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Biography & Memoires

O'Driscoll Kari

ISBN: PB: 9781933880761, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, February 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A family built, a family lost. "Truth Has a Different Shape" is a story of the power of compassion, of love and loss, revelations and relationship, and the evolution of self. Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, Kari O'Driscoll was taught that strength...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

T. G. Masaryk and the Jewish Question

Pojar Milos

ISBN: PB: 9788024638799, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
300 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 25 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this book, Miloڑ Pojar traces the development and transformation of the opinions about Jews and Judaism of the first Czechoslovak president, T. G. Masaryk. Pojar describes the key event...

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Biography & Memoires

Mother of Orphans The True and Curious Story of Irish Alice, a Colored Man's Widow

Humphries Barker Dedria

ISBN: PB: 9781940939780, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, January 2020
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Mother of Orphans" is the compelling true story of Alice, an Irish-American woman who defied rigid social structures to form a family with a black man in Ohio in 1899. Alice and her husband had three children together, but after his death in 1912, A...

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America

Biography & Memoires

World of Juliette Kinzie Chicago before the Fire

Durkin Keating Ann

ISBN: HB: 9780226664521, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

When Juliette Kinzie first visited Chicago in 1831, it was anything but a city. An outpost in the shadow of Fort Dearborn, it had no streets, no sidewalks, no schools, no river-spanning bridges. And with two hundred disconnected residents, it lacked...

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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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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Bohumil Hrabal A Full-Length Portrait

Pelan Jiri

ISBN: PB: 9788024639093, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2019
130 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 32 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Described by Parul Sehgal in the New York Times Book Review as "one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century; the scourge of state censors; the gregarious bar hound and lover o...

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America

Arthur Vandenberg The Man in the Middle of the American Century

Meier Heinrich

ISBN: PB: 9780226682037, ISBN: HB: 9780226433486, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

The idea that a Senator – Republican or Democrat – would put the greater good of the country ahead of party seems nearly impossible to imagine in our current climate of gridlock and divisiveness. But this hasn't always been the case. Arthur H. Vanden...

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Biography & Memoires

Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe

Jakiela Lori

ISBN: PB: 9781938769429, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2019
290 pp., 17.7x12.7 cm

After her adoptive mother's death, Lori Jakiela, at the age of forty, begins to seek the identity of her birth parents. In the midst of this loss, Jakiela also finds herself with a need to uncover her family's medical history to gather answers for he...

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Jewish Studies

Gershom Scholem An Intellectual Biography

Engel Amir

ISBN: PB: 9780226683324, ISBN: HB: 9780226428635, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was ostensibly a scholar of Jewish mysticism, yet he occupies a powerful role in today's intellectual imagination, having an influential contact with an extraordinary cast of thinkers, including Hans Jonas, Martin Buber, W...

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