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Peasant Scenes And Landscapes - The Rise Of Pictorial Genres In The Antwerp Art Market

by Larry Silver

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 Larry Silver investigates the origins of new pictorial types and their media as a phenomenon of sixteenth-century Antwerp and interprets several pictorial genres as he charts their evolution and their role in the development and marketing of individual artistic styles.
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Old Worlds, New Mirrors - On Jewish Mysticism And Twentieth-Century Thought

by Moshe Idel

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 In Old Worlds, New Mirrors Moshe Idel turns his gaze on figures as diverse as Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, Franz Kafka and Franz Rosenzweig, Arnaldo Momigliano and Paul Celan, Abraham Heschel and George Steiner to reflect on their relationships to Judaism in a cosmopolitan, mostly European, context.
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Werner Scholem - A German Life

by Mirjam Zadoff

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 In Werner Scholem: A German Life, Mirjam Zadoff has written a book that is at once a biography of an individual, a family chronicle, and the story of an entire era.
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The Wreckage Of Intentions - Projects In British Culture, 166-173

by David Alff

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 The Wreckage of Intentions offers a comprehensive account of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century projects-concrete yet incomplete efforts to advance British society during a period defined by revolutions in finance and agriculture, the rise of experimental science, and the establishment of constitutional monarchy.
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Deborah And Her Sisters - How One Nineteenth-Century Melodrama And A Host Of Celebrated Actresses Put Judaism On The World Stage

by Jonathan M. Hess

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 Before Fiddler on the Roof, there was Deborah, a blockbuster melodrama about a Jewish woman forsaken by her non-Jewish lover. Deborah and Her Sisters offers the first comprehensive history of this transnational phenomenon, focusing on its ability to bring Jews and non-Jews together during a period of increasing antisemitism.
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Food On The Page - Cookbooks And American Culture

by Megan J. Elias

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 In Food on the Page, the first comprehensive history of American cookbooks, Megan J. Elias chronicles cookbook publishing from the early 1800s to the present day. Examining a wealth of fascinating archival material, Elias explores the role words play in the creation of taste on both a personal and a national level.
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Deportation - The Origins Of U.S. Policy

by Torrie Hester

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 A history of immigration policy in the United States and the world, Deportation chronicles the unsystematic emergence of what has become an internationally recognized legal doctrine, the far-reaching impact of which forever altered what it means to be an immigrant and a citizen.
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Electing The President, 2012 - The Insiders' View

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 Kathleen Hall Jamieson brings together prominent members of the campaign staffs for Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, debriefing their strategies, poll data, and perceptions of the 2012 election cycle.
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A Predictable Tragedy - Robert Mugabe And The Collapse Of Zimbabwe

by Daniel Compagnon

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 An unflinching analysis of how Robert Mugabe, a man once known as an anticolonial freedom fighter, became one of Africa's most hated autocrats, and why so many inside and outside Zimbabwe were long blind to his bloody misdeeds.
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Getting A Phd In Economics

by Stuart J. Hillmon

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 The first manual designed to meet the specific needs of economics graduate students, Getting a Ph.D. in Economics walks the reader through the total experience, from the Ph.D. admissions process to arduous first-year coursework and qualifying exams to armoring up for the volatile job market.
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The Jewish Enlightenment

by Shmuel Feiner

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 Unparalleled in scale and comprehensiveness, The Jewish Enlightenment reconstructs the intellectual and social revolution of the Haskalah as it gradually gathered momentum throughout the eighteenth century.
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The Art Of Being Jewish In Modern Times

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 This richly illustrated volume illuminates how the arts have helped Jews confront the challenges of modernity. There truly is an art to being Jewish in the modern worldâ€"or, alternatively, an art to being modern in the Jewish worldâ€"and this collection fully captures its range, diversity, and historical significance.
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Entangled Histories - Knowledge, Authority, And Jewish Culture In The Thirteenth Century

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 Entangled Histories: Knowledge, Authority, and Jewish Culture in the Thirteenth Century provides a multifaceted account of Jewish life in Europe and the Mediterranean basin at a time when economic, cultural, and intellectual encounters coincided with heightened interfaith animosity.
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The Jew In The Art Of The Italian Renaissance

by Dana E. Katz

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 Dana E. Katz reveals how Italian Renaissance painting became part of a policy of tolerance that deflected violence from the real world onto a symbolic world. While the rulers upheld toleration legislation governing Christian-Jewish relations, they simultaneously supported artistic commissions that perpetuated violence against Jews.
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Leopold Zunz - Creativity In Adversity

by Ismar Schorsch

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 In 1818, with a single essay of vast scope and stunning detail, Leopold Zunz launched the turn to history in modern Judaism. In Leopold Zunz: Creativity in Adversity, Ismar Schorsch, a distinguished scholar of German Jewish culture, has written the first full-fledged biography of this remarkable man.
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Feminist Legal Theory - An Anti-Essentialist Reader

by Nancy E. Dowd e Robert R.M. Verchick

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 Explores the convergence of race, class, and gender in the study of theory, family, work, and economic issues especially as they pertain to women.
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Does Regulation Kill Jobs?

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 Does Regulation Kill Jobs? analyzes the effects of regulation on employment and offers suggestions for improved economic analysis and regulatory decision making.
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The Revolution Of 1905 And Russia'S Jews

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 In this multidisciplinary volume, leading historians provide new understanding of a time that sent shockwaves through Jewish communities in and beyond the Russian Empire and transformed the way Jews thought about the politics of ethnic and national identity.
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Connecting The Covenants - Judaism And The Search For Christian Identity In Eighteenth-Century England

by David B. Ruderman

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 "Ruderman uncovers a fascinating episode in the history of European Jewry and Jewish-Christian intellectual relations. Connecting the Covenants is compelling as both narrative and history."-Matt Goldish, The Ohio State University
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Medicine Bundle - Indian Sacred Performance And American Literature, 1824-1932

by Joshua David Bellin

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 Joshua David Bellin examines the complex issues surrounding Indian sacred performance in its manifold and intimate relationships with texts and images by both Indians and whites.
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The Censor, The Editor, And The Text - The Catholic Church And The Shaping Of The Jewish Canon In The Sixteenth Century

by Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin

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 The Censor, the Editor, and the Text examines the impact of Catholic censorship on the publication and dissemination of Hebrew literature in the early modern period. Raz-Krakotzkin argues that the regulation of Hebrew print provided an avenue for the integration of Hebrew literature into the Christian corpus.
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The Persistence Of Allegory - Drama And Neoclassicism From Shakespeare To Wagner

by Jane K. Brown

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 Explores the tension in European drama between allegory and neoclassicism from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. This work reveals the allegorical survivals in the works of major figures such as Shakespeare, Calderon, Racine, Vondel, Metastasio, Goethe, and Wagner and reads tragedy, comedy, masque, opera, and school drama.
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Inexpressible Privacy - The Interior Life Of Antebellum American Literature

by Milette Shamir

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 Few concepts are more widely discussed or more passionately invoked in American public culture than the concept of privacy. Milette Shamir traces the peculiarly American obsession with privacy back to the middle decades of the nineteenth century, when our modern understanding of the concept took hold.
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Becoming The People Of The Talmud - Oral Torah As Written Tradition In Medieval Jewish Cultures

by Talya Fishman

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 Talya Fishman explores the roles the Babylonian Talmud played in the textualization of medieval European Jewish culture.
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