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Sing, Stranger

A Century of American Yiddish Poetry—A Historical Anthology

By: Benjamin Harshav,Barbara Harshav

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Sing, Stranger

A Century of American Yiddish Poetry—A Historical Anthology

By: Benjamin Harshav,Barbara Harshav

Sing, Stranger is a comprehensive historical anthology of a century of American poetry written in Yiddish and now translated into English for the first time. This anthology reveals both an amazing achievement of Jewish creative work and an important body of American poetry.

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Stanford University Press

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0804751838

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American Yiddish Poetry

A Bilingual Anthology

By: Barbara Harshav,Benjamin Harshav

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American Yiddish Poetry

A Bilingual Anthology

By: Barbara Harshav,Benjamin Harshav

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.

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Univ of California Press

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0520328531

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9780520328532

Marc Chagall and His Times

A Documentary Narrative

By: Benjamin Harshav,Marc Chagall,Barbara Harshav

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Marc Chagall and His Times

A Documentary Narrative

By: Benjamin Harshav,Marc Chagall,Barbara Harshav

Renowned Israeli-American scholar Harshav presents the first comprehensive investigation of Marc Chagall's life and consciousness after the classic 1961 biography by Chagall's son-in-law Franz Meyer.

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1060

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Stanford University Press

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0804742146

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9780804742146

The Object of Jewish Literature

A Material History

By: Barbara E. Mann

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The Object of Jewish Literature

A Material History

By: Barbara E. Mann

A history of modern Jewish literature that explores our enduring attachment to the book as an object With the rise of digital media, the "death of the book” has been widely discussed. But the physical object of the book persists. Here, through the lens of materiality and objects, Barbara E. Mann tells a history of modern Jewish literature, from novels and poetry to graphic novels and artists’ books. Bringing contemporary work on secularism and design in conversation with literary history, she offers a new and distinctive frame for understanding how literary genres emerge. The long twentieth century, a period of tremendous physical upheaval and geographic movement, witnessed the production of a multilingual canon of writing by Jewish authors. Literature’s objecthood is felt not only in the physical qualities of books—bindings, covers, typography, illustrations—but also through the ways in which materiality itself became a practical foundation for literary expression.

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Yale University Press

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0300234112

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9780300234114

American Yiddish Poetry

A Bilingual Anthology

By: Barbara Harshav,Benjamin Harshav

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A Bilingual Anthology

By: Barbara Harshav,Benjamin Harshav

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Univ of California Press

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What is Cognitive Science?

By: Barbara Von Eckardt

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What is Cognitive Science?

By: Barbara Von Eckardt

In a richly detailed analysis, Von Eckardt (philosophy, U. of Nebraska) lays the foundation for understanding what it means to be a cognitive scientist. She characterizes the basic assumptions that define the cognitive science approach and systematically sorts out a host of recent issues and controversies surrounding them. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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MIT Press

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026272023X

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9780262720236

Medieval Crossover

Reading the Secular against the Sacred

By: Barbara Newman

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Medieval Crossover

Reading the Secular against the Sacred

By: Barbara Newman

The sacred and the secular in medieval literature have too often been perceived as opposites, or else relegated to separate but unequal spheres. In Medieval Crossover: Reading the Secular against the Sacred, Barbara Newman offers a new approach to the many ways that sacred and secular interact in medieval literature, arguing that (in contrast to our own cultural situation) the sacred was the normative, unmarked default category against which the secular always had to define itself and establish its niche. Newman refers to this dialectical relationship as "crossover"—which is not a genre in itself, but a mode of interaction, an openness to the meeting or even merger of sacred and secular in a wide variety of forms. Newman sketches a few of the principles that shape their interaction: the hermeneutics of "both/and," the principle of double judgment, the confluence of pagan material and Christian meaning in Arthurian romance, the rule of convergent idealism in hagiographic romance, and the double-edged sword in parody. Medieval Crossover explores a wealth of case studies in French, English, and Latin texts that concentrate on instances of paradox, collision, and convergence. Newman convincingly and with great clarity demonstrates the widespread applicability of the crossover concept as an analytical tool, examining some very disparate works. These include French and English romances about Lancelot and the Grail; the mystical writing of Marguerite Porete (placed in the context of lay spirituality, lyric traditions, and the Romance of the Rose); multiple examples of parody (sexually obscene, shockingly anti-Semitic, or cleverly litigious); and René of Anjou's two allegorical dream visions. Some of these texts are scarcely known to medievalists; others are rarely studied together. Newman's originality in her choice of these primary works will inspire new questions and set in motion new fields of exploration for medievalists working in a large variety of disciplines, including literature, religious studies, history, and cultural studies.

