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Behind the Cover with Indiana University Press
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March 9, 2024
Uprooting the Diaspora
In Uprooting the Diaspora: Jewish Belonging and the Ethnic Revolution in Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1936-1946 (Indiana UP, 2023), Sarah Cramsey explor…
March 8, 2024
Blissful Blindness
The most heinous Soviet crimes - the Red Terror, brutal collectivization, the Great Famine, the Gulag, Stalin's Great Terror, mass deportations, and o…
March 6, 2024
Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps
Devoted to the ways in which Holocaust literature and Gulag literature provide contexts for each other, Leona Toker's Gulag Literature and the Literat…
February 18, 2024
The Praiseworthy One
In our most recent public memory, images of the Prophet Muhammad have caused a great deal of controversy, such as satirical cartoons of Muhammad in Fr…
February 6, 2024
Jewish Forced Labor in Romania, 1940-1944
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…
January 10, 2024
Purity and Identity in Ancient Judaism
The concern for purity was the cornerstone of the religious culture of ancient Judaism, shaping the worldview of Jewish people during the Second Templ…
December 16, 2023
Restless Archive
The global refugee, the ship passenger, the displaced person. How did their homeseeking routes and visual motifs intersect and diverge in the earl…
November 25, 2023
A Brief History of History
In A Brief History of History (Indiana UP, 2023), acclaimed historian Jeremy Black seeks to reinvigorate and redefine our ideas about history. The sto…
November 20, 2023
Humor and Power in Algeria, 1920 to 2021
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…
November 12, 2023
Walking the Land
Israel has one of the most extensive and highly developed hiking trail systems of any country in the world. Millions of hikers use the trails every ye…
October 18, 2023
The Faculty Lounge
The life of a scholar is stressful. The best way to muddle through is with a stiff drink. Balancing teaching, research, and service more than merits a…
September 20, 2023
Rooted Globalism
Triumphant capitalism has in our time engendered a new global class that lives and works in a borderless world, beyond the reach of national politics …
July 31, 2023
Enclaves of Exception
How do we measure and truly grasp the sweeping social and environmental effects of an oil-based economy? Focusing on the special economic zones resu…
July 17, 2023
Consent Culture and Teen Films
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…
April 10, 2023
A 'Jewish Marshall Plan'
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…
February 27, 2023
Beyond Piety and Politics
How do ordinary men and women in Muslim-majority societies create religion-informed views of political topics such as democracy and economics? Beyond …
January 31, 2023
Gendering Modern Jewish Thought
The idea of brotherhood has been an important philosophical concept for understanding community, equality, and justice. In Gendering Modern Jewish Tho…
December 16, 2022
The Chinese Atlantic
In The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization (Indiana University Press, 2020), Sean Metzger proposes a new analytical fra…
November 3, 2022
The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature
What can James Joyce, Kate O’Brien, Edna O’Brien, Keith Ridgway, Tana French, and Anne Enright tell us about Ireland’s culture of child sexual abuse? …
October 28, 2022
The Future of the Soviet Past
In post-Soviet Russia, there is a persistent trend to repress, control, or even co-opt national history. By reshaping memory to suit a politically con…