David Stifter's Sengoidelc (SHAN-goy-thelg) provides a comprehensive introduction to Old Irish grammar and metrics. As an introductory text to the Irish language spoken around the eighteenth century C
The question of "who is a Jew?" is a complex issue for American Jewry. Does religion, history, culture, or ethnicity make up Jewishness? How has American Jewishness changed over the years? Shapiro (hi
This supplement to The Intentional Leader offers new information and practical advice on the art and science of leadership, allowing readers to stay current with the latest developments in leadership
A collection of essays that first appeared in publications including the New York Times Book Review, the Village Voice, the New York Review of Books, West, the San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, a
Wessinger (history of religions, Loyola U.) presents 18 papers that explore three interrelated patterns of some millennial religious movements: violence by outsiders, the initiation of violence to pre
Fifty years after WWII, Dagmar Ostermann, a former prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Hans Wilhelm Mnnch, a former Nazi and head of the Waffen SS Hygiene Institute, talk face to face, in an interview
A collection of 56 works by Italian American women writers, drawing on rare sources and archival material. Works encompass genres of prose, poetry, oral history, and fiction. An introductory essay exa
McGrath (art history, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire) has an intimate knowledge of the subject, both the landscape depicted, and the history of its depiction, and the quality, range (he covers print
Miriam Cooke’s melic prose animates the existence of each of the women portrayed in her new novel. With Samya, we live in Palestine of the 1920s and are imprisoned during the imposition of the British
Three notebooks, first published here, record the British adventuress' journey to northern Arabia and foreshadow her service to the Empire in Baghdad during the 1920s. Editor Rosemary O'Brien has incl
Like Last of the Just, which traced the Jewish experience of martyrdom, this book recreates through fact and myth people's enslavement and humiliation, and survival - and produces one of the most ext
Billig (social sciences, Loughborough University, England) explores the many contributions of Jews throughout the history of rock and roll, from the lyrics of Lieber and Stoller and the production wor
