The History of European Jazz: The Music, Musicians and Audience in Context
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The increased circulation of people and ideas within Europe is not matched by an awareness of a...
Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery: The Role of Philosophical Asceticism from Ancient Judaism to Late Antiquity
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Were slavery and social injustice leading to dire poverty in antiquity and late antiquity only...

Look Inside: Cutaway Illustrations and Visual Storytelling
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Looking at the outside of things such as architecture, anatomy, or vehicles does not usually reveal...
Design

The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family's Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis
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The passionate, gripping true story of one man's single-minded quest to reclaim what the Nazis stole...

William Kentridge
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Since the 1970s, the South African artist William Kentridge has charted the turbulent terrain of his...

Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film: Cultural Transformations in Europe, 1732-1933
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For the last three hundred years, fictions of the vampire have fed off anxieties about cultural...

A Sparrow in Terezin
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Bound together across time, two women will discover a powerful connection through one survivor's...

The Sons of Pigs and Apes: Muslim Anti-Semitism and the Conspiracy of Silence
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From the 1950s through the 1990s, antisemitism everywhere seemed to be on the wane. But as Neil...

Women of the Wall: Navigating Religion in Sacred Sites
Yuval Jobani and Nahshon Perez
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In October of 2014, 12-year-old Sasha Lutt read from a tiny Torah scroll as a part of her bat...
Gaza Under Hamas: From Islamic Democracy to Islamist Governance
Bjorn Brenner and Magnus Ranstorp
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Hamas is designated a terrorist organization by Israel, the EU, the USA and the UN. It has made...