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| BEYOND THE BORDER : Huguenot Goldsmiths in Northern Europe & North America [Tessa Murdoch (ed)] "Beyond the Border" sets the lives and work of Huguenot goldsmiths in the context of the different societies in which they lived and worked. Distinguished international scholars explore the contributions of individual goldsmiths drawing on new research. Michèle Bimbenet Privat examines the lives and work of Huguenot goldsmiths in France during times of tolerance of the Protestant religion in the 16th and 17th centuries. She explains how protestant craftsmen dominated regional centres but found establishing a presence in the metropolis more challenging. The influence of the Louis XIV style was greater on the leading Dutch goldsmiths in the late 17th and 18th centuries. In contrast to London, first generation Huguenot goldsmiths played only a minor role in their adopted cities of The Hague and Amsterdam. Those who settled in Berlin and Kassel, often from Metz in Northern France, made a greater impact through the purity of style in which they continued to work in the 18th century. Those who settled in the English speaking world benefited from ambitious patronage from noble and professional clients. Goldsmiths who settled in the American colonies had more in common stylistically with those who worked in Dublin and Cork. First generation Huguenot goldsmiths in London set the pace for the next generation which produced in Paul de Lamerie one of the most successful craft businesses of his generation. "Beyond the Border" explores the transatlantic links between the Huguenot goldsmiths who settled in Europe and America. { 172pp, 210x297mm, May 2008; HB, £39.95, 1845192621:9781845192624 , Sussex Academic Press } |
| DEAREST ANNE : A Tale of Impossible Love ((Jewish Women Writers)) [Judith Katzir; Translated by Dalya Bilu] An Israeli girl's diaries addressed to Anne Frank chronicle romantic trysts with her female teacher. Written by best-selling Israeli author Judith Katzir, DEAREST ANNE is a stirring record of an artist's coming-of-age during the 1970s and the story of a hidden, erotic love affair between a teenaged girl and her married teacher, Michaela. After reading Anne Frank's diary, young Rivi starts a series of writing notebooks that document the angst of growing up in rural Israel. The entries reveal how her crush on her literature teacher develops into a poignant and turbulent love affair that lasts for years before its scandalous end. Decades later, the grown Rivi, now a mother, wife, and established author, comes to terms with the forbidden love that shaped her future. REVIEW: "More than anything else, the book is a temple of love to the imaginary, and to literature as an option for deep and vigorous living... The story succeeds in arousing interest and emotion... The greatness of the novel is understood only in retrospect, after reading it and tying all the threads, events and vantage points together into one complete picture." -- Ya'ara Muki, Time Out. "Judith Katzir is by far the most talented of the... young Israeli women writers. It is really impressive, how Katzir lets her protagonist trace these two decisive years in her life and to see the emotional depth and the poetic sharpness of her descriptions. Dearest Anne... a great literary achievement." -- Jüdische Zeitung, 2.06. "There is something addictive about Judith Katzir's writing: the ability to pour beauty and meaning into a fleeting moment, to catch it in the tangle of time and shape and polish it all in metaphoric language that is amazingly sensuous and precise." -- Miri Paz, Globes. { 240pp, 140x215mm, May 2008; HB, £47.50, 1558615792:9781558615793 / PB, £13.99, 155861575X:9781558615755 , Feminist Press } |
| HEIDEGGER'S JEWISH FOLLOWERS : Essays on Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss, Hans Jonas, & Emmanuel Levinas [Samuel Fleischacker (ed)] Given Heidegger's eventual alliance with Nazism -- which many scholars feel had its roots in his thought from its inception -- it is remarkable that many of his students and followers were Jews. HEIDEGGER'S JEWISH FOLLOWERS addresses very important and relatively unexplored questions, namely, in what way did Heidegger's thought affect his most prominent Jewish students, and how did they respond to this influence? By focusing on four students who certainly came to be important philosophical figures in their own right -- Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss, Hans Jonas, and Emmanuel Levinas -- these essays by a wide range of scholars weave together philosophical analysis, religious tradition, and historical background. { May 2008; PB, £18.50, 0820704148:9780820704142 / HB, £45.50, 0820704121:9780820704128 , Duquesne University Press } |
