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  • Anne Frank on the Postwar Dutch Stage

    Performance, Memory, Affect

    by Remco Ensel ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This book is a case study into the affective history of Holocaust drama offering a new perspective on the impact of The Diary of Anne Frank, the pivotal 1950s play that was a turning point in Holocaust consciousness.Despite its overwhelming success, criticism of the Broadway makeover has been harsh, suggesting that the alleged Americanization would not do justice to the violence of the Holocaust ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • The Holocaust, Israel and 'the Jew'

    Histories of Antisemitism in Postwar Dutch Society

    Edited by Evelien Gans, Remco Ensel ...
    Series series War, Conflict and Genocide Studies
    This book is the first comprehensive study of postwar antisemitism in the Netherlands. It focuses on the way stereotypes are passed on from one decade to the next, as reflected in public debates, the mass media, protests and commemorations, and everyday interactions. The Holocaust, Israel and 'the Jew' explores the ways in which old stories and phrases relating to 'the stereotypical Jew' are ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • Narratives of War

    Remembering and Chronicling Battle in Twentieth-Century Europe

    Edited by Nanci Adler, Remco Ensel, Michael Wintle ...
    Series series Memory and Narrative
    Narratives of War considers the way war and battle are remembered and narrated across space and time in Europe in the twentieth century.The book reflects on how narratives are generated and deployed, and on their function as coping mechanisms, means of survival, commemorative gestures, historical records and evidence. The contributions address such issues as the tension and discrepancy between ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

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  • The World After Gaza

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    by Pankaj Mishra ...
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    $14.99 CAD

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  • On Antisemitism

    A Word in History

    by Mark Mazower ...
    **Named a Best Book of 2025 by The New Yorker“Excellent and timely.” —The New Yorker“Informative, insightful and provocative, On Antisemitism couldn’t be more timely.” —The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette“An immense contribution. . . . In tracing the evolving meaning of ‘antisemitism,’ [Mazower] demonstrates persuasively how we might turn it from a weapon back into a word. . . . Rigorous and lucid.” —The ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • No Joke

    Making Jewish Humor

    by Ruth R. Wisse ...
    Series series Library of Jewish Ideas
    Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. At the same time, Wisse draws attention to the precarious conditions that call Jewish ... Read more

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  • How to Fight Anti-Semitism

    by Bari Weiss ...
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  • Anne Frank Unbound

    Media, Imagination, Memory

    by Barbara Kishenblatt-Gimblett, Jeffrey Shandler ...
    Series series The Modern Jewish Experience
    "A brilliantly conceived and long overdue opening up [or deconstruction] of the Anne Frank story." —James Clifford, Professor Emeritus, History of Consciousness Department, University of CaliforniaAs millions of people around the world who have read her diary attest, Anne Frank, the most familiar victim of the Holocaust, has a remarkable place in contemporary memory. Anne Frank Unbound looks ... Read more

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  • The Complete Brecht Toolkit

    by Stephen Unwin ...
    A practical, hands-on guide - for actors, directors, teachers and students - to Brecht's theory and practice of theatre, with a full set of exercises to help put theory into practice.The Complete Brecht Toolkit examines, one by one, Brecht's many, sometimes contradictory ideas about theatre - and how he put them into practice. Here are explanations of all the famous key terms, such as Alienation ... Read more

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  • The Devil That Never Dies

    The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism

    by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen ...
    A groundbreaking — and terrifying — examination of the widespread resurgence of antisemitism in the 21st century, by the prize-winning and #1 internationally bestselling author of Hitler's Willing Executioners.Antisemitism never went away, but since the turn of the century it has multiplied beyond what anyone would have predicted. It is openly spread by intellectuals, politicians and religious ... Read more

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  • Introducing Walter Benjamin

    A Graphic Guide

    by Alex Coles, Andrzej Klimowski, Howard Caygill ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    Walter Benjamin is often considered the key modern philosopher and critic of modern art.Tracing his influence on modern aesthetics and cultural history, Introducing Walter Benjamin highlights his commitment to political transformation of the arts as a means to bring about social change.Benjamin witnessed first-hand many of the cataclysmic events of modern European history. He took a critical ... Read more

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