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This anthology of plays by Tess Onwueme, one of the bright new literary artists in contemporary drama, allows a glimpse into the lives of the people of Onwueme's native Nigeria and reveals the range and beauty of Nigerian culture. At the same time, Three Plays sheds light on the reality of the human condition and the conflicts that arise between the individual and society.

Kadya Molodwsky (1894-1975) was among the most accomplished and prolific of modern Yiddish poets, having published six major books of poetry, as well as fiction, plays, essays, and children's tales. This is a retrospective survey of her poetry and a book-length translation of her work.

Brings together a collection of fifty-three folktales celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Israel Folktale Archives (IFA) at the University of Haifa. For this jubilee volume, contributors each selected stories from the more than 24,000 preserved in the archives and wrote an accompanying analytic essay. Stories selected represent 26 different ethnic groups in Israel, 22 of them Jewish.

Tells the story behind Faygo, a Detroit soft drink company since 1907. The Faygo Book is the social history of a company that has forged a bond with a city and its residents for more than a century. Joe Grimm carefully measures out the ingredients of a successful beverage company in spite of dicey economic times in a boom-and-bust town.

Presents new creative nonfiction by some of Michigan's most well-known and highly acclaimed authors. A celebration of the elements, this collection is both the storm and the shelter. The essays approach Michigan at the atomic level. This is a place where weather patterns and ecology matter.

Following World War II, the world had to confront the unmournable specters of those who had been erased socially and historically. Cinematic Cryptonymies: The Absent Body in Postwar Film explores how cinema addressed these missing bodies through an in-depth analysis of key filmmakers from the immediate postwar moment through the present.

Uses critical race theory to discuss American films that embrace contemporary issues of race, sexuality, class, and gender. Its linear history chronicles black-oriented narrative film from post-World War II through the presidential administration of Barack Obama.

Uses critical race theory to discuss American films that embrace contemporary issues of race, sexuality, class, and gender. Its linear history chronicles black-oriented narrative film from post-World War II through the presidential administration of Barack Obama.

Examines the political cinema of 1968 in relation to global events. The essays in this volume, edited by Christina Gerhardt and Sara Saljoughi, cover a breadth of cinematic movements that were part of the era's radical politics and independence movements.

Robin Wood - one of the foremost critics of cinema - has laid the groundwork for anyone writing about the horror film in the last half-century. Robin Wood on the Horror Film: Collected Essays and Reviews compiles over fifty years of his groundbreaking critiques.

Examines the political cinema of 1968 in relation to global events. The essays in this volume, edited by Christina Gerhardt and Sara Saljoughi, cover a breadth of cinematic movements that were part of the era's radical politics and independence movements.

Available now for the first time in English, Doctor Levitin is a modern classic in Jewish literature. It is the first in David Shrayer-Petrov's trilogy of novels about the struggle of Soviet Jews and the destinies of refuseniks.

Examines pantomime and theatricality in nineteenth-century histories of folklore and the fairy tale. In nineteenth-century Britain, the spectacular and highly profitable theatrical form known as "pantomime" was part of a shared cultural repertoire and a significant medium for the transmission of stories, especially fairy tales.

The third volume in a series that presents illustrated essays about artists who live and work in Detroit or who have participated in the Detroit art scene in an important way. Stemming from the popular website of the same name, Essay'd 3 introduces readers to new insight and a fresh perspective on the city's contemporary art practitioners.

Joseph H. Lewis enjoyed a monumental career in many genres, including film noir and B-movies, as well as an extensive and often overlooked TV career. Rhodes gathers notable scholars from around the globe to examine the full range of Lewis's career. While some studies analyse Lewis's work in different areas, others focus on particular films, ranging from poverty row fare to westerns and TV films.

Henry Martyn Leland (1843-1932) is an outstanding figure in automotive history, best known for developing the Cadillac and the Lincoln. This is an account of his life and work during the early days of the automobile industry.

O City of Byzantium is the first English translation of a history which chronicles the period of Byzantine history from 1118 to 1207. The historian Niketas Choniates provides an eye-witness account of the inexorable events that led to the destruction of the longest lived Christian empire in history, and to the ultimate catastrophe of the fall of Constantinople in 1204 to the Fourth Crusade. For the student of the Middles Ages who cannot read Greek, and for the historians and the general public, this volume contains one of the most important historical accounts of the Middle Ages. Recorded in detail are the political, economic, social, and religious causes of alienation between the Latin West and the Greek East that separated the two halves of the Christian world and broke apart the great bulwark of European civilization.

Study of a vital immigrant institution and the formation of American ethnic identity.

Unfolds the history of Jewish immigration, segregation, and integration; of Jewry's cultural exclusiveness and assimilation; of its internal division and indivisible unity; and of its role in the making of America. This second volume of this seminal work on American Jewry covers the period from 1841 to 1860.

Between 1800 and 1880 approximately 6,500 Dutch Jews emigrated to the United States to join the hundreds who had come during the colonial era. The Forerunners offers the first detailed history of the emigration of Dutch Jews to the United States and to the whole American diaspora.

Within two years of the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, an astounding 45,000 of Bulgaria's 50,000 Jews left voluntarily for Israel. From Sofia to Jaffa chronicles the fascinating saga of a population relocated, a story that has not been told until now.

Takes a measured approach to one of the most emotional issues in American Jewish historiography: the response of American Jews to Nazism and the extermination of European Jewry. Aaron Berman tries to understand the constraints within which American Jews operated and what opportunities - if any - they had to respond to Hitler.

Through the ages, theology in Judaism has played roles of varying importance. But the role of theology is minor compared with that of law and observance. This book is devoted to a study of the evolution of normative Judaism from the time of Ezra (ca. 400 B.C.) to Judah I, the Prince (ca. 200 A.D.). Its focus on law represents a realistic approach to the history of applied Judaism.

Presents a history of the Catholic Church and community in southern lower Michigan from the 1830s to the 1950s. More than a chronicle of clerical successions and institutional expansion, the book also examines those social and cultural influences that affected the development of the Catholic community.