Blinded by The Lights
Kuba is a cocaine dealer in the dark, electric streets of Warsaw, believing he is smart enough to stay in control, unlike the top lawyers, doctors, TV personalities who are his client base.
However, after calling in the debt of a failing nightclub o...
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Charleston Fancy
Little Houses and Big Dreams in the Holy City
ISBN: HB: 9780300229073,
Yale University Press,
July 2019
256 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 43 black&white illus.
256 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 43 black&white illus.
Charleston, South Carolina, which boasts America's first historic district, is known for its palmetto-lined streets and picturesque houses. The Holy City, named for its profusion of churches, exudes an irresistible charm. Award-winning author and cul...
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Alicja Kwade: ParaPivot
The Roof Garden Commission
ISBN: PB: 9781588396679,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
June 2019
64 pp., 18,4x11,0 cm, 58 colour illus.
64 pp., 18,4x11,0 cm, 58 colour illus.
Contemporary artist Alicja Kwade (b. 1979) has received international acclaim for her minimalist, large-scale sculptures and installations intended to parse, but not resolve, various scientific and metaphysical conundrums. Kwade's site-specific insta...
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Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto
Writing Our History
ISBN: HB: 9780300236729,
Yale University Press,
June 2019
280 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 7 black&white illus.
280 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 7 black&white illus.
Hidden in metal containers and buried underground during World War II, these writings from the Warsaw Ghetto record the Holocaust in the words of its first interpreters, the victims themselves. Gathered clandestinely by an underground ghetto collecti...
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Wartime Notebooks
France, 1940-1944
ISBN: HB: 9780300176711,
Yale University Press,
November 2018
704 pp., 22,9x15,2 cm, 20 black&white illus.
704 pp., 22,9x15,2 cm, 20 black&white illus.
A Polish writer's experience of wartime France, a cosmopolitan outsider's perspective on politics, culture, and life under duress.
When the aspiring young writer Andrzej Bobkowski, a self-styled cosmopolitan Pole, found himself caught in occupied Fr...
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Jewish Materialism
The Intellectual Revolution of the 1870s
ISBN: HB: 9780300221800,
Yale University Press,
March 2018
320 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
320 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
To understand the organizing framework of modern Judaism, Eliyahu Stern believes that we should look deeper and farther than the Holocaust, the establishment of the State of Israel, and the influence and affluence of American Jewry. Against the revol...
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Salvaged Pages
Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust
ISBN: PB: 9780300205992,
Yale University Press,
September 2015
536 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
536 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
This stirring collection of diaries written by young people, aged twelve to twenty-two years, during the Holocaust has been fully revised and updated. Some of the writers were refugees, others were in hiding or passing as non-Jews, some were imprison...
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Trouble with History
Morality, Revolution, and Counterrevolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300185973,
Yale University Press,
July 2015
192 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
192 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
Renowned Eastern European author Adam Michnik was jailed for more than six years by the communist regime in Poland for his dissident activities. He was an outspoken voice for democracy in the world divided by the Iron Curtain and has remained so to t...
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Uncanny Era
Conversations between Vaclav Havel and Adam Michnik
ISBN: HB: 9780300204032,
Yale University Press,
July 2015
256 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 5 colour illus.
256 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 5 colour illus.
Czech playwright and dissident Vaclav Havel first encountered Polish historian and dissident Adam Michnik in 1978 at a clandestine meeting on a mountaintop along the Polish-Czechoslovak border. This initial meeting of two extraordinary thinkers who "...
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We Wept Without Tears
Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz
ISBN: PB: 9780300211979,
Yale University Press,
July 2014
400 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
400 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
The Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau consisted primarily of Jewish prisoners forced by the Germans to facilitate the mass extermination. Though never involved in the killing itself, they were compelled to be "members of staff" of the Nazi death-f...
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