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| 1. |  | Title: Marxist modern: an ethnographic history of the Ethiopian revolution Author: Donham, Donald L. (Donald Lewis) Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: African Studies | History | Cultural Anthropology | African History | Politics Publisher's Description: Modernity has become a keyword in a number of recent intellectual discussions. In this book, Donald L. Donham shows that similar debates have long occurred, particularly among peoples located on the margins of world power and wealth. Based on extensive fieldwork in Ethiopia - conducted over a twenty . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: A history of Ethiopia Author: Marcus, Harold G Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: African Studies | African History | Postcolonial Studies Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: History, power, ideology: central issues in Marxism and anthropology Author: Donham, Donald L. (Donald Lewis) Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Social Theory | African Studies Publisher's Description: Is Marxism a reflection of the conceptual system it fights against, rather than a truly comprehensive approach to human history? Drawing on recent work in anthropology, history, and philosophy, Donald Donham confronts this problem in analyzing a radically different social order: the former Maale kin . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | 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 |
| 5. |  | 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 |
| 6. |  | 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 |
| 7. |  | 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 |
| 8. |  | 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 |
| 9. |  | 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 |
| 10. |  | Title: Living letters of the law: ideas of the Jew in medieval Christianity Author: Cohen, Jeremy 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Religion | Medieval History Publisher's Description: In Living Letters of the Law , Jeremy Cohen investigates the images of Jews and Judaism in the works of medieval Christian theologians from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas. He reveals how - and why - medieval Christianity fashioned a Jew on the basis of its reading of the Bible, and how this hermeneutic . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | 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 |
| 12. |  | Title: Daggers of faith: thirteenth-century Christian missionizing and Jewish response Author: Chazan, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Religion Publisher's Description: Our understanding of both Jewish history and the history of Western civilization is deepened by this finely balanced account of Christian missionizing among the Jews. Arguing that until the thirteenth century Western Christendom showed little serious commitment to converting the Jews, Robert Chazan . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | 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] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | 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 |
| 15. |  | 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 |
| 16. |  | Title: Eros and the Jews: from biblical Israel to contemporary America Author: Biale, David 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Religion | Sociology | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Contradictory stereotypes about Jewish sexuality pervade modern culture, from Lenny Bruce's hip eroticism to Woody Allen's little man with the big libido (and even bigger sexual neurosis). Does Judaism in fact liberate or repress sexual desire? David Biale does much more than answer that question as . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: The memory of the eyes: pilgrims to living saints in Christian late antiquity Author: Frank, Georgia 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion | Christianity | Classical Religions | Classical History Publisher's Description: Pilgrims in the deserts of Egypt and the holy land during the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. often reported visiting holy people as part of their tours of holy places. This is the first comprehensive study of pilgrimage to these famous ascetics of late antique Christianity. Through an original anal . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | 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 |
| 19. |  | 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 |
| 20. |  | 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 |