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  • The Jewish Inn in Polish Culture

    Between Practice and Phantasm

    Series series Jews in Eastern Europe
    The Jewish inn (żydowska karczma) was a central pillar of economic and social life in Polish lands before the Second World War. While its primary role was to provide hospitality, it also functioned as a multifaceted hub for business, leisure, and religious festivities, reflecting its vital role in the community.In The Jewish Inn: Between Practice and Phantasm, editors Halina Goldberg and Bożena ... Leer más

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  • Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital

    Centering the Periphery

    **Shortlisted by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) for Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly VolumePIASA's 2024 Anna M. Cienciala Award for Best-Edited Multi-Authored Scholarly Volume**Polish Jewish Culture beyond the Capital: Centering the Periphery is a path-breaking exploration of the diversity and vitality of urban Jewish identity and culture in ... Leer más

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  • Music in Chopin's Warsaw

    Music in Chopin's Warsaw examines the rich musical environment of Fryderyk Chopin's youth--largely unknown to the English-speaking world--and places Chopin's early works in the context of this milieu. Halina Goldberg provides a historiographic perspective that allows a new and better understanding of Poland's cultural and musical circumstances. Chopin's Warsaw emerges as a vibrant European city ... Leer más

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  • Chopin and His World

    Series series The Bard Music Festival
    A new look at the life, times, and music of Polish composer and piano virtuoso Fryderyk ChopinFryderyk Chopin (1810–49), although the most beloved of piano composers, remains a contradictory figure, an artist of virtually universal appeal who preferred the company of only a few sympathetic friends and listeners. Chopin and His World reexamines Chopin and his music in light of the cultural ... Leer más

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  • Jewish Poland Revisited

    Heritage Tourism in Unquiet Places

    Series series New Anthropologies of Europe
    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 ... Leer más

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  • Czernowitz at 100

    The First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Writing Jewish Culture

    Paradoxes in Ethnography

    "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 ... Leer más

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  • Yiddish

    Biography of a Language

    The most widely spoken Jewish language on the eve of the Holocaust, Yiddish continues to play a significant role in Jewish life today, from Hasidim for whom it is a language of daily life to avant-garde performers, political activists, and LGBTQ writers turning to Yiddish for inspiration. Yiddish: Biography of a Language presents the story of this centuries-old language, the defining vernacular of ... Leer más

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  • Ahasuerus at the Easel

    Jewish Art and Jewish Artists in Central and Eastern European Modernism at the Turn of the Last Century

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    This survey asks a seemingly simple question: Is there an affinity between the emergence of modern art and various Avant-Garde movements such as Russian Suprematism and Polish or Hungarian Constructivism around about the turn of the last century and the process of Jewish assimilation in the Habsburg empire and Russian tsardom respectively? What about the possible connection between «Hebraism», ... Leer más

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  • Literature of the Holocaust

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    During and in the aftermath of the dark period of the Holocaust, writers across Europe and America sought to express their feelings and experiences through their writings. This book provides a comprehensive account of these writings through essays from expert scholars, covering a wide geographic, linguistic, thematic and generic range of materials. Such an overview is particularly appropriate at a ... Leer más

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  • Postcards from Auschwitz

    Holocaust Tourism and the Meaning of Remembrance

    The uneasy link between tourism and collective memory at Holocaust museums and memorialsEach year, millions of people visit Holocaust memorials and museums, with the number of tourists steadily on the rise. What lies behind the phenomenon of "Holocaust tourism" and what role do its participants play in shaping how we remember and think about the Holocaust?In Postcards from Auschwitz, Daniel P. ... Leer más

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  • Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe

    Series series Focus on World Music Series
    Two decades after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and one decade into the twenty-first century, European music remains one of the most powerful forces for shaping nationalism. Using intensive fieldwork throughout Europe -- from participation in alpine foot pilgrimages to studies of the grandest music spectacle anywhere in the world, the Eurovision Song Contest -- Philip V. Bohlman reveals ... Leer más

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