Syracuse University Press

Author: Jilali El KoudiaPublisher: Syracuse University PressPublication Date: Feb 08, 2018Number of Pages: 196 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0815611013ISBN-13: 9780815611011

Moses Hazen, commander of the Second Canadian Reiment, was an unusual and influential man during the period of the American Revolution. The Tories who fled to Canada have received careful study, but...

Literary, lyrical, and cuttingly satiric, Mother India is a brilliantly original novel about Jews who go to India to find transformation and eternal release from the sufferings of life. Narrated in...

In this powerful story of life, love, and the demands of marriage and motherhood, Fariba Vafi gives readers a portrait of one woman's struggle to adapt to the complexity of life in modern Iran. The...

Else Lasker-Schüler (1869?1945) was born into an affluent German Jewish family. Following the death of her parents and the dissolution of her marriage, the fledgling poet became notorious in the...

In this harrowing novel, a young Moroccan bookseller is falsely accused of being involved in jihadist activities. Drugged and carried off the street, Hamuda is ?extraordinarily rendered? to a prison...

The author of Yiddish novels and short stories, Sholem Aleichem, evokes the voices of Yiddish speakers in these monologues written between 1901 and 1916. In each piece, a man or a woman comes forward...

As a young man in interwar Warsaw, newspaperman Ber Kutscher threw himself into the city? vibrant Jewish arts and culture scene from the headquarters of the Association of Jewish Writers and...

This is the first major book to explore uniquely Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), and specifically Oneida, components in the Native American oral narrative as it existed around 1900. Drawn largely from...

In this work, Buber expounds upon and defends the Zionist experiment - a federal system of communities on a co-operative basis. He looks to the anarchists Proudhon, Kropotkin and Gustav Landauer, but...

Bordered on the south by the Atlantic Ocean and on the north by Long Island Sound, the Peconic Bay region, including the North and South Forks, has only recently been recognized for its environmental...

A reprint of the Syracuse University Press edition of 1974.Author: Peig SayersPublisher: Syracuse University PressPublication Date: October 01, 1974Number of Pages: 216 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Winner of The Israel Institute's Literary Prize As they do every year, Yosef Zinman, a well-to-do Tel Aviv grocer, and his beloved wife Zippi plan a vacation during the holiday of Sukkot to Seefeld...

When young Zalmen Itzkowitz steps off the train on a dark, dreary day at the close of the nineteenth century, the residents of Miloslavka have no idea what's in store for them. Zalmen is a...

For more than half a century Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to a radical critique of psychiatry. His latest work, Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, is a culmination of his life's work: to...

Following the 2011 wave of revolutions and protest in North Africa and the Middle East, new discussions of individual freedoms have emerged in the Moroccan public sphere and human rights discourses...

The first comprehensive work on the origins of the Jamaica-based Rastafaris, including interviews with some of the earliest members of the movement. Rastafari is a valuable work with a rich...

Red Shoes for Rachel, Sandler's award-winning collection of three novellas, features tightly wound tales that seamlessly incorporate diverse genres, including magic realism, satire, and...

Francis Adrian Van der Kemp was a writer, minister, and political leader of some prominence in his native Holland when he fled from religious and political persecution in 1788 to settle in Oneida...

Seneca Ray Stoddard?s photographic and literary work paralleled the era of exploration of this region as well as the early years of photography. It was during his lifetime?as a result of the changing...

Issues of sexuality in the Middle East and North Africa have served as a lightning rod for international discussions surrounding the treatment of those who identify as LGBTQ, sexual and reproductive...

Between the late 1970s and the early 1980s, Nayra Atiya gathered the oral histories of five Egyptian men: a fisherman, an attorney, a scholar, a business- man, and a production manager. Through...

Snakes And Babies: Poems - 9780815611493Author: Jules GibbsPublisher: Syracuse University PressPublication Date: Mar 14, 2022Number of Pages: 82 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Set in the Syrian neighborhood of al-Qaweyq, Sour Grapes is a collection of fifty-nine wry, satirical short stories loosely connected by a cast of rotating characters living at society?s margins...

The writings of David Bergelson-virtually unknown to readers in the United States-are now available in this exciting collection. Composed of two short stories and a novella, this volume brings to...

In the tradition of Tim O?Brien?s The Things They Carried, Brian O?Hare?s Surrender is a rich collection of coming-of-age stories, a journey into the heart of the American hero myth, from the Friday...

What if all the Palestinians in Israel simply disappeared one day? What would happen next? How would Israelis react? These unsettling questions are posed in Azem's powerfully imaginative novel. Set...

Hailed as a masterpiece when it was first published in France in 1977, The Desert tells the story of al-Mammi, a young exiled prince of a now-destroyed Jewish kingdom in southern Morocco in the late...

Considered one of Morocco's most important contemporary writers, Muhammad Zafzaf created stories of alterity, compassionate tales inhabited by prostitutes, thieves, and addicts living in the margins...

Author: Marty GlickmanPublisher: Syracuse University PressPublication Date: Sep 01, 1999Number of Pages: 216 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0815605749ISBN-13: 9780815605744