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Relief after Hardship

The Ottoman Turkish Model for The Thousand and One Days

Ulrich Marzolph

A revisit of early texts that helped shape Middle Eastern folktales and narratives.

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Available February 2024
ISBN: 9780814342770
$44.99
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Available February 2024
ISBN: 9780814351154
$24.99
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ISBN: 9780814342763

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
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Published: November 2021
ISBN: 9780814348611
$42.99
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Published: November 2021
ISBN: 9780814341650
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Rescue, Relief, and Resistance

The Jewish Labor Committee's Anti-Nazi Operations, 1934–1945

Catherine Collomp
Translated by Susan Emanuel

How American labor leaders came to the rescue of political and Jewish victims of Nazi persecution.

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Published: April 2021
ISBN: 9780814346198
$94.99
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Published: April 2021
ISBN: 9780814346204
$36.99
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Published: April 2021
ISBN: 9780814346211
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What the Chickadee Knows

Poems in Anishinaabemowin and English by Margaret Noodin

Modern poems conceived first in Anishinaabemowin and then in English.

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Published: September 2020
ISBN: 9780814347508
$17.99
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Published: September 2020
ISBN: 9780814347515

Stories of Jewish Life

Casale Monferrato-Rome-Jerusalem, 1876–1985

Augusto Segre
Translated and with an Introduction by Steve Siporin

Segre’s stories of Jewish life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy.

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Published: September 2020
ISBN: 9780814347652
$64.99
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Published: September 2020
ISBN: 9780814347669

A True Blue Idea

Marina Colasanti
Translated by Adria Frizzi

A modern classic comprising spare and surprising tales by one of Latin America's premier storytellers.

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Published: April 2019
ISBN: 9780814346396
$24.99

Doctor Levitin

A Novel by David Shrayer-Petrov
Translated by Arna B. Bronstein, Aleksandra I. Fleszar, and Maxim D. Shrayer

The story of a doctor’s family torn apart by Soviet politics, persecution, and the Jewish struggle for freedom during the Cold War.

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Published: September 2018
ISBN: 9780814345726
$39.99
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Published: September 2018
ISBN: 9780814345733
$26.99
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Published: September 2018
ISBN: 9780814345740

Hölderlin

The Poetics of Being

Adrian Del Caro

Here is a comprehensive introduction for the English reader to the poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin.

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Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814323212
$59.99
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Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814344637
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Hell on Earth

Avigdor Hameiri
Translated by Peter C. Appelbaum
With an Introduction by Avner Holtzman

A historical account of World War I literature.

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Published: October 2017
ISBN: 9780814344361
$84.99
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Published: October 2017
ISBN: 9780814343616
$39.99
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Published: October 2017
ISBN: 9780814343623

Giambattista Basile's The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones

Translated by Nancy L. Canepa
Illustrated by Carmelo Lettere
Foreword by Jack Zipes

The first unabridged English translation taken directly from Basile’s monumental Lo cunto de li cunti (1634–1636), this edition is fully annotated and illustrated, with an extensive bibliography.

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Published: April 2016
ISBN: 9780814342572
$36.99

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.

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Published: January 2016
ISBN: 9780814341360
$34.99
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Published: January 2016
ISBN: 9780814341377

From Dog Bridegroom to Wolf Girl

Contemporary Japanese Fairy-Tale Adaptations in Conversation with the West

Mayako Murai

Brings contemporary Japanese literary and artistic fairy-tale adaptations into conversation with Euro-American feminist fairy-tale re-creation and scholarship.

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Published: November 2015
ISBN: 9780814339497
$19.99
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Published: November 2015
ISBN: 9780814339503
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Weweni

Poems in Anishinaabemowin and English by Margaret Noodin

Modern Anishinaabemowin poetry in conversation with English translation.

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Published: April 2015
ISBN: 9780814340387
$17.99
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Published: April 2015
ISBN: 9780814340394

A Fire Burns in Kotsk

A Tale of Hasidism in the Kingdom of Poland

Menashe Unger
Translated by Jonathan Boyarin
Introduction by Glenn Dynner

A vivid novelistic account that details a crucial period in the evolution of Polish Hasidism, translated from Yiddish.

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Published: February 2015
ISBN: 9780814338131
$31.99
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Published: February 2015
ISBN: 9780814338148

"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.

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Published: December 2014
ISBN: 9780814338698
$36.99
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Published: December 2014
ISBN: 9780814338704
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Grimms' Tales around the Globe

The Dynamics of Their International Reception

Edited by Vanessa Joosen and Gillian Lathey

A systematic study of various factors in the international reception of Grimms’ fairy tales.

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Published: June 2014
ISBN: 9780814339206
$32.99
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Published: June 2014
ISBN: 9780814339213
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Revisioning Red Riding Hood around the World

An Anthology of International Retellings

Sandra L. Beckett

Collects more than fifty versions of the Little Red Riding Hood story from a wide range of countries and cultures.

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Published: November 2013
ISBN: 9780814334799
$36.99
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The Russian Folktale by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp

Edited and Translated by Sibelan Forrester
Foreword by Jack Zipes

Translates and contextualizes Vladimir Propp's later work The Russian Folktale.

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Published: September 2012
ISBN: 9780814334669
$36.99
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Published: September 2012
ISBN: 9780814337219

A Trip to the Country

by Henriette-Julie de Castelnau, Comtesse de Murat

Edited and translated by Perry Gethner and Allison Stedman

Translates an important example of late seventeenth-century French hybrid experimental fiction that provided the primary literary backdrop for the first French fairy tales.

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Published: September 2011
ISBN: 9780814335031
$24.99
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Published: September 2011
ISBN: 9780814336816

The Independent Orders of B'nai B'rith and True Sisters

Pioneers of a New Jewish Identity, 1843-1914

Cornelia Wilhelm

Explores the roles of the two oldest American Jewish fraternal organizations in the process of American Jewish identity formation.

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Published: July 2011
ISBN: 9780814334034
$49.99
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Published: July 2011
ISBN: 9780814337059

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