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  • Occupied Words

    What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish

    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death, and dehumanization of the Shoah, prisoners added or reinvented thousands of Yiddish words and phrases to describe their new reality. These crass, witty, and sometimes beautiful Yiddish words – Khurbn Yiddish, or “Yiddish of the Holocaust” – puzzled ... Read more

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  • How Close Reading Made Us

    The Transnational Legacies of New Criticism

    Does reading shape who we are? What happens to the relationship between reading and subject-formation as methods of interpretation travel globally? Yael Segalovitz probes these questions by tracing the transnational journey of the New Critical practice of close reading from the United States to Brazil and Israel in the mid-twentieth century. Challenging the traditional view of New Criticism as a ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • The Dybbuk

    Its Origins and History

    Series series SUNY series in Western Esoteric Traditions
    The Dybbuk is the first comprehensive study of the historical and kabbalistic sources of the dybbuk phenomenon, from the first recorded case of dybbuk possession in Safed in 1571 onward. Dybbuk possession differs from possession by demons or Satan. Its origin is in the Kabbalistic concept of gilgul (transmigration) for sins that are so grievous that Gehenna is not sufficient punishment, and the ... Read more

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  • The Threshold of Dissent

    A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism

    by Marjorie Feld ...
    Series series Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History
    Explores the long history of anti-Zionist and non-Zionist American JewsThroughout the twentieth century, American Jewish communal leaders projected a unified position of unconditional support for Israel, cementing it as a cornerstone of American Jewish identity. This unwavering position served to marginalize and label dissenters as antisemitic, systematically limiting the threshold of acceptable ... Read more

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  • Matrilineal Dissent

    Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History

    Bridging literary studies and cultural history, this edited volume examines Jewish women writers’ wide-ranging contributions to American literary culture from the turn of the twentieth century to the present. Matrilineal Dissent features innovative considerations of contemporary autofiction, graphic narratives, and novels by Mizrahi writers as well as middlebrow, Progressive Era, and second-wave ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

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  • Saul Bellow

    "I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer"

    by Gerald Sorin ...
    Series series The Modern Jewish Experience
    Saul Bellow: "I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer" offers a fresh and original perspective on the life and works of Saul Bellow, the Nobel Prize winner in Literature in 1976. Author Gerald Sorin emphasizes Bellow's Jewish identity as fundamental to his being and the content and meaning of his fiction. Bellow's work from the 1940s to 2000, when he wrote his last novel at the age of 84, centers ... Read more

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  • As the Dust of the Earth

    The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine

    by Harriet Murav ...
    Series series Jews in Eastern Europe
    An estimated forty thousand Jews were murdered during the Russian Civil War between 1918 and 1922. As the Dust of the Earth examines the Yiddish and Russian literary response to the violence (pogroms) and the relief effort, exploring both the poetry of catastrophe and the documentation of catastrophe and care.Brilliantly weaving together narrative fiction, poetry, memoirs, newspaper articles, and ... Read more

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  • Brother Mine

    The Correspondence of Jean Toomer and Waldo Frank

    The friendship of Jean Toomer and Waldo Frank was one of the most emotionally intense, racially complicated, and aesthetically significant relationships in the history of American literary modernism. Waldo Frank was an established white writer who advised and assisted the younger African American Jean Toomer as he pursued a literary career. They met in 1920, began corresponding regularly in 1922, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • For Women and Girls Only

    Reshaping Jewish Orthodoxy Through the Arts in the Digital Age

    by Jessica Roda ...
    A compelling look at the lives of ultra-Orthodox and formerly ultra-Orthodox Jewish women and their use of media technologies to create a new market for music and filmMainstream portrayals of ultra-Orthodox religious women often frame their faith as oppressive: they are empowered only when they leave their community. This book flips this notion on its head. Drawing on six years of fieldwork ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Poesis in Extremis

    Literature Witnessing the Holocaust

    Series series Comparative Jewish Literatures
    How can genocide be witnessed through imaginative literature? How can the Holocaust affect readers who were not there?Reading the work of major figures such as Elie Wiesel, Paul Celan, Avrom Sutzkever, Ida Fink, Wladyslaw Szlengel, Itzhak Katzenelson, and Czeslaw Milosz, Poesis in Extremis poses fundamental questions about how prose and poetry are written under extreme conditions, either in real ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Horizons Blossom, Borders Vanish

    Anarchism and Yiddish Literature

    A bold recovery of Yiddish anarchist history and literatureSpanning the last two centuries, this fascinating work combines archival research on the radical press and close readings of Yiddish poetry to offer an original literary study of the Jewish anarchist movement. The narrative unfolds through a cast of historical characters, from the well known—such as Emma Goldman—to the more obscure, ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Summary of Amos Blas's Boys of Courage

    Get the Summary of Amos Blas's Boys of Courage in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Boys of Courage" by Amos Blas is a moving tale that intertwines the lives of Holocaust survivors with the narrator's personal history. The story begins with an early morning call from the Forensic Institute, leading the narrator to meet Robbie at the hospital. Robbie shares the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • في النقد الأدبي

