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Jewish Studies

Law

Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court From Brandeis to Kagan

Dalin David G.

ISBN: HB: 9781611682380, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2017
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court" examines the lives, legal careers, and legacies of the eight Jews who have served or who currently serve as justices of the U.S. Supreme Court: Louis D. Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, Felix Frankfurter, Arthur Gold...

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Japanese

Jacy An Implemented Grammar of Japanese

Siegel Melanie, Bender Emily M., Bond Francis

ISBN: PB: 9781684000180, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This book describes the fundamentals of Jacy, an implementation of a Japanese head-driven phrase structure grammar with many useful linguistic implications. Jacy presents sound information about the Japanese language (syntax, semantics, and pragmatic...

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Jewish Studies

Polonica

Jewish Families in Europe, 1939-Present History, Representation, and Memory

Michlic Joanna Beata

ISBN: PB: 9781512600100, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2017
306 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This book offers an extensive introduction and 13 diverse essays on how World War II, the Holocaust, and their aftermath affected Jewish families and Jewish communities, with an especially close look at the roles played by women, youth, and children....

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Literary Criticism

Jane Austen's Names Riddles, Persons, Places

Doody Margaret

ISBN: PB: 9780226419107, ISBN: HB: 9780226157832, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
440 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones

In Jane Austen's works, a name is never just a name. In fact, the names Austen gives her characters and places are as rich in subtle meaning as her prose itself. Wiltshire, for example, the home county of Catherine Morland in "Northanger Abbey", is a...

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Linguistics

Japanese

Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 23

Levin Theodore, Masuda Ryo, Kenstowicz Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781575867526, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, August 2016
400 pp., 22.9x15 cm

Japanese and Korean are typologically similar, with linguistic phenomena in one often having counterparts in the other. The Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for research, particularly through comparative study, of both language...

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World

Juvenescence A Cultural History of Our Age

Pogue Harrison Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226381961, ISBN: HB: 9780226171999, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

How old are you? The more thought you bring to bear on the question, the harder it is to answer. For we age simultaneously in different ways: biologically, psychologically, socially. And we age within the larger framework of a culture, in the midst o...

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Music

Jazz Worlds/World Jazz

Bohlman Philip V., Plastino Goffredo

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780226236032, ISBN: HB + CD: 9780226158082, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
552 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 42 halftones, 11 line drawings

Many regard jazz as the soundtrack of America, born and raised in its cities and echoing throughout its tumultuous century of progress. So when Ernest Hemingway wrote about seeing jazz in 1920s Paris, and when British colonial officials danced to jaz...

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History of Art

John La Farge and the Recovery of the Sacred

Howe Jeffery W.

ISBN: PB: 9781892850249, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, August 2015
150 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 75 colour plates, 100 halftones

This collection offers a new look at American artist John La Farge (1835-1910) and his lifelong efforts to visualize the sacred. Most clearly reflected in his ecclesiastical paintings and stained glass windows, the latter of which appear in churches...

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Cookbooks

Jewish Studies

Jewish Soul Food Traditional Fare and What It Means

Ungar Carol

ISBN: PB: 9781611685015, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Jewish traditional foods often have symbolic meanings. A Passover matzo is a taste of Egyptian slavery. The Hanukkah latke reminds us of the little jug of oil that burned, miraculously, for eight nights. Noshing hamentaschen at Purim, we remember the...

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Linguistics

Japanese

Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 21

Nam Seungho, Ko Heejeong, Jun Jongho

ISBN: PB: 9781575866543, ISBN: HB: 9781575866536, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2015
500 pp., 22.9x15 cm

Japanese and Korean are typologically similar languages, and a linguistic phenomenon in the former often has a counterpart in the latter. The papers in this volume are from the twenty-first Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, which was held at Se...

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