Syracuse University Press: 176 books
"What! Still Alive?!"
Jewish Survivors in Poland and Israel Remember Homecoming
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
"What! Still Alive?!" offers a powerful and deeply affecting examination of the complex memories of Jewish survivors returning to their homes in Poland after the Holocaust. These survivors left unparalleled testimonies of their first impressions with the Jewish historical commissions from...
Memory Ireland
Volume 2: Diaspora and Memory Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
In the second volume of a series that will ultimately include four, the authors consider Irish diasporic memory and memory practices. While the Irish diaspora has become the subject of a wide range of scholarship, there has been little work focused on its relationship to memory. The first half of...
Memory Ireland
Volume 3: The Famine and the Troubles
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Volume 3 focuses on the impact of the Famine and the Troubles on the
formation and study of Irish cultural memory. Topics considered include
hunger strikes, monuments to the Famine, trauma and the politics of memory
in the Irish peace process, and Ulster Loyalist battles in the twenty-first
century....
Memory Ireland
Volume 4: James Joyce and Cultural Memory
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
In the fourth and final volume of the Memory Ireland series, Frawley and
O’Callaghan explore the manifestations and values of cultural memory in
Joyce’s Ireland, both real and imagined. An exemplary author to consider
in relation to questions of how it is that history is remembered and recycled,
Joyce...
Memory Ireland
Volume 1: History and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
Despite the ease with which scholars have used the term "memory" in recent decades, its definition remains enigmatic. Does cultural memory rely on the memories of individuals, or does it take shape beyond the borders of the individual mind? Cultural memory has garnered particular attention...
Youth Encounter Programs in Israel
Pedagogy, Identity, and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
As the level of distrust and alienation between Jews and Palestinians has risen over the past fifteen years, the support for grassroots organizations’ attempts to bring these two groups closer has stagnated. Jewish-Palestinian youth encounter programs that flourished in the wake of the Oslo Accords...
Allegany To Appomattox
The Life and Letters of Private William Whitlock of the 188th New York Volunteers
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
"Allegany to Appomattox" describes the environment, enlistment and political atmosphere that resulted in the Civil War from the perspective of one farmer, William Whitlock who at the age of thirty five left his family for service to the Union. He wrote at least forty letter home to his wife and family. These unpublished letters serve as the foundation of the book.
Benjamin Fondane's Ulysses
Bilingual Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
From 1923, when he emigrated from Bucharest, to his deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944, Benjamin Fondane made a unique and independent-minded contribution to the literary and intellectual life of Paris. One of the most significant pieces in Fondane’s body of work is the long poem Ulysses,...
by Amira El-Zein
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
According to the Qur’an, God created two parallel species, man and the jinn, the former from clay and the latter from fire. Beliefs regarding the jinn are deeply integrated into Muslim culture and religion, and have a constant presence in legends, myths, poetry, and literature. In Islam, Arabs,...
Joining the Clubs
The Business of the National Hockey League to 1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
How did a small Canadian regional league come to dominate a North American continental sport? Joining the Clubs: The Business of the National Hockey League to 1945 tells the fascinating story of the game off the ice, offering a play-by-play of cooperation and competition among owners, players, arenas,...
Beyond Home Plate
Jackie Robinson On Life After Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
When he first took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, Jackie Robinson broke a color barrier that reached back sixty years to the very origins of American baseball. He would go on to play in six World Series and help the Dodgers win the 1955 World Championship. But Robinson was much more than...
Market Orientalism
Cultural Economy and the Arab Gulf States
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Although the Arab states of the Persian Gulf are leaders in many of the measures of absolute wealth that have traditionally defined success in the global economy, they have had a much harder time becoming accepted in the equally fractured and hierarchal realm of the cultural economy, where practices,...
Native Tongue, Stranger Talk
The Arabic and French Literary Landscapes of Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Can a reality lived in Arabic be expressed in French? Can a French-language
literary work speak Arabic? In Native Tongue, Stranger Talk Hartman
shows how Lebanese women authors use spoken Arabic to disrupt literary
French, with sometimes surprising results. Challenging the common claim
that these...
Carmilla
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Costello-Sullivan has compiled a student-friendly version of Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1872 vampire tale, "Carmilla." This critical edition includes an introduction by the editor, a timeline, a short biographical sketch of the author, a selected bibliography, and four original, scholar-authored essays...