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Voices of jewish-russian literature
This definitive and comprehensive anthology of major nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, nonfiction and poetry by eighty Jewish-Russian writers explores both timeless themes and specific tribulations of a people’s history.
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From darkness to light
A compilation of personal testimonies of six Holocaust survivors. Amid their immense pain and suffering, they overcame every hurdle they encountered and realized their dream to live in Israel. Their love for Israel and their creation of families embody children, grandchildren, and great-grandchil...
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Biography and memory
Biography and Memory discusses the return of Jews to their places of birth in Poland. A biographical urge to come full circle often leads to symbolic journeys to one’s roots, but in the case of Shoah survivors, such journeys are unexpected, defying the generational definition of their biography, ...
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The dual truth, volumes i & ii
This book explores three schools of fascinating, talented, and gifted scholars who absorbed into their thought the Jewish and secular cultures of their respective homelands.
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Saving the tremors of past lives
The Jewish community of the Polish border town of Brześć (Brisk in Yiddish), which had numbered almost 30,000 people, was wiped out during the Holocaust, with only about 10 of its members surviving. One of them was Masza Pinczuk, who escaped from the Brześć ghetto on the eve of its liquidation on...
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The greater judaism in making
Throughout history, Judaism has been under attack by other religions, attacks which strengthened the identification of the group as a whole. Modern challenges, however, are coming from different directions, and are producing different results. Jewish identification is declining at the same time a...
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Companion to victor pelevin
Companion to Victor Pelevin, a collaborative undertaking by a group of emerging Russianist scholars, focuses on the work of one of the most important and hotly debated post-Soviet writers. The contributors offer new readings of Pelevin texts that cover a broad time span and pay due attention to t...
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The russian twentieth century short story
The Twentieth Century Russian Short Story: A Critical Companion is a collection of the most informative critical articles on some of the best twentieth-century Russian short stories from Chekhov and Bunin to Tolstaya and Pelevin. While each article focuses on a particular short story, collectivel...
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Shadows of survival
A vivid and unsparing memoir of the experiences of an eight year old child incarcerated in the Warsaw Ghetto. Her escape from the Ghetto and from Warsaw following the Uprising was due to her mother’s resourcefulness. Settling finally into an outwardly comfortable American life she repressed her h...
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Jewish city or inferno of russian israel?
This book describes the history of Jews in Kiev from the tenth century to the February 1917 Revolution. At the turn of the twentieth century, the Kiev Jewish community was one of the largest and wealthiest in the Russian Empire. This book illuminates the major processes and events in Kievan Jewis...
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Voyage into savage europe
In 1930, Avigdor Hameiri traveled through Eastern and Central Europe. Bolshevism and Fascism threatened and Europe was poised on a knife-edge. From the growing danger and confusion surrounding inter-war Europe, in prose at once compassionate and bitingly sarcastic, comes a sweeping account of Jew...
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Winston s. churchill and the shaping of the middle east, 1919-1922
A sweeping examination of how Winston S. Churchill, first as Secretary for War and Air, and then as Colonial Secretary, both formulated and enacted the British imperial mandate policy for Iraq and Palestine, thereby laying the groundwork for issues that are still relevant today including conflict...
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Excavating memory
This book brings the Turkish writer Bilge Karasu (1930–1995) into a new critical spotlight by examining the author’s poetics of memory, as laid out in his narratives on Istanbul’s Beyoğlu. Gökberk contextualizes these posthumously published pieces in an approach informed by studies on memory, ide...
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She animates
This book showcases the accomplishments and triumphs of women in Russian animation and reveals their past contributions to not only animation, but also world cinema. Through archival research, historical analysis, and close readings of animated films this book recuperates the often-overlooked con...
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The new jewish canon
The New Jewish Canon is both text and textbook of the Jewish intellectual and communal zeitgeist for the contemporary period. With both primary sources and analytical essays by leading scholars, this book offers a conceptual roadmap to make sense of the mass production and proliferation of new Je...
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Fate, nature, and literary form
A theoretical reexamination of the concept of the “tragic” combined with detailed analyses of Japanese literary texts. Inspired by Western critical theory, the author unveils a rich tradition of tragic literature in Japan that has registered the unbridgeable gap between universal ideals and socia...
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Culture and communication
Yuri Lotman was one of the most prominent and influential scholars of the twentieth century working in the Soviet Union. This approachable collection of translations provides a primer to his vast intellectual legacy with a choice of works that address contemporary concerns such as gender, memory,...