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University of Notre Dame Pess

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0268161402

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9780268161408

A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps

My Mother's Memories of Imprisonment, Immigration, and a Life Remade

By: Barbara Rylko-Bauer

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A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps

My Mother's Memories of Imprisonment, Immigration, and a Life Remade

By: Barbara Rylko-Bauer

Jadwiga Lenartowicz Rylko, known as Jadzia (Yah′-jah), was a young Polish Catholic physician in Łódź at the start of World War II. Suspected of resistance activities, she was arrested in January 1944. For the next fifteen months, she endured three Nazi concentration camps and a forty-two-day death march, spending part of this time working as a prisoner-doctor to Jewish slave laborers. A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps follows Jadzia from her childhood and medical training, through her wartime experiences, to her struggles to create a new life in the postwar world. Jadzia’s daughter, anthropologist Barbara Rylko-Bauer, constructs an intimate ethnography that weaves a personal family narrative against a twentieth-century historical backdrop. As Rylko-Bauer travels back in time with her mother, we learn of the particular hardships that female concentration camp prisoners faced. The struggle continued after the war as Jadzia attempted to rebuild her life, first as a refugee doctor in Germany and later as an immigrant to the United States. Like many postwar immigrants, Jadzia had high hopes of making new connections and continuing her career. Unable to surmount personal, economic, and social obstacles to medical licensure, however, she had to settle for work as a nurse’s aide. As a contribution to accounts of wartime experiences, Jadzia’s story stands out for its sensitivity to the complexities of the Polish memory of war. Built upon both historical research and conversations between mother and daughter, the story combines Jadzia’s voice and Rylko-Bauer’s own journey of rediscovering her family’s past. The result is a powerful narrative about struggle, survival, displacement, and memory, augmenting our understanding of a horrific period in human history and the struggle of Polish immigrants in its aftermath.

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469

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806145854

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9780806145853

Bronx Accent

A Literary and Pictorial History of the Borough

By: Lloyd Ultan,Barbara Unger

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Bronx Accent

A Literary and Pictorial History of the Borough

By: Lloyd Ultan,Barbara Unger

Official Bronx Borough Historian Ultan (history, Fairleigh Dickinson U.) and poet Unger (English, Rockland Community College) assemble excerpts from known and unknown writers, and black-and-white photographs, to chronicle the history of New York City's northernmost borough from the middle of the 17th century to the present. The material is presented according to the period the writer is discussing rather than by publication date. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

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Rutgers University Press

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0813528631

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Sustaining Social Conflict

Hatred, Money, and Genocide

By: E. N. Anderson,Barbara A. Anderson

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Sustaining Social Conflict

Hatred, Money, and Genocide

By: E. N. Anderson,Barbara A. Anderson

This book examines the roots of hatred, genocide, and mass murder in psychology, history, politics, and economics, including the funding of destructive political campaigns. It provides solutions grounded in moral philosophy as well as possible legal measures.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1666918717

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Space and Place in Jewish Studies

By: Barbara E. Mann

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Space and Place in Jewish Studies

By: Barbara E. Mann

Scholars in the humanities have become increasingly interested in questions of how space is produced and perceived—and they have found that this consideration of human geography greatly enriches our understanding of cultural history. This “spatial turn” equally has the potential to revolutionize Jewish Studies, complicating familiar notions of Jews as “people of the Book,” displaced persons with only a common religious tradition and history to unite them. Space and Place in Jewish Studies embraces these exciting critical developments by investigating what “space” has meant within Jewish culture and tradition—and how notions of “Jewish space,” diaspora, and home continue to resonate within contemporary discourse, bringing space to the foreground as a practical and analytical category. Barbara Mann takes us on a journey from medieval Levantine trade routes to the Eastern European shtetl to the streets of contemporary New York, introducing readers to the variety of ways in which Jews have historically formed communities and created a sense of place for themselves. Combining cutting-edge theory with rabbinics, anthropology, and literary analysis, Mann offers a fresh take on the Jewish experience.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813552125

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9780813552125

A Place in History

Modernism, Tel Aviv, and the Creation of Jewish Urban Space

By: Barbara E. Mann

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A Place in History

Modernism, Tel Aviv, and the Creation of Jewish Urban Space

By: Barbara E. Mann

A Place in History is a cultural study of Tel Aviv, Israel's population center and one of the original settlements, established in 1909. The book describes how a largely European Jewish immigrant society attempted to forge a home in the Mediterranean, and explores the difficulties and challenges of this endeavor.

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340

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Stanford University Press

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080475019X

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9780804750196

The Thirteenth Hour

By: Barbara Sofer

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The Thirteenth Hour

By: Barbara Sofer

An American-born biologist living in Jerusalem signs up for a self-defense course, never realizing that she has been chosen for a special assignment. A Muslim woman from the States returns to Jericho, never suspecting that someone close to her is responsible for a devastating terrorist attack. Each is about to be recruited for a deadly, secret mission, and find themselves unlikely allies in a growing web of violence that threatens their families, their heritage and their lives. Featured on the Penguin website (www.penguin.com) to tie in with Jewish Book Month.

