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          New German Cinema and Its Global Contexts

          New German Cinema and Its Global Contexts

          A Transnational Art Cinema

          Edited by Marco Abel and Jaimey Fisher

          Afterword by Eric Rentschler

          Series edited by Barry Keith Grant

          Price: $34.99

          ISBN: 9780814348901

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: January 2025

          Format: Paperback

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          358 Pages

          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

          Constructing Modern Identities

          Jewish University Students in Germany, 1815-1914

          by Keith Pickus

          Price: $29.99

          ISBN: 9780814343524

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: December 2017

          Format: Paperback

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          222 Pages

          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

          Yudisher Theriak

          An Early Modern Yiddish Defense of Judaism

          Edited by Morris M. Faierstein

          Translated by Morris M. Faierstein

          Price: $51.99

          ISBN: 9780814342480

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: November 2016

          Format: Hardcover

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          200 Pages

          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

          The Politics of Magic

          Defa Fairy-Tale Films

          by Qinna Shen

          Price: $32.99

          ISBN: 9780814339039

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: June 2015

          Format: Paperback

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          352 Pages

          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

          Gender and the Uncanny in Films of the Weimar Republic

          by Anjeana Hans

          Price: $32.99

          ISBN: 9780814338940

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: September 2014

          Format: Paperback

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          304 Pages

          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

          Grimms' Tales Around the Globe

          The Dynamics of Their International Reception

          Edited by Vanessa Joosen and Gillian Lathey

          Price: $32.99

          ISBN: 9780814339206

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: June 2014

          Format: Paperback

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          320 Pages

          Fairy-tale and folklore scholars as well as readers interested in literary history and translation will appreciate this enlightening volume.

          The New Life

          The New Life

          Jewish Students of Postwar Germany

          by Jeremy Varon

          Price: $35.99

          ISBN: 9780814339619

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: June 2014

          Format: Paperback

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          376 Pages

          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

          The Intellectual History and Rabbinic Culture of Medieval Ashkenaz

          by Ephraim Kanarfogel

          Price: $64.99

          ISBN: 9780814330241

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: December 2012

          Format: Hardcover

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          600 Pages

          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

          The Waning of Emancipation

          Jewish History, Memory, and the Rise of Fascism in Germany, France, and Hungary

          by Guy Miron

          Price: $52.99

          ISBN: 9780814334706

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: November 2011

          Format: Hardcover

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          320 Pages

          Scholars of Jewish and European history will benefit from the careful research in this volume.

          "We Are Here"

          "We Are Here"

          New Approaches to Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany

          Edited by Avinoam Patt and Michael Berkowitz

          Price: $33.99

          ISBN: 9780814333501

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: December 2009

          Format: Paperback

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          368 Pages

          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

          Words from Abroad

          Trauma and Displacement in Postwar German Jewish Writers

          by Katja Garloff

          Price: $52.99

          ISBN: 9780814332450

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: September 2005

          Format: Hardcover

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          264 Pages

          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

          History, Fiction, and Germany

          Writing the Nineteenth-Century Nation

          by Brent O. Peterson

          Price: $56.99

          ISBN: 9780814332009

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: September 2005

          Format: Hardcover

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          368 Pages

          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

          Fabricating Pleasure

          Fashion, Entertainment, and Cultural Consumption in Germany, 1780-1830

          by Karin Wurst

          Price: $62.99

          ISBN: 9780814331316

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: September 2005

          Format: Hardcover

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          512 Pages

          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

          About Face

          German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz

          by Richard T. Gray

          Price: $54.99

          ISBN: 9780814331798

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: March 2004

          Format: Hardcover

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          510 Pages

          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

          Jews and the German State

          The Political History of a Minority, 1848-1933

          by Peter Pulzer

          Price: $23.99

          ISBN: 9780814331309

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: March 2003

          Format: Paperback

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          392 Pages

          This is an important work for students and scholars of Jewish history in general and German Jewish history in particular.

          New Beginnings

          New Beginnings

          Holocaust Survivors in Bergen-Belsen and the British Zone in Germany, 1945-1950

          by Hagit Lavsky

          Price: $44.99

          ISBN: 9780814330098

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: June 2002

          Format: Hardcover

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          312 Pages

          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

          The Transformation of German Jewry, 1780-1840

          by David Sorkin

          Price: $27.99

          ISBN: 9780814328286

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: August 1999

          Format: Paperback

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          272 Pages

          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

          The Origins of the Modern Jew

          Jewish Identity and European Culture in Germany, 1749-1824

          by Michael A. Meyer

          Price: $22.99

          ISBN: 9780814314708

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: April 1972

          Format: Paperback

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          252 Pages

          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.

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