"Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany is a well-honed, meticulously researched, and theoretically grounded study of public speeches that sought to intervene into the memory culture of postwar West Germany. By considering a wide range of sources, Sonja Boos manages to establish the public speech as a genre in its own right, one that became crucial in challenging the biases and blind spots of West German Vergangenheitsbewälitgung. Indeed, Boos's book confers upon the public speech an entirely new status in the study of postwar German culture, history, and memory. From political to psychoanalytical theory, from discourse analysis to memory studies, Boos brings a range of theoretical approaches to bear in her insightful readings of the speeches at hand. The successful integration of classical rhetoric, speech act theory, and public sphere theory in Boos's theoretical framework is particularly laudable." -- Katja Garloff, Reed College"This is an ambitious and important book. Sonja Boos displays extensive familiarity with the early cultural history of West Germany, presenting a valuable series of snapshots of intellectual life there through the mid-1960s, focusing on the engagement of public intellectuals in memory of the Holocaust. Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany offers complex and insightful analyses of these interventions." -- Russell A. Berman, Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: An Archimedean PodiumPart I. In the Event of Speech: Performing Dialogue 1. Martin Buber 2. Paul Celan 3. Ingeborg BachmannPart II. "Who One Is": Self-Revelation and Its Discontents 4. Hannah Arendt 5. Uwe JohnsonPart III. Speaking by Proxy: The Citation as Testimony 6. Peter Szondi 7. Peter WeissConclusion: Speaking of the Noose in the Country of the Hangman (Theodor W. Adorno)Bibliography Index
£27.54
Cornell University Press Representing the Holocaust
Book SynopsisIn a series of essays—three published here for the first time—LaCapra explores the problems faced by historians, critics, and thinkers who attempt to grasp the Holocaust.Trade ReviewRepresenting the Holocaust is a probing analysis of the relations between historiographical, personal, and cultural identity formation in the aftermath of the historical trauma of the Holocaust. -- John E. Toews * American Historical Review *Dominick LaCapra may be the most original intellectual historian writing in America today. LaCapra begins, in this book, to provide a means by which one can critically examine the engagement of the historian/critic with his or her object of study. -- Sander L. Gilman * Modern Philology *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Canons, Texts, and Contexts 2. Reflections on the Historians' Debate 3. Historicizing the Holocaust 4. Paul de Man as Object of Transference 5. Heidegger's Nazi Tum 6. The Return of the Historically Repressed Conclusion: Acting-Out and Working-Through
£999.99
Cornell University Press Out of the Shadow
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOut of the Shadow... remains the most sensitive and insightful first-person account of a particular immigrant experience. * New York History *
£17.84
Cornell University Press Horizons of the Sacred
Book SynopsisHorizons of the Sacred explores the distinctive worldview underlying the faith and lived religion of Catholics of Mexican descent living in the United States. Religious practices, including devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe, celebration of the Day of...Trade ReviewSince the Hispanic or Latino population of the United States represents 20 countries, the editors... have chosen a specific focus for this study: the religious traditions of Mexican American communities. * Theology Digest *This volume is both a welcome contribution to the growing literature on the religious practices of Hispanic immigrants and a useful resource for reflecting on the theological implications of relgiosidad popular (religion of the people). -- John T. Ford, Catholic University of America * Religious Studies Review *Horizons of the Sacred is an inviting multidisciplinary collection of essays about Mexican American Catholics.... The book challenges domination in American culture and shows traditions strengthening Mexican Americans against injustice. The authors are careful not to assume Catholic knowledge on the part of readers. The book is intended for classroom use, scholars, church leaders, pastoral ministers and meets its goals. Audiences may draw different benefits from it but each will be pleased, for the authors are eloquent. Ideas swarm. No review can do justice to Horizons. -- Yanick St. Jean, University of Wisconsin * Catholic Books Review *Those wishing to broaden their perspective will find in this collection a sound resource. Thus, this book will be useful for scholars of liturgy, sacraments, culture and religion, inculturation, popular religion, ritual studies, cultural anthropology, theological anthropology, and history. It is especially good for liturgists and liturgical theologians working in a Mexican American context as well as with other Hispanic/Latino groups since some of the core values and approached presented are shared among them. -- Raul Gomez, S.D.D, Sacred Heart School of Theology * Worship, March 2004 *In Horizons of the Sacred, the authors deal specifically with the Mexican American role and influence within the Catholic Church in the United States. Matovina and Riebe-Estrella state that while at one time the Catholic Church was dominated by European immigrants, the modern Catholic Church remains an entity where Mexican Americans continue to practice their religious custom and traditions, and thus have helped shape many of the rituals, practices, and traditions within the context of modern day Catholicism.... Overall, Matovina and Riebe-Estrella have compiled a valuable and much-needed addition to the understanding of Mexican American Catholic traditions. This book will be of value and interest to students, scholars, church ministers, and lay readers who wish to understand how Mexican American customs and traditions are, and will continue to be, a part of the Catholic tradition in the United States. -- Roy Lujan, New Mexico Highlands University * Western Historical Quarterly *
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Cornell University Press Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland
