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History of Art
Wood Engraving The Art of Wood Engraving and Relief Engraving
Moser Barry
ISBN: PB: 9781684580484, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2021
112 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 70 halftones
Written and illustrated by master wood engraver Barry Moser, this primer on the art of wood engraving is filled with valuable knowledge including how to prepare a printing block; how to think in the medium's properties of line, shape, and ink; and ho...
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Literary Criticism
Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China
Der-Wei Wang David
ISBN: PB: 9781684580279, ISBN: HB: 9781684580262, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Contemporary discussions of China tend to focus on politics and economics, giving Chinese culture little if any attention. Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China offers a corrective, revealing the crucial role that fiction plays in helping contemp...
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Film Studies
Jewish Studies
Woody on Rye Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen
Brook Vincent, Grinberg Marat
ISBN: PB: 9781611684803, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2013
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Although Woody Allen's films have received extensive attention from scholars and critics, no book has focused exclusively on Jewishness in his work, particularly that of the late 1990s and beyond. In this anthology, a distinguished group of contribut...
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Women Studies
Wedding Song Memoirs of an Iranian Jewish Woman
Goldin Farideh
ISBN: PB: 9781584654445, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2004
220 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Farideh Goldin was born to her fifteen-year-old mother in 1953 and into a Jewish community living in an increasingly hostile Islamic state – prerevolutionary Iran. This memoir is Goldin's passionate and painful account of her childhood in a poor Jewi...
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Women Studies
Jewish Studies
Women and Water Menstruation in Jewish Life and Law
Wasserfall Rahel
ISBN: PB: 9780874519600, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 1999
290 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The term Niddah means separation. During her menstrual flow and for several days thereafter, a Jewish woman is considered Niddah – separate from her husband and unable to practice the sacred rituals of Judaism. Purification in a miqveh (a ritual bath...
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