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Norman Podhoretz and Commentary Magazine: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons

Nathan Abrams - Political Science - 2011 - 376 pages
What does the term "neoconservative" mean? Who are we talking about and where did they come from? Abrams answers those very questions through a detailed and critical study of ...
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The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema

Nathan Abrams - Performing Arts - 2012 - 271 pages
Jewish film characters have existed almost as long as the medium itself. But around 1990, films about Jews and their representation in cinema multiplied and took on new forms ...
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Karl Popper - The Formative Years, 1902-1945: Politics and Philosophy in ...

Malachi Haim Hacohen - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 628 pages
This 2001 biography reassesses philosopher Karl Popper's life and works within the context of interwar Vienna.
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The Cambridge Companion to Kafka

Julian Preece - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 278 pages
Offers a rounded contemporary appraisal of Central Europe's most distinctive Modernist.
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Jews in Germany After the Holocaust: Memory, Identity, and Jewish-German ...

Lynn Rapaport - History - 1997 - 344 pages
What is it like to be Jewish and to be born and raised in Germany after the Holocaust? Based on remarkably candid interviews with nearly one hundred German Jews, Lynn Rapaport ...
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Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews

Albert S. Lindemann - History - 1997 - 600 pages
Similarly, Jew-hatred was not as mysterious or incomprehensible as often presented; its strength in some countries and weakness in others may be related to the fluctuating and ...
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Assimilation and Community: The Jews in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Jonathan Frankel, Steven J. Zipperstein - History - 2004 - 402 pages
A thorough reassessment by fourteen leading historians of the supposed period of Jewish assimilation.
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Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship

Gershon Shafir, Yoav Peled - History - 2002 - 420 pages
The authors speculate on the relationship between identity and citizenship in Israel.
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Blacks and Jews in Literary Conversation

E. Miller Budick - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 268 pages
Explores the works of leading black and Jewish writers from the 1950s to the 1980s.
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