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Tolstoy’s family prototypes in "war and peace"
Did affection for members of his family influence Tolstoy’s characterizations in War and Peace? Comparison of the novel with the writer’s family history reveals preferential treatment of those with greater relatedness to him—excluding his autoportraits. It also explains many narrative gaps and cu...
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Courage and fear
Courage and Fear is a meticulously documented study of Lviv’s intelligentsia during the Second World War, as the Soviet and German occupations obliterate the intricate social fabric of the city. This micro-history is told from the perspective of individuals, whose stories lost out to grand nation...
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A reader’s companion to mikhail bulgakov’s the master and margarita
Readers are often left uncertain how to understand the rich meanings of Mikhail Bulgakov’s comic and beautiful novel The Master and Margarita. To what extent is it political? Or religious? And how should we interpret the Satanic Woland? This Companion guides the readers through the work’s themati...
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Film as embodied art
Film as Embodied Art reveals Stanley Kubrick as a genuine master of the art of embodying the mental life of characters, a filmmaker who perhaps more than any other director, uses all the resources of filmmaking in such a controlled and dense manner as to elicit the embodied conditions necessary t...
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Vladimir sorokin’s discourses
Vladimir Sorokin is the most controversial contemporary Russian writer. He became famous when the Putin youth organization burned his books and he picked up neo-imperialist discourses in his dystopian novels, making him one of the fiercest critics of Russia’s “new middle ages,” while remaining st...
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From mesopotamia to the mishnah
Jonathan S. Milgram demonstrates that the transformation of inheritance laws from the biblical to the tannaitic period is best explained against the backdrop of the legal and social contexts in which the laws were formulated. He argues for an affinity between Roman and tannaitic inheritance pract...
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Salem on the thames
This compelling volume focuses on the story of Andrew Pessin, a tenured philosophy professor at Connecticut College, who was accused by students and faculty of having “directly condoned the extermination of a people” based on a deliberate misreading of his 2015 Facebook post on the Israeli-Palest...
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Fragments of hell
In this compelling and engaging book, Dvir Abramovich introduces readers to several landmark novels, poems and stories that have become classics in the Israeli Holocaust canon. Discussed are iconic writers such as Aharon Appelfeld, Dan Pagis, Etgar Keret, Yoram Kaniuk, Uri Tzvi Greenberg and Ka-T...
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Night and day
Night and Day, an unfinished dilogy by Uzbek author Cho’lpon, follows the terrible fate of a young Uzbek girl condemned to marry a sexual glutton. The novel raises questions about the nature of Russian colonialism, resistance to it, and the intentions of the author, whose life was lost to Stalini...
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From antisemitism to anti-zionism
In fourteen chapters, leading scholars use the lenses of history, sociology, political science, psychology, philosophy, religion, and literature to examine, disentangle, and remove the disguises of the many forms of antisemitism and anti-Zionism that have inhabited or targeted the English-speakin...
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Yitz greenberg and modern orthodoxy
This volume offers a critical engagement with the thought of Rabbi Dr. Irving “Yitz” Greenberg, one of the most thoughtful and earnest voices to emerge from within American Orthodoxy. It examines his lifelong and complex encounter with the Modern Orthodox stream of American Judaism and the extent...
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The charm of wise hesitancy
This volume explores the growing fascination with Talmudic stories among secular and religious Israelis in recent decades, inspired by contemporary Israeli writers who have sought to make readers aware of the special qualities of these well-crafted narratives that portray universal human situations.
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Anti-semitism on the campus
Antisemitism on the Campus: Past & Present, edited by Eunice G. Pollack, is the first book of a multidisciplinary series on Antisemitism in America to be published by Academic Studies Press. In this volume, twenty-one leading scholars explore the roots and manifestations of antisemitism and a...
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Overwriting chaos
A study of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s prose that examines his most important characters as well as his treatment of Lenin, Stalin, and the Russian revolution; surprising predilection for literary puzzles and games; erotic themes; and polemical interactions with Russian and Western modernism.
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Magda nachman
The political turmoil of the twentieth century took Magda Nachman from a privileged childhood in St. Petersburg and participation in the modernist ferment in pre-Revolutionary Russia to a refugee existence in the Russian countryside during the Russian Civil War, to Berlin, and finally to Bombay, ...
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The post-chornobyl library
Having exploded on the margins of Europe, Chornobyl marked the end of the Soviet Union and tied the era of postmodernism in Western Europe with nuclear consciousness. The Post-Chornobyl Library becomes a metaphor of a new Ukrainian literature of the 1990s, which emerges out of the Chornobyl nucle...
