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Jewish Studies

Music

Bohlman Philip V.

ISBN: HB + CD: 9780226063263, University of Chicago Press, March 2009
240 pp., 23.5x21.3 cm, 4 musical examples, 9 halftones illus., 19 colour illus.

Tackling the myriad issues raised by Sander Gilman's provocative opening salvo – "Are Jews Musical?" – this volume's distinguished contributors present a series of essays that trace the intersections of Jewish history and music from the late nineteen...

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Photography

Journey to Nine Islands

ISBN: PB: 9780939914098, University of Chicago Press, February 2008
96 pp., 30.5x22.8 cm, colour illus.

Accompanied by charming and accessible text, the floral centerfolds of "Journey to Nine Islands" invite the reader to participate in the world of the Chicago Botanic Garden – one of the nation's most visited public gardens and a preeminent center for...

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Jewish Studies

Judaism Musical and Unmusical

Steinberg Michael P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226771953, ISBN: HB: 9780226771946, University of Chicago Press, January 2008
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 39 halftones

Modernity gave rise to a Jewish consciousness that has increasingly distanced itself from the sacred in favor of worldliness and secularity".Judaism Musical and Unmusical" traces the formulation of this secular Jewishness from its Enlightenment roots...

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History of Art

Jean-Antoine Houdon Sculptor of the Enlightenment

Poulet Anne L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226676494, University of Chicago Press, June 2005
400 pp., 28.1x22.8 cm, 144 colour plates, 225 halftones

Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1826) has long been recognized as the greatest European portrait sculptor of the late eighteenth century, flourishing during both the American and French Revolutions as well as during the Directoire and Empire in France. Whe...

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Europe

Justice in the Balkans Prosecuting War Crimes in the Hague Tribunal

Hagan John

ISBN: HB: 9780226312286, University of Chicago Press, November 2003
304 pp., 23.6x16.2 cm, 7 illus.

Called a fig leaf for inaction by many at its inception, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has surprised its critics by growing from an unfunded U. N. Security Council resolution to an institution with more than 1,000 empl...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial Russia

Freeze Chaeran Y.

ISBN: PB: 9781584651604, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2001
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

ChaeRan Freeze explores the impact of various forces on marriage and divorce among Jews in 19th-century Russia. Challenging romantic views of the Jewish family in the shtetl, she shows that divorce rates among Russian Jews in the first half of the ce...

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History of Art

Juan Munoz

Benezra Neal, Viso Olga M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226042909, University of Chicago Press, October 2001
228 pp., 30.6x25.6 cm, 88 colour plates, 65 halftones

One of the leading artists of his generation, the Spanish sculptor Juan Munoz (1953-2001) was known for his diverse and highly original body of work centering on the narrative possibilities of figures in environments".Juan Munoz" illustrates in full...

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Philosophy

Jacques Derrida

Derrida Jacques, Bennington Geoffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780226042626, ISBN: HB: 9780226042619, University of Chicago Press, June 1999
432 pp., 23x15 cm

This extraordinary book offers a clear and compelling biography of Jacques Derrida along with one of Derrida's strangest and most unexpected texts. Geoffrey Bennington's account of Derrida leads the reader through the philosopher's familiar yet widel...

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Anthropology

Jealous Potter

Levi-Strauss Claude

ISBN: PB: 9780226474823, ISBN: HB: 9780226474809, University of Chicago Press, December 1996
260 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 colour plate, 11 halftones

As Levi-Strauss freely explores the mythologies of the Americas, with occasional incursions into European and Japanese folklore, tales of sloths and squirrels interweave with discussions of Freud, Saussure, "signification", and plays by Sophocles and...

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History of Art

Judgment of Paris

Damisch Hubert

ISBN: PB: 9780226135120, ISBN: HB: 9780226135106, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
396 pp., 22.9x15.3 cm, 116 halftones

Drawing on Freudian theories of sexuality and Kant's conception of the beautiful, French art historian Hubert Damisch considers artists as diverse as Raphael, Picasso, Watteau, and Manet to demonstrate that beauty has always been connected to ideas o...

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