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The Cinema of Sally Potter: Moments of Exchange
Sophie Mayer
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• Author(s): Sophie Mayer • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismSally Potter is known for her award-winning films 'Thriller' (1979), 'Orlando' (1992), 'The Tango Lesson' (1997) ...
View full detailsThe Place of Russia in Europe and Asia
Gyula Szvák
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• Author(s): Gyula Szvák • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Russia - GeneralGyula Szvak selects essays from the proceedings of the international seminars that took place between 1998 and 2...
View full detailsPrison Notebooks: Volume 2
Antonio Gramsci
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• Author(s): Antonio Gramsci • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralAntonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is widely celebrated as the most original political thinker in W...
View full detailsNeither Woman Nor Jew: The Confluence of Prejudices in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy at the Turn of the Century
András Gero
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• Author(s): András Gero • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Europe - Austria & HungaryAndras Gero contextualizes the racialist, misogynist, and anti-Semitic ideas that influenced publi...
View full detailsHatred and Forgiveness
Julia Kristeva
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• Author(s): Julia Kristeva • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: CriticismJulia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process it) thr...
View full detailsExplaining Institutional Innovation: Case Studies from Latin America and East Asia
Richard Doner
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• Author(s): Richard Doner • Publisher: Social Science Research Council • Publisher Imprint: Social Science Research Council • BISAC: Political EconomyMany believe that economic development is primarily a function of institutions that help societ...
View full detailsHungarian Americans in the Current of History
Steven Béla Várdy
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• Author(s): Steven Béla Várdy • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Europe - Austria & HungaryIn twelve essays on Hungarian-American history, the authors discuss Louis Kossuth's tumultuo...
View full detailsHong Kong Taxation: Law and Practice
Ayesha Macpherson Lau
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• Author(s): Ayesha Macpherson Lau • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: TaxationHong Kong Taxation: Law and Practice, 2010-2011 is a comprehensive yet practical gui...
View full detailsEarly Childhood Care and Education in the Asia Pacific Region: Moving Towards Goal 1
Nirmala Rao
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• Author(s): Nirmala Rao • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Schools - Levels - Early Childhood (Incl. Preschool & KinderIn 2000, the global community set six goals as part of the E...
View full detailsAudience Evolution
Philip M. Napoli
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• Author(s): Philip M. Napoli • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Media StudiesToday's consumers have unprecedented choice in terms of the technologies and platforms that access, produce,...
View full detailsThe Memory of the Habsburg Empire in German, Austrian, and Hungarian Right-Wing Historiography and Political Thinking, 1918-1941
Gergely Romsics
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• Author(s): Gergely Romsics • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Europe - Austria & HungaryBy reproducing the political and historiographical debates surrounding the legacy of the Habsb...
View full detailsReform and Revolution: 1825-1848
András Gergely
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• Author(s): András Gergely • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralAndrás Gergely focuses on the program, motives, and social background of the Hungarian reform movemen...
View full detailsAfter Pluralism: Reimagining Religious Engagement
Courtney Bender
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• Author(s): Courtney Bender • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Comparative ReligionThe contributors to this volume treat pluralism as a concept that is historically and ideologically pr...
View full detailsHungarian-Soviet Relations, 1920-1941
Attila Kolontari
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• Author(s): Attila Kolontari • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Europe - Austria & HungaryInterwar relations between Hungary and the Soviet Union did not determine the subsequent fate...
View full detailsHungary Under Soviet Domination: 1944-1989
Tibor Valuch
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• Author(s): Tibor Valuch • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Europe - Austria & HungaryGyörgy Gyarmati and Tibor Valuch chronicle the significant years between the end of the Second Wo...
View full detailsMobilizing the Community for Better Health: What the Rest of America Can Learn from Northern Manhattan
Allan Formicola
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• Author(s): Allan Formicola • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Volunteer WorkFrom 1999 to 2009, The Northern Manhattan Community Voices Collaborative put Columbia University and its Med...
View full detailsMobilizing the Community for Better Health: What the Rest of America Can Learn from Northern Manhattan
Allan Formicola
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• Author(s): Allan Formicola • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Volunteer WorkFrom 1999 to 2009, The Northern Manhattan Community Voices Collaborative put Columbia University and its Med...
View full detailsHaunting Legacies: Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma
Gabriele Schwab
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• Author(s): Gabriele Schwab • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyFrom mass murder to genocide, slavery to colonial suppression, acts of atrocity have lives th...
View full detailsTwenty-First Century Motherhood: Experience, Identity, Policy, Agency
Andrea O'Reilly
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• Author(s): Andrea O'Reilly • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesA pioneer of modern motherhood studies, Andrea O'Reilly explores motherhood's current representation and pr...
View full detailsBuddhist Philosophy of Language in India: Jñanasrimitra on Exclusion
Lawrence J. Mccrea
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• Author(s): Lawrence J. Mccrea • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: EasternJnanasrimitra (975-1025) was regarded by both Buddhists and non-Buddhists as the most important Indian philosoph...
View full detailsBuddhist Philosophy of Language in India: Jñanasrimitra on Exclusion
Lawrence J. Mccrea
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• Author(s): Lawrence J. Mccrea • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: EasternJnanasrimitra (975-1025) was regarded by both Buddhists and non-Buddhists as the most important Indian philosoph...
View full detailsHitchcock Annual: Volume 16
Sidney Gottlieb
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• Author(s): Sidney Gottlieb • Publisher: Hitchcock Annual • Publisher Imprint: Hitchcock Annual • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThis new issue of the Hitchcock Annual contains studies of Hitchcock and theater, Hitchcock's atheology, and the filmmaker's ...
View full detailsCounter-Archive: Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète
Paula Amad
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• Author(s): Paula Amad • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismTucked away in a garden on the edge of Paris is a multimedia archive like no other: Albert Kahn's...
View full detailsTwenty-First Century Motherhood: Experience, Identity, Policy, Agency
Andrea O'Reilly
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• Author(s): Andrea O'Reilly • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesA pioneer of modern motherhood studies, Andrea O'Reilly explores motherhood's current representation and pr...
View full detailsCounter-Archive: Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète
Paula Amad
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• Author(s): Paula Amad • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismTucked away in a garden on the edge of Paris is a multimedia archive like no other: Albert Kahn's...
View full detailsAnimal Ethics in Context
Clare Palmer
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• Author(s): Clare Palmer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyIt is widely agreed that because animals feel pain we should not make them suffer gratuitously. ...
View full detailsRevisioning 007: James Bond and Casino Royale
Christoph Lindner
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• Author(s): Christoph Lindner • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismRevisioning 007 is a lively collection of new essays on the reinvention of James Bond in the 2006 film Casin...
View full detailsContemporary British Drama
David Lane
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• Author(s): David Lane • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshFrom the Back CoverEdinburgh Critical Guides to Literature Series Editors: Martin Halliwell and Andy Mousley This series provides acc...
View full detailsI Like Hong Kong: Art and Deterritorialization
Frank Vigneron
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• Author(s): Frank Vigneron • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD,Uses comparative aesthetics and the...
View full detailsRelativism: A Contemporary Anthology
Michael Krausz
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• Author(s): Michael Krausz • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralThe thirty-three essays in Relativism: A Contemporary Anthology grapple with one of the most...
View full detailsSoutheast Asia in the Fifteenth Century: The China Factor
Geoff And Laichen Sun Ed Wade
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• Author(s): Geoff And Laichen Sun Ed Wade • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaThe essays included offer a distinctive survey of China's imperial foreign policy and...
View full detailsMedieval Literature and Postcolonial Studies
Lisa Lampert-Weissig
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• Author(s): Lisa Lampert-Weissig • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: MedievalFrom the Back CoverENDORSEMENTS BEING SOUGHT Postcolonial Literary Studies Series Editors: David Johnson an...
View full detailsThe Sociocultural Turn in Psychology: The Contextual Emergence of Mind and Self
Suzanne Kirschner
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• Author(s): Suzanne Kirschner • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Developmental - GeneralThe sociocultural turn in psychology treats psychological subjects, such as the mind and the self...
View full detailsEducational Reforms in Russia and China at the Turn of the 21st Century: A Comparative Analysis
Nina Ye. Virevjata
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• Author(s): Nina Ye. Virevjata • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis important study of educational reform in Russia and China brings to the global research community in...
View full detailsThe Sociocultural Turn in Psychology: The Contextual Emergence of Mind and Self
Suzanne Kirschner
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• Author(s): Suzanne Kirschner • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Developmental - GeneralThe sociocultural turn in psychology treats psychological subjects, such as the mind and the self...
View full detailsStudying British Cinema: 1990s
Eddie Dyja
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• Author(s): Eddie Dyja • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThe 1990s were years of contradiction for British cinema. On the one hand, the exhibition and production of Br...
View full detailsStudying British Cinema: 1990s
Eddie Dyja
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• Author(s): Eddie Dyja • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThe 1990s were years of contradiction for British cinema. On the one hand, the exhibition and production of Br...
View full detailsAmerica's Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of New York
Sam Roberts
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• Author(s): Sam Roberts • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaIn a stunning repudiation of the Democratic machine, John V. Lindsay (1921-2000) captured the New York mayoralty i...
View full detailsStudying TV Drama
Michael Massey
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• Author(s): Michael Massey • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralGraduate students of media studies have benefited from a variety of books on television genres, yet lower ...
