Offers psychodynamic studies of Holocaust survivors and their families in Israel... Læs mere
This resource explores the macro and micro social contexts in which alternative and bio-medicine co-exist in Israel. The text includes a history of alternative health care in Israel and analysis of current policies and dilemmas regarding different forms of health care.
Originally published in Hebrew in 2009, this is the first serious, wide-ranging and theoretically sophisticated exploration of fantasy in... Læs mere
This is a collection of essays by Irina Reyfman, a leading scholar of Russian literature and culture. Ranging from the eighteenth to the... Læs mere
Focusing primarily on the close study of literary works presented in the broad cultural and historical context, Jacob's Ladder discusses the... Læs mere
Written at the height of Stalin's first 'five-year plan' for the industrialisation of Soviet Russia and the parallel campaign to collectivise Soviet agriculture, Andrei Platonov's "The Foundation Pit" registers a dissonant mixture of utopian longings and despair.
On a Clear April Morning is a lyrical and riveting coming of age story set among early twentieth-century immigrants brought to a Jewish farming experiment in an... Læs mere
Readers are often left uncertainhow to understand the rich meanings of Mikhail Bulgakov’s comic and beautifulnovel The Master and... Læs mere
Presents the first fully annotated and chronologically arranged collection of the Russian philosopher-poet's most important letters, the vast majority of which have never before been translated into English.
Translations in Travels from Dostoevsky's Siberia, gathered from archives and appearing in English for the first time, offer a... Læs mere
Tells the extraordinary story of the author's twenty year quest to find gold coins which his father's family buried in their backyard just... Læs mere
Twenty-five years ago this year, Ilan Stavans published his first book, Imagining Columbus. Since then, he has become a polarizing figure, dismissed and... Læs mere