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Beyond Refuge in Arab Detroit
Publication Date: March 2025
As its residents struggle for change on their own terms, they no longer perceive greater Detroit as a sanctuary or temporary home, but as a place where Arabs and Chaldeans can live permanently as citizens.
The Lives of Jewish Things
Publication Date: December 2024
Tracing the paths of Jewish things across time, place, and culture, this collection reveals complex stories of individual and collective struggles to survive.
When Detroit Played the Numbers
Publication Date: March 2024
In succinct and engrossing chapters, George explores issues of community, race, politics, and the scandals that sprang up along the way, discovering how "playing the numbersgrew from a state-proclaimed crime to an encouraged legal activity.
Eating at God's Table
Publication Date: November 2023
This rich exploration of kosher Orthodox foodways and their meanings demonstrates the inadequacy of limited or simple definitions of Orthodox Jewishness and offers insight into the religious diversity in American communities.
Jewish Revival Inside Out
Publication Date: December 2022
This volume explores the global transformations of contemporary Jewishness, which give renewed meaning to identity, tradition, and politics in our post secular world.
100 Years of the Detroit Historical Society
Publication Date: December 2021
It is a fascinating tale that reflects the pride Detroiters have in their city and shows trends in historical preservation and organizational structures across North America.
The Angel and the Cholent
Publication Date: October 2021
Readers, scholars, and students interested in folkloristic and anthropological foodway studies or Jewish cultural studies will delight in these tales and find the editorial commentary illuminating.
Gun/Shy
Publication Date: August 2021
Daniels's accessible language, subtlety, and deftness make this collection one that belongs on every poetry reader's shelf.
Jewish Cultural Studies
Publication Date: May 2021
Students and scholars in Jewish studies, cultural studies, ethnic-religious studies, folklore, sociology, psychology, and ethnology are the intended audience for this book.
Overlooking the Border
Publication Date: October 2018
It is certain to be of value to scholars and advanced undergraduate and graduate students of Middle Eastern studies, history, urban ethnography, and Israeli and Jewish studies.
Concrete Boxes
Publication Date: August 2018
Concrete Boxes offers sustained reflection about Israeli reality rarely documented in scholarly work and a thought-provoking theoretical exploration of the ways in which individual agency encounters social restrictions and how social marginality is reproduced and challenged at the same time.
Things I Do in Detroit
Publication Date: February 2017
Never to have sought credit for his contributions before, the Nain Rouge reveals himself to the public for the first time in this visually rich guide book of amazing thinks to see and do in Detroit today.
In the Company of Others
Publication Date: June 2015
Abuhav brings a firsthand perspective to the crises and the highs, lows, and upheavals of the discipline in Israeli anthropology, which will be of interest to anthropologists, historians of the discipline, and scholars of Israeli studies.
Aesthetics of Sorrow
Publication Date: April 2014
Her interdisciplinary perspective and her focus on a uniquely female immigrant cultural practice will make this study fascinating reading for scholars of anthropology, gender, folklore, psychology, performance, philosophy, and sociology.
Perspectives on Israeli Anthropology
Publication Date: November 2009
Perspectives on Israeli Anthropology will provide an illuminating overview of the discipline for students, teachers, and researchers in the field of social anthropology.
The Armenian Massacres, 1894-1896
Publication Date: January 2004
relationship that would strengthen over the course of the twentieth century.
Remembrance and Denial
Publication Date: January 1999
Many of the chapters draw on archival records and court proceedings to review the precursors and process of the genocide, examine German complicity, and share the responses of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders.
Walkin' over Medicine
Publication Date: February 1998
Snow visited numerous pharmacies, grocery stores, and specialty shops in several major cities, accompanied families to church services, and attended weddings, baptisms, graduations, and funerals.
Bloody News from My Friend
Publication Date: November 1996
The translation by Balakian and Nevart Yaghlian allows readers to hear Siamanto's startling and arresting voice in a fresh, vernacular language.
"Gha-Ra-Bagh!"
Publication Date: November 1996
He documents the euphoria that marked the first large-scale demonstrations in February, the Kremlin's sobering rebukes in the summer, the tragedy of the December earthquake in northern Armenia, and escalating communal violence between Armenians and Azerbaijanis.