Book SynopsisFrom the Middle Ages until World War II, Poland was host to Europe's largest and most vibrant Jewish population. By 1970, the combination of Nazi genocide, postwar pogroms, mass emigration, and communist repression had virtually destroyed Poland's...Trade Review"Historians who would integrate Polish history into the history of Europe must come to terms with the enormously complex topic of antisemitism. This book meets that challenge admirably, and is simply indispensable. The team of scholars that Robert Blobaum has assembled includes some of the very best writers on modern Polish history. The result is an unusually coherent volume, seamlessly uniting American and Polish perspectives to ask us to examine the very meaning of Polishness. Antisemitism appears here in all its nationalist, political, ideological, and religious complexity. Antisemitism and its Opponents is essential reading for scholars of Poland and of Jewish history. Any student of European history, too, will find that this book significantly advances our understanding of one of the central problems of modernity."—Padraic Kenney, University of Colorado, Boulder"This state-of-the-art book about modern Polish antisemitism tackles some of the most difficult questions in the still highly sensitive history of Polish-Jewish relations. Robert Blobaum has assembled an impressive team of authors from Poland and the West. Their scholarship is dispassionate, learned, and takes advantage of newly accessible sources. This important volume marks a new stage in the post-Jedwabne debate."—Norman M. Naimark, Stanford University
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Johns Hopkins University Press After Auschwitz History Theology and Contemporary
Book SynopsisIn this revised and expanded edition, Richard Rubenstein returns to old questions and addresses new issues with the same passion and spirit that characterized his original work.Trade ReviewAll of the essays in this edition are passionate and provocative and some are brilliant. As the summation of decades of burningly honest inquiry into some of the most fundamental issues in modern history, this work will remain one of the seminal books of this generation. Australian Jewish TimesTable of ContentsPreface Preface to the first editionPart I. The Encounter of Christian and JewChapter 1. The Dean and the Chosen People Chapter 2. Person and Myth in the Judeo-Christian Encounter Chapter 3. Religion and the Origins of the Death Camps: A Psychoanalytic InterpretationChapter 4. The Auschwitz Convent Controversy Part II. The Meaning of the HolocaustChapter 5. The Unmastered Trauma: Interpreting the HolocaustChapter 6. Modernization and the Politics of Extermination: Genocide in the Historical ContextChapter 7. Covenant, Holocaust, and Intifada Part III. Theology and Contemporary JudaismChapter 8. Covenant and Divinity: The Holocaust and the Problematics of Religious Faith, Part 1Chapter 9. Covenant and Divinity: The Holocaust and the Problematics of Religious Faith, Part 1Chapter 10. The Rebirth of Israel in Contemporary Jewish TheologyChapter 11. War, Zionism, and Sacred Space Chapter 12. The Meaning of Torah in Contemporary Jewish TheologyChapter 13. Death-of-God Theology and Judaism Chapter 14. Jews, Israel, and Liberation Theology Chapter 15. Muslims, Jews, and the Western World: A Jewish ViewChapter 16. God after the Death of God Notes Acknowledgements Index
£25.20
Johns Hopkins University Press On Being a Jew
Book SynopsisAlthough the book has plenty of the "how toof religious practice, Being a Jew is in the end an eloquent reflection on Judaism's deepest theme: living life as a way of serving God.Trade ReviewIdeal for students, parents, and rabbis, and those who wish to resolve what it means to be a Jew. Judaica News This book is more than a highly readable presentation of the basics of Judaism. It is a provocative and persuasive argument that the true meaning of being a Jew has been obscured for many Jews today as well as a stirring reflection on some of the deepest themes in Jewish practice and belief. Jewish Star A compelling introduction to being a religious Jew. Moment An honest, provocative and important work. Jewish Action For today's generation, this book is a necessary acquisition. Jewish Libraries Newsletter No apologist, and no fan of what he terms the 'halfway affair'of American Judaism, [Kugel] demonstrates the deepest continuities of Jewish history. Economist
£23.85
Johns Hopkins University Press The Jews of Early Modern Venice
Book SynopsisThe constraints of the ghetto and the concomitant interaction of various Jewish traditions produced a remarkable cultural flowering.Trade Review[ The Jews of Early Modern Venice] is a particularly good study of how a minority group can fit into a general culture, yet retain its identity and develop new forms of culture. -- Donald B. Epstein History: Reviews of News Books The Jews of Early Modern Venice is a rich anthology of essays on ethinicity and identity, commerce and culture, and other matters relating to a time well before the great wooden gates of the ghetto of Venice were taken down. -- L. R. N. Ashley Bibliotheque d'Humanism et Renaissance [This volume] contributes to an enhanced understanding of the varied social groups, the traditions of faith and thought, and the art produced in the Venetian ghetto... These essays demonstrate the remarkable cultural and religious complexity of Jewish life in early modern Venice. -- Stephen D. Benin Religious Studies Review We have reason to welcome this collection of essays on the Jews of Venice... [ The Jews of Early Modern Venice] offers a unified portrait that poionts the way toward understanding modes of acculturation: how Jews might be insiders and outsiders at the same time. -- Kenneth Stow Renaissance Quarterly This unusually coherent collection of essays on the theme of Jewish community life in early modern Venice deserves a wide readership. -- John K. Brackett H-Net Reviews The essays in this fine volume are the result of years of intensive research of a diverse collection of source materials by a cadre of some of the most renowned scholars in numerous fields within the history of early modern Venice and early modern Judaism... The volume eloquently contextualizes the history and development of Jewish settlement in Venice and the role of the Jews in the broader city and its territories. -- Dean Phillip Bell HistorianTable of ContentsContents and Contributors: Introduction, Robert C. Davis I. Settlement The Venetian Government and the Jews, Benjamin Ravid * The "City of the Jews," Donatella Calabi II. Ethnicities and Identities Jewish Banks and Monti di Pieta, Brian Pullan * Jews in International Trade: The Emergence of the Levantines and Ponentines, Benjamin Arbel * Jews, Crypto-Jews, and the Inquisition, Pier Cesare Ioly Zorattini * The Ghetto Republic, David J. Malkiel * Jewish Women and Family Life, Inside and Outside the Ghetto, Howard Tzvi Adelman III. Cultures A Cultural Profile, Robert Bonfil * Medicine and Scientific Thought: The World of Tobias Cohen, David B. Ruderman * Jewish Musical Culture: Leon Modena, Don Harran * Processions, Piety, and Jewish Confraternities, Elliott Horowitz
