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The relocation of North African and Middle Eastern Jews to Israel in the 1950s and 1960s brought together communities from Egypt, Iraq, Kurdistan, Yemen, and many other Islamic countries, as well as their unique music styles. In the unstable, improvisatory spaces of transit camps, development towns, and poor neighborhoods, they created a new pan-ethnic Mizrahi identity and a homegrown hybrid music that inspired equal parts high-pitched enthusiasm and resistance along the fault lines of Israel's ethnic divide. In Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the Aesthetic, author Amy...

Susan Ryeland, Lektorin außer Dienst, führt mit ihrem Lebensgefährten das zauberhafte kleine Hotel Polydoros auf Kreta. Aber ganz so idyllisch ist es dann doch nicht, denn der Alltag mit den ewig unzuverlässigen Lieferanten, unpünktlichen Angestellten und den nicht immer einfachen Gästen, macht das Inselleben anstrengender, als sie es sich vorgestellt hat. Auch ihre Beziehung leidet unter dem Stress, und Susan vermisst ihr altes Leben in London.

Da kommt das Ehepaar Treherne gerade recht. Sie erzählen eine bizarre Geschichte von einem Mord in ihrem Hotel Branlow Hall just am...

Ever since the 1963 publication of her landmark book, The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan has insisted that her commitment to women's rights grew out of her experiences as an alienated suburban housewife. Yet as Daniel Horowitz persuasively demonstrates in this illuminating and provocative biography, the roots of Friedan's feminism run much deeper than she has led us to believe. Drawing on an impressive body of new research -- including Friedan's own papers -- Horowitz traces the development of Friedan's feminist outlook from her childhood in Peoria, Illinois, through her wartime years at...

International migration is often considered a relatively new development in world history. Yet, while there has been a surge in migration since World War II, the worldwide movement of peoples is a longstanding phenomenon. So, too, are the fundamental issues raised by immigration. How do immigrants fit into and affect the polity and society of the country they enter? What changes can or must the receiving state make to accomodate them? What changes in culture and ethnic indentity do immigrants undergo in their new environment? How do they relate to the mix of peoples already present in...