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| 21. |  | Title: Foregone conclusions: against apocalyptic history  Author: Bernstein, Michael André 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | Jewish Studies | Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: Michael André Bernstein's passionate denunciation of apocalyptic thinking provides a moral, philosophical, and literary challenge to the way most of us make sense of our worlds. In our search for coherence, Bernstein argues, we tend to see our lives as moving toward a predetermined fate. This "fores . . . [more] Matches in book (494): ...154 -55n3, 157 n20. See also European; Jewry Diderot, Denis, Danto's jest about,... Similar Items...also Austria; Britain; European Jewry; France; Germany; Italy; Poland Evanier,... ...77, 84 -89, 93 , 94 Vienna and Its Jews (Berkeley), 18 , 135 n18, 137 n35, 149 -... |
| 22. |  | Title: Rhetorics of self-making Author: Battaglia, Debbora Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Psychology Publisher's Description: Departing from an essentialist concept of the self, this highly original volume advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood with three contributions to the literature: First, it approaches the self as an ideological process, arguing that selfhood is culturally situated and emergent in social pract . . . [more] Matches in book (173): ...Two Self-Exposure as Theory: The Double Mark of the Male Jew... Similar Items...Two Self-Exposure as Theory: The Double Mark of the Male Jew... ...maintained by, 19 ; to mark male Jewishness, 16 -17, 19 , 26 -27, 29 -30, 32 -... |
| 23. |  | Title: The Muslims of Valencia in the age of Fernando and Isabel: between coexistence and crusade Author: Meyerson, Mark D Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Religion Publisher's Description: The kingdom of Valencia was home to Christian Spain's largest Muslim population during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, Fernando and Isabel. How did Muslim-Christian coexistence in Valencia remain relatively stable in this volatile period that saw the establishment of the Spanish Inquisition, the . . . [more] Matches in book (189): ...had reached after wrestling with the problem of the Jews and Conversos.... Similar Items...The conflict was centered on a Jewess of Murviedro, Dolçina, whom Mercader had... ...Alcantera to transport them, and a Jewess employed Maymo Açen to deliver paper... |
| 24. |  | Title: The French Revolution and the birth of modernity Author: Fehér, Ferenc 1933- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Politics | Social Theory Publisher's Description: Written from widely different perspectives, these essays characterize the Great Revolution as the dawn of the modern age, the grand narrative of modernity. The scope of issues under scrutiny is extremely broad, ranging from the analyses of the hotly debated class character of 1789 and the problem of . . . [more] Matches in book (202): ...Five Jews into Frenchmen: Nationality and Representation in Revolutionary France... Similar Items...Five Jews into Frenchmen: Nationality and Representation in Revolutionary France... ...See National Assembly Assimilation, Jewish, 103 August Insurrection, 117 Aulard,... |
| 25. |  | Title: Three mothers, three daughters: Palestinian women's stories Author: Gorkin, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Women's Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: This remarkable collection of oral histories from six Palestinian women, three mothers and three of their daughters, affords an unparalleled view into the daily lives of women who have lived, and continue to live, through a turbulent and rapidly changing era. In recording these stories, Michael Gork . . . [more] Matches in book (145): ...army, they just got caught between the Jews and Arabs shooting at each other. I... Similar Items...Someone answered, “There’s a war, the Jews have attacked and are coming our... ...to get yourself killed too. The Jews are coming quickly. Gather your family and... |
| 26. |  | Title: The fractious nation?: unity and division in contemporary American life Author: Rieder, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Politics | Religion | Sociology | Immigration Publisher's Description: What are we to make of the speed with which the new climate of national solidarity emerged after September 11? Does it not look strange against a backdrop of the much-touted divisiveness of American life? In truth, The Fractious Nation? makes clear, the contrast of the time of divisiveness before an . . . [more] Matches in book (370): ...America's Jews... Similar Items...THE CIVIL RELIGION OF ORGANIZED JEWISH LIFE... ...TOWARD PARTICULARISM: WHAT ARE JEWISH INTERESTS AND VALUES?... |
| 27. |  | Title: A. Sutzkever: selected poetry and prose Author: Sutzkever, Abraham 1913- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Literature in Translation | Poetry Publisher's Description: The work of A. Sutzkever, one of the major twentieth-century masters of verse and the last of the great Yiddish poets, is presented to the English reader in this banquet of poetry, narrative verse, and poetic fiction. Sutzkever's imposing body of work links images from Israel's present and past with . . . [more] Matches in book (61): ...Frozen Jews... Similar Items...Smoke of Jewish Children... ...or young man. 15. Sh'ma (or Shema) — Jewish profession of faith, always recited... |
| 28. |  | Title: Pollution in a promised land: an environmental history of Israel Author: Tal, Alon 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: EcologyEvolutionEnvironment | Jewish Studies | Ecology | Geography | Conservation Publisher's Description: Virtually undeveloped one hundred years ago, Israel, the promised "land of milk and honey," is in ecological disarray. In this gripping book, Alon Tal provides--for the first time ever--a history of environmentalism in Israel, interviewing hundreds of experts and activists who have made it their mis . . . [more] Matches in book (402): ...JEWISH TREES... Similar Items...LIFE IN THE THIRD JEWISH COMMONWEALTH... ...THE BIRTH OF THE JEWISH NATIONAL FUND... |
| 29. |  | Title: Hysteria beyond Freud Author: Gilman, Sander L Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Literature | Women's Studies | Psychiatry | Medicine Publisher's Description: "She's hysterical." For centuries, the term "hysteria" has been used by physicians and laymen alike to diagnose and dismiss the extreme emotionality and mysterious physical disorders presumed to bedevil others - especially women. How has this medical concept assumed its power? What cultural purposes . . . [more] Matches in book (371): ...of love. . . . . . .This Jewification of our spiritual life and mammonization... Similar Items...Cadell & Davies, 1800). 89. Nicholas Jewson, "The Disappearance of the Sick Man... ...that the "jewels" become a "jewelcase" in the dream and that this term (... |
| 30. |  | Title: Frontiers and ghettos: state violence in Serbia and Israel Author: Ron, James Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | European Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Christianity | Judaism | Islam | Christianity Publisher's Description: James Ron uses controversial comparisons between Serbia and Israel to present a novel theory of state violence. Formerly a research consultant to Human Rights Watch and the International Red Cross, Ron witnessed remarkably different patterns of state coercion. Frontiers and Ghettos presents an insti . . . [more] Matches in book (265): ...JEWISH MILITIAS IN THE WEST BANK AND GAZA... Similar Items...the State of Judea, their term for an all-Jewish West Bank mini-state.... ...117 Zionism: versus concept of Jewishness, 237n41 ; impact on Palestinian... |
| 31. |  | Title: An unmastered past: the autobiographical reflections of Leo Lowenthal Author: Lowenthal, Leo Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Sociology | Social Theory | Social and Political Thought Matches in book (214): ...and the Freedom Movement," 131 ; "The Jews and Europe," 77 ; "Traditional and... Similar Items...of art, 122 -23, 128 , 172 , 173 , 196 ; Jewish, 112 , 114 , 232 -33, 244 -45... ...a project with the title "Judaism and Jewishness in Recent German Philosophy." I... |
| 32. |  | Title: Hellenistic history and culture Author: Green, Peter 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics | Classical Philosophy | Ancient History | History Publisher's Description: In a 1988 conference, American and British scholars unexpectedly discovered that their ideas were converging in ways that formed a new picture of the variegated Hellenistic mosaic. That picture emerges in these essays and eloquently displays the breadth of modern interest in the Hellenistic Age.A di . . . [more] Matches in book (203): ...Antiochus IV and the Jews... Similar Items...at stake. Antiochus victimized the Jews in a Seleucid power play. But the power... ...too late. The persecution galvanized Jewish resistance, issuing in the Maccabean... |
| 33. |  | Title: St. Teresa of Avila: author of a heroic life Author: Slade, Carole Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Religion | Christianity | Women's Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | Renaissance History Publisher's Description: With few exceptions, representations of Renaissance women were created by men. The Spanish saint, Teresa of Avila (1515-1582), who chose to represent herself, was one of those exceptions. What prompted her to write Book of Her Life, Interior Castle , and other works? What does the self-portrait of t . . . [more] Matches in book (36): ...Swietlicki finds an analogue in the jeweled castle of the Cabala, the Zohar in... Similar Items...worked its metal and adorned it with jewels and pearls, God speaks the words of... ...as benevolent parents outfitting her with jewels ( Life 33.14), which conversos... |
| 34. |  | Title: The Languages of psyche: mind and body in Enlightenment thought: Clark Library lectures, 1985-1986 Author: Rousseau, G. S. (George Sebastian) Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Medicine | History and Philosophy of Science | European History | European Literature Publisher's Description: The Languages of Psyche traces the dualism of mind and body during the "long eighteenth century," from the Restoration in England to the aftermath of the French Revolution. Ten outstanding scholars investigate the complex mind-body relationship in a variety of Enlightenment contexts - science, medic . . . [more] Matches in book (208): ...Part Four The Jewish Question... Similar Items...424 Jews, 287 , 405 -413, 423 -441 Jewson, Nicholas, 61 Johnson, Samuel, 40 ,... ...of doctors' conspiracy. Nicholas Jewson has suggested how far the traditional... |
| 35. |  | Title: Inquisition and society in the kingdom of Valencia, 1478-1834 Author: Haliczer, Stephen 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Medieval History | Renaissance History Matches in book (183): ...V The Converted Jews: From Persecution to Assimilation... Similar Items...V The Converted Jews: From Persecution to Assimilation... ...have insisted on the essential Jewishness of the conversos. For Beinart, "the... |
| 36. |  | Title: Authors of their own lives: intellectual autobiographies Author: Berger, Bennett M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Sociology | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: All students and scholars are curious about the human faces behind the impersonal rhetoric of academic disciplines. Here twenty of America's most prominent sociologists recount the intellectual and biographical events that shaped their careers. Family history, ethnicity, fear, private animosities, e . . . [more] Matches in book (209): ...Jewishness; Racism Ethnicity (Glazer & Moynihan), 204 , 205 Ethnic Pluralism and... Similar Items...437 , 447 , 458. See also Jews/Jewishness Judgment, reasoned, 470 Jules-Rosette,... ...and, 315 -16; van den Berghe and, 413 . See also Immigrants/Immigration; Jews/... |
| 37. |  | Title: The spirit of freedom: South African leaders on religion and politics Author: Villa-Vicencio, Charles Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion | Politics | African Studies Publisher's Description: This collection of interviews explores the role of religion in the lives of eminent South Africans who led the struggle against apartheid. Nelson Mandela, Chris Hani, Desmond Tutu, Nadine Gordimer, and seventeen other political, religious, and cultural leaders share the beliefs and values that infor . . . [more] Matches in book (125): Similar Items |
| 38. |  | Title: A mind always in motion: the autobiography of Emilio Segrè Author: Segrè, Emilio Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of Science | Physics | Autobiography Publisher's Description: The renowned physicist Emilio Segrè (1905-1989) left his memoirs to be published posthumously because, he said, "I tell the truth the way it was and not the way many of my colleagues wish it had been." This compelling autobiography offers a personal account of his fascinating life as well as candid . . . [more] Matches in book (30): ...rest of the money and go to the jeweler Settepassi in Florence and buy herself a... Similar Items...old mansion near the Villa Farnesina, a jewel of Renaissance art famous for its... ...il fascismo (History of the Italian Jews under Fascism), 3d ed. (Turin: Einaudi,... |
| 39. |  | Title: Constructive dissonance: Arnold Schoenberg and the transformations of twentieth-century culture Author: Brand, Juliane Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Composers | Intellectual History | Art History Publisher's Description: Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) is a pivotal figure of musical modernism. The "father of serialism" has influenced nearly every major composer of this century, and the idea of Schoenberg, now wild-eyed radical, now embattled moralist, now lonely prophet, is woven into the mythos of modern art. What is . . . [more] Matches in book (137): ...a group of artisans by forging a jeweled diadem with a single hammer stroke. The... Similar Items...if not outright conversion: Jewishness is not easily "washed off." This well-... ...for studying and discussing the many jewels of First Viennese music, and much... |
| 40. |  | Title: Gender and salvation: Jaina debates on the spiritual liberation of women Author: Jaini, Padmanabh S Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion | Buddhism | South Asia | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Is a total renunciation of clothing a prerequisite to attaining salvation? In Gender and Salvation , P. S. Jaini brings to light heretofore untranslated texts centering on a centuries-old debate between the two principal Jaina sects, the Digambaras and the Svetambaras. At the core of the debate is t . . . [more] Matches in book (99): ...balarama): II, #74 ratnatraya (Three Jewels: right view, right knowledge, right... Similar Items...such as the cow, the buffalo, jewels, pearls, and so on, and also inward... ...Chapter II (#2). 4. On the Three Jewels, see Chapter II (n. 4). 5. See Chapter... |