£52.28
Johns Hopkins University Press Amish Enterprise
Book SynopsisIn this new edition, the authors update demographic and technological changes, and describe Amish enterprises outside of Pennsylvania in a new chapter.Trade ReviewUseful in courses in religion and culture; an excellent supplementary text for courses in sociology... Amish and other minority groups... may be inspired and instructed by this heartening document. -- Gene Burd Utopian Studies 2005 Important for anyone interested in the interplay between a small, separate religious group and the dominant culture. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 2005Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I: The Cultural ContextChapter 1. The Roots of Amish LifePart II: Cultural Resources for Entrepreneurship Chapter 2. From Plows to ProfitsChapter 3. A Profile of Amish EnterprisesChapter 4. Homespun Entrepreneurs Chapter 5. Labor and Human ResourcesPart III: Cultural Constraints of EntrepreneurshipChapter 6. The Moral Boundaries of BusinessChapter 7. Taming the Power of TechnologyChapter 8. Small-Scale LimitationsPart IV: The Public Face of Amish EnterpriseChapter 9. Promotion and Professional NetworksChapter 10. Coping with Litigation and LiabilityChapter 11. Negotiating with CaesarChapter 12. Failure and SuccessPart V: The Transformation of Amish SocietyChapter 13. The Fate of a Traditional PeopleChapter 14. National Patters of Amish WorkAppendixes: Research Methods and Data SourcesNotesReferencesIndex
£21.85
Johns Hopkins University Press Guadalupe and Her Faithful
Book SynopsisThis fascinating account reveals the potential force-and the potential limitations-of devotion in people's lives and religious imagination.Trade ReviewMatovina's work is... breath-taking. -- Jose Angel Gutierrez Journal of American Studies Associaton of Texas 2006 Matovina has produced a solid piece of history that will be of interest to and enjoyed by professional historians and laypeople alike. -- Anthony Quiroz Journal of American History 2006 A well-written and insightful evaluation. -- Kathleen Garces-Foley Journal of American Ethnic History 2006 Gaudalupe... is shown in various lights - in all her glory, and at times her mystery is even slightly unveiled. -- Georgie Ann Weatherby Catholic Studies 2007 A focused, well-researched, and generous book that captures well the various ways that Guadalupan devotion has been expressed and transformed over time... This study undoubtedly represents a high point in this ongoing endeavor. -- Chris Tirres Journal of the American Academy of Religion 2007 This is clearly a substantial work of scholarship and a major contribution to Mexican American religious history... It deserves wide readership and acclaim. -- Roberto R. Trevino American Historical Review 2007 Beautifully written to evoke the very practices being studied, Matovina's painstaking work on communal identity provides evidence that group traditions and identities are 'made, not born.' -- Paula Kane Religion and American Culture 2006 Guadalupe and Her Faithful is one of those rare texts that bridge the academy, the church, pastors, grassroots devotees, and a wider public... This book increases appreciation and knowledge of the growing Latino population and its religious traditions. -- Virgilio Elizondo Spiritus: Journal of Christian Spirituality 2007 Timothy Matovina's Guadalupe and her Faithful is a significant contribution to Guadalupan scholarship... Matovina taps into the corazon of the matter with his coverage of the religious and popular aspects of the devotion to La Virgen de Guadalupe. -- Tey Marianna Nunn Pacific Historical Review 2007 Very engaging story... An excellent contribution to Mexican American history and Latino spirituality. -- Gilberto M. Hinojosa Southwestern Historical Quarterly 2007 This study beautifully combines history, theology, and sociology in looking at Catholic worship in the Latino religious community surrounding San Fernando Cathedral in San Antonio, Texas. -- Linda B. Hall Americas 2007 In Guadalupe and Her Faithful we have a well researched and readable examination of a vibrant faith community. -- Jesus F. de la Teja Catholic Historical Review 2007 A book that everyone... must read. It should be available in libraries across the nation, because any research on the Guadalupan legacy among Catholics, Hispanic or otherwise, would be incomplete without reference being made to Matovina's work. -- Patrick Foley Hispanic American Historical Review 2008 A well-researched and value addition to the literatures on popular Mexican and Chicano religiosities. -- Matthew Butler Ecclesiastical History This book belongs with other works that signal a welcome trend in scholarship where popular religion is, at last, no longer dismissed with condescension and scorn but deemed worthy or respect and study. -- Ramon Luzarraga American Catholic Studies 2008Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: An Evolving TraditionChapter 1. "Nuestra Madre Querida"Chapter 2. Patroness of la Frontera, 1731–1836Chapter 3. Defender of Dignidad, 1836–1900Chapter 4. Companion in el Exilio, 1900–1940Chapter 5. Celestial Mestiza, 1940–2003Epilogue: The Future of Guadalupan DevotionNotesBibliographyIndex
£23.75
Johns Hopkins University Press Faith in the Great Physician Suffering and Divine