View full detailsThe Imaginary Institution of India: Politics and Ideas
Sudipta Kaviraj
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• Author(s): Sudipta Kaviraj • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: EssaysFor decades Sudipta Kaviraj has worked with and improved upon Marxist and subaltern studies, capturing India's socia...
View full detailsDisplacing the Divine: The Minister in the Mirror of American Fiction
Douglas Walrath
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• Author(s): Douglas Walrath • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Christianity - ProtestantAs religious leaders, ministers are often assumed to embody the faith of the institution they rep...
View full detailsTeaching in Social Work: The Five Hundred Short Poems of the Ainkurunuru
Jeane Anastas
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• Author(s): Jeane Anastas • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Social ScienceDrawing from her extensive classroom and field experience, Jeane W. Anastas merges the "...
View full detailsTeaching in Social Work: An Educators' Guide to Theory and Practice
Jeane Anastas
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• Author(s): Jeane Anastas • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Social ScienceDrawing from her extensive classroom and field experience, Jeane W. Anastas merges the "...
View full detailsRage and Time: A Psychopolitical Investigation
Peter Sloterdijk
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• Author(s): Peter Sloterdijk • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Movements - DeconstructionWhile ancient civilizations worshipped strong, active emotions, modern societies have favored m...
View full detailsLevinas and the Cinema of Redemption: Time, Ethics, and the Feminine
Sam Girgus
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• Author(s): Sam Girgus • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIn his philosophy of ethics and time, Emmanuel Levinas highlighted the tension that exists betwee...
View full detailsLevinas and the Cinema of Redemption: Time, Ethics, and the Feminine
Sam Girgus
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• Author(s): Sam Girgus • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIn his philosophy of ethics and time, Emmanuel Levinas highlighted the tension that exists betwee...
View full detailsFairbairn's Object Relations Theory in the Clinical Setting
David Celani
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• Author(s): David Celani • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Psychotherapy - PsychoanalysisW. R. D. Fairbairn (1889-1964) challenged the dominance of Freud's drive theory with a psychoan...
View full detailsOn Being and Having a Case Manager: A Relational Approach to Recovery in Mental Health
Jeffrey Longhofer
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• Author(s): Jeffrey Longhofer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkOn Being and Having a Case Manager stresses the importance of the process of building relationships in helpin...
View full detailsAssuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality
Gayle Salamon
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• Author(s): Gayle Salamon • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LGBTQ+We believe we know our bodies intimatelythat their material reality is certain and that this certainty leads to an epi...
View full detailsPublic Space in Budapest: The History of Kossuth Square
András Gero
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• Author(s): András Gero • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Europe - Austria & HungaryLong-time expert on the social and political movements of Hungary, András Gerö turns his keen eye ...
View full detailsStudying American Independent Cinema
Rona Murray
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• Author(s): Rona Murray • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismRona Murray places modern independent cinema within the general history of American independen...
View full detailsStudying American Independent Cinema
Rona Murray
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• Author(s): Rona Murray • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismRona Murray places modern independent cinema within the general history of American independen...
View full detailsLanguage and National Identity: Rusyns South of Carpathians
Anna Plishkova
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• Author(s): Anna Plishkova • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Russia - GeneralIn the debate over U. S. immigration, all sides now support policy and practice that expand the parameters of...
View full detailsStudying German Cinema
Maggie Hoffgen
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• Author(s): Maggie Hoffgen • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralAdopting a textual, chronological approach, Studying German Cinema is for students of German and film stud...
View full detailsLanguage and Identities
Carmen Llamas
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• Author(s): Carmen Llamas • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis volume offers a broad survey of our current state of knowledge on the connect...
View full detailsThe Portable Cixous
Hélène Cixous
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• Author(s): Hélène Cixous • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralHélène Cixous is more than an influential theorist. She is also a groundbreaking author and playwright. C...
View full detailsChaoyue: Advancing in Chinese: A Textbook for Intermediate and Preadvanced Students
Yea–Fen Chen
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• Author(s): Yea–Fen Chen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ChineseChaoyue: Advancing in Chinese covers the five Cscommunication, cultures, comparisons, connections, and communitiesan...
View full detailsThe Portable Cixous
Hélène Cixous
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• Author(s): Hélène Cixous • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralHélène Cixous is more than an influential theorist. She is also a groundbreaking author and playwright. C...
View full detailsDoubting the Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination
Nora L Rubel
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• Author(s): Nora L Rubel • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralBefore 1985, depictions of ultra-Orthodox Jews in popular American culture were rare, and if they did appear, in films...
View full detailsDoubting the Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination
Nora L Rubel
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• Author(s): Nora L Rubel • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Judaism - OrthodoxBefore 1985, depictions of ultra-Orthodox Jews in popular American culture were rare, and if they did appea...
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