UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Lithuania awakening Author: Senn, Alfred Erich Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| Politics \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of perestroika released new forces throughout Soviet society. In Lithuania this process resulted in a psychological-cultural revolution. Deep-rooted feelings, long suppressed, exploded, demonstrations and mass meetings ensued, and the face of the society changed. Although . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Founder of Hasidism: a quest for the historical Baʾal Shem Tov Author: Rosman, Murray Jay Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History \| Judaism Publisher's Description: This book goes farther than any previous work in uncovering the historical Israel ben Eliezer - known as the Ba'al Shem Tov, or the Besht - the eighteenth-century Polish-Jewish mystic who profoundly influenced the shape of modern Judaism. As the progenitor of Hasidism, the Ba'al Shem Tov is one of t . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: A surplus of memory: chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising Author: Zuckerman, Yitzhak 1915-1981 Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| European History Publisher's Description: In 1943, against utterly hopeless odds, the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto rose up to defy the Nazi horror machine that had set out to exterminate them. One of the leaders of the Jewish Fighting Organization, which led the uprisings, was Yitzhak Zuckerman, known by his underground pseudonym, Antek. Decad . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Jewish passages: cycles of Jewish life Author: Goldberg, Harvey E Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: American or Middle Eastern, Ashkenazi or Sephardi, insular or immersed in modern life - however diverse their situations or circumstances, Jews draw on common traditions and texts when they mark life's momentous events and rites of passage. The interplay of past and present, of individual practice a . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Diasporas and exiles: varieties of Jewish identity Author: Wettstein, Howard Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| European History \| Social and Political Thought \| Sociology \| Immigration Publisher's Description: Diaspora, considered as a context for insights into Jewish identity, brings together a lively, interdisciplinary group of scholars in this innovative volume. Readers needn't expect, however, to find easy agreement on what those insights are. The concept "diaspora" itself has proved controversial; ga . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Jewish memories Author: Valensi, Lucette Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Collective memory: a living, breathing gift from the past, less fragmentary than the recollections of any one individual, more personal by far than "history." The authors of Jewish Memories saw in the large numbers of Jews who migrated to France during the twentieth century the chance to retrieve a . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Unheroic conduct: the rise of heterosexuality and the invention of the Jewish man Author: Boyarin, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Jewish Studies \| Social Theory Publisher's Description: In a book that will both enlighten and provoke, Daniel Boyarin offers an alternative to the prevailing Euroamerican warrior/patriarch model of masculinity and recovers the Jewish ideal of the gentle, receptive male. The Western notion of the aggressive, sexually dominant male and the passive female . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Pseudo-Hecataeus, On the Jews: legitimizing the Jewish diaspora Author: Bar-Kochva, Bezalel Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| History \| Ancient History \| Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: Debate over the authenticity of "On the Jews" has persisted for nearly 1,900 years. Bezalel Bar-Kochva attempts to overcome this stalemate in his finely detailed and convincingly argued study that proves the forgery of the book and suggests not only a source for the text, but also a social, politica . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Quantifying spirit in the 18th century Author: Frängsmyr, Tore 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Science \| History and Philosophy of Science \| Intellectual History Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Jewish life in renaissance Italy Author: Bonfil, Roberto Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Renaissance History \| European History Publisher's Description: With this heady exploration of time and space, rumors and silence, colors, tastes, and ideas, Robert Bonfil recreates the richness of Jewish life in Renaissance Italy. He also forces us to rethink conventional interpretations of the period, which feature terms like "assimilation" and "acculturation. . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Languages of community: the Jewish experience in the Czech lands Author: Kieval, Hillel J Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| European Studies \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| Judaism Publisher's Description: With a keen eye for revealing details, Hillel J. Kieval examines the contours and distinctive features of Jewish experience in the lands of Bohemia and Moravia (the present-day Czech Republic), from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century. In the Czech lands, Kieval writes, Jews have felt . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Heritage and hellenism: the reinvention of Jewish tradition Author: Gruen, Erich S Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics \| Classical History \| Classical Religions \| Judaism \| Ancient History \| Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: The interaction of Jew and Greek in antiquity intrigues the imagination. Both civilizations boasted great traditions, their roots stretching back to legendary ancestors and divine sanction. In the wake of Alexander the Great's triumphant successes, Greeks and Macedonians came as conquerors and settl . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Jewish icons: art and society in modern Europe Author: Cohen, Richard I Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art \| Jewish Studies \| European Studies \| European History Publisher's Description: With the help of over one hundred illustrations spanning three centuries, Richard Cohen investigates the role of visual images in European Jewish history. The interaction of Jews with the visual arts takes place, as Cohen says, in a vast gallery of prints, portraits, books, synagogue architecture, c . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Jewish state: a century later Author: Dowty, Alan 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Politics Publisher's Description: As the fiftieth anniversary of Israeli statehood approaches, along with the commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the World Zionist Organization, the question of what is meant by a "Jewish" state is particularly timely. Alan Dowty takes on that question in a book that is admirable for its cl . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: The maiden of Ludmir: a Jewish holy woman and her world Author: Deutsch, Nathaniel Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Women's Studies \| European History \| Judaism \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Hannah Rochel Verbermacher, a Hasidic holy woman known as the Maiden of Ludmir, was born in early-nineteenth-century Russia and became famous as the only woman in the three-hundred-year history of Hasidism to function as a rebbe - or charismatic leader - in her own right. Nathaniel Deutsch follows t . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Love customs in eighteenth-century Spain Author: Martín Gaite, Carmen Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| European History \| Gender Studies Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Beyond the pale: the Jewish encounter with late imperial Russia Author: Nathans, Benjamin Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| Jewish Studies \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: A surprising number of Jews lived, literally and figuratively, "beyond the Pale" of Jewish Settlement in tsarist Russia during the half-century before the Revolution of 1917. Thanks to the availability of long-closed Russian archives, along with a wide range of other sources, Benjamin Nathans reinte . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Stalin's forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and the making of a Soviet Jewish homeland: an illustrated history, 1928-1996 Author: Weinberg, Robert E Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| History \| Politics \| Judaism Publisher's Description: Robert Weinberg and Bradley Berman's carefully documented and extensively illustrated book explores the Soviet government's failed experiment to create a socialist Jewish homeland. In 1934 an area popularly known as Birobidzhan, a sparsely populated region along the Sino-Soviet border some five thou . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Gaon of Vilna: the man and his image Author: Etkes, I Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Medieval History Publisher's Description: A legendary figure in his own lifetime, Rabbi Eliahu ben Shlomo Zalman (1720-1797) was known as the "Gaon of Vilna." He was the acknowledged master of Talmudic studies in the vibrant intellectual center of Vilna, revered throughout Eastern Europe for his learning and his ability to traverse with eas . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Customers and patrons of the mad-trade: the management of lunacy in eighteenth-century London: with the complete text of John Monro's 1766 case book Author: Andrews, Jonathan 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| History of Science \| Psychology \| Social Problems \| Psychiatry Publisher's Description: This book is a lively commentary on the eighteenth-century mad-business, its practitioners, its patients (or "customers"), and its patrons, viewed through the unique lens of the private case book kept by the most famous mad-doctor in Augustan England, Dr. John Monro (1715-1791). Monro's case book, c . . . [more] Similar Items