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Between Hitler And Churchill - Two Jewish Agents And The Attempt By The British Counterintelligence Service To Prevent A Secret Agreement Between The Polish Government-In-Exile And

by Yaacov Falkov

~~198,75€~~ 178,88€ 10% OFF

 Between Hitler and Churchill exposes an unknown facet in the World War II history: the attempt of a senior official in the Polish government-in-exile to collude with the Third Reich and a successful British intelligence operation which thwarted this move in its infancy. This surprising and fascinating event is described through the personal stories of its two main protagonists, Polish Jews. One of them mediated the said Polish-German contacts, while the other assisted the British in capturing the mediator in the Middle East and murdering him there without trial. Although it reads like a historical thriller, the book is based on British, Polish, German and Russian diplomatic and intelligence reports, many of which are revealed and analyzed here for the first time.
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Between Hitler And Churchill - Two Jewish Agents And The Attempt By The British Counterintelligence Service To Prevent A Secret Agreement Between The Polish Government-In-Exile And

by Falkov Yaacov e Yaacov Falkov

~~39,75€~~ 35,78€ 10% OFF

 Between Hitler and Churchill exposes an unknown facet in the World War II history: the attempt of a senior official in the Polish government-in-exile to collude with the Third Reich and a successful British intelligence operation which thwarted this move in its infancy. This surprising and fascinating event is described through the personal stories of its two main protagonists, Polish Jews. One of them mediated the said Polish-German contacts, while the other assisted the British in capturing the mediator in the Middle East and murdering him there without trial. Although it reads like a historical thriller, the book is based on British, Polish, German and Russian diplomatic and intelligence reports, many of which are revealed and analyzed here for the first time.
The Dream Of Social Justice And Bad Moral Luck - Eight Jewish Lives Under Stalin

by Alice Nakhimovsky

~~124,36€~~ 87,05€ 30% OFF

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 This volume examines the intertwined lives of six women and three men, Russian Jews in the first half of the twentieth century, as their belief in the Soviet dream unraveled. Under what circumstances did they bow to political pressures, and under what circumstances did they resist, even heroically?
Reinventing Tradition - Russian-Jewish Literature Between Soviet Underground And Post-Soviet Deconstruction

by Klavdia Smola

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 Klavdia Smola explores how the Jewish tradition was reinvented in Russian-Jewish literature after a long period of assimilation, the Holocaust and decades of Communism. The process of reinventing the tradition began in the counter-culture of Jewish dissidents, in the midst of the late-Soviet underground of the 1960-1970s, and it continues to the present day.
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Dream Of Social Justice And Bad Moral Luck - Eight Jewish Lives Under Stalin

by Alice Nakhimovsky

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 The Dream of Social Justice and Bad Moral Luck examines the intertwined lives of five women and three men, Russian Jews in the first half of the twentieth century, as their belief in social transformation unraveled. The book looks at why these eight people bought into the dream, and what they did when things went bad. Under what circumstances did they bow to political pressures antithetical to the ideas they professed, and under what circumstances did they resist, even heroically? Political cowardice is a constant theme, but so is moral resistance that had no point beyond an individual’s conscience.
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Reinventing Tradition - Russian-Jewish Literature Between Soviet Underground And Post-Soviet Deconstruction

by Klavdia Smola

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 How was the Jewish tradition reinvented in Russian-Jewish literature after a long period of assimilation, the Holocaust, and decades of Communism? The process of reinventing the tradition began in the counter-culture of Jewish dissidents, in the midst of the late-Soviet underground of the 1960-1970s, and it continues to the present day. In this period, Jewish literature addresses the reader of the ‘post-human’ epoch, when the knowledge about traditional Jewry and Judaism is received not from the family members or the collective environment, but rather from books, paintings, museums and popular culture. Klavdia Smola explores how contemporary Russian-Jewish literature turns to the traditions of Jewish writing, from biblical Judaism to early-Soviet (anti-)Zionist novels, and how it ‘re-writes’ Haskalah satire, Hassidic Midrash or Yiddish travelogues.
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The Dream Of Social Justice And Bad Moral Luck - Eight Jewish Lives Under Stalin

by Alice Nakhimovsky

~~170,93€~~ 153,84€ 10% OFF

 The Dream of Social Justice and Bad Moral Luck examines the intertwined lives of five women and three men, Russian Jews in the first half of the twentieth century, as their belief in social transformation unraveled. The book looks at why these eight people bought into the dream, and what they did when things went bad. Under what circumstances did they bow to political pressures antithetical to the ideas they professed, and under what circumstances did they resist, even heroically? Political cowardice is a constant theme, but so is moral resistance that had no point beyond an individual’s conscience.
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Studies In The History Of Russian-Israeli Literature

