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inauthor: Jan H. Blits from books.google.com
Building on Apollodorus' speech from the trial and other source material, Debra Hamel recreates Neaira's life and experiences from her lowly origins in a brothel in Corinth, to a highly paid courtesan and sex slave, her retirement and 30 ...
inauthor: Jan H. Blits from books.google.com
The essays in this volume reflect the increasingly international and pluridisciplinary nature of this scholarship and the widening of the definition of Holocaust literature to include comic books, fiction, film, and poetry, as well as the ...
inauthor: Jan H. Blits from books.google.com
Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR This book is the unusual blend of impeccable scholarship and hilarious backstage anecdote.
inauthor: Jan H. Blits from books.google.com
In Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage, Joel Berkowitz knowledgeably and intelligently constructs the history of this unique theatrical culture. The Jewish King Lear of 1892 was a sensation.
inauthor: Jan H. Blits from books.google.com
In her provocative study A Thousand Darknesses, Ruth Franklin investigates these questions as they arise in the most significant works of Holocaust fiction, from Tadeusz Borowski's Auschwitz stories to Jonathan Safran Foer's postmodernist ...
inauthor: Jan H. Blits from books.google.com
How to destroy a mighty empire: the story of Croesus of Lydia -- Cannibals and conquests: the story of Cyrus the Great -- Horny goats and medicinal urine: the Egyptian logos -- Madness and mummies: the reign of Cambyses -- Meanwhile, ...
inauthor: Jan H. Blits from books.google.com
In Holocaust Representation, Berel Lang addresses the relation between ethics and art in the context of contemporary discussions of the Holocaust. Are certain aesthetic means or genres "out of bounds" for the Holocaust?
inauthor: Jan H. Blits from books.google.com
This book presents the original play to the English-speaking reader for the first time in its history, along with substantive essays on the play’s literary and social context, Gordin’s life and influence on Yiddish theater, and the ...
inauthor: Jan H. Blits from books.google.com
The standard reference guide, with more than 20,000 entries ranging from colloquial to literary Yiddish, plus: a grammar guide, a pronunciation key, and instructions for usage Dr. Uriel Weinreich’s Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English ...
inauthor: Jan H. Blits from books.google.com
The definitive history of Yiddish cinema returns to print with additional material