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Mel Gibson's Passion
The Film, the Controversy, and Its Implications
Av Zev Garber
Häftad, 2006
162 kr
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Mel Gibson's film, The Passion of the Christ, was released on Ash Wednesday, February 24, 2004 to capacity audiences in theatres and auditoriums across the U.S. and other countries. Prior to the film's release, a groundswell of controversy filled the airwaves and media outlets. Some religious …
New York Public Intellectuals and Beyond
Exploring Liberal Humanism, Jewish Identity, and the American Protest Tradition
Av Ethan Goffman, Daniel Morris
Häftad, 2008
338 kr
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New York Public Intellectuals and Beyond gathers a variety of distinguished scholars, from Eugene Goodheart to Peter Novick to Nathan Glazer, from Morris Dickstein to Suzanne Klingenstein to Ilan Stavans, to revisit and rethink the legacy of the New York intellectuals. The authors show how a small …
Blowing the Whistle on Genocide
Josiah E. Dubois, Jr. and the Struggle for a U.S. Response to the Holocaust
Av Rafael Medoff, Rafael Medoff
Häftad, 2008
209 kr
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Blowing the Whistle on Genocide tells the story of Josiah E. DuBois, Jr., a young Treasury Department lawyer who risked his career to alert the world to the Holocaust. As Nazism rose in Germany, many countries refused to allow Jewish immigration. The United States spurred on by the America First …
Emergence of Modern Hebrew Creativity in Babylon, 1735- 1950
Av Lev Hakak
Häftad, 2009
480 kr
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This book begins with a brief history about the Jews in Babylon (Iraq), their Hebrew creativity and the fact that this creativity was excluded from the history of Modern Hebrew literature because it was unknown to the scholars. The book focuses on the years 1735-1950 and presents the secular Hebrew …
Maven in Blue Jeans
A Festschrift in Honor of Zev Garber
Häftad, 2009
656 kr
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This collection of academic essays written by friends and colleagues of Professor Zev Garber, is a long-overdue tribute to an outstanding scholar, teacher, and mentor. Each contribution was written especially for this volume; none have been previously published. The various sections into which …
Politics and the Intellectuals
Conversations with Irving Howe
Häftad, 2010
345 kr
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Presented here is a compilation of Irving Howe's interviews during the last fifteen years of his life that could be viewed as the sequel to his intellectual autobiography, A Margin of Hope. Many of these interviews were never published. Others were originally published in such venues as The New …
Jewish Jesus
Revelation, Reflection, Reclamation
Av Zev Garber
Häftad, 2011
1000 kr
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There is a general understanding within religious and academic circles that the incarnate Christ of Christian belief lived and died a faithful Jew. This volume addresses Jesus in the context of Judaism. By emphasizing his Jewishness, the authors challenge today's Jews to reclaim the Nazarene as a …
Unfinalized Moments
Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative
Häftad, 2011
541 kr
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Focusing on a diversely rich selection of writers, the pieces featured in Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative explore the community of Jewish American writers who published their first book after the mid-1980s. It is the first book-length …
Knight at the Opera
Heine, Wagner, Herzl, Peretz and the Legacy of 'Den Tannhauser'
Av Leah Garrett
Häftad, 2011
507 kr
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A Knight at the Opera examines the remarkable and unknown role that the medieval legend (and Wagner opera) Tannhäuser played in Jewish cultural life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book analyzes how three of the greatest Jewish thinkers of that era, Heinrich Heine, Theodor …
Never Look Back
The Jewish Refugee Children in Great Britain, 1938-1945
Av Judith Tydor Baumel-Shwartz
Häftad, 2012
458 kr
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Between December 1938 and September 1939, nearly ten thousand refugee children from Central Europe, mostly Jewish, found refuge from Nazism in Great Britain. This was known as the Kindertransport movement, in which the children entered as "transmigrants," planning to return to Europe once the Nazis …
Zionist Architecture and Town Planning
The Building of Tel Aviv (1919 - 1929)
Häftad, 2013
458 kr
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Established as a Jewish settlement in 1909 and dedicated a year later, Tel Aviv has grown over the last century to become Israel’s financial centre and the country’s second largest city. This book examines a major period in the city’s establishment when Jewish architects moved from Europe, …
Multiculturalism in Israel
Literary Perspectives
Häftad, 2014
1149 kr
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By analysing its position within the struggles for recognition and reception of different national and ethnic cultural groups, this book offers a bold new picture of Israeli literature. Through comparative discussion of the literatures of Palestinian citizens of Israel, of Mizrahim, of migrants …
Edith Bruck in the Mirror
Fictional Transitions and Cinematic Narratives
Av Philip Balma
Häftad, 2014
507 kr
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Author of more than thirteen books and several volumes of poetry, screenwriter, and director, Edith Bruck is one of the leading literary voices in Italy, attracting increasing attention in the English-speaking world not least for her powerful Holocaust testimony, which is often compared with the …
Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund
A Memoir of Interwar Poland
Av Bernard Goldstein, Marvin S. Zuckerman
Häftad, 2016
352 kr
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Bernard Goldstein’s memoir describes a hard world of taverns, toughs, thieves, and prostitutes; of slaughterhouse workers, handcart porters, and wagon drivers; and of fist- and gunfights with everyone from anti-Semites and Communists to hostile police, which is to say that it depicts a totally …
Writers, Artists, Singers, and Musicians of the National Hungarian Jewish Cultural Association (OMIKE), 1939–1944
Häftad, 2016
430 kr
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In May 1938, Hungary passed anti-Semitic laws causing hundreds of Jewish artists to lose their jobs. In response, Budapest’s Jewish community leaders organized an Artistic Enterprise under the aegis of OMIKE Országos Magyar Izraelita Közm?vel?dési Egyesület (Hungarian Jewish Education Association) …
Rebuilt from Broken Glass
A German Jewish Life Remade in America
Av Fred Behrend, Larry Hanover
Inbunden, 2017
358 kr
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Symbolized by a three-hundred-year-old Seder plate, the religious life of Fred Behrend's family had centered largely around Passover and the tale of the Jewish people's exodus from tyranny. When the Nazis came to power, the wide-eyed boy and his family found themselves living a twentieth-century …
Borders, Territories, and Ethics
Hebrew Literature in the Shadow of the Intifada
Häftad, 2018
480 kr
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Borders, Territories, and Ethics: Hebrew Literature in the Shadowof the Intifada by Adia Mendelson-Maoz presents a new perspective on themultifaceted relations between ideologies, space, and ethics manifested incontemporary Hebrew literature dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflictand the …
