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Drawing on students’ experiences of structural racism in the UK higher education institutions, this book offers an infor......more
Contesting Indonesia explains Islamist, separatist and communal violence across Indonesian history since 1945. In a swee......more
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Between 1881 and 1914, more than two million Jews came to America. Most were poor, from the stultifying shtetls of the P......more
A Taytsh Manifesto calls for a translational paradigm for Yiddish studies and for the study of modern Jewish culture. Sa......more
A Taytsh Manifesto calls for a translational paradigm for Yiddish studies and for the study of modern Jewish culture. Sa......more
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Classic and new work by poet and jazz writer A. B. Spellman A. B. Spellman is an acclaimed American poet, music critic, ......more
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A poignant exploration of what it means to be Jewish today, from a leading voice in American Judaism, Rabbi Elliot Cosgr......more
How computational methods can expand how we see, read, and listen to Holocaust testimony The Holocaust is one of the mos......more
What happens when death becomes the ultimate marker of one’s commitment to one’s freedom? What happens when the opposite......more
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There seems to be a large blind spot for the lethal antisemitism that has long blighted Muslim countries and remains pre......more
There seems to be a large blind spot for the lethal antisemitism that has long blighted Muslim countries and remains pre......more
An examination of the interconnected ways that sexism functions in academic Islamic studies that offers strategies for s......more
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Five Alchemists. One book. A constellation of ideas. The second annual Alchemy Lecture was presented in November 2023 at......more
Explore the richness and diversity of Jewish heritage and history with this expansive volume of quotes from Jewish thoug......more
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Transparent made history as the first television show to feature a transgender character in the main role, as the first ......more
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A theological and historical exploration of the connection between Islam and Judaism through the single most-mentioned c......more
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Exploring the subtle political philosophy within the Biblical narrative, this book presents enduring insights that compl......more
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The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of desc......more
Combining memoir, history, and political essay, an acclaimed French journalist delves into his family’s past in this sea......more
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In Heavyweight, Jordana Moore Saggese examines images of Black heavyweight boxers to map the visual terrain of racist id......more
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Originally published in 1952, al-Din, by prominent Egyptian scholar Muhammad Abdullah Draz (1894-1958), has been critica......more
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An exploratory, mystical, and feminist companion for the traditional Jewish practice of counting the Omer. The Omer Cale......more
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This handbook is a foundational reference point for critical heritage research about Africa and its diaspora. Foreground......more
For the first time, this collection makes available a selection of documents on the history of Jews in old Rus’ that pro......more
Charts the changing dynamics of religion and spirituality among African Americans Recent decades have ushered in a profo......more
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Commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of Paul Gilroy’s seminal text, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciou......more
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This book understands the postracial as a genre--like the zombie apocalypse--that signals a disturbance in society that ......more
A stirring memoir of exile and self-discovery by a central figure in ethno-psychiatry. In To Sit on the Earth, pioneerin......more