Taken together these essays reflect on the mechanics of trust, and sometimes mistrust, in everyday interactions involving Jews.
By exploring how practitioners past and present have addressed these issues, Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater offers suggestions for how opera and musical theater can continue to entertain and enrich the lives of 21st-century audiences.
In Unity in Faith?, James White's study of edinoverie offers an unparalleled perspective of the complex triangular relationship between the state, the Orthodox Church, and religious minorities in imperial Russia.
In essays that range from treatments of Jesuit-indigenous relations in early modern Canada to the erotics of contemporary black... Læs mere
In The Yoruba: A New History, Akinwumi Ogundiran examines the development of the ideas and practices that have shaped the Yoruba identity and experience going back as far as AD 800.
" Arad's work retrieves the experiences of Operation Reinhard's victims and survivors from obscurity and exposes a terrible chapter in humanity's history.
Power Struggles shows how, without careful attention, renewable energy production can reinforce patterns of exploitation even as it promises a fair and hopeful future.
Using a wiki to share data and research across time and space, this volume is a model for collaborative cross-cultural research and is centered on the home as a primary research site for children's musical engagement.
Provides a descriptive treatment of varieties of human memory, including recognising and reminding, reminiscing and commemorating, body memory and... Læs mere
A glorious wedding of science and art that celebrates the remarkable diversity of the life of the not-so-distant past.
Rembrandt's Religious Prints brings together stunning and virtually unknown religious etchings from the Dutch master that reveal fresh insights and discoveries with each new encounter.
Kut-al-Amara was the site of one of the longest siege ever endured by British forces. On December 3, 1915, the 6th Indian Division under Charles... Læs mere