How is the meaning of the hyphen in ?nation-state” changing in the context of globalization and proliferating political struggles? How can we investigate the transformation of the nation-state by mark
Less than two centuries ago finance - today viewed as the center of economic necessity and epitome of scientific respectability - stood condemned as disreputable fraud. How this change in status came
In 2002, North Korea precipitated a major international crisis when it revealed the existence of a secret nuclear weapons program and announced its withdrawal from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
Scholars are starting to pay attention to how diasporas, migrant workers, and other de-territorialized people construct and express such notions as homeland, belonging, and identity, says Cerwonko (wo
In this trenchant critique, Siba N'Zatioula Grovogui demonstrates the failure of international law to address adequately the issues surrounding African self-determination during decolonization. Challe
Friedgut tells the story of a group of young Zionist Jews in Odessa who fled pogroms in Russia to found a commune in rural Oregon, New Odessa, one of about 100 such communities that the group Am Olam
This volume discusses the participation of Jews as soldiers, journalists, and propagandists in combating the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War—as the period between June 22, 1941, and May 9, 1945,
In Russian Idea: Jewish Presence, Professor Brian Horowitz follows the career tracks of Jewish intellectuals who, having fallen in love with Russian culture, were unceremoniously repulsed. Horowitz re
Isaak Babel (1894-1940) is arguably one of the greatest modern short story writers of the early twentieth century. Yet his life and work are shrouded in the mystery of who Babel was—an Odessa Jew who
Avrutin (modern European Jewish history) and Murav (Slaviclanguages and literatures), both at the U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, introduce Klier (1944-2007) as a pioneering UIscholar on Jewish-Russ
Focusing primarily on the close study of literary works presented in the broad cultural and historical context, Jacob’s Ladder discusses the reflection of kabbalistic allegory in Russian literature an