Book SynopsisEmphasizing the centrality of religious practices to the enterprise of divine healing, Curtis sheds light on the relationship among Christian faith, medical science, and the changing meanings of suffering and healing in American culture.Trade ReviewHeather Curtis has done both the historical guild and the church a great favor in so elegantly narrating the history of a movement that challenged long-standing assumptions about the spiritual utility of corporal pain-and, in so doing, remapped our imaginations and transformed our understanding of suffering. -- Lauren F. Winner Books and Culture: A Christian Review 2008 Students of American religious history and American culture will find this work worthy of attention. Recommended. Choice An illuminating and exceedingly careful examination of a historical terrain chock-full of landmines... Its careful attention to the experiences of both laity and elites is as strong as its evenhanded interpretation. -- Mark A. Noll Christian Century 2008 Fascinating story told by Heather D. Curtis. -- Rennie B. Schoepflin Journal of American History 2009 Thoughtfully rendered study. -- Paul Harvey American Studies 2007 Faith in the Great Physician: Suffering and Divine Healing in American Culture, 1860-1900 is an engaging and informative analysis of the divine healing movement, grounded in a wide-ranging view of its social and cultural, medical and religious milieu... Heather Curtis is to be commended for this splendid contribution to the scholarship of the era. -- Nancy A. Hardesty Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Lyrical and convincing. -- Pamela E. Klassen Church History 2010 Careful historical research that scholars of American religion and American history will find indispensable. -- Lynn S. Neal Journal of Religion 2010Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A Thorn in the Flesh: Pain, Illness, and Religion in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America2. Resisting Resignation: The Rise of Religious Healing in the Late Nineteenth Century3. Acting Faith: The Devotional Ethics and Gendered Dynamics of Divine Healing4. The Use of Means: Divine Healing as Devotional Practice5. Houses of Healing: Sacred Space, Social Geography, and Gender in Divine Healing6. The Lord for the Body, the Gospel for the Nations: Divine Healing and Social ReformConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
£43.20
Johns Hopkins University Press An Amish Paradox
Book SynopsisAn Amish Paradox captures the complexity and creativity of the Holmes County Amish, dispelling the image of the Amish as a vestige of a bygone era and showing how they reinterpret tradition as modernity encroaches on their distinct way of life.Trade ReviewHurst and McConnell's thorough, readable analysis of the world's largest Amish settlement is fascinating from a variety of perspectives... Highly recommended. Choice 2011 Hurst and McConnell, obviously sympathetic to the Amish they study, are to be commended for their extensive research and their careful attention to nuance and exception. -- Robert Brenneman American Journal of Sociology 2011 A number of excellent books have been written about the Amish in recent years and An Amish Paradox joins the ranks of the best of them. A wonderful book. -- Elizabeth C. Cooksey Journal of Contemporary Religion 2011 A number of excellent books have been written about the Amish in recent years and An Amish Paradox joins the ranks of the best of them. Sociologist Charles Hurst and Anthropologist David McConnell not only bring an interdisciplinary expertise to their study, but also an intimate knowledge of the Amish in Ohio's Holmes County Settlement area, as well as a sense of adventure, as they lead theirreaders on a journey through various domains of Amish life. Their presentation is knowledgeable, measured, and thoughtful and their clear and straightforward style of writing takes one through many facets of Amish life in Ohio at a horse and buggy pace-fast enough to cover the territory and maintain one's interest, but slowly enough to point out the changing scenery en route and to really giveone a sense of the complex nuances that make up everyday Amish life. Journal of Contemporary Religion 2011 An Amish Paradox is a richly detailed and highly readable account of one settlement of Amish, perhaps the most visible ethnic religious minority in the United States. It is well-researched and free of jargon... [A] good choice for an advanced course in anthropology or sociology on religion, ethnicity, community, identity, or social change. -- Jonathan G. Andelson Anthropological Quarterly 2011Table of ContentsList of Figures, Maps, and TablesPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Discovering the Holmes County Amish2. The Origins of Religious Diversity3. Coping with Church Schism4. Continuity and Change in Family Life5. The Changing Landscape of Learning6. Work Within and Outside Tradition7. Health along the Life Cycle8. Stepping Back and Looking ForwardAppendixesA. MethodologyB. Ohio Amish Settlements, 2008C. Holmes County Settlement Amish Church Schisms, 1900–2001NotesBibliographyIndex
£27.00
University of Toronto Press Contemporary Antisemitism
Book SynopsisWith its combination of voices from both scholarship and leadership and its unique assessment of antisemitism in Canada and the struggle against it, Contemporary Antisemitism offers new perspectives on one of the world's most ancient and diffuse hatreds.Trade Review"'Clearly focused and exceptionally readable, Contemporary Antisemitism is a model of scholarly intervention on an urgent public issue. The contributors are all recognized authorities in their fields. No one could address these subjects without referring to their work.' Louis Greenspan, Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University"Table of ContentsPreface Introduction -Derek J. Penslar Part I: Canadian Leaders on Antisemitism Chapter 1 - Antisemitism: An Enduring Reality - The Right Honourable Brian Mulroney Chapter 2 - Law and Antisemitism - The Hounourable R. Roy Mcmurty Part II: Scholars on Antisemitism, New and Old Chapter 3 - The Changing Dimensions of Contemporary Antisemitism -Morton Weinfeld Chapter 4 -Historical reflections on Contemporary Antisemitism -Steven J. Zipperstein Chapter 5 - Antisemitism in Western Europe Today - Todd M. Endelman Chapter 6 - Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism: A Historical Approach - Derek J. Penslar Chapter 7 - The Nature and Determinants of Arab Attitudes Toward Israel-Mark Tessler
£42.30
University of Toronto Press Foundations of Religious Tolerance
