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Jewish History and Culture Beyond Borders
An exploration of everyday experiences which examines and challenges scholarly trajectories in Jewish and urban studies from the perspectives of migration and exile, history of emotions, and gender.
Rewriting Joyce's Europe
This book sheds light on how the text and physical design of James Joyce’s two most challenging works, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, reflect changes that transformed Europe between World War I and II.
The Human Tradition in Modern Europe, 1750 to the Present
This engaging and humanizing text traces the development of Europe since the mid-eighteenth century through the lives of people of the time. Capturing key moments, themes, and events in the continent's turbulent modern past, the book explores how ordinary Europeans both shaped their societies and were affected by larger historical processes. By focusing on the lives of individual actors, both famous and obscure, students can gain a sense for how the well-known revolutions, wars, and social transformations of the modern era were experienced in private homes, work places, political forums, and on battlefields throughout the region. Fittingly, the book opens with the French Revolution and concl...
The Celebrity Monarch
The Celebrity Monarch argues that portraits of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837-1898) shaped both modern female portraiture and celebrity. Close study of portraits of Elisabeth, renowned as the most beautiful woman in Europe, along with her private collection of celebrity photography reveals her agency in shaping her own representation and the significance of her construction for modern Viennese artists and the emerging phenomenon of celebrity.
Place and Displacement in Jewish History and Memory
The 12 essays in this collection originated in an international conference on 'Place and Displacement in Jewish History and Memory - Zakor v'Makor', held at the University of Cape Town in January 2005.
Histories of the Holocaust
A comprehensive and accessible guide to the major themes and debates in Holocaust historiography over the last two decades.
The Journal of Southern History
Includes section "Book reviews."
The Most Ancient of Minorities
A volume of essays that examine more than 2,000 years of Italian Jewish history, from ancient Rome to contemporary developments concerning assimilation, literature, and the recent trial of a former SS captain implicated in crimes against humanity. The essays make clear that the Italian Jews have a unique history in Europe. A Jewish colony existed in Rome 200 years before the birth of Christ; the Eternal City therefore represents the oldest Jewish community in the Western world. Successive waves of immigrants created dozens of Jewish communities on the peninsula. Depending on the time and the place, Italian Jews could expect tolerance, discrimination, persecution, or outright violence. Still,...