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Beyond tula
Combining burlesque absurdism and lofty references to classical literature with a tongue-in-cheek plot about an industrializing rural proletariat, Beyond Tula--subtitled “a Soviet pastoral”—actually appeared in the official Soviet press in 1931. This novel offers an uproarious romp through the ea...
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Where there is danger
Writer, professor, translator and editor Luba Jurgenson lives between two languages—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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Russian cuisine in exile
The essays of Russian Cuisine in Exile re-imagine the identities of immigrants through their engagement with Russian cuisine. Richly illustrated and beautifully produced, the book has been translated “not word for word, but smile for smile,” to use the phrase of Vail and Genis’s fellow émigré wri...
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A story of jewish experience in mississippi
In this memoir, Waldoff searches into his Russian–Jewish parents’ experience and that of the Jewish community in Hattiesburg from the 1920s through the 1960s, revealing times of acceptance and prosperity, but also of fears of anti-Semitism when a Jew is convicted of murder and fears of Klan viole...
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Macht arbeit frei?
This is the first ever study to address Jewish forced labor in the General Government (Poland) during the Holocaust, and its consequences on the Nazi regime. A fascinating book about mutual dependence of economics and warfare during one of the most difficult periods in human history.
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The ottoman twilight in the arab lands
This book provides an annotated translation of memoirs of Ottoman eye-witness actors of the Great War in the Arab lands. It reflects on numerous crises of the Middle East today such as the ambiguous Arab–Turkish relations, the Arab–Israeli confrontation, and the struggle for the holy places of Is...
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Maimonides’ grand epistle to the scholars of lunel
Scholars in Lunel corresponded with Maimonides regarding various decisions in his Mishneh Torah (Code). Maimonides’ rejoinder opened with an unusual rhymed prose epistle, translated and annotated here for the first time by Charles H. Sheer. The author explores Maimonides’ letter in the context o...
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Print to fit
Ever since Adolph Ochs purchased The New York Times in 1896, its enduring masthead motto - “All The News That’s Fit To Print” – has become news that fits Times' discomfort with the idea, and since 1948 the reality, of a thriving democratic Jewish state in the historic homeland of the Jewish peopl...
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Kashrut and jewish food ethics
This volume of collected essays brings forth new paradigms in the exploration between the intersection of Judaism’s concern with eating, dignity, food ethics, and animal welfare. Contained here are rabbinic reflections on the nature of Judaism’s timeless concern with upholding the moral and spiri...
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Essays on the evolutionary-synthetic theory of language
This book implements a multidisciplinary approach in describing language both in its ontogenetic development and in its close interrelationship with other human subsystems such as thought, memory, and activity, with a focus on the semantic component of the evolutionary-synthetic theory.The volume...
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Daughter of the shtetl
Daughter of the Shtetl is an unusual memoir by an uneducated but sharply observant Jewish woman. Through the eyes of Doba-Mera, we experience the class divisions in shtetl and synagogue; pogroms and wars; working conditions in sewing shops; revolutionary circles around 1905; as well as aspects of...
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Words for war
The poems collected in this volume engage with the events and experiences of war, reflecting on the themes of alienation, loss, dislocation, and disability; as well as justice, heroism, courage, resilience, generosity, and forgiveness. The anthology brings together some of the most compelling poe...
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The white chalk of days
This anthology presents translations of literary works by Ukraine’s leading writers that imaginatively engage pivotal issues in today’s Ukraine and express its tribulations and jubilations. It offers English-language readers a wide array of the most beguiling literature written in Ukraine in the ...
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Gendered violence
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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Fundamentals of jewish conflict resolution
An in-depth presentation of traditional Jewish approaches to resolving interpersonal conflicts. Among the topics discussed are the obligation to pursue peace, what constitutes constructive conflict, countering judgmental biases, resolving conflict through dialogue, apologies, forgiveness, and ang...
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From the bible to shakespeare
This book will stimulate scholarly interest in the Ukrainian language and literature that have faced numerous challenges in the modern period. May be used in university courses on the history of Slavic languages and literatures, contemporary theories of nation-building and national identity as we...
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Conversations with colleagues
Sixteen senior scholars of American Jewish history—among the men and women whose work and advocacy have moved their discipline into the mainstream of academia—converse on the intellectual and personal roads they have traveled in becoming leaders in their areas of expertise. Through their thoughtf...
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