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  • The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European Cultures

    Concepts, Problems, and the Aesthetics of Postcatastrophic Narration

    Edited by Anna Artwinska, Anja Tippner ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European Cultures is a collection of essays by literary scholars from Germany, the US, and Central Eastern Europe offering insight into the specific ways of representing the Shoah and its aftereffects as well as its entanglement with other catastrophic events in the region.Introducing the conceptual frame of postcatastrophe, the collected essays ... Read more

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  • The Burden of the Past

    History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine

    by Anna Wylegala, Malgorzata Glowacka-Grajper ...
    Essays on how chaos, totalitarianism, and trauma have shaped Ukraine's culture: "A milestone of the scholarship about Eastern European politics of memory." —Wulf Kansteiner, Aarhus UniversityIn a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass migrations, and shifting borders, the concept of memory in Eastern Europe is often synonymous with notions of trauma. In Ukraine, memory mechanisms ... Read more

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  • The Dialectical Imagination

    A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950

    by Martin Jay ...
    Series Book 10 - Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism
    Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Franz Neumann, Theodor Adorno, Leo Lowenthal—the impact of the Frankfurt School on the sociological, political, and cultural thought of the twentieth century has been profound. The Dialectical Imagination is a major history of this monumental cultural and intellectual enterprise during its early years in Germany and in the United States. Martin Jay has ... Read more

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  • Bertolt Brecht

    by Philip Glahn ...
    Series Book 51 - Critical Lives
    Playwright, poet and activist Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) was known for his theory of the Epic Theatre and his attempts to break down the division between high art and popular culture. The Threepenny Opera, his collaboration with composer Kurt Weill, was a milestone in musical theatre, and plays like Mother Courage and Galileo changed the course of modern drama and aesthetic theory.Framed by two ... Read more

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  • Warped Mourning

    Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied

    by Alexander Etkind ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    "[A] superb study of Russian cultural memory makes all too clear, ghosts of the unburied dead affect literature, art, public life and mental health too." — The EconomistAfter Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union dismantled the enormous system of terror and torture that he had created. But there has never been any Russian ban on former party functionaries, nor any external authority to dispense ... Read more

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  • Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism?

    On the Uses and Abuses of a Philosophy

    Edited by Jacob Golomb, Robert S. Wistrich ...
    An examination of the association between the influential and controversial philosopher's ideas and fascistic beliefs.Frequently described as the "radical aristocrat" of the spirit, Friedrich Nietzsche abhorred mass culture and strove to cultivate an Übermensch endowed with exceptional mental qualities. What can such a thinker have in common with the fascistic manipulation of the masses for ... Read more

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  • Not in My Family

    German Memory and Responsibility After the Holocaust

    by Roger Frie ...
    Series series Explorations in Narrative Psychology
    Winner of the 2018 Western Canada Jewish Book Award Winner of the 2017 Canadian Jewish Literary Award Even as the Holocaust grows more distant with the passing of time, its traumas call out to be known and understood. What is remembered, what has been imparted through German heritage, and what has been forgotten? Can familiar family stories be transformed into an understanding of the Holocaust's ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Dreamland of Humanists

    Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School

    by Emily J. Levine ...
    Deemed by Heinrich Heine a city of merchants where poets go to die, Hamburg was an improbable setting for a major intellectual movement. Yet it was there, at the end of World War I, at a new university in this commercial center, that a trio of twentieth-century pioneers in the humanities emerged. Working side by side, Aby Warburg, Ernst Cassirer, and Erwin Panofsky developed new avenues in art ... Read more

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  • 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

    $102.99 CAD

  • Writing Jewish Culture

    Paradoxes in Ethnography

    Edited by Andreas Kilcher, Gabriella Safran ...
    "Looks at the ethnographic issues while defining Jewishness in a very fresh, sophisticated way . . . very timely and important." — Washington Book ReviewFocusing on Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, this collection explores various genres of "ethnoliterature" across temporal, geographical, and ideological borders as sites of Jewish identity formation and dissemination.Challenging the ... Read more

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  • Reverberations of Nazi Violence in Germany and Beyond

    Disturbing Pasts

    Edited by Dr Stephanie Bird, Professor Mary Fulbrook, Dr Julia Wagner, Dr Christiane Wienand ...
    Reverberations of Nazi Violence in Germany and Beyond explores the complex and diverse reverberations of the Second World War after 1945. It focuses on the legacies that National Socialist violence and genocide perpetrated in Europe continue to have in German-speaking countries and communities, as well as among those directly affected by occupation, terror and mass murder. Furthermore it explores ... Read more

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  • Gender and Modernity in Central Europe

    The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and Its Legacy

    Edited by Agatha Schwartz ...
    At the end of the nineteenth century, Austro-Hungarian society was undergoing a significant re-evaluation of gender roles and identities. Debates on these issues revealed deep anxieties within the multi-ethnic empire that did not resolve themselves with its dissolution in 1918. Concepts of gender and modernity as defined by the Habsburg Monarchy were modified by the conservative, liberal, radical ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD