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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “marc caplan”
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  • Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin

    A Fugitive Modernism

    by Marc Caplan ...
    Series series German Jewish Cultures
    In Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin, Marc Caplan explores the reciprocal encounter between Eastern European Jews and German culture in the days following World War I. By concentrating primarily on a small group of avant-garde Yiddish writers—Dovid Bergelson, Der Nister, and Moyshe Kulbak—working in Berlin during the Weimar Republic, Caplan examines how these writers became central to modernist ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • How Strange the Change

    Language, Temporality, and Narrative Form in Peripheral Modernisms

    by Marc Caplan ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    In this book, Marc Caplan argues that the literatures of ostensibly marginal modern cultures are key to understanding modernism. Caplan undertakes an unprecedented comparison of nineteenth-century Yiddish literature and twentieth-century Anglophone and Francophone African literature and reveals unexpected similarities between them. These literatures were created under imperial regimes that brought ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Czernowitz at 100

    The First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective

    by Zachary Baker, David Birnbaum, Marc Caplan, Leye Lipsky, Ezra Mendelsohn, Jess Olson, Rakhmiel Peltz, Mordkhe Schaechter, Marie Schumacher-Brunhes, Kalman Weiser, Matthew Hoffman, Dr Philip Hollander, Rebecca Margolis ...
    Czernowitz at 100 represents a collection based on the proceedings of a 2008 international conference convened at York University in Toronto. Each chapter looks back at a portion over a long century, one marked with the mass migration of Ashkenazi Jews across the globe, two world wars, the Holocaust, the birth of Israel, and the rise and fall of the Soviet bloc. They assess the achievements and ... Read more

    $78.99 USD

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  • Chaim Potok

    Confronting Modernity Through the Lens of Tradition

    Edited by Daniel Walden ...
    Chaim Potok was a world-class writer and scholar, a Conservative Jew who wrote from and about his tradition and the conflicts between observance and acculturation. With a plain, straightforward style, his novels were set against the moral, spiritual, and intellectual currents of the twentieth century. This collection aims to widen the lens through which we read Chaim Potok and to establish him as ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Image of Bar Kokhba in Traditional Jewish Literature

    False Messiah and National Hero

    by Richard G. Marks ...
    Series series Hermeneutics
    Bar Kokhba led the Jewish rebellion against Rome in 132–135 A.D., which resulted in massive destruction and dislocation of the Jewish populace of Judea. In early rabbinic literature, Bar Kokhba was remembered in two ways: as an imposter claiming to be the Messiah and as a glorious military leader whose successes led Rabbi Akiba, one of the great rabbinic authorities of Jewish tradition, to acclaim ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Flares of Memory

    Stories of Childhood During the Holocaust

    Edited by Anita Brostoff ...
    In a series of writing workshops at the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, survivors who were children or teens during World War II assembled to remember the pivotal moments in which their lives were irreparably changed by the Nazis. These "flares of memory" preserve the voices of over forty Jews from throughout Europe who experienced a history that cannot be forgotten. Ninety-two brief vignettes ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Chapters on Jewish Literature

    by Israel Abrahams ...
    Chapters on Jewish Literature is a survey of the period from the fall of Jerusalem in ad 70 to the death of the Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. After teaching for several years at Jews' College, London, Abrahams was appointed reader in Talmudics (rabbinic literature) at the University of Cambridge, a post he retained until his death. Although of strict Orthodox upbringing, Abrahams was among ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Croatia: A Nation Forged in War

    by Marcus Tanner ...
    From the ashes of former Yugoslavia an independent Croatian state has arisen, the fulfillment, in the words of President Franjo Tudjman, of the Croats' "thousand-year-old dream of independence." Yet few countries in Europe have been born amid such bitter controversy and bloodshed: the savage war between pro-independence forces and the Yugoslav army left about one-third of the country in ruins and ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Golden Harvest:Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust

    Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust

    by Jan Tomasz Gross, Irena Grudzinska Gross ...
    It seems at first commonplace: a group photograph of peasants at harvest time, after hard work well done, resting contentedly with their tools behind the fruits of their labor. But when one finally notices the "crops" scattered in front of the group, what seemed innocent on first view become horrific skulls and bones. Where are we? Who are the people in the photograph, and what are they doing? The ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • A Chosen Few

    The Resurrection of European Jewry

    by Mark Kurlansky ...
    A POWERFUL, DEEPLY MOVING NARRATIVE OF HOPE REBORNIN THE SHADOW OF DESPAIRFifty years after it was bombed to rubble, Berlin is once again a city in which Jews gather for the Passover seder. Paris and Antwerp have recently emerged as important new centers of Jewish culture. Small but proud Jewish communities are revitalizing the ancient centers of Budapest, Prague, and Amsterdam. These brave, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Doubting the Devout

    The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination

    by Nora L. Rubel ...
    Series series Religion and American Culture
    Before 1985, depictions of ultra-Orthodox Jews in popular American culture were rare, and if they did appear, in films such as Fiddler on the Roof or within the novels of Chaim Potok, they evoked a nostalgic vision of Old World tradition. Yet the ordination of women into positions of religious leadership and other controversial issues have sparked an increasingly visible and voluble culture war ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Jewels and Ashes

    by Arnold Zable ...
    ‘Do you ever think about those you left behind?’, I ask father.‘Not often’, he says. ‘Such memories are a luxury I can’t afford.’First his parents made a journey to the New World. It was the 1930s, and Europe was seething. As he grew up, Arnold Zable heard tales, songs, fragments of the world they had left behind. He had inherited a fractured, vibrant past which both fascinated and disturbed him. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD