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Salvage Poetics

Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies

Sheila E. Jelen

An interdisciplinary approach to American Jewish ethnic identity in post-Holocaust America.

Paperback
Published: October 2023
ISBN: 9780814350812
$29.99
Hardcover
Published: October 2023
ISBN: 9780814343180
$69.99
eBOOK
Published: October 2023
ISBN: 9780814343197

The Lyric Essay as Resistance

Truth from the Margins

edited by Zoë Bossiere and Erica Trabold

Resistance and representation manifests in the subversive genre of the lyric essay.

Paperback
Published: March 2023
ISBN: 9780814349601
$24.99
Ebook
Published: March 2023
ISBN: 9780814349618
$24.99

The Enchanted Boot

Italian Fairy Tales and Their Tellers

Edited, Translated, and Introduced by Nancy L. Canepa

A representative selection of tales from the Italian fairy-tale tradition, translated into English.

Paperback
Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814334751
$39.99
Hardcover
Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814349205
$84.99
eBOOK
Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814349212
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Survivors and Exiles

Yiddish Culture After the Holocaust

Jan Schwarz

Studies the variety, scope, and character of Yiddish culture in different geographical centers after the Holocaust.

Paperback
Published: September 2021
ISBN: 9780814348833
$36.99
Hardcover
Published: September 2021
ISBN: 9780814339053
$92.99
eBOOK
Published: September 2021
ISBN: 9780814339060

No Place in Time

The Hebraic Myth in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Sharon B. Oster

An exploration of the temporal function that "the Jew" plays in literature.

Paperback
Published: September 2021
ISBN: 9780814348802
$36.99
Hardcover
Published: September 2021
ISBN: 9780814345825
$92.99
eBOOK
Published: September 2021
ISBN: 9780814345832

The Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson

Miriam Michelson and Lori Harrison-Kahanforeword by Joan Michelson and Lori Harrison-Kahan

Collection of articles and fiction by pioneering journalist and turn-of-the-twentieth-century feminist, Miriam Michelson.

Paperback
Published: May 2019
ISBN: 9780814343579
$36.99
Hardcover
Published: May 2019
ISBN: 9780814346082
$84.99
Ebook
Published: May 2019
ISBN: 9780814343586
$24.99

Mother Goose Refigured

A Critical Translation of Charles Perrault's Fairy Tales

Christine A. Jones

Mother Goose Refigured presents annotated translations of Charles Perrault's 1697 fairy tales that attend to the irony and ambiguity in the original French and provide a fresh take on heroines and heroes that have become household names in North America.

Paperback
Published: November 2016
ISBN: 9780814338926
$31.99
Ebook
Published: November 2016
ISBN: 9780814338933
$24.99

Women's Hebrew Poetry on American Shores

Poems by Anne Kleiman and Annabelle Farmelant

Translated by Adriana X. Jacobs and Yosefa Raz
Edited by Shachar Pinsker

Presents the work of two American­-born women who wrote and published a substantial body of Hebrew poetry between the 1930s and 1960s.

Paperback
Published: January 2016
ISBN: 9780814341360
$34.99
eBOOK
Published: January 2016
ISBN: 9780814341377
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Feathers, Paws, Fins, and Claws

Fairy-Tale Beasts

Edited by Jennifer Schacker and Christine A. Jones
Illustrated by Lina Kusaite

A richly illustrated collection of evocative animal stories that offers young adult and adult readers a new vision of the fairy-tale past.

Hardcover
Published: September 2015
ISBN: 9780814340691
$24.99
eBOOK
Published: September 2015
ISBN: 9780814340707

Fairy Tale Review

The Mauve Issue #11

Edited by Kate Bernheimer

The Mauve Issue, the eleventh issue of Fairy Tale Review, features fiction and poetry with fairy tale aesthetics.

