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| 141. |  | Title: Political criticism  Author: Shapiro, Ian Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | Political Theory | Philosophy | Sociology Matches in book (24): ...simultaneously stigmatized as a Jewess in an anti-Semitic culture, resulting in... Similar Items...secular authorities. 28 Many American Jews and Catholics, not to mention... ...if we consider the social position of a Jew in Nazi Germany we must discern an... |
| 142. |  | Title: Fiction as history: Nero to Julian Author: Bowersock, G. W. (Glen Warren) 1936- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics | Literature | European History | Classical Religions | Christianity | Ancient History Publisher's Description: Using pagan fiction produced in Greek and Latin during the early Christian era, G. W. Bowersock investigates the complex relationship between "historical" and "fictional" truths. This relationship preoccupied writers of the second century, a time when apparent fictions about both past and present we . . . [more] Matches in book (18): ...Reynolds, J, and R. Tannenbaum. Jews and Godfearers at Aphrodisias . Cambridge,... Similar Items...95 -96; body and blood, 126 -27 Jews, 4 , 40 , 121 , 124 , 128 , 132 John,... ...Jubilee Volume , American Academy for Jewish Research, pp. 815-29. Jerusalem,... |
| 143. |  | Title: A critical study of Philip Guston Author: Ashton, Dore Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Criticism | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Dore Ashton has updated the bibliography and added a new concluding chapter to her classic study of the paintings and drawings of Philip Guston, the only study of his work completely authorized by the artist.Philip Guston (1913-1980) was one of the most independent of the painters whose work was loo . . . [more] Matches in book (16): ...141 Jeune Parque, La (Valéry), 123 Jewish Museum, 131 , 133 , 135 , 146 , 153 ,... Similar Items...in his teens, had singled out "a jewel of a Bosch" in his visit to Mexico, and... ...cards, broken toys, imitation jewelry—junk that memory had made precious, far... |
| 144. |  | Title: Licensing entertainment: the elevation of novel reading in Britain, 1684-1750 Author: Warner, William Beatty Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature | European History | Print Media | English Literature Publisher's Description: Novels have been a respectable component of culture for so long that it is difficult for twentieth-century observers to grasp the unease produced by novel reading in the eighteenth century. William Warner shows how the earliest novels in Britain, published in small-format print media, provoked early . . . [more] Matches in book (16): ...in Lincolnshire, when he has the bawdy Mrs. Jewkes to urge him on and Pamela is... Similar Items...arbitrary brutality of the bawdy Jewkes; from community support to the isolation... ...of my Master in one Bull; and Mrs. Jewkes's in the other; and now I am gone, to... |
| 145. |  | Title: Weimar: a jurisprudence of crisis Author: Jacobson, Arthur J Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Law | Social and Political Thought | German Studies | Political Theory Publisher's Description: This selection of the major works of constitutional theory during the Weimar period reflects the reactions of legal scholars to a state in permanent crisis, a society in which all bets were off. Yet the Weimar Republic's brief experiment in constitutionalism laid the groundwork for the postwar Feder . . . [more] Matches in book (30): ...state but not citizens of the Reich ( Jews in the old Reich territory). There... Similar Items...state nor citizens of the Reich ( Jews in the eastern territories and in Eupen... ...came at a conference titled “Jewry in Legal Scholarship” [ Das Judentum in der... |
| 146. |  | Title: Rediscovering Palestine: merchants and peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900 Author: Doumani, Beshara 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Politics | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Drawing on previously unused primary sources, this book paints an intimate and vivid portrait of Palestinian society on the eve of modernity. Through the voices of merchants, peasants, and Ottoman officials, Beshara Doumani offers a major revision of standard interpretations of Ottoman history by in . . . [more] Matches in book (25): ...or copper), leather shoes, saddles, and jewelry. See Shukri Arraf, Al-Ard;bn al-... Similar Items...as tanners, weavers, carpenters, jewelers, or ironsmiths. He also claims that a... ...nontextile items, such as shoes or jewelry. 100 Each type of kiswa had specific... |
| 147. |  | Title: Discrepant dislocations: feminism, theory, and postcolonial histories Author: John, Mary E 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies | Anthropology | Postcolonial Studies | South Asia | Politics Publisher's Description: Mary E. John investigates the metaphor of dislocation within and across two specific "locations" - the United States and India - in this epistemological inquiry into the production of theory in general and the grounds of feminist ethnography in particular. She probes a set of distinct but related th . . . [more] Matches in book (19): ...Laleen, 8 Jayawardena, Kumari, 9 Jensen, Joan M. , 148 n23 Jews, 58 , 59 -... Similar Items...61, 88 Jewish jokes,... ...58 Jewish nationalism, 58 , 157 n48 Johnson, Barbara, 26 , 33 -34, 35 , 42 , 96... |
| 148. |  | Title: When capitalists collide: business conflict and the end of empire in Egypt Author: Vitalis, Robert 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Politics | Ancient History | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Robert Vitalis's empirically rich study challenges the left-nationalist paradigm through which twentieth-century Egyptian history and politics has generally been interpreted. He argues with those who explain Egyptian economic development primarily in terms of class and of power struggles between Bri . . . [more] Matches in book (22): ...Radical’ Nationalists, Fundamentalists, and the Jews in Egypt or, Who Is a Real... Similar Items...Krämer, Gudrun ———. 1989. The Jews in Modern Egypt, 1914–1952 . Publications on... ...Criterion Books. Landau, Jacob . 1969. Jews in Nineteenth-Century Egypt . New... |
| 149. |  | Title: Roberto Rossellini Author: Brunette, Peter Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts Publisher's Description: This is the first full-length study in any language of the most significant film director of Italian Neorealism. Peter Brunette combines close analyses of Roberto Rossellini's formal and narrative style with a thorough account of his position in the political and cultural landscape of postwar Italy. . . . [more] Matches in book (32): ...up in amazement at the acropolis, the jewel of the civilization they have just... Similar Items...claims too much by linking the fire of the Jews and the water of the Christians,... ...for every German killed. Not enough Jews or partisans could be found in the... |
| 150. |  | Title: Emigrants and society: Extremadura and America in the sixteenth century Author: Altman, Ida Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | European History | United States History Publisher's Description: The opening of the New World to Spanish settlement had more than the limited impact on individuals and society which scholars have traditionally granted it. Many families and young single people left the neighboring cities of Cáceres and Trujillo in the Extremadura region of southwestern Spain for t . . . [more] Matches in book (21): ...261 , 267 -268 Jaraicejo, 24 , 93 , 94 Jews: in Cáceres and Trujillo, 18 , 41 ,... Similar Items...126 (1950): 398. She also owned jewelry with pearls, rubies, and diamonds. 32.... ...or Flanders. Women owned and wore costly jewelry of gold, silver, and precious... |
| 151. |  | Title: At the heart of the Empire: Indians and the colonial encounter in late-Victorian Britain Author: Burton, Antoinette M 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Women's Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | South Asia | Victorian History | Travel | European History | Asian History Publisher's Description: Antoinette Burton focuses on the experiences of three Victorian travelers in Britain to illustrate how "Englishness" was made and remade in relation to imperialism. The accounts left by these three sojourners - all prominent, educated Indians - represent complex, critical ethnographies of "native" m . . . [more] Matches in book (21): ...Britain, 29 , 68 ; Jews in India, 156 Jim Crow, 176 , 233 n108 Jinnah, M. A. ,... Similar Items...174 Jacobean England, 34 Jamaica, 9 James, C. L. R. , 185 Jewish communities in... ...our Christianity is our fairest jewel" and that by ignoring this particular... |
| 152. |  | Title: Passions of the tongue: language devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970 Author: Ramaswamy, Sumathi Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Asian Studies | History | South Asia | Language and Linguistics | Asian History | Asian Literature Publisher's Description: Why would love for their language lead several men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? Passions of the Tongue analyzes the discourses of love, labor, and life that transformed Tamil into an object of such passionate attachment, producing in the process one of modern India's most . . . [more] Matches in book (14): ...glorious Tamil may understand? Born as jewel of the English land, He has with... Similar Items...terms: In order that Tamiḻttāy's jeweled crown should shine, We built the... ...Maṇimēkalai encircles her waist as a jeweled belt, the Kuṇṭalakēci hangs from... |
| 153. |  | Title: Many Rāmāyaṇas: the diversity of a narrative tradition in South Asia Author: Richman, Paula Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion | Hinduism | Cultural Anthropology | South Asia Publisher's Description: Throughout Indian history, many authors and performers have produced, and many patrons have supported, diverse tellings of the story of the exiled prince Rama, who rescues his abducted wife by battling the demon king who has imprisoned her. The contributors to this volume focus on these "many" Ramay . . . [more] Matches in book (15): ...vanish, out of the sky, with her jewelled chariot fresh as that of a young... Similar Items...triply blessed. You have become the jewel of the demon family. 28 In this manner... ...by passion, Sita overly fond of jeweled ornaments, Laksmana desirous of Sita,... |
| 154. |  | Title: Tortured confessions: prisons and public recantations in modern Iran Author: Abrahamian, Ervand 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Politics | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: The role of torture in recent Iranian politics is the subject of Ervand Abrahamian's important and disturbing book. Although Iran officially banned torture in the early twentieth century, Abrahamian provides documentation of its use under the Shahs and of the widespread utilization of torture and pu . . . [more] Matches in book (18): ...bestowed on them both a Mir Ghazab and a jeweled dagger to symbolize his royal... Similar Items...more than 2,000); at Gohar Dasht (Jeweled Field) also on the road to Karaj (its... ...212 , 224 Jazani, Bezhan, 108 , 109 Jews: in the Communist party, 30 ; executed... |
| 155. |  | Title: "Mademoiselle Irnois" and other stories Author: Gobineau, Arthur, comte de 1816-1882 Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Literature Matches in book (21): ...beautiful fabrics, precious cloth, jewels and diamonds, he looked at everything;... Similar Items...permission. The truth is that she's a jewel among women. We were barely settled... ...is, the monotheistic Christian and Jew, were more tolerated by Islam than were... |
| 156. |  | Title: Listen to the heron's words: reimagining gender and kinship in North India Author: Raheja, Gloria Goodwin 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Women's Studies | South Asia Publisher's Description: In many South Asian oral traditions, herons are viewed as duplicitous and conniving. These traditions tend also to view women as fragmented identities, dangerously split between virtue and virtuosity, between loyalties to their own families and those of their husbands. In women's songs, however, sym . . . [more] Matches in book (13): ...two persons slept, producing a third jewel." This song has the semi-nonsensical... Similar Items...my forehead. I won't give my forehead jewel, Husband's Sister, I've promised it... ...Dancing Song Don't wear a forehead jewel, my fair one, and don't wear a pendant... |
| 157. |  | Title: Family size and achievement Author: Blake, Judith Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Sociology | Demography Publisher's Description: The children born since the end of the postwar baby boom are the first in American history to come primarily from small families - families of three or fewer children. Judith Blake calls this momentous change the sibsize revolution, and this book focuses on the cognitive and educational consequences . . . [more] Matches in book (22): ...R. , 13 , 17 , 91 , 95 , 226 , 381 n Jews, 248 , 249 , 298 Joachim, D. B. , 31... Similar Items...and, 84 , 86 . See also Catholics; Jews; Protestants Rich, M. C. , 91 Rindfuss,... ...1–2 9 3–4 10 5–6 11 7 + 12 Jews 1–2 13 3–4 14 5–6 15 7 + 16 The... |
| 158. |  | Title: An empire nowhere: England, America, and literature from Utopia to The tempest Author: Knapp, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | United States History | Renaissance Literature | European History Publisher's Description: What caused England's literary renaissance? One answer has been such unprecedented developments as the European discovery of America. Yet England in the sixteenth century was far from an expanding nation. Not only did the Tudors lose England's sole remaining possessions on the Continent and, thanks . . . [more] Matches in book (18): ...That nought he deemed deare for the jewell" (276-77). Once inside, the fox tells... Similar Items...Isle, Left me with this jewel to present your Grace. (... ...of the Elizabethans. He answers Jewel's attack on image worship by ex- horting... |
| 159. |  | Title: Giambologna: narrator of the Catholic Reformation Author: Gibbons, Mary Weitzel 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art | Art History Publisher's Description: Arguably the pre-eminent European sculptor of his age, but historically considered little more than the facile court sculptor to the grand dukes of Florence, Giambologna played a major role in the artistic transformations of the late sixteenth century. Mary Weitzel Gibbons seeks to broaden our hithe . . . [more] Matches in book (14): ...17 (1935): 90-97. ———. "A Renaissance Jewel in a Baroque Setting." Burlington... Similar Items...of the 1553 commission to the Milanese jeweler Francesco de Rochi but have found... ...der Begriffe. Lucerne, 1946. Josephus. Jewish Antiquities. Vol. 9, Book 18.... |
| 160. |  | Title: The Berlin novels of Alfred Döblin: Wadzek's Battle with the steam turbine, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Men without mercy, and November 1918 Author: Dollenmayer, David B Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Literature Matches in book (16): ...Jeremiah, 139 Jews: in Berlin Alexanderplatz, 68 ; in November 1918, 138 Joyce,... Similar Items...Komar, p. 321. Komar writes that the old Jew is referring to Biberkopf, not to... ...29. Actually, Radek was a Polish Jew, born Karl Sobelsohn in Lvov in 1885. 30. A... |