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Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age: Survivors’ Stories and New Media Practices
Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age explores the nexus of new media and memory practices, raising questions about how advances in digital technologies continue to influence the nature of Holocaust memorialization. Through an in-depth study of the largest and most widely available collection of video... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion and Media in America
Engaging media has been an ongoing issue for American Jews, as it has been for other religious communities in the United States, for several generations. Jews, God, and Videotape is a pioneering examination of the impact of new communications technologies and media practices on the religious life o... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Adventures in Yiddishland Postvernacular Language and Culture
Adventures in Yiddishland examines the transformation of Yiddish in the six decades since the Holocaust, tracing its shift from the language of daily life for millions of Jews to what the author terms a postvernacular language of diverse and expanding symbolic value. With a thorough command of moder... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Emil and Karl
This is a unique work. It is one of the first books written for young readers describing the early days of the event that has since come to be known as the Holocaust. Originally written in Yiddish in 1938, it is one of the most accomplished works of children's literature in this language. It is also... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
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 -
Rolling Back the Islamic State
by James Dobbins • Seth G. Jones • Christopher S. Chivvis • Jeffrey Martini • Daniel Byman • Ben Connable • Eric Robinson • Nathan ChandlerThe Islamic State has lost substantial amounts of territory but continues to conduct and inspire attacks around the world. This report assesses the threat the Islamic State poses to the United States and examines strategies to counter the group and prevent a resurgence of the Islamic State or other ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
by Ravi Malhotra • Jeffrey Simpson • Paul Daly • David Robitaille • Jomo Kwame Sundaram • Katherine Fierlbeck • Grégoire Webber • Pat Armstrong • Hugh Armstrong • Jane Philpott • Delphine Nakache • Ivy Bourgeault • Daniel Weinstock • Aimée Craft • Anis Chowdhury • Teresa Scassa • Chidi Oguamanam • E. Richard Gold • Olivia Lee • Carissima Mathen • Steven J. Hoffman • Vanessa Gruben • Martha Jackman • Bryan Thomas • Lorian Hardcastle • Deborah McGregor • Jeffery Hewitt • Michelle Giroux • Amir Attaran • Adam R. Houston • Alexandra Flynn • Mel Cappe • Tim Caulfield • Marie-France Fortin • Jennifer A. Quaid • Kumanan Wilson • Kelly Bronson • Jason Millar • Vardit Ravitsky • Terry Skolnik • Yves Le Bouthillier • Martine Lagacé • Linda Garcia • Leilani Farha • Kaitlin Schwan • Adelina Iftene • Jamie Chai Liew • Y. Y. Chen • Anne Levesque • Kwame McKenzie • Jennifer A. Chandler • Mona Gupta • Yasmin Khaliq • Simon Hatcher • Tess Sheldon • Katherine Lippel • Louise Bélanger-Hardy • Sarah Berger Richardson • Sam Halabi • Patrick Fafard • Céline Castets-Renard • Eleonore Fournier-Tombs • Jeremy De Beer • Matthew Herder • Jason W. NickersonThe novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease known as COVID-19, has infected people in 212 countries so far and on every continent except Antarctica. Vast changes to our home lives, social interactions, government functioning and relations between countries have swept the world i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020