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 This collection of essays covers a hundred-year history of Russian-language literature in Israel, including the pre-state period. Some of the studies are devoted to an overview of the literary process and the activities of its participants, others—to individual genres and movements. As a result, a complex and multifaceted picture emerges of a not quite fully defined, but very lively and dynamic community that develops in the most difficult conditions. The contributors trace the paths of Russian-Israeli prose, poetry and drama, various waves of avant-garde, fantasy, and critical thought. Today, in Russian-Israeli literature, the voices of writers of various generations and waves of repatriation are intertwined: from the "seventies" to the "war aliyah" of the recent times. Both the Russian-Israeli authors and their critics often hold different opinions of their respective roles in Israel’s historical and literary storms. While disagreeing on the definition of their place on the map of modern culture, Russian-Israeli writers are united by a shared bond with the fate of the Jewish state.
Studies In The History Of Russian-Israeli Literature

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 The studies gathered in the collection present the Russian-language Israeli literature that has been forming over the past hundred years in all the variety of genres and aesthetic movements. In every generation and in every aliyah, Russian-Israeli authors tirelessly search for new forms, born of the encounter with the new land.
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Studies In The History Of Russian-Israeli Literature

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 This collection of essays covers a hundred-year history of Russian-language literature in Israel, including the pre-state period. Some of the studies are devoted to an overview of the literary process and the activities of its participants, othersto individual genres and movements. As a result, a complex and multifaceted picture emerges of a not quite fully defined, but very lively and dynamic community that develops in the most difficult conditions. The contributors trace the paths of Russian-Israeli prose, poetry and drama, various waves of avant-garde, fantasy, and critical thought. Today, in Russian-Israeli literature, the voices of writers of various generations and waves of repatriation are intertwined: from the "seventies" to the "war aliyah" of the recent times. Both the Russian-Israeli authors and their critics often hold different opinions of their respective roles in Israels historical and literary storms. While disagreeing on the definition of their place on the map of modern culture, Russian-Israeli writers are united by a shared bond with the fate of the Jewish state.
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Reinventing Tradition - Russian-Jewish Literature Between Soviet Underground And Post-Soviet Deconstruction

by Klavdia Smola

~~184,18€~~ 165,76€ 10% OFF

 How was the Jewish tradition reinvented in Russian-Jewish literature after a long period of assimilation, the Holocaust, and decades of Communism? The process of reinventing the tradition began in the counter-culture of Jewish dissidents, in the midst of the late-Soviet underground of the 1960-1970s, and it continues to the present day. In this period, Jewish literature addresses the reader of the ‘post-human’ epoch, when the knowledge about traditional Jewry and Judaism is received not from the family members or the collective environment, but rather from books, paintings, museums and popular culture. Klavdia Smola explores how contemporary Russian-Jewish literature turns to the traditions of Jewish writing, from biblical Judaism to early-Soviet (anti-)Zionist novels, and how it ‘re-writes’ Haskalah satire, Hassidic Midrash or Yiddish travelogues.
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Amateur Performance - (Reminiscences Of A Student In The 1850s)

by Lev Levanda

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 Translated for the first time in English, Lev Levanda''s brilliant coming-of-age story of Russian Jewish students on the cusp of modernity in their struggle against religious chauvinism and an oppressive government.Despite being Russia''s best Jewish writer of the nineteenth century, Lev Levanda (1835-1888) is barely known in the English-speaking world, with some of his most famous works, like the 1873 novel Seething Times, having yet to be published in their entirety. Another such work is An Amateur Performance (Reminiscences of a Student in the 1850s), which appears here in English for the first time, translated with elegance by Hugh McLean and edited by Brian Horowitz and Conor Daly. A classic in Russian-Jewish literature from 1882, An Amateur Performance describes the rush by Jews to government schools, secular education, and the lights of enlightenment, while also revealing the struggles of these Jewish students on the cusp of modernity, including keen observations on their lack of preparation, their confusion over the new ideas, and their confrontation with the repressive power of the Russian government. In short, it’s a brilliant sociological study of Russian Jewry in the 1850s as remembered by a writer who fought for progress and Jewish integration.
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Daughter Of The Shtetl - The Memoirs Of Doba-Mera Medvedeva

