A literary manifesto of Russian Jews in America, Shrayer’s A Russian Immigrant features the travails of Simon Reznikov, a restless Jewish-Russian protagonist.
Leaving her family in Seattle traveling back and forth to Russia pursuing a career, Miller discovers she’s writing her own chapter in a book of three... Læs mere
Debora Vogel (1900-1942) wrote in Yiddish unlike anyone else. Yiddish, her fourth language after Polish, Hebrew, and German, became... Læs mere
Captures the story of the Taratuta family and their struggle to flee the... Læs mere
YuriLotman was one of the most prominent and influential scholars ofthe twentieth century working in the Soviet... Læs mere
This book offers a study of the Jewish community in Kielce and its environs during World War II and the Holocaust:.
Presents a sketch of the Meaning-Text linguistic approach, richly illustrated by examples borrowed mainly, but not exclusively, from English. The book explains the basic... Læs mere
A study of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s prose that examines his most important characters as well as his treatment of Lenin, Stalin, and the Russian... Læs mere
Showcases the accomplishments and triumphs of women in Russian animation and reveals their past contributions to not only animation, but also world... Læs mere
Porter draws from the past to explain the present, walking the precarious bridge between allegiance to Israel and the Jewish people and the universal rights of... Læs mere
TheJewish Metropolis: New York from the 17th to the 21stCentury covers the entire sweep of thehistory of the largest Jewish community of all time. With each chapter writtenby an expert in the field, the book provides an introduction to the New YorkJewish experience.
An exhaustive investigation that examines the tradition of prayers in government written in approachable prose, When Rabbis Bless Congress uniquely tells the story of over 400 rabbis giving over 600 prayers since the Civil War days—who they are and what they say.