This volume explores the growing fascination with Talmudic stories among secular and religious Israelis in recent decades,... Læs mere
Two major dividing lines have formed the megastructure of Eurasia, determining the historical epochs of the continent's peoples. With the swift... Læs mere
A sophisticated but accessible fusion of theory and critical popular culture of Leonard Cohen’s mystical songbook... Læs mere
The first résumé in English of up-to-date research on post-Holocaust Sociology. A single volume full of relevant tips to help a wide audience rethink the genocide in sociological tools and investigate the history of the same Sociology.
In the 1930s, seven plays by Polish women writers created a flurry of excitement and condemnation as these women dared to question national myths, reinterpret the definition of subject, and subvert genre expectations. This study interrogates the feminism of these shocking dramas.
Blank demonstrates that the borders of authorial creativity are not stable and absolute, that talented artists often transcend the... Læs mere
The book deals with identity in general and with Jewish identity in particular. The book rejects rigid and one-sided notions of Jewish identity and offers a historical-cultural analysis of the identity discourse.
This book deals with the spatial concepts of Lithuania and other geo-images that either “competed” in the nineteenth century with the term... Læs mere
The book examines the Soviet Yiddish writer Der Nister's (Pinkhas Kahanovitsh, 1884–1950) vision of a post-Holocaust Jewish reconstruction, challenging the Jewish “homelessness” in the Diaspora.
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.
This volume deals with Dostoevsky’s wide-ranging interests and engagement with philosophical, religious, political, economic, and scientific discourses of his time. It includes contributions by prominent Dostoevsky scholars, social scientists, scholars of religion and philosophy.
This book deals with the spatial concepts that two erstwhile neighboring cultures, Lithuanian and German,... Læs mere