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  • Yiddish Lives On

    Strategies of Language Transmission

    by Rebecca Margolis ...
    The language of a thousand years of European Jewish civilization that was decimated in the Nazi Holocaust, Yiddish has emerged as a vehicle for young people to engage with their heritage and identity. Although widely considered an endangered language, Yiddish has evolved as a site for creative renewal in the Jewish world and beyond in addition to being used daily within Hasidic communities.Yiddish ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Yiddish Supernatural on Screen

    Dybbuks, Demons and Haunted Jewish Pasts

    by Rebecca Margolis ...
    Series series Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy
    As a linguistic carrier of a thousand years of European Jewish civilization, the Yiddish language is closely tied to immigrant pasts and sites of Holocaust memory. In The Yiddish Supernatural on Screen, Rebecca Margolis investigates how translated and subtitled Yiddish dialogue reimagines Jewish lore and tells new stories where the supernatural looms over the narrative. The book traces the ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

  • 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

    $102.19 CAD

  • Translated Memories

    Transgenerational Perspectives on the Holocaust

    by Bettina Hofmann, Anne Ranasinghe, Carol Ascher, Daniel Feldman, Bruno Arich-Gerz, Doron Ben-Atar, Julia Epstein, Elizabeth Rosner, Federico Dal Bo, Christoph Houswitschka0, Naomi Shmuel1, Joseph Swann2, Richard Aronowitz3, Christoph Heyl4, Yael Munk5, Lilian Gergely6, Sue Lieberman7, Dani Kranz8, Peter Wortsman9, Ursula Reuter1, Lori Hope Lefkovitz2, Maria Roca Lizarazu3, Rebecca Margolis4, Steven Leonard Jacobs5, Victoria Aarons6 ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Jewish Literature
    This volume engages with memory of the Holocaust as expressed in literature, film, and other media. It focuses on the cultural memory of the second and third generations of Holocaust survivors, while also taking into view those who were children during the Nazi period. Language loss, language acquisition, and the multiple needs of translation are recurrent themes for all of the authors discussed. ... Read more

    $54.69 CAD

  • A World Apart: A Memoir of Jewish Life in Nineteenth-century Galicia

    by Joseph Margoshes, Rebecca Margolis, Ira Robinson ...
    In 1936, Joseph Margoshes (1866-1955), a writer for the New York Yiddish daily Morgen Journal, published a memoir of his youth in Austro-Hungarian Galicia entitled Erinerungen fun mayn leben. In this autobiography, he evoked a world that had been changed almost beyond recognition as a result of the First World War and was shortly to be completely obliterated by the Holocaust. In telling his story, ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

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  • Fascism

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  • Antisemitism

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  • An Analysis of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners

    Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

    by Simon Taylor, Tom Stammers ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Daniel Goldhagen's study of the Holocaust offers conclusions that run directly counter to those reached by Christopher Browning, whose book Ordinary Men is also the subject of a Macat analysis. As such, the two analyses make possible some interesting critical thinking exercises focused on evaluation of the evidence used by the two historians. For Goldhagen, a chief reason for German actions was ... Read more

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  • An Analysis of Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands

    Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

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  • Holocaust Survivors in Canada

    Exclusion, Inclusion, Transformation, 1947-1955

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  • Jewish Poland Revisited

    Heritage Tourism in Unquiet Places

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    National Jewish Book Award Finalist: "A fresh and delightful portrait of Jewish renewal in Poland . . . Highly recommended." — ChoiceSince the end of Communism, Jews from around the world have visited Poland to tour Holocaust-related sites. A few venture further, seeking to learn about their own Polish roots and connect with contemporary Poles. For their part, a growing number of Poles are ... Read more

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