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    Dostoevsky beyond Dostoevsky 

    Evdokimova, Svetlana; Golstein, Vladimir (2016-09-15)
    Dostoevsky beyond Dostoevsky is a collection of essays with a broad interdisciplinary focus. It includes contributions by leading Dostoevsky scholars, social scientists, scholars of religion and philosophy. The volume ...
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    Language and Culture in Eighteenth Century Russia 

    Zhivov, Victor (2009-06-01)
    Victor Zhivov's Language and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia is one of the most important studies ever published on eighteenth-century Russia. Historians and students of Russian culture agree that the creation of a ...
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    A Reader's Guide to Nabokov's "Lolita" 

    Connolly, Julian W. (2009-09-01)
    One of the most fascinating and controversial novels of the twentieth century, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita is renowned for its innovative style and notorious for its subject matter and influence on popular culture. The book ...
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    Poetry and Psychiatry 

    Ljunggren, Magnus (2014-11-15)
    In this volume, Professor Ljunggren introduces the Symbolists and their feverish expectations in detail. Theirs was a time when for a brief moment everything seemed possible. Then came the rude awakening, best described ...
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    Macht Arbeit Frei? 

    Mędykowski, Witold (2018-01-01)
    This book examines the forced labor of Jews in the General Government of Occupied Poland from 1939-1943. Specifically, it traces the bureaucratic understanding and use the terms "labor" and "work" in the General Government; ...
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    Silent Love 

    de Vries, Gerard (2016-05-31)
    The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is one of Vladimir Nabokov’s most autobiographical novels and it has often been observed that Sebastian’s passionate affair with the femme fatale Nina Rechnoy is a dramatized extension of ...
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    First Words 

    Bagby, Lewis (2015-12-22)
    Dostoevsky attached introductions to his most challenging narratives, including Notes from the House of the Dead, Notes from Underground, The Devils, The Brothers Karamazov, and “A Gentle Creature.” Despite his clever ...
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    Epic and the Russian Novel from Gogol to Pasternak 

    Griffiths, Frederick T.; Rabinowitz, Stanley J. (2011-04-01)
    "Epic and the Russian Novel from Gogol to Pasternak examines the origin of the nineteen- century Russian novel and challenges the Lukács-Bakhtin theory of epic. By removing the Russian novel from its European context, the ...
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    Shapes of Apocalypse 

    Oppo, Andrea (2013-05-01)
    This collective volume aims to highlight the philosophical and literary idea of “apocalypse,” within some key examples in the “Slavic world” during the nineteenth and twentieth century. From Russian realism to avant-garde ...
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    Chapaev and His Comrades 

    Brintlinger, Angela (2012-12-01)
    "Across the twentieth century war was the central experience of the Russian people, spurring tales of the struggles and advances of the combat hero to become a prevailing Russian literary trope. In this wide spanning text ...
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    The Superstitious Muse 

    Bethea, David (2009-11-01)
    For several decades David Bethea has written authoritatively on the “mythopoetic thinking” that lies at the heart of classical Russian literature, especially Russian poetry. His theoretically informed essays and books have ...
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    The Translator’s Doubts 

    Trubikhina, Julia (2015-08-15)
    Using Vladimir Nabokov as its “case study,” this volume approaches translation as a crucial avenue into literary history and theory, philosophy and interpretation. It attempts to bring together issues in translation and ...
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    “Tsar and God” 

    Uspensky, Boris; Zhivov, Victor (2012-12-01)
    Featuring a number of distinguished essays by internationally known Russian cultural historians Boris Uspenskij and Victor Zhivov, this collection encompasses various ground-breaking works appearing in English for the first ...
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    Word and Image in Russian History 

    di Salvo, Maria; Kaiser, Daniel H.; Kivelson, Valerie A. (2015-07-21)
    ''Word and Image'' invokes and honors the scholarly contributions of Gary Marker. Twenty scholars from Russia, the United Kingdom, Italy, Ukraine and the United States examine some of the main themes of Marker’s scholarship ...
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    Exemplary Bodies 

    Mondry, Henrietta (2009-11-01)
    Exemplary Bodies: Constructing the Jew in Russian Culture, 1880s to 2008 explores the construction of the Jew’s physical and ontological body in Russian culture as represented in literature, film, and non-literary texts ...
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    Crafting the 613 Commandments 

    Friedberg, Albert D. (2014-02-01)
    Rabbinic tradition has it that 613 commandments were given to Moses on Mount Sinai, but it does not specify those included in the enumeration. Maimonides methodically and artfully crafts a list of 613 commandments in a ...
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    Landmarks Revisited 

    Aizlewood, Robin; Coates, Ruth (2013-12-16)
    The symposium entitled Vekhi, or Landmarks, is one of the most famous publications in Russian intellectual and political history. Its fame rests on the critique it offers of the phenomenon of the Russian intelligentsia. ...
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    The Marsh of Gold 

    Pasternak, Boris (2008-09-01)
    "Major statements by the celebrated Russian poet Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) about poetry, inspiration, the creative process, and the significance of artistic/literary creativity in his own life as well as in human life ...
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    Early Modern Russian Letters 

    Levitt, Marcus C. (2009-10-01)
    Early Modern Russian Letters: Texts and Contexts brings together twenty essays by Marcus C. Levitt, a leading scholar of eighteenth-century Russian literature. The essays address a spectrum of works and issues that shaped ...
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    Russian Idea, Jewish Presence 

    Horowitz, Brian (2013-10-01)
    In Russian Idea--Jewish Presence, Professor Brian Horowitz follows the career paths of Jewish intellectuals, who, having fallen in love with Russian culture, were unceremoniously repulsed by outsiders. Horowitz relays the ...
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    Visual Texts, Ceremonial Texts, Texts of Exploration 

    Wortman, Richard (2014-03-01)
    Visual Texts, Ceremonial Texts, Texts of Exploration continues the work begun in Russian Monarchy: Representation and Rule, which analyzed the interplay between the symbolic representations of Russian monarchs and the legal ...
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    Gone to Pitchipoi 

    Katz, Rubin (2012-10-01)
    In Gone to Pitchipoi Katz vividly recalls his experience growing up in the turmoil of WWII, and his extraordinary escape from the constant threats of Nazi occupied Poland. Born in 1931 in the picturesque countryside of ...
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    The Codification of Jewish Law and an Introduction to the Jurisprudence of the "Mishna Berura" 

    Broyde, Michael J.; Bedzow, Ira (2014-11-01)
    The Mishna Berura is, without a doubt, Rabbi Israel Meir Kagan's greatest and most complex contribution to the canon of Orthodox Jewish Law; it is a singular work that synthesizes Jewish traditions, laws, and mores into a ...
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    Return of the Jew 

    Reszke, Katka (2013-02-15)
    A new, “unexpected” generation of Jews made an appearance in Poland following the fall of the communist regime. Once home to the greatest Jewish community in the world and then site of one of the biggest tragedies in Jewish ...
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    American Classics 

    Saunders, Judith (2018-06-30)
    This collection of essays offers evolutionary psychological analysis of selected works from the American literary tradition. Application of evolutionary theory to writing by Ben Franklin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, ...
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    Under the Shadow of the Rising Sun 

    Medzini, Meron (2016-10-15)
    Even before Japan joined Nazi Germany in the Axis Alliance, its leaders clarified to the Nazi regime that the attitude of the Japanese government and people to the Jews was totally different than that of the official German ...
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    A "Labyrinth of Linkages" in Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" 

    Browning, Gary L. (2010)
    The renowned Russian writer Leo Tolstoy created a realistic masterpiece in Anna Karenina (1878). In the same work, moreover, he utilized allegory and symbol to an extent and at a level of sophistication unknown in his other ...
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    Carnival in Tel Aviv 

    Shoham, Hizky (2014)
    The Tel Aviv annual Purim celebrations were the largest public events in British Palestine, and they played a key role in the development of the urban Jewish experience in the Promised Land. Carnival in Tel Aviv presents ...
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    A Coat of Many Colors 

    Helman, Anat (2011)
    A Coat of Many Colors investigates Israel’s first seven years as a sovereign state through the unusual prism of dress. Clothes worn by Israelis in the 1950s reflected political ideologies, economic conditions, military ...
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    Crafting the 613 Commandments: Maimonides on the Enumeration, Classification, and Formulation of the Scriptural Commandments 

    Albert D. Friedberg (2014)
    Rabbinic tradition has it that 613 commandments were given to Moses on Mount Sinai, but it does not specify those included in the enumeration. Maimonides methodically and artfully crafts a list of 613 commandments in a ...
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    The Russian Revolutions of 1917 

    Rogatchevski, Andrei; Nielsen, Jens Petter; Myklebost, Kari Aga (2019)
    In October 2017, UiT – the Arctic University of Norway hosted the international conference The Russian Revolutions of 1917: The Northern Impact and Beyond. The aim was to explore the events of 1917 in Russia, with a ...
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    Beyond Jewish Identity 

    Kelman, Ari Y.; Levisohn, Jon A. (2020)
    This volume, the first collection to examine critically the relationship between Jewish education and Jewish identity, makes two important interventions. First, it offers a critical assessment of the relationship between ...
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    Alfred Dreyfus 

    Simms, Norman (2008)
    This groundbreaking book focuses on Alfred Dreyfus the man, with emphasis placed on his own writings, including his recently published prison workbooks and his letters to his wife Lucie. Through close reading of these ...
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    Sex Rewarded, Sex Punished 

    Kriger, Diane (2008)
    A masterful intersection of Bible studies, gender studies, and rabbinic law, Diane Kriger explores the laws pertaining to female slaves in Jewish law. Comparing biblical strictures with later rabbinic interpretations as ...
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    Exotic Moscow Under Western Eyes 

    Irene Masing-Delic (2009)
    This collection of essays on Turgenev, Goncharov, Conrad, Dostoevsky, Blok, Briusov, Gor’kii, Pasternak and Nabokov represents diverse voices but is also unified. One invariant is the recurring distinction between “culture” ...
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    Piezoelectric Electromechanical 

    Aronov, Boris S. (2022)
    The book is the most comprehensive coverage of piezoelectric acoustic transducers and all the related aspects of practical transducer designing for underwater applications in the field. It uses a physics-based energy method ...
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    Charms of the Cynical Reason: Tricksters in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture 

    Mark Lipovetsky (2010)
    The impetus for Charms of the Cynical Reason is the phenomenal and little-explored popularity of various tricksters flourishing in official and unofficial Soviet culture, as well as in the post-Soviet era. Mark Lipovetsky ...
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    Visual Texts, Ceremonial Texts, Texts of Exploration: Collected Articles on the Representation of Russian Monarchy 

    Richard Wortman (2014)
    Visual Texts, Ceremonial Texts, Texts of Exploration continues the work begun in Russian Monarchy: Representation and Rule, which analyzed the interplay between the symbolic representations of Russian monarchs and the legal ...
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    Turn It and Turn It Again: Studies in the Teaching and Learning of Classical Jewish Texts 

    Edited by Jon A Levisohn & Susan P. Fendrick (2013)
    The study of classical Jewish texts is flourishing in day schools and adult education, synagogues and summer camps, universities and yeshivot. But serious inquiry into the practices and purposes of such study is far rarer. ...
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    Russian in the 1740s 

    Rosén, Thomas (2020)
    Accounts of the development of the Russian language during the eighteenth century concentrate on the formation of a new literary language, and on the language of a few male authors. But what about the linguistic situation ...
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