A memoir of Rachel Margolis, the sole survivor of her family, who escaped from the Vilna Ghetto with other members of the resistance movement, the FPO (United Partisan Organization), and joined the Soviet partisans in the forests of Lithuania to sabotage the Nazis.
Provides a collection of the most informative critical articles on some of the best twentieth-century Russian short stories from Chekhov... Læs mere
Provides a collection of the most informative critical articles on some of the best twentieth-century Russian short stories from Chekhov... Læs mere
Provides a collection of the major statements by Russian poet Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) about poetry, inspiration, the creative... Læs mere
Shows that in its generative theology, Rabbinic Judaism in its formative age invoked the perpetual presence of God overseeing all that Israelites said... Læs mere
Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) is the only Russian poet who has been taken seriously by Russian leaders. He is the most important poet Russia has... Læs mere
Focusing on the concepts of time and the life cycle, this collection of articles examines Jewish life in the Talmudic period... Læs mere
Lev Tolstoy has held the attention of mankind for well over a century. This title investigates some of the numerous puzzles and paradoxes in the Tolstoyan heritage, engaging both... Læs mere
A classic compilation of original Russian and Jewish sources on the anti-Nazi resistance in Eastern Europe., including over 100 photographs and 12 maps.
Jewish life in medieval Egypt, hitherto an obscure and understudied theme, is revealed in this volume in all its complexity and richness. This book offers the most recent... Læs mere
This bilingual Ukrainian-English collection for the first time makes the major works by Mykola (Nik) Bazhan, one of the most important Ukrainian Modernist poets of the twentieth century, available both to scholars and to the general reader.
Considers the seemingly irreconcilable values and political commitments of Judaism and Libertarianism, stimulating a broad discussion and calling into question what people think they know about both Judaism and Libertarianism.