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Lives Brought to Life 20 Years of Literature of Emotion and Everyday Life
ISBN: PB: 9780967885636, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2020
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates
Founded twenty years ago by poet, memoirist, and clinical psychologist Joan Cusack Handler, CavanKerry Press has published fine literary work by established and emerging writers focused on the pursuit of understanding what it means to be human throug...
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Learning on the Left Political Profiles of Brandeis University
ISBN: HB: 9781684580118, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2020
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Brandeis University is the United States' only Jewish-sponsored nonsectarian university, and while only being established after World War II, it has risen to become one of the most respected universities in the nation. The faculty and alumni of the u...
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Let's Make a Better World Stories and Songs by Jane Sapp
ISBN: PB: 9781512603552, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2019
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Jane Sapp is a nationally admired cultural worker, musician, educator, and activist whose approach to social transformation is rooted in African American musical traditions and made available here as a resource for communities around the world. Jane...
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Lost Library The Legacy of Vilna's Strashun Library in the Aftermath of the Holocaust
ISBN: PB: 9781512603095, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2018
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Strashun Library was among the most important Jewish public institutions in Vilna, and indeed in Eastern Europe, prior to its destruction during World War II. Mattityahu Strashun, descended from a long and distinguished line of rabbis, bequeathed...
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Legalizing Plural Marriage The Next Frontier in Family Law
ISBN: PB: 9781611688351, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Polygamous marriages are currently recognized in nearly fifty countries worldwide. Although polygamy is technically illegal in the United States, it is practiced by members of some religious communities and a growing number of other "poly" groups. In...
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Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families Paradoxes of a Social Revolution
ISBN: PB: 9781611688603, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2015
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The concepts of gender, love, and family – as well as the personal choices regarding gender-role construction, sexual and romantic liaisons, and family formation – have become more fluid under a society-wide softening of boundaries, hierarchies, and...
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Language and Power in the Early Middle Ages
ISBN: PB: 9781611683912, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2013
136 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The eminent historian Patrick J. Geary has written a provocative book, based on lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel about the role of language and ideology in the study and history of the early Middle Ages. He includes a fascinatin...
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Land and Desire in Early Zionism
ISBN: PB: 9781584659686, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2011
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This innovative study examines the responses of early-twentieth-century pioneers to "the Land" of Palestine. Early Zionist historiography portrayed these young settlers as heroic; later, more critical studies by the "new" historians and sociologists...
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Leading Roles 50 Questions Every Arts Board Should Ask
ISBN: HB: 9781584659068, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2010
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not-for-profit arts organizations struggled to survive the recent economic recession. In this increasingly hardscrabble environment, it is absolutely imperative that the boards of these organizations function as energetically, creatively, and efficie...
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Learning and Community Jewish Supplementary Schools in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: PB: 9781584657705, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2009
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
At a time of heightened interest in Jewish supplementary schooling, this volume offers a path-breaking examination of how ten diverse schools have remade themselves to face the new challenges of the twenty-first century. Each written by an academic o...
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