Ebook
Published: March 2015
ISBN: 9780814341803
$14.99

Fairy Tale Review

The Blue Issue #1

edited by Kate Bernheimerforeword by Lily Hoang, Alissa Nutting, Thomas Mira y. Lopez, and Timothy Schaffert

The tenth-anniversary Emerald Issue contains new stories, poems, essays, and artwork inspired by the themes of "emeralds" and "Oz."

eBOOK
Published: January 2015
ISBN: 9780814343975
Ebook
Published: January 2015
ISBN: 9780814341704
$14.99
Published: January 2015
ISBN: 9780814341711
$14.99
Published: January 2015
ISBN: 9780814341742
$14.99
Published: January 2015
ISBN: 9780814341759
$14.99
Published: January 2015
ISBN: 9780814341766
$14.99
Published: January 2015
ISBN: 9780814341773
$14.99
Published: January 2015
ISBN: 9780814341780
$14.99
Published: January 2015
ISBN: 9780814341803
$14.99

"To Tread on New Ground"

Selected Hebrew Writings of Hava Shapiro

Edited by Carole B. Balin and Wendy I. Zierler

A selection of the path-breaking feminist writings of Hava Shapiro (1878–1943), one of the first women writers to contribute to modern Hebrew literature.

Paperback
Published: December 2014
ISBN: 9780814338698
$36.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2014
ISBN: 9780814338704

Judeo-Arabic Literature in Tunisia, 1850-1950

Yosef Tobi and Tsivia Tobi

Traces the development of an ethnic literature in the vernacular language of Judeo-Arabic in Tunisia between 1850 and 1950.

Hardcover
Published: October 2014
ISBN: 9780814328712
$62.99
Ebook
Published: October 2014
ISBN: 9780814340462
$24.99

Latin via Ovid - Audio Usb

Norma W. Goldman and Jacob E. Nyenhuis

Both instructors and students benefit from these audio materials that provide an interactive way to learn while reinforcing what is gained from the lessons within the textbook.

Downloadable Audio File
Published: May 2014
ISBN: 9780814340615
$125.00

Fairy Tale Review

The Emerald Issue #10

Edited by Kate Bernheimer

The tenth-anniversary Emerald Issue contains new stories, poems, essays, and artwork inspired by the themes of "emeralds" and "Oz."

eBOOK
Published: March 2014
ISBN: 9780814341797

Fairy Tale Review

The Yellow Issue #9

Edited by Kate Bernheimer

Guest editor Lily Hoang curated the ninth issue of Fairy Tale Review, a collection of short stories and poetry inspired by the color yellow.

Ebook
Published: March 2013
ISBN: 9780814341780
$14.99

Narratives of Dissent

War in Contemporary Israeli Arts and Culture

edited by Rachel S. Harris and Ranen Omer-Sherman

Explores cultural responses to war in Israeli society since 1978.

Paperback
Published: December 2012
ISBN: 9780814338032
$39.99
Ebook
Published: December 2012
ISBN: 9780814338049
$39.99

Choosing Yiddish

New Frontiers of Language and Culture

edited by Hannah S. Pressman, Lara Rabinovitch, and Shiri Goren

Highlights an international generation of scholars currently revitalizing the field of Yiddish studies.

Paperback
Published: December 2012
ISBN: 9780814334447
$36.99
Ebook
Published: December 2012
ISBN: 9780814337998
$36.99

Fairy Tale Review

The Grey Issue #8

Edited by Kate Bernheimer

The eighth issue of Fairy Tale Review, The Grey Issue is a collection of creative work based on the theme of lost children.

Ebook
Published: March 2012
ISBN: 9780814341773
$14.99

If We Must Die

From Bigger Thomas to Biggie Smalls

Aimé J. Ellis

Investigates a variety of texts in which the self-image of poor, urban black men in the U.S. is formed within, by, and against a culture of racial terror and state violence.

Paperback
Published: June 2011
ISBN: 9780814334133
$26.99
Ebook
Published: June 2011
ISBN: 9780814336656
$26.99

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