In this memoir, the author describes his experiences as a Polish Jew swept up in the terror of Nazi occupation and the Holocaust. The first half of the book looks at larger issues of the community, de
This collection of poems by renowned Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish ranges from dreamy reflections to bitter longings for the Palestine that was lost when Israel was created in 1948.
Taking New York City as a case study not because it is unique but because it is representative of urban Jewish communities worldwide, and because of the massive material available for research, Lederh
During trips to Poland in the 1990s, the American son of Holocaust survivors confronted his own identity issues as he interviewed elderly survivors wondering who will say the traditional mourners' pra
In this unusual memoir, Edward Stankiewicz stirringly recalls his youth as a Polish Jew beginning with prewar Warsaw through to the Nazi invasion. A life on the run lands Stankiewicz in Soviet-occupi
Frieden (Judaic studies, Syracuse U.) introduces short fiction about East European Jewish life, not widely available in English, by three major 19th century Yiddish writers. Two novellas represent Abr
The "ritual persecution" of drugs and drug users must be seen as similar to the persecution of other scapegoats such as witches and madmen, according to Szasz (emeritus, psychiatry, State U. of New Yo
Donald D. Cox brings together a wide range of information about the forests of eastern North America, including the origins and types of soils and their relationships to vegetation, climate, and huma
With the death of his mother and the sudden disappearance of his father, teenager Tommy Blanks is faced with living alone in the Bronx on the money his father left him and on whatever he can steal. H
Now that the tradition of storytelling even in his own Morocco is falling victim to television and other mass media, literary critic, writer, and translator El Koudia here at least saves from oblivion
A leader of the anti-Semitic radical right and admirer of Nazi Germany, Pelley was also an award-winning short story writer, Hollywood screenwriter and religious leader. Providing a thorough look at P
Alan Scott Haft provides the firsthand testimony of his father, Harry Haft, a Holocaust victim with a singular story of endurance, desperation, and unrequited love. Harry Haft was a sixteen-year-old
In this noted anthology, the poet Adonis evokes the wisdom of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass (which he liberally excerpts and remolds), the modernism of William Carlos Williams, and the haunting urban imag
The earliest Turkish verses, dating from the sixth century A.D., were love lyrics. Since then, love has dominated the Turks' poetic modes and moodspre-Islamic, Ottoman classical, folk, modern. In styl
This anthology features a wide variety of poems about social justice, love, evocations of history, humanitarian concerns, and other themes. It contains stirring examples of the revolutionary romantici
There are games that stand the test of timeperformances that years, even decades later bring a smile or in some cases a grimace, to a fan's face. They are indelible moments that, when strung together,
As a master of realism, Jerome Witkin illustrates in his art the moral plight of everyday lives. His most complex and critically acclaimed works-intense, often disturbing scenes of the Holocaust-have
This book, a reprint from 1994, follows the history of the Hilldale Club of Darby, Pennsylvania, from 1910 to 1932, and its role in the development of black professional baseball. Lanctot starts with