Book SynopsisReligious intolerance is very old and widespread – a phenomenon of a highly distinctive nature which defies reduction to a simpler kind of vice. Methods of achieving religious tolerance have long been in dispute because there is much confusion about its nature.In this book, Professor Newman attempts to clarify the concept of religious tolerance in a way that other recent philosophical studies have clarified such concepts as justice, freedom, and equality. While there is a great deal of literature on theological, psychological, sociological, and political aspects of the problem, little has been said about the more fundamental ethical and epistemological issues that arise from philosophical reflection on religious competition and conflict.Newman addresses such questions as: How does religious intolerance differ from religious prejudice? Does being tolerant require commitment to relativism, pluralism, secularism, or universalism? Can a State live up to its promise to allow
£17.99
University of Toronto Press A.M. Klein
Book SynopsisThroughout his career A.M. Klein was concerned primarily with his relationship to his community, seeing himself, and all serious artists, as necessarily shaping and being shaped by the community in which they are rooted. Yet Klein's vision of this relationship was profoundly ambivalent, and this ambivalence is reflected most clearly in his troubled attitude to the two dominant strains in his work, Jewishness and modernism.In this study of A.M. Klein's work, Zailig Pollock focuses on 'the story of the poet,' which Klein retells again and again at major turning points in his career. Pollock argues that the story reflects Klein's attempt to mediate between his dual Jewish and modernist ambitions. While Klein's Jewishness gave him a sense of rootedness and vocation, it placed constraints on his personal and artistic freedom. Modernism offered Klein freedom for personal exploration and artistic expression, but the rootlessness implicit in modernism repelled him.The story ofTrade Review'In A.M. Klein: The Story of the Poet, Zailig Pollock has written the most substantial study of Klein since Miriam Waddington's A.M. Klein appeared in 1970. It is an admirable book: expansive, intellectually honest, fastidiously researched. It has all the virtues of a first-rate scholarly monograph.' -- Bruce Taylor Montreal Gazette 'Zailig Pollock's A.M. Klein: The Story of the Poet is one of those rare works of Canadian literary criticism that manages to be both scholarly and stylistically fluid - sophisticated but not turgid.' -- Michael Darling Books in Canada
£29.70
University of Toronto Press Jewish People Yiddish Nation Noah Prylucki and
Book SynopsisUsing hitherto unexplored archival sources, memoirs, interviews, and materials from the vibrant interwar Jewish and Polish presses, Kalman Weiser investigates the rise and fall of Yiddishism and of Prylucki's political party in the post-World War I era.Trade Review'Jewish People, Yiddish is an especially important reminder of just how much "Russian Jewish" history cannot be told without sustained attention to the large Jewish population that lived in Russian Poland, one of the empire's least digestible and most important regions, and to the numerous other Russian Jews outside Congress Poland.' -- Kenneth B. Moss The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 84:2:2012 'This important and impressively researched political biography, contributes greatly to our understanding of the lives of east European nationalist leaders and the issues they championed.' -- Sean Martin H-Poland, January 2015 'Weiser's book is to be commended for its meticulous historical research.' -- Gali Drucker Bar-Am Jews and Their Foodways: Studies in Contemporary Jewry, an annual vol 28: 2015
£59.40
University of Nebraska Press DoubleEdged Sword
Book SynopsisThe story of Sidney Franklin, a gay Jewish American bullfighter who triumphed over prejudice and adversity as he achieved what no American had ever accomplished, teaching Ernest Hemingway lessons in grace, machismo, and respect. Trade Review“Interjecting his opinions clearly while letting readers judge Franklin’s motives for themselves, Paul presents an absorbing biography of a twentieth century original, a confidante, lover, narcissist, and bravura performer whose capacity for suffering captured one of America’s greatest literary minds.”—Publishers Weekly “Lovingly and engagingly written.”—Kate McLoughlin, Times Literary Supplement“Finally! A fascinating, in-depth, warts-and-all biography of the legendary Hemingway hero, surely one of the great picaresque and colorful enigmas of modern times. Ears and tail to Bart Paul!”—Barnaby Conrad, author of Matador and The Death of Manolete“A must-read for all those interested in Ernest Hemingway’s life and loves, even if bullfighting leaves them cold.”—Martin Rubin, Washington Times “Since people began writing about the adventurous life of Sidney Franklin, be it Lillian Ross, Ernest Hemingway or others, [his story] seems to be shrouded in hyperbole, mystery, or just plain b.s. It’s taken Bart Paul to come along and tell the whole truth. I am very happy that after all these years, a real biography has finally been written. Congratulations, Bart Paul. Por fin, la verdad.”—Tony Brand, Aficionado práctico and scholar of bullfighting“In this well-researched biography, Bart Paul deftly depicts the extraordinary life of the Jewish boy from Brooklyn who became the most famous American bullfighter. Franklin not only was Ernest Hemingway’s inside informant while he was writing Death in the Afternoon, the writer arranged for the bullfighter to accompany him to Spain while he covered the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s. Mr. Paul captures Franklin’s wavering fortunes, alongside all the glitter, the gossip and the turmoil of the taurine scene in the early to mid twentieth century.”—Valerie Hemingway, author of Running with the Bulls: My Years with the HemingwaysTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction:The AlternativeAct One1. The Bull2. Que Viva Mexico3. The Wisdom of the AztecAct Two4. El Niño de la Synagoga5. Thanks, Ma6. Yanqui Flamenco7. Death in the Afternoon –with Drinks and Dinner to Follow8. To the Ear9.Hard TimesAct Three10. The Big Parade11. A Fine Romance12. The Beard13. The Master Horn14. The Sword15. Separate Trails16. Hemingway’s Gay Blade17. The Alternativa18. The New Man19. Servalavari20. Recuerdos21. Sol y SombraAcknowledgments and AfterthoughtsNotesBibliographyIndex
£25.19
University of Nebraska Press Laboratory for World Destruction Germans and
