The History and Religious Heritage of Old Cairo: Its Fortress, Churches, Synagogue, and Mosque
Morris Jackson and Sherif Sonbol
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Just to the south of modern Cairo stands the historic enclave known as Old Cairo, which grew up in...
Fighting Men of London: Voices from Inside the Ropes
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Fighting Men of London explores the lives of seven former professional boxers who fought in the...
Mischling
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It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their...
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Never Anyone But You
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A small city in western France, the early 1900s. Suzanne, a shy 17-year-old with a rare talent for...
Singing God's Words: The Performance of Biblical Chant in Contemporary Judaism
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Singing God's Words is the first in-depth study of the experience and meaning of chanting or...
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2)
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Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spieglman's...
Postcolonising the Medieval Image
Eva Frojmovic and Catherine E. Karkov
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Postcolonial theories have transformed literary, historical and cultural studies over the past three...
A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy
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Thomas Buergenthal is unique. Liberated from the death camps of Auschwitz at the age of eleven, in...
When Aseneth Met Joseph: A Late Antique Tale of the Biblical Patriarch and His Egyptian Wife, Reconsidered
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This is the study of an anonymous ancient work, usually called Joseph and Aseneth, which narrates...
The War Reporter
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The year is 1994, and Tom Layne, a famous American TV journalist, and his crew are reporting in...