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New German Cinema and Its Global Contexts
Publication Date: January 2025
Contributors explore these films' transnational circuits of production, distribution, and exhibition, as well as how the films were made and received, thereby inviting us to reexamine the roots of what New German Cinema was and imagine what it might yet become.
Constructing Modern Identities
Publication Date: December 2017
By illuminating how identities fluctuated throughout life, he demonstrates that adjusting one's social relationships to accommodate the Gentile and Jewish worlds became the norm rather than the exception for 19th-century German Jews.
Yudisher Theriak
Publication Date: November 2016
Scholars and students of Jewish-Christian relations and early modern Jewish historical and cultural studies will appreciate the availability of this previously inaccessible text.
The Politics of Magic
Publication Date: June 2015
Shen's study will be significant reading for teachers and students of folklore studies and for scholars of German, Eastern European, cultural, film, media, and gender studies.
Gender and the Uncanny in Films of the Weimar Republic
Publication Date: September 2014
Scholars of film and German history will appreciate the intriguing study of Gender and the Uncanny in Films of the Weimar Republic.
Grimms' Tales Around the Globe
Publication Date: June 2014
Fairy-tale and folklore scholars as well as readers interested in literary history and translation will appreciate this enlightening volume.
The New Life
Publication Date: June 2014
With liberation nearly seventy years in the past, it is among the very last studies based on living contact with Holocaust survivors.
The Intellectual History and Rabbinic Culture of Medieval Ashkenaz
Publication Date: December 2012
Medieval and Jewish history scholars will appreciate Kanarfogel's volume, which is the culmination of several decades of research on the subject.
The Waning of Emancipation
Publication Date: November 2011
Scholars of Jewish and European history will benefit from the careful research in this volume.
"We Are Here"
Publication Date: December 2009
Scholars of the Holocaust and all readers concerned with the Jewish experience immediately after World War II will be grateful for this volume.
Words from Abroad
Publication Date: September 2005
Words from Abroad is an important tool in investigating the works of these German Jewish writers and thinkers, but it is a contribution to the interdisciplinary scholarship on trauma and displacement itself.
History, Fiction, and Germany
Publication Date: September 2005
History, Fiction, and Germany provides a valuable resource for scholars and students of German studies, as well as anyone interested in history and the articulation of national identity.
Fabricating Pleasure
Publication Date: September 2005
From art and music to fashion and travel, Wurst places these popular forms of entertainment and pleasurable diversion in their social and historical contexts and shows how they have remarkable bearing on present-day debates on cultural literacy.
About Face
Publication Date: March 2004
A rich exploration of German culture, About Face offers fresh insight into the intellectual climate that allowed the dangerous thinking of National Socialism to take hold.
Jews and the German State
Publication Date: March 2003
This is an important work for students and scholars of Jewish history in general and German Jewish history in particular.
New Beginnings
Publication Date: June 2002
In so doing, it reveals that the Jewish presence in Germany was not only an issue to be tackled by external powers but an active force shaping the Jewish post-Holocaust stance worldwide.
The Transformation of German Jewry, 1780-1840
Publication Date: August 1999
This study may be applied beyond the confines of Jewish history, for it is a study in the afterlife of the German Enlightenment, the Aufklärung, in the culture of liberalism.
The Origins of the Modern Jew
Publication Date: April 1972
By 1824, liberal Judaism had not yet produced a vision of it future as a separate entity within European society, but it had been exposed to and grappled with all the significant problems that still confront the Jew in the West.
