Recalls the lost Jewish community of Baghdad, in which the author was a child and young man from the 1920s to 1951
This magnificent ethnographic photo-essay presents the modern Maya of Yucatan who - resilient, resourceful, creative, and armed with intimate knowledge of the place where they live - have survived centuries of upheaval
An anthology of important discoveries exploring the "mystery religions" of the classical world.
Introducing the English-language audience to the work of one of France's leading contemporary dramatists - winner of seven Molieres, the Pulitzer Prize of France - this book includes these plays that offer vivid insights into French Jewish life in post-Holocaust Europe.
This pioneering, timely study of civil society activism in Ciudad Juárez during the first decade of the twenty-first century captures the tenuous new alliances and discourses of resistance (augmented by social media) that have emerged in the face of escal
A medieval Spanish Muslim manuscript describing the contributions of nine nations to human knowledge.
The first English translation since 1927 of the complete works of the classical orator Isaeus, whose speeches deal with Athenian inheritance law.