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Soviet tricksters present survival in a cynical, contradictory and inadequate world, not as a necessity, but as field for... Læs mere
Cinemasaurus examines ninety recent films over three decades, focusing on four issues ofRussia’s transition: (1) its imperial legacy, (2) the film... Læs mere
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.
Courageand Fear is a meticulouslydocumented study of Lviv’s intelligentsia during the Second World War, as the Soviet and German occupationsobliterate the intricate social fabric of the... Læs mere
The Emancipation of European Jewry during the nineteenth century led to conflict between tradition and modernity,... Læs mere
The Emancipation of European Jewry during the nineteenth century led to conflict between tradition and modernity,... Læs mere
Drawing from doctoral level research on how best to teach business education to college students, Discourses... Læs mere
This account follows one man’s journey through the 20th Century’s Communist experiment in Soviet Ukraine, the Second World War, and the struggles and... Læs mere
Wasyl Andreievych Kushnir was born in Ukraine in 1923, and was witness to the tragedies and horrors of the early years of collectivization under the... Læs mere
Reveals Stanley Kubrick to be a genuine master of the art of embodying the mental life of characters — a filmmaker who perhaps more... Læs mere
Tens of thousands of Jewish children were orphaned during World War I and in the subsequent years of... Læs mere