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Jewish Studies

Anyone Who Utters a Consoling Word Is a Traitor 48 Stories for Fritz Bauer

Kluge Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780857427823, Seagull Books, December 2020
120 pp., 19.7x13.9 cm

Alexander Kluge's work has long grappled with the Third Reich and its aftermath, and the extermination of the Jews forms its gravitational center. Kluge is forever reminding us to keep our present catastrophes in perspective – "calibrated" – against...

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Jewish Studies

Media Studies

Anti-Journalist Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siecle Europe

Reitter Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226754574, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Karl Kraus created a bold new style of media criticism, penning incisive satires that elicited both admiration and outrage. Kraus's spectacularly hostile critiques often focused on his fellow Jewish journalists, which b...

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Jewish Studies

American Jewish Thought Since 1934 Writings on Identity, Engagement, and Belief

Marmur Michael, Ellenson David

ISBN: PB: 9781684580149, ISBN: HB: 9781684580132, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2020
275 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What is the role of Judaism and Jewish existence in America? And what role does America play in matters Jewish? This anthology considers these questions and offers a look at how the diverse body of Jewish thought developed within the historical and i...

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Biography & Memoires

Contemporary Art

Alfred Stieglitz Taking Pictures, Making Painters

Rose Phyllis

ISBN: HB: 9780300226485, Yale University Press, May 2019
272 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 89 black&white illus.

Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was an enormously influential artist and nurturer of artists even though his career is often overshadowed by his role as Georgia O'Keeffe's husband. This new book from celebrated biographer Phyllis Rose reconsiders Stiegl...

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America

Jewish Studies

After They Closed the Gates Jewish Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921-1965

Garland Libby

ISBN: PB: 9780226565224, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 1921 and 1924, the United States passed laws to sharply reduce the influx of immigrants into the country. By allocating only small quotas to the nations of southern and eastern Europe, and banning almost all immigration from Asia, the new laws wer...

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Jewish Studies

Islam

Across Legal Lines Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco

Marglin Jessica M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300218466, Yale University Press, January 2017
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

A previously untold story of Jewish-Muslim relations in modern Morocco, showing how law facilitated Jews' integration into the broader Moroccan society in which they lived Morocco went through immense upheaval in the nineteenth and early twentieth ce...

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Jewish Studies

Anna and Tranquillo Catholic Anxiety and Jewish Protest in the Age of Revolutions

Stow Kenneth

ISBN: HB: 9780300219043, Yale University Press, January 2017
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 3 black&white illus.

A historical interpretation of the diary of an eighteenth-century Jewish woman who resisted the efforts of the papal authorities to force her religious conversion After being seized by the papal police in Rome in May 1749, Anna del Monte, a Jew, kept...

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Jewish Studies

Auschwitz The Complete Guide

Buck Perry

ISBN: PB: 9781742577562, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, November 2015
192 pp., 23.2x22.7 cm, black&white illus.

"Auschwitz: The Complete Guide" brings the history, cultural impact and modern-day travel experiences of Auschwitz together in a single volume for the very first time. Although Auschwitz was one of many German concentration and extermination camps o...

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Middle East

Jewish Studies

Archaeology of Jerusalem From the Origins to the Ottomans

Galor Katharina, Bloedhorn Hanswulf

ISBN: PB: 9780300216622, Yale University Press, November 2015
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 20 colour images, 185 black&white illus.

In this sweeping and lavishly illustrated history, Katharina Galor and Hanswulf Bloedhorn survey nearly four thousand years of human settlement and building activity in Jerusalem, from prehistoric times through the Ottoman period. The study is struct...

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Christianity

Jewish Studies

Age of Secrecy Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400-1800

Jutte Daniel, Riemer Jeremiah

ISBN: HB: 9780300190984, Yale University Press, July 2015
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries were truly an Age of Secrecy in Europe, when arcane knowledge was widely believed to be positive knowledge which extended into all areas of daily life. So asserts Daniel Jutte in this engrossing, vivid,...

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