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Disputed Messiahs

Jewish and Christian Messianism in the Ashkenazic World during the Reformation

Rebekka Voß
Translated by John Crutchfield

Jewish and Christian messianic thought and activism in the Reformation era in the Ashkenazic world.

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Published: November 2021
ISBN: 9780814341643
$94.99
Paperback
Published: November 2021
ISBN: 9780814348611
$42.99
eBOOK
Published: November 2021
ISBN: 9780814341650

Invisible Ink

A Memoir by Guy Stern

The incredible autobiography of an exiled child during WWII.

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Published: August 2020
ISBN: 9780814347591
$27.99
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Published: August 2020
ISBN: 9780814347607
Published: August 2020
ISBN: 0814347592

The Genocidal Gaze

From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich

Elizabeth R. Baer

Examines literature and art to reveal the German genocidal gaze in Africa and the Holocaust.

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Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814343852
$32.99
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Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814344385
$54.99
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Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814343869

The Politics of Magic

DEFA Fairy-Tale Films

Qinna Shen

The first comprehensive, critical, book-length treatment of the live-action fairy-tale films from former East Germany.

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Published: June 2015
ISBN: 9780814339039
$32.99
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Published: June 2015
ISBN: 9780814339046

Gender and the Uncanny in Films of the Weimar Republic

Anjeana K. Hans

Examines how uncanny films of the Weimar Republic engage with and respond to changing gender norms and women’s emancipation.

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Published: September 2014
ISBN: 9780814338940
$32.99
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Published: September 2014
ISBN: 9780814338957
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The Collapse of the Conventional

German Film and Its Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Jaimey Fisher and Brad Prager

Analyzes a diverse body of films and investigates the renaissance that has taken place in German cinema since the turn of the twenty-first century.

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Published: August 2010
ISBN: 9780814333778
$42.99
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Published: August 2010
ISBN: 9780814336885

In Babel's Shadow

Language, Philology, and the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Tuska Benes

A comprehensive cultural history of the language sciences in nineteenth-century Germany.

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Published: August 2008
ISBN: 9780814333044
$56.99

Aby Warburg and Anti-Semitism

Political Perspectives on Images and Culture

Charlotte Schoell-Glass

A landmark study on Aby Warburg’s life and work, translated into English.

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Published: March 2008
ISBN: 9780814332559
$56.99

Disciplining Germany

Youth, Reeducation, and Reconstruction after the Second World War

Jaimey Fisher

A look at how the discussions, debates, and controversies in Germany about youth and reeducation after World War II helped Germans come to terms with their Nazi past, negotiate Allied occupation, and construct postwar German identity.

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Published: June 2007
ISBN: 9780814333297
$52.99
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Published: June 2007
ISBN: 9780814337431

After Images

Photography, Archaeology, and Psychoanalysis and the Tradition of Bildung

Eric Downing

Examining literature and cultural theory of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this volume considers connections between photography, archaeology, and psychoanalysis and their effects on conceptions of the self and Bildung.

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Published: August 2006
ISBN: 9780814333013
$59.99

The Spell of Italy

Vacation, Magic, and the Attraction of Goethe

Richard Block

A study of the lure of Italy in German culture from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.

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Published: March 2006
ISBN: 9780814332696
$54.95
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Published: March 2006
ISBN: 9780814335703

Time's Visible Surface

Alois Riegl and the Discourse on History and Temporality in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna

Michael Gubser

Expands our understanding of Alois Riegl beyond his role as an art historian to a pivotal figure in cultural theory at large, while placing his interest in history and time within the intellectual world of fin-de-siècle Vienna.

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Published: January 2006
ISBN: 9780814332085
$57.99
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Published: January 2006
ISBN: 9780814337462

Words from Abroad

Trauma and Displacement in Postwar German Jewish Writers

Katja Garloff

Examines the responses of German Jewish writers to the geographical and cultural displacement that is one of the lasting consequences of the Holocaust.

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Published: September 2005
ISBN: 9780814332450
$49.95
eBOOK
Published: September 2005
ISBN: 9780814335772

History, Fiction, and Germany

Writing the Nineteenth-Century Nation

Brent O. Peterson

A study of the content, development, and transmission of German identity during the nineteenth century as Germany’s national narrative took shape in historical fiction and in both popular and academic history.

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Published: September 2005
ISBN: 9780814332009
$54.95

Fabricating Pleasure

Fashion, Entertainment, and Cultural Consumption in Germany, 1780-1830

Karin Wurst

Traces how the German middle class created a unique form of domestic culture that fused consumption with high culture in fashionable forms of entertainment.

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Published: September 2005
ISBN: 9780814331316
$62.99

Foreign Words

Translator-Authors in the Age of Goethe

Susan Bernofsky

A new perspective on the principal developments in translation practice and theory in Germany during the Age of Goethe with emphasis on the work of Goethe, Hölderlin, and Kleist as translators.

eBOOK
Published: September 2005
ISBN: 9780814337356

About Face

German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz

Richard T. Gray

A critical history of physiognomic thought in German-speaking Europe that traces the roots of twentieth-century racial profiling to the Enlightenment.

Hardback
Published: March 2004
ISBN: 9780814331798
$54.99

Light Motives

German Popular Film in Perspective

Edited by Randall Halle and Margaret McCarthy

Light Motives undertakes a long overdue critical reassessment of German popular cinema, challenging the traditional view of German film history and offering new ways to think about popular cinema in general.

Paperback
Published: May 2003
ISBN: 9780814330456
$34.99

Jews and the German State

The Political History of a Minority, 1848-1933

Peter Pulzer

Now available in paperback, this book delivers a comprehensive one-volume account of the political history of Jews as a significant minority within Imperial Germany.

Paperback
Published: March 2003
ISBN: 9780814331309
$23.99

Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography

Gerhard Richter

Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography is not merely the most extensive and insightful treatment of Benjamin 's autobiographical writings.

Paperback
Published: April 2002
ISBN: 9780814330838
$23.99

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