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Jewish Studies

Jewhooing the Sixties American Celebrity and Jewish Identity – Sandy Koufax, Lenny Bruce, Bob Dylan, and Barbra Streisand

Kaufman David E.

ISBN: PB: 9781611683141, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2012
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Sandy Koufax, Lenny Bruce, Bob Dylan, and Barbra Streisand first came to public attention in the early 1960s, a period Kaufman identifies as historically ripe for American Jews to reexamine their (Jewish) identities. All four achieved extraordinary s...

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Jewish Studies

Jews Welcome Coffee Tradition and Innovation in Early Modern Germany

Liberles Robert

ISBN: PB: 9781611682465, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2012
190 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Tracing the introduction of coffee into Europe, Robert Liberles challenges long-held assumptions about early modern Jewish history and shows how the Jews harnessed an innovation that enriched their personal, religious, social, and economic lives. Foc...

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Linguistics

Japanese

Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 19

Cheon Sang Lee, Sohn Ho-min, Cook Haruko Minegishi, O'Grady William, Serafim Leon Angelo

ISBN: PB: 9781575866185, ISBN: HB: 9781575866192, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2012
547 pp., 22.9x15 cm

Japanese and Korean are typologically similar languages, and a linguistic phenomenon in the former often has a counterpart in the latter. The papers in this volume are from the nineteenth Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, which was held at the...

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Jewish Studies

Jews and Race Writings on Identity and Difference, 1880-1940

Hart Mitchell B.

ISBN: PB: 9781584657170, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2011
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Many people think of Jews as victims of a particular sort of racism, not as active participants in the development of racial thinking in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Yet many Jews did take up racial discourse and used it to analyze Judaism...

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Jewish Studies

Judaism Despite Christianity The 1916 Wartime Correspondence Between Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Franz Rosenzweig

Rosenstock-Huessy Eugen

ISBN: PB: 9780226728018, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
224 pp., 23x15 cm

Before they were both internationally renowned philosophers, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Franz Rosenzweig were young German soldiers fighting in World War I corresponding by letter and forming the foundation of their deep intellectual friendship. Col...

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Contemporary Art

Jan Koblasa Intaglio Prints

Neslehova Mahulena

ISBN: PB: 9788024618111, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2011
264 pp., 28x23 cm, 473 halftones, 40 colour illus.

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Jan Koblasa has ranked among the leading figures of Czech and European art since the1960s. His sculptures have been integrated into many European cities, sacred spaces, and sculptors' park...

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Law

Judicial Power of the Purse How Courts Fund National Defense in Times of Crisis

Staudt Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9780226771144, ISBN: HB: 9780226771120, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
216 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 16 tables, 10 line illus.

Congress and the president are not the only branches that deal with fiscal issues in times of war. In this innovative book, Nancy Staudt focuses on the role of federal courts in fiscal matters during warfare and high-cost national defense emergencies...

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Linguistics

Japanese

Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 18

McClure William, Dikken Marcel

ISBN: PB: 9781575866161, ISBN: HB: 9781575866178, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, March 2011
456 pp., 22.9x15 cm

Because Japanese and Korean are typologically quite similar, a linguistic phenomenon in one language often has a counterpart in the other. The annual Japanese-Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for presenting research that will deepen our...

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Gender Studies

Just One of the Guys? Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality

Schilt Kristen

ISBN: PB: 9780226738079, ISBN: HB: 9780226738055, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 tables

The fact that men and women continue to receive unequal treatment at work is a point of contention among politicians, the media, and scholars. Common explanations for this disparity range from biological differences between the sexes to the conscious...

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Jewish Studies

Jewish Dimensions in Modern Visual Culture Antisemitism, Assimilation, Affirmation

Washton Long Rose-Carol, Baigell Matthew, Heyd Milly

ISBN: HB: 9781584657958, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2009
356 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In modern western history, the cultural and social developments of modernism have long been associated with Jews. For conservative groups this has been a negative association: the perceived breakdown of traditional norms was blamed on Jewish influenc...

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