Jewish Cultures of Rest and Recreation

Jewish Cultures of Rest and RecreationFrom Marienbad in todays Czech Republic to the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York, spas and summer resorts have long been part of modern Jewish life. Jewish Cultures of Rest and Recreation visits these vibrant centers of Jewish social life, where visitors mingled and flirted with locals and fellow travelers, enjoyed leisure activities, and spent time with (or without) family.

and the automaton-and their appearances in myth

The life and times of a legend of the nineteenth-century musical theatre

“marginal” approach to early twentieth-century globalisation

development and day-to-day workings of a key institutional pillar of the European Union

Carlo Natali critically reconsiders Aristotle's famous doctrine of contemplation

challenging the received notions of convict women as a particularly oppressed and exploited group

Huckleberry Finn

Sybil Rhodes looks at how hasty privatization of state-owned telephone companies led to short-term economic windfalls for multinational corporations but long-term instability due to consumer movements or the threat of them

before looking at host range

leading to the final destruction of the Weimar Republic

but also about the discourses that generate censorship

the notion of karma and the position of women