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An important study of the politics of Polish Jewry on the eve of its destruction. Drawing from sources in the Polish Jewish and non-Jewish press and from archives in Europe, Israel, and the United States, it examines the efforts of Jews in this major center of Jewish life to secure its existence and advance its interests in the late 1930s.

Before the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent archival revolution, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's famous "literary investigation" The Gulag Archipelago was the most authoritative overview of the Stalinist system of camps. This volume develops a much more thorough and nuanced understanding of the Gulag. It brings a greater awareness of the wide variety of camps, many not isolated in far-off Siberia; prisoners often intermingled with local populations. The forced labor system was not completely distinct from the "free" labor of ordinary Soviet citizens, as convicts and non-prisoners often worked side-by-side. Nor was the Gulag unique when viewed in a global historical context. This volume offers fascinating new interpretations of the interrelationship and importance of the Gulag to the larger Soviet political and economic system, and how they were in fact, parts of the same entity.

A Plea and an Awakening to Peace as a Process and a Transient State.

Leyb Naydus (1890-1918) expanded the possibilities of Yiddish poetry via his rich cosmopolitan works, Literary critic Naftoli Vaynig's lengthy essay on Naydus, written in 1943 in the Vilne Ghetto, makes a remarkable case for why the poems of this cosmopolitan aesthete should serve as a fitting emblem for a culture threatened with extinction.

Polish journalist Pawel Pieniazek was among the first journalists to enter the war-torn region of eastern Ukraine and Greetings from Novorossiya is his vivid firsthand account of the conflict. Unlike Western journalists, his fluency in both Ukrainian and Russian granted him access and the ability to move among all sides in the conflict.

On the Surface of Silence offers for the first time in English the final poems of Lea Goldberg, pre-eminent and central poet of modern Hebrew poetry. This bilingual edition, with translations by award-winning translator Rachel Tzvia Back, brings us poems from a singular poetic voice of the 20th century.

"The Johnstown Girls is a heartrending tale of twin sisters separated by the 1889 flood in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Kathleen George masterfully blends a factual history of the flood into her story of two sisters, whose search for each other over the course of one hundred years unfolds after their lives were sent careening down different paths"--

Hebrew literature, from the second half of the nineteenth century to well into the twentieth, was unmistakably influenced in style and substance by Russian prose and poetry. Rina Lapidus systematically identifies those Hebrew authors and poets upon whom Russian influence is most striking and upon whom it seems to have exerted the greatest power.

Makes available the 1585 edition of the Seder mitzvot hanashim in Yiddish and English. Fram sets Slonik's work in its bibliographical and historical contexts, demonstrating its relationship with the Shulhan Arukh, exploring how rabbis opposed formal education for women, and offering a treasure trove of information on the place and roles of women in Polish-Jewish society.

The Hebrew Union College Annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to the academic world. With a history spanning nearly a century, it stands as a chronicle of Jewish scholarship through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.

Explores the etymology of key terms for dreams in the Hebrew Bible, presents dozens of examples of biblical dreams and visions, and categorises them as prophetic, symbolic, or incubation. Shaul Bar studies biblical dreams and visions in the context of similar phenomena in the literature of neighbouring cultures and analyses the functions of dream reports in the biblical corpus.

The Hebrew Union College Annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to the academic world. With a history spanning nearly a century, it stands as a chronicle of Jewish scholarship through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.

The eight essays in this volume are evenly divided between the poetry and prose of Milton. Two of the essays discuss major sonnets, and two other essays on poetry engage "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained". The other four essays on prose are revisionist.

A collection of eight essays on the poetry of John Milton, with half the volume devoted to "Paradise Lost". The contributions include Anthony Welch's mapping of the chronology of the epic and Raymond B. Waddington's examination of Milton's account of Abel's death.

Though long overshadowed by "Paradise Lost", "Paradise Regained" has come under intense scrutiny. These essays offer fresh perspectives on and analyses of this spiritual poem, in which Milton dared to challenge the political, religious and aesthetic culture of Restoration England.

A collection of essays of comparative interpretation and analysis of many works by Milton, written between 1969 and 1999. The essays analyze such poems as "Comus" and "Paradise Lost", as well as prose works as diverse as "A Second Defence of the English People" and "De Doctrina Christiana".

This collection of ten biographical essays on Milton offers a revisionist interpretation of how, why and where his multiple presences appear in his writings. Rather than stressing his documented life, the essays probe his interior life by identifying its psychic traces in his writings.

This collection of essays explores the larger contexts that inform the composition, publication, and reception of Milton's major poems, notably "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained".

A study of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo's scheme, during the mid-twentieth century, to create and reinforce a buffer zone on the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti through the establishment of state institutions and an ideological campaign against what was considered an encroaching black, inferior, and bellicose Haitian state.

The journal of the Hebrew Union College, an anthology of scholarly articles concerning Jewish history, religion and culture from antiquity to the present.

Contains eight essays that offer insights into Milton's poems, ranging from "Comus" and "Lycidas", to "Paradise Lost" and "Samson Agonistes". This book also contains an essay that offers a fresh direction for Milton scholarship, examining how he may have influenced Seventh-day Adventism.

Includes nine essays that offer coverage of Milton's works, both poems and prose. This work covers topics such as: Milton's self-identification with his female characters; his ambivalent attitudes toward knowledge and education; and a view of Milton's relationship with Galileo that invokes "The Da Vinci Code".

Includes ten essays that cover a wide range of topics including: the relationship of Milton's Satan to Marlowe's work; the adaptation of several episodes and demonic characters in Book II of "Paradise Lost" to the saga of "Odysseus"; and, Eve's dream in "Paradise Lost" and the interrelationship of identity, gender relations, and choice.

Between 1870 and 1940, life expectancy in the United States skyrocketed while the percentage of senior citizens age sixty-five and older more than doubled-a phenomenon owed largely to innovations in medicine and public health.

Solomon Bennett Freehof (1892-1990) was one of America's most distinguished, influential, and beloved rabbis. This book analyses Freehof's views on a number of crucial issues that illustrate the evolution of American Reform Judaism.

A collection of essays that bring new insight into Jewish culture as it is intertwined in Jewish, European, Ottoman, and American history.

Bloom in Reverse moves from death to life as it chronicles the aftermath of a friend's suicide and the end of a turbulent relationship, working through devastation and loss while on a search for solace that spans from local bars to online dating and beyond to ultimately find true connection and sustaining love.

Feeling distanced from her friends and family, middle-aged divorcee Caitlin Drury is encouraged by her daughter to express her feelings in a diary, but she is hesitant: ""I feel lonely she wrote, then crossed it out. She didn't like the idea of someone coming along later to read her journal, finding out she felt lonely"".

Rosser's poems explore some of the darker corners of the human panorama-failure, loss, disillusionment-but always brightening them with humor and her playful attention to the compensatory alchemy of language, which can transform the sometimes base metals of our lives to noble ones.