Not all of them where materially inert, for that was not granted to them. On the contrary, they were, or had to be, quite active; but inert they undoubtedly were in the innermost selves, inclined to disinterested speculation … the events attributed to them …shared a static quality, an attitude of dignified abstention, of deliberate (or accepted) relegation to the margins of the great river of life. Primo Levi, Argon
Silvyo Ovadya, Brill Publishing, 1999 Developed in Turkish-English descriptions, this book is about the history of the Jewish costumes between 11th -18th centuries. Furthermore, there are 63 illustrations made by three famous illumination and miniature artists.
Edward Lewis, W W Norton & Co Inc., 1985 In the year 1068, a cultivated Muslim historian wrote of the European peoples to the north: "They are more like beasts than like men.... Their temperaments are frigid, their humors raw,…
Stanford J. Shaw, NYU Press, October 1991 Over the course of the last 600 years, the existence of the Jews of western Europe was continually threatened. While many took refuge in the Eastern regions of Europe, particularly in Poland and…
Translated and Edited by Peter Cole, Princeton University Press, 2007. Hebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible. Fusing elements of East and West,…
Edited by Martin A. Cohen and Abraham J. Peck, University of Alabama Press, 1993. Multidisciplinary essays examining the historical and cultural history of the Sephardic experience in the Americas, from pre-expulsion Spain to the modern era, as recounted by some…
al-Ḥarīrī, NYU Press, 2020 An itinerant con man. A gullible eyewitness narrator. Voices spanning continents and centuries. These elements come together in Impostures, a groundbreaking new translation of a celebrated work of Arabic literature. Impostures follows the roguish Abū Zayd…
Esra Özyürek, Stanford University Press, 2023 At the turn of the millennium, Middle Eastern and Muslim Germans had rather unexpectedly become central to the country's Holocaust memory culture—not as welcome participants, but as targets for re-education and reform. Since then,…
Alan Verskin, Stanford University Press, 2023 In 1524, a man named David Reubeni appeared in Venice, claiming to be the ambassador of a powerful Jewish kingdom deep in the heart of Arabia. In this era of fierce rivalry between great…
Bartle Bull, Grove Press, 2024 Land Between the Rivers is the result of ten years of research, writing, and thinking about the subject. It is an enormous topic: five thousand years, beginning with Gilgamesh at the edge of historical time…
John LLoyd Stephens, Dover Publications, Republished in 2011 Perhaps best known for his discovery of the Mayan ruins in the Yucatan, lawyer-turned-archaeologist John Lloyd Stephens (1805–1852) was the author of a number of highly praised travel books. The present volume,…
