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The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers examines the lives of Latin American women who entered factory labor
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The contributors break new ground by focusing on the impact representations of women readers have had on understandings
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Memoirs of Jewish life in the east European shtetl often recall the hekdesh (town poorhouse) and its residents: beggars,
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"There is no possibility of entering the world of Yiddish, its literature and culture, without understanding what t
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Biblical interpretation is not simply study of the Bible's meaning. Historically, it has also served as a primary m
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The shtetl is one of the key concepts for our understanding of the Jewish past in Eastern Europe. Although today most Je
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In this book, Yehuda Bauer, an internationally acclaimed Holocaust historian, describes the destruction of small Jewish
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Dating from the sixteenth century, there were hundreds of shtetls—Jewish settlements—in Eastern Europe that were home to
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Following the 1972 Olympics one sportswriter referred to Mark Spitz, winner of seven gold medals, as “the first great Je
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This book looks at how the Yiddish press sought to create Jewish-American identities for immigrant women. Shelby Shapir
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