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Jewish Studies

Fragile Finitude A Jewish Hermeneutical Theology

Fishbane Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226764153, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The world we engage with is a vibrant collage brought to consciousness by language and our creative imagination. It is in the symbolic forms of language that the human world of value is revealed, and it is there that religious scholar Michael Fishban...

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Jewish Studies

Jewish Decadence Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity

Freedman Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226581088, ISBN: HB: 9780226580920, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 halftones

As Jewish writers, artists, and intellectuals made their way into Western European and Anglo-American cultural centers, they encountered a society obsessed with decadence. An avant-garde movement characterized by self-consciously artificial art and l...

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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

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Harvey Milk His Lives and Death

Faderman Lillian

ISBN: PB: 9780300248555, ISBN: HB: 9780300222616, Yale University Press, November 2019
304 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

Harvey Milk – eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck – was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not even served a full year in office when he was shot by a homophobic fellow supervisor. Milk's assassination at the a...

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Christianity

Judaism

When Christians Were Jews The First Generation

Fredriksen Paula

ISBN: PB: 9780300248401, Yale University Press, September 2019
280 pp., 21x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.

<p>How did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of God's promises to Israel, end up inaugurating a movement that would grow into the gentile church? Committed to Jes...

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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Franz Kafka The Poet of Shame and Guilt

Friedlander Saul

ISBN: PB: 9780300219722, ISBN: HB: 9780300136616, Yale University Press, May 2016
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.

Franz Kafka was the poet of his own disorder. Throughout his life he struggled with a pervasive sense of shame and guilt that left traces in his daily existence – in his many letters, extensive diaries, and especially in his fiction. This stimulating...

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Jewish Studies

Individual in History Essays in Honor of Jehuda Reinharz

Freeze Chaeran Y., Fuks Fried Sylvia, Sheppard Eugene R.

ISBN: HB: 9781611687323, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2015
580 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Jehuda Reinharz, born in Haifa in 1944, spent his childhood in Israel and his adolescence in Germany, and moved with his family to the United States when he was seventeen. These three diverse geographies and the experiences they engendered shaped his...

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Jewish Studies

Days Between Blessings, Poems, and Directions of the Heart for the Jewish High Holiday Season

Falk Marcia

ISBN: HB: 9781611686050, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2014
260 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Jewish High Holidays – the ten days beginning with the New Year Festival of Rosh Hashanah and culminating with Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement – constitute the most sacred period of the Jewish year. During this season, religious as well as nonaf...

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Jewish Studies

Polonica

Jewish Kapo in Auschwitz History, Memory, and the Politics of Survival

Friling Tuvia

ISBN: PB: 9781611685879, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Eliezer Gruenbaum (1908-1948) was a Polish Jew denounced for serving as a Kapo while interned at Auschwitz. He was the communist son of Itzhak Gruenbaum, the most prominent secular leader of interwar Polish Jewry who later became the chairman of the...

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Jewish Studies

Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia Select Documents, 1772-1914

Freeze Chaeran Y., Harris Jay M.

ISBN: PB: 9781611684551, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2013
664 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This book makes accessible – for the first time in English – declassified archival documents from the former Soviet Union, rabbinic sources, and previously untranslated memoirs, illuminating everyday Jewish life as the site of interaction and negotia...

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