Joan Micklin Silvers groundbreaking debut feature film, Hester Street (1975), vividly portrays the immigrant experience through the eyes of Gitl (Carol Kane), a young, Orthodox Jewish woman who arrives in New York City from Eastern Europe at the end...Lasīt vairāk
New paperback edition - Jeff Jones tells the incredible story of Jewish boxing in London - a tale that stretches back centuries and includes a remarkable cast of characters who fought prejudice both inside and outside the ring....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691254371)
How modern Yiddish childrens literature gave expression to emerging forms of Jewish identityAs migration carried Yiddish to several continents during the long twentieth century, an increasingly global community of speakers and read...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691268613)
A groundbreaking look at the integral role of women in early modern Jewish communal lifeIn small villages, bustling cities, and crowded ghettos across early modern Europe, Jewish women were increasingly active participants in the da...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781978844469)
In this insightful interpretation of Zionism, Ofer Idels reveals that, while Hebrew culture often celebrated strong muscular Jews, it distanced itself from modern sports during the interwar years. Embodying the Revolution fills a gap in the...Lasīt vairāk
This original and thought-provoking study offers a fresh perspective on Zionism by exploring Hebrew cultures ambivalent attitude toward modern sports. Drawing on extensive archival sources and contemporary literary theories, it focuses on Zionisms...Lasīt vairāk
Multiple award-winning author Cary Fagan displays his extraordinary range and talent in this propulsive new story collection that is by turns sensitive, surprising, and outrageously funny.A disgruntled border in 1970s London watches...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 06-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, ISBN-13: 9783111246215)
The first decades of the 21st century have presented numerous challenges for European Jewry: far-right movements and a rise of antisemitism, a global pandemic, and a war on European soil. At the same time, heritage sites commemorating t...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Behrman House Inc.,U.S., ISBN-13: 9781681156187)
Inspired by a true story, a rabbi in 16th century Amsterdam becomes a good pirate to help people by rescuing captives from a wicked crew of pirates--...Lasīt vairāk
This volume reflects on the themes and topics presented in Edmund Husserls articles published in the popular Japanese magazine Kaizo in 1923. It addresses the cosmopolitan nature of Husserls work, as well as the enduring appeal of Husserl...Lasīt vairāk
This book develops an interdisciplinary framework rooted in philosophy for addressing political evils experienced around the world. Drawing on resources from Continental philosophy and historical studies, it argues for the relationality and contin...Lasīt vairāk
Jennifer McComas, Samantha Baskind, Hasia R. Diner
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Sep-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300275650)
A revelatory look at midcentury American artistic responses to the Holocaust, and the role of the Jewish experience in the development of modern art The profound effects of the Holocaust and the Jewish experience of World War II left...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Sep-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, ISBN-13: 9783111422473)
In Leni Riefenstahls propaganda film of 1934 Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg, Julius Streicher proclaims: A people which does not hold with the purity of its race will perish! This belief will consume Streichers life until his death on the gallows in...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Sep-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Rock Point, ISBN-13: 9781577154730)
Bring family and friends together over delicious kosher meals from Melinda Strausss Jewish family kitchen.In Eat Jewish, Jewish social media influencer and Modern Orthodox Jew Melinda Strauss (therealmelindastrauss)...Lasīt vairāk
Translating Silent Cinema examines closely the translation, adaptation and reception of three silent films in English, German, and Yiddish to argue that the study of film translation should extend beyond textual translation to a wide select...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Sep-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Fig Tree Books, ISBN-13: 9781941493335)
PASS THE TRAUMA, PLEASE is a comedy-drama memoir that presents the most brutal moment of Jewish history in an unorthodox manner. It honors the life lessons of a Holocaust survivor who reveals long-buried truths about surviving as an orphan and soldi...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9781512828641)
The first comprehensive investigation of premodern Jewish travel writing about the Islamic worldReorienting the East explores the Islamic world as it was encountered, envisioned, and elaborated by Jewish travelers from the Mi...Lasīt vairāk
This book compares the writings of Samuel Joseph Agnon (1887-1970) with other writers, including Gustav Flaubert, Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence and Carl Gustav Jung, as well as his great Hebrew predecessors, Mendele Mocher Sefraim and Chaim Nachman...Lasīt vairāk
