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This is the story of Herschel Grynszpan, the confused teenager whose murder of Ernst von Rath was used to justify Kristallnacht. In this historical novel, Harlan Greene may be the first author to take the Polish Jew at his word; that he was involved in a love affair with von Rath.

Isaac Bashevis Singer, the Polish-born Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate, and New York documentary photographer Bruce Davidson collaborated on a surreal feature film made in 1973, entitled "Isaac Bashevis Singer's Nightmare and Mrs. Pupko's Beard. This film was at once a documentary about Singer's New York and a dramatization of one his short stories. The film grew out of their friendship, as residents of the same building on the upper West Side of Manhattan, and their common interest in New York City street life. During and after production, Davidson made numerous portraits of Singer and also returned to the Lower East Side for a documentary series of photographs. A selection of more than forty of the stunning images made between 1957 and 1990 is available here for the first time in "Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side: Photographs by Bruce Davidson. The book also includes portraits of Singer, stills from the film, the black and white portfolio known as "The Garden Cafeteria, and selections from the Lower East Side series. "The Garden Cafeteria was a collaboration depicting denizens of the East Broadway restaurant frequented by Singer during his trips to "The Jewish Daily Forward. The portfolio has never been published nor exhibited in its entirety--until this volume. Included is an introduction by Singer himself on Davidson's images, an in-depth interview with Davidson about his art, aesthetic and political views, and his Jewishness, and a reflective, contextual essay by Ilan Stavans on the relevance of this collaboration between the writer and the photographer. Through Davidson's lens we see Singer's literary world of Holocaust survivors and emigres from EasternEurope--a displaced culture in its twilight. This book is a co-publication and appears in conjunction with an exhibition organized and presented by the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, on the occasion of the centennial celebration nationwide of Singer's birth in 2004.

This is an analysis of Zionist Revisionist thought in the 1920s and 1930s and of its ideological legacy in modern-day Israel. Kaplan suggests that Revisionism's legacies can be found both in the right-wing policies of Likud and in the heart of post-Zionism and its critique of mainstream (Labor) Zionism.

Laud Humphreys (1930-1988) was a pioneering and fearless sociologist, an Episcopal priest, and a civil rights, gay, and antiwar activist. This biography examines the groundbreaking work through the life of a complex man, and the life of the man through his controversial work.

This engaging and well-illustrated primer to the Upper Mississippi River presents the basic natural and human history of this magnificent waterway. "Immortal River is written for the educated lay-person who would like to know more about the river's history and the forces that shape as well as threaten it today. It melds complex information from the fields of geology, ecology, geography, anthropology, and history into a readable, chronological story that spans some 500 million years of the earth's history. Like the Mississippi itself, "Immortal River often leaves the main channel to explore the river's backwaters, floodplain, and drainage basin. The book's focus is the Upper Mississippi, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Cairo, Illinois. But it also includes information about the river's headwaters in northern Minnesota and about the Lower Mississippi from Cairo south to the river's mouth ninety miles below New Orleans. It offers an understanding of the basic geology underlying the river's landscapes, ecology, environmental problems, and grandeur.

"Excellent. . . . This detailed analysis of how the Marshfield Clinic struggled to balance competing priorities and interest groups nicely illustrates the adage 'If you see one HMO, you've seen one HMO.'"--Joel D. Howell, "The Journal of American History"

A woman living and communicating in multiple lands, Susana Chavez-Silverman conveys her cultural and linguistic displacement in a humorous, bittersweet, and even tangible way in this truly bilingual literary work.

In this study of maternal reactions to child death in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, anthropologist Jonina Einarsdottir challenges the assumption that mothers in high-poverty societies will neglect their children and fail to mourn their deaths as a survival strategy.

Madison is richly detailed, fully documented, inclusive in coverage, and has more than 300 illustrations to provide a vivid feeling of life in Madison during the formative years.

Bridging gaps between intellectual history, biography, and military/colonial history, Barnett Singer and John Langdon provide a challenging, readable interpretation of French imperialism and some of its leading figures from the early modern era to the Fifth Republic.

Images of the Corpse: From Renaissance to Cyberspace is a collection of 11 essays, which explores and questions the value of interpreting the body as a cultural artifact. This book spans through a great range of time frames with contributions from various essayists.

Many Voices explores the relationships and the tensions at the intersection between caring, in the context of health, and culture. As the social voices of diverse interest groups are increasingly acknowledged in healthcare, ideological friction between goals of assimilation and of diversity and multiculturalism remains unsolved.

Mystery, Violence, and Popular Culture is John G. Cawelti's discussion of American popular culture and violence, from its precursors in Homer and Shakespeare to the Lone Ranger and Superman. Cawelti deciphers the overt sexuality, detached violence, and political intrigue embedded within Batman and.007.

The essays in Goddesses and Monsters recognize popular culture as a primary repository of ancient mythic energies, images, narratives, personalities, icons and archetypes.

Blue Daughter of the Red Sea is Birabiro's poetic account of the harsh reality of her young life spread across three continents. Her voice is a fresh melange of child and adult perspectives, at once brutally honest and wise beyond her years.

The ""Study Smart"" reference guide series, designed for students from junior high school through lifelong learning programs, teaches skills for research and note-taking, presents strategies for test-taking and studying, provides exercises to improve spelling, grammar and vocabulary.

Oy Pioneer! follows feminist Jewish wit and professor Sondra Lear as she makes her inimitable way through the world of learning. As if Mel Brooks and Erica Jong had joined forces to recreate ""Sex in the City"" for the intellectual set, this novel mixes feminist and Jewish humour with satire.

After her husband's death, Ginny Gillespie travels with his ashes to Paris, where she meets and falls in love with Roland Keppi, a strange, visionary man without a country. But when Roland is deported to a German camp for people without identity papers, their dreamlike affair is disrupted.

This collection of poems covers such diverse topics as forgotten Hollywood actors, flying saucers, CIA shenanigans, comic books, cereal flavours, beatnik kitsch and jazz.

One of Norway's most celebrated literary figures of the nineteenth century, Henrik Wergeland worked tirelessly for the civil rights of Jews in Norway. This translated volume, containing several of Wergeland's most prominent poems, beautifully encapsulates the compelling force of his message, allowing its enduring influence to benefit a wider contemporary audience.

This work challenges educators to think in new ways about health professionals' educational environment and the roles played by learners, teachers and the recipients of health care.

The Dane County farmers' market has become one of Madison's primary tourist attractions. Mary Carpenter, past market manager and her husband Quentin offer in this book a lively history of the market's first 30 years. It includes oral histories, photographs, anecdotes and recipes.

Ezra Pound and Hilda Doolittle are among the most important American modernist poets. In this comparative study, Jacob Korg examines their intertwined lives, from an early romantic relationship, through the ongoing friendship, rivalry and artistic dialogue that helped shape their work.

Addressing many questions relevant to anglers, this book brings together many varied concepts of cognitive ecology as applied to trout and their salmonid relatives: char, salmon, grayling and whitefish.

Al McGuire was the Mark Twain of college basketball. Never was there a figure in the game so quoted and so quotable, on sports and the human condition. This book collects more than 100 of McGuire's most colourful quotations, with photographs from his life and career.

This is the story of Henry Aaron's first year in Wisconsin's Class C minor league baseball team. It shows how Aaron bridged the cultural divide between growing up in the segregated South and playing in the North.

This text asks questions relating to gender nonconformity, race, and sexuality from social science perspectives and then examines personal stories of reinvention and transformation, including discussions of the lives of dancers Isadora Duncan and Bill T. Jones and playwright Lorraine Hansberry.

This text asks questions relating to gender nonconformity, race, and sexuality from social science perspectives and then examines personal stories of reinvention and transformation, including discussions of the lives of dancers Isadora Duncan and Bill T. Jones and playwright Lorraine Hansberry.

Yair Mazor introduces English-speaking audiences to the poetry of Asher Reich, one of Israel's best contemporary poets. Dominated by themes of stormy sensuality, his dramatic imagery and metaphors interweave Mishnaic, Talmudic, and Biblical references in a colourful, complex poetic texture.