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America

Travel

Boston's Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them

Bagley Joseph M.

ISBN: PB: 9781684580392, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2021
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 160 colour plates

As Boston approaches its four-hundredth anniversary, it is remarkable that it still maintains its historic character despite constant development. The fifty buildings featured in this book all pre-date1800 and illustrate Boston's early history. This...

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Christianity

America

Blood and Boundaries The Limits of Religious and Racial Exclusion in Early Modern Latin America

Schwartz Stuart B.

ISBN: PB: 9781684580200, ISBN: HB: 9781684580194, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates

In "Blood and Boundaries", Stuart B. Schwartz takes us to late medieval Latin America to show how Spain and Portugal's policies of exclusion and discrimination based on religious origins and genealogy were transferred to their colonies in Latin Ameri...

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Nature

Amazing Nature

Bark A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast

Wojtech Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781684580316, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 283 colour plates, 151 halftones, 65 maps

What kind of tree is that? Whether you're hiking in the woods or simply sitting in your backyard, from Maine to New York you'll never be without an answer to that question, thanks to this handy companion to the trees of the Northeast. Featuring detai...

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Film Studies

Jewish Studies

Bridge of Light Yiddish Film between Two Worlds

Hoberman J.

ISBN: PB: 9781584658702, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2020
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Published to great acclaim in 1991, J. Hoberman's "Bridge of Light" is now back in print with a new foreword and final chapter discussing recent research, rediscoveries, and restorations.

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Jewish Studies

Black Power, Jewish Politics Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s

Dollinger Marc

ISBN: PB: 9781512602579, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Marc Dollinger charts the transformation of American Jewish political culture from the Cold War liberal consensus of the early postwar years to the rise and influence of Black Power–inspired ethnic nationalism. He shows how, in a period best known fo...

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Other

Judaism

Brandeis Modern Hebrew

Ringvald Vardit, Porath Bonit, Peleg Yaron, Shorr Esther, Hascal Sara

ISBN: PB: 9781611689181, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2015
608 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Written by the core faculty of the Hebrew Program at Brandeis University, Brandeis Modern Hebrew is an accessible introduction to the Hebrew language for American undergraduates and high school students. Its functional and contextual elements are des...

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Jewish Studies

Becoming Israeli National Ideals and Everyday Life in the 1950s

Helman Anat

ISBN: PB: 9781611685572, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2014
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

With a light touch and many wonderful illustrations, historian Anat Helman investigates "life on the ground" in Israel during the first years of statehood. She looks at how citizens – natives of the land, longtime immigrants, and newcomers – coped wi...

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Jewish Studies

Best School in Jerusalem Annie Landau's School for Girls, 1900-1960

Schor Laura S.

ISBN: PB: 9781611684858, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2013
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Annie Edith (Hannah Judith) Landau (1873-1945), born in London to immigrant parents and educated as a teacher, moved to Jerusalem in 1899 to teach English at the Anglo-Jewish Association's Evelina de Rothschild School for Girls. A year later she beca...

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Judaism

Brandeis Modern Hebrew: Intermediate to Advanced Pilot Edition

Ringvald Vardit, Porath Bonit, Peleg Yaron, Shorr Esther

ISBN: PB: 9781611684476, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2013
396 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Written by the core faculty of the Hebrew program at Brandeis University, the pilot edition of Brandeis Modern Hebrew, Intermediate to Advanced serves as a sequel to the well-known volume for beginners. It contains the functional and contextual eleme...

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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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