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"Winner of the 2018 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Scholarship" "Winner of the 2018 J.I. Segal English Non-fiction Award on a Jewish Theme, Jewish Public Library" "Winner of the 2018 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Modern Jewish History and Culture: Europe and Israel, Association for Jewish Studies" Daniel Kupfert Heller is assistant professor of Jewish studies at McGill University.
How interwar Poland and its Jewish youth were instrumental in...
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En cette période de chasse aux sorcières o critiquer Israël est facilement taxé d'antisémitisme et o l'amalgame entre ce délit et l'antisionisme se répand un peu partout, revenir au passé, aux prémices du sionisme, cela semble bien nécessaire pour une meilleure compréhension du présent et de l'avenir et pour rétablir une vérité à laquelle ont droit en premier lieu les Palestiniens. Hé oui, l'histoire écrite par les vainqueurs, pourtant...
1603) You Who Cross My Path
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This first US publication of Erez Bitton, one of Israel's most celebrated poets, recalls the fate of Moroccan Jewish culture with poems both evocative and pure. Considered the founding father of Mizrahi Israeli, a major tradition in the history of Hebrew poetry, Bitton's bilingual collection dramatically expands the scope of biographical experience and memory, ultimately resurrecting a vanishing world and culture. Preliminary Background Words My mother...
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Nina Bandelj is assistant professor of sociology and faculty associate at the Center for the Study of Democracy at the University of California, Irvine.
From Communists to Foreign Capitalists explores the intersections of two momentous changes in the late twentieth century: the fall of Communism and the rise of globalization. Delving into the economic change that accompanied these shifts in central and Eastern Europe, Nina Bandelj presents a pioneering...
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Aliyah is the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to, historically, the geographical Land of Israel, which is in the modern era chiefly represented by the State of Israel. Traditionally described as "the act of going up", moving to the Land of Israel or "making aliyah" is one of the most basic tenets of Zionism.
Zionist ideology was premised upon the reconstitution of the Jews as a free, self-determining nation in their own state. In recognition...
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Hadha Baladuna ("this is our country") is the first work of creative nonfiction in the field of Arab American literature that focuses entirely on the Arab diaspora in Metro Detroit, an area with the highest concentration of Arab Americans in the US. Narratives move from a young Lebanese man in the early 1920s peddling his wares along country roads to an aspiring Iraqi-Lebanese poet who turns to the music of Tupac Shakur for inspiration. The anthology...
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Modern-day Israel, and the Jewish community, are strongly influenced by the memory and horrors of Hitler and the Holocaust. Burg argues that the Jewish nation has been traumatized and has lost the ability to trust itself, its neighbors or the world around it. He shows that this is one of the causes for the growing nationalism and violence that are plaguing Israeli society and reverberating through Jewish communities worldwide. Burg uses his own family...
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The very name of the Israel Defense Forces, which many Israelis speak of as "the most moral army in the world", suggests that its primary mission is the defense of the country's territory. Indeed, both internationally and within Israel, support for the occupation of Palestinian territory rests on the belief that the army's actions and presence in the West Bank and Gaza are essentially defensive and responsive, aimed at protecting the country from...
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Due to the enormous-and ever-growing-interest in Palestinian plays around the world, Inside/Outside brings together six dynamic Palestinian playwrights from both Occupied Palestine and the Diaspora, making it the very first collection of its kind. These plays take on Palestinian history and culture with irreverence, humor, and, above all, an electrifying creativity. This anthology will be a vital contribution to world theater, introducing six political,...
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The Tao Te Ching or Book of the Way of Virtue is a touchstone of Eastern philosophy and mysticism. It has been called the wisest book ever written, and its author, Lao Tzu, is known as the Great Archivist. Shakespeare, the Bard, was the West's greatest writer and even invented human nature, according to some. The Tao and the Bard is the delightful conversation between these two unlikely spokesmen, who take part in a free exchange of views in its pages....
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Walter Armbrust is the Albert Hourani Fellow and associate professor in modern Middle Eastern studies at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford. He is the author of Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt.
An important look at the hopeful rise and tragic defeat of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011
The Egyptian Revolution of 2011 began with immense hope, but was defeated in two and a half years, ushering in the most brutal and corrupt regime in modern...
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The pinnacle of Buddhism's understanding of reality is the emptiness of all things. Exploring reality towards the realization of emptiness is shockingly radical. It uncovers an exhilarating freedom with nowhere to stand, while engendering a loving joy that engages the world. This path-breaking book employs the emptiness teachings in a fresh, innovative way. Goode and Sander don't rely solely on historical models and meditations. Instead, they have...
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"Co-Winner of the 2016 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Modern Language Association" "Winner of the 2017 AATSEEL Prize for the Best Book in Literary Studies, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages" Emily Van Buskirk is associate professor in the Department of Germanic, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures at Rutgers University. She is the coeditor of Lydia...
1614) Siméon l'Ascenseurite
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Ce ne serait pas un problème insoluble, s'il n'était occupé par leur voisin Siméon.
Pour désavouer le chacun-pour-soi de ses semblables, il a choisi de s'y cloîtrer. Son geste suscite, tour à tour, la perplexité, l'agacement, la curiosité, puis la déférence.
Siméon devient une sorte de directeur de conscience îlotier, prodiguant des conseils, faisant quelques modestes « miracles ». Et, s'il n'y avait que les miracles... Mais il y...
1615) Party Headquarters
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Winner of the Vick Foundation Novel of the Year Award in 2007, Party Headquarters takes place in the eighties and nineties, during Bulgaria's transition from communist rule to democracy. The book-which is a love story, a parody, and a thriller about a political hoax-opens with the main character visiting his father-in-law, an old communist party boss who is dying, and being tasked with delivering a suitcase filled with one-and-a-half million euros....
1616) Who will write our history?: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive
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"In 1940 the historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine organization, code named Oyneg Shabes, in Nazi-occupied Warsaw to study and document all facets of Jewish life in wartime Poland and to compile an archive that would preserve this history for posterity." "Who Will Write Our History? tells the gripping story of Ringelblum and his determination to use historical scholarship and the collection of documents to resist Nazi oppression....
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" DAVID CESARANI, OBE is Research Professor in History at Royal Holloway, Univ. of London and the award-winning author of Becoming Eichmann and Major Farran's Hat. He was awarded the OBE for services to Holocaust Education and advising the British government on the establishment of Holocaust Memorial Day. He lives in England."--
"A new one-volume history of the Nazi mass murder and persecution of the Jews by a noted historian that incorporates the...
1620) Operation Barbarossa
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1 videodisc (48 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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A background to Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. This battle on the Russian front led to the biggest, bloodiest battle ever fought, costing the lives of at least 20 million people and ending Europe's dominiance in world affars. In sheer numbers, miles of front, and quantity of guns, shells, and tanks, no other battle in history can compare with it. Codenamed "Operation Barbarossa" by the German Army, the footage shown has been...
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