by Doba-Mera Medvedeva

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 Doba-Mera Medvedeva belongs to a vanishing group of memoirists who are neither elite nor highly literate, but whose observations from the ground cast a vivid light on a lost world. A born story-teller whose first language was Yiddish, Medvedeva kept Russian-language notebooks to preserve her past for her Russian-speaking grandchildren.
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Where There Is Danger

by Luba Jurgenson

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 Writer, professor, translator and editor Luba Jurgenson lives between two languagesâ€"her native Russian and her adopted French. She recounts the coexistence of these two languages, as well as two bodies and two worlds, in an autobiographical text packed with fascinating anecdotes.
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The Voice Of Silence - The Story Of The Jewish Underground In The Ussr

by Ephraim (Alexander) Kholmyansky

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 The USSR, 1980, the detente era has ended with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. As always during times of confrontation, the KGB is granted extra powers. Could there be a less auspicious time to start a new underground project? But a handful of Jewish activists do exactly that, trying to revive Jewish national life.
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The Man Who Brought Brodsky Into English - Conversations With George L. Kline

by Cynthia L. Haven

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 Brodsky's poetic careerin the West was launched when Joseph Brodsky: Selected Poems waspublished in 1973. Its translator was George L. Kline, a Bryn Mawr professorand war hero. This is the story of that friendship and collaboration, from itsbeginnings in 1960s Leningrad and concluding with the Nobel poet's death.
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"If We Had Wings We Would Fly To You" - A Soviet Jewish Family Faces Destruction, 194142

by Kiril Feferman

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 The first work in any language that offers both an overarching exploration of the flight and evacuation of Soviet Jews viewed at the macro level, and a personal history of one Soviet Jewish family. It is also the first study to examine Jewish life in the Northern Caucasus, a Soviet region that history scholars have rarely addressed.
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Gendered Violence - Jewish Women In The Pogroms Of 1917 To 1921

by Irina Astashkevich

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 This is the first book to recognize and address the problem of mass rape of Jewish women during the pogroms in Ukraine during the Civil War (1917-1921).
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Voice Of Silence - The Story Of The Jewish Underground In The Ussr

by Ephraim (Alexander) Kholmyansky

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 The USSR, 1980, the detente era has ended with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. As always during times of confrontation, the KGB is granted extra powers. Could there be a less auspicious time to start a new underground project? But a handful of Jewish activists do exactly that, trying to revive Jewish national life.
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Man Who Brought Brodsky Into English - Conversations With George L. Kline

by Cynthia L. Haven

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 Joseph Brodsky's poetic career in the West was launched when Joseph Brodsky: Selected Poems was published in 1973. Its translator was a scholar and war hero, George Kline. This is the story of that friendship and collaboration, from its beginnings in 1960s Leningrad and concluding with the Nobel poet's death in 1996.
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Voice Of Silence - The Story Of The Jewish Underground In The Ussr

by Ephraim (Alexander) Kholmyansky

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 The USSR, 1980, the detente era has ended with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. As always during times of confrontation, the KGB is granted extra powers. Could there be a less auspicious time to start a new underground project? But a handful of Jewish activists do exactly that, trying to revive Jewish national life.
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The Man Who Brought Brodsky Into English - Conversations With George L. Kline

by Cynthia L. Haven

~~105,44€~~ 73,81€ 30% OFF

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 Brodsky's poetic careerin the West was launched when Joseph Brodsky: Selected Poems waspublished in 1973. Its translator was George L. Kline, a Bryn Mawr professorand war hero. This is the story of that friendship and collaboration, from itsbeginnings in 1960s Leningrad and concluding with the Nobel poet's death.
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Thanksgiving All Year Round - A Memoir

by Gavriel Shapiro

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 The book describes the authors eventful life, which spans over seventy years, in three different countries and on as many continents.
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Nostalgia For A Foreign Land - Studies In Russian-Language Literature In Israel

by Roman Katsman

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 This volume focuses on several Russian authors among many who immigrated to Israel with the big wave of 1990s or later, and whose largest part of the works was written in Israel: Dina Rubina, Nekod Singer, Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis, and Mikhail Yudson.
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