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Surveys the commercial importance, originality, and cultural relevance of the groundbreaking HBO series The Sopranos.

Presents an examination of young survivors of the Holocaust and their role in the creation of the state of Israel. This book argues that Zionism was successful in filling a positive function for young displaced persons in the aftermath of the Holocaust. It is suitable for scholars of Jewish studies, European history, and Israel studies.

Describes life from a female perspective on the excavation site of Dura-Europos, the site of many remarkable archaeological finds.

A social, cultural, historical, and institutional analysis of the classic original series, The Fugitive.

Originally published in Warsaw in 1913, this memoir offers a panoramic description of the author's experiences growing up in Kamieniec Litewski, a Polish shtetl connected with many important events in the history of nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewry. It also presents an important document of Jewish life during a fascinating era.

Offers a collection of essays that highlight the diversity within the discipline of Jewish studies. This book is introduced by an overview of Jewish historiography, drawing on Meyer's work in that field, delineating important connections between the writing of history and the environment in which it is written.

A collection of nostalgic recipes. This title focuses on the efforts Irma Rosenthal took to educate herself about cooking, nutrition, health, and household management as a young, American-born, middle class Chicago bride of Jewish heritage. It analyzes primary material found in Irma's ""First Cook Book"" and memoirs.

The year 2004 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: A Journal of Developmental Psychology, providing an occasion to celebrate the journal's heritage and its long history of scholarly contributions to its field. This volume celebrates this milestone by bringing together twenty-three distinguished essays that showcase past accomplishments, current progress, and future challenges in the human developmental sciences.The essays presented in this volume offer perspectives on many of the research domains and specialty areas that have been prominent in MPQ's history. Accordingly, chapters are organized around ten conceptual themes, including methodological and interpretive considerations, cognitive development and learning, temperament and emotional development, children's social development and peer relations, family relations, moral development, the nature-nurture debate and behavioral genetics, cultural psychology, early child care and school-readiness, and evidence-based programming and public policy. In addition, an introductory chapter provides a historical overview of MPQ, examining the events, persons, institutional forces, and publication trends that brought the journal into existence and have contributed to its success and longevity.These commentaries are accessible and of interest to all who work with infants, children, adolescents, and families. As a result, this volume will appeal to researchers and professionals alike.

Contains nearly thirty years of work by a noted writer and folklore scholar. This book includes writings from her scholarly articles and books spanning 1975-2004, which contain reflections on the value of fairy tales as adult literature. It offers a look at both the evolution of a career and the recent history of fairy-tale scholarship.

Looks at the life and writings of cultural critic Aby Warburg through the prism of Warburg's little-known political views. This work argues, based on archival research, that Warburg's work and teachings developed as a reaction to the growing anti-Semitism in Germany, which he saw as a threat to classical education and university scholarship.

Thestory of the Gibsons, a working-class family from El Paso, Texas, that is struggling to survive the desertion of their father. It is an account of a young man forced to measure memory and love against reason and reality. It is also an illuminating look at the surreal lives of America's homeless and a tribute to the strength of faith and family.

This study chronicles how German nationalism developed simultaneously with the historical novel and the field of history, both at universities and in middlebrow reading material. The book examines Germany's emerging national narrative as 19th-century writers adapted it to their own visions and to changing circumstances.

This biography is devoted to the life and career of Roy D. Chapin - one of the foremost figures in the history of Detroit's independent automotive industry.

The art of interpreting personal character based on facial and other physical features dates back to antiquity. About Face tells the intriguing story of how physiognomics became particularly popular during the Enlightenment, no longer as a mere parlor game but as an empirically grounded discipline.

Orality has been central to the transmission of Sephardic customs, wisdom, and values for centuries. This is a selection of 54 folktales from Matilda Koen-Sarano's collection of stories recorded in Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) and translated by Reginetta Haboucha into fluent and idiomatic English that preserves the flavour and oral nuances of each text.