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Caballero Noble Desbaratado: Autobiografia E Invencion En El Siglo XVI (Bog, Paperback / softback, Spansk)
Based on extensive oral history and archival research, this book sheds new light on the important role female staff and faculty... Læs mere
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A Knight at the Opera: Heine, Wagner, Herzl, Peretz and the Legacy of 'Den Tannhauser' (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examines the remarkable and unknown role that the medieval legend (and Wagner opera) Tannhäuser played in Jewish cultural... Læs mere
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Bitter Prerequisites: A Faculty for Survival from Nazi Terror (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A dozen people, who were forced to flee their homes in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary during the Holocaust, tell their stories in a series of interviews conducted by Kleine-Ahlbrandt.
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Jews and Humor (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
What is “humour”? And what makes certain types, instances, or performances of humour “Jewish”? These are among the many queries addressed by the fourteen authors whose essays are... Læs mere
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The Peace of Passarowitz, 1718 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
"This book developed from the proceedings of the First International Academic Conference "The Peace of Passarowitz 1718" held on 14-15 November 2008, on the occasion of the 290th Anniversary, in Pozarevac, Serbia"--Pref.
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Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The studies presented in the collected volume are intended as an addition to scholarship in (comparative) cultural studies. More specifically, the articles... Læs mere
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Divided Paths, Common Ground: The Story of Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis, Pioneering Purdue Women Who Introduced Science Into the Home (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Based on extensive oral history and archival research, this sheds new... Læs mere
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Hugo Von Hofmannsthal and the Austrian Ideal: Selected Essays and Addresses, 1906-1027 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Provides translations of essays that deal with the Austrian idea and with the distinctive position of German-speaking... Læs mere
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The Song Is not the Same: Jews and American Popular Music (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
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Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
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The Jewish Jesus: Revelation, Reflection, Reclamation (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Addresses Jesus in the context of Judaism. By emphasising his Jewishness, the authors challenge today’s Jews to reclaim the Nazarene as a proto-rebel... Læs mere
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Rites of Passage: How Today's Jews Celebrate, Commemorate, and Commiserate (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Scholars tend to call them 'rites of passage'. Most people prefer to speak of them as life cycle events or milestones. This volume offers fresh insights into rituals as old as the Hebrew Bible in contexts as familiar as the American Midwest and as exotic as Karaism.
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