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The first comprehensive presentation of photography on Sao Paulo.

Timely and provocative rhetorics representing critical issues of the 21st century.

Explores Public-Interest Science as a Potential Alternative to Commodification

Addresses Women's Rhetorical Relationship to Work

Provides a study of the development of Latin American literary journalism and the emergence of an original Latin American literature. Calvi connects the evolution of literary journalism with the consolidation of Latin America's literary sphere, the professional practice of journalism, modern mass media, and the establishment of nation-states.

Contains nine essays that focus on "Paradise Lost", "Samson Agonistes", and selected major prose works such as "Areopagitica" and "The Second Defense of The English People".

Examines Debates Surrounding the First Articulations of a Science of Life and Experiments on the Processes of Organic Vitality

Reeves demonstrates that the motifs of Jewish Enochic literature, in particular those of the story of the Watchers and Giants, form the skeletal structure of Mani's cosmological teachings, and that Chapters 1 to 11 of Genesis fertilized Near Eastern thought, even to the borders of India and China.

Since the period in which the Jewish liturgy was standardized, there has hardly been a time when it was not somehow in a state of flux. Eric L. Friedland explores the countless ways that the Siddur, Mahzor, and Haggadah have been adjusted, amplified, or transformed so as to faithfully mirror modern Jews' understanding of themselves, their place in society, and their sancta.

Modern Jews have frequently clung to an uncritical faith in the state's protection, even when that faith bears no correspondence to reality. In this landmark study, Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi presents the Lisbon Massacre as one chapter in the history of alliances between Jews and the powers that have ruled over them.

Transliterations and translations of the 82 tablets and fragments that constitute the collection of unpublished Old Assyrian texts in the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, together with notes and indices, giving scholars from a wide variety of disciplines interested in ancient economies access to these valuable primary texts.

In 1937, the young Yiddish poet Berl Feldman bade farewell to his family in Radzivil and emigrated to the land of Israel, where he became the Hebrew poet Amir Gilboa. In this comprehensive study, Warren Bargad describes and interprets Gilboa's works at the various stages of his career and defines his place in the tradition of modern Hebrew poetry.

The History of Aided Self-Help Housing in Peru

An important study of the politics of Polish Jewry on the eve of its destruction. Drawing from sources in the Polish Jewish and non-Jewish press and from archives in Europe, Israel, and the United States, it examines the efforts of Jews in this major center of Jewish life to secure its existence and advance its interests in the late 1930s.

Before the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent archival revolution, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's famous "literary investigation" The Gulag Archipelago was the most authoritative overview of the Stalinist system of camps. This volume develops a much more thorough and nuanced understanding of the Gulag. It brings a greater awareness of the wide variety of camps, many not isolated in far-off Siberia; prisoners often intermingled with local populations. The forced labor system was not completely distinct from the "free" labor of ordinary Soviet citizens, as convicts and non-prisoners often worked side-by-side. Nor was the Gulag unique when viewed in a global historical context. This volume offers fascinating new interpretations of the interrelationship and importance of the Gulag to the larger Soviet political and economic system, and how they were in fact, parts of the same entity.

Leyb Naydus (1890-1918) expanded the possibilities of Yiddish poetry via his rich cosmopolitan works, Literary critic Naftoli Vaynig's lengthy essay on Naydus, written in 1943 in the Vilne Ghetto, makes a remarkable case for why the poems of this cosmopolitan aesthete should serve as a fitting emblem for a culture threatened with extinction.

The ""1007 Anonymous,"" an imaginative, if brief text composed in the third or early fourth decade of the thirteenth century, illustrates the proper relations between Jews, their lay rulers, and the pope. The pope, consistent in applying laws that both restricted and protected Jews, is seen as a just ruler. Kings and dukes, by contrast, were inconsistent and capricious, threatening Jewish life.

A description of Werner Weinberg's life during the Nazi period in Germany and then Holland, his imprisonment in Bergen-Belsen, and his unique personal reflections on his life after the war.

Hebrew literature, from the second half of the nineteenth century to well into the twentieth, was unmistakably influenced in style and substance by Russian prose and poetry. Rina Lapidus systematically identifies those Hebrew authors and poets upon whom Russian influence is most striking and upon whom it seems to have exerted the greatest power.

The Hebrew Union College Annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to the academic world. With a history spanning nearly a century, it stands as a chronicle of Jewish scholarship through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.

Explores the etymology of key terms for dreams in the Hebrew Bible, presents dozens of examples of biblical dreams and visions, and categorises them as prophetic, symbolic, or incubation. Shaul Bar studies biblical dreams and visions in the context of similar phenomena in the literature of neighbouring cultures and analyses the functions of dream reports in the biblical corpus.

The Hebrew Union College Annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to the academic world. With a history spanning nearly a century, it stands as a chronicle of Jewish scholarship through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.

The eight essays in this volume are evenly divided between the poetry and prose of Milton. Two of the essays discuss major sonnets, and two other essays on poetry engage "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained". The other four essays on prose are revisionist.

A collection of eight essays on the poetry of John Milton, with half the volume devoted to "Paradise Lost". The contributions include Anthony Welch's mapping of the chronology of the epic and Raymond B. Waddington's examination of Milton's account of Abel's death.

Though long overshadowed by "Paradise Lost", "Paradise Regained" has come under intense scrutiny. These essays offer fresh perspectives on and analyses of this spiritual poem, in which Milton dared to challenge the political, religious and aesthetic culture of Restoration England.

A collection of essays of comparative interpretation and analysis of many works by Milton, written between 1969 and 1999. The essays analyze such poems as "Comus" and "Paradise Lost", as well as prose works as diverse as "A Second Defence of the English People" and "De Doctrina Christiana".

This collection of ten biographical essays on Milton offers a revisionist interpretation of how, why and where his multiple presences appear in his writings. Rather than stressing his documented life, the essays probe his interior life by identifying its psychic traces in his writings.

This collection of essays explores the larger contexts that inform the composition, publication, and reception of Milton's major poems, notably "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained".