This is an encyclopedia, not because it claims to be authoritative and exhaustive, explains Diner, but because of the breadth of coverage. He says that the balance architecture of entries taken fro
Lost in the Sacred poses questions about the Muslim world that no other book by a Western writer has dared to ask. Focusing on the Arab Middle East, Dan Diner asks what caused the Muslim world to lag
Diner (Hebrew U. of Jerusalem, Israel) and Wunberg (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften Wien, Austria) bring together contributions from sociologists, anthropologists, historians, l
Cataclysms is a profoundly original look at the last century. Approaching twentieth-century history from the periphery rather than the centers of decision-making, the virtual narrator sits perched on
Translated from the original German Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, the Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture includes about 800 entries that present the current state of internatio