    في هذا الكتاب، يقدم إسماعيل مظهر دراسة نقدية تحليلية أدبية لأعمال عدد من كبار الكتاب والأدباء في عصره، سواء كانوا عربًا أو مستشرقين. يبدأ بنقد كتاب "الله" لعباس محمود العقاد، حيث يستند في نقده إلى أسس عقلية ولغوية، ويحرص على تقديم وجهات نظر متنوعة من خلال إدراج النقاشات التي دارت بينه وبين العقاد والتي نُشرت في المجلات آنذاك. يتابع بنقد أعمال لأعلام أدبية مثل طه حسين وكتابه "في الشعر الجاهلي"، ... Read more

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  • Le ore sono euro gettate in una banca

    Un libro scritto in rete, nei minimi messaggi di internet, come un campione del grande poeta ebreo, Mois Benarroch, che mostra che è possibile fare un'altra poesia. In questo caso, è quello che scorre attraverso i social network, con piccoli spazi in cui è possibile scrivere, caratteri limitati, vincolati da nuove forme tecnologiche. Ma la libertà creativa scorre, da Israele al resto del mondo, ... Read more

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  • Kabbalah and Literature

    Series series Comparative Jewish Literatures
    Focuses on a range of Jewish and non-Jewish writers to examine the intersection of Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition, and secular Jewish literatures.Kabbalah and Literature shows how the Jewish mystical tradition contributes to the renewal of literature in a modern, global, and increasingly disconnected age. Kitty Millet explores Kabbalah's conceptual underpinnings, aesthetic principles, ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • La Florida del Inca

    La Florida del Inca es un libro que relata la historia de la conquista y colonización del territorio americano por los españoles. Escrito por Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, proporciona un testimonio valioso de la cultura y tradiciones de los pueblos indígenas. El libro narra las exploraciones y los encuentros con los nativos, revelando los desafíos y la influencia del imperio español en esta magnífica ... Read more

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  • The "German Illusion"

    Germany and Jewish-German Motifs in Hélène Cixous’s Late Work

    Series series New Directions in German Studies
    Examines Jewish-German “tropes” in Hélène Cixous's oeuvre and life and their impact on her work as a feminist, poet, and playwright.Hélène Cixous is a poet, philosopher, and activist known worldwide for her manifesto on Écriture feminine (feminine writing) and for her influential literary texts, plays, and essays. While the themes were rarely present in her earlier writings, Germany and Jewish ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Zur Judenfrage

    Politische Emanzipation der Juden in Preußen (Die Frage von dem Verhältnis der Religion zum Staat)

    by Karl Marx ...
    Dieses eBook: "Zur Judenfrage" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Marx widmet sich in der Schrift der Frage nach politischer und menschlicher Emanzipation, wobei wie schon in der zuvor verfassten Schrift Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Rechtsphilosophie das widersprüchliche Verhältnis von politischem Staat und bürgerlicher ... Read more

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  • Leaving Other People Alone

    Diaspora, Zionism, and Palestine in Contemporary Jewish Fiction

    by Aaron Kreuter ...
    Leaving Other People Alone reads contemporary North American Jewish fiction about Israel/Palestine through an anti-Zionist lens. Aaron Kreuter argues that since Jewish diasporic fiction played a major role in establishing the centroperipheral relationship between Israel and the diaspora, it therefore also has the potential to challenge, trouble, and ultimately rework this relationship. Kreuter ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Reeducation of Race

    Jewishness and the Politics of Antiracism in Postcolonial Thought

    Series series Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity
    World War II produced a fundamental shift in modern racial discourse. In the postwar period, racism was situated for the first time at the center of international political life, and race's status as conceptual common sense and a justification for colonial rule was challenged with new intensity. In response to this crisis of race, the UN and UNESCO initiated a project of racial reeducation. This ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Lettere sull'ebraismo

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Translated by Francesco Ferrari ...
    Series series Schulim Vogelmann
    Stefan Zweig, uno degli autori di maggior successo di lingua tedesca della prima metà del ventesimo secolo, proveniva da una famiglia ebrea viennese facoltosa e assimilata, in cui la tradizione ebraica appare, a un primo sguardo, poco più di una traccia sbiadita e residuale. Questo libro, a cura di Stefan Litt, comprende 120 lettere, la maggior parte delle quali inedite, e costituisce una fonte ... Read more

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  • Polish Jewish Re-Remembering

    Studies—Sketches—Interpretations

    Translated by Tomas F. Anessi ...
    Series series Polish Studies
    The title of this monograph, ‘Polish Jewish Re-Remembering’, refers to the post-1989, thirty-year-long process of reviving attention to Polish-Jewish relations in historical, cultural, and literary studies, including the impact of Jews on the development of Polish culture, their presence in Polish social life, and the relationships between Jews and non-Jews in Poland. The book consists of four ... Read more

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  • The Hebrew Folktale in Premodern Morality Literature

    by Vered Tohar ...
    Series series Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
    This pioneering exploration shows that in the early modern world, printed works on morality and ethics served as an important conveyor of classic Jewish folktales and as an important channel of leisure reading in premodern Jewish culture. Utilizing a corpus of over 400 Musar tales, author Vered Tohar carefully opens a path to understand the thematic and poetic features of those tales. This ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • 18

    Jewish Stories Translated from 18 Languages

    Edited by Nora Gold ...
    A 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist in the Anthologies CategoryThis anthology, the first of this kind in twenty-five years, collects eighteen astounding works of Jewish fiction.This is the first anthology of translated multilingual Jewish fiction in 25 years: a collection of 18 splendid stories, each translated into English from a different language: Albanian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus