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| 61. |  | Title: Mass mediations: new approaches to popular culture in the Middle East and beyond  Author: Armbrust, Walter Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Media Studies | Music | Cinema and Performance Arts Publisher's Description: Offering a stimulating diversity of perspectives, this collection examines how popular culture through mass media defines the scale and character of social interaction in the Middle East. The contributors approach popular culture broadly, with an interest in how it creates new scales of communicatio . . . [more] Matches in book (78): ...Arab Jews... Similar Items...1998. The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry. Berkeley: University of California... ...32 In al- Ghayti’s account, the Jews in Egypt (not of Egypt), as represented by... |
| 62. |  | Title: The promise of the land: the inheritance of the land of Canaan by the Israelites Author: Weinfeld, Moshe Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: The settlement of the Land of Canaan by the Israelite tribes is a central theme in the Bible which is immensely relevant to the Middle East today.Moshe Weinfeld synthesizes the biblical material on this theme, approaching his subject from three viewpoints: historical, using the Bible as a source; li . . . [more] Matches in book (83): ...symbols. See J. Prawer, "Jerusalem in Jewish and Christian Thought of the early... Similar Items...of the land of Israel and the Jewish people was replaced by new spiritual, non-... ...of Eretz Israel in Reality and in Jewish Consciousness Following the Bar-Kokhva... |
| 63. |  | Title: The Creation of tribalism in Southern Africa Author: Vail, Leroy Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | African History | African Studies | Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: Despite a quarter century of "nation building," most African states are still driven by ethnic particularism - commonly known as "tribalism." The stubborn persistence of tribal ideologies despite the profound changes associated with modernization has puzzled scholars and African leaders alike. The b . . . [more] Matches in book (60): ...Bogumil Jewsiewicki... Similar Items...New continue York, 1981); and B. Jewsiewicki, 'Les pratiques et idéologic de... ...réflexions historiques', in B. Jewsiewicki, ed. , L'Etat Indepéndant au Congo,... |
| 64. |  | Title: 1910, the emancipation of dissonance Author: Harrison, Thomas J 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature | Comparative Literature | European Literature | Art History Publisher's Description: The year 1910 marks an astonishing, and largely unrecognized, juncture in Western history. In this perceptive interdisciplinary analysis, Thomas Harrison addresses the extraordinary intellectual achievement of the time. Focusing on the cultural climate of Middle Europe and paying particular attentio . . . [more] Matches in book (70): ...21 , 29 , 135 Jawlensky, Alexei von, 55 Jewish Question, 3 , 5 -6, 25 -31, 226... Similar Items...Pollak, and Gerhard Botz, eds. 1987. Jews, Antisemitism and Culture in Vienna.... ...264. 1934–35. "Two Speeches on the Jewish Situation." In Schoenberg 1984, 501–... |
| 65. |  | Title: The quiet revolution: Hermann Kolbe and the science of organic chemistry Author: Rocke, Alan J 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of Science | Physical Sciences | European History Publisher's Description: Organic chemist Hermann Kolbe (1818-1884) is the subject of this vigorously contextualized biography, which combines the approaches of cognitive and social history of science. Kolbe was one of the most outstanding chemists during the remarkable period in which German science, like the wider manifest . . . [more] Matches in book (91): ...The German Jew as Chemist... Similar Items...who obviously still retained their "Jewishness" proved a powerful barrier, both... ...directing an inquiry about the Jewishness of a candidate to a friend in 1885: "... |
| 66. |  | Title: Shanghai on the Metro: spies, intrigue, and the French between the wars Author: Miller, Michael Barry 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies Publisher's Description: Secret agents, gun runners, White Russians, adventurers, and con men - they all play a part in Michael Miller's strikingly original study of interwar France. Based on extensive research in security files and a mass of printed sources, this book shows how a distinctive milieu of spies and spy literat . . . [more] Matches in book (89): ...Vicki. "Loyalties in Conflict: French Jewry and the Refugee Crisis, 1933-1935."... Similar Items...Dreyfus to Vichy: The Remaking of French Jewry, 1906-1939 . New York: Columbia... ...162 , 275 ; and Jean A. , 115 ; and Jewish refugees, 148 ; and White Russians,... |
| 67. |  | Title: Columbus and the ends of the earth: Europe's prophetic rhetoric as conquering ideology Author: Kadir, Djelal Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | European History | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Columbus is the first blazing star in a constellation of European adventurers whose right to claim and conquer each land mass they encountered was absolutely unquestioned by their countrymen. How a system of religious beliefs made the taking of the New World possible and laudable is the focus of Kad . . . [more] Matches in book (55): ...as Quetzalcoatl, 182 Thorowgood, Thomas: Jewes in America, 190 Tierra de Gracia,... Similar Items...in Jamaica, 67 ; and expulsion of Jews, 67 Zavala, Silvio A. , 75 , 88 Zion,... ...about the hypothesis. Thorowgood's Jewes in America, or, Probabilities That the... |
| 68. |  | Title: Classical Telugu poetry: an anthology Author: Nārāyaṇarāvu, Vēlcēru 1932- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature | Asian Studies | Hinduism | Poetry | Folklore and Mythology | South Asia | Social Theory | Asian Literature Publisher's Description: This groundbreaking anthology opens a window on a thousand years of classical poetry in Telugu, the mellifluous language of Andhra Pradesh in southern India. The classical tradition in Telugu is one of the richest yet least explored of all South Asian literatures. This authoritative volume, the firs . . . [more] Matches in book (43): ...or lotus designs. Doorways lacked jeweled garlands and painted elephants.... Similar Items...them to make off with their loot. Jeweled pillars, smashed golden pots, broken... ...already fled. Seating himself on the jeweled, elevated throne, he ordered one of... |
| 69. |  | Title: A coat of many colors: Osip Mandelstam and his mythologies of self-presentation Author: Freidin, Gregory Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Literature | European Literature Matches in book (81): ...to be interspersed with the expression of "Jewish pride" in his later years. 44... Similar Items...1969. Baron, Salo W. The Russian Jews Under Tsars and Soviets. New York and... ...Rogachevskii, V. A History of Russian Jewish Literature. Translated by Arthur... |
| 70. |  | Title: The Irish Ulysses Author: Tymoczko, Maria Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | English Literature Publisher's Description: In a radical new reading of Ulysses , Maria Tymoczko argues that previous scholarship has distorted our understanding of Joyce's epic novel by focusing on its English and continental literary sources alone. Challenging conventional views that Joyce rejected Irish literature, Tymoczko demonstrates ho . . . [more] Matches in book (76): ...Irish Meet Greeks Meet Jews Meet Spaniards Meet Norse... Similar Items...Ulysses : O you inquisitional drunken jewjesuit! She gets you a job on the paper... ...but in Ireland they are fused: "Jewgreek is greekjew" (15.2097–98). The binding... |
| 71. |  | Title: Ceremonial costumes of the Pueblo Indians: their evolution, fabrication, and significance in the prayer drama Author: Roediger, Virginia More Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Dance | Art Publisher's Description: When the University of California Press first published Roediger's Ceremonial Costumes of the Pueblo Indians in 1941, it was immediately hailed as both a beautiful book and the most comprehensive description ever of the making and meaning of the Pueblo costumes of New Mexico and Arizona. It has been . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...Jewelry.... Similar Items...bobbed side hair. Another form of jewellike decoration is the mosaic pendant,... ...brilliant in their white kilts with jewellike colors, prance high, with black... |
| 72. |  | Title: Judeo-Spanish ballads from New York Author: Benardete, M. J. (Maír José) 1895- Published: University of California Press, 1982 Subjects: Anthropology | American Literature | Jewish Studies Matches in book (45): ...in-Law. See Mala suegra Exile of the Jews from Portugal. See Expulsión de los... Similar Items...she is brought in, covered with jewels. She is wearing a sapphire that shines... ...535–541. For an overview of Sephardic Jewry in Amsterdam, see J. A. Van Praag,... |
| 73. |  | Title: Arabs and Young Turks: Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918 Author: Kayalı, Hasan Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: Arabs and Young Turks provides a detailed study of Arab politics in the late Ottoman Empire as viewed from the imperial capital in Istanbul. In an analytical narrative of the Young Turk period (1908-1918) historian Hasan Kayali discusses Arab concerns on the one hand and the policies of the Ottoman . . . [more] Matches in book (46): ...Jewish Settlement... Similar Items...of Palestine, 1914–1918: British-Jewish-Arab Relations (London: Routledge and... ...and disavowed any links between Ottoman Jewry and the Zionists. The ministers... |
| 74. |  | Title: Students, professors, and the state in tsarist Russia Author: Kassow, Samuel D Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | European History Publisher's Description: Between 1899 and 1911, student strikes and demonstrations disrupted Russia's higher educational institutions. The universities marched to their own peculiar tempo, however, and it was not until the strike of 1905 that student unrest coincided with mass movements outside the academic world. Students, . . . [more] Matches in book (80): ...Novocherkassk, 21 n.22 Numerus clausus. See Jews: admission to higher education... Similar Items...314 , 323 , 344 , 379 . See also Jews Arrests. See Students: arrested Astrov, N.... ...Jews: admission to higher education restricted for, 57 , 143 , 146 , 240 -241,... |
| 75. |  | Title: From my grandmother's bedside: sketches of postwar Tokyo Author: Field, Norma 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Autobiography | Asian History | Japan | Politics Publisher's Description: From My Grandmother's Bedside is an experiment in genre, a moving and evocative reflection on contemporary Japan, human desire, family relations, life, and death. Norma Field, the daughter of a Japanese woman and an American G.I., and author of the acclaimed In the Realm of a Dying Emperor , returne . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...Jeweled Dream... Similar Items...My grandmother is my mother's jewel. The words form ... ...in my predawn sleep. Jewel, treasure , I can't tell if the words are coming ... |
| 76. |  | Title: Russia's last capitalists: the Nepmen, 1921-1929 Author: Ball, Alan M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: In 1921 Lenin surprised foreign observers and many in his own Party, by calling for the legalization of private trade and manufacturing. Within a matter of months, this New Economic Policy (NEP) spawned many thousands of private entrepreneurs, dubbed Nepmen. After delineating this political backgrou . . . [more] Matches in book (51): ...Jews: in agricultural colonies, 163 , 190 n.58; emigrant, 124 ; in Ukraine, 99 -... Similar Items...candles), printing, paper making, jewelry, rope making, and mining of various... ...York, 1945. Baron, Salo W. The Russian Jew Under Tsars and Soviets. New York,... |
| 77. |  | Title: The enchantments of love: amorous and exemplary novels Author: Zayas y Sotomayor, María de 1590-1650 Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | European Literature Publisher's Description: An instant best-seller in Spain in 1637, The Enchantments of Love is a collection of shrewd and timeless tales in the tradition of Bocaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales . Although some of the tales have appeared in English through the centuries, this delightful translation by H. Patsy . . . [more] Matches in book (41): ...with her love; why, if from her mouth, jewelbox full of lovely pearls, you hear ... Similar Items...that that place would hold the jewel that in his mind he was envisioning, and... ...Felix passed, he said to me: 'If this jewel be not mine, I shall surely die. '... |
| 78. |  | Title: Public disputation, power, and social order in late antiquity Author: Lim, Richard 1963- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Classics | Classical Religions | Religion | Christianity Publisher's Description: Richard Lim explores the importance of verbal disputation in Late Antiquity, offering a rich socio-historical and cultural examination of the philosophical and theological controversies. He shows how public disputation changed with the advent of Christianity from a means of discovering truth and sel . . . [more] Matches in book (50): ...Jews, Pagans, and Early Christians in Controversy... Similar Items...no. 16 (1963): 135-41. Krauss, S. "The Jews in the Works of the Church Fathers."... ...F. Meyers and E. P. Sanders, eds. , Jewish and Christian Self-Definition . Vol.... |
| 79. |  | Title: One step from the White House: the rise and fall of Senator William F. Knowland Author: Montgomery, Gayle B 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Politics | Autobiographies and Biographies | California and the West | Californian and Western History | American Studies | United States History Publisher's Description: During the Cold War years of the 1950s, William F. Knowland was one of the most important figures in American politics. As the Republican leader of the U.S. Senate, the wealthy California newspaper heir was recognized and respected by millions. His influence with President Eisenhower led to Earl War . . . [more] Matches in book (35): ...p. 84. 19. Quoted in Malcolm E. Jewell, Senatorial Politics and Foreign Policy (... Similar Items...at Berkeley. 30. Emelyn Knowland Jewett, in "My Father's Political Philosophy... ...in Mazo, Richard Nixon , p. 121. 51. Jewett, "My Father," p. 16. 52. Faries, "... |
| 80. |  | Title: La lucha for Cuba: religion and politics on the streets of Miami Author: De La Torre, Miguel A Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion | Latino Studies | Politics | Christianity Publisher's Description: For many in Miami's Cuban exile community, hating Fidel Castro is as natural as loving one's children. This hatred, Miguel De La Torre suggests, has in fact taken on religious significance. In La Lucha for Cuba, De La Torre shows how Exilic Cubans, a once marginalized group, have risen to power and . . . [more] Matches in book (46): ...the colony. By the 1830s, Cuba, the "jewel of the Spanish Crown," had become the... Similar Items...de Oviedo as stating, "[They even wore jewels depicting] the diabolical and... ...week. We would put on our fine clothes and jewelry in preparation for dining on... |