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Nazi and Holocaust Representations in Anglo-American Popular Culture, 1945–2020

Irreverent Remembrance

By: Jeffrey Demsky

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Nazi and Holocaust Representations in Anglo-American Popular Culture, 1945–2020

Irreverent Remembrance

By: Jeffrey Demsky

This book analyzes sensationalized Nazi and Holocaust representations in Anglo-American cultural and political discourses. Recognizing that this history is increasingly removed from contemporary life, it explains how irreverent representations can help rejuvenate the story for successive generations of new learners. Surveying seventy-five-years of transatlantic activities, the work erects counterposing categorizes of “constructive and destructive memorializing,” providing scholars with a new framework for elucidating both this history and its historicization.

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Springer Nature

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3030792218

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9783030792213

Hollywood's Ancient Worlds

By: Jeffrey Richards

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Hollywood's Ancient Worlds

By: Jeffrey Richards

A new, full analysis of the Ancient World epic and how this film genre continues to comment on modern-day issues.

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238

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A&C Black

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1847250076

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9781847250070

Marty Glickman

The Life of an American Jewish Sports Legend

By: Jeffrey S. Gurock

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Marty Glickman

The Life of an American Jewish Sports Legend

By: Jeffrey S. Gurock

The first comprehensive biography of the preeminent voice of New York sports For close to half a century after World War II, Marty Glickman was the voice of New York sports. His distinctive style of broadcasting, on television and especially on the radio, garnered for him legions of fans who would not miss his play-by-play accounts. From the 1940s through the 1990s, he was as iconic a sports figure in town as the Yankees’ Mickey Mantle, the Knicks’ Walt Frazier, or the Jets’ Joe Namath. His vocabulary and method of broadcasting left an indelible mark on the industry, and many of today’s most famous sportscasters were Glickman disciples. To this very day, many fans who grew up listening to his coverage of Knicks basketball and Giants football games, among the myriad of events that Glickman covered, recall fondly, and can still recite, his descriptions of actions in arenas and stadiums. In Marty Glickman, Jeffrey S. Gurock showcases the life of this important contributor to American popular culture. In addition to the stories of how he became a master of American sports airwaves, Marty Glickman has also been remembered as a Jewish athlete who, a decade before he sat in front of a microphone, was cynically barred from running in a signature track event in the 1936 Olympics by anti-Semitic American Olympic officials. This lively biography details this traumatic event and explores not only how he coped for decades with that painful rejection but also examines how he dealt with other anti-Semitic and cultural obstacles that threatened to stymie his career. Glickman’s story underscores the complexities that faced his generation of American Jews as these children of immigrants emerged from their ethnic cocoons and strove to succeed in America amid challenges to their professional and social advancement. Marty Glickman is a story of adversity and triumph, of sports and minority group struggles, told within the context of the prejudicial barriers that were common to thousands, if not millions, of fellow Jews of his generation as they aimed to make it in America.

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249

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NYU Press

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1479820881

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9781479820887

The Culture of the Babylonian Talmud

By: Jeffrey L. Rubenstein

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The Culture of the Babylonian Talmud

By: Jeffrey L. Rubenstein

In this pathbreaking study Jeffrey L. Rubenstein reconstructs the cultural milieu of the rabbinic academy that produced the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, which quickly became the authoritative text of rabbinic Judaism and remains so to this day. Unlike the rabbis who had earlier produced the shorter Palestinian Talmud (the Yerushalmi) and who had passed on their teachings to students individually or in small and informal groups, the anonymous redactors of the Bavli were part of a large institution with a distinctive, isolated, and largely undocumented culture. The Culture of the Babylonian Talmud explores the cultural world of these Babylonian rabbis and their students through the prism of the stories they included in the Bavli, showing how their presentation of earlier rabbinic teachings was influenced by their own values and practices. Among the topics explored in this broad-ranging work are the hierarchical structure of the rabbinic academy, the use of dialectics in teaching, the functions of violence and shame within the academy, the role of lineage in rabbinic leadership, the marital and family lives of the rabbis, and the relationship between the rabbis and the rest of the Jewish population. This book provides a unique and new perspective on the formative years of rabbinic Judaism and will be essential reading for all students of the Talmud. -- Michael Satlow, Brown University

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JHU Press

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0801882656

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9780801882654

Nazi and Holocaust Representations in Anglo-American Popular Culture, 1945–2020

Irreverent Remembrance

By: Jeffrey Demsky

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Nazi and Holocaust Representations in Anglo-American Popular Culture, 1945–2020

Irreverent Remembrance

By: Jeffrey Demsky

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The Pru-Bache Murder

The Fast Life and Grisly Death of a Millionaire Stockbroker

By: Jeffrey Taylor

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The Pru-Bache Murder

The Fast Life and Grisly Death of a Millionaire Stockbroker

By: Jeffrey Taylor

Looks at the murder of Michael Prozumenshikov, and the ambition and shady business practices that may have led to his death

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Harpercollins

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0060179708

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Nazi and Holocaust Representations in Anglo-American Popular Culture, 1945–2020

Nazi and Holocaust Representations in Anglo-American Popular Culture, 1945–2020

Hollywood's Ancient Worlds

Hollywood's Ancient Worlds

Marty Glickman

Marty Glickman

The Culture of the Babylonian Talmud

The Culture of the Babylonian Talmud

Nazi and Holocaust Representations in Anglo-American Popular Culture, 1945–2020

Nazi and Holocaust Representations in Anglo-American Popular Culture, 1945–2020

The Pru-Bache Murder

The Pru-Bache Murder

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