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Jewish Inn In Polish Culture - Between Practice And Phantasm

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 The Jewish inn (zydowska karczma) was a central pillar of economic and social life in Polish lands before the Second World War. While its primary role was to provide hospitality, it also functioned as a multifaceted hub for business, leisure, and religious festivities, reflecting its vital role in the community.In The Jewish Inn: Between Practice and Phantasm, editors Halina Goldberg and Bozena Shallcross present 11 captivating articles that delve into the inn's significance as a symbolic incubator of Jewish cultural possibilities. The collection examines the inn's evolving artistic potential across different eras, genres, media, and analytical perspectives.From exploring the intricate connections between music, dance, and other arts within the inn's spatial arrangement to highlighting the increasing prominence of women in the inn's family dynamics, The Jewish Inn offers a comprehensive and transdisciplinary reevaluation of this crucial institution and stands as a significant and creative contribution to Polish-Jewish studies.
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As The Dust Of The Earth - The Literature Of Abandonment In Revolutionary Russia And Ukraine

by Harriet Murav

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 An estimated forty thousand Jews were murdered during the Russian Civil War between 1918 and 1922. As the Dust of the Earth examines the Yiddish and Russian literary response to the violence (pogroms) and the relief effort, exploring both the poetry of catastrophe and the documentation of catastrophe and care.Brilliantly weaving together narrative fiction, poetry, memoirs, newspaper articles, and documentary, Harriet Murav argues that poets and pogrom investigators were doing more than recording the facts of violence and expressing emotions in response to it. They were interrogating what was taking place through a central concept familiar from their everyday lifeworld-hefker, or abandonment. Hefker shaped the documentation of catastrophe by Jewish investigators at pogrom sites impossibly tasked with producing comprehensive reports of chaos. Hefker also became a framework for Yiddish writers to think through such incomprehensible violence by creating new forms of poetry. Focusing less on the perpetrators and more on the responses to the pogroms, As the Dust of the Earth offers a fuller understanding of the seismic effects of such organized violence and a moving testimony to the resilience of survivors to process and cope with catastrophe.
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Belarusian Shtetl - History And Memory

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 A landmark volume which offers an illuminating look at the shtetls' histories, the lives lived and lost in them, and the memories, records, and physical traces of these communities that remain today. Drawing on the wealth of information these researchers have gathered, this book creates compelling and richly textured portraits of the histories and everyday lives of each shtetl.
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As The Dust Of The Earth - The Literature Of Abandonment In Revolutionary Russia And Ukraine

by Harriet Murav

~~43,21€~~ 38,89€ 10% OFF

 An estimated forty thousand Jews were murdered during the Russian Civil War between 1918 and 1922. As the Dust of the Earth examines the Yiddish and Russian literary response to the violence (pogroms) and the relief effort, exploring both the poetry of catastrophe and the documentation of catastrophe and care.Brilliantly weaving together narrative fiction, poetry, memoirs, newspaper articles, and documentary, Harriet Murav argues that poets and pogrom investigators were doing more than recording the facts of violence and expressing emotions in response to it. They were interrogating what was taking place through a central concept familiar from their everyday lifeworld—hefker, or abandonment. Hefker shaped the documentation of catastrophe by Jewish investigators at pogrom sites impossibly tasked with producing comprehensive reports of chaos. Hefker also became a framework for Yiddish writers to think through such incomprehensible violence by creating new forms of poetry. Focusing less on the perpetrators and more on the responses to the pogroms, As the Dust of the Earth offers a fuller understanding of the seismic effects of such organized violence and a moving testimony to the resilience of survivors to process and cope with catastrophe.
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The Belarusian Shtetl - History And Memory

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 A landmark volume which offers an illuminating look at the shtetls' histories, the lives lived and lost in them, and the memories, records, and physical traces of these communities that remain today. Drawing on the wealth of information these researchers have gathered, this book creates compelling and richly textured portraits of the histories and everyday lives of each shtetl.
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The Lost World Of Russia'S Jews - Ethnography And Folklore In The Pale Of Settlement

by Abraham Rechtman

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 In 1913, Abraham Rechtman journeyed through the Russian Pale of Settlement on a mission to record its Jewish folk traditions before they disappeared forever. The Lost World of Russia's Jews is the first English translation of his extraordinary experiences, originally published in Yiddish, documenting a culture best known until now through romanticized works like Life Is with People and Fiddler on the Roof. In the last years of the Russian Empire, Abraham Rechtman joined S. An-sky's Jewish Ethnographic Expedition to explore and document daily life in the centuries old Jewish communities of the Pale of Settlement. Rechtman described the key places where Jewish life and death were experienced and connected these sites to local folklore and customary practices. Among the many unique contributions of his memoir are riveting descriptions of traditional Jewish healers and exorcists—many of them women—and their methods and incantations.Rather than a nostalgic portrait of an imagined shtetl, Rechtman succeeded in producing an intimate account of Jewish life and death that is highly nuanced and richly detailed. The Lost World of Russia's Jews powerfully illuminates traditional Jewish life in Eastern Europe on the eve of its transformation and, ultimately, destruction.
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David Bergelson'S Strange New World - Untimeliness And Futurity

by Harriet Murav

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 David Bergelson's Strange New World explores the work of one of the most highly regarded Yiddish writers of the 20th and his untimely world of characters who live ahead and behind the times in the Eastern European shtetl.
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Rise Of The Modern Yiddish Theater

by Alyssa Quint

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 Alyssa Quint focuses on the early years of the modern Yiddish theater, from roughly 1876 to 1883, through the works of one of its best-known and most colorful figures, Avrom Goldfaden. Goldfaden (né Goldenfaden, 1840-1908) was one of the first playwrights to stage a commercially viable Yiddish-language theater, first in Romania and then in Russia. Goldfaden’s work was rapidly disseminated in print and his plays were performed frequently for Jewish audiences. Sholem Aleichem considered him as a forger of a new language that "breathed the European spirit into our old jargon." Quint uses Goldfaden’s theatrical works as a way to understand the social life of Jewish theater in Imperial Russia. Through a study of his libretti, she looks at the experiences of Russian Jewish actors, male and female, to explore connections between culture as artistic production and culture in the sense of broader social structures. Quint explores how Jewish actors who played Goldfaden’s work on stage absorbed the theater into their everyday lives. Goldfaden’s theater gives a rich view into the conduct, ideology, religion, and politics of Jews during an important moment in the history of late Imperial Russia.
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The Lost World Of Russia'S Jews - Ethnography And Folklore In The Pale Of Settlement

by Abraham Rechtman

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Indecent Detroit - Race, Sex, And Censorship In The Motor City

by Ben Strassfeld

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 By examining censorship in film and literature, Indecent Detroit recounts the evolution of media control from the end of WWII through the 1970s, when the US saw a major change in the legal mechanisms used to censor media due to court rulings that curtailed censorship laws.
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Indecent Detroit - Race, Sex, And Censorship In The Motor City

by Ben Strassfeld

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Ornaments And Other Ambiguous Artifacts From Fra Â€“ Volume 2, The Neolithic

by Benoit Mille, Patrick Pion e Sandrine Bonnardin

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Reorienting The Middle East - Film And Digital Media Where The Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, And Indian Ocean Meet

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After The Gulag Â€“ A History Of Memory In Russia`S Far North

by Tyler C. Kirk

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Composing Aid - Music, Refugees, And Humanitarian Politics

by Oliver Shao

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 In Composing Aid, Shao turns a critical ear towards the United Nations-run Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, one of the largest and oldest encampments in the world. This politically engaged ethnography delves into various cultural practices, including hip hop shows, traditional dances, religious ceremonies, and NGO events, in an urbanized borderland area beset with precarity and inequality.
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Composing Aid - Music, Refugees, And Humanitarian Politics

by Oliver Shao

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Jews, Race, And The Politics Of Difference - The Case Of Vladimir Jabotinsky Against The Russian Empire

by Marina B. Mogilner

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Jews, Race, And The Politics Of Difference - The Case Of Vladimir Jabotinsky Against The Russian Empire

by Marina B. Mogilner

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African Americans In Indianapolis - The Story Of A People Determined To Be Free

by David L. Williams

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 African Americans in Indianapolis serves as a reminder of the advancements that our midwestern ancestors made toward freedom and equality, as well as the continual struggle against inequalities that must be overcome.
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Making Your Own Luck - From A Skid Row Bar To Rebuilding Indiana University Athletics

by Fred Glass

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 -An inspirational autobiography of one of the great leaders in sports within the state of Indiana. Features a foreword by Mark Cuban, IU Alumnus and owner of the Dallas Mavericks. -Ties into numerous different sports, including professional and collegiate.
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The Yeshiva And The Rise Of Modern Hebrew Literature

by Marina Zilbergerts

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Heart Of A Hoosier - A Year Of Inspiration From Iu Men'S Basketball

by Del Duduit e Michelle Medlock Adams

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 In Heart of a Hoosier: A Year of Inspiration from IU Men's Basketball, authors Del Duduit and Michelle Medlock Adams show readers how the famous moments and personalities of the Indiana Hoosiers can inspire them to reach for success, overcome adversity, be a great team member, and more.
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The Socialist Good Life - Desire, Development, And Standards Of Living In Eastern Europe

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Eastbound Through Siberia - Observations From The Great Northern Expedition

by Georg Wilhelm Steller

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