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Middle East

Jewish Studies

Oriental Neighbors Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine

Jacobson Abigail, Naor Moshe

ISBN: PB: 9781512600063, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2016
286 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Focusing on Oriental Jews and their relations with their Arab neighbors in Mandatory Palestine, this book analyzes the meaning of the hybrid Arab-Jewish identity that existed among Oriental Jews, and discusses their unique role as political, social,...

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Biography & Memoires

History of Art

Peggy Guggenheim The Shock of the Modern

Prose Francine

ISBN: PB: 9780300224290, Yale University Press, November 2016
240 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

<p>A spirited portrait of the colorful, irrepressible, and iconoclastic American collector who fearlessly advanced the cause of modern art One of twentieth-century America's most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) broug...

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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Proust The Search

Taylor Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780300224283, Yale University Press, November 2016
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

An arresting new study of the life, times, and achievement of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Taylor's endeavor is not to explain the life by the novel or the novel by the life but to show how different events, different...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Berlin for Jews A Twenty-First-Century Companion

Barkan Leonard

ISBN: HB: 9780226010663, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 2 maps

What is it like to travel to Berlin today, particularly as a Jew, and bring with you the baggage of history? And what happens when an American Jew, raised by a secular family, falls in love with Berlin not in spite of his being a Jew but because of i...

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Jewish Studies

Raising Secular Jews Yiddish Schools and Their Periodicals for American Children, 1917-1950

Prawer Kadar Naomi

ISBN: PB: 9781611689877, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This unique literary study of Yiddish children's periodicals casts new light on secular Yiddish schools in America in the first half of the twentieth century. Rejecting the traditional religious education of the Talmud Torahs and congregational schoo...

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History of Art

Jewish Studies

Venice, the Jews, and Europe 1516-2016

Calabi Donatella

ISBN: HB: 9788831724944, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2016
536 pp., 30.4x20.3 cm, 241 colour illus., 11 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Five hundred years of the Jewish Ghetto of Venice through art. This book aims to tell the story of the Ghetto of Venice, the first in the world – the way it grew within itself, its architecture, social makeup, crafts and t...

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Music

Women Studies

Season of Singing Creating Feminist Jewish Music in the United States

Ross Sarah M.

ISBN: PB: 9781611689600, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2016
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the 1960s, Jewish music in America began to evolve. Traditional liturgical tunes developed into a blend of secular and sacred sound that became known in the 1980s as "American Nusach". Chief among these developments was the growth of feminist Jewi...

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Jewish Studies

Self as Nation Contemporary Hebrew Autobiography

Hess Tamar S.

ISBN: PB: 9781611688801, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2016
228 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Theorists of autobiography tend to emphasize the centrality of the individual against the community. By contrast, in her reading of Hebrew autobiography, Tamar Hess identifies the textual presence and function of the collective and its interplay with...

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Jewish Studies

Political Science

Home for All Jews Citizenship, Rights, and National Identity in the New Israeli State

Rozin Orit

ISBN: PB: 9781611689501, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Orit Rozin's inspired scholarship focuses on the construction and negotiation of citizenship in Israel during the state's first decade. Positioning itself both within and against much of the critical sociological literature on the period, this work r...

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History of Art

Jewish Studies

Style and Seduction Jewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siecle Vienna

Shapira Elana

ISBN: PB: 9781611689211, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A recent surge of interest in Jewish patronage during the golden years of Vienna has led to the question, Would modernism in Vienna have developed in the same fashion had Jewish patrons not been involved? This book uniquely treats Jewish identificati...

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