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Jewish Studies

Europe

Road to September 1939 Polish Jews, Zionists, and the Yishuv on the Eve of World War II

Reinharz Jehuda, Shavit Yaacov

ISBN: PB: 9781684580071, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2020
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In European and Holocaust historiography, it is generally believed that neither the Zionist movement nor the Yishuv were mindful of the plight of European Jews in the face of the Nazi threat during the 1930s. Drawing on a wide variety of memoirs, let...

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Jewish Studies

Biography & Memoires

Glikl Memoirs 1691-1719

Turniansky Chava

ISBN: PB: 9781684580040, ISBN: HB: 9781684580057, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2019
375 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 6 line drawings

"My dear children, I write this for you in case your dear children or grandchildren come to you one of these days, knowing nothing of their family. For this reason I have set this down for you here in brief, so that you might know what kind of people...

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Jewish Studies

Women Studies

Jewish Woman of Distinction The Life and Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova

Freeze Chaeran Y.

ISBN: HB: 9781684580026, ISBN: PB: 9781684580019, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2019
400 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm, 17 halftones, 6 line drawings

Zinaida Poliakova (1863-1953) was the eldest daughter of Lazar Solomonovich Poliakov, one of the three brothers known as the Russian Rothschilds. They were moguls who dominated Russian finance and business and built almost a quarter of the railroad l...

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Jewish Studies

Yehuda Amichai The Making of Israel's National Poet

Scharf Gold Nili

ISBN: PB: 9781684580002, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2019
468 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Yehuda Amichai is one of the twentieth century's (and Israel's) leading poets. In this remarkable book, Nili Scharf Gold offers a profound reinterpretation of Amichai's early works and reconstructs his poetic biography. Her close reading of his oeuvr...

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Jewish Studies

Donigers of Great Neck A Mythologized Memoir

Doniger Wendy

ISBN: PB: 9781512603521, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2019
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Many memories, many myths" – this is how Wendy Doniger begins the story of her parents' origins in Europe and sharply bifurcated life in America. Recalling their contrasting attitudes toward Judaism and religion in general – and acknowledging the my...

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Jewish Studies

Philosophy

Spinoza's Challenge to Jewish Thought Writings on His Life, Philosophy, and Legacy

Schwartz Daniel B.

ISBN: PB: 9781584657125, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2019
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Arguably, no historical thinker has had as varied and fractious a reception within modern Judaism as Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza (1632-1677), the seventeenth-century philosopher, pioneering biblical critic, and Jewish heretic from Amsterdam. Revered in...

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Music

Let's Make a Better World Stories and Songs by Jane Sapp

Sapp Jane, Cohen Cynthia

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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Jewish Studies

Lost Library The Legacy of Vilna's Strashun Library in the Aftermath of the Holocaust

Rabinowitz Dan

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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History of Art

Divine Spark of Syracuse

Rowland Ingrid D.

ISBN: PB: 9781512603057, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2018
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Focusing on the figures of Plato, Archimedes, and Caravaggio, The Divine Spark of Syracuse discloses the role that Syracuse, a Greek cultural outpost in Sicily, played in fueling creative energies. Among the topics this book explores are Plato and th...

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Judaism

Gender Studies

Soul of the Stranger Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective

Ladin Joy

ISBN: PB: 9781512602937, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Reading some of the best-known Torah stories through the lens of transgender experience, Joy Ladin explores fundamental questions about how religious texts, traditions, and the understanding of God can be enriched by transgender perspectives, and how...

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