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Signet Book

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0451191064

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9780451191069

American Yiddish Poetry

A Bilingual Anthology

By: Barbara Harshav,Benjamin Harshav

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American Yiddish Poetry

A Bilingual Anthology

By: Barbara Harshav,Benjamin Harshav

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University of California Press

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0520368835

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9780520368835

Marc Chagall on Art and Culture

Including the First Book on Chagall's Art by A. Efros and Ya. Tugendhold (Moscow, 1918)

By: Marc Chagall,Abram Markovich ?fros,Benjamin Harshav,Barbara Harshav

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Marc Chagall on Art and Culture

Including the First Book on Chagall's Art by A. Efros and Ya. Tugendhold (Moscow, 1918)

By: Marc Chagall,Abram Markovich ?fros,Benjamin Harshav,Barbara Harshav

Marc Chagall (1887-1985) traversed a long route from a boy in the Jewish Pale of Settlement, to a commissar of art in revolutionary Russia, to the position of a world-famous French artist. This book presents for the first time a comprehensive collection of Chagall's public statements on art and culture. The documents and interviews shed light on his rich, versatile, and enigmatic art from within his own mental world. The book raises the problems of a multi-cultural artist with several intersecting identities and the tensions between modernist form and cultural representation in twentieth-century art. It reveals the travails and achievements of his life as a Jew in the twentieth century and his perennial concerns with Jewish identity and destiny, Yiddish literature, and the state of Israel. This collection includes annotations and introductions of the Chagall texts by the renowned scholar Benjamin Harshav that elucidate the texts and convey the changing cultural contexts of Chagall's life. Also featured is the translation by Benjamin and Barbara Harshav of the first book about Chagall's work, the 1918 Russian The Art of Marc Chagall.

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244

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Stanford University Press

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0804748314

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9780804748315

The Grounding of Modern Feminism

By: Herman Kruk,Nancy F. Cott

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The Grounding of Modern Feminism

By: Herman Kruk,Nancy F. Cott

Nancy F. Cott offers a new interpretation of feminism in the United States during the early decades of the century -- a period traditionally viewed as one in which women won the right to vote and then lost interest in feminist issues. Cott contends that the decades between 1910 and 1930 revealed a crisis of transition in which the nineteenth-century "woman movement" was left behind and modern feminism was inaugurated. Cott argues that in contrast to the nineteenth-century "cause of woman" or claim for "woman's rights"--In which the singular noun symbolized the unity of the female sex-- feminists of the early twentieth century wished to refute the premise of a singular "woman": they recognized increasing heterogeneity and diverse loyalties among women, and championed individual variability. This history -- the story of women who first claimed the name of feminists -- builds a necessary bridge between the presuffrage era and today. -- From publisher's description.

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030016257X

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9780300162578

Meet Me at the Well

The Girls and Women of the Bible

By: Jane Yolen,Barbara Diamond Goldin

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Meet Me at the Well

The Girls and Women of the Bible

By: Jane Yolen,Barbara Diamond Goldin

Old Testament stories center around men. Leaders, prophets, kings, and priests are all male. But hidden in the background are strong-willed, daring females. Jane Yolen and Barbara Diamond Goldin's masterful retellings pairs eloquent profiles with stunning art, answering one question: What makes these women heroes? From first woman, Eve, to Deborah the judge, to Queen Esther, savior of her people, females in the Hebrew bible are resourceful and courageous. Each chapter is devoted to a single story with text complemented by sidebars, known in Jewish tradition as "midrashim," that pose questions, provide more information, and include nondenominational interpretations. "A much-needed, thoughtful updating of Bible stories about women" — Kirkus Reviews (STARRED REVIEW) "A solid source of study and reflection for libraries with religious patrons" — School Library Journal "Each chapter features a lovely full-page piece of artwork" — Booklist

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115

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Charlesbridge Publishing

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1607349272

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9781607349273

Is Baba in Yo' House?

A Memoir by Barbara Davidson

By: Barbara Davidson

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Is Baba in Yo' House?

A Memoir by Barbara Davidson

By: Barbara Davidson

A memoir by Barbara Davidson

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Createspace Independent Pub

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1500999350

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9781500999353

The God of Sarah, Rebekah & Rachel

By: Barbara Keener Shenk,Ann M. Graber

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The God of Sarah, Rebekah & Rachel

By: Barbara Keener Shenk,Ann M. Graber

Barbara Keener Shenk introduces women of the Old Testament through sonnets. Not only the names we know well, but also those whose names are easily overlooked step forward to tell their stories.

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140

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Herald Press (VA)

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0836133927

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9780836133929

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Three Complete Novels

By: Barbara Taylor Bradford

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Barbara Taylor Bradford

Three Complete Novels

By: Barbara Taylor Bradford

An omnibus collection of three favorites by the best-selling author of 'A Woman of Substance' includes complete copies of 'Hold the Dream', 'To Be the Best', and 'Act of Will' in one romantic volume.

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Wings

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0517084708

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9780517084700

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