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Pop Islam
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Jennifer Hart on African Mobility and Infrastructure
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Yiddish Paris
Nick Underwood's Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar Paris (Indiana University Press, 2022) is a captivating study of the culture …
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Uprooting the Diaspora
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Devoted to the ways in which Holocaust literature and Gulag literature provide contexts for each other, Leona Toker's Gulag Literature and the Literat…
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Between Romania's entry into World War II in 1941 and the ouster of dictator Ion Antonescu three years later, over 105,000 Jews were forced to work in…
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In times of peace as well as conflict, humor has served Algerians as a tool of both unification and division. Humor has also assisted Algerians of var…
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Teen films of the 1980s were notorious for treating consent as irrelevant, with scenes of boys spying in girls' locker rooms and tricking girls into s…
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While the role the United States played in France’s liberation from Nazi Germany is widely celebrated, it is less well known that American Jewish indi…
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How do ordinary men and women in Muslim-majority societies create religion-informed views of political topics such as democracy and economics? Beyond …