| JEWS OF LEBANON, 2ND EDITION : Between Coexistence & Conflict [Kirsten E Schulze] This is the first book to tell the story of the Jews of Lebanon in the twentieth century. It challenges the prevailing view that Jews everywhere in the Middle East were second-class citizens, and were persecuted after the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. The Jews of Lebanon were just one of Lebanon's 23 minorities with the same rights and privileges, and subject to the same political tensions. The author discusses the Jewish presence in Lebanon under Ottoman Rule; Lebanese Jews under the French mandate; Lebanese Jewish identity after the establishment of the State of Israel; the increase of the community through Syrian refugees; the Jews' position in the first civil war; the beginning of their exodus; the virtual extinction of the Jewish community as a result of the prolonged second civil war and the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon; and finally the community's memory of their Lebanese past. REVIEW: "An outstanding sociopolitical history of the Jewish community of Lebanon. Highly recommended..." -- Choice. { 224pp, 152x229mm, March 2009; PB, £22.50, 1845190572:9781845190576 , Sussex Academic Press } |
| JEWS OF LIBYA : Coexistence, Persecution, Resettlement [Maurice M Roumani] This book investigates the transformative period in the history of the Jews of Libya (1938-52), a period crucial to understanding Libyan Jewry's evolution into a community playing significant roles in Israel, Italy and in relation with Qaddhafi's Libya. Against a background of a reform conscious Ottoman administration (1835-1911) and subsequent stirrings of modernisation under Italian colonial influence (1911-43), the Jews of Libya began to experience rapid change following the application of fascist racial laws of 1938, the onset of war-related calamities and violent expressions of Libyan pan-Arabism, culminating in mass migration to Israel in the period 1949-52. By focusing on key socio-economic and political dimensions of this process, the author reveals the capacity of Libyan Jewry to adapt to and integrate into new environments without losing its unique and historical traditions. REVIEW: "Dr Roumani uses a wide range of archival and oral sources, many of which have never been used before. Throughout the book, he reveals a mastery of the social and political history, and a fine understanding of the lives, hopes, fears and aspirations of Libyan Jews. His book is a testimony to their suffering and their fortitude." -- From the Foreword by Sir Martin Gilbert. "Maurice Roumani has given us an impeccably researched, richly documented, and keenly insightful survey of Libyan Jewry's social and political evolution in the twentieth century. He brings to the study not merely the observations of a trained scholar with all of the requisite linguistic and methodological skills, but also the real life experience of someone who lived through the turbulent events of the period and was an actual witness to some of them. It is to Roumani's great credit that he is able to achieve an admirable balance of overall scholarly dispassion with the intimate poignancy of personal engagement. The Jews of Libya will surely take its place alongside the pioneer studies of Renzo De Felice and Harvey Goldberg." -- Norman A Stillman, Schusterman/Josey Professor of Judaic History, University of Oklahoma. { 320pp, 152x229mm, March 2008; HB, £59.95, 1845191374:9781845191375 , Sussex Academic Press } |
| OUTSIDER INSIDE : Volume 3 of the Hartland Trilogy [Charles Hannam] Like all refugees, Karl Hartland [Hannam] carried within himself his 'hidden identity' as a child refugee from Germany escaping the Holocaust, in which most of his family perished. Life experiences in the British Army, at Cambridge, and later returning to post-war Germany, brought with them conflict in terms of his sense of being an 'Englishman' in contrast to his upper-class German-Jewish early upbringing. After experiencing the British class system in India and Burma, and coping with the Army's inherent virulent racism, post-war academic success introduced him to the other side of the class divide -- first as a teacher at a 'posh' prep school, and later studying at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. In this final volume of his biography trilogy, Charles Hannam provides a telling account of the long-term effects of the refugee experience -- and what made him an 'Outsider'. It is compelling reading, especially for those who have experienced the wrench between cultures as part of the adjustment process of being forced to accommodate new values and behaviour as a refugee. REVIEW: "A beguiling blend of satire on the private school system, more serious than Evelyn Waugh, more radical social-critical insights about the post-war world, reminiscent of Orwell." -- Edward Timms, Research Professor in German Studies and Director of the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex From reviews of the first two volumes: "One of the most exact accounts of early adolescence yet written, so unsentimental and precise that a good many men will recognise fragments of themselves at 13!" -- C. P. Snow in the Financial Times "The way he transposes casual circumstances, like holiday encounters, into the felt life of history, makes this a remarkably vivid account of all growing up." -- Margaret Meek in the Times Literary Supplement { 223pp, 138x216mm, February 2008; PB, £13.95, 1898595526:9781898595526 , Sussex Academic Press (Alpha Press) } |