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When Near Becomes Far: Old Age in Rabbinic Literature
(Oxford University Press, 2021)
Exploring the representations and depictions of old age in the rabbinic Jewish literature of late antiquity (150-600 CE).
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The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea
(Oxford University Press, Nov 2023)
The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome tells the stories of the people who built their political and literary careers around promises of Roman renewal as well as those of the victims they blamed for causing Rome's decline.
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Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational Solidarity
(Duke University Press, 2024)
In Third Worlds Within, Daniel Widener expands conceptions of the struggle for racial justice by reframing antiracist movements in the United States in a broader internationalist context.
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History
Literature
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A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails
(Arrowsmith Press, 2023)
Translated with the utmost of care by Amelia Glaser and Yulia Ilchuk, A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails is a guidebook to the emotional combat in Ukraine.
Theatre and Dance
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Clear Blue Silence
(Ktav Publishing House, 2022)
Film professor Jonathan Klein resolves a debt left by his deceased Jewish father due to a New York crime figure. Klein, a single parent in California, also learns unsettling details about his late wife, about his brilliant Chinese student, and about his suicidal colleague days before Yom Kippur. The story, set during Covid, finds Klein straddling California and New York as his crisis of conscience overwhelms him against a madcap landscape.