A searingly personal memoir of the great Russian poet by his American friend and publisher, containing much previously unknown material about how Brodsky left Russia and how he... Læs mere
The first book-length study of how teachers teach and how students learn to read Talmud. Through a series of classroom studies conducted by... Læs mere
Celebrating the one-hundredth anniversary of Andrey Bely’s Petersburg, this volume offers a cross-section of essays that address the most pertinent... Læs mere
This monograph explores this coexistence of “archaist and innovator” in the figure of late Derzhavin, Russian patriot and profoundly European artist.
This book explores how the Italian commedia dell’arte has profoundly affected the Russian artistic imagination for... Læs mere
How did medieval Jewish scholars, from Saadia Gaon to Rabbi Isaac Abarbanel, imagine a world that has experienced salvation? Is the Messianic reality identical to... Læs mere
Through an innovative network of local associations, Jewish leaders in interwar Poland cooperated to aid orphaned children.... Læs mere
In fourteen chapters, leading scholars use the lenses of history, sociology, political science, psychology, philosophy, religion,... Læs mere
An in-depth presentation of traditional Jewish approaches to resolving interpersonal... Læs mere
Georgy Ivanov’s brilliant and controversial Petersburg Winters (1927), a memoir of blended fact and fiction, and the surrealistic Disintegration of the Atom (1937), a prose poem of Parisian émigré life moving erotically in war’s shadow “at the speed of darkness.”
Deals with the female dynasty of the House of David and its influence on the Jewish Messianic Myth. This volume provides a missing... Læs mere
Postmodern Crises collects previously published and yet unpublished Mark Lipovetsky’s articles on Russian literature and film. Written in different years, they focus on cultural and aesthetic crises that, taken together, constitute the postmodern condition of Russian culture.