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Book The Politics of War Trauma

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jolande Withuis
  • Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9052603715
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book The Politics of War Trauma written by Jolande Withuis and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study compares the policies and attitudes toward the health consequences of World War II in eleven European countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, East Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, and West Germany. It shows the remarkably asynchronous development in these countries of health care financing and treatment for war survivors, and of the patients’ perception of their own health. Using an innovative and multidisciplinary approach, Withuis and Mooij analyze postwar health care in the context of the European political climate at that time.

Book Divided Dreamworlds

Download or read book Divided Dreamworlds written by Peter Romijn and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its unique focus on how culture contributed to the blurring of ideological boundaries between the East and the West, this important volume offers fascinating insights into the tensions, rivalries and occasional cooperation between the two blocs. Encompassing developments in both the arts and sciences, the authors analyze focal points, aesthetic preferences and cultural phenomena through topics as wide-ranging as the East- and West German interior design; the Soviet stance on genetics; US cultural diplomacy during and after the Cold War; and the role of popular music as a universal cultural ambassador. Well positioned at the cutting edge of Cold War studies, this important work illuminates some of the striking paradoxes involved in the production and reception of culture in East and West.

Book Los Angeles to New York

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  • Author : James Sampson Meyer
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 9780226425108
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book Los Angeles to New York written by James Sampson Meyer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the catalogue for an exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, which explores the considerable contributions of Virginia Dwan and her legendary gallery to post-WWII American art.It is being carefully curated by Press author James Meyer. Founded by Virginia Dwan in 1959, the Dwan Gallery was a leading avant-garde space with locations in Los Angeles and New York, presenting the art of Franz Kline, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, Sol LeWitt, and Robert Smithson, among others. Where the Los Angeles gallery featured abstract expressionism, neo-dada, and Pop, the New York branch reflected the emerging movements of minimalism, conceptualism, and land art. The activities of the Dwan Gallery transpired not just in and between Los Angeles, New York, and Paris, but also in the wilderness of the American West, where Dwan fostered a new genre of art known as earthworks (land art). A keen follower of the Parisian art scene, Dwan also gave many nouveaux realistes such as Yves Klein their debut shows in the United States."

Book Pomegranates and Golden Bells

Download or read book Pomegranates and Golden Bells written by Jacob Milgrom and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 1995 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colleagues, students, and friends honor Professor Milgrom by celebrating his contributions to biblical and Near Eastern scholarship with special emphasis on his primary areas of expertise. The first section of the book, Ritual, Law, and Their Sources, contains thirty-five essays on cultic and legal issues found in the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, and texts from Qumran. The second section, Other Literary, Historical, and Linguistic Studies, includes twenty-four essays, primarily dealing with interpretive issues in the Hebrew Bible.

Book Studies in Levitical Terminology

Download or read book Studies in Levitical Terminology written by Jacob Milgrom and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Wondrous Tale of Alroy

Download or read book The Wondrous Tale of Alroy written by Benjamin Disraeli and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Greek in Jewish Palestine

Download or read book Greek in Jewish Palestine written by Saul Lieberman and published by JTS Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these two books, now reprinted in one volume, master Talmudist and scholar of the Greco-Roman world, the late Professor Saul Lieberman, elucidates words, texts, customs and practices in either rabbinic or classical literature, often buy reference to passages in the other. In Greek in Jewish Palestine, he demonstrates that "almost ever foreign word and phrase have their raison d'etre in rabbinic literature" and that "all Greek phrases in rabbinic literature are quotations." Hellenism in Jewish Palestine is "an inquiry into the spirit of many rabbinic observations and investigations of the facts, insicents, opinions, notions and beliefs to which the Rabbis allude in their statements."

Book Refashioning Medieval and Early Modern Dress

Download or read book Refashioning Medieval and Early Modern Dress written by Gale R. Owen-Crocker and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2019 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on costume, fabric and clothing in the Middle Ages and beyond.

Book Caught in the Middle

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  • Author : Johan den Hertog
  • Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9052603707
  • Pages : 185 pages

Download or read book Caught in the Middle written by Johan den Hertog and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection cover not only multiple countries, but also multiple aspects of the concept of neutrality: political, economic, cultural and legal. These case studies have led to a re-evaluation of the notion of neutrality, and the role of neutrals, during the First World War, making this collection of great value to all scholars of neutrality, the history of individual neutral countries, and of the war itself.

Book Defenses of the Imagination

Download or read book Defenses of the Imagination written by Robert Alter and published by Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America. This book was released on 1977 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Nineteen Letters of Ben Uziel

Download or read book The Nineteen Letters of Ben Uziel written by Samson Raphael Hirsch and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Torat Moshe

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  • Author : Moses Alshekh
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 897 pages

Download or read book Torat Moshe written by Moses Alshekh and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Art of Biblical Narrative

Download or read book The Art of Biblical Narrative written by Robert Alter and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From celebrated translator of the Hebrew Bible Robert Alter, the "groundbreaking" (Los Angeles Times) book that explores the Bible as literature, a winner of the National Jewish Book Award. Renowned critic and translator Robert Alter's The Art of Biblical Narrative has radically expanded our view of the Bible by recasting it as a work of literary art deserving studied criticism. In this seminal work, Alter describes how the Hebrew Bible's many authors used innovative literary styles and devices such as parallelism, contrastive dialogue, and narrative tempo to tell one of the most revolutionary stories of all time: the revelation of a single God. In so doing, Alter shows, these writers reshaped not only history, but also the art of storytelling itself.

Book A People Apart

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  • Author : David Vital
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2001-07-26
  • ISBN : 9780199246816
  • Pages : 970 pages

Download or read book A People Apart written by David Vital and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-26 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of the Jews in Europe examines the role played by the Jews themselves, across the whole of Europe, during the century and a half leading up to the birth of the nation of Israel, and the state-sponsored genocide of the Holocaust.

Book After the Tradition

Download or read book After the Tradition written by Robert Alter and published by New York : Dutton. This book was released on 1969 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Judaism

Download or read book Judaism written by Samuel H. Dresner and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In the Name of Science

Download or read book In the Name of Science written by Martijn Eickhoff and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes and analyses the highly successful career of the Dutch physicist and Nobel prize winner P.J.W. Debye (1884- 1966) in the Third Reich. The book sketches the life of a man who lived for science, but at the same time maintained close contacts with influential officials, industrialists and sometimes even politicians. In this context Debye declined to respond in public to the treatment of Jews in society in general and in science in particular, even after his migration to the United States in 1940. By combining a biographical perspective with network analysis and research on contemporary moral assessments, this book sheds new and disturbing light on Debyes socio-political worldview and his involvement in the Aryanization of German science.