Book SynopsisDuring the 60 years between the founding of Bismarck's German Empire and Hitler's rise to power, German-speaking Jews left a profound mark on Central Europe and on 20th-century culture. This title presents a study of the fateful symbiosis between Germans and Jews in Central Europe, which culminated in the tragic denouement of the Holocaust.Trade Review“Robert Wistrich has written a book which is not only profound in its analysis of modern Jewish identity in central Europe and outstanding in its feel for nuance, but is also a study marked by a wonderful clarity of thought and expression.”—Professor Gershon Shaked, Recipient of the Israel Prize in Modern Hebrew Literature“Wistrich argues that during the period between Bismarck’s German Empire and Hitler’s rise to power, the contributions made by German and Austrian Jews significantly imprinted the cultures of Central Europe. Beyond that period, however, he claims, the demise of this cultural history occurred, in part, due to the ‘social psychology of envy.’ . . . It is a collection that will further the reader’s understanding of the periods of social envy and racism.”—Jewish Book World"Well researched with footnotes and bibliography, this book is essential for Jewish, Holocaust, and academic libraries."—Hallie Cantor, Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter"An indispensible work that charts the course of events and ideas that ultimately led to the Holocaust." indispensable—Jack Fischel, New Jersey Jewish News"Wistrich's expertise and clear prose provide reliable information alongside deft analysis, and give food for thought for novice and expert alike."—Daniel Mark Vyleta, European Historical Quarterly“Laboratory for World Destruction is a useful and thoughtful collection of essays about a range of political and cultural figures and their influence on the ‘Jewish Question’ in the Habsburg Empire. . . . Wistrich’s portraits are valuable for illuminating the special circumstances and obstacles to Jewish life in the Late Habsburg Empire.”—German Studies Review
£40.50
University of Nebraska Press Sojourners
Book SynopsisFeatures interviews that takes one to the heart of modern German Jewish history. This title offers accounts of the Weimar Republic, the Nazi era, the Holocaust, and the divided Germany of the Cold War era. It includes vivid descriptions of the new united Germany, with its alarming resurgence of xenophobia and anti-Semitism.
£52.20
University of Nebraska Press Bringing the Dark Past to Light
Book SynopsisExplores the memory of the Holocaust and the Jewish past in post-communist Eastern EuropeTrade Review"This pioneering work in the field of Holocaust studies should be a part of any library with even the most modest of holdings about the Shoah."—David M. Crowe, Journal of Interdisciplinary History"The manner in which Nazi-occupied nations have responded to the Holocaust since the fall of communism is a subject of no small importance. Fortunately, Bringing The Dark Past To Light addresses this topic seriously and comprehensively."—Sheldon Kirshner, Times of Israel "A remarkable collection."—Kelly McFall, New Books in Genocide Studies"This is a magnificent work of scholarship. The essays in this substantial book provide models of balance and rectitude."—Patterns of Prejudice“An excellent collection that addresses a very timely topic and fills a real gap in our knowledge. It will be of interest not only to specialists on the Holocaust but also to anyone—specialist and nonspecialist alike—interested in the issues and problems of postcommunist Europe.”—Samuel Kassow, professor of history at Trinity College and author of Who Will Write Our History? Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto “An extraordinary volume and a feat of editorial ingenuity. . . . No matter what you know or think about contemporary Europe and the politics of Holocaust memory, you will be enlightened and surprised by this remarkable book.”—Doris L. Bergen, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto, and author of War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction John-Paul Himka and Joanna Beata Michlic1. "Our Conscience Is Clean": Albanian Elites and the Memory of the Holocaust in Postsocialist Albania Daniel Perez2. The Invisible Genocide: The Holocaust in Belarus Per Anders Rudling3. Contemporary Responses to the Holocaust in Bosnia and Herzegovina Francine Friedman4. Debating the Fate of Bulgarian Jews during World War II Joseph Benatov5. Representations of the Holocaust and Historical Debates in Croatia since 1989 Mark Biondich6. The Sheep of Lidice: The Holocaust and the Construction of Czech National History Michal Frankl7. Victim of History: Perceptions of the Holocaust in Estonia Anton Weiss-Wendt8. Holocaust Remembrance in the German Democratic Republic--and Beyond Peter Monteath9. The Memory of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Hungary Part 1: The Politics of Holocaust Memory Paul Hanebrink Part 2: Cinematic Memory of the Holocaust Catherine Portuges10. The Transformation of Holocaust Memory in Post-Soviet Latvia Bella Zisere11. Conflicting Memories: The Reception of the Holocaust in Lithuania Saulius Sužiedlis and Šarūnas Liekis12. The Combined Legacies of the "Jewish Question" and the "Macedonian Question" Holly Case13. Public Discourses on the Holocaust in Moldova: Justification, Instrumentalization, and Mourning Vladimir Solonari14. The Memory of the Holocaust in Post-1989 Poland: Renewal--Its Accomplishments and Its Powerlessness Joanna B. Michlic and Małgorzata Melchior15. Public Perceptions of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Romania Felicia Waldman and Mihai Chioveanu16. The Reception of the Holocaust in Russia: Silence, Conspiracy, and Glimpses of Light Klas-Göran Karlsson17. Between Marginalization and Instrumentalization: Holocaust Memory in Serbia since the Late 1980s Jovan Byford18. The "Unmasterable Past"? The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Slovakia Nina Paulovičová19. On the Periphery: Jews, Slovenes, and the Memory of the Holocaust Gregor Joseph Kranjc20. The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Ukraine John-Paul HimkaConclusion Omer BartovContributors Index
£40.50
University of Nebraska Press Imaginary Neighbors
Book SynopsisExplores the political topic in Poland: Jewish-Polish relations during and after World War-II. This book examines the manner in which the relations between Poles and Jews are understood in Poland and in the Polish and Jewish diasporas.
£21.59
University of Nebraska Press Contemporary Jewish Writing in Poland
Book SynopsisA collection of Polish Jewish writings since WWII. This book brings together the works of several Jewish writers, most of whom remained in Poland. Although the Nazi genocide wiped out nearly all of the Jewish population in the country, the aftermath of the war has not stifled Jewish writing in Poland but has given it a different direction.Trade Review"An important series of contemporary Jewish writing abroad translated into English."—Library Journal"The motif of silence that runs through many of the pieces is in keeping with the paradoxical nature of the book: the writers do after all speak, mute of the spoken but not of the written word. The translations are uniformly lucid and graceful, and the lengthy introduction provides a valuable frame to the book."—Choice"For the non-Polish reader, the superb introduction alone makes the book worthwhile. The editors, Brandeis professor Antony Polonsky and University of Lublin professor Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska, have included a number of Polish Jewish writers who wrote in Polish and dealt with Jewish topics. Although several writers, including Ida Fink, left Poland, most stayed. Some, such as Stryjkowski and Adolph Rudnicki, had begun to write before the war. Like Ms. Krall and Michal Grynberg, others were children or adolescents during the Holocaust. All these writers take a hard and realistic look at Polish-Jewish relations during the war and give readers vital insight into the psychological dilemma of being a Jew in postwar Poland."—ForwardTable of ContentsJulian StryjkowskiStanislaw WygodzkiAdolf RudnickiArtur SandauerZofia GrzesiakLeo LipskiIda FinkStanislaw BenskiBogdan WojdowskiHenryk GrynbergHanna KrallContibutors: Antoni Slonimski Contents:PrefaceIntroduction by Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska and Antony PolonskyJulian Stryjkowski (1905-96)excerpts from Voices in the Darknessexcerpt from Judas Maccabeus: AfterwordStanislaw Wygodzki (1907-91)Blessed Be the Hands ...selected poems from A Memoir of Loveselected poems from PartingAdolf Rudnicki (1912-92)excerpt from The Dead Sea and the Living Sea: AscensionArtur Sandauer (1913-89)Death of a LiberalZofia Grzesiak (1914-)MarriageLeo Lipski (1917-)Roe Deer's BrotherThe WadiIda Fink (1921-)A Scrap of Time*****A DogNight of SurrenderThe Tenth ManTracesStanislaw Benski (1922-88)A Strange CountryMissing PiecesBogdan Wojdowski (1930-94)excerpt from Bread for the DepartedA Little Person, a Songless Bird, a Cage, and the WorldHenryk Grynberg (1936-)Fatherlandselected poems from Antinostalgiaselected poems from Verses from Americaselected poems from Among the Absentselected poems from A Monument on the Potomacselected poems from I Draw in MemoryHanna Krall (1937-)Briefly NowThe Dybbuk [Fragments]The ArmchairAntoni Slonimski (1896-1976)excerpt from How It Really HappenedGlossaryAcknowledgments
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MQ - University of Nebraska Press Under Postcolonial Eyes
Book SynopsisIn the Western literary tradition, the ""jew"" has long been a figure of ethnic exclusion and social isolation - the wanderer, the scapegoat, the alien. But it is no longer clear where a perennial outsider belongs. This provocative study of contemporary British writing points to the figure of the ""jew"" as the litmus test of multicultural society.Trade Review"Remarkably comprehensive."—Devorah Baum, Jewish QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Under Colonial Eyes: Doris Lessing and the Jews 2. Under Postcolonial Eyes: Baumgartner‘s Bombay 3. Hybridity‘s Children: Andrea Levy, Zadie Smith, and Salman Rushdie 4. The Color of Shylock: Caryl Phillips 5. Down Cultural Memory Lane: Ali, Lichtenstein, and Gavron 6. The Postmodern Jew 7. Radically Jewish Bibliography Index
£40.50
University of Nebraska Press South African Jews in Israel Assimilation in
Book SynopsisDespite consensus about the importance of multigenerational analysis for studying the long-term impact of immigration, most studies in Israel have focused on the integration of first-generation migrants, neglecting key changes that occur intergenerationally. Rebeca Raijman tackles this important but untold story with respect to Jewish South African immigration in Israel.Trade Review“This book will contribute to a better understanding of immigration and settlement in Israel, contemporary Israeli society, and Israel-diaspora relations, as well as the general corpus of literature on immigration, diasporism, and transnationalism.”—Uzi Rebhun, author of The Wandering Jew in AmericaTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPreface1. Introduction2. Methodology3. The Process of Migration4. Linguistic Assimilation5. Economic Assimilation6. Identificational Assimilation7. ConclusionAppendix: Letter sent to householdsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press The Chosen Game
Book SynopsisTrade Review“A welcome addition to sports literature. . . . Rosen—a former college hoopster, pro coach, and prolific author, packs a ton of information in his compact narrative. . . . Readers familiar with Rosen's previous tomes will no doubt enjoy his witty commentary, elegant prose, and self-deprecating humor.”—Joseph Dorinson, Arete "Readers (from teens to adults) who are interested in Jewish participation in sports will find this book worthwhile."—Fred Isaac, Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews“Before basketball was the ‘city game,’ it was a ‘Jewish game.’ No one is better equipped than roundball aficionado and NBA-insider Charley Rosen to skillfully chronicle Jewish presence in the world of hoops, on and off the court.”—Jeffrey S. Gurock, author of Judaism’s Encounter with American Sports"Packed with a lot of information in less than 200 pages of text, this book makes a good addition to the library of readers who are basketball historians or those who wish to learn more about the role of Jews in the "American" game."