..". vital to understanding this period of East European Jewish history. As Hyman promises, the memoir... read s] like a novel." --Russian Review
In this striking autobiography Puah Rakovsky (1865-1955) tells of her experiences as a Jewish woman in late 19th- and early 20th-century Poland who broke with her traditional upbringing to become a professional educator, Zionist activist, and feminist leader. Her passionate account offers unprecedented entree into the life experience of East European Jewry in a period of massive social change. Published in the original Yiddish in 1954, the...
..". vital to understanding this period of East European Jewish history. As Hyman promises, the memoir... read s] like a novel." --Russian Review
Originally published in 1985, Liberated Cinema: The Yugoslav Experience received the first annual "Close-up" award from the Yugoslav Film Institute in 1986 for "outstanding scholarship and for promoting the values of Yugoslav film art internationally." This new edition has been revised and updated throughout. It has been expanded to complete the story of the new Yugoslav cinema of the 1980s and to address major film developments that have taken place in the former Yugoslavia s five successor states. As in his analysis of past periods of Yugoslav cinema, Goulding situates the most recent...
Originally published in 1985, Liberated Cinema: The Yugoslav Experience received the first annual "Close-up" award from the Yugoslav Film Institute...
..". illuminates the workings of institutionalized racism through the correspondence of three South African women in the 1940s and 50s." Feminist Bookstore News
"The history of a place and time is made vivid by the combination of the rich personal record of the letters and the theoretically framed analytic discussion. The result is new insight into the history of black education in South Africa, and a revealing study of the dynamics of women s relations under colonialism across the lines of race, age and power." Susan Greenstein, The Women s...
..". remarkable... " Foreign Affairs
..". illuminates the workings of institutionalized racism through the correspondence of three South Afri...
... vital to understanding this period of East European Jewish history. As Hyman promises, the memoir... read s] like a novel. -- Russian Review
In this striking autobiography Puah Rakovsky (1865-1955) tells of her experiences as a Jewish woman in late 19th- and early 20th-century Poland who broke with her traditional upbringing to become a professional educator, Zionist activist, and feminist leader. Her passionate account offers unprecedented entra(r)e into the life experience of East European Jewry in a period of massive social change. Published in the original Yiddish in 1954, the...
... vital to understanding this period of East European Jewish history. As Hyman promises, the memoir... read s] like a novel. -- Russian Review
