Publications
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American Sociology and Holocaust Studies
(2017)
Filled with new elements that challenge common scholarly theses, this book acquaints the reader with the “Jewish problem” of sociology and provides what this academic discipline urgently needs: a one-volume history of the ...
Piezoelectric Electromechanical Transducers for Underwater Sound, Part II
(2022)
The book presents a broad-scope analysis of piezoelectric electromechanical transducers and the related aspects of practical transducer design for underwater applications. It uses an energy method for analyzing transducer ...
Learning to Read Talmud
(2019-07-25)
Finalist, 2017 National Jewish Book Award for Education and Jewish Identity
"Learning to Read Talmud" is the first book-length study of how teachers teach and how students learn to read Talmud. Through a series of studies ...
Visual Texts, Ceremonial Texts, Texts of Exploration: Collected Articles on the Representation of Russian Monarchy
(2014)
Visual Texts, Ceremonial Texts, Texts of Exploration continues the work begun in Russian Monarchy: Representation and Rule, which analyzed the interplay between the symbolic representations of Russian monarchs and the legal ...
Carnival in Tel Aviv
(2014)
The Tel Aviv annual Purim celebrations were the largest public events in British Palestine, and they played a key role in the development of the urban Jewish experience in the Promised Land. Carnival in Tel Aviv presents ...
Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought
(2021)
Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought deals with the concept of exile on many levels—from the literal to the metaphorical. It combines analyses of predominantly Jewish authors of Central Europe of the twentieth ...
Word and Image in Russian History
(2015-07-21)
''Word and Image'' invokes and honors the scholarly contributions of Gary Marker. Twenty scholars from Russia, the United Kingdom, Italy, Ukraine and the United States examine some of the main themes of Marker’s scholarship ...
Vladimir Soloviev and the Spiritualization of Matter
(2010-11-01)
While he is widely acknowledged as the most important Russian thinker of the nineteenth century, Vladimir Soloviev’s place in the landscape of world philosophy nevertheless remains uncertain. Approaching him through a ...
Mo(ve)ments of Resistance
(2013-12-15)
In Mo(ve)ments of Resistance, Grinberg summarizes both his own work and that of other political economists, providing a coherent historical narrative covering the time from the beginning of Socialist Zionism (1904) to the ...
The Marsh of Gold
(2008-09-01)
"Major statements by the celebrated Russian poet Boris Pasternak (1890-1960)
about poetry, inspiration, the creative process, and the significance of artistic/literary creativity in his own life as well as in human life ...