—Lance Smith, Guy Who Reviews Sports BooksTable of ContentsPreface: Promise in the Promised Land 1. In the Beginning 2. Busy Izzies Take Over 3. Beyond the Izzies 4. Enter Sir Nat 5. Gotty and the SPAHS 6. Taking over the Game 7. The Barnum of Basketball 8. About All-Americans, Blackbirds, the Olympic Games, and the Rosenblums 9. The SPAHS, the Crown Jewels, and the ABL 10. The War Years 11. The Penguin and the Birth of the BAA 12. Too Many Jews on the Knicks 13. The Iron Man, Moe, and the Apprenticeship of Red Auerbach 14. Gotty Wins Again and a Crooked Ref 15. The Fix and Close Shaves 16. The Scandals of ’51 17. Murray’s in the Mountains 18. If It’s Broken, Keep Fixing It 19. David Beats Goliath Again 20. Molinas Redux 21. The Jewish Olympics 22. Some More Blue-Chip Jewish Hoopers 23. The Coaches 24. NBA Owners and Bigwigs 25. Recent Notable Players 26. The Jewish Jordan Appendix: Jews in the Naismith Hall of Fame Sources
£18.99
University of Nebraska Press Contemporary Jewish Writing in Britain and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An important series of contemporary Jewish writing abroad translated into English."-Library Journal Library Journal
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University of Nebraska Press American Jews and Americas Game
Book SynopsisThese stories tell, as no previous book has, the history of the larger-than-life role of Jews in America's pastime.Trade Review“The historian Jacques Barzun was right when he said, ‘Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.’ Larry Ruttman knows that too, and that is why I chose to write this Foreword to his book American Jews and America's Game. His stories cover almost one hundred years of American history and the place of American Jews in that history. . . . This is a book that celebrates family—baseball’s, yours, and mine.”—from the foreword by Allan H. “Bud” Selig, Commissioner of Major League Baseball"This longtime attorney remains a gentle, always enthusiastic questioner, interested in his subjects' love for the game, their experiences with anti-Semitism and their connection to their faith."—Kirkus"Jews have played a key role in baseball history, as has been frequently noted. There is now a celebratory tone to the topic, and this book is firmly within the new tradition."—Library Journal"American Jews and America's Game is a highly personal, heartfelt collaborative exploration between the interviewer, his subject and its participants and devotees."—Andrew P. Fleischer, Jewish Journal"[American Jews and America's Game is] a tremendous piece of work, and we're lucky to have it."—Rob Neyer, Baseballnation.comTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsForeword by Allan H. "Bud" SeligPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Martin AbramowitzThe 1930sHenry "Hank" Greenberg: Hall of Fame Infielder and Outfielder, Revealing the Survival of American Judaism Generation by GenerationThe 1940sThelma "Tiby" Eisen and Anita Foss: Baseball Players and Pioneers for Women's Rights, in a League of Their OwnDr. Martin Abramowitz: Originator of Jewish Major Leaguers Baseball CardsBarney Frank: Fan and CongressmanThe 1950sAl Rosen: First-Ever Unanimous Most Valuable Player Selection, the Luckiest Jew AliveAlan Dershowitz: From Avi the Bum and Ballplayer to Alan the Professor, Defender, and Civil LibertarianSol Gittleman: First-Generation Jewish American, Realizing the American DreamHoward Goldstein, Esquire: Jewish Baseball Memorabilia Collector, Preserving Memory Jewish-StyleRoger Kahn: Author of the Classic Baseball Book The Boys of SummerThe 1960sSandy Koufax: Pitcher Nonpareil and Perfect GentlemanMurray Chass: Hall of Fame New York Times ScribeIra Berkow: New York Times Journalist, Author, Pulitzer Prize Winner, and Jewish SonRabbi Michael Paley: Unorthodox Orthodox RabbiArt Shamsky: Hank Greenberg ReduxRoss Newhan and David Newhan: Hall of Fame Sports Scribe and Major League Baseball Player, Father and SonThe 1970sMarvin Miller: Baseball Game Changer and Former Executive Director of the Major League Baseball Players AssociationKen Holtzman: Winningest Jewish Major League Pitcher Ever, Observant JewRonald Shapiro and Mark Shapiro: Father and Son, the Merging of Judaism into AmericaRon Blomberg: Designated HebrewMarty Appel: Former New York Yankees Public Relations DirectorJoel Mael: Vice Chairman of the Florida Marlins, Orthodox JewElliott Maddox: Major League Outfielder, Black Convert to JudaismThe 1980sDonald Fehr: Former Executive Director of the Major League Baseball Players AssociationJerry Reinsdorf: Owner of the Chicago White Sox and the Chicago BullsSteve Hertz: Major League Infielder, Legendary College CoachAl Clark: Longtime Major League Umpire, Fallen and RedeemedThe 1990sAllan H. "Bud" Selig: Innovative and Controversial Commissioner of Major League BaseballJeffrey Maier: Fan and Tenth PlayerAndrew Zimbalist: Baseball's EconomistLeon Feingold: Israel Baseball League Player of the Year, Jewish Physical and Mental GiantAlan Schwarz: New York Times Columnist and AuthorMarvin Goldklang: Multiple Minor League Team Owner and Baseball Man of InfluenceBrad Ausmus: Gold Glove CatcherRandy Levine: President of the New York YankeesThe 2000sTheo Epstein: The Youngest General Manager in Major League Baseball HistoryGabe Kapler: Major League Outfielder and Minor League ManagerCraig Breslow: Major League Relief Pitcher, Yale University GraduateJeffrey Gurock: Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, Orthodox Jew, and SportsmanStuart Sternberg: From Canarsie to Tampa Bay by Way of Wall StreetKevin Youkilis: Euclis, the Greek God of WalksThe 2010sDarren Harrison-Panis: On Course to Be a Major League Baseball Owner"Superman" Sam Fuld: Outfielder NonpareilIan Kinsler: Major League All-Star Second BasemanSelected BibliographyIndex
£31.50
