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Education

Other Boston Busing Story What's Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line

Eaton Susan E.

ISBN: PB: 9781684580293, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

METCO, America's longest-running voluntary school desegregation program, buses black children from Boston's city neighborhoods to predominantly white suburban schools. In contrast to the infamous violence and rage that greeted forced school busing wi...

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Europe

General

Resistible Rise of Antisemitism Exemplary Cases from Russia, Ukraine, and Poland

Engelstein Laura

ISBN: PB: 9781684580095, ISBN: HB: 9781684580088, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2020
250 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Antisemitism emerged toward the end of the nineteenth century as a powerful political movement with broad popular appeal. It promoted a vision of the world in which a closely-knit tribe called "the Jews" conspired to dominate the globe through contro...

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Jewish Studies

Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady The Origins of Chabad Hasidism

Etkes Immanuel

ISBN: HB: 9781611686777, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2014
364 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady (1745-1812), in imperial Russia, was the founder and first rebbe of Chabad, a branch of Hasidic Judaism that flourishes to the present day. The Chabad-Lubavitch movement he founded in the region now known as Belarus playe...

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Biography & Memoires

Jewish Studies

Besht Magician, Mystic, and Leader

Etkes Immanuel

ISBN: PB: 9781611683080, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, February 2012
350 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Founded in Eastern Europe in the eighteenth century, the Hasidic movement and its religious thinking have dramatically transformed modern Judaism. The figure of the Ba'al Shem Tov (known in acronym form as the BeSHT) – the purported founder of the Ha...

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