Author: Chitra RaghavanPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611682819
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
An interdisciplinary anthology on the intersections of gender, Islam, and law
Self-determination and Women's Rights in Muslim Societies
Author: Chitra RaghavanPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611682819
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
An interdisciplinary anthology on the intersections of gender, Islam, and law
Polygamy in Primetime
Author: Janet BennionPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611682967
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
A provocative look at the costs and benefits of polygamy among western fundamentalist Mormon women
Shuva
Author: Yehuda KurtzerPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611682320
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Offers a roadmap for revitalizing the connection between the Jewish people and the Jewish past
Marriage and Divorce in the Jewish State
Author: Susan M. WeissPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611683653
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A comprehensive look at how rabbinical courts control Israeli marriage and divorce
Jews and Diaspora Nationalism
Author: Simon RabinovitchPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611683629
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
An anthology of Jewish diaspora nationalist thought across the ideological spectrum
Bird Strike
Author: Michael N. KalafatasPublisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1611688159
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
On a warm and golden afternoon, October 4, 1960, a Lockheed Electra jet turboprop carrying 72 souls took off from Logan Airport. Seconds later, the plane slammed into a flock of 10,000 starlings, and abruptly plummeted into Winthrop Harbor. The collision took 62 lives and gave rise to the largest rescue mobilization in Boston's history, which included civilians in addition to police, firefighters, skindivers, and Navy and Coast Guard air-sea rescue teams. Largely because of the quick action and good seamanship of Winthrop citizens, many of them boys in small boats, ten passengers survived what the Civil Aeronautics Board termed "a non-survivable crash." Using firsthand interviews with survivors of the crash, rescuers, divers, aeronautics experts, and ornithologists, as well as a wide range of primary source material, Kalafatas foregrounds the story of the crash and its aftermath to anchor a broader inquiry into developments in the aeronautics industry, the increase in the number of big birds in the skies of North America, and the increasing danger of "bird strikes." Along the way he looks into interesting historical sidelights such as the creation of Logan Airport, the transformation of Boston's industrial base to new technologies, and the nature of journalistic investigations in the early 1960s. The book is a rare instance when an author can simultaneously write about a fascinating historical event and a clear and present danger today. Kalafatas calls for and itemizes solutions that protect both birds and the traveling public.
Jewhooing the Sixties
Author: David KaufmanPublisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1611683149
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
A lively look at four major Jewish celebrities of early 1960s America, who together made their mark on both American culture and Jewish identity
Israel
Author: Anita ShapiraPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 161168353X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
A history of Israel in the context of the modern Jewish experience and the history of the Middle East
Religion and Jewish Identity in the Soviet Union, 1941-1964
Author: Mordechai AltshulerPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 161168272X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Unearths the roots of a national awakening among Soviet Jews during World War II and its aftermath
Renaissance Woman
Author: Ramie TargoffPublisher:
ISBN: 0374140944
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
A biography of Vittoria Colonna, a confidante of Michelangelo, the scion of one of the most powerful families of her era, and a pivotal figure in the Italian Renaissance Ramie Targoff’s Renaissance Woman tells of the most remarkable woman of the Italian Renaissance: Vittoria Colonna, Marchesa of Pescara. Vittoria has long been celebrated by scholars of Michelangelo as the artist’s best friend—the two of them exchanged beautiful letters, poems, and works of art that bear witness to their intimacy—but she also had close ties to Charles V, Pope Clement VII and Pope Paul III, Pietro Bembo, Baldassare Castiglione, Pietro Aretino, Queen Marguerite de Navarre, Reginald Pole, and Isabella d’Este, among others. Vittoria was the scion of an immensely powerful family in Rome during that city’s most explosively creative era. Art and literature flourished, but political and religious life were under terrific strain. Personally involved with nearly every major development of this period—through both her marriage and her own talents—Vittoria was not only a critical political actor and negotiator but also the first woman to publish a book of poems in Italy, an event that launched a revolution for Italian women’s writing. Vittoria was, in short, at the very heart of what we celebrate when we think about sixteenth-century Italy; through her story the Renaissance comes to life anew.