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The DJ Who "Brought Down" the USSR: The Life and Legacy of Seva Novgorodsev (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
When a Russian émigré jazz musician makes his DJ debut on the BBC’s airwaves in 1977 with Stevie Wonder’s “Sir Duke,” no one expects that he, Seva Novgorodsev, would become more popular than just a presenter of forbidden Western music—he would liberate the people of the USSR.
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Don't Be a Stranger: Russian Literature and the Perils of Not Fitting In (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This study explores the consequences of being marked an outsider in the Russian-speaking world through a close study of several... Læs mere
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Building Communities: A History of the Eruv in America (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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Death and Love in the Holocaust: The Story of Sonja and Kurt Messerschmidt (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Kurt and Sonja Messerschmidt met in Nazi Berlin, married in the Theresienstadt ghetto, and survived Auschwitz. In this book, they tell their intertwined stories in their own words. The text directly expresses their experiences, reactions, and emotions.
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Israel: As a Phoenix Ascending (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The chapters in this volume examine a few facets in the drama of how the beleaguered Jewish people, as a phoenix ascending of ancient legend, achieved national self-determination in the reborn State of Israel within three years of the end of World War II and of the Holocaust.
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The Twilight of Reason: Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer and Levinas Tested by the Catastrophe (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Think of the disaster"" is the first injunction of thought when faced with the disaster that struck European Jews... Læs mere
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Stavans Unbound: The Critic Between Two Canons (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Who is Ilan Stavans? What has he done as a critic? In this book, more than twenty experts in both the Latinx and Jewish American studies field analyze his contributions to those canons.
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Essays on the Evolutionary-Synthetic Theory of Language (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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.
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The Middle Way: The Emergence of Modern-Religious Trends in Nineteenth-Century Judaism Responses to Modernity in the Philosophy of Z. H. Chajes, S. R. Hirsch and S. D. Luzzatto, Vol. 2 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examines the first encounter between traditional Judaism and modern... Læs mere
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Without Permission: Conversations, Letters, and Memoirs of Henry Mandel (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A young Jewish veteran of the United States Merchant Marine gets caught up in efforts to assist the new state of Israel, undergoes a... Læs mere
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The Voice of Silence: The Story of the Jewish Underground in the USSR (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The USSR, 1980, the detente era has ended with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. As always during times of confrontation, the KGB... Læs mere
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The "The Nose": A Stylistic and Critical Companion to Nikolai Gogol's Story (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This literary guide leads students with advanced knowledge of Russian as well as experienced scholars through the text of Nikolai... Læs mere
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