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Esther Didn't Dream of Being Queen
"In this lively retelling of the Purim story, Queen Esther finds the courage to save the Jewish people from Haman, the king's evil advisor"--Provided by publisher.
Reliefstudien – die Gestaltung des Ortes in der freien Landschaft um 1800
Das Relief ist nicht nur das grundlegendste, sondern auch eines der stärksten Ausdrucksmittel der Gartenkunst bzw. Landschaftsarchitektur. Oft prägt oder motiviert es in seinem vorgefundenen Zustand den Gestaltungsakt überhaupt. Besonders deutlich zeigt sich dies an der baulichen Fassung von Orten in der freien Landschaft um 1800. Anhand dieses kulturellen Phänomens wird in dieser Arbeit das Gestaltungspotential des natürlich oder kulturlandschaftlich generierten Geländeverlaufs untersucht. Das Ergebnis ist eine Analyse der Beziehung zwischen der Gestalt der Erdoberfläche und der Wahrnehmung des Genius loci. Um 1800 gewann das Relief sowohl durch populärwissenschaftliche wie ästheti...
James Turrell
Text by Markus Bruderlin, Richard Andrews, Annelie Lutgens.
Jewish Pasts, German Fictions
Jewish Pasts, German Fictions is the first comprehensive study of how German-Jewish writers used images from the Spanish-Jewish past to define their place in German culture and society. Jonathan Skolnik argues that Jewish historical fiction was a form of cultural memory that functioned as a parallel to the modern, demythologizing project of secular Jewish history writing. What did it imply for a minority to imagine its history in the majority language? Skolnik makes the case that the answer lies in the creation of a German-Jewish minority culture in which historical fiction played a central role. After Hitler's rise to power in 1933, Jewish writers and artists, both in Nazi Germany and in ex...
A Matter of Simple Justice
In August 1972, Newsweek proclaimed that “the person in Washington who has done the most for the women’s movement may be Richard Nixon.” Today, opinions of the Nixon administration are strongly colored by foreign policy successes and the Watergate debacle. Its accomplishments in advancing the role of women in government have been largely forgotten. Based on the “A Few Good Women” oral history project at the Penn State University Libraries, A Matter of Simple Justice illuminates the administration’s groundbreaking efforts to expand the role of women—and the long-term consequences for women in the American workplace. At the forefront of these efforts was Barbara Hackman Franklin,...
