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Poignant, perceptive, and funny, they provide eyewitness accounts of some of this century's most cataclysmic events, and a unique record of day-to-day life in the former Soviet Union.
In post-1917 Russian and Yiddish literature, films, and reportage, Sasha Senderovich finds a new cultural figure: the Soviet Jew. Suddenly mobile after more than a century of restrictions under the tsars, Jewish authors created characters who traversed space and history, carrying with them the dislodged practices and archetypes of a lost world.
Poignant, perceptive, and funny, they provide eyewitness accounts of some of this century's most cataclysmic events, and a unique record of day-to-day life in the former Soviet Union.
From Seville in 1492 to Kiev in 1967, Allan Levine’s dazzling new history brings to life ten defining points in the Jewish Diaspora in a series of moment-in-time portraits of individual people, their families and communities, and the cities they inhabited. The cities are all famous cosmopolitan centres at significant moments in history. In addition to Seville, where the story begins with the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, and Kiev, where the “refusenik” Jews fought for the right to emigrate to Israel, there is Venice in 1516 and the establishment of the first “ghetto,” Constantinople in 1666 and the Jewish physicians to the sultans, Amsterdam in 1700 and the glorious rebirth of ...
Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.
As anyone who has wielded a camera knows, photography has a unique relationship to chance. It also represents a struggle to reconcile aesthetic aspiration with a mechanical process. Robin Kelsey reveals how daring innovators expanded the aesthetic limits of photography in order to create art for a modern world.
Condemned to the underworld when she is born without feet, the infant daughter of the king of Akhemony begins her lifetime in darkness and is assisted by the Sun Consort to reclaim her place as heir to the throne.