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Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums and Heritage
Destination Culture takes the reader on an eye-opening journey from ethnological artifacts to kitsch. Posing the question, "What does it mean to show?" Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett explores the agency of display in a variety of settings: museums, festivals, world's fairs, historical re-creations, ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1998 -
Anne Frank Unbound: Media, Imagination, Memory (The Modern Jewish Experience)
As millions of people around the world who have read her diary attest, Anne Frank, the most familiar victim of the Holocaust, has a remarkable place in contemporary memory. Anne Frank Unbound looks beyond this young girl's words at the numerous ways people have engaged her life and writing. Apart fr... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture
by Dara Horn • Jeffrey Shandler • Jeremy Dauber • Josh Lambert • Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett • Kalman Weiser • Hasia Diner • Ari Y. Kelman • Tony Michels • Gennady Estraikh • Sarah Bunin Benor • Anita Norich • Rebecca Margolis • Zehavit Stern • Asya Vaisman • Shiri Goren • Lara Rabinovitch • Gerben Zaagsma • Edward Portnoy • Jennifer Young • Ela Bauer • Shachar Pinsker • Shayn Smulyan • Adriana X. Jacobs • Barbara Mann • Jordan Finkin • Rebecca Kobrin • Hannah S. Pressman • Anna ShternshisYiddish Hip Hop, a nineteenth-century "Hasidic Slasher," obscure Yiddish writers, and immigrant Jewish newspapers in Buenos Aires, Paris, and New York are just a few of the topics featured in Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture. Editors Lara Rabinovitch, Shiri Goren, and Hannah S... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013